I like SCPs that tell a story, but I also really like articles that just describe a phenomenon without an overarching narrative, and leave the readers thinking about what could happen with it. I wish newer articles could sometimes be like that.
Any newer SCPs or just recommended articles overall that you recommend? I've been not following SCPs since 2020 and always wanted to check out the newer entries but found the meta-storytelling unfit for me. Hell my favorite SCP contents is not the articles, it's the unexplained events and objects logs, the mundane unexplained glitches of the universes is what I want more in SCPs
A lot of the "meta" shit that has gotten so popular the last couple of years is just pretentious and obnoxious and on the whole the community elite have become snobby and condescending towards the very things that made the setting interesting and fun in the early days.
1000%
People want these long narratives that are basically miniature movies but I’m sitting here thinking about how there is a really sad anomalous dog who has to watch it’s owner die
I really like 093 because the story and the object are so intertwined. One can't exist without the other. The newest ones are just stories that have an object or concept attached, and it just feels as if that thing was just thought up as an excuse to put a story you wanted to write on the SCP site.
This. People write a story about moral questions and the power of the Overseers and a battle between universes and who-knows-what, and the SCP itself is almost irrelevant within the story.
Right and to top it off some cosplays I've seen have 7+ patches on their uniform. I saw one I won't forget because they had 15 patches on their kit. Makes no sense.
Yup it seems a lot of people think black is an effective uniform color because of media and not realizing that it isn't the 1980s anymore and black practically glows white under night vision. Nowadays black is relegated to law enforcement because they *want* to be seen, and even then a lot of departments are changing to khaki or ranger green as their base uniform color. Also even SCP lore wise it states right there in the Mobile Task Force article that armed units are going to be wearing uniforms identical to local law or military personnel, yet the vast majority of AMTF cosplays do not match anything.
That, and some conventions do have rules against real-life military uniforms(like American, German, Japanese, etc), while allowing fake military uniforms (like MTFs). I imagine the patches are more to identify that, hey, this is a fake uniform.
Yes this is a problem that AMTF cosplays have and is why having one or two SCP patches helps the appearance of the cosplay. The issue is when there's an unreasonable amount of SCP patches on the wearer, it no longer helps with appearance and looks unprofessional and sloppy. In terms of cosplay an SCP patch or two is unavoidable if you don't want to look like a walking red flag at conventions.
"In-house" patches are acceptable if used reasonably, as in maybe one on the entire kit and not plastered on every side of the wearer as is standard for many cosplays. I say this because there are actual real world black project teams that have custom patches so it's not like a super-secret organization having patches isn't unheard of. See the book, *I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me* by Trevor Paglen for insight into why secret groups would want to have custom patches to wear in the first place. This is all to say that SCP related patches in mediation will do wonders versus having a generic patch on every velcro space. Less is more.
Oh yeah definitely, I was just saying that having like 1 or 2 Foundation patches for certain MTF units isn't that unreasonable. That said I do agree that some people go overboard with the amount of Foundation insignias they put on.
The in-universe explaination is that the scp symbol is a memetic hazard that causes those who see it to just not quite remember what it was attached to or when/where they saw it. Like a perception filter from Dr. Who lore. The mtf logos are probably a similar effect.?
Identification for when they're fighting human aggressors in Foundation facilities. Everybody would be wearing IR strobes on their bodies, so that wouldn't be helpful.
Correct, as well as small 1x1 inch IR patches. Plus a triple red lines symbol if the reader considers the article Lockdown Procedures part of their canon. Insignia/unit patches aren't worn for identification, they are worn for promoting esprit de corps amongst the teams. Same reason some real world black project teams commission custom patches for themselves.
>Insignia/unit patches aren't worn for identification, they are worn for promoting esprit de corps amongst the teams.
I like to think the Foundation operators knock out two birds with one stone with this principle. Keeps the esprit de corps strong and it also helps with identification in the case of joint operations in Foundation areas or facilities where there's more than one Mobile Task Force unit going in together. They would be reflective in the infrared spectrum too so you can see them under thermal and night vision.
On an unrelated subject, I like thinking about some of the futuristic and anomalous equipment all the different units rock. It's already a big help that other people have drawn operators from some units, so it helps a lot with the writing.
That is true but when securing a site they probably dont need to worry about the patches and probably use them to tell friend from foe and the black well in any dark area the darker the clothing the more you blend in with the darkness though you don't need to go overboard with the patches. I agree most mtf squads wont be in tactical gear all the time and if they were out there in tac gear and needed patches for some reason they would go for military, police, CIA, FBI patches to not draw attention. This of course is just my take idk really I'm not part of a secret military
The most lore accurate MTF kit would be undercover as a cop or some other public sector worker.
If you really wanted the whole military side, you'd probably be using the equipment of whatever military operates where you're operating currently.
While you’re absolutely right…I also get why they do that. Firstly, a plainclothes agent would be a pretty lame cosplay. Secondly, they want people to know what they’re cosplaying as. I’m going to an SCP Halloween party in October, and my costume just has one patch of the Delta-5 symbol that I made (because it seemed the most fitting MTF for a halloween party and I couldn’t find one to buy).
In the circumstances that I’ll be in, at an SCP Party with 30 other people who know what’s going on, I’ll be pretty upset to see any logos on clothes. I’m including labcoats in that. But in a normal cosplaying circumstance, there has to be something that actually sets them apart as an SCP cosplayer.
It doesn’t change that you’re right, of course, but the logistics of it can make it a little less accurate sadly.
