Hosted by the Discord Critique Staff!
Greetings, denizens of Deer College, lurkers, critters, and authors alike!
It's Spring, and that means it's time for a good old-fashioned Spring Cleaning!
For the SCP Wiki, we invite everyone to clean up those cobwebs or fix up that junk. You may participate in one of two ways:
Way 1:
Cobwebs
Got something that's collecting dust? Perhaps a draft that fell behind the counter? Or an art piece that's gone untouched?
Select a project that is over 1 year old that you've always wanted to get around to. If you have multiple projects, try donating them to other people who may not have a project of their own.
You can choose to absolve yourself of the draft completely, or put it up as a collaborative effort.
During the working period, get that project up to posting quality.
Post it! (Or not, your choice. We're not your parents!)
Discuss what made you want to select this piece for your writing project, how you went about writing it now that you have revisited the concept after some time, etc., all in Deer College with your fellow Spring Cleaners.
Way 2:
Junk
Sometimes, we got a little something that shows its age. Why not give it a once over and fix it up?
Select a posted piece of yours that you've always wanted to fix up and make better.
During the working period, you can work on a copy of it in the sandbox.
Post it! (Or update it. Or not! Again, we're not your parents.)
Discuss why you felt this piece needed to be rewritten, your philosophy for doing so, and what you liked about it that originally compelled you to write it in the first place, all in Deer College with your fellow Spring Cleaners.
Way 1:
Cobwebs
Got something that's collecting dust? Perhaps a draft that fell behind the counter? Or an art piece that's gone untouched?
Select a project that is over 1 year old that you've always wanted to get around to. If you have multiple projects, try donating them to other people who may not have a project of their own.
You can choose to absolve yourself of the draft completely, or put it up as a collaborative effort. If you choose to donate a draft as a collaborator, the draft will only count as your submission for awards if you do any work on it past the donation.
During the working period, get that project up to posting quality.
Post it! (Or not, your choice. We're not your parents!)
Discuss what made you want to select this piece for your writing project, how you went about writing it now that you have revisited the concept after some time, etc., all in Deer College with your fellow Spring Cleaners.
Way 2:
Junk
Sometimes, we got a little something that shows its age. Why not give it a once over and fix it up?
Select a posted piece of yours that you've always wanted to fix up and make better.
During the working period, you can work on a copy of it in the sandbox.
Post it! (Or update it. Or not! Again, we're not your parents.)
Discuss why you felt this piece needed to be rewritten, your philosophy for doing so, and what you liked about it that originally compelled you to write it in the first place, all in Deer College with your fellow Spring Cleaners.
THE DATES
Working Begins: When this is posted!
Posting Begins: March 26th 12:01 AM EST
Posting Ends: April 19th, 12:01 AM EST. EXTENSION to May 1st, 12:01 AM EST.
Voting Period: April 19th, 12:02 AM EST — April 26th, 12:01 AM EST May 1st, 12:02 AM EST — May 8th, 12:01 AM EST
RECOGNITION
This is not a contest and there isn't a prize, but there is room for recognizing achievements! Collect a badge:
- Draft Archaeologist
- Forum Warrior
- Freshest Paint
- Votes to the Moon
- Why Use Many Word When Few Do Trick?
- Voracious Critter
- MrPurgatorio Mark of Approval
- The Collabest Of Us
- …and more!
THE GOAL
Our goal here is for everyone to revisit an old concept and improve it as best they can. This is your chance to show off your experience (or dunk on the past you). Please keep in mind that this is not a competition, but rather a group exercise for all of us!
No pressure!
THE RULES
- Follow the Site Rules. No exceptions.
- Follow the Criticism Policy.
- Follow the Discord Server's Rules.
- This is a Discord Critique Team event so if you would like to participate please join the Official SCP Discord Server (https://discord.gg/scp) and join us in the Deer College writing channels.
- You may only submit one draft/article for each category. This also counts collaborations.
- You may post to the wiki as part of this event at any point between the posting period of this event and the opening of the voting period.
- You may still post after the posting period has ended, but your article will not be considered a part of this event's running, and won't be considered for badges.
- You are encouraged, but not forced to, comment on other people's efforts to improve. We will be using the Contest tag on the Discord writing channel forums for this to keep track of everything.
- You are encouraged to highlight individuals who left insightful comments or good advice on how to improve your works.
- If you accept a donated idea, you are required to cite who you got it from as well as note if you used any of their work in your final draft. Whether or not this constitutes co-author credit is something we will leave up to both of your discretions.
- If you co-authored an article with someone, please make sure you request a member of staff to add you and your co-author to the metadata!
- All draft donations and claims must be put in this sandbox: https://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/collab:spring-cleaning. Follow the rules there as well!
- Have fun!
