I want to get into writing scps and I’ve been thinking about writing a Xia Culture Anomalous Group skip (I really really love them). Any advice?
Personally the reason I wrote this series is because I wanted a different cultural perspective on CotBG?
Like suppose the Broken God is real (in universe), then different cultures bound to have different takes on the deity. The CotBG used to be based heavily on western ideas, so I wanted a different take, so I used what I'm familiar with.
My thought process is that they would not be interested in bringing Broken God back from being broken, and they would maybe view Mekhane and Yaldabaoth as being a balanced pair. Then I placed this group in a time period we know only a little about so I can just make a lot of things up. (I probably should have done more research tho.)
So rather than specific elements, I think cultural context in more important here? I would actually suggest you develop things from your own cultural background if this one is unfamiliar to you. Like what would other cultures view a god of machine and a god of flesh?
okay so, imagine a horror story with the doctors being the main monsters and your the SCP trying to escape the foundation???
Like come on, I can name off MULTIPLE DOCTORS who would fit the criteria of a horror game character trying to find you as you desperately escape from the foundation. It would be like silent hill. But SCP related, think about it? You've got a SCP struggling against not only other scps in the site but also the doctors that they're trying to avoid,
Who is horrifying enough to be a SCP doctor YOU OPENLY AVOID IN THE GAME AND PUTS YOU ON YOUR TOES you ask? Well let me name off a few
Dr. Alto Clef, Dr. Everett Mann, Dr. Kondraki the list goes on and on, I've even got a plot if anyone is interested, WHY HAS NO ONE THOUGHT OF THIS???
You know how some names reoccur through various MTFs? You know how well trained and specialised MTFs are?
You know how often MTFs get turned into interestingly shaped hamburger?
You know how SCP 2000 exists???
My theory? MTFs are clone soldiers.
(Ds are still used because even cloning is more expensive than just rounding up the orange jumpsuits. Plus most of the 05 have strong feelings about modern justice systems and corporal punishment being reduced across the US.)
Okay, so I’m not sure if you might still be into SCP stuff, but if you haven’t read it, I highly recommend you read SCP 6670. A trigger warning for body horror, cannibalism, abuse, and forced isolation.
I read it and now I can’t stop reading it. It’s horrific in a way that hasn’t hit me for a long while.
HM I saw a screenshot of a tweet recommending that one a few weeks ago + read it out of curiosity and hate to say. didn't really love it, was gonna post my Thoughts on it at the time but never got around to it. ANYWAY thoughts will be under the cut in case anyone wants to read for themselves without being spoiled. big warnings for everything anon mentioned if you do
I thought the article definitely delivered on horrifying visuals but I thought the situation was unrealistic enough that I. couldn't really suspend my disbelief enough to be genuinely upset by it? it sets up the mother as someone who really, genuinely cares about her kid and is trying to make a better life for her, and her just failing to go get help for what. 3 years? while her kid is stuck in a hole just does not line up with that at ALL... if this was a story abt a shitty neglectful parent I'd buy it but it just doesn't line up with her characterization as a loving mother whatsoever
the whole premise of the kid just... "falling through a hole in the wall" (??) and then her presumably loving mother just not doing anything about it for the next several years for no real reason just seems. so unrealistic and divorced from how actual people would act that I can't take it seriously. like sure, she doesn't want to call emergency services because she's afraid of losing custody, but you're telling me that in three years she never once considered buying a hammer and knocking out some drywall?? like not even a single attempt? she chose to leave her child just stuck in a hole for no reason?? no actual person would ever behave like this and I just cannot take the story seriously because of it
the vibe I got from the article was like. the author came up with this super horrifying disturbing visual of the kid growing through the walls of the house (idk if you saw his sketch in the discussion section but it was pretty upsetting) which is like. solid horror, but then he had no idea how to write that visual into a story so we ended up with a super contrived unrealistic way for the kid to end up stuck in the wall that made literally no sense. I think he made the mother super sweet and loving so it would be more disturbing when everything went south, which it did, but it also made the events of the story completely ridiculous. I think it would've worked WAY better as a story about neglect instead of a story about an attentive, loving mother who behaves in an absolutely unrealistic nonsensical way so the Scary Horror Premise can happen yk
SORRY FOR. GOING HAM HERE I really do appreciate the rec and I did think the story had some Very disturbing imagery with a lot of potential I just had beef with the exposition to get 2 that point :(