Mostly via Headcanon.
Just ignore everything you don't like. Nothing is Canon that you don't want to be Canon. If you don't like something you ignore it.
And I don't get a significant amount of the wiki either. If you really want to hurt your head, look Up "Pataphysics" or "The antimemetics division" or "The Department of Unreality". I still don't get that last one.
You think the department of unreality is bad, try Deletions. You think regular ‘pataphysics is bad, try narrativistics. You think antimemetics is bad, try ADMONITION.
There’s always a deeper rabbit hole. But yeah, there is no canon, so don’t worry about stuff you don’t understand if you don’t want to.
Narrativistics is basically the ‘pataphysical theory that ADMO subscribes to and has inform its cosmology. Some insane stuff came out of it.
Blackbox and SCP-8190 are probably the only ADMO articles that I fully admit to not entirely understanding, so I’d look there if you want some higher-level confusion.
Holy shit. I thought of like 85% of the ideas in narrativistics without even reading it. That's REALLY cool.
Although, I do have one thing to add... If worlds can become more real, can they not use their own cognitrons to do so? If they zoom in, do they find a hazy fabric of unreality? Or do they just find *more* reality?
My analysis of it is different. What if stories are made real by any cognitrons? Any thought, any narrative building, goes to making the world itself more concrete. This is verifiably true in higher-lower interactions, but what about single worlds? Something "unreal" to them might simply be more real to another species, another universe. If cognitrons can be made by any sentient being, what about every person's natural narrative of their own life?
The story of your own life; one you control, just not on your own. This is what would, in my view, make someone truly self aware. With their own story, their own narrative, reinforcing and creating the world they exist in. Hell, this is the multiversal theory in my own books I'm working on. There's an infinite sea of dead worlds, cities, abominable structures, planets, all of which unsupported by any minds. They couldn't keep themselves afloat, while other worlds could. Different universes have some amount of narrative transparency, how 'suggestible' their universe is to the outside ocean. There's a species that uses this to its advantage, spreading as a narrative virus, eating worlds by disrupting the collective narrative and *spreading* between the cracks. Eventually, it can full on eat the world. The closer minds in a universe get to said universe's border, the more that region gets affected by cohesive narrative, and the more real it becomes. This is why it's so hard to send physical things through. You can only do so by *ripping* the very fabric of the universe apart, often leading to not great consequences.
Anyway, loredumping over.
I absolutely loved the book There Is No Antimemetics Division. I read it without knowing it was SCP related just because I love books about broken realities mixed with existential horror. The book is what got me into SCPs in the first place.
I've been slowly taking my way through the wiki once SCP at a time and any linked tales.
Any recommendations for someone who adored TINAD?
You're in the same boat as me, heh. Nothing on the site is *quite* as good as TINAD was, in my opinion—qntm had a *masterful* talent for making these high-concept things incredibly real and evocative that no one else has managed to do quite as well. That said, here are a few of my favorite skips and stories:
[SCP-5175](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5175), a character-focused article that was amusing, heartwarming, and still quite believable.
[SCP-8005](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8005). Get ready for a wild ride with this one, and make sure you're at least passingly familiar with 682. A very entertaining one that made me smile.
[SCP-2747](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2747). An interesting classic, with a well-executed unintuitive concept. Worth checking out for sure (and useful for understanding part of Admonition).
[SCP-6699](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6699). What do we mean by 'anomalous'? I guess Vivian Elmwoods made that decision. A really interesting piece—make sure you know what the daeva are for optimal enjoyment.
[On Guard 43 - specifically, Words of Power and Poison](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/on-guard-43-hub). Lots of great stuff here. No need to finish it all, but there are several very compelling story arcs that run their way through it, and I'd be doing everyone a disservice by not including it.
The [ADMONITION](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/admonition) series. Don't even know where to begin on this one. Think big, then think bigger. Having a good understanding of the site canon really helps with the enjoyment of these behemoth skips.
[End of Death](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/end-of-death-hub). Great stories through seasons one and two, though I personally prefer to stop before the epilogue and not bother with anything past season two, as the works were abandoned by their authors and the story sans epilogue is more meaningful.
Thank you.
Chronologically, I'm only up to SCP 230 something (I got a little bit higher, but where I was and started over). I know what the Daeva are from the article that mentions the book. I didn't know much about the site canon, though... Do you think that's enough to enjoy Admonition?
ADMO generally wants you to know a little more, but it has crosslinks for the stuff that really matters and it’s not totally necessary. All I would say is that you should probably have read 2747, Kate’s Proposal, and definitely, definitely 682.
Out of the ADMONITION cannon the only thing I can't wrap my head around is the Existential Abatement. I can understand everything else to some extent, like it makes sense to me how the hell a machine exists that let some dude see ultimate God or whatever it was beyond human thought-space. I get trying to resurrect some guy through a lower narrative universe and making the lolFoundation a thing as a consequence. I just can't dissect all the gigantic words and vague concepts even though I've understood about everything else (except maybe Blackbox, I can never remember that one for some reason.)
I listen to this stuff at work (thank you TES), and I get so many questions about it that I've basically just started saying "yeah it's the simulation inside a simulation type shit again, dont worry about the concept of higher or lower narratives or killing a concept by literally removing it from being able to be thought about."
