History Literature / ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision

* HopeSpot: Marion correctly determines that a previous iteration of the Antimemetics Division built a weapon capable of neutralizing SCP-3125, and that the bunker underneath Site-41 fits the description of the location where it's supposed to be housed. She makes a run for the bunker, and successfully reaches it... [[spoiler:and it's empty. Turns out the Antimemetics Division used to have several (now-forgotten) Sites, not just Site-41, and while Marion correctly predicted the Division's plans, [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle those plans were implemented in a different bunker at a different Site.]] All she's able to do is contain the local outbreak of SCP-3125, killing herself and wiping out her entire team in the process, and merely pushing back the apocalypse by a few years at best]].

* ChekhovsGunman: The videotape Marion finds in "CASE COLOURLESS GREEN" mentions that she'd been having nightmares about someone named Adam. Marion, in the present, has no idea who this person is. [[spoiler:Adam is her ex-husband, whose memory she wiped (and wiped her own memory of him) to protect him from SCP-3125; he is the narrator of much of the book's second half]].

* ChekhovsGunman: The videotape Marion finds in "CASE COLOURLESS GREEN" mentions that she'd been having nightmares about someone named Adam. Marion, in the present, has no idea who this person is, and concludes that he must have been a friend or family member she lost to SCP-3125. [[spoiler:Adam is her ex-husband; he's still alive, and is the narrator of much of the book's second half]].

* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Main characters die often and without warning to a variety of antimemetic threats. By the end of the story, [[spoiler: every named character save for O5-8 and (possibly) Bart Hughes is dead]].

* TogetherInDeath: When [[spoiler:Marion and Adam]] finally reunite and fully remember each other, [[spoiler:Marion is being erased from existence and Adam has just sacrificed his life in order to temporarily bring her back]]. [[TearJerker They get a few moments with each other before the end.]]

* SwitchingPOV: Each chapter is narrated from a different character's perspective. There are eight different narrators in total, although the majority of the chapters are narrated either by Antimemetics Division director Marion Wheeler or by [[spoiler:her ex-husband Adam]].

* WarMemorial: The statue on the book's cover is SCP-9429, a gigantic, antimemetically-cloaked basalt memorial constructed by the [[AncientAdvancedHumans Oblitus people]] in honor of those who died during (what the Foundation believes to be the first and only) Antimemetic War against [[spoiler:SCP-3125]].

** [[spoiler:SCP-3125's containment chamber is full of these. When Marion enters it in "CASE COLOURLESS GREEN", she finds a videotape she recorded for herself six weeks earlier that she has no memory of creating]].

* RegainedMemoriesSequence: Certain mnestic drugs (Class-X and some varieties of Class-Z) give the user access to all of their previous memories, at the cost of eventual death. In "Unforgettable, That's What You Are", Lyn Marness recounts sixty years' worth of repressed memories after taking a Class-X mnestic. Later, [[spoiler:Adam uses a Class-Z mnestic to recover his memories of Marion and experiences the past two years of his life in reverse]].
* RememberTheDead: Spirits in the noösphere rely on their "anchors" -- living people in the real world who knew them well and actively remember them -- in order to keep existing. This is why [[spoiler:Marion]] becomes coherent again once [[spoiler:SCP-3125 incarnates and Adam temporarily remembers her]].
* RescueRomance: "Fresh Hell" tells the story of how [[spoiler:Marion and Adam fell in love when he was a civilian who got trapped in [[AbandonedHospital a manifestation of SCP-4051]] and she was the field agent dispatched to his case]].

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:When Marion and Adam finally reunite and fully remember each other, Marion is being erased from existence and Adam has just sacrificed his life in order to temporarily bring her back. [[TearJerker They get a few moments with each other before the end]]]].

* MagicalDivorce: [[spoiler:Marion and Adam's marriage ends with mutual LaserGuidedAmnesia]].

''There Is No Antimemetics Division'' is a WebSerialNovel by Sam Hughes, also known as qntm (the creator of ''Website/ThingsOfInterest''). It was originally posted to the Website/SCPFoundation website from 2015–2020 as a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub series of short stories]] and later consolidated into a 2021 novel.

* {{Mundanger}}: How does [[spoiler:SCP-3125 kill people who learn of its existence]]? One way is to just [[spoiler:send a giant invisible spider to stab them to death]].

* TitledAfterTheSong: Several chapter titles, including “Unforgettable, That’s What You Are”, “Where Have You Been All My Life”, and “Champions of Nothing”.

* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Main characters die often and without warning to a variety of antimemetic threats. By the end of the story, [[spoiler: every named character save for O5-8 and Bart Hughes(?) is dead]].