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

[ruuger]

Now that I've given it some further thought, having this particular tag canonical could be beneficial for readers in that it would allow for the readers to filter out those fics with the new tag filtering system. But I can't really come up with a 'positive' use for it - I don't think anyone would go specifically looking for fics that have been written while drunk, like they would with genres, kinks, tropes, or even most content warnings, because the tag says more about the author than about the actual fic.

[anatsuno]

Filtering-through-exclusion is just as valid, anyway, but I can think of several challenges of the bingo type that could send me looking for fic written while drunk (for example for podfic bingo, which has a "record while drunk" square, it might be interesting to use fic written while drunk). :)

[melannen]

Also if one is writing in character as someone who's drunk and wants to find an accurate voice: I know I've looked for that at least once.

[elf]

I would (I will) use it to search for fic. It does say things about the fic--it says "this was written for fun; has no intense heavy-thoughts plot going on; probably light on the angst; I handwave past inconvenient details; oh, did I mention fun? Yeah. This is for fun."

Sometimes I want to read no-brain-required tropish squee-fic. I wouldn't want to read an epic-length story in that mode... but written-while-drunk fic is not likely to be epic length.