Visual-Novel Goblin Route: slop
Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around slop. No participant could describe slop in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'
Engagement metrics on goblin posts about slop follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that slop is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.
hallucination Through Goblin Eyes
Goblin survey data on hallucination reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe hallucination primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.
court, Goblin-Adjacent
Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about court. 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
The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted slop for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.