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Editorial
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- By ParallelPotatoes
Last month we had Wrathcon, a contest based around evil! All entries except the winning entry were deleted. The winner of this contest was Croquembouche, with Site-69! We interviewed him for some of his thoughts on his article and the contest.
1) What were some of your inspirations for your article?
The biggest inspiration plotwise was an SCP that's already on-site that I've always wanted to write about, but never had the right chance to. I wanted Site-69 to contain either it or something like it, and that informed the direction of almost everything at the start of the story, from the events that take place to variations in how different characters behave to Site-69's location. I'd love to share which SCP I had in mind, but it's funnier if I don't, so I'm not going to.
Dropping new content at a regular pace was inspired by 'Time' by xkcd, which was a 3000+ frame comic released every half hour for four months. (Not claiming that Site-69 came anywhere near that in scope, of course.)
Some readers called out The Thing, and while I haven't seen it myself, I have to assume that having consumed media made by people who were directly inspired by it led to at least some brain process happening. I can't think why else I would instinctively want to make the setting so cold.
2) What was the reasoning behind releasing it piecemeal, instead of all at once?
Going into Wrathcon and committing to the likelihood of my work being deleted, I felt that submitting something static wasn't going to do justice to the premise. I wanted my work to benefit from being ephemeral rather than be constrained by it, so why not make it an event? Giving it a time-based component felt like the right way to do that.
That came first, and everything else was written and styled around that assumption.
I do feel, perhaps, that doing that gave my entry an unfair advantage (but I can't be certain). I feel that a lot of readers enjoyed the potential of my work more than they would have enjoyed the work itself, if they had seen it initially in its entirety. I'd advise future readers to be wary of incomplete work, and vote for what you get, not for what you might get.
3) What was your favorite aspect of your article?
For sure the best part of the work, for me, was getting to go nuts with the formatting. Making the interactive site map is some of the most CSS fun I've had in the past few years, and I got to use some new tech that's not really been seen on the wiki before. I had a chance to experiment and you know I took that by the horns.
4) If you could go back in time to the start of the contest, is there anything you would do differently with your article?
I made two huge mistakes with Site-69.
Foremost was failing to schedule it properly. At the start I was posting a new fragment every 4 hours, representing an hour of real-time activity on the Site. With a little coding I could have made that much easier on myself by scheduling uploads hours ahead of time, so I figured I'd get that set up between the first and second uploads and then sleep tight.
Anyone with any programming experience at all knows that 'a little coding' is a total deception. I did not get the scheduled uploads working, and by the time I realised that I'd need at least a few days to test how reliable it was, I decided it would be easier overall to just do it myself.
So I did. I posted that content every four hours for three days. In between I polished the next segment, revised future segments, tweaked formatting, and did other boring stuff like eat and steal snippets of sleep; all of which pretty much halted my Covid recovery. Naturally, wanting to give the impression of having everything planned out perfectly, I didn't tell anyone about that. This is off the record, right?
The second big mistake was the pacing. I wanted to post an hour of live activity from the Site per segment, so each segment had to contain an hour of stuff happening, and a little bit of worldbuilding to flesh out Site-69's atmosphere, but not so much stuff that I'd run out of content. Like an absolute idiot I then started the story at midnight when all the characters were asleep.
It was a comment by A Random Day that highlighted for me that the pacing was worse than I thought it was, especially for readers who didn't care for those little snippets of worldbuilding in place of stuff happening. After that, I changed course: I posted the 10AM segment as-is, but then aggressively edited the next few segments down into one, scrapped a bunch of plot points, posted the 11AM segment on time, extended the countdown from 4 hours to 16 and stopped to rethink (and sleep). During the rest of the contest period I posted only 2 more segments, cut down from 12. Thanks ARD!
5) Despite winning, you self-deleted your entry. How come? If deletion wasn’t a factor in this contest, do you think the article would have been the same?
Ah… the Pact. I've no idea if I was the first to suggest that no entry survive the contest, but I did come up with it independently.
From the start I saw Wrathcon's gimmick as a creative opening rather than a constraint. I took full advantage of that opening, the assumption that my work was temporary. If Site-69 had ended up being a permanent resident on the site, I don't think it would have had the same impact, and I don't think it would have been fair on everyone else who entered. But I'd already committed to self-deleting before Site-69 existed, and that's because it just felt better to me. No winners, no losers, everyone competing for the thrill of the game instead of for survival.
If deletion wasn't a factor? I wouldn't have entered. Wrathcon's uniqueness made it intriguing beyond being just another theme.
6) Do you think you will use Site 69, characters, or concepts presented again in future works?
