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freemanwrites.bsky.social
@freemanwrites.bsky.social
I have never gotten angry at an adaptation of one of my SCPs before. Usually I'm grateful to just get any work adapted at all, especially since I haven't written for the site in over a year.
But the SCP Experience podcast's adaptation of SCP-8097 misses the point so thoroughly it makes me twitch.
July 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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It's especially infuriating because it's clear that the person running the podcast read the article, they just changed so much of it as to be an entirely different beast.
The title is "The Waylaid Wallflower", and they portray the protagonist as a popular, mean girl type. What the hell.
Oh and naturally they credit *the article* as the work they derive it from, as if it popped into existence by itself, and not the person who *wrote the danged thing*. Complete misunderstanding of the CC LIcense.
The whole point of the article was a commentary on the victims of mass casualty events, especially school shootings, being forgotten, but it's a slasher film.
This podcast just portrays it as a generic slasher, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE KILLER.
How do you miss the point *this hard?*
The killer in the article is an *abuser*, not a victim striking back against people who wronged him.
This is legitimately pissing me off. Only reason I'm still listening is to verify that they haven't credited me properly.
This is... almost horrific in how much it misses the thesis of the article. Like, *intentional* media illiteracy.
Holy shit.
Sorry about, folks. But 8097 was one of the last things I wrote on the site that I'm actually, truly proud of. And seeing it get misinterpreted so thoroughly is... not a great feeling, let's say.
Okay that explains it: this goober didn't even read the first half of the article. He just read up until where the killing stopped and went "Good enough! That's a complete story, right?"
If you're going to butcher my story, you could at least say who the original author was.