Another week where I didn’t get to read anything.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?


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  • veee@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    Hold up. There’s more SCP content? Is there prerequisite reading that would’ve helped the story make more sense for me?

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      20 days ago

      Oh boy, you’re in for a ride if you choose to go down this road lol. So the SCP Foundation is a wiki style serial and collaborative writing project that has been going strong since 2008. It’s a sort of spinoff of the creepypasta genre of web serial work that has a semi-codified structure. There are tens of thousands of entries at this point and the range of topics and styles is immense. There are some authors that have done far more work than others and have a sort of established mini-lore canonization that sometimes conflicts with other authors and sometimes fits nicely within them. It’s a true grab-bag of content so it’s hard to say where to begin but memtics and anti-memetics play an ENORMOUS role in many many many of the stories and concepts. edit: when this book was published as a book, they kind of changed some things around so it isnt technically part of the foundation, hence why they say “the organization” instead

      FURTHER EDIT (sorry not sorry): here is a link to an entry by qntm that serves as a basis for the beginning of what became the book, but in true SCP format meaning it is written as an entry in a government style database and follows the established format of first discussing the Special Containment Procedures of the Keter class entity. SCP-055

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        20 days ago

        That’s so interesting that the lore is created by a community, but even moreso that someone can actually author a work based on their contribution! Pretty interesting to see how far apart the first and last entries of the story were published. This is a rabbit hole I think I am ok skipping for now lol