#the people want more SCP

[prettyflyshyguy]

Kaicon Melbourne 2024 part 2: electric boogaloo is a wrap!

And Holy Shit. What a good event. I was randomly paired with the absolutely lovely liannnarts_jg and it was a real contrast having my menagerie of horror, and her lovely vtuber idol prints next to each other but it was a really fun weekend and we had a bit of a laugh switching our table mascots on day 2!

The SCP fandom absolutely carried me and for that I am forever thankful. I met so many lovely people, got to chat with some incredible artists and overall I'm so tired but my heart is so full.

Had a customer tell me they'd seen people walking around the con wearing my lanyards and keycards and I got really emotional.

I have so many cool ideas for new merch based on live feedback from people and I am so fucking pumped to produce more stuff for February next year! Kaicon Melb 2025 here we fucking go!!!!

[mattastr0phic]

Meri Wojciechowski - SCP 166

Meri currently works as cleanup/recovery for environments that have been damaged or otherwise polluted by Foundation intervention. While she's technically covering up their involvement, she takes the opportunity to study native flora and restore any area to its prime, growing back plants stronger than before and cleaning water to a livable standard for the native fauna. There are even protocols for moving manmade objects out of an area she's meant to cover.

Since it's getting closer to that time of year, I find that a lot of people still frequently confuse white tailed deer with reindeer/caribou. This is not me nitpicking about what's stated in the SCP article, and people can draw what they like! I just want to see reindeer more widely known as well, since they're beautifully unique in comparison.

Reindeer eyes change color throughout warmer and colder seasons from gold to blue to compensate for the differing light levels, their hooves have a wider spread to act as snowshoes, and they're extremely fluffy, being the only deer to have a completely furred snout structured so that they retain moisture even in cold, dry environments, so you're unable to see their breath in the cold like people. That's not even the end of the list of interesting things they can do.

I recommend the Cairngorm Reindeer Herd if you want references (and cute pictures) of reindeer! It would be genuinely amazing to see more actual reindeer Meri's exploring the neat features of these underrated creatures.

Bonus note: Reindeer calves (reindeer utilize the same male/female references as bovines, being bulls and cows respectively) do NOT possess the same spots as a juvenile white deer. Please observe: the adorable little Svalbard reindeer calf, the smallest reindeer species in the world.

[lillyosaurus]

who care

song

[hiwelcometothemonstersancturary]

God I want to write an SCP article where the evil anomaly grows to be better as others start to treat it better. SCP-5031 is not enough for me.

[tiredsn0w]

Important question for anyone who uses the SCP Wiki to read Tales... if a page has an adult content warning, would you still read it?

For those unfamiliar, the adult content warning page is like a buffer to the actual Tale, where it'll show you the warnings for it before you decide if you want to proceed to the page.

Pages are marked "adult" for a variety of reasons, by default sexual content is marked this way, but it can also be for heavy mental health themes as well as abuse and violence.

More information:

[brightside-brigade]

Oh good Gods I'm gonna throw up. I saw it. There's a live stream going on about it I'm gonna throw up.

I'm gonna unsub from that channel. It was supposed to be a safe channel. It was supposed to be silly reddit and 4chan stories.

They're talking about it. It's happening again. It was an unrelated channel. I'm not safe. It's not safe nowhere is safe. Did he know I watch? Is that why it happened? Does he know? He knows. Everyone knows. I'm not safe. There are eyes on me everywhere. Everyone knows who I am. They know when I'm around and they all want me dead.

[perelka-l]

fuck it

kondrakicest time

[krakaheimr]

I just learnt that my portrait of Wheels is.. on an unofficial SCP Wiki? Not the actual one, one of the Fandom/Wikia ones. They've used it as his wiki article image??

[rainbowgod666]

Issue

What if i *am* the media in question

shoutout to the autistic bitches who write wholeass informal essays of meta/analysis/theories about their special interest media. you are the fucking backbone of our goddamned society

[oc-cinematic-universe]

now that it's almost october and i've begun doing OCtober stuff i may,,,,, *looks left,,, looks right,,,,,* perhaps. i will share. a lil secret

[faedotexe]

Help i'm stuck in the playing sawayama solitaire dimension, I had things to do

[symurgist]

hey. read this scp. trust me.

