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: Wanker recap

[(Anonymous)]

it seems like ashling isn’t 100% confirmed to have played a part in that (other than being on the mod team and not resigning in disgust as another mod apparently did) but multiple people, including mods of other exchanges, claim that she was telling tall tales about alchemise being a big harrassing wanker in private discords. those people were pretty upset to learn that all they actually did was tag a fandom that included a DNWd character’s name and share their bewilderment at being banned for it, lol.

/coalie who was not around for this but just spent way too long reading through those links

Re: Wanker recap

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, ashling was not involved publicly (iirc MFD had a two-on/two-off modding schedule, and ashling and fencesit* were the "off" mods that round), but by the betrayed way other mods (including her friends) reacted, she was involved behind the scenes and was kind of a dick about the writer. The fact that she's never apologized still sticks in my craw.

*fencesit is the one who resigned in disgust.

Re: Wanker recap

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, she had friends calling her out in public. It was pretty wild.