Archives : November-2021

Ftrivia SCP-173 is the first piece of containment fiction written in the SCP format, prior to it gaining that nomenclature.[1]http://scparchives.bluesoul.net/history.html It is one of the embryonic works of containment fiction and arguably the most important and influential work of the entire genre. SCP-173 was originally posted anonymously on 4chan’s /x/ board by Moto42 (then credited ..

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This article is a work in progress. You can help by creating/editing a page on the UserWiki. The RPC Authority[1]http://rpcauthority.wikidot.com is a containment fiction community founded in response to the SCP Wiki’s June 2018 controversy. It was originally created by CFOperator, who oversaw the unstable founding of the site which was eventually stabilized by his ..

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The Omniverse Penitentiary[1] is a containment fiction project based on a subreddit which documents the fictional eponymous prison and the things it contains from various dimensions and universes. It was created on February 3rd 2014 and has a combination of original content and pop culture imports from other forms of media. It does not contain ..

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This article is a work in progress. You can help by creating/editing a page on the UserWiki. The Liminal Archives is a containment fiction community founded as an offshoot of the Backrooms/Tech Support community which utilizes some of the latter’s formats and aesthetic. Liminal, as used by the Archives, means: Liminality is the state of ..

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This article is a work in progress and needs additional citations. Fishmonger, also known as “I Am A Potato”, was a moderator and major contributor of containment fiction to the early SCP Wiki. Although his contributions[1] were universally lauded at the time of his membership, he was later demoted due to his persistent issues with ..

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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 ..

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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 ..

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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. ..

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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 ..

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/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 ..

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