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This has already been done, and it's such a funny article, I highly recommend this read:

https://scpwiki.com/scp-5258

While I was going through my old school papers today, I found one of those trick quizzes that high school teachers who think they're terribly clever like to hand out – you know, the ones with a long, complicated series of instructions where the first instruction is "read all instructions in full before following any instruction other than this one", and the final instruction is "disregard all instructions other than first instruction and this one", and you lose a point for each preceding instruction you actually carried out – and now I desperately need to come up with an in-universe rationale for an SCP Foundation containment procedure article to be structured that way.

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Happy Birthdays to 4051 and 8980. Early and late to them

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Lillian got her vacation paid by Marinos, she is in the right bottom corner.

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Hiii!!! Time for a bunch of Flora Marinos and scp 7777 questions because i need her directly injected into my veins

1. Was 8980 sort of a "final straw" where she went: "alright buckaroo, no ms. nice girl"

2. Do you have an appearance for her in mind?

3. Was she also a target, who might've gotten killed by O5-6?

4. What age would you give her?

5. So, at the end of SCP-7777, Jones says that there are too much coincidences, does that mean that SCP-7777 is not only a conspiracy, but also an anomaly? Perhaps the wish for Foundation to face their crimes created an anomaly?

6. Would Marinos and Lillian have a good relationship if they knew eachother? And what dynamic would they have?

7. Do you think its possible for the Ethics Committee to actually fight against corruption, atleast after SCP-7777

8. Is Marinos cool as fuck?

Oh goodness, I completely forgot I had this in my asks. Sorry I took so long to write this.

1: Yep. SCP-8980 was the despair event horizon for Marinos.

2: Nothing beyond that she's older (and it shows) and white.

3: Possibly. I personally headcanon that Silverstein just got sloppy with one of the jobs and outed himself, but Marinos had experience and could stay mostly hidden.

4: Prooobably late 60s?

5: You can headcanon it, though I intended it as an entirely non-anomalous conspiracy.

6: Marinos would probably be someone Lillian goes to for advice. I'd think they'd have a good relationship.

7: Not really. They were largely complicit in the Foundation's corruption. If I rewrote 7777, I would probably have the Ethics Committee reinstate the O5 Council with new members to ensure a "balance of powers", which would emphasize their nature as faux-resistors.

8: Absolutely.

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If you want an antho entry that's a little less existentially terrifying, SCP-8822 ("Alethophobia") is one of my favorites. I highly recommend the read. It can be scary at some points but it's the fun kind of scary rather than the horrifying kind of scary.

Is there any reason why SCP 8980 was the one that affected you the most in the 2024 anthology contest? There are bunch of other scary articles on the anthology, yet you seem to be fixated on ergophobia.

Because of how much it affected me.

I am an extremely desensitized person, however somehow that article gave me that one feeling I havent felt in a long time: Dread.

Im unsure why it left such a huge impact on me, probably because of the fact that Lillian was alive and suffering.

I have the morality of: "sometimes death is better than living" and when I see shit like that I just go "I hope she didn't feel so much pain at the end"

Stuff like 8935 just brings me anger, but 8980... I brought me dread. And I haven't read all of anthology articles simply because 8980 scared the shit out of me.

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Project Moon Onion Headlines Pt 2

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one time a ranger 1 (so not law enforcement) at the state park where i worked was getting rid of a bunch of clothes so he put them all in garbage bags and dropped them off at the bunkhouse where all the seasonal employees lived and he said we could go through them before he donated them and we all took a tshirt or two and then a month later we were throwing a party and I was like "we should all wear his clothes to the party" and he came in and it took him like an hour and five drinks to suddenly be like "wait a minute.................."

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"Do they still think I am 8980?"

Yep! Another Lillian art!

