Reviewers' Spotlight Archive III

This archive displays all works that have been featured on the site’s front page as part of the Reviewers’ Spotlight, which acknowledges the time and effort spent by reviewers helping authors develop and edit their works for the mainsite.

Each month, community members are encouraged to nominate reviewers from the mainsite forums, official Discord, and IRC chatrooms who have been both particularly helpful and active. Members of the staff Critique Team will then discuss the nominations, and select four prominent reviewers to choose the month’s Reviewers’ Spotlight front-page features.

Nominations and recommendations should be sent via wikidot message to Zyn (team captain of the Critique Team).

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« Reviewers' Spotlight Archive 2022 through 2024 | »

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1 July 2025 - selected by stellyfins

• Featured page: SCP-8767: Something At The Bottom by atypica

9 July 2025 - selected by EventideParadox

• Featured page: There was a stranger in the park by Heck_Tech

17 July 2025 - selected by Anyar

• Featured page: SCP-8646: Cowherd Must Be Protected by MonsieurIguana

25 July 2025 - selected by Jezixo

• Featured page: Wait and see!

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2025 REVIEWERS’ SPOTLIGHT JANUARY - APRIL

January 2025:

1 January 2025 - selected by Mr Panik

• Featured page: SCP-8151: PATHOS by Gunpowdr
• During Delphi events, SCP-8151 will materialize on a wall within the room, displaying vague, foggy patterns and shapes on the window for approximately five minutes.

9 January 2025 - selected by Old One Goaelat

• Featured page: SCP-8049: CORPSEBALL: THE PANDORA TOURNAMENT ARC (EPISODE I: PILOT) by DoctorLilithSophia
• SCP-8049 is a game played exclusively between alternate timeline or dimension versions of the SCP Foundation.

17 January 2025 - selected by Fish^12

• Featured page: The Bowe Transition by Queerious
• Parallel, nondescript furniture sat stagnant in an oppressive basement, each pillow perfectly aligned, everything in its place.

25 January 2025 - selected by Fireknight

• Featured page: SCP-8986: Automatonophobia: False Positive by PeppersGhost
• Experiments indicate that the likelihood of a given object being affected by SCP-8986 positively correlates to the object's resemblance to a living human person…

February 2025:

1 February 2025 - selected by zoempaws

• Featured page: SCP-8172: The Heat Goes On by Tsercele
• SCP-8172 is a persistent reality-altering effect which prevents the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from engaging in occult warfare.

9 February 2025 - selected by Yeraven

• Featured page: SCP-8499: Echoes of the Barren and Broken by Miss Lapis and Strange Matter
• my brothers broke me. these men broke me. perhaps i was meant to be broken.

17 February 2025 - selected by SocksesForFoxes

• Featured page: SCP-8985: Glass Eyes by Jezixo
• SCP-8985 is a progressive physical illness observed in certain sapient toys (see Addendum 2).

25 February 2025 - selected by radian628

• Featured page: Critter Profile: Moonstone! by xexnoncores
• Moonstone came to us after a panicked call from a jewelry store owner in Little Havana who lost much of her stock from her ravenous appetite.

March 2025:

1 March 2025 - selected by Fireknight

• Featured page: SCP-7484: Joyride by V173
• At least two of the ten AI-operated, unmanned vehicles designed as police cars from various states within the U.S. are to pursue SCP-7484 during daily playing sessions.

9 March 2025 - selected by Mr Panik

• Featured page: SCP-8503: The Valkyrie Model by Kilerpoyo
• Pain broke her prayer. Like the pain of her phantom limbs, it was born from an absence—a void that should not be empty.

17 March 2025 - selected by fairydoctor

• Featured page: SCP-8725: Loss, Erasure, Finding Oneself by Uncle Nicolini
• Everwood: But I am only helping you out of basic human decency. You would do the same for me, right?

25 March 2025 - selected by SocksesForFoxes

• Featured page: Every Day, It Gets a Little Easier by OnlineOpossum
• You don’t speak, just wait expectantly. Just because you picked up doesn’t mean you plan on dignifying the caller with a response.

April 2025:

1 April 2025 - selected by Captain_Wavzies

• Featured page: SCP-8523: Thalassophobia: Diver Down by local lesbian commie
• SCP-8523 is a gravitational phenomenon observed in the ocean of the terrestrial planet HD 50655 Ad, located 20 light-years away from Earth.

9 April 2025 - selected by adanaist

• Featured page: Black Diamond Billions Hub by xexnoncores
• Some say Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd. view the rich as unto ants—but what does that make them then, so high up in their ivory towers?

17 April 2025 - selected by Jezixo

• Featured page: for Brandon by TheChunk
• I skipped work today, Brandon. Can you believe it?

25 April 2025 - selected by Myraelli

• Featured page: Her Future in Bloom by Mr Panik
• She watched him on the security cameras for a while as he tended the beehives that surrounded their garden. How many had died because of him? Because of her.

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2025 REVIEWERS’ SPOTLIGHT MAY - AUGUST

May 2025:

1 May 2025 - selected by Minaru

• Featured page: A Wolf at the Door by mxsinister
• As the entryway cracked open, the fluorescent lights of Site-90 glared in from the hall.

9 May 2025 - selected by yorp

• Featured page: Hanson Perry and the Crabmeat Loss by Jezixo
• Friday was the wretched end of everybody’s week, but Hanson Perry liked it fine.

17 May 2025 - selected by Fish^12

• Featured page: SCP-8307: The Arthurian Cycle by sailorenoch, rottingraisins, and Rosyfox2002
• Any and all attempts to disrupt the cycle once activated will result in immediate dismissal from the research team.

25 May 2025 - selected by battlecruiser12

• Featured page: The Rainbow Pebble by Jezixo
• Hanson Perry knew best where to scavenge for surprises. He’d found a catch down here before, but this was something special.

June 2025:

1 June 2025 - selected by Tsercele

• Featured page: SCP-8043: On and On and On and On by Tanhony
• SCP-8043 is a phenomenon in which a short, simple task is perceived by the victim as taking place over an exorbitant amount of time.

9 June 2025 - selected by Mister_Toasty

• Featured page: Chairs by choccoMan
• I counted last night—just in the break room alone, we have 86 chairs. For reference, there are four tables and six employees on this floor.

17 June 2025 - selected by Dr Blackbox

• Featured page: SCP-3698: Fresh Pine by _Utich_
• Air contaminated with SCP-3698 shares this hume level.

25 June 2025 - selected by TheChunk

• Featured page: SCP-8627: Infernal Bonds by Dr Angell
• SCP-8627 is a clay vessel of alchemical salts imprinted with a red, dimly glowing sigil of Seere.

July 2025:

1 July 2025 - selected by stellyfins

• Featured page: SCP-8767: Something At The Bottom by atypica
• This document is susceptible to being altered via anomalous means. Proceed at your discretion.

9 July 2025 - selected by EventideParadox

• Featured page: There was a stranger in the park by Heck_Tech
• It was toward the end of September that I saw him for the first time.

17 July 2025 - selected by Anyar

• Featured page: SCP-8646: Cowherd Must Be Protected by MonsieurIguana
• The rate of appearance within local herds of dairy cattle is estimated to be approximately one aurochs per 100 head of cattle; as such, there are five identified and contained living aurochs within the radius.