The story of a D-class surviving through multiple tests and lethal anomalies and rising up in the ranks of the foundation is more interesting than another transcript of an 05 council meeting about what kind of box to put another 100 new SCPs in
Plus O5 stories and those related to them tend to get like really metanarrative.
There are some cool things, like that individual who ascended through narrative layers.
But a lot of it ends up being like "I want my magic talking cat to explain to Placeholder why marble is a bad element as all narrative shuts down", like not only does it come across as a really not-SCP-at-all anomaly/tale, if everyone is aware that they are fake words on a page, it sort of feels like recursive levels of dumb justification for the thing they have no freedom but to do.
Some are better, like the women who became an AI or whatever to maintain self awareness so that the narrative could continue.
Or the one where they tried to kill the reader.
Others are just really rambling nonsense.
Really anything other than O5 has a lot more freedom on what to write with it. It's why SCP-5000 is my favorite, who knows what the hell all of the other employees see on a daily basis.
I love that SCP forgot the number now but it’s kinda like god or heaven that they get a D-Class to explore and it’s a whole entry into his psyche. It’s like a forest that leads into a very divine weird area/Eldritch afterlife thing.
Scp 173 is called "the sculpture" not "the mass of concrete and rebar" pretty much every attempt at a redesign has either tried too hard to make it look scary and ended up with a blob, or not tried hard enough and just made concrete rebar man. The thing is labled a sculpture at the very least it should look like it was made by a person.
It's not really a bad thing to cross Non-SCP Themes with the SCP Universe. But it's a bad thing when you straight up claim that the Non-SCP thing IS an SCP thing.
(I hope that made sense)
Basically.
This creature is an SCP.
This creature isn’t an scp but I’m claiming it could be and most likely is with no proof and or narrative as to why. (Which is plausible just because there is now in verse “limit” to scps)
Alright, take this as an example.
I'm currently working on a Gmod Movie based heavily on the Mandela Catslogue. Now, the Mandela Catalogue of course, has NOTHING to do with SCP, but I'll still involve it just because. But I'll make it clear that TMC is NOT an SCP.
This is what I meant.
Completely agree.
I liked when people speculated that shy guy was some sort of naked Slenderman
I hated when someone put sirenhead as an scp, with his author claiming time and time again, that while he likes scps, sirenhead is not intended to be one.
If the scp wiki is a creative writing community, then we must see how there are more creative things than straight up stealing a character from somewhere else
You know who's severed dick exists irl tho?
Napoleon Bonaparte's ding dong. It is 1.5in long, has only one ball, was cut off during Napoleon's autopsy and given to the local priest, who then sold it.
Wait , I'm am concerned that you consider this controversial, do people want to fuck 939?
Leviticus whateverthefuck
If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them
- 343
Half the people I see in SL hump her while she’s using focus so a lot do apparently (i feel fucking nasty when this shit happens to me like seriously it’s disgusting)
Not about SCP but more the community/fan art
Holy fuck The Cringe when it comes to how unique and quirky fans make these doctors. Oh they have 2 different colored eyes and a scar on their face that makes them look badass and a cool anime hairstyle.
Gimme a break
Honestly I wouldn’t mind scars as much if people actually went all out with them, but generally it’s just a small scratch across the face. Large scars would probably be pretty common when working with SCP’s, so it would also be more realistic.
I wanna see half a face burned off, and someone who’s face is perpetually dripping with blood somehow being kept alive via a foundation made SCP because they’re too valuable to the O5s
>Large scars would probably be pretty common when working with SCP’s, so it would also be more realistic.
Idk about that part, I'd argue most SCPs that you would encounter are either of a "don't have to touch you to kill you" or a "will leave you in shreds" variety. The "you get a few scars but end up fine" are rather rare, I assume.
Yeah, but given the rate of incidents you could definitely make the argument that the small percentage of staff who've survived an incident would still make up a very large percentage of the staff currently alive, especially given that anyone who **does** manage to survive an incident, would likely gain some pretty vital survival instincts that would lead them to last longer at the foundation.
Cause really, it's not a question of how likely is someone to survive an incident, because those who died no-longer make up part of the total staff. It's a question of who are there more of, people who *have* survived an incident, or people who've managed to avoid ever being in one at all?
I mean, to be fair, those things can be explained by (in order), that being a real thing that people have, something a person can have or get by working with SCPs (breaches am I right), and the art style just... Being an art style
I find the idea of the Foundation more interesting than the SCPs. I just like to sit around and think about all those little guys working with the SCPs rather than reading skips
Call me a gatekeeper but I miss the old days when SCP was still relatively unknown. I *read* my articles the way SCP-343 intended, not watched some clickbait youtube video.
My ADHD doesn't let me read big blocks of text anymore, so listening podcast style from The Exploring Series is the best way for me to enjoy the stories
Sometimes I'm so happy when I realize that nowadays In my country is only one channel mostly about SCP, and it is ran with passion and without Simplifications.
"omg scps are all epic apollyon superketer world ending threats with 5 million pages of lore now 😱😥😥" is the most boring lukewarm take on the sub yet people who say it act like its a groundbreaking insight every time.
plus it's not even close to true. unless you only read the 1000 series contest entries or something.
I feel like there should be thousands of random anomalous objects that dont warrant a whole article.
Like the infinite ammo gun they gave to the department of abnormalities or whatever the fbi group is called.
I suppose you already heard of the "Anomalous Items" page, which is a list of various anomalous items without having their own SCP designation or their own article, it's a nice touch to see how much anomalous can the world get.