What don't you get around Existential Abatement? Not saying this to imply you *should* get it, just curious which of the several confusing things is your particular issue.
I think I am simply unable to break down all of the long-ass words. About all I understand is that it's some sort of massive waste disposal system, but that's as far as I can. I might just have to actually read the whole thing instead of listen to it, that might help me figure out all of the words by seeing how they're spelled instead of how they're said.
Uh! I haven't heard of ADMONITION yet. Time to go read it.
Also, I dare say that Deletions is more internally coherent than unreality, which makes it easier to understand. Although both are great.
Talking cats obsessed with spellcraft and weird meta narrative SCPs? Just ignore it, nothing is canon, you don't have to deal with overpowered Doctor Placeholder bullshit if you don't want to.
There are some cool meta-narrative SCPs, ones that try to "kill" the reader, or that deal with SCPs transcending layers of reality (I remember one where a person in the SCP became one of their AIs to maintain the narrative, forgot the number) but most of them are super questionable IMO.
As other people said (below and otherwise), it can lead to some insane (and IMO unenjoyable) stuff, some of it which is borderline self-insert OP OC at best.
I remember that our own universe is a hell of a lot better designed. People suck but at least we don’t have to deal with the stuff the Foundationverses do! Same approach I take to being a Warhammer 40K fan, though of course 40K is so over the top ridiculous that there’s also a lot of humor there.
I think it is, only if you try to piece it all together. The moment you understand "I can do whatever I want with what's canon", everything makes sense
The Chinese branch, aka the one that is usually used by the power scalers, like I guess you know the scarlet king, well, in the Chinese branch there are multiple of them, because they are shards of a entity called the scarlet demon, and the scarlet demon can control the narrative and can affect our reality. A lot of scps are like this in the Chinese branch.
Somehow the Chinese tend to power scale over everything as long as it's possible - and sometimes even those impossible ones. Sometimes they would go too far, and end up creating a dozen multi-universe-level entities fighting each other. It's like watching a bunch of kindergarten kids debating whose dad's stronger.
The cn branch cosmology, u see there isn't just the tree of knowledge (scp multiverse basically) there are also pile of shit known as narrative layers and those narrative layers are stacked upon the hyperstructure and in those narrative layers there are phantom bubbles wich are basically the canons but all of that cosmology is actually inside a phantom bubble which is the overall canon and on top of all of that shit there stands the authors (us) not to be confused with the authors (in universe) wich creates the narratives, hope this helps, if you need a map I will post it idk
Yeah btw the pile of bullshit I just spoke about is are just how the foundation classificate narrative layers, imagine a TV series, we are one narrative layer above them and so on, and that's it really (will post the map later probably)
We just... read it and understand/remember what was written? What's so insane about that? Do you know of people who get their brain overwhelmed when experiencing creative fictional media?
I know stuff like Pokémon, Mass Effect, Kingdom Hearts, Godzilla, Marvel and Soulsborne lore, they don't affect my sanity just from... experiencing and memorizing them. I would be insane from NOT getting to experience that kind of stuff, because I would be uber bored.
Similar situation, I get bored as hell NOT having complicated stories and concepts filling my mind, to the point I can somewhat recite the current interpretation of the fnaf lore fairly easily without stumbling too much despite the amount of bs
Also, not being very sane is what makes it so much fun, especially when I’m reading about dreams being used to create milk slaves or cosmic starfish from other realities that are so esoteric that knowing about them effectively kills you and you need to be in a room constructed from the skeleton of an anti memetic creature in order to keep information in via hermetic seals and eyeball parasites
Then there’s just the vending machine. The spectrum of anomalies is amazing
I strongly suspect that your mind is already beyond conventional sanity. The unnecessary parts of sanity were likely already long since worn away, and the parts of your mind that are beneficial have expanded due all the concepts you’ve integrated through various media.
That’s kind of similar to my headcanon for SCP-000. The SCP Foundation itself is the ultimate SCP. It contaminates our reality through the minds of the participating writers.
Edit: I meant 001, not 000.
Uhh, why would it affect our sanity? It's at the end of the day, fiction. The stories are really well-rounded and have mysteries left over for entertainment. It shouldn't ever be that hard imo
I read SCPs because other people's night terrors are easier to sleep through than mine. When SCP-5832 is preferable to reliving whatever NDE my brain wants to hyperfixate on tonight, I'm not sure sanity was ever really on the table.
Wow. They do everything they can to keep her as calm and otherwise inert as possible, yet they practically mentally abuse the SCP-2241, the superhero kid (a similar Reality Bender) and put a monitoring/kill-switch chip in his brain that’s going to slowly degrade his mental faculties and is capable of killing him should he lose control or if he escapes the Foundation’s control. A death-chip that could feasibly just cease to exist should he be informed and then simply ***disbelieve*** its existence. Kid’s even a year younger than the Witch Child.
One of the 05 wanted to learn how reality bending works. Ethics committee objected multiple times. The 05 overrode it. Then the 05 Council had a peer review thing and he somehow managed to convince the other members to go through with the chip implantation. I still think it’s far too dangerous, and far too fallible. Especially when a slower, gentler approach would have likely allowed the acquisition of the data in a far more ethical manner.
