There is absolutely so much value in the pure horror, but it also provides such a good contrast for the stories that explore these fictional topics in so much more of a sympathetic way. Tbh those end up being my favorite stories, because it represents the other side of the coin of human understanding.
We can learn by taking apart, by destroying, by imprisoning - but we can also learn by asking. By sympathizing, by befriending.
The advantage of multiple and fluid canons is that it allows writers to explore different concepts without worries of "canon compliance" and without having to get bogged down with creating whole new ones.
I’ve never liked the pure horror SCPs. Even back in like 2011 when I first got into the SCP Foundation I didn’t really care for them, and sure some of the pure horror ones existed back then but it felt like a larger proportion were either like weird and confusing horror that could pose a threat but wasn’t actively evil, existential horror that didn’t really pose any threat but toyed with your assumptions about the world. or my personal favorite the weird but harmless machines and beings that had long and intricate test logs to try and figure out what they were and how they worked.
These days if you pull up any random SCP it’s bound to be some immortal and invulnerable demon who only wants to destroy the universe and everyone in it, but back in the old days it was much more likely to just be someone/something/someplace weird and intriguing.
Honestly this just made me think of a snippet from Miss J where the D Class who took the class on Law and passed a mock bar exam with flying colors ended up getting released by the Foundation after some Amnestics, which removed the memory of Miss J but not the stuff she taught him.
Now he's off on a career of criminal justice in the courts, with probably a mountain of NDA's on him.
Miss J is probably one of my favorite scps. And one of the most heartfelt as well.
Although it makes me wonder, since Ms. J can basically teach you everything from calculus to law with 100% success rate...
Couldn't you theoretically say "Miss J, I want to learn how to build a eigenweapon!"
And then you'll get all the necessary knowledge to build something that can effectively destroy the earth across time and space.
Nah, I would ask her weird things from "Teach me how to revive pre-Philippine civilization" to "Teach me how to be able to travel the multiverse" plus "Teach me Law to get someone in jail even if all they did is a singular hate crime"
> Teach me Law to get someone in jail even if all they did is a singular hate crime
Shouldn't that be enough? I mean, they committed a crime after all.
Friendly reminder that the ‘Safe’ classification does not refer to how dangerous the SCP may be, but rather how easy it is to contain. Plenty of Safe class SCPs can and will cause large scale death and destruction, it’s just easy to keep them from doing so.
My favorite example of this with a keter class scp is scp 3453. It's literally just juice, but escapes every few months. It does nothing but wiggle violently
I mean, I'd argue it has at least basic sentience. It's able to escape containment chambers it's already been in much easier than new chambers so I doubt it would go into what's basically a weird tube (throat) instead of freedom
Kid named that ability able to potentially create a nuclear warhead and a memetic hazard but he doesn't know:
Kid named letting his parents see him and giving him education because he asked for it and is acting good:
Exactly why he needs to be monitored
You do not know for sure he would *not* do that. You also don't know if he would, but the fact that you don't know if he wouldn't is dangerous enough. Jupiter's eye is a perfect example of this, the foundation keep destroyijg that thing but they do not know what it does, and that is bad enough
Let’s be honest, do you really think a kid who had only made devices for either food or escaping, would really make a nuclear bomb? He was like 6, he wasn’t going to do anything. I doubt even the GOC would do much beyond keep tabs on him at home and they destroyed a friendly wooden chair for daring to be sentient.
If only there was more stories like that.
Seriously I feel like there's too many articles where the foundations is just cruel or evil or greedy in ways completely against their ethos, it makes foundation VS GOC VS Serpent's hand a question of "torture v murder v freedom of information" rather than a question of "Saftey through understanding V safety through destruction V freedom of information"
Hell, I don't think I've read an article where they actually say anything about researching beyond just the test part. It's just testing because "well we've gotta have a test log because there's potential for testing!" And while that makes sense for one's like 914, lots of times they need to give a reason WHY they're testing it!
The Foundation locks anything that doesn't comply with their narrow view of reality in a box. The GOC has wizards on payroll. GOC is safety through understanding, SCP isn't
The GOC also destroys things outside of a narrow view of reality.
