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March 12, 2024
I think this is someone's way of categorizing SCP 002 to 1000 on GoodReads, but the description for this "book" is definitely lacking. So, for people who randomly find this page, let me explain and sell to you why you should read SCP.
SCP is a wiki-based website where users submit and edit short stories. It is essentially like creepy pasta, but it has some very specific format conventions that you will either love or hate. Each story takes the form of a lab/field report from the SCP Foundation and utilizes a detached, clinical tone to describe something that is unexplainable by modern science. SCP stands for both Secure Containment Protocol and the creed and duty of the organization behind all of this: "Secure, Contain, Protect". If you like unreliable narration, clinical/scientific tone, existential/cosmic horror, and the shadowy-organization-controlling-the-world trope, I highly recommend giving this a try.
There is no real order to SCP, but I suggest starting with the first one ever written: SCP-173 (https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173). Don't immediately read 001, you will just be confused. Here's a short list of my personal favorites if you have trouble figuring out what to read after that: (https://telegra.ph/SCPs-I-like-03-01). If you read those, you will be acquainted enough with the format and canon of the universe to begin reading SCP-001.
I'm not going to lie, SCP makes you work to understand it. It is by nature inaccessible and opaque, and much of the intrigue and fun comes from piecing the stories together yourself. They have a newcomers guide on the front page, but the only way to really understand SCP is just by diving in headfirst and learning to swim by yourself. My advice is to open every link that you see in every article you read, and allow yourself to absorb the universe that the collective authors have crafted. The writing is amateurish and pulpy at times and it is difficult to navigate the thousands of stories, but there are more original ideas in here than anything I've ever read or seen in theaters. Have fun!
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MY ACTUAL REVIEW:
It is no secret that SCP has gone downhill in recent years. While it has always been a place for amateur authors to experiment online, I feel that most of the stuff written after 4000 is just not worthwhile. This is readily apparent when looking at the top rated articles of all time, as even though the site has ballooned in recent years, the earliest stuff is still the most popular. I'm not saying that everything before 4000 is gold, in fact I think the majority of it is crap, but there is very little that compares to the original series.
I mostly blame this on the sites increased popularity. As new users stream in, the site becomes increasingly bland and accessible, and new entries either veer towards vanilla or ridiculously avante-garde. A lot of modern pages seem more concerned with the aesthetics of the page over the actual material they're writing about (looking at the superficial custom page styling), and quite a few stories have blatant and shameless OC inserts. Additionally, many new entries seem very concerned with trying to fit into the overarching mythos, leading to egregious amounts of crossovers. This makes the writing seem insecure, as they are overly reliant on other people's work and not the strength of their own concepts, and leads to the articles seeming hollow when read in isolation. While some of the original articles had these things, it feels as though there has been a massive uptick in this as of late. I don't think that this can be salvaged, as SCP is a community, and communities are very difficult to control and curate.
When discussing SCP representation outside of the site, the three biggest pieces of media that come to mind is the game Containment Breach, the short film SCP Overlord, and the animated series Confinement. I bring this up mainly to sh*t on Lord Bung, the creator of Confinement. The situation with him makes me livid. He had hundreds of thousands of fans and supporters, thousands of dollars of patreon money streaming in, and the coveted title of "successful artist", and he threw it all away to smoke weed with his freeloading friend and blow up the series by making softcore porn instead of episode 8. What a travesty.
However, I think the early stuff is required reading for anyone into horror. Some of the stories in here surpass Lovecraft on a conceptual level and serve as my standard for cosmic horror when evaluating other works. It feels weird rating SCP, as it's a living work of art that's constantly changing. I'm rating this 3 stars because most of it is schlock, but the diamonds in here are f-ing magical.
