Hello-apes-of-the-world - Hi

i should tell you guys that i woke up in a cold sweat at 2:30 this morning to write something down in notes app

what.

There should be a guy in Pale who invests 100% into portraying himself as a traditional fantasy dnd wizard. He is or makes himself look old, long gray beard, and dresses in robes and he's always throwing fire balls and the pactverse equivalent of magic missile. he's not affiliated with any major families but nobody can do anything about him because he has stupidly high karma from the spirits thinking he's fucking radical and cool as shit

Does anyone remember that chart that showed all of the word counts of all the chapters Wildbow has written

Some Good SCPs

Strong favorites marked by (⁂)

Series I

SCP-033 - The Missing Number

SCP-055 - [unknown]

SCP-087 - The Stairwell

SCP-093 - Red Sea Object

SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original

SCP-186 - To End All Wars  (⁂)

SCP-270 - Secluded Telephone  (⁂)

SCP-342 - Ticket to Ride  (⁂)

SCP-387 - Living Lego

SCP-426 - I am a Toaster

SCP-579 - [DATA EXPUNGED]

SCP-592 - Inaccurate History Book

SCP-711 - Paradoxical Insurance Policy

SCP-804 - World Without Man  (⁂)

SCP-914 - The Clockworks

Series II

SCP-1171 - Humans Go Home

SCP-1193 - Buried Giant

SCP-1322 - World We Helped

SCP-1425 - Star Signals

SCP-1500 - Zachary Callahan

SCP-1539 - Semantic Dissociation Zone

SCP-1689 - Bag of Holding Potatoes  (⁂)

SCP-1733 - Season Opener  (⁂)

SCP-1802 - Skip

SCP-1981 - “RONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING”

SCP-1983 - Doorway to Nowhere

SCP-1986 - Imaginary Library

Series III

SCP-2000 - Deus Ex Machina

SCP-2090 - Potentially XK Tim Duncan

SCP-2135 - 91st Street Station

SCP-2288 - Copy of A

SCP-2316 - The Bodies In The Water  (⁂)

SCP-2459 - When the Traffic Clears

SCP-2499 - Harmony of the Spheres

SCP-2521 - ●●|●●●●●|●●|●  (⁂)

SCP-2557, A Holding of Envelope Logistics®

Allison Eckhart - Allison Eckhart

SCP-2571 - Cragglewood Park

SCP-2602 - Former Library

SCP-2637 - A controversial chunk of rock with 196,884-dimensional stakes  (⁂)

SCP-2718 - What Happens After  (⁂)

SCP-2719 - Inside

SCP-2740 - It Wasn’t There  (⁂)

SCP-2871 - Strong Interaction Amplifier

SCP-2900 - Participation Trophies

SCP-2935 - A Dead World

SCP-2951 - Too Long  (⁂)

SCP-2979 - Your High School Physics Teacher, Mr. [REDACTED]  (⁂)

SCP-2998 - Anomalous Transmission, 2485 MHz

Series IV

SCP-3001 - Red Reality

SCP-3002 - Attempts to Assassinate Thought

SCP-3005 - A Light That Died  (⁂)

SCP-3008 - A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA  (⁂)

SCP-3104 - Cops Magnet  (⁂)

SCP-3116 - It’s time to stop posting

SCP-3125 - 55555 (NOTE: I recommend reading 3125 after reading everything preceding it on the Antimemetics Division Hub page)

SCP-3127 - Nineteen Year Old Jessica Lambert And A Female Pig Of Abnormal Size, Forever

SCP-3128 - Let’s Play Monopoly!

SCP-3264 - Causeless Effect  (⁂)

SCP-3333 - Tower  (⁂)

SCP-3455 - 411 Days A Year

SCP-3733 - Everybody Else

SCP-3773 - 9,000 Lives

SCP-3900 - The Internet of Things That Are Wolves  (⁂)

SCP-3930 - Does Not Exist  (⁂)

Series V

Taboo  (⁂)

SCP-4022 - Great Big Nothing

SCP-4065 - Ancho(red) Reality

SCP-4121 - The Loop That Never Breaks/Never Has/Never Will Be Broken

SCP-4228 - Karma Kameleon

SCP-4330 - A Moment of Silence

SCP-4365 - Five-Story Upside-Down Hotel

SCP-4417 - The Long Way Round

SCP-4493 - Keep Pride Out Of Corps  (⁂)

SCP-4703 - Perfectly Legal

SCP-4774 - Ninth Planet, Perhaps

4807 - Minimalism

SCP-4857 - [DESIGNATION AVAILABLE]

SCP-4885 - Find Him

SCP-4999 - Someone to Watch Over Us

Series VI

SCP-5005 - Lamplight

SCP-5031 - Yet another murder monster  (⁂)

SCP-5087 - When Have They Gone?

SCP-5095 - We Need to Talk about O5-3.

SCP-5320 - The People’s Church Of The Fish That Just Goes On Forever

SCP-5520 - The Rabbit Hole

SCP-5522 - Pizza Delivery Speedrun (RTA) 100% Completion

SCP-5538 - Holder of Abnormalities

SCP-5552 - Our Stolen Theory

SCP-5579 - Boba Roe

SCP-5920 - Work on What Has Been Spoiled

SCP-5994 - You Can’t Top Pigs with Pigs  (⁂)

Series VII

SCP-6006 - Theseus

SCP-6273 - The Empty Skin

SCP-6761 - The Sorting Machine

SCP-6803 - True Earth

Series VIII

SCP-7186 - Rock and Stone

SCP-7819 - no vacancy

SCP-001 Proposals

S. D. Locke’s Proposal - When Day Breaks  (⁂)

Kate McTiriss’ Proposal - A Record

Antimemetics Division Hub  (⁂)

I recommend reading the Antimemetics Division Hub page in order from the beginning (SCP-055) through SCP-3125:

[…]

Critical background reading

SCP-055

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (2015) This story is complete.

