SCP Foundation - Creepypasta with roid rage - now ITT: SCP fans

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Rufus Deponia said:
It's time to take the SCP back, Kiwis.

The Sneed Cope Preserve Foundation.
Click to expand...
Is it really, though? The format was fun and interesting fifteen years ago, but it’s become incredibly clear the “New Weird” was as endemic to the turn of the millennium as much as the “Old” Weird was to the 1920’s, with SCP only lasting as long as it did due to the low barrier of entry in the format.
 
McMitch said:
Is it really, though? The format was fun and interesting fifteen years ago, but it’s become incredibly clear the “New Weird” was as endemic to the turn of the millennium as much as the “Old” Weird was to the 1920’s, with SCP only lasting as long as it did due to the low barrier of entry in the format.
Click to expand...
What is the current trend? Is the analog horror stuff still in?
 
UtadaWasabi2 said:
What is the current trend? Is the analog horror stuff still in?
Click to expand...
It's "digital" "horror" that's the in thing now. Instead of bad VHS shit, its' now endless fake Minecraft series where the world does weird things and there is some shadow figure or something for the billionth time.
 
The Gene Genie said:
I've read through some of the new 9000-series entries and most of it is coal. In some ways it's an apotheosis of the trend that's been going for years: pointlessly long entries filled with juvenile dialogue commentary written by someone with the maturity of a teenager. None of them are particularly good or outstanding.

I looked at the RPC Authority and that looks like it's completely dead. What a shame.
Click to expand...

“Dead” is a complicated word here.

Creative projects that drift into political commentary often do so because they’ve exhausted their original creative vitality. It’s an unspoken concession to a lesser state of creative existence. When writers, filmmakers, or artists run out of genuine insight into their characters, themes, or craft, they frequently substitute political messaging for artistic substance. This substitution is easy because political outrage provides ready-made emotional intensity and moral clarity that no longer needs to emerge organically from the work itself.

The shift typically follows a pattern: early work demonstrates fresh observation, complex characterization, and thematic depth rooted in human experience. Later work increasingly uses characters as mouthpieces, plots as allegories for current events, and dialogue as op-ed columns. The art becomes instrumentalized; valued not for aesthetic achievement or emotional truth but for “saying something important” about contemporary politics.

This phenomenon marks creative death because political commentary operates as a parasitic substitute for imagination. It provides the illusion of relevance while avoiding the harder work of discovering new artistic territory. A living project generates meaning through its internal coherence and artistic risks; a dying one borrows urgency from external controversies.

The obsession reveals itself through certain symptoms: characters losing psychological complexity in favor of representing political positions (e.g. SCP-8980), plots bending unnaturally to accommodate message delivery, and the work’s primary appeal shifting from artistic merit to tribal signaling. The creator stops asking “what truth can I discover?” and starts asking “what position should I endorse?”

Truly vital creative work may certainly engage political realities, but it does so through the depth of its artistic vision rather than despite its absence. When politics becomes the project’s animating force rather than one element within a richer exploration of human experience, the creative corpse has begun its decay.

It is a pitfall of long-running projects. Look at the most recent season of South Park. The only difference is, the creators there acknowledge their turn towards political dependence and essentially apologize for it (in the newest episode), promising viewers that things will “get better & back to normal”. SNL is a victim of this too; their best skits happen when they avoid politics entirely, but it’s hard for them to actually do that.

You can also look at SCP-9000 and see that the premise of creativity or writing prowess is supplanted. The author of SCP-9000 is the next in what is a growing and a now rather long line of entries dating back to SCP-6000 that have won solely because of the author’s social standing in the community (with maybe the exception of SCP-7000). The site’s premier “writing” event is a popularity contest. It’s not even controversial to say that now. Each of these “winning” authors is in a tight-knit social group that often collaborates with one another, and adopts each others writing styles; all of course meeting the prerequisites of towing the correct party line, etc. Each of them has accumulated an appreciable social media following, which is now seemingly also a prerequisite or necessary component to a “successful writing career” at SCP. The winning entry of SCP-9000 could have been easily predicted with only minimal familiarity with the relative popularity of the authors there, it was always going to be one of only a couple possibilities, even before one word of any draft for any entry of the contest was ever written.

