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T Rutherford 28 May 2021 21:01

I can't understand

But still I call you when I'm down

Left under the plan

Anymore to where I find

You came around


Far Caspian - Warning Sign

So, Avalon.

I wrote this in pretty direct contrast to SCP-5000. What if the SCP Universe declared war? Well what if the SCP Universe declared peace? And what if it had talking cats!?

I think, in the time between now and our last K contest, we've all had a bit too much horror. I wanted to write something a bit more up-beat, a bit more hopeful. I don't know if this story is K-worthy - I don't even know if it's SCP article worthy! But it's the story I wanted to tell, and I hope you enjoyed it.

Edit: Thanks so much for the support so far everyone!

Edit 2: Thank you morhadow for the Spanish translation of this article! Check it out here!

Edit 3: Fanart! Glorious fanart! This beautiful piece by Nihonio, and this amazing collage by Dodo!

Assorted Spoilers:

Avalon isn't a very spoiler-heavy article. It's a straightforward story about a universe where everything turns out a bit more for the better.

In case anyone was wondering, the alt-universe GOI featured here are:

1. "The Wanderers of all Creation" - Wanderers Library, Chaos Insurgency, Serpents Hand
2. "The Unbound Charity" - Manna Charitable Foundation, Wondertainment
3. "The Synthetic Assemby" - Andersons Robotics, Church of the Broken God
4. "The Partnership of Three" - Marshall, Carter, and Dark
5. "The Artists Cultural Collective" - Are We Cool Yet?
6. "The Absent Party" - Nobody
7. "The Workshop Union" - The Factory, Prometheus Labs
8. "The Shared Apex Ascension" - Wilsons Wildlife Solutions
9. "The Nightland Covenant" - SCP-1000, Bigfoot
10. "The Watchers Forum" - Parawatch, Gamers Against Weed
11. "The Unnamed" - SCP-4000, the Fae
12. "The Global Peacekeeping Initiative" - GOC, UIU
13. "The Foundation" - The SCP Foundation.

Given there's around 100 references in this piece, it'll be a bit of a task listing them all out. Maybe once the contest is over.

Nature reasoning:

1. "Avalon" is about a universe, on a surface level, focused on ecological harmony. Green architecture, sustainable infrastructure, total veganism.
2. The world of Avalon itself is an ecosystem in balance - with people, animals, and anomalies living together.
3. The central theme of the story is human nature, and if the world of Avalon is actually all that different, or if it's just a reality where people made different choices.

Image credits

Main SCP-6000 image taken personally during my trip to Japan. Icons created personally, but also using these CC compliant icons:

https://openclipart.org/detail/8805/electronic-circuit-crossing-symbol

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Pagan_religions_symbols_-_4_rows.png

https://thenounproject.com/term/gear/6052/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Popular_culture_atom_symbol.svg

https://pixabay.com/vectors/moon-full-moon-cloudy-clouds-98535/

Thank you for reading.

Current slot preferences:
1. 6000 (unlikely, but hey!)
2. 6001 (most likely)
3. 6999 (just in case Storm and Asmallard change their minds)
4. 6002
5. 6006
6. 6060

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Last edited on 19 Jul 2021 12:43 by T Rutherford Show more

C-Dives 30 May 2021 06:38

Sorry, T Rutherford, but there is one problem with your image credit. Pixabay has adapted their own custom license, which is not compliant with the SCP Wiki image policy (see here), since January of 2019; and this was uploaded in 2020. Therefore, I don't think icons that contain this element can be used under CC BY-SA 3.0, although I couldn't identify which icons specifically fall under this category.

T Rutherford 30 May 2021 16:54

Hey C-Dives! Actually, non-issue on that one. The "Collective" icon I created didn't use that graphic - I added it to the list before I realized just using a 3/4ths circle and a warped line works just as well. Removed from the list, all good.

C-Dives 31 May 2021 13:07

I understand. Thank you for your quick response!

tomatok 20 Aug 2021 02:22

This has become one of my most favorite articles of all time. I would love for more articles in this universe. I find it weird that the Watchers Forum exists though. Internet trolls and conspiracy theorists having the same power as the SCP Foundation is confusing.

twinnedlamps 21 Sep 2021 19:56

You did a wonderful job.

This may be one of the most beautiful things I have ever read.
Thank you for sharing your work with us.

Edit: sorry, I made a mistake on who I was reaponding to

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Thuja 14 Oct 2021 23:59

This is mind-blowingly beautiful, yet poignant, charming, and fiendishly clever. I'm really, really impressed by your ability to flip both the Foundation's mindset and human behavior upside-down to show a world where entities [have learned to?] coexist as their default reaction. I think PeppersGhost's deadly reptile calling the society "not disgusting anymore" was one of the best moments… and I loved what you did for poor, poor 173, which along with its image license, has been so misused over the years. And you made it all easy to understand by starting us out simple, with the Everywhere Chair.

Seriously, if I hadn't recently tearfully mourned a beloved mentor and pillar of the local community, I would have cried over this narrative. I read most of it while on the verge of crying, and there's two things you need to understand about that. First, I have a natural talent for compartmentalizing my emotions, and second, I have a habit of tearing up when I come across a narrative moment that I find to be not just utterly cool, but *essentially perfect.* When the creator "gets it," in my personal opinion.

