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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Re: What ship configuration did you write/receive?

[(Anonymous)]

This year all the shipfic I wrote was m/m, but I actually ended up writing a substantial amount of gen as well, which is somewhat unusual for me, since the vast majority of my output outside of exchanges is shipfic (usually m/m, though I also dabble in het, f/f, and multi). I received one (m&m-focused) gen story and one m/m story. All my requests were m/m except for the gen story's fandom which had a handful of characters requested beyond the two that my author chose to focus on.