Vegas would be completely uninterested in something like this, because even the uncertainty and fun of watching the one offering from the site where the writing should matter and potentially overcome the dominance of socio-politics doesn’t actually happen anymore.

It is impossible for a writing-community-turned-social-farming-machine to understand this, but RPC’s death is 100% preferable and more dignified than perpetually continuing well past the point of total identity transition, and becoming what SCP is now.

The spirit of SCP is dead and its body is still animated. The body of RPC is dead but its spirit is still very much alive.
 
and 128 others said:
Creative projects that drift into political commentary often do so because they’ve exhausted their original creative vitality. It’s an unspoken concession to a lesser state of creative existence. When writers, filmmakers, or artists run out of genuine insight into their characters, themes, or craft, they frequently substitute political messaging for artistic substance. This substitution is easy because political outrage provides ready-made emotional intensity and moral clarity that no longer needs to emerge organically from the work itself.
Click to expand...
You hit the nail on the head.
The overwhelming majority of modern writers that get any amount of support are the ones who create works on par with the fanfiction you would see on Tumblr in 2014. I'm fine with political references within a piece of media but when inexperienced writers (especially libshits) try it out, they tend to be far too on the nose and it just comes across as a combination of virtue signalling and an inability to make subtle references that make sense within a story. Another issue is self control—when a piece of media begins to make political references, the writer needs to ensure that they don't make up the entire story unless they want it to turn into some self inserty slop where the main characters beat the heckin nazis, feminists, etc.
As for the RPC, that thing was going to die because even the troon operated and reddit appealing SCP community is falling apart and has had a massive drop in popularity since youtubers ran through the entire thing by late 2020. It is still sad to see a project that had good intentions die so early on.
slungus.webp
 
It's a shame this is what SCP came to in the end but as others said, it was sadly inevitable. 4chan creates something fresh, new and interesting, it gets popular, then reddit and tumblr ruin it. This cycle has played out so many times. That's why gatekeeping your community matters.

Earlier today I was thinking about how I could turn my own beliefs and fears into an SCP like entity like many of the writers have and I think I came up with something interesting. Though, it was nothing more than a though exercise at work. It's kind of a subversive response to all the retarded Mary Sues and Tumblr self inserts.
 
I think the "no canons" sentiment was partially responsible for the downfall, too.

Recently someone complained about SCP-096 being unironically portrayed like an omega femboy by some, and that it doesn't represent the article. Then someone from the RU main site came and condescendingly told them "there are no canons", and that this representation of SCP-096 is also valid.

This is a prime example of The Ship of Theseus: how many details can you change until the thing stops being that thing? Of course, the good thing is, for a normie SCP reader 096 will remain a spooky monster, because most will rightfully stick to the established, initial concept and not whatever schizopheric sexual fantasy of it some moron produces. But most of the SCP writers nowadays aren't normies, they get off on "subverting" the classics - yeah, their art is philosophically equivalent to their political views. Yet it's not even subversion, they're just throwing in a couple of points from an obvious checklist:
- exploring race/sexuality/gender;
- adding a mental illness to the mix (not just mental issues, the illness will be explicitly named for muh representation);
- adding rape;
- adding a fetish or two;
- barely hidden political messaging.

And so these idiotic changes of a concept replicate and get worse with time.

I'm not saying all creative liberties are bad, I'm saying some pre-established aspects should be untouchable, or the future tasteless perversions will poison the original thing.
 
Last edited:
RPC is dead because the SCP format ran its course. It's an inherently limited format/setting, and you can only do so many things with it - at close to 10000 articles published, there really isn't anything left that hasn't been done.

That's why the modern SCP community completely disregards the lore, formatting, and general themes of the medium. They too know that there's no point in creating new ones, they just force their original stories into them to hijack the "people who still read new SCPs" audience. (Which is about twenty people - twenty more than how many would read their regular stories).
Trying to "fix" or "reboot" SCP misses the point. There are only so many permutations you can fit a scary murder monster and a hapless MTF team into, and all of them have been exhausted a long time ago. Just let it rest.
 
