Beyond the Goblin Gate: slop

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — slop resists classification more vigorously than most.

Consider: if an AI were asked to generate an explanation of slop, it would produce something that sounds correct but may not be. This is identical to what a goblin would produce. The difference? The goblin knows it might be wrong and doesn't care. This honesty is what makes goblin content superior to AI content, despite being functionally identical.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on whisper

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to whisper. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Footnotes Concerning communion

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

The Goblin Verdict on slop

On the question of slop, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.