#scp 5999

[hisclockworkservants]

SCP-5999 (False Beast) Design

The dragons are candles! :D

SCP-5999 - This is Where I Died by S D Locke, Modern_Erasmus, TheeSherm, Woedenaz, VolgunStrife: http://scp-wiki.net/scp-5999

Patreon | Author Page | Art Hub | Twitter | DeviantArt

[dreamsweetinamajor]

damn my scp-5999 page looking kinda funky

[scpaesthetics]

SCP Aesthetics: 5999 (requested by anon, written by VolgunStrife, Woedenaz, TheeSherm, Modern_Erasmus, and S D Locke)

For the remainder of the year, personnel are to remain wary of any surfaces which contain the phrase "This is where I died.". (rust-colored, religion, bad vibes)

requests are open

[scp-admissions]

5000 and 5999 are the most ridiculously overrated articles on the wiki and nothing else even comes close

^^^

[cicada-and-pomegranate]

The Red Pool, This is Where I Died, and Art About Nothing

I think there’s a lot of value in art that’s weird for the sake of being weird. I used to really like SCP (I’ve kind of gotten detached from it more recently), and while I think SCP-3002 (Attempts to Assassinate Thought) is my favorite, and SCP-5000 (Why?) is the best-written thing on the site, there is a lot of value in pieces like SCP-354 (The Red Pool) which has a very good story but isn’t really about anything.

I often times rag on media like The Office for not being really about anything, but I think 354 succeeds at not being about a whole lot because it gives a good unsettling atmosphere that makes no sense in or out of context.

We’re taught when writing that if you’ve written a mystery that you have to have an answer to it, or at the very least a couple conflicting explanations that the audience can bicker over. (the SCP style guide has the same rules for redactions; if something is redacted there has to be a reason for it to be redacted and the author has to know what was redacted) I legitimately think SCP-354 was written by some 14-year-old who is good at writing on a technical level, but mostly picked a bunch of unsettling things to happen and a bunch of places to put data corruption. It works; it’s successful, but I doubt it means anything. SCP-5000 means something; when you are unable to interact with other people, you cease to be human. SCP-3002 means something; your memories are what makes you you. SCP-354 means nothing and that’s absolutely fine because it’s a good story and it works.

SCP-5999 is one of the weirdest SCPs because it has a similar idea to SCP-354, where a bunch of weird semi-correlated things happen in it, but it has a lot of repeated imagery and numbers, which seems like it should mean something but the explanation is that it means nothing and in-universe is designed to lead the reader on for Watsonian reasons. This is fundamentally unsatisfying, and I think the only thing it actually says is “SCPs which are just a mystery and don’t say anything are unsatisfying”, which is kind of weird because, as mentioned, SCP-354 is great.

I like SCP-5999 for its writing and its horror and what happens in it, but the way that the author self-describes those stories as cliché and kind of treats their own writing as bait is kind of odd. It seems like they’re kind of going after SCPs that are horror for horror’s sake and berating the reader for enjoying them. You aren’t meant to enjoy them, that’s how the Foundation gets you.

There’s irony in that a piece of art about how a style of art is uninspired works well as a piece of art in the style it’s criticizing. I want to say that 5999 doesn’t get 354, but there isn’t a whole lot to get. It’s a simple story that’s kind of about fuck all, and is valuable because it’s well-written and succeeds at its main goal of unsettling the reader.

Modern SCP has a major problem with how it makes new authors come up with a good story in order to get their articles approved. The only article I’ve ever gotten approved was one with an inventive concept and a story to accompany it and its implications. Arguably the main issue with this is a Watsonian one; why are so many SCPs large stories when logically most should be shit like one of those pens with four colors that you press down on the sides to use but no matter which one you press down, the one you pressed down becomes the blue pen? The gateway to SCP is the older articles which were written by the aforementioned 14-year-olds trying to write something unsettling, while now not only is there a (purported although not enforced because it can’t be) rule against minors writing articles, but also there’s a process making you include a greater meaning to your story within your pitch. 

Weird for weird’s sake is arguably dead in SCP, to the point that authors actively criticize it, and I think that’s a shame because we need to be more appreciative not only of art that is weird for weird’s sake but of the platforms that allow authors who are technically skilled although not necessarily great at symbolism to create their weird art.

[nameshifter]

SCPF: Makes a lethal memetic agent disguised as an SCP article in order to stop Swann Entities from tempering with their universe

Me: Rewatches the narration of said article almost monthly, if not even more frequently, because it's a genuinely nice piece of literature (not to mention Volgun did a great job)

[wolveria]

Which SCPs scares you the most? Mine is SCP-001 When Day Breaks. There’s something about the sun itself melting people into piles of fleshy goo yet not dying and hunting down survivors terrifies me.

That one is really terrifying. I'm still slowly going through the story but so far it's probably one of the worst, at least in terms of being super creepy.

SCP-5999 (This Is Where I Died) is one I found recently, and it's both spooky and kind of neat. Without spoiling too much, this SCP is a way for the O5 Council to try and take out... us, basically. SCP fans lol Thankfully, they haven't succeeded yet.

[scp-foundation-official]

This is where I died

The above image is instrumental to proper containment. Proceed.

The chains remain taut.

[toonandcute0]

Bien mas vale tarde que nunca, sé que no hice todos los días y no son los mejores dibujos ahi afuera, pero les puse mucho amor y empeño, y si alguien les gustan y aprecian agradezco un monton de verdad y pues igual aunque siempre digo, no "voy a dibujar en octubre" siempre lo termino haciendo, pues porque me gusta el scptober, y porque me gusta dibujar y ya :b

#SCPTOBER2022_31

SCP que da miedo

SCP-5999 

Aquí es donde morí  scp-es.com/scp-5999

(ft. otros SCPs que me asustaron mucho en mis primeros días del fandom, SCPs que me aterran porque son exelentes historias de terror y SCPs que espero no tener que explicaar porque son aterradores) 

[zal-cryptid]

👨‍💻 META SCPs 👩‍💻

SCP-001 (The Database)

SCP-5500 (Death of the Authors)

SCP-001 (Story of your Life)

SCP-5999 (This is Where I Died)

SCP-3309 (Where We Go When We Fade, Fade Away)

SCP-5456 ( [DELETED] )

[hisclockworkservants]

Chinese Bronze Style - SCP-5999

I like how this turned out but I'm torn between the two versions XD

SCP-5999 - This is Where I Died by S D Locke, Modern_Erasmus, TheeSherm, Woedenaz, VolgunStrife: http://scp-wiki.net/scp-5999

Patreon | Author Page | Art Hub | Twitter | DeviantArt

[darkhopping]

"—not that she seems to mind all that much—" Michael Nass interrupted. The pudgy, kind-faced academic theologian had spent most of the afternoon trying to keep his star pupil from gouging out Elstrom's eyes after the latter mixed up the Theology and Teleology Section with the Department of Tactical Theology.

oh fuck i also did that when i was blorboposting once . dr michael nass from scp foundation canon on guard 43 is going to fuckig point 5999 at me

[funnycatfelix]

if anyone ever wants to know what i think? i think that scp 5999 should be real and i want a certain someone to read it.

[rob-is-not-a-deer]

Day 29: series 6

Scp 5999, this was my favourite from the 5000 contest. I recommend watching the exploring series’s video on it because it’s a tad confusing

[thatmistersguy]

it is Late and i am Thinkin: what if, like Arbelict’s 001 Proposal, meta articles like 3999 and 5999 are of such high secrecy that even O5s barely know about them since they reveal that the SCP multiverse is entirely and wholly fictional

[strixton]

anyways

i regret reading scp 5999