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In your eyes:Whats the most appropriate punishment for bryness.

scroll down until you see him :thumbs_up:

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this lancer war is so fucked man. i just watched a nelson drive a spear into one of our mechs and vent core heat directly into it. just fucking slagged the guy. the barbarossa just fired a shot so powerful it slowed time and the camera didn't even pan over, that's how normal this shit is. i got one rifle and two grenades. i gotta get the fuck out of here

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Hi hi hi hi hi hi!!! Time to fix your inbox with questions again! :D

1. If you're not uncomfortable with answering, what is your mistake which you regret the most on the scpwiki?

2. What are your favourite works from other SCP authors?

3. If Lillian (after containment) would end up in another GoI's hands, which one would you want it to be, and how would they treat her? (For me: it would be cool for her to get transported into VANGUARD or 6001 universe... wait i have an idea for a fanfic)

4. What's your opinion on minors getting into the SCP community?

5. When writing 8980, did you feel guilt for making Lillian suffer? And did you want to flay byrnes alive?

6. Do you think it would be possible for Lillian to develop androphobia due to her abuse?

7. I noticed that Byrnes was amnesticised with class E amnestics, if we follow the upgraded amnestics guide that means he remembers everythinf, but just doesnt care about it, was this intentional?

8. Would Flora Marinos beat up Byrnes if she had a chance? (I need confirnation)

9. What would be Marinos' reaction after reading 8980? Like, how did she feel like?

10. Opinion on r/fuckdrbyrnes?

1: Definitely uncomfortable answering that one in terms of non-fictional stuff, but in terms of writing... probably putting that email at the end of SCP-5545. It was a super clunky "here's the solution, reader!" instead of letting the reader sit with a more surreal, disturbing ending. I don't plan to rewrite it at some point, but I still kick myself at how much I mishandled that article lol

2: I actually am in the process of going through everything I've written on the Wiki and compiling the best articles into a recommendations list! If you want to read what I have so far, you can check it out here!

3: This is really tough because most of them are not all that nice. If I had to pick, probably the Serpent's Hand. I feel like they'd be sympathetic.

4: This is really tough for me to answer. I joined the community as a minor myself, but had some... not so great experiences with the adults in the community (all permabanned now, thankfully). I don't know what to think about whether the Wiki should allow minors; I have deeply conflicted feelings on the topic.

5: Ouch. But yes, I did feel guilty, the entire time. Part of why it was so hard to write. I still feel guilty about it, a bit, even though I know she's a fictional character I conjured up in my own brain. I do still hate Byrnes though.

6: Absolutely. She probably did.

7: Ah, I didn't really follow the amnestics guideline. Not enough flexibility for my setting to stay faithful to it.

8: Depends how old she is and how old Byrnes is. Probably not but I wouldn't rule it out if she got mad enough and he was weak enough.

9: Dread, anger, and despair. Basically whatever my readers felt when they read it the first time :p

10: Eh. I'm glad the story was compelling enough that it got people mad enough to make a subreddit about hating its primary antagonist, but at the end of the day it does kind of miss the point about how Byrnes was enabled by systematic negligence and patriarchical tendencies. Though I guess r/fuckthesystemthatsupportedbyrnes is less catchy.

I will say, though, that I am absolutely not a fan of the fact that they used to have rule 1 forbidden posts about sympathizing with Marley. That's fucked five ways to Sunday. Happy it was removed, at least.

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Out of curiosity. 4051 is mentioned in 7777 and 8980 footnotes, even Byrnes' 8066 log. 4051 is my favorite scp, so I wanna ask about it. I'm not gonna bring up the 8980 Footnote since it's irrelevant to the following questions

7777: Can guess this myself, but if you wanna answer this (mystery purposes). Was there a specific reason 7777 brought up 4051's situation instead of directly saying Graham's crimes. Could just be wanting to mention him in the article, or maybe it was used so the Ethics Committee could "accidentally" uncover Graham's crimes.

