The Offspring of Booze and Keyboard

[elf]

It's high time for the tag wranglers to start wrangling some of those loose incoherent tumblr-style freeforms.

I speak, specifically, of the "I was drunk when I wrote this" concept. I don't know if the canonical should be "written while drunk" or "drunk author" or "drunk writing" (not that, I think; it sounds like it refers to the contents of the fic, not the meta-state of the author) or something else. These decisions are for tag wranglers. *insert airy handwave*

The tags that should be synned include, but are not necessarily limited to:
i was drunk when i wrote this
I was clearly drunk when I wrote this
Drunk Writing
I write when I am drunk
Things I Write While Drunk
I wrote this when I was drunk.
don't judge my drunk
jfc i wrote this drunk at 3 am two years ago
I might have been drunk when I wrote this
Because apparently drunk me writes porn
Don't Drink and Write, which has been used on two fics by different authors! One more and it's eligible for canonicability! Which is a totally cromulent word that's perfectly appropriate to a discussion about fic that was written while drunk.
this is what happens when you let me write while drinking
what was I drinking when I made this
I was drinking okay I regret nothing

Making it canonical would merge several similar tags, encourage future similarity of tagging, and--BONUS!!!--make it easy for people who hate that kind of fic to avoid it.

(Disclaimer: I was not drunk when I wrote this. But I am coming off four days of five hours' sleep each.)

Comments

[cesy]

Yes, I would love more of this type of synning of freeforms.

[naraht]

I can't actually believe that there isn't a canonical!

[azurelunatic]

I am sober right now, and I approve this message.

[ruuger]

I hate to be the negative nelly, but I really wish tags like that won't be made canonical. There has been talk about adding a filter that you can use to hide just non-canonical tags (instead of all additional tags, like you can do now), and making non-informative tags canonical will completely defeat the purpose of that feature.

I have nothing against people using Tumblr-like tags, but I would like the option to filter them out because to me as a reader, they are nothing but visual clutter (and, as I realised after having an eye operation last year, a serious accessibility issue).

[samjohnsson]

So asked, so granted! "I Was Drunk When I Wrote This" is now the canonical.

That said, the wranglers don't by and large check this comm. Poke them on Twitter @ao3_wranglers or through the support form at ao3.org/support and they'll be able to get back to you easier!