Note: This article is primarily about out-of-universe data about the series. For an in-universe article about Confinement, visit the Confinement Fandom page. Confinement was an animated internet series created by Lord Bung that gained significant popularity within the SCP Foundation fandom from 2017 to 2023. The series takes place within the SCP Foundation universe, focusing ..
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In-Universe In the context of the SCP Foundation, “in-universe” refers to perspectives, explanations, or narratives that exist within the fictional reality of the SCP Foundation universe. These accounts treat the SCP Foundation, its contained anomalies, and related organizations as real entities within that fictional world. In-universe content is typically written from the perspective of Foundation ..
Xian was an early containment fiction author who wrote several lasting contributions to SCP Series 1, including SCP-002 and SCP-003. While there is no explicit record of Xian writing/publishing SCP-002 on EditThis archives, records show that SCP-002 and SCP-003 were written by the same anonymous author on /x/.[1]https://archive.ph/QNbYp#selection-7983.0-7983.63 Works SCP-003 (“Biological Motherboard”) SCP-003 is Xian’s ..
Note: This article deals with mature themes. Reader discretion is advised. SCP-166 “Teenage Succubus”, currently titled “Just a Teenage Gaea”, was an article of containment fiction about a female succubus between the ages of 16-18, who has the ability to sexually control males upon eye contact, and who requires sperm as sustenance.[1]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-series It was written ..
WikiDot is an online wiki farm that has become the primary platform for hosting containment fiction and liminal fiction communities since 2008. Notable communities hosted on WikiDot include the SCP Foundation, Wayward Society, Backrooms Wiki, RPC Authority, Liminal Archives, and their associated sandbox sites. The platform has played a crucial role in developing collaborative ..
“A thing that does a thing”, or ATTDAT in acronym, is a common phrase in containment fiction to describe an article that lacks narrative development, and that is primarily composed of an anomalous object and a mechanism of action. The concept is strongly associated with Series 1 and pre-Series 1 SCPs. For example, SCP-173 is ..
Notice: The formulas on this page do not adapt well to the Wiki’s dark mode. It is recommended to use light mode for this page (bottom right toggle), or while reading the formulas. Controversy index, or CI, is a unitless value used as a loose mathematical tool to indirectly quantify a containment fiction work’s controversial ..
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 ..
Anonypoet, later known as scroton,[1]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-77170/scp-579#post-1491835[2]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-533779/scp-071#post-1515116 was an early SCP author, active on EditThis and WikiDot. They are most notable for writing SCP-579 (“[DATA EXPUNGED]”), though they also wrote SCP-1398 (“Hateful Dead”), and a non-viable (rewritten) SCP-071 (“New-Age Succubus”). They are known for their work with expungement/redaction. SCPs SCP-579 (“[DATA EXPUNGED]”) SCP-579 was written and first ..
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 ..