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House of Round
Made Rounderhouse into an objecthead as a silly thing and grew attached to the design
Bonus:
Also have an ad that I overlayed the colours of his normal avatar on so now its cursed lmao
#banesberry art#altoclef.exe#Might make a proper ref sheet later...#The tail is supposed to look like the tip of a fountain pen#Moss beards are peak character design btw#Anyways get objecthead-ified ya fuckin nerd /aff#Anyone can feel free to use this design I think itd be funny#I wanna see it though 🫵#scp#scp author#rounderhouse#scp art#scp fanart#scp foundation#scp fandom
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Hey tumblr, who wore it worse?
I’m holding a poll both here and on twitter to definitively determine which was the greater crime against humanity.
Bowlcut homunclus
Or the nasally voiced neckbeard
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SCP-7819 "No Vacancy" was written by @rounderhouse.
Well, now an audio version of this exists. God speed to whoever needs to use it.
-Archivist Bertran
#scp research archives#scpra#audioarchives#scp#scp fandom#scp foundation#scp podcast#scp 7819#no vacancy#rounderhouse
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Birthday gift for @rounderhouse! HAPPY BIRTHDAYYY
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Exploring The SCP Foundation: SCP-8918 - Death Was Written Large Everywhere
What Is It? The YouTube video Exploring The SCP Foundation: SCP-8918 – Death Was Written Large Everywhere by the YouTube channel The Exploring Series: Exploring The SCP Foundation: SCP-8918 – Death Was Written Large Everywhere Description: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8918 Written by: Rounderhouse Support the Patreon to see Exploring videos early and vote on new…
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#Canadian Expeditionary Force#Exploring The SCP Foundation#Exploring The SCP Foundation: SCP-8918 - Death Was Written Large Everywhere#Rounderhouse#SCP#SCP Foundation#SCP-8918#The Exploring Series#Video#War#World War#WWI#YouTube
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It's past midnight of the Monday of the Carnaval holiday that lasts until Wednesday morning (I'll be on vacation by then) and I haven't been able to do much useful the last few days because of shoulder pains. So I'm not going to post a long analysis of the themes of a free story posted on the SCP Foundation site. Such is my life.
This post is about Rounderhouse's Redtape series. If you haven't read it, it won't make sense. I'll put the cut right now to spare your dashspace.
As I'm writing this, the last available story is Interregnum II, and I'm writing with some haste expecting that the next bit will drop soon and my theory will be proven wrong immediately.
So. I think that the Redtape series is, thematically, about oppression and intersectionality.
I'll be honest: I haven't read much of Rounderhouse's work outside of it, so I don't know if this would be a trivial or impossible conclusion. We fly Death of the Author here, baby.
I've also been away from the SCP site for a very long time, and never been a part of the community, and know very little about the Mekhane and Sarkic arcs, so my conclusions may end up way off mark, and I may end up attributing to him ideas that were estabilished elsewhere. So it goes.
Before I enter the meat of my theory, it's only fitting that I also make a small prologue. The series starts with is in the perspective of RAISA Director Maria Jones. She is mentioned later during the prelude to Jade, as while we've shown all the dirty shit 05-11 did, we're also shown he batted for her and demanded she be treated with the respect she was due. Other than that, though, she hasn't been very important to the story.
I believe the importance of her inclusion is primarily to guide the readers' attention to the theme of oppression, which is underlined during her mention in the 05-11 documents. It's important in a general way, but also with a very specific intent. In the modern world, prejudice against POC is one of the most widespread forms of oppression, and it'd be weird to create a work centered on that theme without mentioning it. But modern prejudice against POC was pretty much invented by the slave trade performed by European colonies in the Americas in the 16th to 19th centuries; it'd be anachronic in a story centered around events in ancient times, in a way that Bronze Age Mechs simply aren't. Her presence is meant to inform us that the author is aware that this prejudice exists, but can't be meaningfully present in the work.
Now for the theory proper, I believe the theme goes like this:
Each of the three ancient cities has an axis of oppression that is effectively missing due to cultural and societal reasons directly related to the supernatural effect that caused them to rise. I'm going to refer to this as the Faded Axis, which as a terrible name but I need a shorthand because I'll keep referring to it.
Each of the three ancient cities also has an axis of oppression that is greatly increased. Like the Faded Axis it's due to cultural and societal reasons, but unlike it it's only indirectly related to the supernatural effect. I'll call it the Harsh Axis, with the same apology as the Faded Axis.
Each story about a city discovery has a protagonist that would suffer oppression along that city's Faded Axis.