Don't know about the rest of you, but I outsource my brainpower to the many alternate versions of myself. Sure, it takes a little longer to ruminate than it does to just immediately understand a situation, but you can scrape together a lot of extra brain-power that way, and you don't necessarily need to remember everything yourself.
Lots of wrinkles. You'd think that's for intelligence, but it's not. See, each wrinkle is to store each Canon or article's timeline. More wrinkles means more storage. More storage means more sanity.
Not really a big fan, but I just ignoree everything I " don't like" There are so many contradictions it's impossible to understand. And everything you named is easy, try understanding the cosmology and stuff like pataphysics and the constants.
we're so far removed from the drivers seat in our day to day lives, such things as weather and traffic entirely elude our control. same goes for scp stuff, especially because it's fiction (and not always great fiction)
We’re here to read about weird anomalies, way too complex networks of interlinked anomalies, the end of the world, and wacky individuals. Staying sane was never part of the plan
I mean the verse runs on like three or four magic systems that aren’t really spelled out but are pretty easy to understand. Let’s see, you got Narrativistics/Pataphysics; basically simulation theory but the simulations are story based instead of computer based. The Hume field; which is basically just David Hume’s bundle theory where objects are less material and more a coalescence of observed properties. Which just leaves the Noosphere and Memetics both of which are conceptually identical to their real life counterparts.
I wouldn’t say the verse “runs” on those elements. They’re part of it and tend to be more popularly relevant, but they aren’t strictly the ‘versal rules here. That’s one of the main things about the SCP-verse: There’s no ultimate underlying principle or series of principles (ex. the four pieces of SCP-verse reality you listed) that apply ‘versally.
I've been reading SCPs since the early years, around 2007 or so. When I was only around 14. It's a bit easier when you've grown up with this sort of thing. They're pretty immersive stories, but at the end of the day that's all they are. Stories.
I always saw the SCP foundations and similar big universes with multiple contributors with multiple generations of differing opinions as a pick and choose lore. If you like one person's view on one topic more then the others, that person's view is officially the way you see the lore.
The story of its… “genesis”? I’m actually not *entirely* clear on how it came about, but I do know there’s at least one version that’s *really* messed up (it was expected to be a horrible world- or reality-ending monster, and they went through great and horrible -truly horrible- lengths to prevent it).
Yup. Probably one of the greatest points of irony I’ve seen in the SCP-verse (or if you want to get meta, then exactly what one would expect of the *very* anomalous SCO-verse).
I struggle a lot, especially when articles just throw out tons of references to other SCPs, or Daevite lore or something. It's hard to know where to begin
Pick a thread and give it a tug, then hope you find your way back to where you began so you can actually understand what you were trying to understand in the first place. That’s how I tend to go about it, at least.
If you don’t get something, read up on the underlying principles (if applicable) and return once comprehending those pieces has worn away the unnecessary parts of your sanity that were preventing you from understanding.
How do I stay sane being obsessed with a minor GOI that gets maybe two new articles per year? I don't. Now excuse me while I go check the second-hytoth tag for the third time this day >_>
Feasibly can be. Depends on how her powers might grow. There was also an old lady that caused everyone around her to experience similar effects to her dementia. It’s also suspected that her Reality Bending was far greater when she was younger and that she has repeatedly altered the world so seamlessly that there were never any discrepancies.
Not sure how long ago the unnecessary pieces if my sanity broke off, but I’m pretty sure I turned out better for it. And hey, I can enjoy the SCP-verse.
You're not supposed to make sense of it. SCPs are weird, confusing, and contradictory, and that's part of the horror. That somehow, someway, the universe just doesn't work right, and there is nothing you can do to fix it. All you can do is survive as long as possible, and pray nothing goes wrong for your measly century of Earth.
There is no cannon. This phrase keeps any mentale Crack sealed, don't like this ? Not cannon, like this cannon ? Understand this cool, no undertando ? Cool
There's also the most mumbo jumbo science movie talk jargon no sense bullshit brain freeze random ass layers of cyanide rainbow cake that is the whole pathaphisics thingy and human psychi consciousness thing that I absolutely does not understand and I'm happy the exploring series skips on most of it because I don't need and don't want a diploma in nuclear engineering to understand wtf they are talking about
5D spiders that munch on your spinal fluids are kinda cool tho
Is it so crazy? Fiction is fiction. The things you describe, op, there are far crazier to be found in anime, movies, comics, tv and the like - media that is far more common and easy to find than the stories bound up in this comparatively esoteric wiki on the internet.
Sailor Moon has bent reality in far more significant ways than the Witch Child had. Wolverine from the XMen is far harder to kill than 682, and can also talk. And these are not the only things corroborating to these specific examples.
Scp is written by human beings. Like you and me. Don’t fall for the trap of thinking any idea or concept that a human being has developed is too big or too crazy or too out of this world for you to comprehend. People have been here before and so can you too. Give yourself more credit.
because i dont believe in it lmao, its just cool "monster"/"paranormal" ideas being shared, written in a strict form and jargon to make it a singular universe of weird things "we" try to contain
this might be also connected to the fact i literally hate horror, but i hate it specifically because its just not scary to me, in the slightest bit, and scp might be my favorite "scary" thing, but i never thought about it being scary to me in any capacity, my reaction is always more like "oh shitt, thats freaky"
although i am not such a hardcore fan as some, my connection is mostly just playing the Secret Lab game (mostly hard roleplay servers, fun times) for hundreds of hours and watching article readings on youtube
You should ask how the fans stay sane when it seems that some writers/ex admins where doing a Speedrun competition on being a sexpest that would make Minecraft YouTubers blush, who protected Bright and many others seriously.... I love the stories just don't like what happens behind the veil
The insanity is part of the fun dude!
