The Holder of Love is an article from the Holders series. Unlike the majority of Holders articles, it does not contain a ritual but rather details how horribly doomed the Seeker is if they ever attempt to obtain this Object. Published April 2007, the Holder of Love is one of the oldest examples of a ..
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Kalinin was a notable contributor to the SCP Wiki, primarily circa Series II-III, though he wrote for Series IV as well. More influential than popular, he is most-known for his blunt and longform approach to critique, as well as his SCP-001 Proposal (“Past and Future”). He is currently considered retired. History According to Scpper, Kalinin ..
The Cerastes Incident, also known as “The November 2020 (Disciplinary) Incident”, “The Great Seal Incident”, or “The Events of November 2020”, was a failed disciplinary action in November 2020[1]http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-13868187/disciplinary-cerastes attempted against WikiDot user and staff member Cerastes[2]http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/cerastes that caused widespread and lasting controversy. It can be divided into two arms; one for each disciplinary attempt, ..
Moto42, also known as S.S. Walrus, is the author of the first SCP, SCP-173 and the creator of the format and acronym that would later define the SCP Foundation. He posted SCP-173 to the /x/ board of 4chan in June of 2007, but had no further involvement with the SCP Foundation beyond some sporadic contact ..
The following is an interview taken place between pixelatedHarmony and SCP author Tanhony. When you were writing SCP-5000, how did you approach the containment procedures? Tanhony: They weren’t really my focus to be perfectly honest. I figured i’d go for something short and unassuming for them, like just putting them in a locker or ..
Mortos is a longtime SCP writer who achieved an iconic success with his SCP-3008 entry. These are his thoughts on containment procedure in SCP fiction writing. Were the containment procedures written closer to the start or the end of SCP-3008’s development? Mortos: The containment procedures were written at the start, and then tweaked to accommodate ..
LurkD is a longtime author for the online fiction collective The SCP Foundation and shares their thoughts on how the writing format affects the writing process. How did you approach the visual communication of containment procedures, from both an in-universe and out-of-universe perspective? LurkD: I thought of a result I wanted and then laid out ..
The following is an interview of SCP Wiki author LordStonefish, conducted by PixelatedHarmony over Discord. Q: How did it feel to see 3999 blow up and become a hugely important and influential article? A: Odd. It was personal in a way that feels more and more remote as time goes on. That fourth wall breaking ..
1. What was your thought process when writing SCP-___-J’s containment procedures? My first thought was to keep them as short as possible, since the whole article is premised on brevity. The second was the story I had in mind for this — namely, that the rock is causing one *specific* researcher to procrastinate (or, depending ..
We’re not paying ourselves enough to be bureaucrats is a thread posted to the SCP Wiki Staff’s discussion forum,[1]https://archive.ph/ssDAw 05command, protesting the recently adopted charter. The post was written by Sorts, an Administrator who was himself a containment fiction pioneer who is responsible for the modern conceptualization of anomalous memes. When the SCP Wiki was ..