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It's time for Summercon 2025 over on the Italian Branch of the SCP Wiki! Summercon returns, this time with a theme of "interconnectedness". Users are allowed to partipate individually or as part of group. The start date was July second, with the end date being September 2nd. Winners will be announced on the 5th of September! Please look forward to it!

- By DianaBerry

The World Kept Turning by Uncle NicoliniUncle Nicolini is a canon set after Quiet Days when the anomalous suddenly vanished. And now we see how the people continue their lives in a world without magic. Uncle Nicolini was kind enough to share his thoughts on developing this canon:

1. Out of all the standalone tales that shook the universe of SCP to make into a canon, why Quiet Days?

Believe it or not, it wasn't initially meant to be a canon. It was a series of tales that I started writing that people picked up on and started writing in the same setting, something I didn't really expect to happen beyond one of them, Sky Full of Holes by Queerious, because I approached her for crit on a tale I had written and she just had a much better idea for it than I did and she wrote it herself.

Anyway, to answer your question, Quiet Days has always stuck out to me as one of the must-reads for anyone who is interested in SCP. It takes the premise that we know and turns it on its head, creating a world full of normalcy that once was strange. Obviously, I wouldn't recommend it to someone who is only just now getting into SCP, but rather to someone who has already read a bunch and is familiar with the setting. It makes the story land that much better.

2. Were there any other tales or SCP’s that influenced you to form a “post-anomalous” setting?

I've always been fascinated by stories of magical realism; Pedro Paramo, One Hundred Years of Solitude, etc., and I used to wonder what would happen if that just stopped, something which sort of happens at the end of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

3. What’s your favorite aspect of reading Quiet Days and writing The World Kept Turning?

My favorite aspect of the canon is how it can be used to tell personal slice-of-life stories about former anomalies, the people who worked with them, and the citizens of the former anomalous world. My favorite aspect of Quiet Days, the tale, is really the gloomy atmosphere.

4. From the entries that you have read, are there any “ordinary” things that now feel extraordinary in the canon?

Think the biggest thing that sticks out to me is how many characters and people would have to adjust to the new normal. Change is scary, especially when its sudden. I know a lot of SCP readers don't remember a pre-9/11 world, but I do. I imagine that in-universe, it would be kind of like that but on a world wide scale for the Foundation and the many anomalous people/orgs that dwell within it.

5. With the anamolous no longer being a factor, how does this change the way you write?

A lot of what I use anomalies for in my writing is to create scenarios with which to tell a story. Very few of them are just "things that do things" for the sake of being a "thing that does a thing." I suppose now that I don't have that tool in my arsenal, the second one I find myself reaching for is "scenes of a grieving world." Though I'm sure there are some in the SCP universe that would be thrilled to see an end to the anomalous, it has so far mostly been people grieving its loss. I want to see some happy stories in the canon, however!

6. How do you want the community— who are used to the fantastical and strange—to engage with a world that’s suddenly mundane?

I would like for them to engage with it as an exercise in writing about the people who inhabit the SCP universe and their reactions to how the world has changed. This is a very character-driven canon, though not like OG43, which is a literal ensemble cast sci-fi; this is more of an anthology canon of small, personal stories.

7. Would you like to share any tips/advice for writers who wish to contribute to the canon?

Write about whatever corner of the SCP universe interests you! Maybe it's a GoI, maybe it's a particular character, or even an anomalous location or an SCP! What happens to them when the anomalous stops working?

8. Do you have any final thoughts you would like to share with readers?

I would like to thank Strange MatterStrange Matter for taking the time to formulate the questions for this interview and all the readers and authors who made The World Kept Turning into what it is today. Thank you all so much!

- By Strange Matter

On Guard 43 by HarryBlank HarryBlankHarryBlank takes place in Research and Containment Site-43 at Lake Huron. One of the Five Great Lakes that is shared on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the U.S. state of Michigan. With mind-twisting containment procedures and anomalies, and characters that have made their mark in recent SCP memory.