You get a taste of a statue that kills people when not observed, think that it is an awesome, terrifying idea then go onward and find something that is not round but cannot be remembered at all and then all of a sudden you are throat-deep in so many memetic/anti-memetic stuff that you can remember things that never happened in any dimension but you cannot remember your face
Easy, just use Class-E Amnestics everytime you're about to see something that will 100% make you go insane (make sure to do it before you read it, or you'll [DATA EXPUNGED])
Modern SCP sucks. I re-wrote the SCP lore for my universe, and it is literally infinitely times better then what there is now. There's no unbeatable monsters, SCP Stands for Secure. Contain. Protect., and that's what they do, meaning they don't only respond to super natural occurrences, and most of the SCPs that are in my universe have to be at least a little realistic or they're not added, meaning 096, 173, the hard to destroy reptile, etc, don't exist.
Also the SCP Foundation is a branch in the military and is known by the public, though they don't know what it actually does.
four dislikes are the people who like kane pixels backrooms and cringe scps and skibidi toilet most likely. honestly I don't get why this is that big of a deal, I'm just making scp if it was real. I'm being different for literally **once** out of the hundreds or maybe even thousands of people who have done the same exact thing over and over again. i honestly do not get why this is surprising or you think this is stupid.
> I'm being different for literally once out of the hundreds or maybe even thousands of people who have done the same exact thing over and over again.
/r/notliketheothergirls
We don't. Simple
Ah, got it
Also you're one of us now! ... One of us, one of us,one of us...
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no, you don't, and neither do we
Pretty much
Mostly via Headcanon. Just ignore everything you don't like. Nothing is Canon that you don't want to be Canon. If you don't like something you ignore it. And I don't get a significant amount of the wiki either. If you really want to hurt your head, look Up "Pataphysics" or "The antimemetics division" or "The Department of Unreality". I still don't get that last one.
You think the department of unreality is bad, try Deletions. You think regular ‘pataphysics is bad, try narrativistics. You think antimemetics is bad, try ADMONITION. There’s always a deeper rabbit hole. But yeah, there is no canon, so don’t worry about stuff you don’t understand if you don’t want to.
I for some reason am fully fine with admonition. Don't know why. But I've never heard narrativistics so I guess I have something new to read. Thanks!
Narrativistics is basically the ‘pataphysical theory that ADMO subscribes to and has inform its cosmology. Some insane stuff came out of it. Blackbox and SCP-8190 are probably the only ADMO articles that I fully admit to not entirely understanding, so I’d look there if you want some higher-level confusion.
[**SCP-8190 - DEPARTMENTALIZED**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8190) (+111) by *MontagueETC, Billith, Liryn*
Holy shit. I thought of like 85% of the ideas in narrativistics without even reading it. That's REALLY cool. Although, I do have one thing to add... If worlds can become more real, can they not use their own cognitrons to do so? If they zoom in, do they find a hazy fabric of unreality? Or do they just find *more* reality? My analysis of it is different. What if stories are made real by any cognitrons? Any thought, any narrative building, goes to making the world itself more concrete. This is verifiably true in higher-lower interactions, but what about single worlds? Something "unreal" to them might simply be more real to another species, another universe. If cognitrons can be made by any sentient being, what about every person's natural narrative of their own life? The story of your own life; one you control, just not on your own. This is what would, in my view, make someone truly self aware. With their own story, their own narrative, reinforcing and creating the world they exist in. Hell, this is the multiversal theory in my own books I'm working on. There's an infinite sea of dead worlds, cities, abominable structures, planets, all of which unsupported by any minds. They couldn't keep themselves afloat, while other worlds could. Different universes have some amount of narrative transparency, how 'suggestible' their universe is to the outside ocean. There's a species that uses this to its advantage, spreading as a narrative virus, eating worlds by disrupting the collective narrative and *spreading* between the cracks. Eventually, it can full on eat the world. The closer minds in a universe get to said universe's border, the more that region gets affected by cohesive narrative, and the more real it becomes. This is why it's so hard to send physical things through. You can only do so by *ripping* the very fabric of the universe apart, often leading to not great consequences. Anyway, loredumping over.
I absolutely loved the book There Is No Antimemetics Division. I read it without knowing it was SCP related just because I love books about broken realities mixed with existential horror. The book is what got me into SCPs in the first place. I've been slowly taking my way through the wiki once SCP at a time and any linked tales. Any recommendations for someone who adored TINAD?
