groves of SCP-1612 instances have been found in numerous locations on all seven continents
Antarctica has numerous fire-plant groves?
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butts
Like I said in chat, I'm sad that I never got around to doing a similar idea, but seeing your SCP, I now realize that I could never have done this better. Good job, Flame. Upvoted with a passion.
A fiery passion?
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
(account deleted)Experimentation has shown that SCP-1612-1 is extremely difficult to extinguish. Oxygen deprivation of below 3% by volume is required to extinguish SCP-1612-1
I normally wouldn't remark on repetitions, since actual academic writing is rife with them, but I think this one really breaks the flow of the paragraph—especially in a relatively short and punchy article.
Also, good idea, good realisation, yadda yadda +1
Edited. And apparently, it's not Wikidot's fault :P
butts
Yes. I responded to this above. Antarctica has a land mass of about 14,000,000 km2, with 1% available for plant life. That may not seem like a lot, but it comes to 140,000 km2.
butts
pk
pk what r u doin
did you even read the first post in this discussion
This was extremely close to doing nothing for me until I got to the locations. It's now at a solid upvote, because it tugged at my heartstrings there.
if your reading this your gay
Maybe you can explain it to me what the significance of the locations are.
The former is around where humanity's origins were (or at least one of the first places they would have gone), and the latter is the birthplace of the Indian civilization, which was one of the very first to form, along with Babylon, Egypt, and China (roughly).
if your reading this your gay
Scantron speaks the truth with his typing words.
butts
Are they keeping a candlelight vigil?
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
I've given a little explanation below, but a candlelight vigil for humanity is an interpretation I'm very fond of.
butts
While I'm tempted to go with Azzleflux's comment for the reason, here's an explanation of my own:
Pangloss is a character from Voltaire's Candide, and is optimistic about the world to a point of caricature. While he is ridiculed in the book, it's hard not to admire the concept of someone as optimistic as he was. Also, a key theme of Candide is that optimism is only valid when we "cultivate our garden", or work for to make this better.
Prometheus (who I'm semi-modelling Pangloss on) is a deity of the Ancient Greeks, a creator of humanity and bringer of the civilised arts. Scantron worked this out with the locations above.
A fire-plant that refuses to go out is a decent enough metaphor for this kind of optimism, right?
and this is totally not a really unsubtle attempt to introduce a character to use again, you guys don't know what you're talking about
butts
SCP-1612 was initially discovered when an instance of SCP-1612 was found near the base of Mount Kazbek, Georgia at 42°40'N, 44°35'E
This is a little clunky: 'the SCP was found when the SCP was found near this mountain.' Maybe take out the second reference altogether: "SCP-1612 was initially discovered near the base of Mount Kazbek…"
Edited. Apologies for the redundancy. I somehow missed that paragraph when reading it aloud before posting.
butts
I've often found that while it sounds utterly horrible, having the microsoft Narrator read things aloud helps when I write things that are of significant importance, just in the off chance my eyes fail me as they do sometimes.
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