Sit back and relax while HarryBlank goes in-depth into the forging OG43 and what it represents to him and the community:

1. What drove you to create OG43, from its humble beginnings as a series of connected tales to a canon?

It started very simply. I read a lot of SCP articles at the beginning of the COVID lockdowns, and decided to see if I could come up with one of my own. I didn't want to have to do a ton of pre-reading to figure out how other people structured their departments and facilities and procedures and whatnot, so I decided to make up my own. I thought: if I were in this universe, what kind of workplace would I find appealing? Obviously the answer was "basically a university, only I don't ever have to drive to get there." The underground base was born. I wrote my first article based on a high concept ("how long would it take to get bored of being jumpscared?") and did exactly as much worldbuilding as was necessary to support that. Named a few members of personnel, one of whom was enough like me that I gave him my username as his name. (Wish I hadn't done that now.) Described a few areas of the Site in vague terms. Hinted at some background elements which might have caused this anomaly, a monster that lives in reflective surfaces and acts like an OCD internal monologue for one very unfortunate janitor, to come into existence. Left a few possibilities open for further stories, got crit, and posted it.

It didn't do well, but it did serve as a springboard. I started following up on those open-ended leads I'd left in there, making them their own articles, and each of those new pieces had more leads, more world built, more characters invented. Eventually I had a setting, and it was useful enough to the friends I'd made on the way for them to adopt it for their own purposes from time to time.

So in a procedural sense, the answer is that I wasn't driven to create OG43 until it was already created. But more broadly, emotionally, I've always wanted to write in a large setting with a huge cast of characters where I have free rein to tell any story I can come up with. I've also always been a huge fan of linked collaborative universes, like DC Comics had between Crisis on Infinite Earths and when they permanently ruined it post-millennium. Stories with a long past, stories that reach out to touch other stories, a vast interconnectedness where you can read one tale and come away satisfied, or read a lot of them and find new depths. That, in the end, is why I kept writing long enough for this to become a canon, and why I still write today.

2. At its core, OG43 is memetics, creative containment, is a space for academic workplace, and most importantly, it is about the people in it. Could you elaborate on why you found these appealing to write about?

It came together piecemeal. I'm not very interested in stories where the characters are secondary; I like creating weirdoes, eccentric people, loud people, funny people, awesome people. Big personalities. Not in the sense of the more comical stuff that happened back when SCP was still relatively new, not to the extent that it strains credulity too badly, just people who are interesting enough to carry a conversation on their own and keep you invested. That naturally led to involving all sorts of strange specialities in my Site. My academic background — I went to a bleeding-heart leftist university for one of my degrees, and it had the best possible effect on my understanding of what makes humanity special — also led me to incorporate as many kinds of human identity as possible into my work, in terms of everything from ethnicity to gender to orientation et cetera. Seeing how people with poor critical thinking skills have reacted to stories featuring that sort of diversity seriously strengthened my resolve to cover as many perspectives as I can with my own limited experience and skill. Everyone deserves to see some reflection of themselves in media, as long as they're not the kind of person who wants to deny that right to others. Those people can eat dirt. I will make caricatures of them and write that they are eating dirt. Look! This is you! You're eating DIRT! Hahahaha.

On that note. There is a major focus on injustice in OG43, both historical and present-day, because working through that sort of stuff is more important now than ever. Questions of dignity, of political power, of the rise of fascism and the prevalence of categorical hate across the globe, are things I always want to explore.

I also didn't ever want to write an article about a thing that just sits in its box, unless that's the 'big point' being made. A lot of people treat the containment procedures as wasted space they have to slog through, whether writing or reading, and that really sucks because those are among the first words on the page. Site-43 specializes in weird containment because the conprocs are where your hook is supposed to go, and I wasn't going to make that hook "here are how many guards my spooky monster requires."

The various thematic focuses came about because of storyline requirements, for the most part. I wanted to imply my first SCP came into existence because of a materials handling disaster, so I invented esoteric waste management and called it Acroamatic Abatement to be as obtuse as possible. I picked up memetics because of how much you can do with the realm of the mind in a character-focused story. I incorporated issues of how the First Nations people have been treated in Canada because that's a major and ongoing human rights struggle that doesn't get nearly enough attention worldwide; I nurture the fond hope that persons of actual First Nations descent will chime in and give some actual weight to this theme, because all I can bring is an outsider's academic perspective.

