SCP-232-ARC (hereafter SCP-232) is an archived SCP about a relief statue that casts harmful shadows. The SCP was first posted on January 13, 2008 and is still present on the SCP Foundation website. It is the oldest known surviving SCP after SCP-173 and of the oldest extant containment fiction articles predating the vast majority of ..
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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 ..
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 with The Administrator, conducted by pixelatedHarmony under a previous name, seen here. How did you find the SCP Series? I’ve always dabbled in writing, nothing ever serious. After starting and stopping 3 or 4 books, most of my attempts stayed in the short, short story range. Things like telling ghost ..
When you were writing your 001 proposal, at what point in the process of writing the article did you have the final or close-to-final containment procedures? Clef: It was pretty much the first thing that I wrote. The containment procedures were simple: “Keep the location of the Garden secret, and don’t let anyone approach it ..
Note: This is a series of essays originally written by pixelatedHarmony, with some later additions by Decibelle and Modern_Erasmus. Content 1 History of the Universe: Part I 2 History of the Universe: Part II 3 History of the Universe: Part III 4 History of the Universe: Part IV 5 History of the Universe: Part V ..
Ftrivia SCP-173 is the first piece of containment fiction written in the SCP format, prior to it gaining that nomenclature.[1]http://scparchives.bluesoul.net/history.html It is one of the embryonic works of containment fiction and arguably the most important and influential work of the entire genre. SCP-173 was originally posted anonymously on 4chan’s /x/ board by Moto42 (then credited ..
Containment fiction, sometimes shortened to “confic”, and also known as “collaborative fiction”, “anomaly fiction”, or “WikiDot fiction”, is an informal literary genre presented through the framework of documents and material from one or many organizations which describe said organization’s interactions and study of various scientific “anomalies”. Containment fiction is characterized by prescriptive, predominantly 3rd-person writing ..
/x/ is the “Paranormal” board on 4chan, an anonymous image and text-sharing website. It is notable in the context of Containment Fiction for being the spawning point for the SCP Wiki, RPC Authority, and Backrooms/Tech Support communities. Although Channer culture is not a predominant part of these communities and they all quickly left the platform ..