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

[Baubius]

The perfect article to show what I mean is the one where some ramdom guy transcends the SCP multiverse, which has interesting concepts in it (like the one where worlds when viewed by 'higher beings' start becoming flanderized) but it wastes too much time describing what felt like unrelated actions caused by him, and in hilarious fashion, unironically wrote how the guy also transcended our world, which made me crack up because it was the dumbest use of the 'viewers are real' card I've ever seen.
Sadly, I forgot it's name, but The Exploring Series made a vídeo on it. BTW, I'm pretty sure it was Kaktus who wrote it, but I may be wrong.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3812 it was kaktus

 

[SnakeEye]

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3812 it was kaktus

Knew it. His recent articles all feel the same.

That and I don't give a shit about your grand self insert Mucho Texto bullshit or whatever, I just wanna see the SCP and what it does. The only few SCPs that I'm actually interested in that go against the 'less is more' thing are SCP-093 and SCP-4000, mostly because I'm actually invested in the concept.

I think this problem started when making 001s was something everybody wanted to do, but they forgot that 001s are inherently interesting so you can wait a bit before the story hits you, but even they could become boring if it took long enough.
Another thing that I feel was responsible for this trend is the combination of articles and tales. A lot of famous articles were more about telling a story than describing an object (like the site-13 SCP), so it was inevitable that people would also copy them without realizing they had a grab in their description and in each log.
Tales in general have a completely different writing style than articles, with a lot of them giving out information that lessens the creepiness of the SCPs.
Now then, put these two contradictory writing styles, put them together with amateurish writing, and you'd get the most boring SCPs ever.

 

[AnOminous]

You bring up an excellent point. The reason why I love short creative horror writings, and short creative writings in general, is because enough is specified to understand the basic concept or core of what something does and does not do, creating enough understanding to process the power it has, but not enough to understand to full extent- the unknown, the in between, the beyond our mortal eyes.

The worst excesses of current SCP are being like the interminable fanfics tumblr types write. They tell, don't show. The best are brutally terse, like Ambrose Bierce's short stories, not to compare even the best SCPs to Bierce.

 

[Wikipedia]

The worst excesses of current SCP are being like the interminable fanfics tumblr types write. They tell, don't show. The best are brutally terse, like Ambrose Bierce's short stories, not to compare even the best SCPs to Bierce.

Well that's the point. Scp entries are intentionally formatted to be tell, don't show. Like a scientific document is suppose to convey information to the reader.

The voglun once said that he prefered reading tales over actual entries due to tales actually having a narrative. Unless your a huge nerd; people people prefer narratives over direct information.

 

[Staffy]

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Sent shivers down my spine!!!!

Toss me my clocks but I really hate this redacted and covered out shit. When you ask about this, they bring up excuses for it. It's lazy as hell no matter what excuse.

 

[Valstrax]

Toss me my clocks but I really hate this redacted and covered out shit. When you ask about this, they bring up excuses for it. It's lazy as hell no matter what excuse.

The only real good example of censoring a bunch of shit in SCP is that one SCP where when it's all uncensored, then it gets even more fucked up.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

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Due to the lack of actual collaboration on some parts of the wiki. Such as the GOI, a lot of them don't match well. And are hard to make work in a canon which all of them exist. And some even so shit that they go against a lot of things that make the foundation such a interesting world. Particularly with GAW, which is essentially a bunch of anomalous socialist pricks who prank the foundation and other gois. The OCS being mostly X-men (Term which means a character who has no drawbacks to their powers.) Also is totally not a metaphor in anyway.

Who the hell are even half of these pricks?
Three Moons Initiative, Wandsmen, Wilson Wildlife Solutions, Chicago Spirit?

 

[Don't @ Me]

The only real good example of censoring a bunch of shit in SCP is that one SCP where when it's all uncensored, then it gets even more fucked up.

Personally censors can work just fine when they're used as censors should be used - For information that isn't relevant to the SCP, like where it was found, who found it, or if it was just a citizen at some point. Using it to try and achieve the fear of the unknown doesn't work. "The SCP [DATA EXPUNGED] the researchers until they [REDACTED]" is in fact just lazy. If information is being restricted, why can we see it at all?

If you really want to go for the fear of the unknown factor with minimal effort, just make a barebones description that seems innocuous, available to those with clearance 2 or 3, and add one of those "Restricted to clearance 4 or 5" things that the reader can't access.

Of course that's still lazy, but at least it makes more sense than censoring what the SCP does in the context of researchers reading an entry. That'd be like a chef's recipe book having ingredients listed, but what you do with them is censored. Why?

 

[AnOminous]

Of course that's still lazy, but at least it makes more sense than censoring what the SCP does in the context of researchers reading an entry. That'd be like a chef's recipe book having ingredients listed, but what you do with them is censored. Why?

The writer should know, or at least have written something plausible that would have gone in those brackets, and only decided what would be redacted based on actual SCP policies. That doesn't mean the author's deleted text should be canonical, just that there has to be some plausible text that could go in there that would be redacted by something like the Foundation.