I'm sure little snippets of it will come up in future stuff I make. I learned a lot making it across a bunch of different areas and someone far more keen-eyed than me might spot ideas that originated in Site-69.
But Site-69 itself feels closed to me now. Someone told me they'd like to continue writing in Site-69's world - I have nothing but the greatest enthusiasm for that, and I would be overjoyed to get to experience a spiritual successor - but I don't think I'll do so myself. It was, and it isn't.
7) Did any of the other entries stand out to you? Which ones and why?
For sure - it was really interesting seeing how other writers and artists were inspired by Wrathcon's idea in a totally different way to me. While I didn't get the chance to read every article (in part no doubt to the recovery period after finishing), of the ones that I did, my favourites were the ones that took advantage of Wrathcon's ephemerality - the ones that couldn't have been posted in any other context.
Best execution of that idea in my opinion was Ethagon's SC-GY/007-GY/021: Graveyard, which weaved the rules of Wrathcon with the lore of the CI and provided an in-universe reason for concepts to exist and then suddenly stop — all while being intended to be ephemeral itself. I don't think it was the last thing posted, but it was a meditative sendoff to the contest nonetheless.
Queerious turned the concept on its head with Witless, a breathless monosentence that I didn't fully appreciate at the time, reposted after the contest as Wit, a series of poems subtractively constructed from the original. Wit couldn't exist without the destruction of Witless and if that's not an artistic power move I don't know what is.
Here's a list of all the other reposted works originally submitted to Wrathcon.
Finally, and arguably mostly, I want to shout out the Wrathcon hub itself and the epitaphs created by syuzhet. These are for sure the best things to come out of the contest. The amount of work put into that page, both artistically and organisationally as a contest, is just great. The sheer level of mutual enthusiasm makes contributing to the wiki worthwhile. That page just puts a grin on my face every time I see it.
Congratulations on winning Croquembouche!
- By ParallelPotatoes
Writing and Art Prompts
Site News is bringing you monthly writing and art prompts! Every month there will be user-submitted prompts to help inspire new pieces. Participation in these prompts is completely optional, and any pages based on the prompts will be featured in the next issue of Site News! If you're interested in submitting a prompt for next Site News, send a wikidot PM to ParallelPotatoes. One prompt submission per person, and up to five prompts will be shown in each edition of Site News.
This month's prompts are below!
Technobabble Poetry Submitted by FlyPurgatorio
Write a poem using anomalous technobabble or clinical tone!
Deathless Horror Submitted by IcePhoenix44
Write any horror article with no deaths! How you determine a death is up to you!
Everything You Know Is Wrong Submitted by PinkHatPinkJeans
Write something where a common misconception about site lore (e.g. Object Classes being power levels) is true.
The following articles were inspired by a prompt and written this month!
SCP-8385 Written by Not Noodles
Inspired by "The Dodo Bird" from July 2024's prompts!
Blistering Budget Written by JukeShoes
Inspired by "Summer Heat" from August 2024's prompts!
If you write an entry inspired by this or a previous month's prompts, feel free to send a wikidot PM to ParallelPotatoes to have it featured in the next Site News! There isn't a time limit on getting prompt submissions featured, so feel free to write for a previous month's prompts as well!1
Seminars
All Seminars are live and take place on the stage of the official SCP Discord. If you can’t join, you can listen back to them on Spotify.
Writing Club: Plot vs. Narrative! Sunday, September 15, 2024 1:30 PM EST
We’re bringing back the Writing Club, where we take a deep dive into a specific writing technique, and see how different articles have used this. Learn a little about writing technique and the storytelling on our very own wiki! This seminar: the difference between plot and narrative. And we’ll be analyzing several Series 1 SCPs in the process, to really examine that difference! Join Fly and Psi for some talk about writing!
Pridefest Event Seminar! Saturday, September 21, 2024 1:30 PM EST
Pridemonth has left us, but Pride never leaves! We’ll be looking back at the Pridefest event and our favourite entries. Wanna leave thoughts on entries you liked? Wanna tell us which one we should read on stream? Let us know via the anonymous Seminar Dropbox or DM Guaire,
FlyPurgatorio or
Prismal via Wikidot or Discord!
Critclub! Sunday, September 29, 2024 1:30 PM EST
The grind never ends. Fish, Fly and Psi will continue critting works in progress, and fighting the good critfight. Come join us to analyze some drafts, crit some concepts, or evaluate some aesthetics, and learn some critique tips and tricks along the way!
