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September 17, 2001
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Because people will inevitably ask: the previous SCP-4911 was self-deleted by its author djkaktus in June 2021.
This article's implications are somehow so clear without directly telling you anything.
Great work.
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Hi Nickthebrick1!
First off, big fan of your work!
I recommend notgull’s comment above. In my reading, the article is a call to the tragedies we have since forgotten due to the ever-marching hands of time. It is a monument to some long-lost tragedy that we have no information about and symbolizes that trauma can deeply effect a culture/community enough to build a memorial but eventually wounds heal. It’s less about what is in the writing and more about the implications of why this would be an SCP that give it depth.
Oh, hey there! Glad you like my work so far. I plan to post a lot of my stuff when series 7 is finally up!
Ah, now I see it. Even though before I hadn't understood it, I felt pulled by it. It was really weird. Did anyone felt like that or was it just me?
Aye, read this and I big like, +1 from me :D
A little nit-pick however, in the first sentence of paragraph two, you wrote mnestic instead of amnestic, lol
That's intentional. Mnestics help you remember, amnestics help you forget.
Ohhhhhh I thought it was an error, thanks for clearing that up
Another "there's something here I'm missing that everyone else is getting" SCP.
Alright, I've gathered my ideas, mulled it over a bit, here's what I think.
It feels to me like so many other things. Perhaps there's something to be said about how this is in memory of everyone who is forgotten, but that happens all the time already in real life. I am reminded of a tiny shrine on a random street near my school, of which there are candles and a bike, chained to a stop sign. Every year, it's cleaned, most likely by loved ones.
I know exactly what happened there, it was a current event until just recently. A child was accidentally killed by a truck, but so many people have already forgotten why. Now, there's a minor tradition of leaving bikes by the spot where victims of vehicular accidents died.
It's poignant in the same way this article attempts to be, only the article fails to capture that essence. I can't explain why it fails, only that it does. I'm sorry I can't come up with a better answer. But that's what I think.
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Poignant and curious. Delightful combo achieved in very few words.
Poignant, evocative of the times where i would walk pass a memorial in a foreign country without context and wonder whats this memorial for. The specificity of the stones makes me wonder what monument is this for. The fire reminds me of the Sacred Fire of Vesta
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