Archives : January-2022

Kalinin was a notable contributor to the SCP Wiki, primarily circa Series II-III, though he wrote for Series IV as well. More influential than popular, he is most-known for his blunt and longform approach to critique, as well as his SCP-001 Proposal (“Past and Future”). He is currently considered retired. History According to Scpper, Kalinin ..

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Moto42, also known as S.S. Walrus, is the author of the first SCP, SCP-173 and the creator of the format and acronym that would later define the SCP Foundation. He posted SCP-173 to the /x/ board of 4chan in June of 2007, but had no further involvement with the SCP Foundation beyond some sporadic contact ..

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Archivist’s Note: The following is partially derived from an essay written in 2013 by Cooldude971, who was a lurker in the Holders community. Wherever possible, statements are supported with citations to archived sources. However, at many points, personal memory of events and forum posts are invoked which never made it into the Wayback Machine. “It ..

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The following was originally posted on February 17 2014 as part of Raven Mackenzie/Aelanna’s series of essays, it remains one of the clearest statements of what constitutes the basic approach to Containment Fiction procedures, at least in terms of a basic format. General Guidelines The Special Containment Procedures section of an SCP article — for ..

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LurkD is a longtime author for the online fiction collective The SCP Foundation and shares their thoughts on how the writing format affects the writing process. How did you approach the visual communication of containment procedures, from both an in-universe and out-of-universe perspective? LurkD: I thought of a result I wanted and then laid out ..

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1. What was your thought process when writing SCP-___-J’s containment procedures? My first thought was to keep them as short as possible, since the whole article is premised on brevity. The second was the story I had in mind for this — namely, that the rock is causing one *specific* researcher to procrastinate (or, depending ..

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This article is a stub. You can help by creating/editing a page on the UserWiki. The Wayward Society[1] is a containment fiction community depicting the eponymous organization, an American cryptid-hunting group. Articles document how to find cryptid creatures and supernatural phenomena in the wild. The current iteration of the site is largely defunct due to ..

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The SCP Wiki is the original series of containment fiction community and has existed since 2007. SCP stands for “Secure, Contain, and Protect”, a backronym to the letters accompanying the first example of its kind,[1]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-98911/power#post-288697 SCP-173. SCP began on 4chan’s “Paranormal” board (more commonly known as /x/) in 2007, when an anonymous user S.S. Walrus ..

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Note: This is a series of essays originally written by pixelatedHarmony, with some later additions by Decibelle and Modern_Erasmus. Content 1 History of the Universe: Part I 2 History of the Universe: Part II 3 History of the Universe: Part III 4 History of the Universe: Part IV 5 History of the Universe: Part V ..

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The SCP-RU 2017 License Crisis was an international diplomacy event that led to the brief excommunication of the Russian branch of the SCP Wiki (-RU) from and by the English branch (-EN). It was based around debate regarding the site’s Creative Commons By-Attribution, Share-Alike 3.0 license (CC BY-SA 3.0). On March 19th, 2017, longtime administrator ..

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