She Remembered Me / Discussion

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We have a containment breach.

DrChandra 04 Aug 2017 02:21

First and foremost, neither of the songs sung by the characters in this tale are orignal works by me. The first is I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls from The Bohemian Girl, and the second is The Phantom of the Opera, from The Phantom of the Opera.

Here's a couple of links to my favourite covers of these songs to accompany this tale.

Second, thanks to my beta readers: Nekromycon, Shio, Sly161, PrimeCore, Varaxous, Wogglebug and BananaRepublic (sorry for not linking). Opinion was pretty spilt on whether or not I should keep the second part of this tale in, but I ultimately decided to keep it. Thanks also to Accelerando for creating SCP-1860, one of my favourite Herman Fuller SCPs, and of course thanks to PeppersGhost for creating the Circus in the first place.

Finally, if you are a fan of this tale series, I just want to make it clear that this is not the end of the series, just this arc. I have four or five more tales I want to post in this series (whether or not they all survive is another matter) and by the time I write all of those I may very well have had new tale ideas.

Thank you all for your readership, and have a Disquieting day.

Accelerando 04 Aug 2017 03:34

Never thought I'd see 1860 characterized in a tale (OR getting out of busted out of containment), so I couldn't help but smile reading this. Hearty +1.

DrChandra 04 Aug 2017 03:52

Very glad you liked it. I was concerned you might object. I'm going to push my luck even further and ask if you would possibly consider adding an addendum/incident report to SCP-1860 noting that he's breached containment, with a link to this tale? I realize the answer is probably no, but I just thought I'd ask.

Roget 04 Aug 2017 23:58

I enjoyed the 1860 scenes, but the melodramatic hostage scene isn't much fun until you get to the conclusion. The MC&D scene has highly amusing descriptions and has a good time with nomenclature but the dialogue feels cliche.

Overall it felt like this leaned a little too hard into the cartoonish side of Fuller and lost some of the grounding earlier entries in this series carried with them to earn their more outrageous moments.

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MalyceGraves 06 Nov 2019 17:40

Necroposting, but I don't care.

I thought that this was a lovely callback to the horrifying anguish clearly expressed in V's skip. Abandonment is such a powerful and horrifying emotion to be lost in, and I'm actually really glad to see V find his way home.

I know that the SCP universe is supposed to be bleak and full of existential horror, but I think one of the draws of the Circus is that sometimes you just have to laugh in the face of all that horror.

Anyway, +1 for you, better late than never, eh?

We're all beautiful in our depravity.

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Zyn 07 Nov 2019 06:22

Necroposting, but I don't care.

General note, necroposting is okay if the discussion is still ongoing (not something like a draft review thread that the author is no longer working on) and the new comment contributes meaningfully to the discussion. You're fine here.