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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There are two stories in the collection with great writing and interesting premise but the author chose to do some weird formatting (block quotes, lengthy italics) that make them unreadable to me. I know I could/should just paste the text into something else, but I really don’t get why people aren’t more thoughtful about formatting (same goes for double space or no spaces between paragraphs, etc)

One of the wall-of-text stories is by a good friend of mine whom I convinced to do Yuletide for the first time. I had to handhold her through so much else that by the time we got to this point, it felt cruel to say "and the formatting's wrong, you need to go do this..." after so many other reminders and warnings. She got a story up on AO3. It's a cute story, and those that can read it (no shade on the others) will enjoy it. I'm proud of her.

Maybe next time we can work on line breaks.

A different friend managed line breaks OK, but found the FAQ and instructions so anxiety-inducing that I swear she read them through one hand.

Me: "I see you don't have any prompts, that's totally okay, but if you want to add some generic things you like..."

Her: "Oh! It said you couldn't demand things! I thought we weren't allowed to write prompts!"

Me: oh dear

Based on the fandoms I am certain both writers aren’t newbies, but maybe just didn’t think about how weird the formatting would come across. The one that’s in a block-quoted numbered list is especially weird.

That's wild. I know actual 10 year olds who manage to post on AO3 completely independently without extra instructions on how to make linebreaks or any kind of handholding at all.

That's nice.

LOL, I see you upset someone with this simple observation.

If one of those fics is mine, I'm sorry! The italic blocks seemed like a good idea at the time, but I can see how it could be quite annoying.

If it is, the writing was still excellent and I left a kudos anyway. In this particular story I think the italics would have worked better for a lengthy flashback in print; they’re harder to read online (to me).

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