Redaction/expungement are literary devices common to containment fiction articles that censor information in order to create mystery, intrigue, and drama. The tactic is associated with containment fiction documents/articles, and not precedent forms of fiction, e.g. The Holders or creepypasta in general. The device originated on 4chan’s /x/ in an effort to further convey a bureaucratic ..
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This article is a work in progress. “I can’t speak for others, but to me, my tales are much more personal. An SCP is built according to a preexisting format, and you can usually only go so far with one. A tale, on the other hand, is pure creative potential. I’m defensive about my tales ..
The Society for Containment Fiction (SCF) is a Discord server and loose social group that is largely considered an antagonist force in and to the containment fiction space. It acts as a hub for cross-community discussion, as well as the group’s related projects. The founder has described the community as “a group of people studying ..
The WikiDot Blackout of 2022, also known as The Great WikiDot Outage of 2022, was an interruption in WikiDot services beginning on May 19, 2022. It was the longest WikiDot outage known to date and arrested all activity on all major containment fiction platforms for its duration, as well as third-party applications, such as the ..
“001 needs to make you question reality.”[1]https://archive.vn/dIUWj#selection-16176.0-16251.7 The first slot, also commonly known as a 001 entry, is the the first entry on a containment fiction series list. Most 001s aspire to explore/explain the origins of the containment organization, be large-scope pieces of lore, and/or be exceptionally classified in-universe, available to top credentials only. The 001 ..
The June 2018 Pride Controversy, or simply “the Logo Fiasco”, was an incident that took place on the SCP Foundation Wiki that was meant to celebrate and advertise the LGBTQ+ friendliness of the site during Pride Month, but that resulted in lasting controversy. It indirectly resulted in the creation of alternate containment fiction platforms, ..
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 ..
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 ..
A Main List is the primary vector for organizing the primary contents of a containment fiction writing collection, a long list of all articles usually in numerically chronological order with listed titles. The style was originally designed by the Holders and popularized by the SCP Wiki. Most containment fiction communities have utilized this since then, ..
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 ..