#qntm's proposal

[apas-95]

Memetics research is, today, a much-diminished science from when it was at its peak. In mid-2008 there existed more than 400 institutions pursuing research likely to uncover […], including government agencies, military branches, private corporations, independent laboratories, university research projects and notable amateur groups. Many of these were GOIs or internal divisions within GOIs. None of these groups still exist, except for the Foundation's Antimemetics Division.

— Five Five Five Five Five, qntm

Roughly 1 in 10 Foundation employees do not, in actuality, exist. Simple surveys of site planning and capacity documents (available to all personnel with security clearance level 1 or above), compared to informal polling of site population numbers, reveal that on average, Foundation facilities operate at roughly 60% capacity (10% fewer than mainstream models show without correction factors), with facilities linked to the Antimemetics and Counterconceptual divisions at roughly 10% and 40%, respectively.

Or, at least, that's how it seemed. Things you can't remember seem to disappear - for however much we think of ourselves, we never really outgrew 'peekaboo!' ... The facilities and people made invisible to humanity at large obviously had to still be *somewhere*.

Moreover, we certainly hadn't outgrown any youthful hubris - we assumed we could understand the enemy when we could barely even understand the enemy's tools. Certainly, if anything, if any ridiculous organisation, organ, or organism, were to be so arrogant enough to erase from knowability entire facilities, persons, events, or even concepts... which else could it be but our very own Foundation?

In any case, now we've finally organised (through some extremely desperately one-sided bargaining, and, it is likely, annoyance) an interdepartmental liason office with the ██████████████ Department. [Ugh, I hate how it does that.] Currently, the office is located on our site [do we really only have one site?], though it's entirely possible our proposals to send some exchange staff were accepted and we simply aren't capable of knowing it. Yeah. It's slow progress - trying to figure out how to avoid doing anything they'd need to redact, while they obviously can't communicate to us anything relevant.

Apparently lots of people that we've never met really missed us on the other side.

[eparchclass]

Qntm001skipic | Lock001skipic // Gender related to qntm's SCP-001 proposal, aka "The Lock"

[agnol117]

001 Proposals, Part I

Jonathon Ball’s Proposal - Sheaf of Paper

Kinda meh. The idea that the first SCP is just a report on all future SCPs/some kind of warning system/somehow creating the rest of the SCPs seems kind of tame, honestly? I acknowledge that not all SCPs have to be big terrifying things, and indeed the horror often comes more from the containment needed rather than the item itself, but this one just feels too on the nose.

4/10

Dr. Gears’ Proposal - The Prototype

Another kind of meh entry. This one, at least, actually does things, but again, it feels fairly tame in comparison to other, less “significant” entries. I’m only two proposals in, but I reject the idea that SCP-001 needs to be some big, scary, significant thing. Even my current favorite proposal (The Factory) is cooler as a general piece of fiction than as an idea for a super scary thing that’s the source of all other SCPs in some way. I think I prefer the idea that SCPs are numbered in order, rather than listed in any sort of “ranked” manner.

5/10

Dr. Clef’s Proposal - The Gate Guardian

I’m torn on this one. In general, I don’t like when fiction tries to incorporate various real world mythologies (in this case, the Abrahamic faiths), because it always ends up feeling weird and power scale-y. The idea that there’s a literal Angel of the LORD guarding the literal Garden of Eden is kind of silly when you also have eldritch terrors and whatever SCP-682 is supposed to be. But don’t worry – the Foundation has banned all attempts to use this version of 001 as a means of disposal of dangerous SCPs, so we don’t have to worry about the idea of “who would win: 682 or a literal angel?” Again, it’s a cool idea, but I don’t think I really like it as an SCP.

5/10

qntm’s Proposal - The Lock

My favorite 001 proposal so far (discounting The Factory, which I read years ago and still adore). I like that it doesn’t really appear to have any real world basis; googling “Apakht” just leads me back to SCP related stuff. I also really like that this one doesn’t seem to be a big, world-ending artifact, at least on the surface (it does seem to be trapping some sort of eldritch god, after all). It’s just a weird rock sphere, produced in a time and place that it should have been impossible, and that happens to also be weirdly warm and slightly radioactive. In other words, it’s exactly what I feel SCP-001 should be: just another SCP.

7/10

Bright’s Proposal - The Factory

I love this one, for a few reasons. Firstly, it fits my idea of what SCP-001 works best as: it’s the first one. Is it creepy and nefarious and probably up to something? Yes. But it’s not some big evil world ending thing. It’s just a factory, made by a madman, to do evil with. I’ll grant that this is personal bias (but then, the whole project is my personal rankings), but I like SCPs that are man made and just…evil. It’s a cool vibe for me. I also like that this one is a tale and not a standard SCP report. This is, again, personal preference, but it gives it a less sterile feel than some of the others have had so far. Also, I like how it ties into other parts of the larger lore of the SCPverse. All told, this is my favorite one so far, and has been my favorite 001 proposal for a number of years.

10/10

[at7artblog]

Another batch of scp sketches.

[hisclockworkservants]

SCP Foundation art,  antimemes, part 2.

SCP-4087 - Absence of a Knife by The Great Hippo: http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4087

SCP-4144 - The Most Important Meal Of The Day by Mortos: http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4144

SCP-4473 - You Make Me Feel Like by Tanhony: http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4473 

SCP-4804 - The Pulp is Fictional by not_a_seagull: http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4804

SCP-5009 - Catch-22 by tupacofficial: http://scp-wiki.net/scp-5009 

SCP-5308 - A Collection by TheBlueHour: http://scp-wiki.net/scp-5308

Antimemetics Division Hub by qntm: http://scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub

CASE COLOURLESS GREEN by qntm: http://scp-wiki.net/case-colourless-green

Fresh Hell by qntm: http://scp-wiki.net/fresh-hell

"Nobody" HUB by Dr Hockenberry: http://scp-wiki.net/nobody-hub

djkaktus's Proposal III (The Way It Ends) by djkaktus: http://scp-wiki.net/djkaktus-s-proposal-iii

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[canmom]

am kinda wondering whether it would be worth implementing a comment section on my github site. the reason I propose it is that other blogs that are run as a kind of, personal writing site where the author has full control over the HTML (e.g. qntm, bogleech’s site) get relatively good comment sections fairly often.

the question would be, since I’m hosting my site on a static site generator, how to implement a comments section without inviting in the host of tracking scripts used by services like disqus... I guess the maxim that if you’re not the customer, you’re the product applies, and I won’t be able to find a freely hosted comment system which doesn’t track you