User blog:Pschycron/How dark should GC be?

Anyone who's talked to me regularly on chat knows I like dark story lines, but then I wondered: How dark are we willing to let stories on GC get? I know we have a disturbing tag with various fields, but how do we qualify it?

Creepypastas. We've all heard spooky stories over the internet and I know most of GC's community know quite a few of them. Generally a creepypasta is designed to work it's way into your head, one kind of disturbing, such as the legend of the Slender Man or to shock/gross you out you, in the case of a certain My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic FanFic who's name I have been sworn not to utter. But let's put it like this: Slender is scary as all hell and beyond and so is THAT fic for some people, but which is more likely to fit into GC's 13+ age bracket? Due to the nature of the latter, I'd say Slendy would have a place here if he were a story, whereas THAT fic we'd probably agree to censor.

In my only active story here on GC, I delve into the effects of indoctrination and it's religious interpretation, though this is by far less mature-content...-y than some other storylines I thought up. So I need to know, chums: Exactly how much is "too deep" on GC?

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