Archives : December-2022

For the character, please refer to the Fandom Wiki entry. Dr Gears, previously known as “Cog”, is an author of containment fiction and creepypasta, and one of the earliest and most notable contributors to the SCP Series/Wiki. He is the author of classic SCPs such as SCP-682, SCP-106, SCP-882, SCP-914, and numerous other works. He ..

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The Society for Containment Fiction (SCF) is a Discord server and loose social group that is largely considered an antagonist force in and to the containment fiction space. It acts as a hub for cross-community discussion, as well as the group’s related projects. The founder has described the community as “a group of people studying ..

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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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Arca Gunnay on The Holders: Part I   This is a 2021 interview with Arca Gunnay, who had a fair amount of influence on theholders.org. It is conducted by SCF member and containment fiction author Worm That Walks. —————————————– You’ll have to forgive me for a bit of indulgence into these questions, as this was ..

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Arca Gunnay on The Holders: Part II   This is a 2021 interview with Arca Gunnay, who had a fair amount of influence on theholders.org. It is conducted by SCF member and containment fiction author Worm That Walks. ——————————— 1. What were the most influential articles posted on Holders, and how did they influence future ..

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Archivist’s Note: The following is partially derived from an essay written in 2013 by Cooldude971, who was a lurker in the Holders community. Wherever possible, statements are supported with citations to archived sources. However, at many points, personal memory of events and forum posts are invoked which never made it into the Wayback Machine. “It ..

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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 ..

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Creepypasta is an internet-borne genre of storytelling based on copy/pasting scary stories to disperse widely online. It takes its name from “copy pasta” which is the practice of taking blocks of text and repeating them in many different contexts. It is the direct predecessor to containment fiction, and confic can be seen as a spin-off ..

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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 ..

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/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 ..

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