We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five

Introductory Antimemetics  (⁂)

Unforgettable, That’s What You Are

CASE COLOURLESS GREEN

Your Last First Day

Five Five Five Five Five by qntm (2017–)

SCP-3125

[…]

reading anything past SCP-3125 isn’t needed IMO, especially since the rest of the “Five Five Five Five Five” series is unfinished. (EDIT: It’s been finished now, but IMO you should still just stop after 3125)

Also, in my opinion, Introductory Antimemetics is the best tale on the site by far

Other Good Tales

SCUTTLE  (⁂)

Your Very First SCP!

Your Very Last SCP!

Footnotes/Disclaimers:

This is a provisional draft, and has been assembled retroactively after reading the site for many years – I’m definitely forgetting some I really liked, especially in Series II. This will be updated as I add things, and I’ll reblog myself when I’ve added to it significantly

This is non-exhaustive, it’s not a list of all good SCPs, just some of my favorites that I remember. (682 is both not one of my favorites and also Not Good, though)

This also isn’t an intro guide for beginners, which would be organized differently and would require a lot more thought about order, when to introduce different aspects of the Meta, when to start linking format-screws, etc.

CW for ableism, carcerality, body horror, etc. on all of these links. It’s the SCP wiki

Lastly – you can figure out what ██████ is in SCP-3005 - A Light That Died (“An ██████’s safe on shore but it’s the last thing you want to hold when you’re drowning”) and figuring this out really pulls the entry together!!

What happened in Berlin was so scary to me. It rlly showed how far the right wing is willing to go.

People of color and ppl who aren't ethnically German(like me, I'm half turkish and half Kurdish) are scared to go outside.

And the media is definitely trying to cover this up, please educate yourself on what's happening in Europe- especially about what just happened in Germany.

Ppl rlly forget what happened just 80yrs ago.

And sure "lEfT wInG iS wOrSe tHaN rIghT wINg" literally shut the fuck up

I am fucking scared to go outside.

a compilation of people getting nerfed by MAG160

This sounds like Hatchet Face had a spin-off

Hack/Slash is not the best comic in the world, but whatever else you want to say about it, “Jason Voorhees but he’s actually a superhero” is, like, probably the protagonist concept most directly catered to me personally in the history of protagonist concepts

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I was about to say, also ravens are fuckin huge

How to tell a raven from a crow. Made with corvid researcher Dr. Kaeli Swift for her blog post on the subject!

imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

Yeah I agree that the show takes supes in the military being actually scary compared to the comics we can also see the comic idea of supes being incompetent but toned down slightly, in the fight in Nicaragua we see Swatto get killed in five seconds and the twins and the mind guy huddled in cover not doing anything. Which I think kinda shows how yeah some supes would be great but they couldn’t really be mass incorporated due to the specifics of powers.

I don’t know what I’m really saying I’m just rambling great post

Also consider this a chaser for a longer post I’m gonna do on how The Boys got better in the adaptation, but one thing I think was a really smart change is how the show is handling the prospect of supes in the military.

 In the comic, The Supes are framed as Evil, but Incompetent. The fight over whether or not Vought is going to get Supes into the military was meant as a parallel to pork spending and the military Industrial complex run amok. Putting supes in the military was framed as bad, well, first because Vought is evil and shouldn’t get to make money, but on a practical level it’s treated as a silly idea.  The supes are framed as fundamentally incompetent soldiers. They’re too brash, too used to getting their way, incredibly difficult to create in consistent numbers, even harder to standardize once you’ve created them due to radically different levels of durability, and fundamentally pretty easy to kill in a combat scenario if you go in prepared and keep your shit together. Until Homelander starts getting Coupy, the actual stakes of the fight are largely over whether Vought is going to get to ream the American Taxpayers with the superhuman equivalent of jets that don’t work and see no action. But the superhumans themselves are, fundamentally, a complete joke in terms of combat ability, and their actual attempt at full-scale rebellion is suppressed almost immediately by the conventional military.

 And the issue is that this sort of created an “enemy-is-both-weak-and-strong” dynamic, where the story hates superheroes so goddamn much that they get  simultaneously framed as both this incredibly corrosive societal cancer AND a bunch of complete morons who can get wiped out in an afternoon by a small detatchment of well-trained, well-equipped soldiers. The actual stakes are…. kinda all over the place, as a result.

In the show,  The Supes are allowed to be both Evil AND competent. Homelander is actually smart instead of just mean and powerful, and It’s pretty clear that supes would be effective in the military, applied judiciously; Black Noir, Soldier Boy and even Homelander to an extent actually are capable of carrying out incredibly violent surgical strikes against whoever the hell they want. So instead, the threat is very clearly reframed as the military potentially having access to combat-viable superhumans who are capable of carrying out incredibly violent surgical strikes against whoever the hell they want. That gets to be a bad thing on its own merits instead of being bad because it’s a waste of money! And, furthermore, it’s also as if specific special-forces agents and black-ops murderers were given the same kind of inviolable, insufferable PR shielding that real world celebrities get for their bad behavior, except the “bad behavior” is, you know, the imperialist slaughter of hundreds or thousands! (In addition to, and not as a replacement for, regular celebrity bullshit!)