SCP Foundation

Mistaking the eldritch unknown for whatever lolwut random is supposed to mean betrays a fundamental ignorance of some rather basic foundations of the supernatural genre itself. Like, very basic.

SCP may not be for you, twentington.

edited 21st Jul '17 2:16:10 AM by Gaon

You have to understand a simple thing : the SCP Foundation isn't the work of a man, it's a work of a community. Each of their members want to bring a different story, each one has a different center of interest that permeates his fiction, each one has a different idea of what is scary, funny, disturbing or silly. In those conditions, of course you will have the impression it's completely random - it doesn't have a canon, it has thousands of them. Of course it would be more coherent if only one person was writing all of this, but one of the main appeal for me is the sheer variety of ways people can come up with different interpretations of a single concept. We have dozens, hundreds of different Eldritch Abominations on the site now, but each one has a unique flavor to it, and while I have favorites, each one tries to bring something new and different.

Looking at your posts, it's just not your style. So, just try something else entirely. There are plenty of options out there, you'd probably be better finding something else you'd like rather than just focusing on why you don't like the SCP Foundation.

Yeah, twentitonseen more focus on why other people get it than him.....

Anyway, What are your favoury group of interest? My is sakarism, it feel authentic and yet evil, that is nice.

Can't remember too many off the top of my head, but Nobody sticks out to me quite well (ironically enough).

I'm sorry, I was very vitriolic.

I just want to know the site's appeal, because I like the idea, and I want to believe some of the stories will grab me eventually.

[Well, like I said, there is diferent appeal to everyone here, while I like the SCP, I have come to like more the group of interest since they seen cool, specially sakarism or church of the broken god and os own, eventually there will be something that you like.

All right, among some of the ones I have read...

The toaster one. Why a toaster specifically? That just seems like such an oddball choice.

The soup one. What should I even get out of that one, since it seems far less creepy than the other ones.

So apparently one factor is that I have to invoke Fridge Horror. For instance, this one.

Me: So it cloned a candy bar and keys. So what.

Friend: But what if it cloned plutonium or something?

Me: The story doesn't fucking SAY that though.

Friend: Yeah, but you have to extrapolate the horror.

How about this example: a patch of ground that will continuously expand unless contained through large noise, converting any living beings within its area into not-quite-right alien lifeforms. I trust the Fridge Horror is pretty obvious there.

And I think part of what you're missing is that the combination of "thing we can't remotely understand" with "ordinary object we see everyday" is meant to create a feeling of paranoia. If a dangerous or destructive object can appear to simply be a piece of paper, or a cell phone, or even, yes, a toaster, and there's no real understanding of why some objects start breaking the laws of physics in such harmful ways, then anything you encounter in your day-to-day life could potentialy be one of them.

edited 23rd Jul '17 8:25:42 PM by RavenWilder

I never feel like anything's actually at risk, because the tone always suggests that things are always close enough to under control to no longer be a threat.

Friend: "Well, what if someone mishandles it, or an earthquake knocks something important down or something? What about what this thing was doing before it was contained?"

Me: "But the story doesn't SAY any of that!"

That's because keeping them under control is pretty much the Foundation's entire job.

Also, reading through 038, it seems like it's a pretty old one, even though it doesn't necessarily fit the creepypasta mold of SCP in its early years. The writing doesn't quite seem to be up to par- the tone's off, cross-testing and lolFoundation are involved, and in general the hook seems pretty dull. What it suggests about 173 is mildly interesting, but that's about all it does for me.

But WHY would you want to read a story that makes you afraid of toasters for life?

Then where's the horror come in? These things are contained; therefore, they can't do anything horrible. They can't be interesting if they're locked up. Not even if they're this Or this. Or this.

Horror's usually appreciated in an SCP if it's done well, but it hasn't really been the focus of the site since its earliest days. Everything just has to be both paranormal and well-written. If an SCP makes you go "Hey, that's pretty cool!" it's doing its job.

That said, you seem to be mining the early entries for the most part, back when writing standards were more relaxed and stuff. It's easy to tell because the hooks- black hole in a box, some dude that calls himself God, a tree that clones stuff- don't really go anywhere. I think 343 in particular is only kept around because it's one of the very first SC Ps, because he shows up in a couple tales that actually make use of his ambiguous godliness, and because of the novelty of keeping God in a box.

Also, the toaster thing is a thing mostly because messing with your writing format is a unique concept and people like that. It's not about the toaster, it's about the article itself.

edited 24th Jul '17 6:43:27 PM by EndlessSea

Time for some absolutely shameless self-promotion: I recently wrote this tale about the Chaos Insurgency, so go give it a look or something.

And, yes, I did come up with the last line first and then wrote the whole story around that.

edited 29th Jul '17 7:49:59 AM by bravo104

You motherfucker. I'd tell you to take my +1 and lock yourself in 682's pen, but I don't have an account to upvote that tale, so this post is about all I've got.

Seriously, though. Your prose is a tad hamfisted and you were clearly bending over backwards to set up the meme at some points, but I got a goofy grin out of it and the concept is interesting, so I approve.

edited 29th Jul '17 10:59:36 PM by EndlessSea

The process of making an account on the SCP Foundation site isn't all that difficult, for the record.

I tried once before, I think. I remember it confusing me.

At any rate, I don't go on often enough to feel the need to make one just this second.

I'm still just trying to find a story that's interesting without being silly (so not the "everyone thinks they're a toaster" one) or creepypasta. Recommendations?

I think 1000 SCP could be intersting, or the plague that hate...or almost anything tie to sakarism in general.

I liked this one (the Star Womb) and this one (a dead world).

edited 30th Jul '17 4:55:40 PM by Zendervai

Ah, yes, 2935. Good stuff, that one.

Yeah, the anomaly is kinda derivative but it was good.

Actually, if death(the stuff that kill earth c) was there....it is posible he come from a earth D that come from a earth E and some one?

Is that thing killing words over and over?

You should probably spoiler tag that, man.

This one was the last one shared by a friend. Thoughts?