Each city finds a mirror of itself in its two enemies: one of them will have the city's Faded Axis as their Harsh Axis, and the other will have the Harsh Axis as their Faded Axis. So the three cities, in all, will only show three axes of oppression.
Easy peasy. What does that mean?
Let's start with Mamjul/Korar, because I started reading the story by its end, but also because it's the one where this dichotomy is most visible. Their Faded Axis - the axis of oppression they lack - is sexism, or oppression because of gender. They are the only matriarchy of the three cities, and in the proposal Rajmata explicitly states that they don't have a powerful concept of gender, since one's body is just a thing they use for a while before they ascend to the astral plane. The Harsh Axis, strenghtened in their society, is likewise very visible: they murder enslaved people like it was going out of fashion, also because they believe this will free their souls to join them as free folk in the Astral Plane (except there are still enslaved people in the Astral Plane so I don't think that holds up too well). I currently believe the axis represented here is classism, though it may be slightly different. Galanis is non-binary, therefore oppresed along the gender axis. A perfect fit! Almost like I came up with it after reading this bit. Does it still hold for the other city we've been shown?
With Amoni-Ram, we also have a very strong call for the Faded Axis, which is ableism. Since the people of the city considered prothesis to be superior, someone who lost a limb on an accident or was just born without one wouldn't be even distinguishable from someone who replaced a limb because it's cool. And Aram/Bumaro, being the main character oppressed along the Faded Axis, makes the case openly. The city is even easier to find amongst people lacking a limb.
The Harsh Axis is a bit harder to discover. But, if my theory holds water, it means that it should have an overlap with one of Korar's axes. It can't be that Amoni-Ram's Harsh Axis is Korar's Faded Axis, because we've just shown they're different, so it has to be the opposite: Amoni-Ram's harsh axis must be sexism.
At first, this doesn't track much. The stories don't show the city of Amoni-Ram being particularly harsh to women. But this is about themes, hence an element can be used in a more subtle way. The way Bumaro refers to Ludwig is written to very strongly represent a toxic, overbearing relationship - specially when one reads her email, then his reaction to it. Her reaction in the later Interregnum, after being released from his grip, brings very similar feelings. And other than his attempt to dominate 05-11, every instance in the story in which the Throne's power is used to dominate a single person, it is either Ludwig or the Preserver, both powerful and intelligent women kept under the hill of a literal patriarch. So I think it does track.
Let's open a big paretheses here because I'm about to go on a wild tangent. There is something else I thought of while going through this theory in my head last night. The story of the three cities involves one of the Gods falling to Earth and loaning their power to a human civilization (or, in the case of the Daeva, human-ish). But what if it wasn't given, what if it was stolen? The story about the OG Bumaro being made Mekhane's profit was told by the people he lorded over - it's his perspective. What if he stole her power, used it to call himself his prophet, and then left her to rot when she was no longer useful? The Maharaj of Mamjul also doesn't have much say in Korar, even though he's the one dreaming the whole place up. What if the power of the Gods wasn't freely given, but stolen? What if that was why the BLACKSTAR was tasked by the Black Moon to destroy these upstart empires - not as an act of random violence or revenge, but at the behest of the Black Moon to free its siblings?
This is less of a theory than a hunch - but, if I may step off the Death of the Author car for a moment, I remember Rounderhouse saying that the Gold Proposal was meant to be the centerpiece of the series, and the other works would be smaller, but then, well, Jade happened. If that's the case, then maybe this symmetry wasn't meant to be apparent when he wrote Gold. But, if this reveal is planned, then he surely knew that this happened as he wrote Gold, and would see the city as built in the back of sexism to an extent that's not immediately apparent to readers. But this is so far off that's more of a hunch than a theory, so let us close these parenthesis and resume.
Now we come to a dangerous place. Since I believe the three cities are mirrors of each other, we can actually predict what the axes of Additum will be. Which means this theory is falsifiable! Damn, I don't write literary analysis to be PROVEN WRONG, what the hell am I doing? But it's too late, the car is on the road again, let's see where it takes us.
In order for the cycle to be complete, Additum's Faded Axis must be Mamjul/Korar's Harsh Axis. This works immensely well, since we know Additum was founded by an enslaved man originally from Mamjul. It would make sense that, after taking over power, he would desire a society without slaves. If the axis truly is classism, as I believe, then it'd be a truly horizontal society, in which meritocracy works and everyone has as much power as they work for.