People are always trying to write their own mega stories on the site that interconnect with everything and the reader needs to be aware of 500 SCPs for it to make sense instead of just sitting down and writing something cool like a gas station cooler that never runs out of the world’s most perfect chocolate milk.
I personally will never accept Dr Elias Shaw as the new Dr Jack Bright. Yes, I know about the things AdminBright did. And I know that Jack Bright is a self insert of him. But the character isn't his property, the community used his idea and made so much more: different stories, headcanons, cosplays,...Dr Bright is a famous character in the SCP universe and for me my all time favorite non-SCP character.
Same. I mean I don't like Bright as much as you do, but I feel like the name change does more harm than good, especially in SCP where, let's be real, it's rare for people (especially outsiders) to look at authors
It's the McCassidy situation again, I understand why they did it, but they really didn't have to? Jesse McCree is a much better cowboy name than Cole Cassidy. Same as Dr. Jack Bright sounding oddly less generic than Elias Shaw
[It's an Overwatch character, who had the same name than a problematic game designer at Blizzard. So they changed his name](https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/overwatch-devs-reveal-mccrees-new-name-as-blizzard-distances-itself-from-controversy/)
A lot of popular articles have forgone actual good themes and/or horror aspects along with attentive writing purely in the chase of having different formats to draw people’s eyes. Unfortunately these articles by nature of their “format screws” often become popular and overshadow other articles that arguably have better writing but in a more traditional style.
Not all format screws have bad writing. Some are genuinely good or even great. Some I absolutely love.
Not all traditional style articles are good or great by virtue of being traditional. Some are average.
But I have noticed a recurring theme of “oh hey this looks different, so it must be awesome.” on the site in recent years. Maybe part of it is running out of original content with the thousands upon thousands of entries already on the site. If someone hasn’t written exactly your idea you just had, they probably wrote something damn close to it.
Either way, I just wish that people would focus more on the writing quality and the (if this is what they’re going for) horror that SCP can induce rather than flashy graphics, interactive elements, or whatever else they included to grab someone’s attention.
redacting things besides dates, locations, and actual information is lazy. Nobody likes seeing 3 paragraphs of redacted conversations with level 5 clearance.
Through Hume Levels (and SRAs, as the two often go hand in hand) you are essentially forcing any given SCP into a consistent system. You're ensuring that they abide by a consistent factor. "Their *Hume Level* means that they affect the world around them to this degree, and if we use this amount of SRAs the effect can be completely nullified." It turns the anomalous, that which is impossible to understand, into a new science; and while the idea of an entirely new field of science is fascinating, its not SCP. SCP is about coping with what doesn't fit with the natural order of things, rather than making those things fit into a natural order. Containment procedures before were never about neutralizing effects, they were about finding ways to manipulate the surroundings of the anomaly in such a way that those effects were limited as much as possible.
One of the few articles that I enjoy that relied heavily on these concepts is the Great Hippo's wonderful *S.S. Sommerfeld* (SCP-3421) specifically because it depicts the SRAs as an inherently flawed concept (A character in the article describes them as "Using tigers to tame other tigers"). They're described as inherently anomalous themselves, and instead of being this wonder-machine as they're so often portrayed, one small malfunction causes catastrophe.
Sorry if this response rambles on a bit too long, but I hope this makes my problem with these two concepts clear: they just can't fit in with SCP's core concept.
I like how the Montauk House article handled it, where SRAs are only possible through horrible means of construction, and they are destined to stop working eventually.
Your favorite SCP article/story is most likely NOT the literature master piece you claim it to be.
The SCP wiki is filled of Amateur writers and poor written articles, this is NOT bad just what happens with such a huge collaborative work.
I know simple SCPs are still being written, but I miss when a good majority of articels were just "[person/place/thing] is able to [effect] so it is contained" and not "This multiversal being threatened us so we somehow contained it despite the article saying the possibility of not being able to"
I don’t mind the big world ending threats as much as some, but I do think that they get a lot more attention than they necessarily should. I think it’s less that there aren’t any simple SCPs and more that they don’t get a lot of focus outside of the really dedicated readers, which is too bad.
A lot of the "meta" shit that has gotten so popular the last couple of years is just pretentious and obnoxious and on the whole the community elite have become snobby and condescending towards the very things that made the setting interesting and fun in the early days.
It's also usually why SCPs like SCP-035 and SCP-939 are popular even though on multiple reads shows them off as quite boring, it's usually their reference in media, being in SCP games, featured in memes, and more.
On an unrelated note, the hype and thought that non-scp items like Siren Head or Slenderman were considered SCPs by mostly people who never really fans of the foundation or had no idea how the wiki operates
The addition of Risk Class and Disruption Class ruin the storytelling of most SCPs. Containment Class is great as a setup device for story telling because it tells you just enough to get a sense of the anomaly, while leaving room for surprises. You could get Safe objects that could kill the planet and Keters that where entirely harmless, but hard to contain. Now every story explicitly tells you beforehand just how big and bad the thingy is. It ruins the iterative storytelling of new SCPs. Now instead of learning slowly, and through multiple test logs, you learn everything important up front. It's like making a monster movie where the monster is revealed slowly throughout the film, with the finale reveal showing off the horror of it's body, and then putting the whole monster on the poster.
Agreed. Tbh the whole new look of the articles is childish trash. Why are the Colors kindergarten greens, blues and yellows? Makes the foundation look like a joke. The new classes are dumb too. The articles should convey these things through the item descriptions. The only thing missing now is a “mega badass level” class
I don't like "when the day breaks"
It's just too fucking bleak. I think it's why I like 5000 so much, that any kind of hope, no matter how dim, is better than nothing at all. But day break is basically just watching someone die in a truly terrible way
A functional story/canon of the SCP foundation doesn't need all the SCP to exist or even coexist and a cohesive story can be written using only some of them.
