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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WYR get an absurd amount of short and quick comments very early on in the anon period, or get a SINGLE long, detailed comment long at the very end of it?

An absurd amount of short and quick comments sounds like I'm being harassed or getting targeted by bots lol, but it would definitely soothe my ego.

If it's clear from the short comments that they've actually read it and the splurge isn't weird bot behaviour, the short ones.

This, because this year I came in at only just over 1000 words and I'm painfully aware that while I (and comments so far) think it's good quality, the word count means there's not a lot to longcomment about!

One really long detailed comment makes my day in a way no number, not even infinity, of short quick comments ever could. I simply do not get anything close to the same satisfaction from "this was an awesome story" (multiplied by whatever) as I do from someone doing an enthusiastic close read and really noticing everything I was trying to accomplish.

(Caveat: sometimes I get short comments where comment A notices thing 1 I did, comment B notices thing 2, etc. This can add up to the equivalent of a long comment for me. But basically I really only crave highly specific praise, so nonspecific praise is nice for my ego I guess but doesn't fill the endless hunger within me)

Same! I appreciate the "I liked this" comments but I'll forget them in ten minutes. Detailed comments will still make me smile remembering them months later.

Lots of short, quick comments! I love long, detailed comments, but if it's just one and nothing else and I have to wait for it, I'd rather have multitudes of instant gratification.

Short comments. For one, yay more people read my fic, for another, I don't really care for very long comments in the first place.

Difficult! Lots of comments makes the fic looks more respectable in the tag or on my page while just one comment can be embarrassing, but long comments feed me in a way short ones don’t.

Long one at the end. I just need one person who understands and appreciates my genius.

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