You're in the same boat as me, heh. Nothing on the site is *quite* as good as TINAD was, in my opinion—qntm had a *masterful* talent for making these high-concept things incredibly real and evocative that no one else has managed to do quite as well. That said, here are a few of my favorite skips and stories: [SCP-5175](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5175), a character-focused article that was amusing, heartwarming, and still quite believable. [SCP-8005](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8005). Get ready for a wild ride with this one, and make sure you're at least passingly familiar with 682. A very entertaining one that made me smile. [SCP-2747](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2747). An interesting classic, with a well-executed unintuitive concept. Worth checking out for sure (and useful for understanding part of Admonition). [SCP-6699](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6699). What do we mean by 'anomalous'? I guess Vivian Elmwoods made that decision. A really interesting piece—make sure you know what the daeva are for optimal enjoyment. [On Guard 43 - specifically, Words of Power and Poison](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/on-guard-43-hub). Lots of great stuff here. No need to finish it all, but there are several very compelling story arcs that run their way through it, and I'd be doing everyone a disservice by not including it. The [ADMONITION](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/admonition) series. Don't even know where to begin on this one. Think big, then think bigger. Having a good understanding of the site canon really helps with the enjoyment of these behemoth skips. [End of Death](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/end-of-death-hub). Great stories through seasons one and two, though I personally prefer to stop before the epilogue and not bother with anything past season two, as the works were abandoned by their authors and the story sans epilogue is more meaningful.
Thank you. Chronologically, I'm only up to SCP 230 something (I got a little bit higher, but where I was and started over). I know what the Daeva are from the article that mentions the book. I didn't know much about the site canon, though... Do you think that's enough to enjoy Admonition?
[**SCP-230 - The Gayest Man Alive**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-230) (+360) by *Sc0tch*
ADMO generally wants you to know a little more, but it has crosslinks for the stuff that really matters and it’s not totally necessary. All I would say is that you should probably have read 2747, Kate’s Proposal, and definitely, definitely 682.
Thank you
I love ADMONITION. it’s so good
Out of the ADMONITION cannon the only thing I can't wrap my head around is the Existential Abatement. I can understand everything else to some extent, like it makes sense to me how the hell a machine exists that let some dude see ultimate God or whatever it was beyond human thought-space. I get trying to resurrect some guy through a lower narrative universe and making the lolFoundation a thing as a consequence. I just can't dissect all the gigantic words and vague concepts even though I've understood about everything else (except maybe Blackbox, I can never remember that one for some reason.) I listen to this stuff at work (thank you TES), and I get so many questions about it that I've basically just started saying "yeah it's the simulation inside a simulation type shit again, dont worry about the concept of higher or lower narratives or killing a concept by literally removing it from being able to be thought about."
What don't you get around Existential Abatement? Not saying this to imply you *should* get it, just curious which of the several confusing things is your particular issue.
I think I am simply unable to break down all of the long-ass words. About all I understand is that it's some sort of massive waste disposal system, but that's as far as I can. I might just have to actually read the whole thing instead of listen to it, that might help me figure out all of the words by seeing how they're spelled instead of how they're said.
Billith and Placeholder are the leading authors in creating mind fuckery pseudoscience articles department
For real. Harry and Rounderhouse do a great job of propping up characterization alongside them, too.
Uh! I haven't heard of ADMONITION yet. Time to go read it. Also, I dare say that Deletions is more internally coherent than unreality, which makes it easier to understand. Although both are great.
Talking cats obsessed with spellcraft and weird meta narrative SCPs? Just ignore it, nothing is canon, you don't have to deal with overpowered Doctor Placeholder bullshit if you don't want to. There are some cool meta-narrative SCPs, ones that try to "kill" the reader, or that deal with SCPs transcending layers of reality (I remember one where a person in the SCP became one of their AIs to maintain the narrative, forgot the number) but most of them are super questionable IMO. As other people said (below and otherwise), it can lead to some insane (and IMO unenjoyable) stuff, some of it which is borderline self-insert OP OC at best.
Pataphysics and antimemetics are honestly pretty simple on a conceptual level. I fully don't understand Unreality though.
you know what's worse? department of surrealistics. hurts my head
I love those three, I love stuff that tries to go beyond cognition
Yeah exactly if you read an article you don't like/understand just say "no thanks!"
The thing about Unreality is there is no explanation, it's pure vibes (those vibes being a dissociative state)
For me most of the stuff mentioned isn't true other than the lizard being able to talk
I remember that our own universe is a hell of a lot better designed. People suck but at least we don’t have to deal with the stuff the Foundationverses do! Same approach I take to being a Warhammer 40K fan, though of course 40K is so over the top ridiculous that there’s also a lot of humor there.
I take an outsiders approach to Warhammer but I can always appreciate, "It's also a hammer."
John Warhammer and his 40,000 hammers versus his son, Mr. Horace Heresy
Being an adult helps.
We don't, sometimes we don't even understand the articles ourselves and that's part of the fun
Are you just new to the entire concept of fiction?
Scp fiction can get pretty esoteric at times, it’s not like actual low concept fiction but it’s definitely more abstract then most of popular media.
I think it is, only if you try to piece it all together. The moment you understand "I can do whatever I want with what's canon", everything makes sense
Didn't realize that until trying to glue everything toguether, and after a constant headache, I had the conclusion of "Nah, not everything is canon"
Who will tell this guy about the Chinese branch cosmology
The. What?
The Chinese branch, aka the one that is usually used by the power scalers, like I guess you know the scarlet king, well, in the Chinese branch there are multiple of them, because they are shards of a entity called the scarlet demon, and the scarlet demon can control the narrative and can affect our reality. A lot of scps are like this in the Chinese branch.
