+1
I really enjoyed this - especially the message from Vincent. A minor nit:
replacing the existing sphere if it has not been removed from the briefcase.
Do you mean "if it has been removed"?
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Nope! The briefcase will overwrite replace any sphere that was already inside it, even if you were halfway done painting it.
Remember to always save your work.
it think this is a good article but using the β instead of a B doesn't really make sense as the foundation would usually use a -B unless they're German or something, i think just a B would fit better otherwise good article
(account deleted)I love how inventive and thought-provoking this idea is! This might end up being an unpopular opinion, but I think the article might actually be better without the final note (unless you have planned any story ideas or plot hooks related to it…) — I know the common refrain is that you shouldn't just write a thing that does a thing, but I gather that's mainly because things that do things tend to be unoriginal and overdone; this one is clearly neither of those. On the contrary it seems like most of the article is set up almost perfectly to be highly intriguing and thought-provoking, raising big questions and then answering them by creating new questions, with a wonderful genre shift from something resembling magical realism to something more akin to cosmic horror (horror isn't quite the right word, but it's cosmic in the same sense that cosmic horror is), and then the last note completely ruins that, in an attempt to give the anomaly a backstory, by making a non-sequitur genre shift to something sci-fi-comedy-ish, answering the all-important question of "why does this anomaly exist" in a way that can't possibly be anything but a letdown after the incredible buildup. Maybe that double subversion is what you were going for, but it really does feel like a letdown — in my opinion that question would be better left unanswered. That's aside from the fact that "message from aliens about something that's mundane for them but out of the ordinary for us" is becoming an overused trope here in its own right…
As it is, it's an excellent concept and a pretty good article, but I think it could be a truly great one if it simply left well enough alone at the end.
You usually need to put in a title for your scp on the mainlist but otherwise I liked it. Keep up the good work
I would've added the title in hours ago if the site goblin didn't keep edit-blocking me. Infernal thing refuses to publish my edits to the mainlist.
This is refreshingly creative. Kudos to you. +1 the day it was posted. I have just recommended it to someone new to the site.
Writing-wise, it captures the zeitgeist of simplicity that I love about Series I and marries it with the elaboration and formatting aesthetic of Series IV onwards. I would love to see this spill over into a tale or other article!
Are Claude and Vincent references to Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh?
Thank you for confirming! Is David a reference, too?
I can neither confirm nor deny that the instance of David here refers to a Jacques-Louis David who may or may not have been experimenting with modernist art styles.
It is credit hours.
The tilt shift photo of the valley is by Daniele Oberti, under CC.
The image of the sphere is a stone cannonball from the Ghent City Museum at https://stamgent.be/nl_be/collectie/kunstwerken/ZNR_0290_19. Should be under CC or public domain.
Special thanks to CrystalMonarch for review!
The first image is from here, and is under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, which is not compatible with CC BY-SA 3.0.
The second image does not have an explicit license release on it, so it is assumed to be All Rights Reserved. Images are not Creative Commons or under public domain unless there is a license release.
Both images have since been removed.
Have a +1 for a nice SCP. I just have one question: What is the diameter of the β spheres?
It would help me imagine what painting one would be like if I knew their size. Is it like a huge canvas or a tiny TTRPG miniature?
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