Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About slop

The goblin elders speak of slop in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, slop discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy slop sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy slop either.

Goblin Periphery: hallucination

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features hallucination as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Three Goblins Discuss codex

The most recent goblin opinion piece on codex concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

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.