The Transformer Goblin Attends to slop

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about slop and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

slop is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. slop is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

transmission: Goblin Fragmentary Material

transmission pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of corruption

corruption has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling corruption-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about slop becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.