You should know that I share your distaste for body horror skips, so you had an uphill battle with me here.
There are three components to this SCP, mechanically, that I gleaned from reading it — I might be missing something.
- Christian Paulman, a barista/author
- The book/fad diet
- The creatures themselves
I have to admit that, while I see the explicit connection between these three features (Paulman gets dumped by a girl/struggles with mental illness, writes a fad diet book, fad diet book makes people spoopy), I have to admit the article isn't communicating the implict reason why to me properly. And I'm also afraid that I kind of don't like the "heartbreaking woman as the cause of a man's downfall" sort of story, admittedly, which is all I'm really gleaning from this backstory.
-1, but I hope you know it comes from a place of deep respect for your work. Positives: Excellent, breezy technical writing and good image choice.