#SCP anthology 2024

[theboywithburninghands]

SCP ANTHOLOGY 2024 in 10 Words Or Less

Okay I’m really sorry but I didn’t actually get a chance to read all of these, I hope you understand… I work a full time job and some of you guys have got LOOOONG entries. Anyway, I loved this Anthology, looking forward to whatever next year brings! T/W for spoilers and discussions of dark topics. Oh and read the originals too please.

Phobophobia: If SCP-2006 took the kiddie gloves off.

Scopophobia: The Foundation pulls a dirty trick to get a confession.

Pyrophobia: This is probably what the cult from Pippin believes.

Masklophobia: “This water tastes like shit!” Yeah, about that…

Aquaphobia: You’ve heard of drowning underwater, now try under the pool!

Ergophobia: Wow! I hated every second of this! Couldn’t finish it! Jesus!

Basophobia: If thou seekst forgiveness, yeeteth thyself into the GOD HOLE!

Photophobia: Colony of mole-humans rediscovers fire. Kind of inspiring?

Nucleomituphobia: Bomb that wipes you out of existence. Typical Reagan shit.

Anthropophobia: That Vegan Teacher’s Wet Dream. Revenge of The Pigs!

Prosophobia: AM if he was a corporate executive. The horror…

Hedonophobia: You shouldn’t start a relationship if you work for SCP!

Alethophobia/Mnemophobia: Some weird old heads some beautiful statue heads…

Diagraphephobia: Aw man… This one is just sad. Dementia’s no joke.

Selenophobia: Moon landing’s fake? Nah. MOON is fake.

Automatonophobia: Mannequins are alive! Or not. Or are they? They’re not.

Onuxophobia: The Foundation keeps self-harming kids depressed so they don’t evolve.

Kenophobia: A spooOooOoky empty room. I think. This one’s real confusing.

Eisoptrophobia: Look at the black dot. …I AM VERY PERPLEXED.

Tokophobia: Town has to sacrifice their demon babies to cave witch.

Eschatophobia: A train for when the world ends! It’s woefully incompetent…

Autophobia: Can we just… agree to not mix anomalies with relationships?

Acrophobia: That poem “Falling Up,” but played for horror.

Pisanthrophobia: I will protect Lucy at all costs. Hope she’s okay.

Submechanophobia: Shipwrecks can get lonely too…

Frigophobia: Instant freezing liquid used for assassinations. Nobody tell Putin…

Ommetophobia: Aw, it’s just a little doll- OH SWEET JESUS NO

Nyctophobia: This is no regular darkness, this is… ADVANCED darkness.

[nonexistent-tales]

in the middle of reading SCP-8091 rn and the apograph thing is so providence core

[scp-l4-clef-alto-001]

I wonder what this could be?

[dino--draws]

SCP-8770 -- SUBMECHANOPHOBIA: I MISS YOU

SCP-8770 is not to be inhabited.

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Day 27 of the 2024 Fear Anthology over on the SCP wikidot, and a little treat from me. Enjoy some spookiness!!

Base render done by @moose-in-jeans, extra editing/photomoshing/adjustments done by me.

[corvarrow]

2024 Books/Games Wrap up and 2025 Art Goals

Aaand its time once again for the stuff lists! I honestly don't think I'm gonna add anything else to the Books Read or Games Played lists this year so I may as well post now. Overall: productive year! Last year's list is here for reference.

Things I’ve read since Jan 2024

Heaven Official's Blessing 1 by MXTX

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Death in the Dark Woods by Annelise Ryan

Long Exposure vol 2 (Graphic Novel)

Heaven Official's Blessing 2 by MXTX

Heaven Official's Blessing 3 by MXTX

Heaven Official's Blessing 4 by MXTX

Heaven Official's Blessing 5 by MXTX

Heaven Official's Blessing 6 by MXTX

Heaven Official's Blessing 7 by MXTX

Heaven Official's Blessing 8 by MXTX

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

Haunted Hallways anthology (Outland Entertainment)

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Dead Detectives Society anthology (Monstrous Books)

Animus Mundi anthology (Outland Entertainment)

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #1 by MXTX

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #2 by MXTX

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #3 by MXTX

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #4 by MXTX

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #5 by MXTX

To Root Somewhere Beautiful anthology (Outland Entertainment)

SCP Foundation: Red/Yellow/Black Journals (Parabooks) (These are basically a selection of about 100 SCP articles published into 3 books with a lot of nice illustrations)

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Dragons Rising by Alisha Klapheke

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

Delicious in Dungeon manga 1-14 by Ryoko Kui (full series)

Comments: Yeah...there was definitely a theme here. My favorite book this year was the entire TGCF/Heaven Official's Blessing series. The characters are all SO good, though Xie Lian is my favorite <333

Also this is the first time I've read any of Brandon Sanderson's stuff... overall I think they're pretty good! ALTHOUGH, I will say, I started with Yumi and the Nightmare Painter because I knew it was a standalone book and that was almost a mistake. For whatever reason he uses so many parentheses right off the bat - that's fine in a text post but in a novel I actually find that Quite Annoying so I almost gave up on it early. Glad I didn't though! Ended up liking it and was inspired to try some of his other books, which I enjoyed even more.