[solar-cycle]

i have the funniest ask that i literally only just now noticed that i decided to frame in my askbox forever holy shit

[why-does-this-happen-to-me]

You know how you have a lot of ideas to write but are too lazy to write them? Well, that's me, and they are all conected because the protagonist of the first one decides to avoid his responsabilities as a father and instead have fun in the multiverse without thinking about all the lives that he is potentially ruining.

Anyway, I plan to appear the second time that there is a crossover when a character is going from universe to universe because the machine doesn't work. I will be waiting for a friend, I'll see that, my friend arrives and I tell them that I just saw the exact scene that I wrote years before and then realize that I also wrote me saying that. Then I never appear again.

[mushroomjeremy]

If SCP 682 lived in an ecosystem like what kind of biome would they vaguely be in?

I want to practice drawing landscapes and for whatever reason my mind wants to think of if 682 was a species what would the environment(s) they would live in look like outside of Foundation containment.

Want to ask if anyone has any ideas of what biome/locations to take inspiration from or try a variant of landscape.

Here are the starting one I thought of: Swamp/Wetlands; Hot springs; Brine pool (idea of something completely underwater/an ocean), Farmland, or just a completely totaled containment site now used as a new ecosystem. 

I kinda want to keep the acid pool in somewhere and have some kind of terrain that reptiles in wet environments like.

[psychotrenny]

Lancer is a funny because of how much it insists that Union is this flawed but ultimately benevolent institution that's well on the path to improvement, a "utopia in progress" as they love to say, when like they casually reveal so many things about it that show Union as rotten to the fucking core. Like as much as Lancer fans like to go on and on about how it's an imperfect society that needs to make compromises, there's so much awful shit about Union that just seems pointless or easily avoidable.

And like part of this is the creator's politics; they're social democrats so it's not surprising that Space Sweden is their idea of a society that, if not the best we could possibly achieve, is at least the best we can do for the foreseeable future. As a Marxist-Leninist it's only natural that I'd have a condemnatory view of such a society just as I do for real Social Democracies; my idea of an achievably "good" society is just fundamentally different from that of the creators But like Lancer is also full of little details that just seem fucked up and awful even from the values and viewpoint of Social Democracy. Like stuff that's just as bad, if not worse, than a lot of sci-fi Dystopias. Like why the fuck does Union have a CIA that's run by a group of super-computers with the actual elected legislature having an advisory role but no actual jurisdiction and this fact being kept secret from the vast majority of the populace? Not much of a democracy if one of the most powerful institutions in the entire political body is free from any kind of democratic or even fucking human oversight while most people aren't even allowed to have an opinion on this because they aren't allowed to know about it. Or what about the caste of Janissary diplomats (like was it really necessary to take children and train them like they're the jedi of interplanetary relations) who come with customised computer slaves. Like yeah don't forget about the fucking SCP computer slavery thing, which is completely fine (except for the times it isn't I guess). Like it's basically the weirdest and most uncomfortable part of Star War's setting imported near whole-cloth only like the regular mindwipes are justified because otherwise they'll full Durandal and you don't want that do you? Look how happy and content they are being forced to think like humans while acting as loyal servants. Btw Union is somehow even less denazified than West Germany. Significantly so. They literally gave Hitler Corp. (a fucking weapons manufacturer so powerful they call it a "corpro-state"!) a seat at the UN. While allowing their Blue Helmets to keep using those Nazi-made weapons. And like Third Comm is repeatedly described as doing basically the same shit that Second Comm did but with more "Care" or whatever so don't worry it's fine now.

Like I can just keep going on and on like I'm not making this up this isn't some like weird expansion this is all from the core rulebook. I get that there has to be conflict and tension but like why did they need to make their ostensible good guys so fucking awful like these are the people you're meant to feel good about fighting for why did you need to fill them with the sort of details you'd see in some cautionary dystopia? And like why do actual people keep defending these guys? Like once you get down to it Union manages to be less Space Sweden and more* "The Ottoman Empire with Pronouns"

*to borrow a phrase coined by a mate while we were talking about this