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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2023-12-25 08:12 am
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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 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Not often, no, and if I were to look at them, I don't know that I'd remember a fic had been gifted if it no longer said "for [x]". I know this is the case for other friends as well (for an awkward reason: we all had a falling-out with the same mutual, who rejected all our stuff. None of us realized right away despite some of the fics being on the first page of our profiles, lol).

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you're doing too many exchanges if you can't remember what you wrote in them.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Or maybe my memory just functions differently! But I think the ambiguity here is pretty obvious.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You having memory problems and not being able to remember the things you made for someone else doesn't make it their problem.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nonny, you're derailing with personal attacks. The fact is I don't use the site like you do, yet nevertheless I participate in exchanges. I doubt I'm the only one who wouldn't notice a rejection absent a notification. Either you're comfortable with that or you're not.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, it's the children who are wrong.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, you are wrong.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
No, Seymour. It's not the northern lights.

Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-27 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
DA

You're (rightfully) saying people should be comfortable with you using the site and doing exchanges differently. Yet you fail to extend the same courtesy to those people.
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