Personally, I'd like a return to the lolfoundry days. Not just that hub, an actual return to short form horror stories allowing themselves to sometimes dip into stupidity to break up the tension a bit.
 
Soda Can said:
Personally, I'd like a return to the lolfoundry days. Not just that hub, an actual return to short form horror stories allowing themselves to sometimes dip into stupidity to break up the tension a bit.
Click to expand...
Could probably do it if people are consistently making it, though not too hard to attract too much attention for obvious reasons.
 
Rufus Deponia said:
At this point it feels like posting on the main site will automatically turn you into a faggot. It's like signing up to Bluesky.
Click to expand...
Well of course it would, that's why you shouldn't and should either do on RPC or make your own (preferably non-wikidot since that's aging and ready to die at any moment) based site. Or make a thread here and just share ideas. SCP as a platform for writing is dying, no matter what anyone says, so trying to revive a dead format of it on a dying site is silly.
Just have to make sure whoever writes anything don't make it even worse than this post suggests.
 
Tri-Tachyon'sClown said:
Well of course it would, that's why you shouldn't and should either do on RPC or make your own (preferably non-wikidot since that's aging and ready to die at any moment) based site. Or make a thread here and just share ideas. SCP as a platform for writing is dying, no matter what anyone says, so trying to revive a dead format of it on a dying site is silly.
Just have to make sure whoever writes anything don't make it even worse than this post suggests.
Click to expand...
One example from this thread should definitely be submitted to the main site, though.

This one.
 
qntm, who co-authored SCP-055 and later wrote the Antimemetics Division canon, got a publishing deal awhile back which included a rerelease of the main Antimemetics storyline with the SCP IP scraped off. That book is out now, available in print, ebook, and audiobook. The Antimemetics canon was one of the few that I thought was decently written so I picked up the audiobook to see how it stands on its own.

I don't know if qntm is British or just a fan of the Laundry Files, but the most obvious change is that all the action unambiguously takes place in England now. The female narrator does a good job at changing up her tone for the different characters. The story still revolves around eldritch beings that interact exclusively through mind-rape, so redaction plays a big role in how some scenes are played out, and there is one chapter where the POV character has to reclaim his mind that makes really heavy use of it. They give you a heads up on what the redaction sound-effects are like at the start, so if you find that snippet irritating you should definitely not proceed with the audiobook.

The Antimemetics storyline itself remains roughly the same. The only notable subplot that seems to have been dropped was MTF Omega-0. Oh and Dr. Hughes (now Dr. Hicks), is still involved but doesn't turn up in the last part of the book as a giant amoeba. Other than that, most of the changes are just name-swaps. The Foundation is now the Unknown Organization, anomaly documentation still follows a 3-tier system but doesn't use the kabbalist names, the O-5 council are now the C-Suite, etc. I think qtnm also tinkered around with how the chapters are logically connected so it's easier to track the sequence of events, but I'd have to reread the original SCP entries to be sure.

Also, a minor miracle given the source and it being Current Year, none of the characters were rewritten to be Diverse™. The two main characters are still a heterosexual couple in a healthy relationship and their inability to conceive a child is treated as a tragedy and not a Good Thing because it means more room for musselmen.

Overall, if you liked the SCP Antimemetics, you'll like this. I'd like to more stories in this universe liberated from SCP baggage.
 
Hazard Crab said:
The only notable subplot that seems to have been dropped was MTF Omega-0. Oh and Dr. Hughes (now Dr. Hicks), is still involved but doesn't turn up in the last part of the book as a giant amoeba.
Click to expand...
Aww, before looking up the name I thought you meant the cancer that is Tau-5 "Samsara" had been excised. That's too bad, I liked Omega-0, and the concept of the amoeba. Maybe the editor wanted a tighter focus on the Wheelers.
 
Hazard Crab said:
Overall, if you liked the SCP Antimemetics, you'll like this. I'd like to more stories in this universe liberated from SCP baggage.
Click to expand...
Honestly, the more SCP stuff is taken out of SCP and used by itself, the better. And if this guy can get a publishing deal, I need to get my ass in gear and start writing again. No idea where to take my shit to that isn't biased towards s m u t or far-left politics, suppose it depends exactly on what I'm writing at the current moment and how long it is to read.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom