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: Reccing game

[(Anonymous)]

Canon is The Indian Lake Trilogy by Stephen Graham Jones. (The first novel is My Heart is a Chainsaw, if that sounds more familiar.) In the novel the main character writes long essays about slasher tropes for school assignments, and in this fic, she's in a relationship with another girl from the novel and decides to study romcom tropes and write essays about those.
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2023/works/52306405

Re: Reccing game

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Not at all familiar with the canon but this was a goddamn delight, thanks for the rec!