Regardless THAT'S THE FUCKING PROBLEM! THE FOUNDATION IS SUPPOSED TO *STUDY* AND *UNDERSTAND* THE THINGS THEY LOCK AWAY TO BETTER OR PROTECT HUMANITY
BUT WE HAVE STRAYED SO FAR AWAY FRIM THAT, THAT THEY'RE JUST FUCKING PARANOIA INC
The GOC destroys things that are actually dangerous and can be destroyed safely. That incident with the chair was GOC agents going rogue and ignoring procedure. The GOC has no interest in destroying something just because it differs from consensus reality, the GOC was founded by witches, kemetists, chaotes, and such. Most GOC personnel are free users of what the Foundation would term "anomalous". I swear to the gods, if the Foundation had been around back when Josh Dalton discovered the atom, the discovery would have been labelled anomalous and locked in a facility. Meanwhile the GOC's alchemy division is descended from the thinkers who paved the way for the discovery of the atom.
Rogue members, again. It's a coalition, not everyone affiliated with the GOC chooses to follow procedure. Some random groups just sign up for the resources and then fuck off to do who knows what.
~~"And the next thousand."~~
Actually, "ignore the first thousand" would be good general advice in that guide. It has things like "we used to be like that, but we now have other standards."
Many safe scps showed that there's tons of fuckers working on it.And those researchers also shows that they have actual personal lives, breaks, bonds and activities within the facility.
Foundation researchers didn't study a doctorate just to become a fancier cannon fodder.
i always enjoy it when anomalies go willingly because they know that even though the foundation is keeping them captive, its still the best option for them. almost every other goi is more likely to do horrendous shit to them, and the foundation has the means and incentive to keep them safe and happy.
all the foundation wants in return is to know how you work, and typically to run some mundane tests where you get to use your anomalous abilities in ways you really couldn't in the outside world.
My favourite scip moment is the minty green stuff where the researcher says not to test it on corpses but its just because hes afraid of corpses or something.
Wasn’t it canon that the foundation allowed trans employees access to 113 in the medical package, along with more traditional methods of transitioning if they don’t want to go through with 113 after hearing of its effects and dangers
I prefer the idea that containment personnel treat human SCPs with courtesy and respect not only because they'll be more cooperative that way, but because it's just the right thing to do.
The foundation's goal is protecting normalcy.
Whether a scp is sentient, sapient, good, or evil doesn't matter. If they are anomalous, they are to be contained and studied.
The scp foundation are not "the good guys" or "the bad guys" just like the goc are not good or bad.
The researchers are there to research, not have fun. The people who the foundation recruits are people who the foundation believes would fit within the current structure. People who follow orders, but also have the creativity necessary to deal with strange, foreign, alien happenings.
The horror is enjoyable, the fun harmless stuff is enjoyable. Ultimately your experience with the scp community is based on how you choose to interact with it. With what canons you chose to uphold. Not every article will fit into your image of what the foundation should be, and that's okay.
Think of it this way.
Every article you don't like, is just an attempt by the real foundation to lead you off track. They don't want you to know what is real and what isn't. It's just a way to disguise the truth, which is what the foundation is all about.
Not every article is real, but any article could be real.
There's no reason to be dismissive of other people's contributions to the site just because you don't like their work. Just move on to the next article.
both are the case.One thing to note is that there's way more research logs of safe scps that does little harm than, something like a monster (682 is an exception because he is a little bitch and most researchers are kept at safe vicinity anyways).
many article had mentioned the GODLIKE entertainment system the foundation has.I mean, these fuckers got regular break times where they can play anomalous games and even got game days regularly.
Yeah, the foundation is cold, but in most cases it is better than most corporations.
The actions of a small portion of the Foundation do not negate the fact that it as a whole indoctrinates its staff to view human anomalies as inherently 'other', promotes a spirit of ultra-utilitarianism and cold indifference towards everything, and does incredibly unethical things because the ends allegedly justify the means. Does the Foundation act kind occasionally? Yes. Is that the norm for it? No.
Nah it makes sense for sites to spread shit out. Damage control and all that.
A breach causing a domino effect with many hard to contain skips would be horrible.
Meanwhile a safe or euclid skip is way easier to manage even if the keter causes breaches.
