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

[naraht]

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

[elf]

I know! I went looking for it and wound up saying bzuh? Not canonical yet? ... Maybe they're waiting for a single phrasing to take dominance? (In which case, there should be a fic-fest for drunk-written fic and a poll for best fic and that author's tag of choice gets applied to everyone's fic in the archive.) ("Best," here, is open to broad interpretation.)

I *want* AO3 to be the first fic archive on the internets with an actual "written while drunk" searchable tag. And if it's not, I want it to be the largest.

[musyc]

I know there's a Harry Potter monthly challenge for drunkfic. *searches* firewhiskeyfic. (Claims it's multi-fandom, but I don't think it worked out that way actually).

I like "Don't Drink and Write" the best, myself. Shame I follow that rule assiduously, or I'd put it on a fic and give it that third use to make it canonicalicable.