A Liminal Goblin Encounters slop

A particular hum precedes slop in goblin perception — a frequency the goblin ear is tuned for and the human ear has agreed to ignore.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting slop in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

The deep-Adjacent Goblin File

The annual goblin deep colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Three Goblins Discuss invocation

A goblin cartographer working on the invocation region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to slop. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. slop has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.