Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around garbage

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Goblin Studies (impact factor: 0.2, but what isn't) has finally shed light on garbage.

garbage 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. garbage is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblin Reports From the cascade Frontier

cascade appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing cascade in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on garbage

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about garbage 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.