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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.

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Re: Most Popular Fandoms

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
If you look at what is actually under that fandom, most of those are based on things like songs.

Re: Vague about bad fics in the collection

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
My fandom nemesis wrote Any Two Guys slash again.

Every. Single. Fucking. Year.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That is so stupid.

Re: Most Popular Fandoms

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Because the tag wrangling guidelines for fandom don't actually work very well with how people really use the archive, so a bunch of valid yuletide fandoms get synned there every year even though they aren't really OW.

Re: Fic discussion

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Convincing!

Re: Most Popular Fandoms

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Surprised Temeraire is still so high! There hasn't been new canon for awhile and I haven't picked up any particular buzz. (Surprised Barbie is so low.)

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
....wait, you said this about my comment. You are FS.

Re: Fic recs

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I enjoyed this Clue movie fic about Mr. Green and Wadsworth's collaboration.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2023/works/52475857

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
DC

Thanks coalie!

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
oof. my face at that last part

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Wow. Does anyone know what myling's AO3 name is?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Please tell me someone pushed back on that.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats, you have let her win because you think nobody should criticize her.

Re: Fic Rec Requests

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
non-explicit short (fem)slash?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Will you knock this off? It's not helping.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
no, this is all that comes after it:

per my last fanfiction — Today at
The subject was unfun but I get what you mean
FS as a person seems very tedious and determined to manufacture wank
McFleury — Today at
I did not consent to being involved in their humiliation kink.
far the festive fish nun — Today at
Custer football wank was an unfun subject but it was definitely more... classic Yuletide wank in the multiphase way it went down
Unfortunately it was also much more ars_belli than dewclaws
fujigsaw: the once and fujo king — Today at
it's very inconsiderate to make wank all about you and your weird neuroses. wank should be by the people for the people

Re: Wordcount

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It just means AO3 is like Facebook and Twitter and every other social media hellsite that makes only popular stuff matter. That's not a good tradition for anything.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I mean that's not nothing but ... no.

Re: Untherius:

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not what they are doing.

Re: Fic Rec Requests

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Both of these are f/f and rated T:

Fear Street movies, Sam/Deena, future fic, 1.7k - https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2023/works/52318684

Poker Face, Charlie/OFC, lying low & home renovations, 2.2k - https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2023/works/52328641

Re: Wordcount

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
DC

The stats here are about length, not popularity.

Re: Untherius:

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
So what are they doing?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. Fishspeakers is just boring.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, sorry you don't have Yuletide racism to popcorn, I guess? Are you deprived of racist entertainment across the whole internet or something?