#there is no antimemetics division

[andmaybegayer]

Yoooo There Is No Antimemetics Division short film. Really good Marion Wheeler!

[arkfeather]

i found this weird book in my room this morning….i dont remember buying it…..every time i try to read it i get distracted and forget i have it…can someone help me identify this book?

happy halloween!! i wasnt actually planning on posting this today but i managed to finish it just before the hallows eve struck!

for anyone still wondering this is a handmade bookbind of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm! this is just a hardcover rebind made from a paperback i bought online so no fancy typesetting here unfortunately. BUT i am happy with the cover design at least

closeup pics and thoughts abt my process below!

i wanted to keep the covers pretty minimalistic to make the book seem more mysterious and to draw more attention to the square window i cut out of the cover boards. fun fact, that square is supposed to represent SCP-055! theres only so much i can do to represent something indescribable, but its not round, so at least i have that

originally i was planning on making the text along the spine white so it would have a sort of disappearing effect against the white fabric, but it didnt really work out so i printed just the shadow of the text instead for a there-not-there look

something i really wanted to try while making this was to paint the edges of the textblock black. i think it came out nicely! it looks neat contrasted to the white cover :p

now the ENDPAPERS!! i had actually imagined the design for these way before anything else. i tried to go for a sort of fractal pattern of fingers like the monster from Fresh Hell. i quite like it in combination with the window on the front cover :3

okay thats all thx for coming with me on my journey ^_^

[floorley]

marion wheeler character of all time. middle aged suburban mother of two. stabbed her boss to death with a fountain pen in 2008. fed the eldritch abomination trying to kill her so many useless trivia facts that now she just carries it around like a purse poodle and it would die for her. likes hiking and birding. lobotomized her husband while making out with him (she didn’t remember who he was at the time). chain smoker. slowly losing her memories of everything and everyone she’s ever loved. is on so many drugs she’s essentially trepanning herself at all times. killed god and then became god. and she’s like 4 foot 11

[sam-keeper]

There Is No Antimemetics Division reminded me why I keep coming back to speculative fiction.

---

Here's a short excerpt from qntm's novel There Is No Antimemetics Division:

Kim is so deeply buried in work at his terminal and the airlock is so quiet that he almost doesn't notice when it starts to cycle open again. "We need to check you for notes," he begins, but then he sees that Marion Wheeler is curled up in the bottom of the narrow cylinder, panting as though she just finished a marathon run. Kim holds a hand out but she shakes her head, electing to stay lying down, knees bent up to her chest, sucking down lungfuls of air. "What in the world happened in there?" Kim asks. "Just need…" she gasps, "…to breathe. Be okay in a… second. Haaaaah. I think I blacked out for a moment, might have inhaled some. Haaaaah. I think I'm okay. I remember the plan." Kim looks confused and worried for a second, then they replace him. "You shouldn't be able to remember anything… what did you do?"

Look at the bolded line. I couldn't make heads or tails of that the first time I read it. It's grammatically weird because "they" as a pronoun has an ambiguous referent. Typically one would expect an antecedent--a noun that a pronoun refers to--somewhere in the sentence or at least the paragraphs before that pronoun pops up. So, I fumble around for a second. Could it be a bizarre, metaphorical way to refer to the verb phrase in the sentence, like, confusion and worry "replace him", like completely consume all his thoughts? A pretty, if strange, turn of phrase. But no, "they" is an external entity. I might have understood more readily if the pronoun was "IT replaces him", but that's part of the fun of the sentence. Because in the span of a few words, having been exposed for just a few seconds to a toxic idea, agent Paul Kim is hollowed out and replaced as a person, and if you knew who "they" are, doing the replacing, you'd already be replaced too.

To know the antecedent is to be consumed by it.

That's the hook of There Is No Antimemetics Division. Antimemes are self-redacting concepts, and the story, told episodically and nonlinearly through a series of encounters with antimemetic anomalies, is about an antimeme so vast and monstrous that it ends the world. That probably sounds familiar if you were a Magnus Archives fan; Antimemetics Division is basically like that but more compressed, chaotic, and... seemingly more sincere about being a Creative Commons work. The novel only exists, after all, because of the creative commons work of countless contributors to the SCP Wiki, a large collaborative fiction writing project about the titular SCP Foundation. This organization exists to Secure, Contain, and Protect dangerous anomalies. The novel, then, poses a specific challenge to the Foundation: how do you contain a threat you can't remember?

Read The Rest Of The Review

[thefiresontheheight]

I start my first day at the antimemetics division

[scpaesthetics]

SCP Aesthetics: There Is No Antimemetics Division (requested by anon, written by qntm)

Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

No, this is not your first day.

(turquoise, memory, camouflage)

[estavionpira]

There Is No Antimemetics Division but its the story of a team of highly miserable PRT agents getting fucked over by every stranger on the continent.

[nonexistent-tales]

my absolute favorite part of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is when Marion Wheeler said "It's Marion Wheeling time" and Marion Wheeled all over SCP-3125

[alana-celeste-luna]

Redactober Day 28: There is No Antimemetics Division

Class: An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties

Description: "And ideas can't die"

by qntm and Sam Hughes

.

[jothb]

Got to see SCP-3125 last night, and you know what they say about meeting your heroes.

[hollydogs]

we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture

[eightyonekilograms]

This will be a fully overhauled, thoroughly rewritten version of [There Is No Antimemetics Division]. I'm calling this "version 2", and the original version "version 1". I'm still working on rewrites right now, but the draft of V2 in front of me is already (in my subjective opinion, if you value that) a mile beyond the original. There is plenty about V1 which I felt could be improved anyway, but it is frankly amazing what one can achieve with the assistance of real-life professional editors! [...]

However, all the paid ebook and print editions of V1 will be removed from sale at the end of September 2024. I can't give a precise hour and minute when they will go offline, because this isn't something I can schedule in advance, but I plan to start pushing buttons around midnight UK time on 1 October 2024. This is regrettable but unfortunately unavoidable. It should be fairly obvious why I can't continue to sell Antimemetics V1 at the same time as my publisher is selling Antimemetics V2.z [...]

The bottom line: if you are considering purchasing Antimemetics V1 in any format, either for yourself or as a gift, do this before September ends. The clock is ticking. Buy now!

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[floorley]

I keep thinking about this tweet

[starlitsunday]

i think marion wheeler should get to smoke wherever she wants. i think she can smoke in the noösphere

[hkayakh]

THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISON PART 1 IS OUT ON YOUTUBE!!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!! https://youtu.be/w-IiVeGAydE?si=B6LYUrmDUfP5O1T1

MARRION WHEELER IS ON THE PHONE SCREEN!!!