This article is under construction and has some placeholder citations. Pardon our progress. Fishmonger (also known as “I Am A Potato”) was an early moderator and significant contributor to the SCP Foundation collaborative fiction project during its formative period on Wikidot. His tenure as a community member concluded in 2010 following administrative action. Fishmonger’s subsequent ..
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Creepypasta is an internet-borne genre of storytelling based on copy/pasting scary stories to disperse widely online. It takes its name from “copy pasta” which is the practice of taking blocks of text and repeating them in many different contexts. It is the direct predecessor to containment fiction, and confic can be seen as a spin-off ..
Containment fiction, sometimes shortened to “confic”, and also known as “collaborative fiction”, “anomaly fiction”, or “WikiDot fiction”, is an informal literary genre presented through the framework of documents and material from one or many organizations which describe said organization’s interactions and study of various scientific “anomalies”. Containment fiction is characterized by prescriptive, predominantly 3rd-person writing ..
This article is a stub. You can help contribute by creating/editing a page on the UserWiki. Clinical Tone, often referred to in the context of containment fiction as just “tone”, is the pseudo-scientific and quasi-academic writing style used to show that the article in question is an official document from a larger organization or institution. ..
Are We Cool Yet? is the name of a Group of Interest in the SCP Wiki that mixes anomalous artifacts and processes with art. Members of the GoI primarily create anomalous art that acts as an expressive vehicle for some societal, political, or philosophical message (or the lack thereof), the artistic legitimacy of which may ..
/x/ is the “Paranormal” board on 4chan, an anonymous image and text-sharing website. It is notable in the context of Containment Fiction for being the spawning point for the SCP Wiki, RPC Authority, and Backrooms/Tech Support communities. Although Channer culture is not a predominant part of these communities and they all quickly left the platform ..
This article is a stub. You can help by creating/editing a page on the UserWiki. -J or Joke articles are a style of containment fiction writing in which the goal is to make the reader laugh, usually through a pseudo-scientific format and clinical tone. There is little set criteria for what makes a subjectively “good” ..