This is my first skip in a while. First I wasn’t sure if I even wanted to do 7kcon. For those that know me, I’ve always been a heavy drinker and I took July as a challenge to do “Dry July”. Then the contest came, so I thought why not tackle two extremely hard challenges on top of each other. To echo the core of this piece, if I could be sober, I could do anything. Including write for a K-con again.
The angle of “Luck” proved to be a hard idea to incorporate, but when I put the theme into the context of my own life, I really realized how lucky I was to be here and how many things I barely survived because of drinking. What followed started off as a fun Alcoholic Reality Bender scip, soon evolved into one of my most intimate writings I’ve ever done. Most of what is contained in the story is semi-autobiographical stories from a wild past and hopefully a better future.
Although I know OP humanoids are a dime a dozen here on the wiki, I hope I provided a fresh, engaging, thoughtful look into my personal struggles and demons. I’m unsure if I will stay the current course of maintaining sobriety, but I know that writing this article was extremely cathartic and needed.
If any substantial spelling, punctuation, grammar, or formatting mistakes stand out to you, please feel free to message me on Wikidot PM. I wrote this 13k juggernaut in about a week and a half, and it might need some love before the Posting Period ends.
Sober since: 07/06/22 <- Will keep this updated!
EDIT: 08/08/2022 - broke today, it was a hard day, car in shop, phone broken, rent raised, ask for more money at work was rejected, found myself giving in, but will try to do better tomorrow.
EDIT: 08/29/2022 - was doing good again, but car stress and job stress and a 17 hour day made me go back. will try again tomorrow.
My choices for placement are:
7622 - the date I stopped drinking :)
7711
7771
7749
7070
I want to thank those who stuck with me and helped me edit the ever-loving hell out of this thing:
Athlonfer
“ ‘wow, just wow, that was one of the most beautiful pieces of work written on this site, screw whoever said "the super nice likable humanoid scp role is taken, don't write it… a worthwhile experience… among my top 3 favourite SCPs’ “
Not cool enough – for the read and awesome reviews: “dude, this is so impressive… amazing writing… cant recall the last article that tackled something like this in such a manner”
Anon “Squeegee” Londo - Reddit - For almost daily encouragement that kept me focused and engaged. I appreciate that you were always looking for my next addition.
Cydhra - for an amazingly in-depth look and for helping me with making this thing… just LOOK better. Sorry to steal so much CSS!
ForgottenAngel - for giving this thing some love and enthusiasm.
AlzinCdag - For the deep dive SPAG. Really pointed out some fine details that my fever dream writing style really missed.
cwazzycwafter - for an awesome crit trade, and some intense SPAG and feedback.
If I missed anyone please let me know, I would love to include everyone.
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"