Morbane's coal

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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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[(Anonymous)]

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)]

Not_You is my favorite writer for the ship. liodain also has some really good stuff and so does TheFlirtMeister (who is the unfortunate recipient of the fic in question above) and etherati.

there are only 66 fics for it on ao3 though so just looking through the tag won't take long. most of it is quite decent.

[(Anonymous)]

DC

Thanks coalie!

[(Anonymous)]

+1 Yes, these writers all blow her out of the water.

[(Anonymous)]

Stop

[(Anonymous)]

I remember reading a lot of good stuff on LJ back in the day, too. I know a lot of it was by liodain so obviously some of it got imported to AO3, but I imagine there's a lot more out there for people willing to dig, if it hasn't been nuked in the LJ purges.