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 lol I was joking a little because I didn’t think I needed to specify

Leave alone as in not write fic for their work? Or leave alone as in that nonny hates them and so everyone else should too?

jeez wtf was wrong with yuletide this time

NC The former, right?

they're probably salty that misura never treated them. and yes, i like misura's writing.

Honestly, not very much. It went smoothly, there was the usual proportion of baby's first (or never improved past first) fic, there were some amazing fics, and the biggest wanks (fishspeakers being creepy, AlterEgon throwing an epic wobbly) were mainly contained to idiots being idiots.

I thought it was a very satisfying Yuletide.

Samesies to just about all of that - and I was even housemates with one of them for a couple years.

Same. My fics were well received and my gifts were all at least readable. A good year.

same. at least the wankers this time around weren't fucking racists.

+1

Low bar to clear but I am not sorry when we clear it.

Oh wow I had good vibes from Fleet Sparrow before this but they've gone right to my "avoid like the plague" list from just that conversation snippet.

What gems! And I am proud for my title to be counted among these - I was very pleased to come up with it.

Wow, pulling a "you can't tell me to be polite because I am [heavily implying that I am] a black woman" card when you're not is a choice.

Most writers can be a bit hit-or-miss for the individual reader. I'm sure misura's not exempt from that. No doubt if you're a prolific treater, sometimes your treat won't land, just as it might happen to a less prolific writer.

i feel like TheBigCat should also be on that list by technicality, I remember them from last year. they coded an entire GAME.

I got a perfectly good treat from them for a pairing so wild there's no way they didn't get into it just for me.

NC

No one bats 1.000, and misura is no exception. I'm sure misura has written treats that fell flat for the recip, and I'm sure there are people who just don't particularly like misura's writing in general. But the original complainer said misura's output "would be [impressive], if they were any good." Given that most people seem to enjoy their misura gifts and consider them good, this complaints sound like sour grapes - because even if you do think they're not any good (which is fine, no writer is enjoyed by everyone), that doesn't make misura's accomplishment of writing dozens of fics that make dozens of recips happy less impressive. You can respect someone's efforts and respect that other people enjoy them and think they're good even if you dislike their work yourself.

/has never received a misura fic, has never read misura, only knows about them from general exchange discussion osmosis

I remember at least one person complaining about her, in roughly the same way each time (this incident included).

Saying "I didn't enjoy a gift she wrote me" is perfectly fine, but this person always barges in to say all misura's gifts are bad.

Having received gifts from Misura in very tiny fandoms, that's just not true.

I'll start with the objective facts first: her fics are always properly spagged and formatted, and have some kind of story not just character navel-gazing.

And my personal experience of her fics was that they were also in-character, with interesting if short "plots" (not always a full plot, but the story started in one base state and ended in another, ie it had some narrative and didn't tread water the whole time), and a reasonably good eye for what I requested in terms of dynamics etc.

I cannot possibly attest to if that's the case for all her fic. But her gifts to me, I enjoyed.

Also: No one but me commented on those fics. My paranoia about outing myself made me go check and she has absolute oodles of fics where the only comment is a happy one from the recip. Tons of obscure pairings and fandoms where her fic is basically the only thing there is. So aside from people appreciating her overall yuletide output it's not like she's raking in attention from all the detailed and loving hand-crafted gifts she is giving people who otherwise would not have anything for that fandom/pairing at all.

Tl;dr: the exchange world has enough actually bad writers and bad faith participants, which is why the one person with an axe to grind against misura every single time is probably a troll.

Clicking through her fics with only 2 comments (recip+misura response) is a fascinating experience because SO many of them are the *only* fic for that fandom or pairing on ao3. She is really out there putting the rare in yuletide and I think that's really nice.

+1 I'm not sure I even want to know how CYRT thinks the author should have achieved that goal...

+1000

My jaw dropped.

So, which exchanges are coalies planning on doing next?

Probably just single-fandom exchanges for the rest of this year.

I've gotten a Misura fic and it was fine! It didn't blow my socks off or anything, but it was well above average for the collection as a whole, in terms of quality.

I do wonder how many Misura fics are the recip's only gift - I can see being a little bitter if she's pulling a Kitty and writing a significant fraction of stories that might otherwise have gone to a variety of pinch-hitters, especially if you aren't super fond of her style. But IIRC she's mostly writing treats for people who have an assignment in already so I don't think that's it.

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