I hate to pick 110-Montauk as an example but it's reasonably good at implying something utterly horrific without saying it, although my personal headcanon is it's just reading her a bedtime story.

 

[Wikipedia]

Who the hell are even half of these pricks?
Three Moons Initiative, Wandsmen, Wilson Wildlife Solutions, Chicago Spirit?

Wilson, bootleg foundies, three moons death communities, wandsman anomalous journalis chicago spirit anomalous mafia.

 

[Cool Bug Fact’s]

Well that's the point. Scp entries are intentionally formatted to be tell, don't show. Like a scientific document is suppose to convey information to the reader.

The voglun once said that he prefered reading tales over actual entries due to tales actually having a narrative. Unless your a huge nerd; people people prefer narratives over direct information.

YES, you’re right- and yet you’re missing something- they’re a foundation. A scientific community above entire global powers. They can experiment in whichever way they like- however, them somehow finding the exact positions, climates, and conditions to be met to provoke a response in the way exactly intended by the writer is a little lazy and unbelievable. If it’s humanoid and hostile, obviously you can understand it better. But a clock? What unique properties would activate this anomalous clock?

That’s my problem. Even scientist with all the power above the world and within it, still don’t know everything. You, as a writer, can maybe hint at properties or even write about the methods used to achieve understanding of it, but to have every minor detail understood feels… off.

I’m not sure I’m getting across to well (sorry if not), but the TL;DR is you can still be scientific and not know all the details- that’s the fun of the foundation! You know just as much about the horror as the scientist, and you can put yourself in their shoes, theory crafting and being morbidly fascinated (or flat out horrified) by the writing of the document.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

Wilson, bootleg foundies, three moons death communities, wandsman anomalous journalis chicago spirit anomalous mafia.

Boogaloo Boys, Hootie and the Blowfish, Paul McCartney and The Wings, The Band, The Professor and Mary Ann.

 

[Staffy]

Three moons is kinda wish fulfillment but it's not horribly bad

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

I hate to pick 110-Montauk as an example but it's reasonably good at implying something utterly horrific without saying it, although my personal headcanon is it's just reading her a bedtime story.

AnOminous, I can't believe you of all people would headcanon that bedtime story tale. No complaints, just surprised given how much you seem to hate when they neuter or tumblrize any of the old stuff.

 

[AnOminous]

AnOminous, I can't believe you of all people would headcanon that bedtime story tale. No complaints, just surprised given how much you seem to hate when they neuter or tumblrize any of the old stuff.

It's just so ridiculously edgy that how could you not want to fuck that up?

 

[Gar For Archer]

You know, I actually wish 110-Montauk would get a followup. The SCP universe is always kinda just frozen in time, which is especially conspicuous when you get to an SCP that is explicitly a young girl. But I’m pretty sure it’s been more than a decade since that article was written. 231-7 isn’t a little girl anymore. How does this change how the Foundation deals with her? Were they really able to hold off her giving birth for that long? The “timelessness” of the Foundation gets a bit weird when you look back ten years later on an anomaly so explicitly tied to the victim being a young child.

 

[Cool Bug Fact’s]

You know, I actually wish 110-Montauk would get a followup. The SCP universe is always kinda just frozen in time, which is especially conspicuous when you get to an SCP that is explicitly a young girl. But I’m pretty sure it’s been more than a decade since that article was written. 231-7 isn’t a little girl anymore. How does this change how the Foundation deals with her? Were they really able to hold off her giving birth for that long? The “timelessness” of the Foundation gets a bit weird when you look back ten years later on an anomaly so explicitly tied to the victim being a young child.

My question is, the SCP foundation has filed over 4,000 anomolies, and there isn’t a single one that can help neutralize aging or cell death and regrowth? I know it requires out of universe writing permissions, but key wording in Google chrome should help you find at least 1 article and let you email the author about it.

 

[fishercat]

You know, I actually wish 110-Montauk would get a followup. The SCP universe is always kinda just frozen in time, which is especially conspicuous when you get to an SCP that is explicitly a young girl. But I’m pretty sure it’s been more than a decade since that article was written. 231-7 isn’t a little girl anymore. How does this change how the Foundation deals with her? Were they really able to hold off her giving birth for that long? The “timelessness” of the Foundation gets a bit weird when you look back ten years later on an anomaly so explicitly tied to the victim being a young child.

No one wants to touch that article anymore because doing something unspeakably horrible to a little girl = rape in their minds. There is nothing else it could be. They can't imagine something worse than rape.

 

[Gar For Archer]

No one wants to touch that article anymore because doing something unspeakably horrible to a little girl = rape in their minds. There is nothing else it could be. They can't imagine something worse than rape.

I mean like, the original article all but stated that it’s rape. I believe it was later changed to be more ambiguous.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I mean like, the original article all but stated that it’s rape. I believe it was later changed to be more ambiguous.

I always assumed they disemboweled her.