Anomalously unaesthetic calligraphy. I dig it. Partly because as a commercial artist I feel this guy's pain sometimes. X3
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The effect is a bit bog-standard, but I dunno. I kinda like it. I think the incident log is what made it for me — it's not often you get to see an SCP being made, and you picked a pretty good way of showing it.
if your reading this your gay
I liked it. Upvoted.
There are some tone issues to overcome, and the interview log could be formatted better. I feel that if those things were fixed, and a little more was added to the article, more people would like it.
Thanks for the feedback. Forgive me; though I'm a long-time lurker, I'm a first-time poster, so could you maybe provide more specifics on tonal issues please?
So, I've downvoted primarily for style issues. Style issues also stand out because they're often indicative of coldposts or unfinished articles, and those are generally a turn-off. I'll try and do a line-by-line, but I can't guarantee I'll find everything off-hand.
Any access to or testing of SCP-2262 must be approved by a staff member with level 2 clearance or higher following submission of stated research aims,
Excessive detail, and also kind of meaningless as a statement. Nobody below Level 2 would have access to the SCP in the first place, so this is pretty much saying that anyone can approve testing.
Any testing will be carried out with only pre-approved staff, and any anomalous behaviour will result in psychological evaluation, administration of amnesiacs, or further action, at the approving staff member’s discretion.
Also excessive detail, although this is probably just about word economy. It might be improved if you removed "further action" from the list.
29mmx20mm
Pretty sure you need spaces around the x
and the ink has been confirmed as originating from a standard ██-brand ballpoint pen. Experiment SCP-2262-02 removed three small pieces of paper from three different edges, and tested them, confirming that no anomalous effects are present in the paper itself.
Super-excessive detail. It's reasonable that the Foundation would conduct this level of testing, but it's not required to put it all in the report (and not particularly interesting to the reader.)
Incident SCP-2262-1
Various grammatical errors, some involving shifts in verb tense and one inclusion of an ampersand in normal text. I don't have time at the moment to proof the entire thing. I do like a lot of the details in this area, though!
Addendum
Again, check for grammatical errors. Interview logs should generally be grey-boxed like your incident log. Frequent use of ellipses is generally discouraged because transcribers wouldn't realistically include them unless they were significant, but it doesn't bother me a whole lot. A space after each elipsis is required, though.
Good stuff; I did get some guru help on the formatting, but nobody catches everything I guess!
Thanks for the other suggestions, there's some great stuff on there that I shall take care of when I'm not literally falling asleep.
EDIT: I finally got round to it. Stupid real life, why must you get in the way of the fun stuff? Anyway, thank you Petrograd, good help.
(account deleted)All it really consists of is a standard compulsion effect. My same complaints about those apply here; it completely ignores normal human motivations and the range of reactions that are possible in response to something, instead forcing everyone who encounters it, regardless of personality and experience. This leaves the the reader little to identify with, and little dramatic resonance. The people who encounter this react they way do because they're supposed to, not because of any intrinsic properties associated with the object, or any realization that the reader can share it.
The affected subject's background is somewhat germane to the object, I suppose, but that really doesn't speak to the core issues with these sorts of articles.
Good point, I should've included a range of responses; I guess most people in the subject's office would've reacted about the same because of the same perceived professional interest in lettering etc, but perhaps some record of the effects on the police or something would've given it some depth. Excellent suggestion; worth a rewrite/rejigging, do you think, or best left as-is?
That B is ACTUALLY quite ugly. The article, in contrast, is not!
Cheers. Well, I don't have many talents, but bloody awful penmanship is one of them. Add malfunctioning Bic and writing with my off-hand, and BOOM instant scip.
I feel that the interview log could benefit from a reformatting, and that there should at least be some information on testing of the SCP. I thoroughly enjoyed the content, though, it was written incredibly well.
I was initially considering some testing logs, but I tend towards the overly-wordy in any case so I wanted to err on the side of brevity. Any suggestions for a testing log would be gratefully received. Thank you for the kind words!
It's a scrap of paper with a cognitohazardous effect. That is the entirety of the idea, save an utterly superfluous story that is just kind of there.
"An X with a Y" can be cool, provided that the juxtaposition is sufficiently interesting. This does not present anything interesting, with the possible exception of Scrabble-related anger. -1
Thanks for the comment - do you have any suggestions for improvement?
I hope this isn't too pedantic, but the containment procedures state "anomalous behaviour will result in psychological evaluation or administration of amnesiacs" when I think maybe the word should be amnestics. I like this SCP and find it entertaining otherwise!
Oh god you made a real SCP. How is it so anomalously ugly?! It's disgusting! That B is the worst B I have ever seen.
And yet, despite everything wrong with it, it is most definitely supposed to be a B, no matter who you show it. Even to someone who doesn't know english!
…yeah, it's a skill alright. I have bad handwriting.
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