Speaking of academia and its presence in the canon, well. Write what you know. I'm an historian, so there's a lot of historical content in the canon. I love weaving real world history into fiction. It's a sickness.

Which also explains one of the core elements you didn't mention. Canada. It's a lot about Canada. It's not only about Canada! Canada is just the home soil. Stolen soil, specifically. I've got a lot of conflicting opinions on the country of my birth, and that kind of stuff is always good fuel for fiction. Gives it a bite, and perhaps a bit of real-world relevance when it comes together right.

We're all in a conversation. It might as well be about something.

3. What are entries that best represent the canon?

People who haven't read the canon are pretty confident it's about small-scale slice-of-life stories. Generally it's about high stakes weirdness tackled on an individual level; slice-of-fuck-my-life might be a more appropriate way to describe it. With that in mind I think I'd highlight a few entries which all hit on that in different ways. I'll start with a few of mine, because my series "Words of Power and Poison" (WOPAP for short) is the backbone of the canon, but it's not nearly all there is to see here, so I'll also spotlight a few of my favourites from the other contributors.

The ideal representative is probably a pair of tales I wrote called "The Significant Others." They were my first tales, and they use a single perspective to explore Site-43 over time. It's a sort of horror-adventure-romance that I think encapsulates most of what I'm interested in pretty well.

If you must read an SCP instead, my pick would probably be SCP-5616: "The Woman in the Incinerator," a character study of a researcher trapped in time and space who manifestly is not going to just become a footnote in someone else's backstory, but is getting out of that refrigerator on the merits of her own quick wit and long preparation.

The core of my own series within OG43 is a trilogy, soon to be quadrilogy, of novels called The Breach Goes On. Approaching a million words — and hitting that mark this September, when Placeholder McD and I start publishing the final volume — these three books flesh out a massive cast of characters during two decades of dealing with an ever-escalating catastrophe. It's possible to read them with no background knowledge, even if you've never read an SCP before (theoretically; in a practical sense no such reader has ever existed, I'm sure).

My SCP-7000: "The Loser" is about how one man with incredibly bad luck becomes the most important person in the world when all of probability goes bananas. A worldwide calamity through the lens of one very frustrated doofus, combining global scope with human failings.

SCP-7243: "EXISTENTIAL ABATEMENT" by Placeholder McDPlaceholder McD, LirynLiryn and myself is a dramatic story about regret and love on the multicoloured background of a multiverse on fire because of one man's mistakes. I think it's one of our best balances between macro and micro storytelling scale.

Uncle NicoliniUncle Nicolini is writing "Ever After," a wonderful slice-of-life series mixing characters from the both of us with a truly heartbreaking expression of human warmth that you really cannot go wrong with.

Grigori KarpinGrigori Karpin and VivariumVivarium wrote SCP-7007: "Misfortune Gorge" which I think is one of the most exciting and entertaining articles about Vikander-Kneed, an incisive cursed media company that makes up the biggest unique "slice" of the canon outside of the stuff I write. VKTM is life. Grigori created a wonderful monster. Grigori is my alter ego. You can't prove it is or isn't true.

LizardWizardLizardWizard wrote SCP-8889: "The Wondrous Wedding of William Wallace Wettle," another VKTM article that perfectly encapsulates the feeling of an ordinary person going up against the vast, unknowable weird. It's also funny as all hell.

RounderhouseRounderhouse wrote SCP-8918: "death was written large everywhere," a Great War story with a supernatural Canadian twist, that really pushes all my favourite buttons regarding history, superheroes, and grinding futility.

4. I noticed that OG43 is flexible to have crossovers and different series by various kinds of authors, to name a few, Grigori Karpin, Queerious, Placeholder and more. Was there a moment when you decided to open OG43 to have differing series?

The existence of different series was what made OG43 a canon. It was originally a series itself — the OG43 hub was posted as a series hub, and what became my series within the canon carried that same name. It was only when Grigori started using the Site and its characters for VKTM, and Place began writing a tale series called Archetypicals taking place in the setting's far future, that I had to acknowledge we were making a canon. And it was a very pleasant acknowledgement to make! That was when I separated out my own storyline as WOPAP and the horizons expanded to where they are now.