SCP is a wiki-based website where users submit and edit short stories. It is essentially like creepy pasta, but it has some very specific format conventions that you will either love or hate. Each story takes the form of a lab/field report from the SCP Foundation and utilizes a detached, clinical tone to describe something that is unexplainable by modern science. SCP stands for both Secure Containment Protocol and the creed and duty of the organization behind all of this: "Secure, Contain, Protect". If you like unreliable narration, clinical/scientific tone, existential/cosmic horror, and the shadowy-organization-controlling-the-world trope, I highly recommend giving this a try.
There is no real order to SCP, but I suggest starting with the first one ever written: SCP-173 (https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173). Don't immediately read 001, you will just be confused. Here's a short list of my personal favorites if you have trouble figuring out what to read after that: (https://telegra.ph/SCPs-I-like-03-01). If you read those, you will be acquainted enough with the format and canon of the universe to begin reading SCP-001.
I'm not going to lie, SCP makes you work to understand it. It is by nature inaccessible and opaque, and much of the intrigue and fun comes from piecing the stories together yourself. They have a newcomers guide on the front page, but the only way to really understand SCP is just by diving in headfirst and learning to swim by yourself. My advice is to open every link that you see in every article you read, and allow yourself to absorb the universe that the collective authors have crafted. The writing is amateurish and pulpy at times and it is difficult to navigate the thousands of stories, but there are more original ideas in here than anything I've ever read or seen in theaters. Have fun!
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MY ACTUAL REVIEW:
It is no secret that SCP has gone downhill in recent years. While it has always been a place for amateur authors to experiment online, I feel that most of the stuff written after 4000 is just not worthwhile. This is readily apparent when looking at the top rated articles of all time, as even though the site has ballooned in recent years, the earliest stuff is still the most popular. I'm not saying that everything before 4000 is gold, in fact I think the majority of it is crap, but there is very little that compares to the original series.
I mostly blame this on the sites increased popularity. As new users stream in, the site becomes increasingly bland and accessible, and new entries either veer towards vanilla or ridiculously avante-garde. A lot of modern pages seem more concerned with the aesthetics of the page over the actual material they're writing about (looking at the superficial custom page styling), and quite a few stories have blatant and shameless OC inserts. Additionally, many new entries seem very concerned with trying to fit into the overarching mythos, leading to egregious amounts of crossovers. This makes the writing seem insecure, as they are overly reliant on other people's work and not the strength of their own concepts, and leads to the articles seeming hollow when read in isolation. While some of the original articles had these things, it feels as though there has been a massive uptick in this as of late. I don't think that this can be salvaged, as SCP is a community, and communities are very difficult to control and curate.
When discussing SCP representation outside of the site, the three biggest pieces of media that come to mind is the game Containment Breach, the short film SCP Overlord, and the animated series Confinement. I bring this up mainly to sh*t on Lord Bung, the creator of Confinement. The situation with him makes me livid. He had hundreds of thousands of fans and supporters, thousands of dollars of patreon money streaming in, and the coveted title of "successful artist", and he threw it all away to smoke weed with his freeloading friend and blow up the series by making softcore porn instead of episode 8. What a travesty.
However, I think the early stuff is required reading for anyone into horror. Some of the stories in here surpass Lovecraft on a conceptual level and serve as my standard for cosmic horror when evaluating other works. It feels weird rating SCP, as it's a living work of art that's constantly changing. I'm rating this 3 stars because most of it is schlock, but the diamonds in here are f-ing magical.
October 15, 2024
Some of the smartest, coolest, creepiest, most thought-provoking fiction i’ve ever read; interspersed with garbage written by children.
Teenage years well wasted.
(Assuming this “book” represents the first 1000 wiki entries, but the review applies to the whole wiki)
Teenage years well wasted.
(Assuming this “book” represents the first 1000 wiki entries, but the review applies to the whole wiki)
October 8, 2022
this book is cool
and I like it
and I like it
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 17, 2022
Nice book
Read
August 3, 2023Ghg
June 27, 2022
Guys Is My Final Day The Day I Will Escape From Scp 096 And 173 And Im Explode The Foundation But this is A Secret Base
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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