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Some people have been reading Pale and say the most recent chapter was homophobic. I don't agree, but there has been some discussion of that one bit.

i mean i kinda see it but eh

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!!

Not a meme, but if you’re feeling down, here’s my dog who tolerates this ninja turtles costume for 5 minutes every Halloween while my wife laughs her ass off.

Different Stories Resonate with Different People

Today’s problem

what do chairs for dragons look like.

Gregor the Overlander

Specifically Boots

Prompt: You see your younger sibling getting abducted at the park. Panicked, you rush to save them only for the abductor to reveal that they’re not abducting your sibling—your sibling is the world’s Chosen One and they’re here to train them.

i think it could be interesting to have Taylor interact with a Mark who’s early in their career and only just starting to learn Taylorisms to see her as what he might end up as.

Like Cecil has Taylor working for him cause Contessa saw the only way for her to stay put was if she had a job and so she gets put on babysitting duty when Mark first starts to work for Cecil and Mark see this woman with some sort of mysterious past who’s sorta a vague mentor figure who says things he’s been thinking in the back of his mind which scares him and makes him wonder about the role he’s going down

Hey so, thought exercise, how do you think Taylor would fare if she got dropped into the invincible universe? For the sake of mechanics let's say she literally gets dropped in via doorman portal or something.

So one thing about Invincible is that I think it's setting is protagonist-centric in a way that Worm's isn't. To the extent that Invincible's setting has worldbuilding- worldbuilding that isn't, like, ported in from the books's early association with the confederated Image Comics shared universe- it's worldbuilding that exists to convey the impression of a big-two-flavor universe. Here's our spin on the undersea kingdom, here's the riff on the Martians, here are our riffs on SHIELD, on Gotham, on Themyscira, on 70s blaxploitation-adjacent heroes, and so on. This is the entire ethos underpinning the Guardians of the Globe in particular- piggybacking on pre-existing audience affection for the Justice League to convey that it's a Big Fucking Deal when the guardians get blendered in issue 7.

You have flashbacks demonstrating that there was capital-S Superhero Stuff going on in the seventies and eighties, or as far back as the thirties with Immortal, you create the impression of a status quo, a big pond in which Mark is a little fish. And to Kirkman's credit, some effort clearly went into making sure that the non-Mark capes are sufficiently fleshed out that you can believe that they've got other stuff going on in their lives. But at the end of the day, it's the Invincible universe. You don't see a lot of people talking about the Guarding the Globe spinoff. Many of the most interesting characters- Cecil being a big example here- are interesting because of the ways in which they bounce off Mark specifically, the ways in which he chooses to deal with them. The universe is less of a character in the story the way that Earth Bet is- it's just the place where Mark's story, specifically, is happening. If there's a codified setting bible, I'll eat my hat.

Now of course the world of Worm is, in many ways, equally Taylor-centric, because that's what it means to be the protagonist. But owing in part to the themes of the story, and in part to the sheer number of false-start protagonists Wildbow played around with before settling on Taylor, it's very good at conveying the idea that there are many stories happening in this setting and Taylor's is just the one this particular work happened to focus on. There's an actual point to doing OC worldbuilding for what the superhero scene looks like in Wormverse Denver or Seattle or whatever- whereas you can come up with superhero teams for Invincible-verse Denver, but what actually ties them to that universe? What are you getting out of putting them in Invincible specifically, that you wouldn't get from whipping up a barebones MASKS setting to support your OCs? Anyway. This is a really long way of getting to my real point, which is that I think the question is less "how does Taylor bounce off the Invincible setting" and more "How does Taylor bounce off Invincible the character, around whom the setting orbits even when it pretends not to."

This I'm unsure of, because where do you stick her in his life where you get an interesting dynamic? One thing that's interesting here is that Mark's overall character arc already involves learning a lot of taylorisms- the strategic ruthlessness, the shift from a good-evil dichotomy to a helping-not-helping dichotomy-so what about his arc is going to change if they spend time together? Why would they spend time together? Given the different power levels on display, what would differentiate her, in his experience, from the dozens of filler capes that exist for him at the level of "vague acquaintance?" This is assuming she's active as a cape at all, which she might not be if this is Post-GM. Mutual association through Cecil and the Global Defense Agency might be a hook- maybe they're paying for her new arm or something- but would she latch her cart to Cecil's wagon in the first place, barring some obvious crisis situation? Hard to say. If she's depowered, and present in his life somehow in a civilian context, well, that's a fast-track to not being part of the story anymore either, given how Mark's civilian connections slowly fading away was kind of a quiet plot point.

There's some configuration of these pieces that could be interesting, but I'm not quite sure what they are. Soliciting input here.

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!

Here, have your star

mario

Long story short, I'm not allowed In the Supermarket anymore.