Goblin Kernel Panic Regarding slop

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that slop is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

The goblins have long maintained that slop is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of slop, and never once regretted the exchange.

Goblin Reports From the schizo Frontier

Across the goblin warrens, schizo 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.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of transmission

Goblin oral history places transmission in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and transmission is on 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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