sdk: two wine glasses clinking together (gen - wine glass clink)
쉘리 Unmistakably Oatmeal ([personal profile] sdk) wrote in [community profile] firewhiskeyfic2022-04-22 04:55 pm

Does it hurt terribly, Draco?*

Welcome to the Spring Fling edition of [community profile] firewhiskeyfic! We, your Mods - [personal profile] sdk and [personal profile] torino10154, are so glad you could make it. We love everyone tonight. Feel free to friend us on DW. We promise not to stalk you... much. :D

Your challenges for this month are:

Pansy Parkinson

April Showers

Greenhouse 3

Wolfsbane

Under the Stars

Bird's Nest


Quick clarification for newbies: you don't have to use all the prompts--though that does make for a fun fic!--but since one of the categories for voting is "Best Use of Prompt" we do recommend using at least one. From now on, we will try to have 2-3 prompts each round that are not HP-specific.

As you know, this is the Official Discussion Post. If you feel like chatting, and we hope you do, pop in here and let us know how it's going. Please do not discuss your fic/art. You can discuss ideas, drinks, how wasted you are, your favorite Hogwarts classes, your love/hate relationship with the change of the season, plans you may have been putting off for the last 2+ years, or whatever floats your boat. Just don't discuss your fic/art. This is an anonymous fest until after the reveal, and we don't want hints being given as to what you're writing about. :)

And just so we're clear, you don't have to write pr0n, though it definitely makes for interesting reading when characters change right in the middle of shagging because you're too drunk to remember who you're writing about. ;) You can write for any fandom (including original), but keep in mind the majority of our players are HP people. Anything goes!

Once you are semi-conscious, send your UNBETA'D UNCORRECTED fic to this email: fwfdrunkmods@gmail.com Trust me, we can tell if you've messed with it, so don't do it, okay?

You will receive an email from us confirming that we got it. If you don't get an email, we didn't get it. Your fics/art will be due by midnight on Sunday, April 24th. Voting will begin on April 25th and last until Friday, April 29th.

HERE IS THE HEADER! You can put this in the email body or the fic body. Whatever!

(please fill this out to the best of your ability. If you're unable, we will try to complete it for you)




In order to make things easiest on your poor, likely hungover mods, please put your DW username and (if you can manage) the title of your fic/art into your subject line or at least somewhere in the body of the email. Thank you!

Shelly is getting us started with a nice bottle of Prosecco and Torino is chatting for a bit but not drinking until later as she's double-booked herself. Hooray! How about you folks? What's the drink that's got you through the last year or the one you look forward to having the next time you're out with family or friends?

Let's get our drunk on!

*Yes, this is the only inoffensive Pansy Parkinson quote we could find. Possibly why we've both embraced fanon Pansy!
lightofdaye: (Default)

[personal profile] lightofdaye 2022-04-23 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Cheers :D
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[personal profile] lightofdaye 2022-04-23 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you kindly! Nice display pic! :)
torino10154: Glass of firewhiskey (Firewhiskeyfic)

[personal profile] torino10154 2022-04-23 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I do understand wanting to get to the summer holidays!!

I will have to check the calendar but the very last week of June I'll be at the beach. :D We may have to do a poll and see whether people prefer July 2nd (which is part of 4th of July weekend for us Yanks though the timing is meant for the Europeans mostly anyway) OR July 30th (my 29th wedding anniversary ROFL but if we're day drinking in my time zone, who cares).
ride_4ever: (WriSo Sour)

[personal profile] ride_4ever 2022-04-23 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad to have had someone else -- you -- still up while I was still drunkenly writing! And I took your suggestion to not add more to the fic today. Just sent off what-all I had done at that point, and I don't even know whether or not it will actually seem unfinished.
oldtoadwoman: Bitmoji me with a coffee mug (coffee)

Re: 3:10 local time

[personal profile] oldtoadwoman 2022-04-23 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)

Oh, I feel like I abandoned you. The curse of having to work early the next day. I think I was in bed not long after midnight.

oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (keysmash writing)

[personal profile] oldtoadwoman 2022-04-23 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)

