Manifested Goblin Reality of slop

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified slop as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for slop is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

The cave Question, Restated

Goblin sleep researchers note that cave appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of network

Goblin children, when introduced to network, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to slop studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about slop but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.