Substantial contributions by ihp and Nickthebrick1Nickthebrick1 were also instrumental in making it feel like something wider than just my own works, and there's been lots of one-offs by other excellent authors as well.

QueeriousQueerious writing her own series in the canon, then making it a canon in its own right (Forgotten Memories), was an awesome fractalization of this same process. The moral of the story is clearly just "keep writing until people join you, and make it into something more."

I couldn't be happier with the results; my collaborations with other authors are some of my proudest moments on the site. On a similar note, borrowing other people's stuff and incorporating it into my massively bloated Grant Morrison-esque view of the SCP setting has been endlessly profitable. The more, the merrier.

5. Out of OG43’s roster, who are your favorite characters to write about and why?

I have several characters who act like they have burrs of various sizes stuck to their pants, and these are generally the most fun. The ones who exist on a spectrum between easily irritated and always already irritated. I guess anyone who tends to dominate a scene, the magnificent bastard archetypes, are the most fun to write.

Lillian Lillihammer, the insufferable, too-perfect memetics genius has a character voice I can never quite shut out of my mind.

Delfina Ibanez, the regret-driven security dynamo always makes her scenes pop stronger;

Karen Elstrom, the beleaguered administrator whose job makes her the bad guy to the people she's protecting, has a delightful-to-depict arrogant prickliness, and now I'm realizing it sounds like all I write is angry women.

Well, there's also Daniil Sokolsky, the egomaniacal master planner whose schemes are stranger than anything anomalous in the setting.

William Wettle, so ground down by his comically unfortunate circumstances that he's barely paying attention to the plot; and Dr. Dan, the now thoroughly stolen author avatar from SCP-096, a complexity-addicted atoner straddling the moral line.

In the end, I kind of love writing all of them. That's why there's like two hundred characters in OG43. Sometimes I try to count them all when I'm trying to fall asleep. I never get through them all.

6. What is something you could say to someone who wants to get into OG43 but would feel lost or intimidated by it?

Very few of the entries in this canon rely directly on previous ones, and those are usually pretty well signposted. You should be able to pick up any of the SCP articles and trust that it will explain itself sufficiently. And you can read them all out of order, too, as treasured reader and hyper-talented artist Dino--DrawsDino--Draws will tell you. Most of what I write, specifically, tends to give different perspectives on and glimpses of the core elements of the canon, so you can get a single story experience or build up a bigger picture by adding more and more articles to your reading list.

The early articles in the canon aren't very long, anyway. You can start to get a feel for it there, and if the subject matter turns you off, you haven't lost much time!

7. What are your plans going forward?

As I mentioned, there's another novel-length tale series dropping in September — The Breach Goes On, Vol. 4: Over Time, written by Placeholder McD and myself. I'll also be entering the SCP-9000 contest, of course, and I always try to make an entry that I can do stuff with in my canon going forward. I have a few fun collaborations in the works I probably can't talk about in detail yet. The main storyline of OG43, "Words of Power and Poison," does have a specific end goal in mind that I will likely be reaching in September of 2026. In the meantime, there's a 001 proposal, which is next on my docket after the novel and 9kon, and then more SCPs and tale series before the grand finale.

Never stop writing, never stop writing.

8. Would you like to share any tips/advice for writers who wish to contribute to the canon?

I. You don't need my permission.

II. I'll be happy to look at what you write, though.

III. There's lots of people talking about this stuff every day in the CANONEXUS Discord server where I work on my writing the most.

IV. If you've got people you want to write about, we want to meet your people!

V. The variety of human experience is what makes life meaningful, so add your voice to our choir!

9. Do you have any final thoughts you would like to share with readers?

Yes. People reading this stuff and talking about it and writing it and cowriting it and drawing pictures of it and making videos of it and posting about it has mattered profoundly to me. It has been a tremendous improvement to my life. I will never stop feeling grateful for the experience of putting these stories out there, and having an audience that actually engages with it. I owe my co-authors and my readers and the many friends I have made over this process a most sincere "Thank you!" for making some of the world's darkest days so much sunnier for me. I hope that feeling of hope and compassion comes through in the things we write, because that's one of the most important things that literature can do. You make my life better, and if there's anything I can do to return that favour, I will do my darnedest.

