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  • SkippingAround [xe/xem]toaskchapoWhat's your favorite SCPs?
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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.



  • SkippingAround [xe/xem]toaskchapoWhat's your favorite SCPs?
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    I like 4776. Even though the foundation are still the technofascists it's enjoyable to watch them get one over :amerikkka: . Something I read more recently is Apotheosis of the Rat, by UraniumEmpire. 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). I suspect that 'Apotheosis of the Rat' works because it works with the flow of history rather than against it, I guess, with what happens in the tale.

    Ofc, I tangent into politics, but this is the site for it. Now that I think about it, another skip that I think works very well politically, despite walking in a landmine, is SCP-1851-EX. My only problem with it is the note from O5-9 near the end. It feels like the author writing in "DON'T WORRY THE FOUNDATION IS GOOD EVEN THOUGH THESE GUYS WERE BAD." I may well write an effortpost on SCP-6500 'Inevitable' and the canon it spawned, No Return, as the height of liberal fantasy (this is... an affectionate description, I note). The wholeass premise for the Vanguard is 'the fascists realized they were actually making things worse (apparently they didnt know), and instead of just doubling down they instead turn around and reform themselves into something good. I'm not sure how much of 6500 was the authors consciously saying "God I wish this would happen in real life" vs general cultural trend vs unspoken desire. My knowledge of the authors tends me to the latter end of that spectrum.

    Anyways, the rapid fire 'my favorite skips' are

    SCP-5656 - DEEPWATER DOWNWELL by Pedantique. If you start nodding off with the initial technobabble (summary: 'the foundation has magical tracking satellites so they can know where you are at any given moment) you can just skip to the 'addenda,' where the author is able to integrate their FUCKING INCREDIBLE PROSE OH MY GOD ITS SO FUCKING GOOD PLEASE READ THIS

    Recently finished is the tale series Speed Demon. Excellently written.

    In the distance, a single silver railway cuts through the steel earth. On it, a chrome machine cuts a bullet-like silhouette against the orange sky at hundreds of kilometers per hour. It's the lovechild of a Rolls-Royce and a fighter jet designed by someone with a hard-on for Julius Caesar.

    SCP-5251 - Flax by Croquembouche. I'm a sucker for well-written format screws and good linguistic fuckery. This one had me doing the crossword puzzle to figure out what we're missing.

    SCP-3768 - Three Moons Public Radio. Here's some comedy in the,,, very Unique GOI, the ☽☽☽ Initiative. Call me a lib, but frankly I'm happy to pledge my loyalty to JALAKÅRA of the Impenetrable, host and benefactor to mankind, any day of the week. (This comment is already super long, but here's a Three Moons related thing that I think reckons with the legacy of colonialism in a interesting way. Make sure to open the collapsible after you finish reading the final tab. Check out SCP-6944 after reading, if you're interested.