THE ENTRIES
COBWEB
Critter Profile: Corey! by Queerious (draft donated by
Fish^12)
SCP-8359: 3AM by CompleteIndie (draft donated by
JakdragonX)
Just Another Day by Uncle Nicolini
SCP-8055: I had a bad dream by PeppersGhost
SCP-8031: Teat by PoufyPoufson (draft donated by
IndustryStandard)
Being Known, and Other Mortifying Ordeals by Tsercele
SCP-8097: Ƿ is for the Ƿaylaid Ƿallflower by Ihp
SCP-8029: The Thousand-Year-Old Island That Got Up And Disappeared. by Dr Kira Moto
SCP-7673: Luluwa by IvanNavi
Dead Man Walking by Anorrack
SCP-8299: TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE by Stealth000 does not match any existing user name (draft donated by Lt Flops)
SCP-8286: The Lost Mother by Sushimi (draft donated by
PeppersGhost
Who's Afraid of Ulrike Meinhof by Nonaggress
SCP-6527: Anyway, by fairydoctor
nightfall++: Digital Demon Revival by JackalRelated
JUNK
Pedagon's refurbished author page! by Pedagon
SCP-8499: Echoes of the Barren and Broken by Miss Lapis and
Strange Matter
SCP-7761: Elena Rustfeld's Last Stand by MaddGasserGaton does not match any existing user name and Nonaggress
SCP-8901: Colours of Magic by Ethagon
THE REWARDS
Draft Archaeologist
Who brought the oldest drafts to work with?
Draft Archaeologist GOLD
The absolute oldest found in the ground
PeppersGhost with a draft from 2012!
Draft Archaeologist SILVER
More than 5 years old drafts dug up and available for adoption!
Draft Archaeologist BRONZE
More than 3 years old drafts dug up and available for adoption!
FORUM WARRIOR
Time to acknowledge those who vote and comment!
Djoric does not match any existing user name with the most comments
And those with the most up or downvotes:
stealth000 does not match any existing user name &
FRESHEST PAINT
Who went ham with the visuals?
Which ones were looking the tightest in that fresh coat of paint?
SCP-8299: TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE by Stealth000 does not match any existing user name & Lt Flops
And his absolute favourite: nightfall++: Digital Demon Revival by JackalRelated
Who's Afraid of Ulrike Meinhof by Nonaggress
Critter Profile: Corey! by Queerious &
Fish^12
VORACIOUS CRITTER
We looooove our critters!!
Bhomas Tourget does not match any existing user name &
Djoric does not match any existing user name &
kblacke does not match any existing user name &
riftwqlker does not match any existing user name &
tsroh &
WHY WRITE MANY WORDS?
Drafts with less than 1k words
SCP-8031 by
SCP-8055 by
Mahābhārata
Drafts with more than 10k words
SCP-8097 by
SCP-8901 by
Dead Man Walking
Who's Afraid of Ulrike Meinhof
Early Bird
First Poster
The first to post:
Critter Profile: Corey! by
The first by technicality:
Pedagon's refurbished author page! by
THE COLLABEST OF US
MRPURGATORIO'S MARK OF APPROVAL
Fly's husband has a very picky taste, so this might've been one of the hardest badges to grab! Here are his favourites:
Just Pedagon in general! And also for organising Spring Cleaning and being awesome!!
Pedagon's refurbished author page! by Pedagon
SCP-8901: Colours of Magic by Ethagon
SCP-8055: I had a bad dream by PeppersGhost
Just Another Day by Uncle Nicolini
And his absolute favourite: nightfall++: Digital Demon Revival by JackalRelated
VOTES TO THE MOON
Voted to get the most recognition, and read during the stream!
SCP-8055 I had a bad dream by PeppersGhost
With honourable mentions to:
SCP-8097: Ƿ is for the Ƿaylaid Ƿallflower by Ihp
SCP-8499: Echoes of the Barren and Broken by Miss Lapis &
Strange Matter
THE GOLDEN JACKAL'S GLOCK-191
The typo in Glock-19 is intentional.
This badge is for all participants who posted before JackalRelated did! You won the secret race!
Congratz on beating our favourite point of mockery to:
Queerious &
CompleteIndie &
Uncle Nicolini
PeppersGhost &
PoufyPoufson &
Tsercele
Ihp &
Dr Kira Moto &
IvanNavi
Anorrack & Stealth000 does not match any existing user name &
Sushimi
Nonaggress &
fairydoctor &
Pedagon
Miss Lapis &
Strange Matter
MaddGasserGaton does not match any existing user name & Ethagon
Special thanks to Fish^12 for creating these badges! Read his thoughts and upvote the art here!
Thanks to AstersQuill,
Uncle Nicolini and
Fish^12 for organising Spring Cleaning,
Uncle Nicolini and
Prismal for helping behind the scenes to set up the event stream, and to
psychicprogrammer and
Corax D for joining Fishy and me to host and read the Public Fav! And
UncertaintyCrossing for editing of course.
And all love to Pedagon!! All Hail Dinoman.
You can listen to the event here!
~Fly