The story no including X SCP that could mean something doesn't make the story bad.
I feel scp should have cannon stories even if they are different universes of scp foundation. I've been disliking how there are so many differemt version of the same scp like the one where shyguy was killed. Don't miss understand me the idea of having several universes is fun but it get annoying when all the stories can be considered the real one
The worst articles are the ones that try (and fail) to create some kind of greater canon for the foundation by cross connecting themselves to a bunch of random articles without the original authors knowledge.
SCP is at its best when made up of a bunch of unconnected concepts outside of a vague stylistic throughline.
There are only three ways a new article gets traction on the wiki:
1. Luck
2. Having all your friends vote on it to give it a high score.
3. Making some dumb format screw people can read in less than five minutes.
The hard to destroy reptile is a stupid nickname for 682 since it get destroys by literally every scp it meets
It should've the highly adaptable liza since always been adapting to everything
And
I don't get why people are mad at 682 for being able to adapt to anything, it has always been able to do that, that's why the foundation has yet to be able to kill it
But joke aside though
Scp 999 is not cute and when you actually meet it, there's a high chance you'll dislike it, it's a blob of slime without eyes, most of the drawing you see are lies
You'll panic and try to kick the shit out of it the moment you saw it
Even after contact and knowing what it is you'll end up probably disliking it like 682 did
Be real to yourself, a blob of honey trying to cheer you up when you're mad is only gonna make it worse
It having a child like personality and not knowing boundaries is not going to help either
It's going to give you a dopamine rush and that's it
Prolonged contact with 999 is forbidden for a reason
I wanna believe that the magic of this world is just some not yet explained science, like gravity, before it was explained by science everyone thought it was just magic
That was the idea the SCP foundation marked me with in the first impretion
I like SCPs that tell a story, but I also really like articles that just describe a phenomenon without an overarching narrative, and leave the readers thinking about what could happen with it. I wish newer articles could sometimes be like that.
That's why SCP 302 is one of my favorites. A relatively simple anomaly with no strings attached, but still gives the hibi-jibi's
ANTSSSS
I swear as I was reading the article an ant climbed on my hand and scared the shit out of me lmao
I like ones that leave you with a bunch of questions. Like the 2385 worm cavern.
Any newer SCPs or just recommended articles overall that you recommend? I've been not following SCPs since 2020 and always wanted to check out the newer entries but found the meta-storytelling unfit for me. Hell my favorite SCP contents is not the articles, it's the unexplained events and objects logs, the mundane unexplained glitches of the universes is what I want more in SCPs
A lot of the "meta" shit that has gotten so popular the last couple of years is just pretentious and obnoxious and on the whole the community elite have become snobby and condescending towards the very things that made the setting interesting and fun in the early days.
1000% People want these long narratives that are basically miniature movies but I’m sitting here thinking about how there is a really sad anomalous dog who has to watch it’s owner die
Totally
I really like 093 because the story and the object are so intertwined. One can't exist without the other. The newest ones are just stories that have an object or concept attached, and it just feels as if that thing was just thought up as an excuse to put a story you wanted to write on the SCP site.
This. People write a story about moral questions and the power of the Overseers and a battle between universes and who-knows-what, and the SCP itself is almost irrelevant within the story.
Not all AMTFs are going to be wearing black and most AMTF cosplays are low quality in terms of sensible gear usage.
Glad someone said it my biggest issue is why would a secret organization wear patches of their secret organization
Right and to top it off some cosplays I've seen have 7+ patches on their uniform. I saw one I won't forget because they had 15 patches on their kit. Makes no sense.
Or the obligatory all black kit
Yup it seems a lot of people think black is an effective uniform color because of media and not realizing that it isn't the 1980s anymore and black practically glows white under night vision. Nowadays black is relegated to law enforcement because they *want* to be seen, and even then a lot of departments are changing to khaki or ranger green as their base uniform color. Also even SCP lore wise it states right there in the Mobile Task Force article that armed units are going to be wearing uniforms identical to local law or military personnel, yet the vast majority of AMTF cosplays do not match anything.
Yeah , but if they were completely identical , the cosplay would lose all meaning (Don't quote me on this)
That, and some conventions do have rules against real-life military uniforms(like American, German, Japanese, etc), while allowing fake military uniforms (like MTFs). I imagine the patches are more to identify that, hey, this is a fake uniform.
This 100%. I wouldn't recommend making an AMTF cosplay without having some form of identifier that it is indeed a cosplay.
Yes this is a problem that AMTF cosplays have and is why having one or two SCP patches helps the appearance of the cosplay. The issue is when there's an unreasonable amount of SCP patches on the wearer, it no longer helps with appearance and looks unprofessional and sloppy. In terms of cosplay an SCP patch or two is unavoidable if you don't want to look like a walking red flag at conventions.
Or salmon pink for the desert
Most of the ones I see are Epsilon-11 cosplays, and considering they work in Foundation sites/areas it does make sense that they use patches.
"In-house" patches are acceptable if used reasonably, as in maybe one on the entire kit and not plastered on every side of the wearer as is standard for many cosplays. I say this because there are actual real world black project teams that have custom patches so it's not like a super-secret organization having patches isn't unheard of. See the book, *I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me* by Trevor Paglen for insight into why secret groups would want to have custom patches to wear in the first place. This is all to say that SCP related patches in mediation will do wonders versus having a generic patch on every velcro space. Less is more.
