Third shot at a short contest skip; This was made in literally an hour and a half. Thanks to TyGently, Simulakyo, and Argenti for literally last minute critiques and aide. Special mention to minmin for pun support.
Hey, that last pun was totally mine!
Phhhbbbttt :-P
We were spitting them out rapid fire before the deadline closed, can't expect DSC to remember which came from where! Anyways, it's at +25 and has been up what, 13 hours? Idk about you, but I'm impressed.
I love this. Dad jokes with some just straight aggressive after thought. Makes me feel right at home. +1
its right hand holds a shot glass under SCP-2755's mouth.
Just to clarify, is the glass affixed to the corpse?
Pros:
- I am mildly interested by the alcohol aspect and how they form jokes.
Cons:
- That said, I find the jokes not all that amusing. The article is effectively an engine to usher in the jokes.
Verdict: Neutral vote
Yup, the glass is affixed to the corpse. Also, for the con, I'm sorry you didn't find the jokes amusing! I attempted to make them not only amusing, but also show how the writer was stuck writing family-friendly jokes they hated and how it was killing, and killed, them.
I liked it and was going to upvote, but the last line was a tad bit too cheesy for my tastes.
And if the whole world is crashing down… fall through space out of mind with me.
This just seems like an excuse to make bad puns for no reason.
The remaining alcohol proceeds to cover the material's surface and etches a random pun from one of the writer's books, as well as a typically cynical addition.
I cannot for the life of me determine what's being described here.
Strangely enough, as short as this is I feel like there's too many extraneous details associated with the object here. It's a corpse that's magically affixed to two different things, and it leaks alcohol from its mouth, and if the alcohol overflows its containing it somehow (and I cannot figure out how this is supposed to work in practice) spells stuff out. As a core concept that feels way too convoluted and random to me.
I'm assuming that we're supposed to get the impression that this guy's job writing bad jokes somehow drove him to, if not suicide or suicidal alcoholism, to some sort of existential despair. If that's so, I'm not buying it. With all of the horrible, fucked-up stuff that people deal with every day, this guy is going to be distraught because he writes goofy joke books? You have to do a lot more work establishing this character before that even comes close to something that I could imagine happening, and I'm not sure that's possible. Certainly not in the delivery system employed here.
I suspect the setup is lacking because the point of the article is indeed the opportunity to write out bad jokes. I think we've reached a point in the wiki's development where there needs to be a certain amount of weight to something that's fit to be on the mainlist. Not necessarily a "this is serious and life-changing" kind of weight, but something that's going to affect a reader more than three goofy puns. I don't think this is something that hangs with the standard established elsewhere on the wiki.
Finally:
This was made in literally an hour and a half.
I can't think of a single time where I've seen this kind of statement and went "yep, this is totally finished and of acceptable quality." This very much reads like something that was written in an hour. I get that there's a deadline. Sometimes you don't make those deadlines if what you're aiming for is putting out the best possible piece you can.
I think the rushed nature of the article shows itself. It's most apparent in the Containment Procedures: when has any containment procedure, even for a Safe item that can be put in a safety containment box, been a sentence long? But it also demonstrates itself in the lack of any real punch at the end. Also, you mention a "suitable material," but you don't mention what that is.
Or what the clean up is like afterward. Like, shouldn't that couch be covered in alcohol stains by now? How is anyone able to see what is being written?
That being said, I love the concept. I really like the idea of a bitter, alcoholic comic who died - presumably from drinking himself to death - but hated his life so much he still lives on as a bitter, cantankerous alcohol-revenant. That's a great concept, and probably is what many stand-up comics would have nightmares about.
No vote, but I recommend and hope for a rewrite of the article. There's a great concept in there, it just needs to be brought out.
This feels like one of those "feels" posts on a fan group on Facebook. The ones where they come with something purposely sad and everyone in the comments says something to the effect of "how dare you"; that's what this reminds me of.
You went and made these puns actually emotionally upsetting. I think I like it.
I'm upvoting, although I agree with the people who want this to be fleshed out more.