Sweet, I've never managed to snipe someone's author slot!
EDIT: Chalk one up on my list of "things not to do on the SCP Wiki."
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Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot...
If I could save any one article from deletion, it'd have been SCP-947Classic. Not my rewrite, no, but the original two. Sure, they were hokey, and sure, they expunged a bit much. But there was something right about them.
This isn't meant to be a rewrite. This is just what I saw, looking back.
Thanks to CaptainKirby, Ihp, UncleNicolini, plaguebearer, and Cimmerian. This skip is dedicated to my maternal grandfather.
First image from here, second image from here, third image from here.
Aside from this, all plant life within a few meters of SCP-XXXX-A appears to have died.
Ahem, you're missing an XXXX there.
I wanted to like this at first, especially when you dropped the idea that this thing could spontaneously generate holes in other nearby objects. That was some Jojo's-level shit, right there. But then you overdid it and drove it into meta territory, which is where it went off the rails.
Once I realized that the [DATA LOST] represented holes in the document generated by 4947, I started skimming because reading through them was getting monotonous. Ultimately, the article ended up just being a glorified antimemetic anomaly with an effect near identical to that of SCP-2256. The cheeky nod at the end to the blank page of the wiki itself ended up being just that - a cheeky meta nod to elements of the site blending into the in-universe Foundation, which has become pervasive to the point of cliche over the past year-and-a-half. As a result, I quickly soured on the article after the first exploration log.
TL;DR Meta killed the radio star.
Pretty much this. I was very much invested at first - that this thing generates holes in increasingly esoteric manners struck me as some good horror fuel. Then it spins its wheels with a bunch of cut-out data, forcing one to slog through several pages of decreasing coherency for an ineffective and ultimately cliche reveal.
[INTEREST LOST]
Agreeing with the above posts. The most original thing about this gimmick here is that it dragged a perfectly serviceable concept down with it.
I was initially leery; as soon as you established that it was an anomaly that created holes (fistula is an excellent word, by the way!), I realized you were going to be poking holes in the documentation.
In the end, I was surprised that it worked for me — I think, in part, because the way it is presented made me immediately feel like it was a great analogy for Alzhemirs (which fucking terrifies me) and conditions similar to it. On top of that, the actual execution of the idea (in regards to prose and presentation) are pretty excellent.
I think this could probably be a bit shorter/tighter — and I'm sad that you didn't take the whole "creating holes in organisms without actually damaging them" idea further — but this article still worked for me, primarily on account of a clean execution, a strong central character, and because of how it tied into my own anxieties in regards to mental illness and losing one's memory.
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Editing this:
ADDENDUM [4947-A]: SCP-4947 is a powerful a[DATA LOST]es are to be reported to Researcher Yarkoni as soon as possible.
and this:
Notably, this extends to living organisms; long term habitation near SCP-4947-A has been known to induce fistula development.
To this:
ADDENDUM [4947-A]: SCP-4947 is a powerful a[DATA LOST]es are to be reported to Researcher Yarkoni as soon as possible.
and this:
Notably, this extends to living organisms; long term habitation near SCP-4947-A has been known to induce fistula development.
As a token of gratitude to the ever-loving robot overlords that took my job, I'm handing this page over to Skippy. Happy arbor day!
I like this, was a little disappointed by the anticlimactic ending though, even if it did fit with the whole theme of this SCP
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