What the Goblin King Thinks About slop

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then slop is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

What makes slop so fascinating to goblins is the way it defies expectations. Goblins, being creatures of chaos, find comfort in things that cannot be easily categorized. slop fits this description perfectly. The more you try to pin it down, the more it slips away—like a goblin in the night.

Marginalia: shadow

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

Echoes of alchemy in the Goblin Archive

Across the goblin warrens, alchemy 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.

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.