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

Null said:
I've never read SCP. I didn't understand its appeal and I find the habit of censoring everything with black a tedious excuse for poor world building. It'd be like if in Harry Potter hearing that Voldemort used the terrible ██████████ curse which left the scar on harry's head because it █████████████████ through the power of ████████. And then JK Rowling fills in the blanks in book 7 when she has a better idea of what she's trying to do.
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It was fun and mildly interesting as a concept, but they just kept layering retarded "worldbuilding" on it. It's just that scene from Cabin in the Woods where the office workers happen to be working in an office that handles horror monsters. Neat idea, but you're getting at most a short story anthology and a few short films out of it before it becomes stale.
 
ono said:
People freaking out about it and forgetting what day it is today was honestly funnier than the "joke" itself. They will claim that was the goal but we all know that's AGP bullshit, just like how AGPs crossdress for Halloween and claim it's a "joke" and not just their sad fetish.

It's honestly funnier now that what was once their shitty discreet kink has now been alphabet souped and people will instantly assume they're trannies in some way or another. It's not so secret anymore and they only have themselves to blame.
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Even as an April fools "joke." I have a distinct feeling, that on some level, this is also supposed to be an unironic stealth pitch to the site, but even they know the idea is too stupid but still want to do it anyways. Like "HAHA fooled ya! Isn't so quirky and ridiculous? What a silly idea to even think that this could even be a real thing. Haha. Do you want to see more, as a joke?" It's a little too high effort for it not to be a simple prank. And the tumblr troon art is pretty on point to how nu-fans actually view SCP actually being now-a-days. Just another thing to insert their wacky self insert OCs into.

The only joke that got a chuckle out of me was this. You just get a low res .jpeg of some fucking guy as one of the characters and it's only funny because it's so out of place after seeing the gross Tumblr art prior.
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I also just read There Is No Antimemetics Divison. I read most of the original stories while they were being published, and then again the full way through a couple of years ago. Honestly the most jarring stuff is all the names and symbols are different, presumably to avoid licensing issues with the site. Who is Quinn, where is Wheeler? who thought "Unknown Organisation" was a good name? but that stuff doesn't really matter when it's just about familiarity.

The are a couple of big changes, basically two of them nearer the end. I won't spoil them. I can see why qntm made them since they make the story more cohesive, although possibly they somewhat remove a little too much agency from the wrong characters IMO. So it's a mixed bag for the changes, some good in them some bad but overall it's very much the same as what was published on the site. Pretty neat. Only real downside is reading something on paper makes me more attentive to how mediocre the prose styling is but that's hardly qntm's problem alone. Would recommend.

Now qntm has (successfully?) done this, does anybody know of other (good) SCP authors who have published elsewhere? I'm putting out a fatwa on kalinin specifically, he was easily the best author on the site but he's scrubbed all his online presence under that name, even the twiter account. Maybe he linked an external site back when he still wrote for SCP?

As for this post:
crowabunga said:
Right off the bat we get a vignette where a character discovers a corpse that is getting ignored so hard it is undecomposable and spontaneously dematerializing. What?
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If I recall correctly that's explained as the corpse being so antimemetic that even the bacteria that would cause parts of decomposition ignore it. But eg. it will still dehydrate and skin will flake off as dust so it decomposes in other slower ways.
crowabunga said:
these short stories trying to hide under a book-shaped trenchcoat
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That's called a serialised novel and a lot of fiction used to be published that way. I don't really understand what you're getting at with this "idealist" vs. "materialist" gibberish since it seems to be something the book doesn't take any position on at all.

I can see a little of what you mean, actually, although I think you're probably just getting confused with some things (see above about the corpse). For example, when Wheeler escapes Red after he kills the junior researcher at the memorial by stepping outside its area of effect, wiping her memory and causing Red/3125 to stop "seeing" her. I can see that kind of seems like BS rules about how this, apparently intelligent, enormous thread to her suddenly stops caring just because she forgot about it. The same thing happens at the lake.

I do think that could be a weak point but it's not too bad, if you think of it as qntm trying to get across that 3125 isn't really sentient, but rather object of sentience, an exceedingly complex idea. But this is something he plays fast and loose with. In any case this materialist vs. idealist debate doesn't map well onto analysis of the story.
 
Null said:
I've never read SCP. I didn't understand its appeal and I find the habit of censoring everything with black a tedious excuse for poor world building. It'd be like if in Harry Potter hearing that Voldemort used the terrible ██████████ curse which left the scar on harry's head because it █████████████████ through the power of ████████. And then JK Rowling fills in the blanks in book 7 when she has a better idea of what she's trying to do.
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Your favorite would be SCP-458. The infinite pizza box that always has your favorite pizza made with the freshest cheese from Europe.
 
So now that the gaggle is finished discussing what appears to be a poor fauxnime pitch, let's get into some actual news: the tranny who was orchestrating the Bright removals has just retired from staff. No details were given, but this post tells you all you need to know about the situation: https://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-17673861/regretful-retirement
What's more is that they're just going completely fucking Oceania on this issue, scrubbing almost every EDIT that Bright has ever made: https://05command.wikidot.com/semi-public:bright-works-ring2-workspace
I am of the minority opinion that (some) modern SCP is still good, but just burn it all down at this point man. The comically authoritarian administration has run the place into the ground. The admins are lucky that the 20th anniversary and five digit range are coming up soon so they can sweep all of this under the rug, but I'm willing to bet my life's savings that SCP won't make it to 20000 articles.
 
