The self-insert's a bit iffy, but the rest of it is excellent
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It's actually my avatar's father who died back in the eighties.
Still a self-insert by proxy, in my opinion.
Please let me do the tags next time.
Edit: Self-inserts aren't necessarily bad. It's just still a self-insert because, well, it's your name.
I dunno if I would discourage a "self-insert" like this. When I saw the doctor's name was "Brian" instead of "David" I was a bit confused until I realized David is Brian's son, which is a level of depth you don't normally see in self-insert type dealies. If anything, I would love to see continuing mentions by the now deceased Brian Anborough or the newly hired David Anborough in other SCPs. If they were to occasionally refer to each other I think that would make for a very touching continuous canon, like what happened with Eric.
But that's just me.
I dunno, somehow I got it into my head that your name was David because of David Attenborough. I'm sure you get it a lot.
Yeah, that does happen a lot, :) but it's cool. I haven't stated Anborough's given name in any of my articles (but this is the first article where he's mentioned at all), though a seven letter name is blacked out on my personnel page. It's "Charles".
What a coincidence, my avatar's father also died in one of my articles but that was due to me not paying attention to what dates I was putting down in the incident log but oh well
The self insert isnt a big deal in my opinion. Its just a name drop. He isnt going out saving the world or any other badass thing.
As for the article itself I don't get it (possibly because I have a killer headache atm) but the feeling is just enough for an upvote.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
I actually really like author avatar character types when done well, especially when the author uses them to make their own little universe. Like how Azzleflux uses Agent Fredericks, and I use Rosen/Dr. Boyd. The article is also really cool, and does a good job with its twist collapsible. Upvoted.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
The author avatar thing is just fine.
You fixed up some of the stuff we discussed last night, and it's a solid enough effort for me to upvote. I sort of preferred the increased ambiguity about the nature of the SCP, but this works well enough. I feel this could be better with a bit more work, but this is basically fine.
I really like the origin log, and how his effects flipped when he died.
I don't think they flipped. I think the 'original' was the only thing keeping the effect positive. And because it died, there's no one to, well, forgive us for this stuff.
Oh, that's even better! And not just positive, but directed and contained.
(account deleted)You're using "terminate" wrong at the end. "Terminate" is a specific euphemism the Foundation uses for when they intentionally execute someone.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
This has a believability problem for me. IMO there's no way the Foundation would have been able to discern the effects of 1824 without causing a security breach.
It's not contained. It's not like they set out to see just how catastrophic it could get. This thing went crazy after the son's death, and started torpedoing the economy of, say, New York. It wasn't for a while that the Foundation figured out how to make it stop, so they got to see the effects in full.
Not New York, which, despite its low points, has never descended into the total economic collapse implied by this. It killed Detroit. Or Baltimore. Or any number of dying/dead Rust Belt cities.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
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