I have been sitting on my hands and procrastinating joining the SCP Wiki and posting my own SCPs and introductory tale, because I have a thing about applications. But I couldn't keep silent about Avalon. You deserve recognition, and while it still took me a week to get around to it, you motivated me to finally apply. This is my first ever post on the Wiki, after enjoying the SCP for 4 years. Well done, and I wish I had been there to upvote it for the contest.

Very well done.

probably the best "alternate foundation" article on this site.

coldcoleslaw 04 Aug 2022 15:20

I generally -1 articles that include an altered foundation that's either too perfect or too cruel and cartoonishly evil. the beauty of the foundation for me lies in the fact that they're flawed but necessary, cold, not cruel, and also barely keeping it together what with stuff like scp-3930, scp-682, scp-3125, etc. lying around and everything else going on in the world behind the Veil. you've somehow managed to preserve that while making it super wholesome and basically entirely removing all the coldness and cruelty. I don't really like stuff like 682 and the legendary 173 being turned non-hostile because in my mind they're as much a constant in foundation-related stories as the foundation itself, but then again there's no canon and you pulled it off beautifully.

Re: probably the best "alternate foundation" article on this site.

TheIronBird 19 Aug 2022 10:50

It was my understanding of the 173 bit that it still very much could go on killing rampage.
It's just that it hasn't been neglected to a state of disrepair and due to proper "advertisement" and ambiguous teleportation it never ceases to have visitors outside of a designated period.

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Placeholder McD 28 May 2021 21:59

This thing has quite a few grammatical errors — you almost always use the contraction "it's" instead of the possessive "its", among other things. That's totally understandable given the length of this work; I suggest you use Grammarly or some other word processor to comb through this.

That aside, I want to commend you for this. This was long and it kept my attention the whole time. This kind of sci-fi fantasy stuff is fantastic — the way you recognizably referenced the reimagined potential of various important site skips like 173, 682, 4999 etc was just superb, and I think the decision not to crosslink them made them feel more earned when I recognized them as a reader. The reimagined versions of each of the major Groups of Interest was also incredible.

I would be jealous to have written this. It's a fantastic homage to the SCP Wiki project, criticism of the Foundation's ideology, and its message is optimistic and uplifting. The characters feel wonderfully real and lived in. Of all the entries I've seen so far, this feels most deserving of the 6k slot.

T Rutherford 28 May 2021 22:29

Thank you so much Placeholder McD. That means a lot!

The whole its it's thing is more than just a grammar issue - it's a weird mental block. Like, I'll read it during editing and my brain will completely skip over "do I meant its or it is?" I have no idea why it happens. Must have been something that happened when I was learning English.

Regardless! Your vote is really appreciated. Thanks for the read!

bigslothonmyface 28 May 2021 22:11

this has become my pick to win. what a lovely thing. immediate and deserved +1

T Rutherford 28 May 2021 22:30

Woo! Thanks bigslothonmyface! I'm glad you liked it.

Hexick 28 May 2021 22:14

Excellent as always, T.

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T Rutherford 28 May 2021 22:30

Appreciated as always, H :)

OriTiefling 28 May 2021 22:55

When Sloth shared this with me as his pick for 6k I was skeptical. There's been several huge 6ks so far that I imagined it would be sincerely hard to top them.

You did that.

This could have been a narrative about impending doom. This could have been a story about our inability to fight against an objectively superior reality. This could have become a piece dedicated entirely to references to other SCPs. There's a lot of things this could have been. Instead this was an intimate character study that not only makes us reconsider the nature of what the Foundation contains, but also makes us reflect on what nature itself means.

This was an excellent work, and has also become my pick to win. Sincerely, well done.

T Rutherford 28 May 2021 23:10

You wanna' make me blush? Cuz you're gonna make me blush. Thanks so much for the kind words, and vote! I'm glad you enjoyed the article.

OriTiefling 29 May 2021 00:14

You are very welcome. This was one of the best articles I've read on this site.

+1

(account deleted) 28 May 2021 23:08

I greatly enjoyed this entry!
Felt very fresh and different, and wonderfully written!

Re: +1

T Rutherford 28 May 2021 23:10

Cheers cold_Nights!

MuseofScience 29 May 2021 02:10

Man, I'd give everything to live in that beautiful, wacky, surreal, intelligent, magical, peaceful world, where anomalies are respected and loved. What a lovely, adorable world. Primrose was a sweetheart. I wish to give you more than an upvote +1

T Rutherford 29 May 2021 13:16

You did! You gave me an upvote AND a very encouraging message. Thanks MuseofScience :)

Tenthyr 29 May 2021 03:41

This was lovely, and sad. Lovely because sometimes you just want to depict a better world, and sad your world doesn't live up to it. And a definite kind of yearning, from getting from one to the other. If nothing else it made the story one well worth reading.

T Rutherford 29 May 2021 13:16

I'm glad :) All good stories should leave you feeling just a little sad at the end, if only for the fact it's over.

Grigori Karpin 29 May 2021 05:20

It’s My Neighbor Totoro, Alice in Wonderland, mixed with truly wonderful speculative fiction.

Also, this should be much higher. It’s beautiful.

+1

T Rutherford 29 May 2021 13:18

Thanks Grigori Karpin, I'm hoping it will rise up the ranks! I only posted it yesterday. And you're right - especially since I based the opening image and several "chapters" on my time in Japan. This definitely carried over some of my time at the Ghibli museum :)

+1

Limeyy 29 May 2021 14:23

Wikidot doubleposted, my bad.

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