Every Shard bleeds. The Bureau's Standard Contamination Report for Formgard, filed under Docket FORM-7 by Adjunct Archivist Peculiar Instances, describes the phenomenon with unusual precision: adjacent realities begin to experience what the Report terms 'involuntary curation.' Objects near a Formgard bleed-point start to align. Not violently — nothing moves on its own. But a coffee mug left on a kitchen counter will, over the course of an afternoon, come to rest at the precise point where its shadow falls most pleasingly against the backsplash. A stack of papers will settle into a composition that a photographer might have arranged. The effect is subtle. The Report notes that affected subjects rarely notice the alignment itself — what they notice is a growing unease with any arrangement that has not been aligned, a creeping intolerance for the accidental. The contamination proceeds in three documented stages. In Stage One, objects arrange. In Stage Two, light changes: affected spaces...
From the lore of The Panopticon of Good Taste.