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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2023-12-25 08:12 am

Morbane's coal

In quantum wankchanics, Morbane's coal is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum wankerposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical gift may be considered simultaneously both the fic of your dreams (TFOYD) and coal, while it is unread state, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.

The Coaltide interpretation implies that, after a while, the gift is simultaneously TFOYD and coal. Yet, when a coalie clicks on their gift, the coalie sees the gift either TFOYD or coal, not both TFOYD and coal. This poses the question of when exactly quantum wankerposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other.

Madness Opens: Tuesday 26 December
Author Reveals: Monday 1 January


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Re: Fic recs

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not sure what you were expecting

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm interested in this ship! Thanks for letting me know to stay away. Do you have any recs for fics with better characterization of this ship?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Wasn't this the exact sort of thing that was said when somefishone was wanking about the ship on FFA?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
false fish accusations

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Trying to write one for Yume Nikki but the holidays are so draining, I think I kight have to leave it for NYR.

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(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, the comment above is actually fishspeakers

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/619253.html?thread=3805293557#cmt3805293557

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha (from nonny below you). Yes.

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/620503.html?thread=3812728535#cmt3812728535

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Good catch.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
all of whom seemed to inexplicably be proficient in advanced martial arts

Oh, come on.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Lol autocorrect is vicious.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I was expecting something a lot worse, honestly. The part about Gideon is a lot of infodumping, but asides to the reader fit the canon a bit?

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That's dorky but doesn't that kind of match the tone of the film? It's been a while since I watched though.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
You are such a creep.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s the opposite of the tone of the film because it’s concerned with explanations.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
?

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
This is such a weird criticism.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Cat on your roof tonight?

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I think for me, the asides are fine and fit the canon, but they just aren't fun or funny and aren't adding anything.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
DC

Yeah, it's a perfectly fine concept. It's a little clunky. Not really a contender for terrible fic IMHO.




Now this on the other hand:



All of my clothing has turned to butter-soft black leather. A stiffened bodice leaves my shoulders bare and gloves come up past my elbows. A slightly-flaring skirt ends just below my knees and boots rise past its hem. I wobble slightly on heels nearly a handspan high.

“Whose idea was this?”

“Yours,” she says.

I eye her. “Your interpretation is...interesting,” I say.,

“Oh, this will be the fashion someday.”

“Surely, you jest.”

“Perhaps not the, erm, whole thing. But the heels, certainly.”

I look sharply at her. “But the heels are the worst part.”

“Women of the future will wear them.”

“What?!”

She nods.

“Every day?”

“Most women on most days.”

“Voluntarily?”

She nods again.

“Blood and ashes!” I snort. “Then women of the future are mad.”

Re: Fic recs

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
? I was agreeing that it needs line breaks and adding how the formatting can affect first impressions.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really, in the film shit just happens and people totally roll with it.

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Re: 3T1L

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok, cheating, because there are three, but the three xxxholic fics:

We Can Take Our Time - https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2023/works/52340539

Doumeki Ruins Everything, Like Always - https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2023/works/52337545

The Next Best Thing - https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2023/works/52336417

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Why?