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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2023-12-25 08:12 am

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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Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I’m sorry you’ve been so burdened with a cluelessly well-meaning treater who follows you from exchange to exchange writing you heaps of badfic.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Didn't we literally just have wank about LadyKatana in this exact post?

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
There was definitely someone else who did this more recently, too, but I don't remember what exchange it was. Someone rejected something and then they gifted like 3 or 4 more treats and were beating themself up in public in some kind of humiliation fetish thing.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, them.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they were all over ffa, but they were such an extreme case I don't think you can extrapolate much from that behavior. Everyone was telling them to leave the poor recipient alone.