Stay glorious, stay free.

- By Strange Matter

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 RhineriverRhineriver or ProblemPalProblemPal. 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!

Just Monika Submitted by IamtheKyleKnight
Write a story where a character becomes obsessed with another character as they progressively remove the rest of the characters. Whether they stop being obsessive or not is up to you.

Past and Future Submitted by SoftSeal
Write a story that switches perspectives between a character in the past, and a character in the present.

Sportscon real??? Submitted by ProblemPal
Create something sports related.

SCP-8676 Submitted by IamtheKyleKnight
Inspired by the prompts Are We The Baddies? & -1. Should have been a

SCP-8239 Submitted by Mahalayati
Inspired by the prompt Are We The Baddies?

If you write an entry inspired by this or a previous month's prompts, feel free to send a wikidot PM to RhineriverRhineriver or ProblemPalProblemPal 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

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-2003 by PlaguePJP & J Dune: Black Lung

Beneath Centralia lies a non-anomalous coal-seam fire that has been actively burning since 1962. SCP-2003’s anomalous effects extend approximately 200 meters underground, which is well beyond the depth of Centralia’s original mining operations.

Top-Rated Non-SCP

SCP 9000 CONTEST VERY OFFICIALE by ubergoober and radian628

Sports: the purest form of human expression. Unadulterated human strength, willpower, and teamwork, all displayed on a enchanting field of artificial grass with a bunch of sweaty guys wrestling one another. Truly, sports is the pinnacle of the cultured society.

Front Page Features

This month, the front page featured works from the authors of the three highest-rated Classic Con entries. Standard SCP, Tale, and Goi Format features will return next month.

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!

First Place

The Gospel of Flesh by local lesbian commie

Denying herself the pleasure of selling her soul felt like blasphemy.

Second Place

SCP-8306 by Dino—Draws: The Foreman

SCP-8306 is the only known RUNS RED anomaly to display sapience.

Third Place

SCP-8304 by PlaguePJP: Modern Comfort

No animals have been born with these afflictions; instead, they develop them over time as a result of living within SCP-8304.

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

SCP-8575: Adhesion by TheChunk [Featured by Dr Angell]

SCP-8575 is a large muscular adhesion located beneath the left pectoralis major of Dr. John Davidson.

9th of August

SCP-8406: The Director of Site-152 by Anyar [Featured by GeminidStrix]

SCP-8406 possessed latent reality bending capabilities which were not known to the Foundation prior to her disappearance, and which are believed to have been activated by severe emotional distress.

17th of August

SCP-8391: Teaching Animals To Count And Spell by Animal Hospital [Featured by Fireknight]

SCP-8391 manifests as a spontaneously forming hole in the ground; for 6 meters down, all dirt and other matter will be displaced into an unknown location.

25th of August

SCP-8905: One must imagine Sisyphus getting a promotion by PinkHatPinkJeans and Crow-Cat [Featured by Zoobeeny]

The room had several whiteboards detailing increasingly elaborate plans to open the box.

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-712 - Written by GWBBQ. Rewritten by Aftokrator.
  • 🤝 SCP-480 - Written by Fishish and PlaguePJP.
  • SCP-7586 - Written by MontagueETC.
  • 📈 SCP-8276 - Written by Lemonsense.
  • 📈 SCP-8952 - Written by Harmacy.
  • SCP-8813 - Written by BlazingPie.
  • SCP-8368 - Written by Letova.
  • 💯🤝 SCP-2003 - Written by J Dune and PlaguePJP.
  • SCP-8256 - Written by IAmTheOoga.

Tales

GoI Formats

Art

Miscellaneous and Untagged Pages

Week of August 7th

SCP Articles

Tales

GoI Formats

Art

Miscellaneous and Untagged Pages

Week of August 14th

SCP Articles

Tales

GoI Formats

Art

Miscellaneous and Untagged Pages

Week of August 21st

SCP Articles

Tales

GoI Formats

N/A

Art

Miscellaneous and Untagged Pages

Week of August 28th

SCP Articles

Tales

GoI Formats

N/A

Art

Miscellaneous and Untagged Pages

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