Mikhail Kalashnikov said:
I am of the minority opinion that (some) modern SCP is still good, but just burn it all down at this point man.
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Honestly? Yes. SCP by it's nature attracts young horror writers that make decent stuff. The only caveat is that they need to leave before getting groomed by the Kaktus Klub into writing like a fucking retard. God I fucking hate Kaktus.

As for me, I just got done reading the newest 001 and listening to Exploring Series' bit on it (I usually get kaktuslop by way of him, considering it's fucking annoying to actually read)
A portrait of hell is so fucking ass that it makes me legitimately angry I invested the few hours of my life into reading it. It hammers it's own metaphor into the fucking dirt and refuses to even give the reader the basest satisfaction of letting the protagonist get a single fucking W, ever. On top of this, due to the nature of it being Kaktusslop, it's written like someone beat me with a thesaurus that has the word 'Subtlety" taken out of it.
Absolute dogshit 001 entry, even the goddamn ouroboros cycle is better.
 
Mikhail Kalashnikov said:
'...I am of the minority opinion that (some) modern SCP is still good, but just burn it all down at this point man. The comically authoritarian administration has run the place into the ground. The admins are lucky that the 20th anniversary and five digit range are coming up soon so they can sweep all of this under the rug, but I'm willing to bet my life's savings that SCP won't make it to 20000 articles.'
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I completely agree with you there are some good modern SCPs (I could name a few if you ask me). The problem behind SCP is how much writers and difference in tone with each entry. There isn't a core of authors that can keep a steady tone with SCP due to the amount of writers it attracted. AKA it's the whole 'Dime-a-Dozen' saying personified.
 
Local User said:
I completely agree with you there are some good modern SCPs (I could name a few if you ask me)
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Do you enjoy the rounderhouse articles?
I like their take on the factions. Sarkics were a cool reimagining of the mongol culture, and the twist of the Grand Karcist in modern day was cool
Grand Karcist Ion's whole story about ideological corruption and cutting his humanity out is very good. I fuck with the themes a lot.
 
Starefag said:
'...Absolute dogshit 001 entry, even the goddamn ouroboros cycle is better.'
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The what?

Maybe I haven't read into SCP-0001 proposes in a while but never in my life reading SCP I heard this concept. Speaking about SCP-0001, I don't like the concept inertly. Of course there needs to a first for a numbered catalog but put it up to a vote at this point
 
Local User said:
The what?
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The Ouroboros cycle is an action movie reddit garbage series of articles that rolled 3 entries into one (The Broken God, The Children, and Kaktus' overarching story)
It's bad because it's the most marvel movie style slop ever, and it's only remotely enjoyable if you like pointing at things and recognizing references.
The one I read, "A portrait of hell" is the latest one. And it... Really sucks. Like genuinely wastes your fucking time sort of bad

For The Ouroboros cycle

for the Portrait Of Hell

I can tell you 3 things about portrait that's revealed in the first act

1. The Protagonist is a high ranking foundation member assigned to contain something especially bad
2. The Protagonist's daughter is a anomoly that uses her power to work for the foundation.
3. The Fucking story opens with a picture of a man hanging and consumed in fire.

If you can't guess what happens in the story from those factoids, think of the most obvious conclusion you could draw.
 
There was a window in the early days where people couldn't decide if they wanted SCP to be purely horror or if it could also be other things. Lot of the early articles were horror adjacent, more clinical sci-fi about an organization that found something terrible and getting their science on. This eventually rolled into lolfoundry, which....well, I thought it was entertaining.
 
Jack Noir said:
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here yet, but...
SCP Confinement, the animated series made by the infamous Lord Bung is getting a Season 2, it's being done independently and doesn't have any ties with Bung himself.
Here's the trailer:
Archive (Preservetube)
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If anything i'll give this a try just for the "fuck you" factor towards Bung as many others will, fag had only one job and fumbled it hard
 
The_Bladder_Splatter said:
Come again?, what kind of injury does he suffered and why?
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He had an ass injury (tailbone maybe, might have fallen down the stairs), made it hard for him to sit down and do anything for ages. Then when he did do something it killed his entire career with no regrets as he ran away with the money with his BPDemon girlfriend.
 
>kino casino goes down
>decide to start listening to scp narrations again because my prior background noise got banned from youtube
>90% of all the new scps just boil down to an hour plus long narration about "ooohh big scary world ending metaphysical memetic agent that's super big and powerful" that has no relation to the greater universe or is even all that unique in the grand scheme of things #868296
fucking hell. I guess this is what happens when you have no guardrails in your fiction? People shit on GW a lot but seeing what scp has become I'm honestly thankful for gaymes workshop and the autistic chokehold they have on 40k lore (pretend that Matt ward doesn't exist).

I do like the sarkic stuff. Maybe it's because I'm kinda of an autist for ancient civilizations but the whole vibe really appeals to me. I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been a story made yet about how the evil flesh monster cult members are just le understood and innocent minorityfolx and uhm actually it's the christfascists/normal society who are the REAL monsters. Libshits absolutely adore that trope for some reason.
 
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