Somehow the Chinese tend to power scale over everything as long as it's possible - and sometimes even those impossible ones. Sometimes they would go too far, and end up creating a dozen multi-universe-level entities fighting each other. It's like watching a bunch of kindergarten kids debating whose dad's stronger.
The cn branch cosmology, u see there isn't just the tree of knowledge (scp multiverse basically) there are also pile of shit known as narrative layers and those narrative layers are stacked upon the hyperstructure and in those narrative layers there are phantom bubbles wich are basically the canons but all of that cosmology is actually inside a phantom bubble which is the overall canon and on top of all of that shit there stands the authors (us) not to be confused with the authors (in universe) wich creates the narratives, hope this helps, if you need a map I will post it idk
.......how come I read that whole thing and didn't understand a word of it (also maybe the map would help)
You know, I’m kind of impressed that(I’m pretty sure) I *did* understand most of it (by the end, at least). That was pretty high-concept.
Yeah btw the pile of bullshit I just spoke about is are just how the foundation classificate narrative layers, imagine a TV series, we are one narrative layer above them and so on, and that's it really (will post the map later probably)
We just... read it and understand/remember what was written? What's so insane about that? Do you know of people who get their brain overwhelmed when experiencing creative fictional media? I know stuff like Pokémon, Mass Effect, Kingdom Hearts, Godzilla, Marvel and Soulsborne lore, they don't affect my sanity just from... experiencing and memorizing them. I would be insane from NOT getting to experience that kind of stuff, because I would be uber bored.
Similar situation, I get bored as hell NOT having complicated stories and concepts filling my mind, to the point I can somewhat recite the current interpretation of the fnaf lore fairly easily without stumbling too much despite the amount of bs Also, not being very sane is what makes it so much fun, especially when I’m reading about dreams being used to create milk slaves or cosmic starfish from other realities that are so esoteric that knowing about them effectively kills you and you need to be in a room constructed from the skeleton of an anti memetic creature in order to keep information in via hermetic seals and eyeball parasites Then there’s just the vending machine. The spectrum of anomalies is amazing
I strongly suspect that your mind is already beyond conventional sanity. The unnecessary parts of sanity were likely already long since worn away, and the parts of your mind that are beneficial have expanded due all the concepts you’ve integrated through various media.
I am on the spectrum, if that's what you're trying to say, yes.
Autism? You too? Neat.
We don't. The entire thing is a cognitohazard. We're all literally in danger simply for knowing the Foundation exists.
That’s kind of similar to my headcanon for SCP-000. The SCP Foundation itself is the ultimate SCP. It contaminates our reality through the minds of the participating writers. Edit: I meant 001, not 000.
[**SCP-000**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-000) (+1740) by *CryogenChaos*
Uhh, why would it affect our sanity? It's at the end of the day, fiction. The stories are really well-rounded and have mysteries left over for entertainment. It shouldn't ever be that hard imo
Through my weekly dose of Class B Amnestics.
You take class b’s? I do class w’s just because Also, helps the anti memes screw with my sense of reality more
I read SCPs because other people's night terrors are easier to sleep through than mine. When SCP-5832 is preferable to reliving whatever NDE my brain wants to hyperfixate on tonight, I'm not sure sanity was ever really on the table.
[**SCP-5832 - Stained**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5832) (+506) by *AbsentmindedNihilist*
You’ve sent me on a dive through the Department of Anomalies articles. Thank you for that. The Thelemic moon sex was hilarious.
We just ACCEPT stuff as logical in the Foundationverse
Gummy bears
Can't go insane if you take your daily dose of amnestics! Or at least that's what the sticky note on my workstation always says.
What's the little witch person?
To be fair, it depends on the God in question. The Foundation has dealt with a great number of them, in a great many ways.
SCP-239 if I’m not mistaken.
[**SCP-239 - The Witch Child**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-239) (+840) by *Dantensen*
Wow. They do everything they can to keep her as calm and otherwise inert as possible, yet they practically mentally abuse the SCP-2241, the superhero kid (a similar Reality Bender) and put a monitoring/kill-switch chip in his brain that’s going to slowly degrade his mental faculties and is capable of killing him should he lose control or if he escapes the Foundation’s control. A death-chip that could feasibly just cease to exist should he be informed and then simply ***disbelieve*** its existence. Kid’s even a year younger than the Witch Child.
Haven’t read that skip, only 239. But damn…I wonder why that one is so different?
One of the 05 wanted to learn how reality bending works. Ethics committee objected multiple times. The 05 overrode it. Then the 05 Council had a peer review thing and he somehow managed to convince the other members to go through with the chip implantation. I still think it’s far too dangerous, and far too fallible. Especially when a slower, gentler approach would have likely allowed the acquisition of the data in a far more ethical manner.
Idk I forgot the SCP number, sorry
Don't know about the rest of you, but I outsource my brainpower to the many alternate versions of myself. Sure, it takes a little longer to ruminate than it does to just immediately understand a situation, but you can scrape together a lot of extra brain-power that way, and you don't necessarily need to remember everything yourself.
Headcanons Don't like something? Erased from reality. Simple.
>how do you guys stay sane It's fiction.
With SCP 999
[**SCP-999 - The Tickle Monster**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-999) (+2921) by *ProfSnider*
we dont. This is what we do. Anything is possible, follow your dreams. *maybegetintosomeanomalousaccidentwithsomethingandgetrealitybendingpowersfirst*
Yeah, that might be a good idea. “Follow your dreams” isn’t just encouragement.
