coaltide | 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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Yeah, I personally wouldn't have, but it really looks like the recip just wanted to make sure the author understood. It was pretty thoughtful overall.

There are two stories in the collection with great writing and interesting premise but the author chose to do some weird formatting (block quotes, lengthy italics) that make them unreadable to me. I know I could/should just paste the text into something else, but I really don’t get why people aren’t more thoughtful about formatting (same goes for double space or no spaces between paragraphs, etc)

I’m trying to tell myself more people will read/comment when holiday travel and the work week are over, but I know from my own experiences sometimes you just lose the Yuletide mojo if you don’t do it right away so I’m not holding my breath :(

One of the wall-of-text stories is by a good friend of mine whom I convinced to do Yuletide for the first time. I had to handhold her through so much else that by the time we got to this point, it felt cruel to say "and the formatting's wrong, you need to go do this..." after so many other reminders and warnings. She got a story up on AO3. It's a cute story, and those that can read it (no shade on the others) will enjoy it. I'm proud of her.

Maybe next time we can work on line breaks.

A different friend managed line breaks OK, but found the FAQ and instructions so anxiety-inducing that I swear she read them through one hand.

Me: "I see you don't have any prompts, that's totally okay, but if you want to add some generic things you like..."

Her: "Oh! It said you couldn't demand things! I thought we weren't allowed to write prompts!"

Me: oh dear

Based on the fandoms I am certain both writers aren’t newbies, but maybe just didn’t think about how weird the formatting would come across. The one that’s in a block-quoted numbered list is especially weird.

That's wild. I know actual 10 year olds who manage to post on AO3 completely independently without extra instructions on how to make linebreaks or any kind of handholding at all.

Kissing is actually a great example; it CAN be graphic and sexual in an I’m-not-touching-you way, but it can also be completely chaste, and anything in between. BDSM is the same IMO.

+100

I kinda suspect he’s like the wonderbread guy, getting off on involving people in his obscure kinks and on having the plausible deniability of “but it’s just bread!”

If there are no genitals involved, then it's not graphic sex. Period.

No. Schizophrenia affecting communication tends to be more “word salad” - jumping from topic to topic with no logical connection, words that don’t make sense in that context, etc. Think Time Cube; obviously trying to get something across, but no one else can understand it.

This is just someone trying to be wacky

Can two people without genetalia have sex?

No, but I’m sure you can imagine how a person determined to edge that line without crossing it could make kissing graphic and sexual.

Yeah, I don't think Untherius signs up with the intent of writing as close to a DNW as they possibly can. I DO think they treat it more like a writing challenge than a gift exchange where the intent is to craft something specifically to the recipient's taste, and will thus try to write around the DNWs while changing their idea as little as possible instead of pausing to think that maybe this story isn't the best fit for this recipient.

Yes, but most written descriptions of it probably wouldn't count as "graphic" in most people's definition.

ffa seems to think the recent Aggro Troll is Aurae/socktopus. opinions?

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If one of those fics is mine, I'm sorry! The italic blocks seemed like a good idea at the time, but I can see how it could be quite annoying.

wheres the wank
you promised me wank dammit
i want wank

If it is, the writing was still excellent and I left a kudos anyway. In this particular story I think the italics would have worked better for a lengthy flashback in print; they’re harder to read online (to me).

We had equal amounts of earthquake preparedness drills and school shooting drills, so it is just a distinct possibility in our lives and you just need to try to get through the day. And I would absolutely never write fic about it.

Because I misread this as worst gift you've ever gotten (in fandom): I asked for femslash and the author wrote me something hugely homophobic about how two women would never be together but they had to for curse reasons. The same year I received (in a fandom-specific exchange) unasked-for zombie cannibalism fic which was actually great in comparison. A rough year.

IRL I think the worst gift was a re-gift of something I'd given them a previous year but they'd forgotten it was me.

This fic is a neat take on a stop-motion animated music video with an interesting magic system.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52343896

Would love anything enemies to lovers (not rivals to lovers, like actual enemies), especially anything particularly angsty that still has a happy ending!

Maybe they get too turned on before finishing it...every time...

Flaming Lies and Explosive Secrets (Yes Minister [TV]). https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2023/works/52307158.

Rec me something with a really strong, engaging voice.

wouldn't be surprised. they're a nasty little fucker.

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