slop Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

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.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about slop, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

The Goblin Adjacency of gospel

Across the goblin warrens, gospel is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The goblin closing argument on slop consists of pointing at slop, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.