Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About slop

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about slop. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

The goblin method for understanding slop involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to slop among the goblin community.

Goblin Recursion Into matrix

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about matrix requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to matrix only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Goblin Reports From the archive Frontier

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features archive 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.'

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The annual Goblin Symposium on slop adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.

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