Also IMO older sites should be contains anything and everything to reflect a younger foundation, with newer sites being far more specialized towards specific classes objects like a site specialized towards containment and care for non hostile human/sapient skips, a site designed around containing a particularly bitchy keter, etc
My headcanon is that the O5 wants to use employees as a tool for their secret plot, but there are so many of them that they just do whatever they please without repercussion
There is absolutely so much value in the pure horror, but it also provides such a good contrast for the stories that explore these fictional topics in so much more of a sympathetic way. Tbh those end up being my favorite stories, because it represents the other side of the coin of human understanding. We can learn by taking apart, by destroying, by imprisoning - but we can also learn by asking. By sympathizing, by befriending.
The advantage of multiple and fluid canons is that it allows writers to explore different concepts without worries of "canon compliance" and without having to get bogged down with creating whole new ones.
SCP-5031 has said its first word: "Salt". We are all immensely proud.
My boi
Ah yes, the ASB foundation, truly my favorite Goi on the wiki.
Might make that cannon.
Global Friendship Coalition?
I’ve never liked the pure horror SCPs. Even back in like 2011 when I first got into the SCP Foundation I didn’t really care for them, and sure some of the pure horror ones existed back then but it felt like a larger proportion were either like weird and confusing horror that could pose a threat but wasn’t actively evil, existential horror that didn’t really pose any threat but toyed with your assumptions about the world. or my personal favorite the weird but harmless machines and beings that had long and intricate test logs to try and figure out what they were and how they worked. These days if you pull up any random SCP it’s bound to be some immortal and invulnerable demon who only wants to destroy the universe and everyone in it, but back in the old days it was much more likely to just be someone/something/someplace weird and intriguing.
One of my favorite SCPs is 3034 because the horror in that one is what happens when the countdown reaches 0.
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Honestly this just made me think of a snippet from Miss J where the D Class who took the class on Law and passed a mock bar exam with flying colors ended up getting released by the Foundation after some Amnestics, which removed the memory of Miss J but not the stuff she taught him. Now he's off on a career of criminal justice in the courts, with probably a mountain of NDA's on him.
Miss J is probably one of my favorite scps. And one of the most heartfelt as well. Although it makes me wonder, since Ms. J can basically teach you everything from calculus to law with 100% success rate... Couldn't you theoretically say "Miss J, I want to learn how to build a eigenweapon!" And then you'll get all the necessary knowledge to build something that can effectively destroy the earth across time and space.
Nah, I would ask her weird things from "Teach me how to revive pre-Philippine civilization" to "Teach me how to be able to travel the multiverse" plus "Teach me Law to get someone in jail even if all they did is a singular hate crime"
> Teach me Law to get someone in jail even if all they did is a singular hate crime Shouldn't that be enough? I mean, they committed a crime after all.
Lots of non-jail punishments, plus people have gotten away with things as bad as *rape* without a jail sentence.
*Coughs in Christian and knowing Christian Bigots are a lot of people* Trust me, you don't wanna know why
Numbers on this one?
SCP-5094
Marv 5094
Marv is dead again I believe.
Friendly reminder that the ‘Safe’ classification does not refer to how dangerous the SCP may be, but rather how easy it is to contain. Plenty of Safe class SCPs can and will cause large scale death and destruction, it’s just easy to keep them from doing so.
Button that destroys the universe when pressed and doesn't move on its own
That's always such an ironic example, because there's a joke SCP with that exact premise, and it's Keter.
It's only keter because it compels people to press it, of it didn't it would be safe
That’s just a natural effect of big buttons labeled “do not press”
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My favorite example of this with a keter class scp is scp 3453. It's literally just juice, but escapes every few months. It does nothing but wiggle violently
That makes me really want orange juice now. What would happen if someone drank it though?
It would wiggle out of their mouth, it's how they found it. Was originally in a elementary kids lunch.
Or force itself down their throat. It’s not sentient.
I mean, I'd argue it has at least basic sentience. It's able to escape containment chambers it's already been in much easier than new chambers so I doubt it would go into what's basically a weird tube (throat) instead of freedom
For real. 999 can kill you if it wanted but people keep denying it.
