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alt lefted adj. Reduced by drink to a conspiratorial explanation for the headache, the missing shoe, and the empty glass. Aidenmatthew woke alt lefted and blamed the vanished toast on an organised domestic silence. alt righted adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every morning explanation takes a hard turn towards grievance. Alayja woke alt righted and blamed the weather for the missing charger. alt rocked adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing last night's guitar from this morning's pounding head. Kanetra woke alt rocked, convinced the radiator was still keeping time. alt texted adj. The condition of a drinker who must explain every visible object because the usual meaning has failed to render. Zila woke alt texted and described the mug, the spoon, and the alarming stain on her sleeve. alt-azimuthed adj. Drunk in a way that rotates between sofa and kitchen, horizontally and vertically, without arriving anywhere. Vickilynn went alt-azimuthed, surveying the sofa from every angle before sitting. alt-centered adj. Drunk beyond the point where centrist certainty can survive contact with an ordinary disagreement. Ceile became alt-centered and accused Bryony of radicalism for preferring the other taxi company. alt-countried adj. Having drunk enough to combine incompatible musical traditions and call the resulting noise authentic. alt-girled adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes with carefully alternative taste and no reliable account of getting home. Arloene was alt-girled, wearing yesterday's confidence and somebody else's oversized cardigan. alt-lefted adj. Softened by drink into a morning certainty that every ordinary explanation is authoritarian. Miguelantonio woke alt-lefted and denounced the bathroom mirror as institutionally misleading. alt-litted adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every message into a minor literary movement. Deliany was alt-litted and published three observations in the family group chat. alt-metalled adj. Drunk on the strength of heavy music with a less orthodox arrangement. Nikalus was alt-metalled and nodded gravely at the washing machine. alt-monthlied adj. Sufficiently drunk to have strong, unsolicited opinions about independent publishing, issued at irregular intervals to anyone still at the table. Sakeenah went alt-monthlied around midnight and delivered a monologue on print culture to the barmaid. alt-popped adj. Too drunk to distinguish challenging pop arrangements from ordinary background noise. Tyranika was alt-popped and applauded the microwave's completion tone. alt-righted adj. Drunk and discovering, the morning after, that ordinary inconveniences now support a private doctrine. Thomesa woke alt-righted and regarded the empty milk bottle as cultural evidence. alt-rightered adj. Drunk to the point where the hangover becomes a membership test for people who dislike the kettle. Wheeler woke alt-rightered and blamed the communal kitchen for his headache. alt-rightisted adj. Drunk enough to treat the morning's ordinary discomforts as proof of a larger, less charitable order. Hearther woke alt-rightisted and found the queue for coffee politically revealing.