Features Last Month
Top Articles of the Month
Ratings of course do not mean everything, but they are representative of what people happened to like seeing at the time. With this in mind, the following are the top-rated works last month, so if by some chance you haven't encountered them yet, be sure to check them out!
Top-Rated SCP
SCP-8916 by Rounderhouse: Strangefruit
[REDACTED BY ETHICS COMMITTEE OFFICE OF SENSITIVITY]
Top-Rated Non-SCP
Agent, Father, Motherfucker: Alto Clef, in memoriam by FlyPurgatorio et al.
It has come to our attention that Dr. Alto Clef was involved in a car accident this weekend on his way home from a mission in London, Ohio.
Front Page Features
Every month, an article is selected from each of the three common article types: SCP, Tale, and Group of Interest Format. These three articles are displayed on the front page for the month to bring further recognition to them.
If you would like to view the previous front page features, you can view the archive for the SCPs here, the archive for the Tales here, and the archive for the GoI Formats here!
SCP Article
SCP-7838 by J Dune: The Patchwork King and the Flayed-Men's Court
SCP-7838 is the collective designation for artistic works concerning a purported historical figure referred to as the Hanged King.
Tale
Eventyr Hub by Guaire, Waxx, Prismal, Uncle Nicolini, Queerious, Fish^12, sailorenoch, AstersQuill, and FlyPurgatorio
Every story is a cycle of being heard and retold, reshaped by those who listen and speak. A seed once planted will grow over generations, shaped by those who came after.
GoI-Format
VNP-111: Helix dracarys by Dino—Draws
VNP-111 is a species of artificially made land snails originally created by Dr. Wondertainment, now classified as Helix dracarys — or "dragon-snails" colloquially.
Reviewers' Spotlights
Works are featured on the site’s front page as part of the Reviewers’ Spotlight, which acknowledges the time and effort spent by forum reviewers helping other authors develop and edit and their works for the mainsite. Each month, community members are encouraged to nominate forum reviewers who have been both particularly helpful and active. Members of the Forum Criticism Team will then discuss the nominations, and select four prominent reviewers to choose the month’s Reviewers’ Spotlight front-page features.
If you would like to view previous spotlights, you can view the archive for them here!
1st of August
the missile knows where it is by BenOverlord [Featured by Fish^12]
He has been alive for 22.56 seconds and this he knows.
9th of August
prologue: ghosted by amaterasu (well, only sort of, because it's not really her, but that's beside the point) by halcyon_days [Featured by Fireknight]
This story begins in the middle of a Wednesday in May, where there's not much to do besides organize the ingredients and wipe down the counters.
17th of August
Draven and Dmitri Hit The Stage by Waxx, sailorenoch, and FlyPurgatorio [Featured by DrBleep]
Well, how else are we meant to bear those memories if we cannot lighten them up a little?
25th of August
Possible Kill Screen by FleshMaddAvalon and Nonacherontia [Featured by FleshMaddAvalon]
The first installment of a trans romance where two warlords understand their respective coworkers really need to die—for the greater good, of course.
SCP Data & Trends
All the goings-on of the site condensed into bite-sized takeaways! Is there a statistic or figure you would be interested in knowing? Let us know and we can feature it next time!
Like before, we are still renovating this section. It will likely be a couple months, but we will soon have a nice little stats section here. In the meantime, please enjoy our monthly charts.
Also, what do YOU want to see in the monthly stats section? Any data you want to know about? Please leave a comment about it in the Discussion page or use this anonymous google form.
- By Data Analysis Team
New Content this Month
There is a multitude of wonderful works that are posted to the Wiki every month whether they be SCP articles, Tales, GoI Formats, Art pages, Author Pages, Essays, and more! Below, we have all of the creations for this month listed out by week and type (except for art pages, we did that earlier!) We have added little emojis next to articles that qualify to add some additional content. Below we have listed out the emojis we use and what they mean. Be sure to give them a look!
🤝 = Co-authored works - It is always interesting to see the dynamics of how people work together!
🌐 = International works - Articles translated from one of our international branches!
💯 = Articles rated at +100 and higher - These are articles that have seen success and should be celebrated for it!
📈 = SCP articles rated under +30 and Tales and GoI Formats rated under +20 - Let's show these a little love!
Week of August 1st
SCP Articles
- 📈 SCP-7523- Written by Clacky2000.
- SCP-8911- Written by Uncle Nicolini.
- SCP-8808- Written by Billith.
- 📈 SCP-8113- Written by ecthelioffd.
- SCP-6846- Written by ubergoober.
Tales
- The Son You Love - Written by TroutMaskReplica.
- Biweekly - Written by radian628.