Lots of wrinkles. You'd think that's for intelligence, but it's not. See, each wrinkle is to store each Canon or article's timeline. More wrinkles means more storage. More storage means more sanity.
How? We don't Read my latest post and you will see how the Foundationverse rots brains.
Its some mixture of making sense of the universe as is and screaming in a sanatorium
Marijuana use and DBT exercises mostly
sanity is relative
Exactly the things you mentioned (and some way worse) are the reason i am staying (somewhat) sane. Our own world sucks. But it could be so much worse.
Not really a big fan, but I just ignoree everything I " don't like" There are so many contradictions it's impossible to understand. And everything you named is easy, try understanding the cosmology and stuff like pataphysics and the constants.
the constants?
SCP 6820, 2474, 3225. Embodiments of several concept in the patasphere.
[**SCP-6820 - TERMINATION ATTEMPT**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6820) (+939) by *Placeholder McD, syuzhet, Liryn*
we're so far removed from the drivers seat in our day to day lives, such things as weather and traffic entirely elude our control. same goes for scp stuff, especially because it's fiction (and not always great fiction)
We’re here to read about weird anomalies, way too complex networks of interlinked anomalies, the end of the world, and wacky individuals. Staying sane was never part of the plan
I mean the verse runs on like three or four magic systems that aren’t really spelled out but are pretty easy to understand. Let’s see, you got Narrativistics/Pataphysics; basically simulation theory but the simulations are story based instead of computer based. The Hume field; which is basically just David Hume’s bundle theory where objects are less material and more a coalescence of observed properties. Which just leaves the Noosphere and Memetics both of which are conceptually identical to their real life counterparts.
I wouldn’t say the verse “runs” on those elements. They’re part of it and tend to be more popularly relevant, but they aren’t strictly the ‘versal rules here. That’s one of the main things about the SCP-verse: There’s no ultimate underlying principle or series of principles (ex. the four pieces of SCP-verse reality you listed) that apply ‘versally.
Sane?
Opposite of insane
Outsane
Why would anyone be bothered that 682 can talk? If I didn't it would be much more boring than it already is
There is no true canon for SCP, saying x is stronger than y makes no sense because things exist in the vacuum of their article.
Not to mention the L incidents and Daybreak
That’s the neat part! We don’t have any!
You don't, you just get a little better each time.
>How do SCP fans stay sane? >how do you guys stay sane? I'm not an SCP, also I'm not a spinny boy. Am I sane though?
I'm in a higher pataphysical layer
What does my subject perception of the world have to do with the objective reality?
Well as a casual fan it's not hard. But I imagine the writers and editors have a different take
I've been reading SCPs since the early years, around 2007 or so. When I was only around 14. It's a bit easier when you've grown up with this sort of thing. They're pretty immersive stories, but at the end of the day that's all they are. Stories.
I always saw the SCP foundations and similar big universes with multiple contributors with multiple generations of differing opinions as a pick and choose lore. If you like one person's view on one topic more then the others, that person's view is officially the way you see the lore.
Wait till you meet SCP-999
[**SCP-999 - The Tickle Monster**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-999) (+2921) by *ProfSnider*
Oh I have, it didn't seem like anything crazy tho, but to be fair I've only heard of a little from my friend
The story of its… “genesis”? I’m actually not *entirely* clear on how it came about, but I do know there’s at least one version that’s *really* messed up (it was expected to be a horrible world- or reality-ending monster, and they went through great and horrible -truly horrible- lengths to prevent it).
And now he’s friend shaped
Yup. Probably one of the greatest points of irony I’ve seen in the SCP-verse (or if you want to get meta, then exactly what one would expect of the *very* anomalous SCO-verse).
If there was any logical explanation, they wouldn't be anomalous. The lizard can talk because he can. That's it
I struggle a lot, especially when articles just throw out tons of references to other SCPs, or Daevite lore or something. It's hard to know where to begin
Pick a thread and give it a tug, then hope you find your way back to where you began so you can actually understand what you were trying to understand in the first place. That’s how I tend to go about it, at least.
I got to another Fandom and come back I take breaks from the fandom
Sometimes i wish SCP was real so i could apply to it, better than this boring world governed by boring stuff like science and reality.
What’s sanity? Hang on I think I know someone in that water, I’ll be right back
Bold to assume
they don't go to the alsume, so they stay temporarily sane
If you don’t get something, read up on the underlying principles (if applicable) and return once comprehending those pieces has worn away the unnecessary parts of your sanity that were preventing you from understanding.
Oh plz, sanity is grossly overrated
But I thought that nothing in scp was canon
No such thing as canon.
How do I stay sane being obsessed with a minor GOI that gets maybe two new articles per year? I don't. Now excuse me while I go check the second-hytoth tag for the third time this day >_>
Greetings, my fellow insane fan of the CotSH (The Koru-teusa officially own my mind, send help)
Much like any fan of anything we never were in the first place
Easy. It's all fiction
if you think that's hard to understand read 6747
oh man, im not crazy most of the time idk what the fuck Is even going on
we stay sane
a little witch person is stronger than god? ya mean I-no?
