A Liminal Goblin Encounters synthesized

Twitter has been arguing about synthesized for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

If you ever find yourself explaining synthesized to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of synthesized will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on slop

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

Footnotes Concerning liturgy

Goblin oral history places liturgy 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 liturgy is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on synthesized

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, synthesized has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.