- the last wizard - Written by BenOverlord.
- July 26th ETTRA Emergency Meeting - Written by Uncle Nicolini.
- REVEL IN WRATH, REVIVED - Written by Dino—Draws.
- 📈 In June, I Change My Tune - Written by arthcymro.
- 📈 A Place Called Nowhere - Written by DXBody.
- Girly Girlz! Be just like your doll! - Written by DianaBerry.
- 📈 Lampeter-Sociology - Written by Nylo.
- Dreams of Crimson and Azure - Written by Queerious.
- Daisies, Death, and Dysphoria - Written by TroutMaskReplica.
- 📈 SCP Origins: The Concrete Man - Written by Doctor Scrappy .
- Haunted by the Living - Written by GreenWolf.
- 📈 1 - Polly - The Hole - Written by kingofmice.
GoI Formats
- SPC-000 - Written by MisterFrown.
Art
- REVEL IN WRATH, REVIVED - Created by Dino—Draws.
- SCP Animation Archives - Created by Dr Avenlee.
Miscellaneous Pages
- 📈 SCP ORIGINS HUB - Written by Doctor Scrappy .
Week of August 7th
SCP Articles
- 📈 SCP-8619- Written by IndustryStandard.
- 📈 SCP-8802- Written by daveyoufool.
- 🤝 SCP-8488- Written by Mew-ltiverse and DianaBerry.
- 📈 SCP-8655- Written by TheGhostNobody.
- SCP-8027- Written by Kothardarastrix.
- 📈🤝 SCP-8053- Written by Nickthebrick1 and Uncle Nicolini.
- 📈 SCP-8869- Written by Cathy Autumn.
- 📈 SCP-8421- Written by Calibold.
- 🤝 SCP-8650- Written by LizardWizard and Ihp.
Tales
- Your Number One - Written by Ralliston.
- 📈 SCP Origins: The Atomic Adventures of Ronnie Ray-Gun - Written by Doctor Scrappy .
- 📈 Queen Mab vs. The Moon Monsters, the Musical - Written by UNCGriffin.
- Maga Zine 2: Legal Edition - Written by Prismal.
- Nosedive - Written by Cubeseer.
- 📈 To End All Endings - Vol. 2 - Written by Doctor Scrappy .
- ASSET 'FLORIDA ORANGE' - Written by Uncle Nicolini.
- 📈 Wormsign Actual - Written by Pedantique.
- 📈 Desired To Become Wise - Written by Jerden.
- 📈 Doctor Kessler Dreams a Deer - Written by Messyboi.
- 📈 I'm sorry. - Written by Not Noodles.
- 💯 ASSET 'FLORIDA GREY' - Written by Queerious.
- 📈 Below the Lion’s Den - Written by Strange Matter.
- ASSET 'FLORIDA ZERO' - Written by Queerious.
- 🤝 A Recording of Prometheus Innovations' Pitch for the Scranton Encabulator Mk VI, and the Ramifications of its Existence - Written by Billith and psychicprogrammer.
- 📈 I Hope There's Some Good Food Around Here… - Written by Azmoeth Jikandia.
GoI Formats
- N/A
Art
- 📈 F120A Anniversary - Created by LittlePengwy.
- Meet the Overseers - Created by ubergoober.
- Doctors Of The Church Heraldry - Created by Jerden.
- 📈 17th century, Before the SCP foundation was founded - Created by ReflishaArnoldi.
- Rosyfox’s Art Pit - Created by Rosyfox2002.
- Asset Florida Blender - Created by fairydoctor.
Miscellaneous Pages
- 📈 Crowne of Thornes - Written by GreenWolf.
- Doctors Of The Church Hub - Written by Kothardarastrix.
- Artist Directory - Written by syuzhet.
- 📈 Director Uber's Personnel File It's ubergoober's Author Page!
- AwhRyan's Database It's AwhRyan's Author Page!
Week of August 14th
SCP Articles
- SCP-8185- Written by Not Noodles.
- 📈 SCP-8077- Written by kilgrave_lovejoy.
- 📈 SCP-8202- Written by Delta_Nine.
- SCP-907- Written by Djoric.
- 📈🌐 SCP-ZH-161- Written by Kikunai.
- SCP-8504- Written by DianaBerry.
- 📈 SCP-8119- Written by ClaudeHinton.
- 📈 SCP-7452- Written by Jiwoahn.
- 📈 SCP-8890- Written by DoctorLilithSophia.
- 📈 SCP-8275- Written by Numberzz.
- 📈🌐 SCP-097-KO- Written by thd-glasses. Translated by fluxman.
