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Hello everyone! I am writing my first SCP and so, I am interested to hear what the community has to say about my idea.

In short, this SCP is a standard electric pencil sharpener. When used, the subject attempting to sharpen their pencil begins to shred in a similar fashion to the pencil they are sharpening. Once they have completely turned into shavings, the remains will then disappear and re-appear within a certain radius of the SCP.

A few notes:

- The effects only work if the object inserted is a pencil…including mechanical pencils. Pens do not work.
- Once the process has begun, it will not stop until both the user is shredded and the pencil is completely destroyed.
- Remote operation of this SCP via robotic arm only results in the pencil being shredded.
- The object is classified as 'safe'; however, due to the nature of the teleporting shavings, I am considering upgrading the classification to Euclid.
- The teleporting shavings can and have appeared within human bodies.

Any and all advice regarding this idea would be appreciated!

When used, the subject attempting to sharpen their pencil begins to shred in a similar fashion to the pencil they are sharpening

Eh, feels like the California Field in Series… II? Maybe III? Where people who eat the fruit from that field end up eating their own organs.

- The object is classified as 'safe'; however, due to the nature of the teleporting shavings, I am considering upgrading the classification to Euclid.

I don't think it'd be Euclid because the shavings themselves are only generated if a human sharpens a pencil. If no one messes with the sharpener, nothing happens.

- The teleporting shavings can and have appeared within human bodies.

That's gross, but how would the Foundation figure this out? There would need to be a lot of teleporting shavings present, and most people wouldn't think to look inside the test subjects when thinking about anomalous teleportation of something.

Overall… I dunno about this. It might have done okay 10-11 years ago when simple horror items were less overdone and the site was new, but nowadays this seems a little bland. Why do the shavings teleport? It seems like that was added on just to facilitate more difficult containment, rather than some sort of narrative background. Also, why does the sharpener also sharpen people to begin with? Just because?

Right now, you have an object with a clearly defined activation and function, with no context or backstory, essentially a generic magic object. We see a lot of this sort of thing posted and deleted quickly because the audience has seen the same formulaic approach many times.

For examples of how to spice up the classic overused "thing that does a thing" SCP formula, consider reading this page: http://www.scp-wiki.net/things-what-do-a-thing-an-essay-on-things