Mine are any that deal with the US government /American life that imply a hidden undercurrent of demonic or eldritch influence animating everything, examples include SCP-2736, SCP-1981, SCP-4444 and SCP-6250

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I usually find speculative fiction that have stories that are like “oh this real life Thing is actually paranormal” to undermine the actions and agency of the people involved (there’s a ‘General Winter’ skip that’s the ‘’‘’‘Real Reason’‘’‘’ the USSR won the second world war for instance, which fundamentally erases the bloody sacrifice that millions of soviet citizens took in order to defeat the Nazis).

    Remember the SCP that's the reason why North Korea is bad

    Peak lib brain

    • SkippingAround [xe/xem]
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      2 years ago

      Lol, that one's so awful I'd forgotten it even existed to talk about it as an example. "Um actually sweaty North Korea is bad because the foundation needed somewhere to put their big mind control rock." It's 1427 if you wanna torture yourself, but I don't really see why you should. Pros and cons of collaborative writing site, you're going to have some absolutely awful bullshit get posted.

      Post-meal edit: I will note that the SCP Wiki has had an ideological shift away from those kinds of stories. Again I'm not settled on the causes, but frankly Story #1798364597836 where the Foundation is Super Cool People and the Communist Russians are evil etc etc gets pretty dull. I'm not sure if it's 'the authors are getting better politically' or just 'standards are rising over time' but there's definetly a trend. I think the SCP Wiki is still full with shittons of great stories, and new ones get posted all the time.