ANALYSIS/OPINION — “Hot damn look at that! A perfect, new cover for our desire to self-shill!” — SCP articles lacking signatures or author-names atop of them is weird, but when you realize the original inspiration — internet creepypasta — and how it was typically uncredited, appearing as if from the very ether, only to vanish just as swiftly — it kinda makes sense? — The Great Hippo…

OPINION/ANALYSIS — The One Writing Mistake Even the Best SCP Writers Don’t Know They’re Making — Writer Maureen Cleave, a music critic who closely covered The Beatles during their time, once asked John Lennon why he didn’t ever write songs with more than one-syllable-lyrics. It had taken a mortified Lennon five studio albums before the habit came to his attention. Reading all of the new SCP…

NEWS/OPINION — A month after AdminBright, the community outs another predator from their inner midst. They had no clue, but others did. The only one who learned was the SCP Staff, who got rid of her immediately. — “Anyone who puts up an overly positive front is compensating.” — SariaStuff on Agent Jackrabbit, SCF Discord, May 5, 2022 Who Could Have Wondered?

OPINION/ANALYSIS — The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly — “Blessed are they who are not held by possessions, for they shall be free.” — The Sermon on the Mount The recent outage of WikiDot made people confront their sleeping addictions. While some took the time to reflect on the relative unimportance of the object of their dependency, and celebrated…

AOE-52222 — Codename: Tintinnabulum — Anomalous Object Entry AOE-52222 Subdesignations: 1 – 10,293 Object Severity Mild Catastrophic (Secondary, Potential, Assumed) Containment Difficulty Mild Infeasible (Secondary, Potential, Assumed) Containment Status Contained (Natively) Uncontainable Sequelae (Secondary, Potential, Assumed) Containment Specifications Instances of AOE-52222 are inert and informationally camouflaged by their anomalous nature. Under normal circumstances, no additional containment or precautionary education for nearby civilizations is required. Individuals who…

OPINION/ANALYSIS — Article influx is moving faster than the standards can. — “Yes. I remembered one part before I’d even read it. A good chunk of what I’m reading feels familiar too.” “I guess that makes sense. You’re certain?” “L. Moix: Let’s get this over and done with. I’m sick of these damn Summits.” — from SCP-6488 As of last month, I…

NEWS/OPINION — TheRubber is Merely Doing Now What SCP Authors Have Been Doing for Years. — A couple days ago, the above thumbnail (watermarked) caught my eye. I am always down for some hard-hitting journalism, and “exposed” is quite the clickbait. The gist of the video was easy enough to anticipate prior to an actual watch: there are low-fidelity, pseudo-parasitic content creators that ride the coattails…

NEWS/OPINION — After laughing often at SCP Wiki Staff members stepping away due to mental health reasons & self-imposed stress, it’s time for a taste of my own medicine. — I’ve done some soul-searching and have been struck with long-harbored hypocrisies that I just can’t kill: I constantly criticize Staff for bloat, yet I have more bloat on this blog; I ridicule how often they burn themselves out, and here this blog and Confic Magazine take up a lot of…