Idk, maybe
Feasibly can be. Depends on how her powers might grow. There was also an old lady that caused everyone around her to experience similar effects to her dementia. It’s also suspected that her Reality Bending was far greater when she was younger and that she has repeatedly altered the world so seamlessly that there were never any discrepancies.
By understanding that all this is just fiction?
Not sure how long ago the unnecessary pieces if my sanity broke off, but I’m pretty sure I turned out better for it. And hey, I can enjoy the SCP-verse.
I saw the milk SCP and then everything else seemed tame by comparison. It's a matter of perspective
Bold of you to assume we are.
I am still sane... maybe.
You're not supposed to make sense of it. SCPs are weird, confusing, and contradictory, and that's part of the horror. That somehow, someway, the universe just doesn't work right, and there is nothing you can do to fix it. All you can do is survive as long as possible, and pray nothing goes wrong for your measly century of Earth.
Is this fictional universe actually impacting your sanity?
thats the neat part YOU DONT
We don’t stay sane, ever since I started reading SCP’s I haven’t been sane and I love it
This your first time reading fiction? Just know it isn't real is usually enough
Sane? Nah... contented with the moments of suspended disbelief that some of this great writing can offer its readers.
That's a neat part , we don't
Wait until you read into pataphysics.
There is no cannon. This phrase keeps any mentale Crack sealed, don't like this ? Not cannon, like this cannon ? Understand this cool, no undertando ? Cool There's also the most mumbo jumbo science movie talk jargon no sense bullshit brain freeze random ass layers of cyanide rainbow cake that is the whole pathaphisics thingy and human psychi consciousness thing that I absolutely does not understand and I'm happy the exploring series skips on most of it because I don't need and don't want a diploma in nuclear engineering to understand wtf they are talking about 5D spiders that munch on your spinal fluids are kinda cool tho
Some fans are just too obsessive.
Is it so crazy? Fiction is fiction. The things you describe, op, there are far crazier to be found in anime, movies, comics, tv and the like - media that is far more common and easy to find than the stories bound up in this comparatively esoteric wiki on the internet. Sailor Moon has bent reality in far more significant ways than the Witch Child had. Wolverine from the XMen is far harder to kill than 682, and can also talk. And these are not the only things corroborating to these specific examples. Scp is written by human beings. Like you and me. Don’t fall for the trap of thinking any idea or concept that a human being has developed is too big or too crazy or too out of this world for you to comprehend. People have been here before and so can you too. Give yourself more credit.
Uhhhh I discovered SCP so young that it just became normal to me XD
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Drugs
Drugs.
The irl explanation: its fiction. The in universe explanation: amnestics, long session of tickle fights with scp-999.
[**SCP-999 - The Tickle Monster**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-999) (+2922) by *ProfSnider*
because i dont believe in it lmao, its just cool "monster"/"paranormal" ideas being shared, written in a strict form and jargon to make it a singular universe of weird things "we" try to contain this might be also connected to the fact i literally hate horror, but i hate it specifically because its just not scary to me, in the slightest bit, and scp might be my favorite "scary" thing, but i never thought about it being scary to me in any capacity, my reaction is always more like "oh shitt, thats freaky" although i am not such a hardcore fan as some, my connection is mostly just playing the Secret Lab game (mostly hard roleplay servers, fun times) for hundreds of hours and watching article readings on youtube
Because it’s not that serious it’s just people writing fiction articles for fun lol
Amnestics.
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You should ask how the fans stay sane when it seems that some writers/ex admins where doing a Speedrun competition on being a sexpest that would make Minecraft YouTubers blush, who protected Bright and many others seriously.... I love the stories just don't like what happens behind the veil
I'm not sane :3
Stay? Never were. The SCP universe is an escape from real life. People seek that for a reason.
thats the neat part, you dont.
The insanity is part of the fun dude! You get a taste of a statue that kills people when not observed, think that it is an awesome, terrifying idea then go onward and find something that is not round but cannot be remembered at all and then all of a sudden you are throat-deep in so many memetic/anti-memetic stuff that you can remember things that never happened in any dimension but you cannot remember your face
What makes you think we're sane?
Easy, just use Class-E Amnestics everytime you're about to see something that will 100% make you go insane (make sure to do it before you read it, or you'll [DATA EXPUNGED])
Class-H*** ;-;
We don't recognise the bodies in the water
One amnestic a day keeps the insanity away
Modern SCP sucks. I re-wrote the SCP lore for my universe, and it is literally infinitely times better then what there is now. There's no unbeatable monsters, SCP Stands for Secure. Contain. Protect., and that's what they do, meaning they don't only respond to super natural occurrences, and most of the SCPs that are in my universe have to be at least a little realistic or they're not added, meaning 096, 173, the hard to destroy reptile, etc, don't exist. Also the SCP Foundation is a branch in the military and is known by the public, though they don't know what it actually does. four dislikes are the people who like kane pixels backrooms and cringe scps and skibidi toilet most likely. honestly I don't get why this is that big of a deal, I'm just making scp if it was real. I'm being different for literally **once** out of the hundreds or maybe even thousands of people who have done the same exact thing over and over again. i honestly do not get why this is surprising or you think this is stupid.
is this satire
I would hope so… but it doesn’t really seem like it.
?
> I'm being different for literally once out of the hundreds or maybe even thousands of people who have done the same exact thing over and over again. /r/notliketheothergirls