The second prediction suggests that Additum's Harsh Axis must be Amoni-Ram's Faded Axis, which is ableism. I believe this tracks with Additum's great power being something akin to necromancy. If after you die, your body is raised to fight for the city that held you in life, then it becomes much more important that your body is kept in pristine condition at the moment of your death... if you lose a limb, you are inconvenienced for the rest of your life, but it's much more important that the zombie you become after will die will be less effective, and that will last for much longer, and that will harm all the people of the great city and not just you! I don't doubt that this means that anyone who loses a limb would immediately be put to the sword - or worse, banned from civil life, unable to work anywhere, all to be encouraged to 'donate' their body to the zombie armies a bit sooner, so that if they don't give an entire body, at least they'll give a body that still has the strenght of youth.
Finally, this theory would mean that the main character in the Bone proposal will be someone oppressed along the class axis. There are too many ways this can go about for me to offer a confident prediction - but I think an interesting case will be that the Foundation lore has its own axis of class oppression, the D-class. Given that the situation in Amoni-Ram was an unmitigated failure and the situation in Korar is, while apparently better for the Foundation, at most a mitigated failure, I don't think it's an stretch that for the third people they'll send in the people with the least authority possible to run the site. As I've been away from the SCP site for quite a while, I'm not sure if the idea that D-class personnel are people scheduled for death sentences is still the dominant canon, but I think a more interesting approach would be someone who was 'demoted' to D-class due to terrible actions as a Foundation employee (which something else that I don't know how strongly remains in the Foundation's shared canon).
Anyway, I'm very excited by the prospect of Bone proposal having been published while I'm writing this and having already been proven wrong. This is what I write theories for!
#scp foundation#rounderhouse#redtape#gold proposal#jade proposal#bone proposal#this is how I chose to use God's gift of sentience this night
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resisting the urge to cyberbully WL admins because they have lives of their own and cant immediately tell me who to gift to
#wanderers library#the wanderer's library#scp#for those of you who dont know#(which is probably most of yall)#the Wanderers Library is doing a gifting thing for the holidays#and i signed up for it#its pretty much just secret santa but with art and writing#according to the post#were supposed to get the names of people who were gifting to today#rounderhouse#uncertaintycrossing#stop having lives of your own come on#(JOKE JOKE THIS IS A JOKE)
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#sorry rounderhouse i have to share this with the world and also put it in my lancer character tag#lancer#mecha#atel tag
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re-read scp 8600 and really the whole article is a horror story wrapped in the guise of a historical document but when you get to empress asum the horror can't be disguised anymore because while each empress (with the exception being bileath) has parts of her portraits stripped away, it's asum's entire face. her entire face has been wiped from history. and this isn't by accident either, asum's murals are dedicated to documenting the way her husband/kidnapper systematically replaces all of her body parts with metal replacements overtime, similar to how it's implied emperor hayt cut off empress halana's middle finger, presumably because she insulted him/stuck it up at him one too many times in fratricide. it's by design and speaks to the misogyny present within amoni-ram, that women are something to be wielded and controlled like the first bumaro did to mekhane herself, because women are in mekhane's image. asum is kidnapped from her home village (presumably she's nalka) and has all her body parts slowly replaced with mechanical replacements to keep her from using her fleshcrafting magic, halana was married young and didn't want to be and thus is trapped beneath ulma-ram to be 'fixed', shataash who was her father's only heir couldn't ACTUALLY inherit the throne, silly, it's her husband who gains The Voice and thus the ability to control shataash and even bileath--who arguably has the best outcome out of all of them since ansool clearly loves her dearly, encourages her ideas and doesn't wish to control her--isn't able to go to the academy bcos only men can and her son subsequently attempts to erase her achievements from history. it's nauseating and horrific and honestly another reason you all should read redtape.
#scp meta#sry this is actually mostly me rambling instead of actual meta but i feel like it is regardless#rounderhouse's redtape canon
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One day im gonna be in a PM seymour video and hes gonna be like "heres Alex. He named his One And Only OC (which is a self insert to the point that his lore is "self insert") after him. He claimed dr bright and betty glitchtale after he heard what their authors did. Pretty sure he has an army of transgender tweens/teens who probably know guns more than they know maths. For some reason hes shaped like an alternate but he purrs like a cat. 90% sure the only reason he wants to learn about computers is so he can delete all the money off accounts of problematic people. Hes very nice but yeah if it wasnt for his parents teachings he would have already killed someone in a comically gruesome way."