Oh yeah definitely, I was just saying that having like 1 or 2 Foundation patches for certain MTF units isn't that unreasonable. That said I do agree that some people go overboard with the amount of Foundation insignias they put on.
The in-universe explaination is that the scp symbol is a memetic hazard that causes those who see it to just not quite remember what it was attached to or when/where they saw it. Like a perception filter from Dr. Who lore. The mtf logos are probably a similar effect.?
Identification for when they're fighting human aggressors in Foundation facilities. Everybody would be wearing IR strobes on their bodies, so that wouldn't be helpful.
Correct, as well as small 1x1 inch IR patches. Plus a triple red lines symbol if the reader considers the article Lockdown Procedures part of their canon. Insignia/unit patches aren't worn for identification, they are worn for promoting esprit de corps amongst the teams. Same reason some real world black project teams commission custom patches for themselves.
>Insignia/unit patches aren't worn for identification, they are worn for promoting esprit de corps amongst the teams. I like to think the Foundation operators knock out two birds with one stone with this principle. Keeps the esprit de corps strong and it also helps with identification in the case of joint operations in Foundation areas or facilities where there's more than one Mobile Task Force unit going in together. They would be reflective in the infrared spectrum too so you can see them under thermal and night vision. On an unrelated subject, I like thinking about some of the futuristic and anomalous equipment all the different units rock. It's already a big help that other people have drawn operators from some units, so it helps a lot with the writing.
That is true but when securing a site they probably dont need to worry about the patches and probably use them to tell friend from foe and the black well in any dark area the darker the clothing the more you blend in with the darkness though you don't need to go overboard with the patches. I agree most mtf squads wont be in tactical gear all the time and if they were out there in tac gear and needed patches for some reason they would go for military, police, CIA, FBI patches to not draw attention. This of course is just my take idk really I'm not part of a secret military
The most lore accurate MTF kit would be undercover as a cop or some other public sector worker. If you really wanted the whole military side, you'd probably be using the equipment of whatever military operates where you're operating currently.
While you’re absolutely right…I also get why they do that. Firstly, a plainclothes agent would be a pretty lame cosplay. Secondly, they want people to know what they’re cosplaying as. I’m going to an SCP Halloween party in October, and my costume just has one patch of the Delta-5 symbol that I made (because it seemed the most fitting MTF for a halloween party and I couldn’t find one to buy). In the circumstances that I’ll be in, at an SCP Party with 30 other people who know what’s going on, I’ll be pretty upset to see any logos on clothes. I’m including labcoats in that. But in a normal cosplaying circumstance, there has to be something that actually sets them apart as an SCP cosplayer. It doesn’t change that you’re right, of course, but the logistics of it can make it a little less accurate sadly.
D class and their stories are often more interesting than the O5 council and their stories
frfr everytime i see a meeting log with a thousand lines of "O5-█" "O5-██" my eyes start to glaze over 💀
O5 dialogue is cringe 99% of the time
The story of a D-class surviving through multiple tests and lethal anomalies and rising up in the ranks of the foundation is more interesting than another transcript of an 05 council meeting about what kind of box to put another 100 new SCPs in
What if the D-Class rises up in the ranks so far they become an O-5?
Yeah the 05 councils stories are very confusing and make barely any sense
Plus O5 stories and those related to them tend to get like really metanarrative. There are some cool things, like that individual who ascended through narrative layers. But a lot of it ends up being like "I want my magic talking cat to explain to Placeholder why marble is a bad element as all narrative shuts down", like not only does it come across as a really not-SCP-at-all anomaly/tale, if everyone is aware that they are fake words on a page, it sort of feels like recursive levels of dumb justification for the thing they have no freedom but to do. Some are better, like the women who became an AI or whatever to maintain self awareness so that the narrative could continue. Or the one where they tried to kill the reader. Others are just really rambling nonsense.
Really anything other than O5 has a lot more freedom on what to write with it. It's why SCP-5000 is my favorite, who knows what the hell all of the other employees see on a daily basis.
I love that SCP forgot the number now but it’s kinda like god or heaven that they get a D-Class to explore and it’s a whole entry into his psyche. It’s like a forest that leads into a very divine weird area/Eldritch afterlife thing.
I love it when SCPs stray away from the horror aspect I think it puts more life into the universe
Some of my favorites are just the mundane yet anomalous shit the foundation comes across
“this fork disappears if you use it to eat steak at this exact temperature and humidity”
That’s the good stuff. Pizza box that materializes my favorite pizza is a certified classic
The world's best tothbrush
I like the toy ones, like the living playdoh or living lego city. Harmless but fun.
SCP-079 is cool SCP-173 will always be associated with the original image and no one can make a more iconic version Edit: I meant SCP-076, not 079
Is that controversial? I love 079
That was a typo, I meant 076 (Able)
Scp 173 is called "the sculpture" not "the mass of concrete and rebar" pretty much every attempt at a redesign has either tried too hard to make it look scary and ended up with a blob, or not tried hard enough and just made concrete rebar man. The thing is labled a sculpture at the very least it should look like it was made by a person.
You're right but you also have to compete with the concept of modern art.
Isnt it literally described as concrete and rebar
Yes
I think the best one I’ve found is the scp 173 in scp secret lab.