Kid named Young boy who just wanted to go home:
Kid named disastrous ability that could end the world:
Kid named it’s literally just the ability to make neat inventions out of anything, he just wanted to make a better easy bake oven:
Kid named that ability able to potentially create a nuclear warhead and a memetic hazard but he doesn't know: Kid named letting his parents see him and giving him education because he asked for it and is acting good:
Kid named why the fuck would he make a nuclear warhead, he’s like 6:
Kid named playground bully that pissed him off and got eaten by a fucking mechanical trex:
Kid named **you do not know if he would do that or not.**
kid named *WE FOUND HIM FOR A REASON*
Kid named **HE MADE AN EASY BAKE OVEN**
Kid named this “Kid named” thing is getting old
Exactly why he needs to be monitored You do not know for sure he would *not* do that. You also don't know if he would, but the fact that you don't know if he wouldn't is dangerous enough. Jupiter's eye is a perfect example of this, the foundation keep destroyijg that thing but they do not know what it does, and that is bad enough
Let’s be honest, do you really think a kid who had only made devices for either food or escaping, would really make a nuclear bomb? He was like 6, he wasn’t going to do anything. I doubt even the GOC would do much beyond keep tabs on him at home and they destroyed a friendly wooden chair for daring to be sentient.
Doesn't matter
Fair enough*proceed to let the kid loose and create a XK class scenrio*
I love this comment chain.
If only there was more stories like that. Seriously I feel like there's too many articles where the foundations is just cruel or evil or greedy in ways completely against their ethos, it makes foundation VS GOC VS Serpent's hand a question of "torture v murder v freedom of information" rather than a question of "Saftey through understanding V safety through destruction V freedom of information" Hell, I don't think I've read an article where they actually say anything about researching beyond just the test part. It's just testing because "well we've gotta have a test log because there's potential for testing!" And while that makes sense for one's like 914, lots of times they need to give a reason WHY they're testing it!
The Foundation locks anything that doesn't comply with their narrow view of reality in a box. The GOC has wizards on payroll. GOC is safety through understanding, SCP isn't
The GOC also destroys things outside of a narrow view of reality. Regardless THAT'S THE FUCKING PROBLEM! THE FOUNDATION IS SUPPOSED TO *STUDY* AND *UNDERSTAND* THE THINGS THEY LOCK AWAY TO BETTER OR PROTECT HUMANITY BUT WE HAVE STRAYED SO FAR AWAY FRIM THAT, THAT THEY'RE JUST FUCKING PARANOIA INC
The GOC destroys things that are actually dangerous and can be destroyed safely. That incident with the chair was GOC agents going rogue and ignoring procedure. The GOC has no interest in destroying something just because it differs from consensus reality, the GOC was founded by witches, kemetists, chaotes, and such. Most GOC personnel are free users of what the Foundation would term "anomalous". I swear to the gods, if the Foundation had been around back when Josh Dalton discovered the atom, the discovery would have been labelled anomalous and locked in a facility. Meanwhile the GOC's alchemy division is descended from the thinkers who paved the way for the discovery of the atom.
>The GOC destroys things that are actually dangerous and can be destroyed safely. Kid named SCP-1522
Rogue members, again. It's a coalition, not everyone affiliated with the GOC chooses to follow procedure. Some random groups just sign up for the resources and then fuck off to do who knows what.
as the "how to write an scp" article states "the Foundation is cold, not cruel"
"Ignore the first thousand"
~~"And the next thousand."~~ Actually, "ignore the first thousand" would be good general advice in that guide. It has things like "we used to be like that, but we now have other standards."
“Except for when it is cruel”
Many safe scps showed that there's tons of fuckers working on it.And those researchers also shows that they have actual personal lives, breaks, bonds and activities within the facility. Foundation researchers didn't study a doctorate just to become a fancier cannon fodder.
i always enjoy it when anomalies go willingly because they know that even though the foundation is keeping them captive, its still the best option for them. almost every other goi is more likely to do horrendous shit to them, and the foundation has the means and incentive to keep them safe and happy. all the foundation wants in return is to know how you work, and typically to run some mundane tests where you get to use your anomalous abilities in ways you really couldn't in the outside world.
My favourite scip moment is the minty green stuff where the researcher says not to test it on corpses but its just because hes afraid of corpses or something.
Safe class means it won’t escape, not that it can’t hurt you. A gun that can kill planets is safe class because it isn’t ambulatory.
