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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The following is an interview of SCP Wiki author LordStonefish, conducted by PixelatedHarmony over Discord. Q: How did it feel to see 3999 blow up and become a hugely important and influential article? A: Odd. It was personal in a way that feels more and more remote as time goes on. That fourth wall breaking ..
The following is an interview with The Administrator, conducted by pixelatedHarmony under a previous name, seen here. How did you find the SCP Series? I’ve always dabbled in writing, nothing ever serious. After starting and stopping 3 or 4 books, most of my attempts stayed in the short, short story range. Things like telling ghost ..
When you were writing your 001 proposal, at what point in the process of writing the article did you have the final or close-to-final containment procedures? Clef: It was pretty much the first thing that I wrote. The containment procedures were simple: “Keep the location of the Garden secret, and don’t let anyone approach it ..
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 ..
Note: Given the private nature of the subject matter, all available citations are derived exclusively from leaked direct messages and published screenshots. The Yurt is/was a Discord server serving as a gathering space for influential SCP Wiki community members. Founded by author Rounderhouse between 2019 and 2020, the server name was previously associated with Rounderhouse’s ..
This article is a stub. You can help by creating/editing a page on the UserWiki. The x000 contests are a series of writing competitions organized by the SCP Wiki’s community outreach team. They are conducted once the community has produced 999 articles, with the winner receiving the 1,000th slot. It is considered a highly prestigious ..
We’re not paying ourselves enough to be bureaucrats is a thread posted to the SCP Wiki Staff’s discussion forum,[1]https://archive.ph/ssDAw 05command, protesting the recently adopted charter. The post was written by Sorts, an Administrator who was himself a containment fiction pioneer who is responsible for the modern conceptualization of anomalous memes. When the SCP Wiki was ..
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 ..
#StandWithSCPRU is the hashtag given to represent the social media campaign and lawsuit against Andrei Duksin‘s illegal trademarking of the SCP Foundation logo in the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU).[1]https://www.gofundme.com/f/scp-legal-funds[2]https://www.rbc.ru/companies/trademark/661748/scp-foundation-secure-contain-protect/ It was released in conjunction with a GoFundMe donation page to support the Russian branch of the SCP Wiki (-RU), which raised over 160,000 USD for ..