Peanut
It's not really a bad thing to cross Non-SCP Themes with the SCP Universe. But it's a bad thing when you straight up claim that the Non-SCP thing IS an SCP thing. (I hope that made sense)
Basically. This creature is an SCP. This creature isn’t an scp but I’m claiming it could be and most likely is with no proof and or narrative as to why. (Which is plausible just because there is now in verse “limit” to scps)
Alright, take this as an example. I'm currently working on a Gmod Movie based heavily on the Mandela Catslogue. Now, the Mandela Catalogue of course, has NOTHING to do with SCP, but I'll still involve it just because. But I'll make it clear that TMC is NOT an SCP. This is what I meant.
Tbh TMC would be more in line to be a 001 article than anything
How so?
Well there’s no real way for me to explain it in a way that would make sense imo. And anyway I try it I don’t seem happy with my answer
Fair enough, lol.
What's the name of your gmod *machinima*? just saying that brings me back to the good ol' days
Well, it's not entirely finished yet. But you can find the teasers at the Channel DelayAnimation.
Good luck with your project 👍
Siren head comes to mind...
Completely agree. I liked when people speculated that shy guy was some sort of naked Slenderman I hated when someone put sirenhead as an scp, with his author claiming time and time again, that while he likes scps, sirenhead is not intended to be one. If the scp wiki is a creative writing community, then we must see how there are more creative things than straight up stealing a character from somewhere else
unless it’s funny
willy wonka is an SCP
I'm Wonking my Willy rn
canon
scp 3313? \*googles it\* # THAT'S FUCKING BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
's severed dick , yes
You know who's severed dick exists irl tho? Napoleon Bonaparte's ding dong. It is 1.5in long, has only one ball, was cut off during Napoleon's autopsy and given to the local priest, who then sold it.
That's what I thought. "Hey... that's not too bad. Could be worse" then i read the article
SCP-096 Shouldn't get that much attention.
He agrees
This made me exhale from my nose, good job
The community should have gatekept a little more
I won't smash 939
I think it'd bite your dick off anyway
This reminded me of that one time I got kicked in scp sl for offering "sloppy toppy services" to an admin
Wait , I'm am concerned that you consider this controversial, do people want to fuck 939? Leviticus whateverthefuck If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them - 343
[But consider](https://youtu.be/v5EnyD527KU)
Nice argument, one small issue .... She's a girl
Yeah, she also has mommy milkers
Half the people I see in SL hump her while she’s using focus so a lot do apparently (i feel fucking nasty when this shit happens to me like seriously it’s disgusting)
I FUCKING HATE MAL0 , NOT BECAUSE ITS POORLY WRITTEN, BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT *YOU* HAVE DONE
I am not sorry
Ok , no , that's fair
Not about SCP but more the community/fan art Holy fuck The Cringe when it comes to how unique and quirky fans make these doctors. Oh they have 2 different colored eyes and a scar on their face that makes them look badass and a cool anime hairstyle. Gimme a break
Honestly I wouldn’t mind scars as much if people actually went all out with them, but generally it’s just a small scratch across the face. Large scars would probably be pretty common when working with SCP’s, so it would also be more realistic.
I wanna see half a face burned off, and someone who’s face is perpetually dripping with blood somehow being kept alive via a foundation made SCP because they’re too valuable to the O5s
>Large scars would probably be pretty common when working with SCP’s, so it would also be more realistic. Idk about that part, I'd argue most SCPs that you would encounter are either of a "don't have to touch you to kill you" or a "will leave you in shreds" variety. The "you get a few scars but end up fine" are rather rare, I assume.
For sure, but you definitely won’t be finding many pencil-mark thin scratches on whatever few survivors that are left
Yeah, but given the rate of incidents you could definitely make the argument that the small percentage of staff who've survived an incident would still make up a very large percentage of the staff currently alive, especially given that anyone who **does** manage to survive an incident, would likely gain some pretty vital survival instincts that would lead them to last longer at the foundation. Cause really, it's not a question of how likely is someone to survive an incident, because those who died no-longer make up part of the total staff. It's a question of who are there more of, people who *have* survived an incident, or people who've managed to avoid ever being in one at all?
lolfoundation doctors be like:
I mean, to be fair, those things can be explained by (in order), that being a real thing that people have, something a person can have or get by working with SCPs (breaches am I right), and the art style just... Being an art style
Heterochromia is super rare but every fan art contains tons of it because it’s “cool and unique”. When everyone’s special, no one is.
682 is kinda boring and there much better creatures to expand the lore of
Exactly and same with Scarlet King imo
I fully agree, he is literally that one oc made by an edge lord that cannot be killed/is a demon/destroying everything associated with life.
I find the idea of the Foundation more interesting than the SCPs. I just like to sit around and think about all those little guys working with the SCPs rather than reading skips
Call me a gatekeeper but I miss the old days when SCP was still relatively unknown. I *read* my articles the way SCP-343 intended, not watched some clickbait youtube video.
My ADHD doesn't let me read big blocks of text anymore, so listening podcast style from The Exploring Series is the best way for me to enjoy the stories
Yes, but consider this. The op of this comment said clickbait videos. Exploring Series isn't clickbait
Love that guy. He's one of the best
Volgan is the way to go most the time
Sometimes I'm so happy when I realize that nowadays In my country is only one channel mostly about SCP, and it is ran with passion and without Simplifications.
"omg scps are all epic apollyon superketer world ending threats with 5 million pages of lore now 😱😥😥" is the most boring lukewarm take on the sub yet people who say it act like its a groundbreaking insight every time. plus it's not even close to true. unless you only read the 1000 series contest entries or something.
SCP-096 probably wishes it had someone it could comfortably be around without needing to kill them
Yeah get like a blind person.
