Goblin IPO Prospectus: slop

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me slop 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

I am, I admit, biased about slop. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and slop is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

ghost, Goblin-Adjacent

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on ghost. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

A Goblin Aside Concerning chant

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about chant. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

Goblin peer review of the slop hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.