Somewhere around midnight, I had this wave of regret and just desperately wanted to beg the mods to let me edit the story I'd already submitted. "Let me fix it! There's stuff I want to change!" but I fought off the urge and went to bed. (I feel like I was half-sober at that point and half-sober is the worst mental state to be in.)

oldtoadwoman: Bitmoji me inside a cooler of drinks (alcohol)

the freedom of the FWF

[personal profile] oldtoadwoman 2022-04-23 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)

Indeed. As I was starting to sober up, I started regretting submitting my fic. "Argh, I need to fix it!" Fully sober, I'm now like "Fffft, that's what Firewhiskey is about." (Drunk-me thinks my writing is brilliant and sober-me thinks drunk-me is funny, but half-sober-me had a lot of anxiety and regrets.)

oldtoadwoman: Bitmoji me inside a cooler of drinks (alcohol)

summer fic?

[personal profile] oldtoadwoman 2022-04-23 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)

I hope you can make the next one!

ride_4ever: (WriSo Sour)

[personal profile] ride_4ever 2022-04-23 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey there, fellow night-owl drunken writer! Finished mine around 4:00 AM too and then staggered off to sleep.
oldtoadwoman: Bitmoji me inside a cooler of drinks (alcohol)

distractions

[personal profile] oldtoadwoman 2022-04-23 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)

Word. It worked to my advantage that I had to start drinking/writing early this round because it meant I got most of my story written before I got distracted in the chat.

ride_4ever: (WriSo Sour)

Re: ♥

[personal profile] ride_4ever 2022-04-23 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too with the I always feel like I'm failing at getting drunk enough.

I'm starting to think I would have to drink to the point of getting sick from drinking before I would get to extreme drunk!fic incoherence.
a_belladonna: (Default)

Re: ♥

[personal profile] a_belladonna 2022-04-23 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I would have to drink to the point of getting sick from drinking before I would get to extreme drunk!fic incoherence.

Same. Mostly because I remember making some drunk updates to social media when I was younger, where, despite being quite drunk, I still managed to write correct (if vaguely embarrassing) sentences. ;)
I wonder if it's because I'm writing in another language - I noticed I wrote slower yesterday, because I had to think harder about what I wanted to write in English.

I guess it's something to work on in the next round - accepting that my English is going to get seriously weird, if I write while drunk.
ride_4ever: (WriSo Sour)

Re: 3:10 local time

[personal profile] ride_4ever 2022-04-23 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not abandonment if you signed off because you work this weekend!
ride_4ever: (FK oh noes)

Re: ♥

[personal profile] ride_4ever 2022-04-23 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's what I think of that state of half-sober: *points to icon*
ride_4ever: (WriSo Sour)

Re: ♥

[personal profile] ride_4ever 2022-04-23 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
What's your first language?
ride_4ever: (WriSo Sour)

Re: the freedom of the FWF

[personal profile] ride_4ever 2022-04-23 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that's how it is for me too! Drunk-me thinks my writing is brilliant and sober-me thinks drunk-me is funny, but half-sober-me had a lot of anxiety and regrets.
a_belladonna: (Default)

Re: ♥

[personal profile] a_belladonna 2022-04-23 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Danish. So it's relatively close to English (on a global scale) but still distinct enough that things can get weird/funny if you assume you can simply translate expressions or grammatical structures 1:1 between the two languages. ;)
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Re: the freedom of the FWF

[personal profile] songquake 2022-04-23 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, even drunk!me was dissatisfied with the writing last night, felt more Ike I was completing the assignment than I was writing for fun, which totally undermines my FWF experience. My own fault, though, getting caught up in family stuff and not paying enough attention to the chats. And probably not drinking enough, either!

Can’t wait to see what everyone else came up with, though!

(For the record, I’ve been playing FWF since it was hosted on LJ, so if this is my first real clunker of an experience I am doing alright).
ride_4ever: (WriSo Sour)

Re: ♥

[personal profile] ride_4ever 2022-04-23 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, if those translated expressions and grammatical structures did get weird we would just think it was because of drunk!fic.

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