- SCP-7643- Written by Queerious.
- 📈🌐 SCP-823-KO- Written by Bangja. Translated by fluxman.
Tales
- 📈 Ridgewell Edutainment Center Monthly Newsletter - Written by Clacky2000.
- 📈 The Reunion - Written by Doctor Scrappy .
- Eikyū Monogatari, First Chapter - The Two Primordial Beings - Written by Maxyfran73.
- 💯🤝 Agent, Father, Motherfucker: Alto Clef, in memoriam - Written by FlyPurgatorio et al.
- 📈 it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country - Written by BenOverlord.
- 📈 A Clean Slate - Written by Not Noodles.
- Never to Tell, Never to Hear - Written by AstersQuill.
- 📈 Patris Et Filia - Written by newnykacolaquantum.
- Icarus Unburned - Written by psychicprogrammer.
- Surprise! Happy Birthday! Just as the clock strikes midnight… - Written by Uncle Nicolini.
- A Much Belated Inheritance - Written by GreenWolf.
- 📈🌐 saudade serenade - Written by Esperanza_Cai. Translated by la kanro.
- Fuckmylife666 - Written by Uncle Nicolini.
- 📈 Perfect From Now On - Written by UncannyClown.
GoI Formats
- N/A
Art
- An Awkward Family Dinner - Created by ubergoober.
- 📈 SCP-3125 by NX-Censor-Nibiru - Created by nxcnibiru.
- 📈 SCP-6747-C - Created by nxcnibiru.
- 📈 The Last Ride of the Day - Artwork - Created by ubergoober.
- 📈 The Alpha and the Omega - Created by Gelbsucht_IE.
Miscellaneous Pages
- 📈 Flopmind's Author Page It's Flopmind's Author Page!
Week of August 21st
SCP Articles
- 📈 SCP-276-ARC- Written by Cathy Autumn.
- 📈 SCP-8884- Written by halcyon_days.
- 💯 SCP-8916- Written by Rounderhouse.
- 📈 SCP-7786- Written by Dr Ch_M.
- 📈 SCP-8450- Written by VapidPoem.
Tales
- scatterbrained. - Written by TroutMaskReplica.
- 📈 "Marquise Melun" - Written by DoctorLilithSophia.
- I Just Want to See the Stars - Written by J_V_G.
- 📈 I forgot my worth again - Written by winkwonkboi.
- Possible Kill Screen - Written by FleshMaddAvalon.
- Reostiation - Written by Queerious.
- 📈 Drowning in Ambition - Written by Hikarinu.
- 📈 One Good Turn Deserves Another (An AO Tale) - Written by Eddie347.
- 📈 Friendly Rivalries - Written by Spacestealth.
- 📈 A Nice Waffle Dinner - Written by DXBody.
- 📈 Blistering Budget - Written by JukeShoes.
- The Hard-to-Define Reptile - Written by Queerious.
GoI Formats
- 📈 Critter Profile: Diomedes - Written by Arclund.
- 📈 SPC-4220: SHARK SIDE OF THE MOON - Written by surelyyoujest.
Art
- we will meet in another life but in this one i'll resort to drawing you 520 times - Created by LOVEMARGINAL.
Miscellaneous Pages
- HOTFISH It's Fish^12's Author Page!
- 📈 Esperanza's Translations(?) It's Esperanza_Cai's Author Page!
Week of August 28th
SCP Articles
- 📈 VNP-8471- Written by Ethagon.
- SCP-8447- Written by radian628.
- 📈 SCP-8114- Written by Nickthebrick1.
- 📈 SCP-8385- Written by Not Noodles.
- 📈 SCP-8115- Written by Daloohn.
- 📈 SCP-8379- Written by nxcnibiru.
- 📈 SCP-6461- Written by Merehrab.
Tales
- 📈 Pique Proves Perennial - Written by Pedantique.
- 📈 Nobody Born Anew - Written by bokizame.
- 📈 Counterintelligence - Written by BenOverlord.
GoI Formats
- 📈 Of Yarmir, the Last King of the Night (Pending Deletion) - Written by Ralliston.
Art
- 📈🌐 Cassowary-J's Artwork - Created by Cassowary_J. Translated by 2018.
- 📈 Birthday Girl (Pixel art of Meri Clef, SCP-8166) - Created by newnykacolaquantum.
- Eventyr Tale's Art_Because of The Shame - Created by ashiningmoon.
- MisterFrown's Window - Created by MisterFrown.
Miscellaneous Pages
- SCiPTEMBER 2024 - Written by winkwonkboi.
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