SCP Foundation

You probably know by now that I am not afraid to push boundaries of taste with my SCPs, and while I may have realized that there are some subjects I should stay well away from, that doesn't mean I'm not still willing, nay, eager to be edgy. However, I have decided to be more careful from now on, and check that I'm not crossing the line before posting on the main site.

My latest SCP was inspired by this image in the visual records. You can see it at in the sandbox here (note that I haven't put in the image yet; I won't bother with that until when, or rather if, I posting it for real). My main concern is finding the right balance of squick. I understand that I run a big risk of it being all about the squick. I've tried to avoid this by not describing the specific act the characters are engaged in, but I feel I could still perhaps tone it down a little with a bit more censoring (maybe I should remove the part about the moaning and grunting?). I know that sex-based SCPs are not a complete no-no, and that they can work, as there are already quite a few, but they're obviously going to be tricky.

The image you linked to links to http.com.

Try thinking of legitimately interesting ideas instead of racism or gross shit. This place isn't the fiction-equivalent of /b/.

push boundaries of taste

You're trying to create quality through offensive material. This is not a particularly viable long-term strategy.

I've edited it a little to get rid of all explicit sexual references (though it's still clear what it's about). I don't know if that'll make it any better, though. Clearly, sandboxing this was a good idea.

This is a video that kills you after you watch it. The whole thing can be summed up by such description.

Distasteful or gross? No worries. This is boring. No amount of pseudo body-horror or pop culture can save it. I would elaborate, but the pretentiousness of the disclaimer drained me any interest of doing so.

Using "edgy" as a hook is a bad idea, first off.

Second off, everyone doesn't hate your articles because they're offensive.

They hate them because they're dull, bland. Uninspired. Your attempts at 'edginess' are juvenile and boring. You implement 'shocking' concepts (come on, do you really think the people here haven't seen this before? You might bother some of your friends on Facebook with this, but look at Documents From Cell 3. Edgy and unsettling, you are not.) in order to try and put a spark of creativity into your articles that simply isn't there.

What you are doing here isn't novel, or charmingly bizarre, or impishly creative, or whatever you think it is. It's childish, cheap, lazy and stupid. You keep saying you learned your lesson, and you keep proving over and over again that your word is worthless.

By the looks of it, I (narrowly) dodged a bullet in posting this here first. Thanks for saving me yet another embarrassment by posting this on the main site. And Dmatix, doesn't the fact that I knew not to post this on the main site mean that I've learned my lesson to at least some extent?

I will say that when it comes to SCPs, I have a "throwing things to the walls to see what sticks" policy. I'll rattle out an article about the first idea that comes into my head and see if it works. If it doesn't, I'll see what can be done to make it work. If nothing can be done, I'll abandon it. Rinse and repeat. Eventually, I'll produce something successful (the tapeworm child, the teleporting organs guy). It doesn't bother me that most of my attempts fail, because that's part of the creative process. However, it does bother me that people think I'm immature and an all-round bad writer, so I'm trying to take a more cautious approach.

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It's a DVD what makes blowjobs and turns you into semen.

There's literally no merit in this at all as an article.