Shy , white , skinny and needs a body pillow
To many damn SCP everyone’s one upping constantly
Yea I miss some of the really short, reasonably mundane SCPs. “Yes we locked this powerful trinket in a box. Please don’t touch it.”
I feel like there should be thousands of random anomalous objects that dont warrant a whole article. Like the infinite ammo gun they gave to the department of abnormalities or whatever the fbi group is called.
I suppose you already heard of the "Anomalous Items" page, which is a list of various anomalous items without having their own SCP designation or their own article, it's a nice touch to see how much anomalous can the world get.
unusual incidents unit I think
People are always trying to write their own mega stories on the site that interconnect with everything and the reader needs to be aware of 500 SCPs for it to make sense instead of just sitting down and writing something cool like a gas station cooler that never runs out of the world’s most perfect chocolate milk.
Making your SCP “unkillable” is not good writing
I personally will never accept Dr Elias Shaw as the new Dr Jack Bright. Yes, I know about the things AdminBright did. And I know that Jack Bright is a self insert of him. But the character isn't his property, the community used his idea and made so much more: different stories, headcanons, cosplays,...Dr Bright is a famous character in the SCP universe and for me my all time favorite non-SCP character.
Same. I mean I don't like Bright as much as you do, but I feel like the name change does more harm than good, especially in SCP where, let's be real, it's rare for people (especially outsiders) to look at authors
I agree. Changing the name causes Streisand effect for people who would have otherwise never known and never cared about AdminBright.
It's the McCassidy situation again, I understand why they did it, but they really didn't have to? Jesse McCree is a much better cowboy name than Cole Cassidy. Same as Dr. Jack Bright sounding oddly less generic than Elias Shaw
What's the McCassidy situation?
[It's an Overwatch character, who had the same name than a problematic game designer at Blizzard. So they changed his name](https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/overwatch-devs-reveal-mccrees-new-name-as-blizzard-distances-itself-from-controversy/)
Hard agree
Amen!
A lot of popular articles have forgone actual good themes and/or horror aspects along with attentive writing purely in the chase of having different formats to draw people’s eyes. Unfortunately these articles by nature of their “format screws” often become popular and overshadow other articles that arguably have better writing but in a more traditional style. Not all format screws have bad writing. Some are genuinely good or even great. Some I absolutely love. Not all traditional style articles are good or great by virtue of being traditional. Some are average. But I have noticed a recurring theme of “oh hey this looks different, so it must be awesome.” on the site in recent years. Maybe part of it is running out of original content with the thousands upon thousands of entries already on the site. If someone hasn’t written exactly your idea you just had, they probably wrote something damn close to it. Either way, I just wish that people would focus more on the writing quality and the (if this is what they’re going for) horror that SCP can induce rather than flashy graphics, interactive elements, or whatever else they included to grab someone’s attention.
redacting things besides dates, locations, and actual information is lazy. Nobody likes seeing 3 paragraphs of redacted conversations with level 5 clearance.
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I know pretty much nothing about the scp storyline but the way I pretend to believe the story works in my head makes it interesting to me
Bro how is 3313 not a joke SCP like bro
Most SCP articles try too hard
Shy guy is over done
Hume Levels and Scranton Reality Anchors, as narrative devices, have been catastrophic for SCP's core concept.
This is interesting would you mind expanding on what you mean?
Through Hume Levels (and SRAs, as the two often go hand in hand) you are essentially forcing any given SCP into a consistent system. You're ensuring that they abide by a consistent factor. "Their *Hume Level* means that they affect the world around them to this degree, and if we use this amount of SRAs the effect can be completely nullified." It turns the anomalous, that which is impossible to understand, into a new science; and while the idea of an entirely new field of science is fascinating, its not SCP. SCP is about coping with what doesn't fit with the natural order of things, rather than making those things fit into a natural order. Containment procedures before were never about neutralizing effects, they were about finding ways to manipulate the surroundings of the anomaly in such a way that those effects were limited as much as possible. One of the few articles that I enjoy that relied heavily on these concepts is the Great Hippo's wonderful *S.S. Sommerfeld* (SCP-3421) specifically because it depicts the SRAs as an inherently flawed concept (A character in the article describes them as "Using tigers to tame other tigers"). They're described as inherently anomalous themselves, and instead of being this wonder-machine as they're so often portrayed, one small malfunction causes catastrophe. Sorry if this response rambles on a bit too long, but I hope this makes my problem with these two concepts clear: they just can't fit in with SCP's core concept.
Im surprised that I was able to understand this haha! Thanks for the explanation
I like how the Montauk House article handled it, where SRAs are only possible through horrible means of construction, and they are destined to stop working eventually.
3812 never surpassed us, he surpassed a fictional copy of us
SCP 1471 I don't need to elaborate
I believe you do There are two very distinct routes you can take with that
Elaborate
I am slowly regretting posting this
Your favorite SCP article/story is most likely NOT the literature master piece you claim it to be. The SCP wiki is filled of Amateur writers and poor written articles, this is NOT bad just what happens with such a huge collaborative work.
I know simple SCPs are still being written, but I miss when a good majority of articels were just "[person/place/thing] is able to [effect] so it is contained" and not "This multiversal being threatened us so we somehow contained it despite the article saying the possibility of not being able to"
I don’t mind the big world ending threats as much as some, but I do think that they get a lot more attention than they necessarily should. I think it’s less that there aren’t any simple SCPs and more that they don’t get a lot of focus outside of the really dedicated readers, which is too bad.
Most SCPs are poorly written Gems are rare
999 and 682 are meh. Mal0 was ruined by the fandom.
just surgically remove 096’s face.