8066: Did the research team in 8980 do experimention related things with 4051, or is it just there. Its got me thinking that if they didn't do work relating to 4051, why would Byrnes bring him up in his nightmare scenario

The consistent SCP-4051 references are mainly just homages to the original Site-17 Deepwell article (which is 4051). That said, to answer your questions:

7777: I've mentioned this once before, but originally there was no reason for this beyond it being funny. I later retconned this through 8980's implications on the combined setting, by making it so that the reason this crime was highlighted was because it was impossible to justify as serving the Foundation's mission, and therefore warranted a full investigation by the EC that the O5 approved.

8066: It's just a homage; they didn't do testing with SCP-8066 directly, Byrnes was just asked to do Steele's meaningless busywork because of SCP-8066's effects on his box of reality.

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hey! i absolutely love your scp 8590!! ive been thinking about it pretty consistently since my partner showed it me about two weeks ago and its pretty singlehandedly sent me back into a scp hyperfixation!! your story's absolutely harrowing, it frightened me more than any other one ive read.. it was really Real and hit very personally and hard.. the bit where it's commented on that she cant stop compulsively calling men sir Really fucks w me its stayed on my mind since. thank you so much for writing this scp! - i was wondering, (sorry if youve already shared/stated you dont wanna share), if you dont mind me asking, what is the concept that's taken from her under amnestics? hope you have a good day ^v^

I'm very glad you enjoyed it; welcome back to the SCP community! Hope you enjoy your return stay :)

As for the concept: I'm probably never going to reveal what I intended when I wrote the article. The article works better if it's left entirely to the reader. It matters less what was taken and moreso that he took something.

Hope you have a good day as well :)

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I kinda wondered what kind of person bryness would be outside of the SCP foundation. Hes probaly the type of guy that looks nice outside, good looking and smart, but is an obsouloute maniac behind closed Doors.

Absolutely. He couldn't retire normally or get away with what he did in 8980 if he didn't appear like your average, upstanding guy otherwise.

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Sorry that I and other people have been filling your inbox with questions, I promise I'll ask less

1. What was the hardest thing about writing 8980?

2. What inspired you to write 7777 and 8980?

3. Will you write more about the foundation after 7777?

4. How did you get into writing in general?

5. Is there any advice you want to give to new writers?

It's all good, though I try to take a break from answering every few days so people that follow me don't get bombarded by 8980 posts constantly haha.

1: I think all of it was very difficult to write, but the hardest part was — unsurprisingly — the amnestics scene. Not just because of the subject matter, but also how to convey the horror of it properly.

2: SCP-7777 was inspired by my real experience working with and in HR-like bodies. My background in psych made me come to hate Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and 7777 was basically a vent piece about how evil HR can be sometimes.

SCP-8980 was inspired by like, a bajillion things. I think I've spoken about it elsewhere, but if I went into everything that inspired SCP-8980, we'd be here all day.

3: Perhaps. I know I keep saying "maybe", but it largely depends on if I feel inspired to.

4: The SCP Wiki! Discovered it when I was young, and always wanted to write for it since then. All it took from that point was a lot of practice.

5: Read a lot! On the Wiki, off the wiki, real books, news articles, anything and everything you want to, just read a lot of it! And when you get bored of that, read something else! When you read, you begin to see all the little tips and tricks authors use in their works, and then you amalgamate that into your own style naturally, producing your own flavor and technique. Reading is the most important part of writing!

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Damn, that Mouthwashing game was real dark and depressing. Maybe a bit of good old fashioned, murder monster SCP horror would be a nice change. I wonder what new stuff is trending on the site right now <- me shortly before experiencing complete death of my faith in humanity.

Fantastically written and formatted piece, but sometimes the horror just gets too real, ya know? Might just be the AMAB shelter bubble, but this article (particularly the amnestic scene) is probably the most disturbed any piece of fiction has made me feel in the last year or so.

Would recommend to any horror fans, as long as you aren't averse to explorations of abuse. There's a full content warning linked at the top of the article.