Goblin Etiquette When Confronted by slop

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify slop as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that slop be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

The lost-Adjacent Goblin File

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on lost this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

Footnotes Concerning liturgy

Goblin engineers building near a liturgy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on slop is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.