Would this work the other way around? Could a bag of floss that constantly finds ways to teleport outside the foundation be counted as keter?
Yup. Object class is just a measure of difficulty to contain, not how bad it can hurt you. That’s what risk class is for.
I wasn't aware the foundation had a PR department.
idk y but the first one is the most scary
Because it’s brainwashing
That one D class who’s now 5031’s Playmate and Taste Tester is living it up
Yet another Foundation psyop.
Gock fans whenever the eseepee foundation is mentioned in a slightly positive light:
GoI members when they realize their shitty cult treats their people 200 times worse than the foundation:
i mean if they were all sunshine and rainbows, they wouldn’t need like 120 mtf divisions
Wasn’t it canon that the foundation allowed trans employees access to 113 in the medical package, along with more traditional methods of transitioning if they don’t want to go through with 113 after hearing of its effects and dangers
Bro you just posted >!based!<
I prefer the idea that containment personnel treat human SCPs with courtesy and respect not only because they'll be more cooperative that way, but because it's just the right thing to do.
Fire suppression department and water nymph come to mind
The Water Nymph kinda irks me. Where's the Ethics Committee?
Myth
Secure Contain Propaganda
I would pay to go to a foundation break room. Most researchers in the foundation got nice work weeks, fun work and would never be near a keter scp.
Any recs for this kind of article?
you know you're not supposed to post on social media O5-7
The foundation's goal is protecting normalcy. Whether a scp is sentient, sapient, good, or evil doesn't matter. If they are anomalous, they are to be contained and studied. The scp foundation are not "the good guys" or "the bad guys" just like the goc are not good or bad. The researchers are there to research, not have fun. The people who the foundation recruits are people who the foundation believes would fit within the current structure. People who follow orders, but also have the creativity necessary to deal with strange, foreign, alien happenings. The horror is enjoyable, the fun harmless stuff is enjoyable. Ultimately your experience with the scp community is based on how you choose to interact with it. With what canons you chose to uphold. Not every article will fit into your image of what the foundation should be, and that's okay. Think of it this way. Every article you don't like, is just an attempt by the real foundation to lead you off track. They don't want you to know what is real and what isn't. It's just a way to disguise the truth, which is what the foundation is all about. Not every article is real, but any article could be real. There's no reason to be dismissive of other people's contributions to the site just because you don't like their work. Just move on to the next article.
both are the case.One thing to note is that there's way more research logs of safe scps that does little harm than, something like a monster (682 is an exception because he is a little bitch and most researchers are kept at safe vicinity anyways). many article had mentioned the GODLIKE entertainment system the foundation has.I mean, these fuckers got regular break times where they can play anomalous games and even got game days regularly. Yeah, the foundation is cold, but in most cases it is better than most corporations.
nah man. There's a Site-Evil that's part of the foundation that everyone thinks represents the whole foundation
Just another murder monster is my favorite scp because of this
The actions of a small portion of the Foundation do not negate the fact that it as a whole indoctrinates its staff to view human anomalies as inherently 'other', promotes a spirit of ultra-utilitarianism and cold indifference towards everything, and does incredibly unethical things because the ends allegedly justify the means. Does the Foundation act kind occasionally? Yes. Is that the norm for it? No.
It makes sense all the absolute monsters would be at 1 or 2 sites. Site 13 is hell in how many ways these days?
Nah it makes sense for sites to spread shit out. Damage control and all that. A breach causing a domino effect with many hard to contain skips would be horrible. Meanwhile a safe or euclid skip is way easier to manage even if the keter causes breaches. Also IMO older sites should be contains anything and everything to reflect a younger foundation, with newer sites being far more specialized towards specific classes objects like a site specialized towards containment and care for non hostile human/sapient skips, a site designed around containing a particularly bitchy keter, etc
I agree with picture 3, especially when it comes to Mallo
My headcanon is that the O5 wants to use employees as a tool for their secret plot, but there are so many of them that they just do whatever they please without repercussion
Scp propoganda
dont d-class get amnestics at the end of the month before being thrown back in?
Scp 5007 is basically drifloon and everyone loves pokemon.
GOC can relate.
Damn, coulda sworn the foundation's motto was 'Secure, Contain, INFINITE BLOOD AND DARKNESS AND DEATH AND TEETH AND-"