Currently Reading: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner. I don't think this is a very long book but I don't have the bandwidth required to finish it in the next couple days

2025 Book Goals: If you can believe it I have more danmei novels waiting in the wings lol. I am probably going to also read more Brandon Sanderson books but he has so many that I've just been checking them out at the library. I'm at the mercy of "whenever it comes in", and just read whatever in between.

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2024 Video Games:

Super Mario Wonder

Baldur's Gate 3 (and it only took 171 hours)

Iron Lung

Logiart Grimoire

Monster Prom

POOLS

Atomic Heart

Dredge

Trombone Champ (can't believe this has an endgame state lmao)

Dave the Diver

Last Call BBS

Animal Well

Still Wakes the Deep

Crow Country

Nancy Drew and the White Wolf of Icicle Creek (played before a LONG time ago)

Raging Loop (DNF - Visual Novel - got about 7 hours in before deciding it wasn't for me)

Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor

Pseudoregalia

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair

Escape Simulator

Strange Horticulture

Mouthwashing

Comments: This was an interesting year for me because I finally burned myself out on FF14, which left me open to start playing other games instead. I had gotten to the point where I was going for Triple Triad/Jellytoast mount so I was working on getting cards, and I actually got most of them. HOWEVER, I then got roadblocked by Eureka and Bozja. You have to do their storylines to unlock the NPCs for cards. Now, Eureka you CAN mostly do solo, its a miserable grindfest even if you do manage to get in a party, but you can still solo if no one is around, and the story quests don't require other players, so I got through Euraka. Bozja...no. No not really. The story quests have events that do require other players, and I found it really intimidating aaand my FC didn't want to help x_x So I finally just stopped and started playing BG3. I do want to play Dawntrail at some point but I just got so tired. (and yeah for the record I don't have any dedicated groups to play games with so I do mostly play solo games... FF14 is very solo friendly actually, if you're willing to sometimes put up with roulette queueing, just not some of the side content lol)

ANYWAY. Getting through a "large RPG" was one of my video game goals from last year so I accomplished that with BG3...then I started really getting through my backlog! Obviously I like a lot of different genres. If I had to pick a favorite I would say....🤔 Maybe Still Wakes the Deep storywise, but I'll pick Escape Simulator for gameplay because it's REALLY fun. Puzzle rooms are absolutely my jam. Mouthwashing was also very good, storywise. I am not going to label that one "fun" though. LOL.

Game that I wish I could like more...Animal Well. I didn't know this in advance but this is a very pixel hunt & ARG heavy game as well as being a metroidvania. I LOVE metroidvanias, on the other hand pixel hunts & ARGs are not for me at all. You cannot get to the "true" ending of this game without messing around with all that, and the regular end is like, nothing. Metroidvanias are usually pretty light on story as the format is challenging, but this may as well not have a story at all. So, that's irritating. On the other hand, the game is freaking gorgeous, and is one of the most eerie games I have played in a long time. Love the atmosphere, wasn't thrilled about the other stuff (to those that like it though, you would probably love this!)

Currently Playing: Undecided. Right now I'm thinking either Signalis or Sorry We're Closed. But I also have a lot of Nancy Drew games I picked up from a sale so maybe one of those first instead.

2025 Game Goals: I am tempted to say I'd like to do another "Large RPG" game since I still have several in my backlog, but honestly I would like to continue just knocking smaller games out of the general backlog as its been very satisfying.

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Other 2025 Goals/Art Goals

So this was an interesting year because I ended up doing a 365 landscape drawing challenge in my hobonichi journal...trying to keep up with this has been the ultimate test and has been really draining my brain since like June. However, I am almost done. My ability to doodle random landscape in pen has definitely improved. Am I doing another yearly challenge next year? ....No. Absolutely not lmao. Break now.

Anyway some general goals are:

Finish at least 1 sketchbook

Do/Post more finished pieces

These are copied from last year though I would like to note that I ended up doing all those refs this year instead. Which is fine! They were very badly needed and I'm really happy about them. However my brain has been so drained otherwise I didn't really do much regular finished pieces and now I feel out of practice. 🤔 Ideally I'd like to work on figuring out a coloring process that works for me since it has legitimately always been a problem. But, I think that's also going to be driven a bit by 'what kind of look am I going for', which I have an idea (I love really interesting lighting), so I think I have to explore how to get to That.

3. Finish designing a sona

I got partway through this this year and got sidetracked. It also occurred to me that I could make more than one 🤔 I really want to update my icon art (and like... make some banners) so I kind of need to finish this thought.

[selfshipgushing]

omgaaa if you want some nice spooky scps this is the MONTH !!! i saw your response saying you’d like more spooky scps,,, ive got JUST the thing !

every october the foundation has a little thingy called the scp anthology i’m pretty sure ? every day of october a new scp story is released related to a different phobia in each one :3

this is the 2024 one but you could also look for the older ones if you’d like cause ofc the 2024 one is still a wip ! : https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-anthology-2024

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I shall read when I have time

[nonexistent-tales]

fuck my stupid baka life for SOME reason i decided to read a bit of 2024 anthplogy hub and. 8934 (ommetaphobia fear of eyes or smth))l. I

spoilers under cut

im not. ok i do jump at jumpscares but they dont really SCARE me, yknow? but this one genuinely got me. the tone of the overall article is great and the horrornis fine, if not actually better as is! maybe the jumpscare is unnecessary for some but i cant speak shit about it because it WORKED.