And i genuinely have no idea wtf to do with that
#and thats excluding my#welcome to the multiverse#thing#like seriously we have#cyana going OOC whenever i try to talk to her by swearing up a fucking malestrom#Director House from SCP (aka rounderhouse) being the CEO of hell#<- and also that whole “the only devil that can still be called such with a big The is the one from hazbin hotel” thing but whatever#then we have to talk about all the shit on the moon#gabriel ultrakill and gabriel tmc being the same guy and also friends with FUCKING MERU THE SUCCUBUS BECAUSE BOTH OF EM R BOREÐ#not to mention the whole “belowstory” thing which started as The Strongest Sans That Isnt A Mary Sue But Is Also Horror And Creepy#and deevolved into “you thought HELP_TALE was fucked up? oh you sweet summer child.”#and lets not talk about the whole SCP Shitfest of Cringe Parodization#like- 2317 doesnt want to be the bad guy? 166 and 239 are dating because they're close in age?? BRIGHT AND SHAW COEXISTING?????????#yeah look#pm seymour#if you read this#keep the ibuprofen close#and dont ask too much about the whole “manager of Gay Shit (even tho im straight)” thing.#like yeah i get to be near cute tgirls but... thats it?????? i guess????????#i mean i give em their meds and hormones cause i wanna help and-#(insert miscellaneous unhearable yapping)#(possibly about geopolitics)
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RED ALERT! ROUNDERHOUSE FOUND OUR NICHE INTERNET WORLDBUILDING PROJECT
#HOW DID FUCKING ROUNDERHOUSE FIND OUR NICHE WORLD BUILDING PROJECT#WHAT THE FUCK#I never in a million years expected to see Rounderhouse as a fan?!?!?#beyond the ice wall#we're so fucking back BTIW heads#btiw
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Well... This sure is something that I made...
灵长禁绝协议(Sapiens Culling Protocol) - SCP-5000
世界纪录归档(World Records Archived) - SCP-6000
SCP-5000 - Why? by Tanhony: https://scpwiki.com/scp-5000
SCP-6000 - The Serpent, the Moose, and the Wanderer's Library by ROUNDERHOUSE: https://scpwiki.com/scp-6000
SCP Foundation logo by Aelanna: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-mackenzie-s-sketchbook
Serpent's Hand symbol by Zyn, thedeadlymoose, and Vivax: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/serpent-s-hand-hub
#I just thought of some great names for these two entries okay#anyways yes FGO plus SCP#SCP#SCP Foundation#Crossover? maybe#SCP 5000#SCP 6000#My Art#Vector Art
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SCP Aesthetics: 4661 (requested by @dewnose2, written by @rounderhouse)
THOMPSON: This shit always has to happen in the middle of the night, doesn't it? (red, hell, that sinking feeling)
#scp#scp aesthetics#fire ///#death ///#requests are still open but the box is mega full so i'm not advertising rn lmao#fun fact i'm planning a trip to vegas later this year#i liked this one!
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Talking to him makes me understand why JK Rowling wasnt erased from author lists.
🎩 Raddest Hat Battle👒
Megumin from KonoSuba Vs Laszlo Cravensworth from What we do in the Shadows
Round 1 Side 4A
#his entire deal is Being Mean To People#he doesnt “enrich” shit#and im pretty sure he came up with a 6yo autistic cousin cause he did not want to tell me what a phylactery is#like come on#what are his qualities anyways. that he could be elected as president? what an accomplishment#one of these days hes gonna say something that makes *Eric Cartman* sound like the sweetest little potato ever and you'll finally see#he makes me mad by virtue of existing#and he never apologized for being mean or took the blame for when i almost made wizardposting cringe#<- and he has the BALLS to think that i am clean as a whistle in the entire thing#one day he will get booted off the platform and im gonna be counting that as matt's redemption arc after the shit he pulled off with predstr#ogen#“youre mad at an internet gnome” he told me. and i rebuke with “maybe stop making posts that make IDF soldiers sound reasonable you retroact#ive reason for the enshittification of the internet. go back to /pol/ where you belong you bad attempt at a traffic cone“ or smth#like i feel that unless i ruin his life he will not learn to stop circlejerking himself into a redditor-shaped hole#sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo#yeah#and thats just MY perspective#i got blocked by ash-the-tiefling and *ROUNDERHOUSE* and in both cases i still have no idea wtf did i do#its like people think im faking my autism ffs#sorry for the tag rant but this had to be said#idc if im wrong. all i care is that someone out there has the patience to treat me the way i should be treated. with actual respect.#i dont want people to talk down or back to me
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Mixing rural eldritch horror (idk correct word, think Old Gods Of Appalacia) with lancer
Take a game like Lightyear Frontier as the original premise, farming in mechs
And just scale up the horror to mech size
A lot of @rounderhouse little stories about old combat pilots brains never quite leaving the mech could work well here.
These mechs, now used to cultivate food and raise animals, have lost a hundred pilots each and each pilot took a hundred others lives
Death like that doesn't just leave, and the spirits aren't happy that you aren't continuing the chain of violence
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