It's just a big long "what if the SCP foundation decided to kill everyone on earth" fantasy. One dude with literal plot armor has to go from point A to point B and insert a magical Tab 1 into Slot 2. Then the world resets and everything is OK again.
Do it, write a SCP that's suspicously similar to USAID and watch the reaction it receives.
Sad thing is, it'll get shut down (oy vey) immediately because there are stalkers (child) in this thread...
I don't think anyone would disagree that would be cool if there was a TV series.
Pretty sure SCP is creative Commons, meaning any studio can pick it up, but that also means the studio wouldn't have exclusive rights over it which is the actual issue for them.
Yep, I was thinking about that, and the fact that with many rewrites and hundreds of authors, even if they forgo payment, they didn't renounce being credited. There's a non-zero chance they would sue for credit. Not to mention that outside America, authors have more rights (so it will be nearly impossible to distribute outside). There's not a single person you can negotiate with.
There was that Channel 0 tv show, it took some famous creepypastas and made it into a weird anthology but not anthology show.
I wonder how many SCP stories are just capeshit fanfics like this
A lot of them. There was a really egregious arc that got popular a while back that was just blatant capeshit marvel faggotry
Yes. Marvel and it's consequences has been a disaster to modern writing.
Pretty much.
Kind of ironic that these are the same people who will shout "BUT [any cultural media here] IS FOR EVERY ONE NOW" when worming there way into your hobby, but will then become zealous gate keepers when they become in charge. Just another reminder to why you never let these people have an inch because their entire goal is to kick you out.Besides the obvious raving about the community eating itself alive, and rate me TMI, but it is significantly hard for any potentially new contributors to get their ideas past the applications forum. Unless you, y'know, have connections with some mods. So, not only are most of these people rather up their own ass, they desperately want to keep their inner circle small and uphold some sort of "prestigious" aspect on who gets a sacred writers slot and who doesn't.
You post a general pitch, some assigned committee member then reviews it and grills you, calling it too simple, too vague or too much of a cliché.
Then months after, an established "doctor" or "researcher" or however these egocentric larpers choose to accolade themselves, skims through your idea and twists it into a bloated essays worth of interpersonal trauma; much to the appraised ass-kissery from their fellow equally histrionic bastard.
This thread has some other good examples regarding the general insanity, but by God, it's definitely sad to see how pick-me-not-thee these people are.
This is partially why I'm choosing to do an original. I'd rather kill myself than work with narcissists.Besides the obvious raving about the community eating itself alive, and rate me TMI, but it is significantly hard for any potentially new contributors to get their ideas past the applications forum. Unless you, y'know, have connections with some mods. So, not only are most of these people rather up their own ass, they desperately want to keep their inner circle small and uphold some sort of "prestigious" aspect on who gets a sacred writers slot and who doesn't.
You post a general pitch, some assigned committee member then reviews it and grills you, calling it too simple, too vague or too much of a cliché.
Then months after, an established "doctor" or "researcher" or however these egocentric larpers choose to accolade themselves, skims through your idea and twists it into a bloated essays worth of interpersonal trauma; much to the appraised ass-kissery from their fellow equally histrionic bastard.
This thread has some other good examples regarding the general insanity, but by God, it's definitely sad to see how pick-me-not-thee these people are.
I only remember Candle Cove, and that's because it had a competent author and his idea was fully built from the start.
d) Be on good terms with the admins. (in other words, be their dickrider)
If you pardon the spergery, that show is the shit. It isn't perfect at all but it is everything the current SCP "researchers" want to be since every season has monsters (with top notch design) but they are usually visual representations of the emotional core of the season.
I might have to give it another try, I remember going into the first season hoping each episode would be its own pasta rather than reimagine it for a whole season.
Admittedly, I can't fault them for expanding the story a lot. Candle Cove in particular was seemingly just a chatboard reminiscing on an old public access show that was apparently just them staring at static, so creating an actual purpose to the show would be essential if they wanted more than a (very) short film.
