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Ah yes, the wonderful world of SCPs. When I first discovered the subreddit[0] I read through a ton of them. Some are very well written and the whole universe is

Ah yes, the wonderful world of SCPs. When I first discovered the subreddit[0] I read through a ton of them. Some are very well written and the whole universe is very interesting. Would recommend to anyone interested in sci-fi. 0. https://old.reddit.com/r/scp https://old.reddit.com/r/scp

Severian 5y ago
The Antimemetics Division stories are very well written, and make for some great reading. http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub Imagine fighting something that actively eats any knowledge about itself and anything you know about it, including yourself.
- MrRadar 5y ago
  You can now buy it as an e-book or paperback from the original author: https://qntm.org/scp https://qntm.org/scp
  - isoprophlex 5y ago
    I can highly HIGHLY recommend reading this. I blazed through it within 24 hours. Favorite pun: "digitized" to describe being absorbed by a monster consisting of a mass of fingers...
  - ohazi 5y ago
    If you like this, you should also consider reading qntm's other work -- I thought `Ra` and `Fine Structure` were particularly good: https://qntm.org/fiction https://qntm.org/fiction
    - Severian 5y ago
      Oh wow! I didn't know he was the same author. I've been looking all over for the Fine Structure website since reading it ages ago and lost my bookmark. Thank you!
  - inasio 5y ago
    Highly recommend. One of my favourite books from last year, probably the most surprising one. It reads like one coherent book, not just a collection of short stories.
- ball_of_lint 5y ago
  Loved this series. IMO many scp hubs/stories are low-quality or have unsavory themes. This series avoids the worst of that and tackles a difficult problem in a thoughtful way.
kuu 5y ago
Just give some context about what is the SCP (I had no clue): https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP_Foundation https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP_Foundation
delecti 5y ago
For a time, I read through hundreds of them, but then I had a bad trip involving seeing a lot of imagery from them, and it rather soured me on reading more.
- jerf 5y ago
  Yeah, if you're in the habit of taking such trips, I think I'd recommend considering very carefully whether you want to start reading through that wiki. There are some real-life, no fooling psychologically-hazardous things to read on there.
  - silicon2401 5y ago
    Any recommendations on those hazardous things?
    - jerf 5y ago
      Obviously, by the nature of the question, existential horror trigger warning. Further, bear in mind that your reactions may vary; none of these particularly bother me because for better or worse I have my own solid opinions on such matters. A lot of people have a bad reaction to http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 . An entire "canon" (collection of stories and sometimes some SCP entries) that can be similarly rough is http://www.scpwiki.com/end-of-death-hub http://www.scpwiki.com/end-of-death-hub . Here's a roughly-equivalent reddit question: https://www.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/ai3aik/recommendations_of_the_scariest_scps_to_read/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/ai3aik/recommendations... & if you're serious, by all means feel free to post your question there, the community as a whole never tires of answering it (no sarcasm). But I would just say in general that if you've got a "hole" in your psyche, hundreds of writers across thousands of articles will eventually find it. No joke. For instance, I'm sure a lot of people would just bounce off of http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5045 http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5045 but it spoke to me, probably because I've played rather too many video games from an era where those sorts of graphics were current and I've got neural pathways adding overtones related to the graphics that a younger person probably doesn't. (But said younger person might have found Herobrine stories legitimately spooky at some point.) (5045 is a bit of a "format screw", which is to say, it has stuff hidden beyond the usual text, images, and clearly-labelled expandable drop-downs that most of the Wiki is built with. Be sure to click on the images as you go along. Most images in the Wiki don't do anything but many of these do. But not all.)
protomyth 5y ago
I gotta admit that playing a bunch of the SCP animations on youtube is pretty entertaining. Multiple channels do a nice job of bringing life to the entries.

Severian 5y ago

The Antimemetics Division stories are very well written, and make for some great reading. http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub Imagine fighting something that actively eats any knowledge about itself and anything you know about it, including yourself.

MrRadar 5y ago
You can now buy it as an e-book or paperback from the original author: https://qntm.org/scp https://qntm.org/scp
- isoprophlex 5y ago
  I can highly HIGHLY recommend reading this. I blazed through it within 24 hours. Favorite pun: "digitized" to describe being absorbed by a monster consisting of a mass of fingers...
- ohazi 5y ago
  If you like this, you should also consider reading qntm's other work -- I thought `Ra` and `Fine Structure` were particularly good: https://qntm.org/fiction https://qntm.org/fiction
  - Severian 5y ago
    Oh wow! I didn't know he was the same author. I've been looking all over for the Fine Structure website since reading it ages ago and lost my bookmark. Thank you!
- inasio 5y ago
  Highly recommend. One of my favourite books from last year, probably the most surprising one. It reads like one coherent book, not just a collection of short stories.
ball_of_lint 5y ago
Loved this series. IMO many scp hubs/stories are low-quality or have unsavory themes. This series avoids the worst of that and tackles a difficult problem in a thoughtful way.

kuu 5y ago

Just give some context about what is the SCP (I had no clue): https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP_Foundation https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP_Foundation

delecti 5y ago

For a time, I read through hundreds of them, but then I had a bad trip involving seeing a lot of imagery from them, and it rather soured me on reading more.

jerf 5y ago
Yeah, if you're in the habit of taking such trips, I think I'd recommend considering very carefully whether you want to start reading through that wiki. There are some real-life, no fooling psychologically-hazardous things to read on there.
- silicon2401 5y ago
  Any recommendations on those hazardous things?
  - jerf 5y ago
    Obviously, by the nature of the question, existential horror trigger warning. Further, bear in mind that your reactions may vary; none of these particularly bother me because for better or worse I have my own solid opinions on such matters. A lot of people have a bad reaction to http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 . An entire "canon" (collection of stories and sometimes some SCP entries) that can be similarly rough is http://www.scpwiki.com/end-of-death-hub http://www.scpwiki.com/end-of-death-hub . Here's a roughly-equivalent reddit question: https://www.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/ai3aik/recommendations_of_the_scariest_scps_to_read/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/ai3aik/recommendations... & if you're serious, by all means feel free to post your question there, the community as a whole never tires of answering it (no sarcasm). But I would just say in general that if you've got a "hole" in your psyche, hundreds of writers across thousands of articles will eventually find it. No joke. For instance, I'm sure a lot of people would just bounce off of http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5045 http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5045 but it spoke to me, probably because I've played rather too many video games from an era where those sorts of graphics were current and I've got neural pathways adding overtones related to the graphics that a younger person probably doesn't. (But said younger person might have found Herobrine stories legitimately spooky at some point.) (5045 is a bit of a "format screw", which is to say, it has stuff hidden beyond the usual text, images, and clearly-labelled expandable drop-downs that most of the Wiki is built with. Be sure to click on the images as you go along. Most images in the Wiki don't do anything but many of these do. But not all.)

protomyth 5y ago

I gotta admit that playing a bunch of the SCP animations on youtube is pretty entertaining. Multiple channels do a nice job of bringing life to the entries.