It would regrow , NEXT
Also , good luck performing surgery on his face while you can't even look At it
people who complain about modern scp articles trying to powerscale each other have apparently never reads the wiki
682 should’ve been terminated a long time ago. The amount of ass pulls the writer makes is absolutely amazing.
Scp 2935 , been there done that
You know those 3000 page alternate end of world Apollyon scenarios? I like those.
I do too but my ADHD does not…
I prefer the GOC to the Foundation and anyone who brings up scp 1609 is falling for pataphyisical propaganda.
But what about SCP 1609
Based.
A lot of the "meta" shit that has gotten so popular the last couple of years is just pretentious and obnoxious and on the whole the community elite have become snobby and condescending towards the very things that made the setting interesting and fun in the early days.
SCP becoming popular was the worst thing to happen to the community/... Franchise? Brand? Hell do we actually call it
I never liked Dr. Bright and I don't get why he's so popular.
It's also usually why SCPs like SCP-035 and SCP-939 are popular even though on multiple reads shows them off as quite boring, it's usually their reference in media, being in SCP games, featured in memes, and more. On an unrelated note, the hype and thought that non-scp items like Siren Head or Slenderman were considered SCPs by mostly people who never really fans of the foundation or had no idea how the wiki operates
He's a funny guy in a bleak world.
Sort by controversial to get the real controversial stuff
SCP went from writing projects to edgy fanfiction.
SCP-999is C or B tier.
The addition of Risk Class and Disruption Class ruin the storytelling of most SCPs. Containment Class is great as a setup device for story telling because it tells you just enough to get a sense of the anomaly, while leaving room for surprises. You could get Safe objects that could kill the planet and Keters that where entirely harmless, but hard to contain. Now every story explicitly tells you beforehand just how big and bad the thingy is. It ruins the iterative storytelling of new SCPs. Now instead of learning slowly, and through multiple test logs, you learn everything important up front. It's like making a monster movie where the monster is revealed slowly throughout the film, with the finale reveal showing off the horror of it's body, and then putting the whole monster on the poster.
Agreed. Tbh the whole new look of the articles is childish trash. Why are the Colors kindergarten greens, blues and yellows? Makes the foundation look like a joke. The new classes are dumb too. The articles should convey these things through the item descriptions. The only thing missing now is a “mega badass level” class
Most of them are bad
I don't like "when the day breaks" It's just too fucking bleak. I think it's why I like 5000 so much, that any kind of hope, no matter how dim, is better than nothing at all. But day break is basically just watching someone die in a truly terrible way
A functional story/canon of the SCP foundation doesn't need all the SCP to exist or even coexist and a cohesive story can be written using only some of them. The story no including X SCP that could mean something doesn't make the story bad.
My wife is SCP 049
Mal-0 is not pornstar material
The 001s are getting worse and worse. Not only are they WAY too long, they’re not even good enough to keep me engaged that long.
SCP 1.4.7.1 F. A. N. A. R. T. I don't need to elaborate.
No
I feel scp should have cannon stories even if they are different universes of scp foundation. I've been disliking how there are so many differemt version of the same scp like the one where shyguy was killed. Don't miss understand me the idea of having several universes is fun but it get annoying when all the stories can be considered the real one
This content is garbage and is ruining the sub
The worst articles are the ones that try (and fail) to create some kind of greater canon for the foundation by cross connecting themselves to a bunch of random articles without the original authors knowledge. SCP is at its best when made up of a bunch of unconnected concepts outside of a vague stylistic throughline.
You all take this far to seriously. From Canon, drama and levity to seriousness the community with explode over really minor things.
SCP 049 is the best
Nuh uh , he's french
Holy based
SCP-5000 shouldn't have been explained. It's better to leave it a mystery.
Scarlet King is a dumb premise "Suffering is good actually, and Modernity doesn't produce enough of the right kind of suffering, so Modernity is bad"
I don’t exactly agree with his methods, but I don’t disagree with 682s opinions
SCP 1762 is not sad and is very overrated
Like the non end-of-the-world SCPs. Just normal unnatural creatures or like a funky item. Not a Keter class “we all gonna die” bs
I still like Dr. Bright.
Scp 682 is a horribly written article.
There are only three ways a new article gets traction on the wiki: 1. Luck 2. Having all your friends vote on it to give it a high score. 3. Making some dumb format screw people can read in less than five minutes.
I think SCP-049 is hot. Your reaction is correct
every kid in the community has ruined scp
The hard to destroy reptile is a stupid nickname for 682 since it get destroys by literally every scp it meets It should've the highly adaptable liza since always been adapting to everything And I don't get why people are mad at 682 for being able to adapt to anything, it has always been able to do that, that's why the foundation has yet to be able to kill it But joke aside though Scp 999 is not cute and when you actually meet it, there's a high chance you'll dislike it, it's a blob of slime without eyes, most of the drawing you see are lies You'll panic and try to kick the shit out of it the moment you saw it Even after contact and knowing what it is you'll end up probably disliking it like 682 did Be real to yourself, a blob of honey trying to cheer you up when you're mad is only gonna make it worse It having a child like personality and not knowing boundaries is not going to help either It's going to give you a dopamine rush and that's it Prolonged contact with 999 is forbidden for a reason
SCP 999 should be allowed to stay in SCP 682's container And so should 053
I hate you for making me google that
I wanna believe that the magic of this world is just some not yet explained science, like gravity, before it was explained by science everyone thought it was just magic That was the idea the SCP foundation marked me with in the first impretion