SCP-8448 / Discussion

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Mew-ltiverse 19 Mar 2024 23:20

I got the idea for this piece because I wanted to do a weirdcore article, and weirdcore is great for exploring themes of trauma. One of my headmates wrote one of the logs and he also did a lot of editing of the lines for me and brainstormed with me, so I credited him as working on it with me!

I based some of what Ilya went through based on my own experiences, so I quite like this one. Didn't think I'd ever contribute to an SCP, but this one is a bit different. - J

I quickly grew to really like Ilya, I've got some more art piece ideas with him. Part of the idea for this was "don't silence trauma victims, cause in the SCP universe, the trauma may become sapient and angry".

But translating to IRL, don't silence trauma victims. The feelings we have are valid, we deserve kindness, and patience, and that preferring that we just "suck it up" or mask it instead of getting proper help or being given the patience we need is just detrimental for everyone, not just the person affected. - J

Also my first successful esoteric! (ignore 4787, that one doesn't have an object class :p) For taggers, the object class is not pending, it is either "dream" or "More than a dream, and more than a memory."! So it is an esoteric class!

I got so lucky finding that mouth sweatshirt, it absolutely had those weirdcore vibes I wanted to evoke with The Hollowness

Thank you Queerious for the ending idea and also that snippet by Prof. Bowers, the snippet features an edited version of something she wrote as an idea of what to go with; J and I loved the ending idea so much

Crit (while unfinished): T0wnhouse, DrSoot, Queerious, DianaBerry
Crit: Queerious, Juke/Bhomas, katherineb, Nethermoose01, T0wnshark/T0wnhouse, astersquill, nykacolaquantum

OiVM is Dr. Fullham's creation

Last edited on 19 Mar 2024 23:38 by Mew-ltiverse Show more

Re: Author Post

t0wnhouse 19 Mar 2024 23:27

saw this in your sandbox and had so much fun reading and critting!! :3 glad you got it up finally so I could +1 it

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And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; / Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Re: Author Post

Mew-ltiverse 19 Mar 2024 23:29

Thank you! Thanks for sticking with it and giving me crit along the way!

+1

Queerious 19 Mar 2024 23:53

I loved this piece back when I first read it, and with all of the changes it's been through it's only gotten stronger - so happy to see this up!

I'm glad I could help inflict the vision on everybody at the site, and help win another victory against amnestics <3

Re: +1

Mew-ltiverse 20 Mar 2024 00:05

Thank you so much! Yeah I loved the idea of everyone having to experience the feeling of nearly dying, when you experience something yourself its much easier to not want to suppress the pain it causes. Also loved further proving the danger of amnestics <3

(account deleted) 20 Mar 2024 02:24

Articles that go max surreal like this tend to flop for me, because it loses the tension between the real and knowable and the shit-that-shouldn't-be-like-that. When it goes all gung-ho surreal, unless it is a one in a million article, I tune out because it feels like nothing matters.

Beyond that, the logs feel like they go in circles and muddy the point, and regardless of the invocation of the -core affix I don't feel like this presents a coherent aesthetic beyond "sorta kinda like a cut-up zine, in a way that makes me really want a cut-up zine article"

Mew-ltiverse 20 Mar 2024 02:34

I’ll be real here I don’t really understand what you’re saying 😭 but thanks for reading and I’m sorry it didn’t land for you, even I think surreal pieces are hit or miss, I just thought it would be fun to give it a shot ya know?

(account deleted) 20 Mar 2024 02:45

The cut-up zine bit? Just that the images look like those you'd find in a cut-up zine (where you cut up a bunch of magazines and glue the images and text back together into a new thing), but they mostly just make me go "man, a cut-up zine would be a really cool gimmick for an article."

Mew-ltiverse 20 Mar 2024 02:49

Yeah that’s what I didn’t get, thanks for clearing that up!

ProblemPal 20 Mar 2024 13:34

Cool article but there's a couple writing issues I noticed whilst reading through:

The content warning seems to be incomplete

Next to him was an empty bottle that contained a small rock inside.

If the bottle had a rock inside, it wasn't empty.

I also noticed a couple words that seemed to be in the wrong order but didn't write down where.

starlitsunday 14 Apr 2024 12:04

i love the weirdcore aspect, and i love works about multiplicity and trauma :) ilya's protector is a Good Egg

Mew-ltiverse 17 Apr 2024 14:58

Thank you! I’m glad you like it! This piece wasn’t written to be about plurality but as a plural person it tends to affect my pieces a lot lol!

Tuice Tayna 16 Apr 2024 04:41

Overall a great article although it seems really abrupt action-wise. It seems silly the Foundation would just assign her to another site without monitoring after a entity caused by her trauma gave a entire site of people PTSD. That is also a thing to me, this entity supposedly trying to help someone overcome and remember a trauma, then inflicting it on a entire site seems to go against their own intentions.

+1 vote.

Mew-ltiverse 17 Apr 2024 14:57

Hollowness inflicted it on everyone because these people wanted Ilya to suppress his trauma, so it was kinda a revenge thing. Also Ilya’s a guy (he/they) :p I’m glad you liked it tho!

AquariusGemini 02 Feb 2025 08:17

This is a well written piece, for sure, but it doesn't…really feel like SCP. It feels like a story, a narrative, being told with a thin veil of SCP branding over it.

The actual SCP elements make up a pretty tiny percentage of the overall article, which is mostly dedicated to detailing the dreams and what happens while Ilya is awake. Even the SCP documentation makes heavy use of format-screwing.

The result doesn't feel like an SCP, just a decent horror/trauma story.

Mew-ltiverse 13 Mar 2025 05:22

I quite enjoy breaking the limits of what actually makes an scp, I'm not the first person to do this and won't be the last,

There are many other SCPs that make heavy usage of format screws, even more than this one does

One of the fun things about the wiki to me is the ability to mold this style of story telling into different fun ways lol, to me there isn't an exact "scp feel", but maybe thats just me lol,

ty for the read!