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.

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Re: Potentially Fresh Wank?

[(Anonymous)]

+1 Although, I'm kind of focusing in on the word "devalue". That feels like we're treating commenting/fandom as a zero sum game where proper value should be parceled out sparingly, but like...I have no way to tell which of the comments that I've received are real gushing and which are fake gushing. I treasure every comment that I receive, even the ones that are just a heart. Every single time I write a comment, I have to psych myself up for it because being effusive in writing is hard for me even when I feel effusive. So all of my comments feel "fake" in that sense, but the enjoyment that I had is very real.