Zmax's Author Page

Author Name: I'm Max.

Writings #: 4/6

Likes: Long walks in my room.

Dislikes: Children playing on construction equipment.

Birthday: Today.

Security Fault: Lack of hand rails.

Taupe: Color.

All my gosh darn SCPs

SCP	Created	Rating	Comments	Length
SCP-2881	24 Jul 2015 07:44	430	45	3468
SCP-2580	11 Oct 2015 22:06	98	17	4624
SCP-2446	06 Mar 2016 20:22	90	15	5677
SCP-7881	01 Jun 2023 09:04	23	2	28119

SCP-2881

The first day the Short Works Contest was announced, I looked out the window and thought "what could be an SCP, that tree maybe? What can you do with trees? You climb them. What if you couldn’t climb a tree?" and the rest is history. This actually just barely ended up in the top quartile of the contest, but I put that down largely to having been posted within the first hour of the contest.

This was pretty quick to write, with most of the edits coming in about the ending. The tree in the photo is visible from my window, and that’s about it. Of course, I do want to write something to dive further into what it is/does, but that could subtract from the mystique. For anyone curious, my headcanon is that inside are desert cannibals. I know. Disappointing, isn't it?

SCP-2580

I made this because I had a model rocket, and I wanted to use it in an image. I guess that sort of worked out. The image it got seemed to work out well enough. I like the idea of an anomaly-creator having a kid, and just using their skills in normal situations and I think that that kind of thing is done alright there.

The image was not, in fact, drawn by a child, but was all me. Crossed-out sun was a legitimate mistake on my part, as were the planets on the other side coming in through the scan. Its inclusion was (I think) because I believed in the importance of images to engage a reader in an SCP, which I still believe in. Text is boring, but stock photos are similarly so. If you want to get that lot out, you gotta put that little bit in, if you know what I’m saying. Had I the skill, I probably would have put a map or scatter plot into the next one, but I didn’t.

SCP-2446

This article was technically finished pretty quickly, and then for about two weeks I concentrated just on ironing out any and all kinks. This was the kingpin for my team’s entry into the Mobile Task Force Contest, so it needed that polish, which I think it got. It doesn’t answer its questions, but that’s a part of the design for the contest.

I don't like how the Lambda-5 story concluded, which is to say, how it didn't. Anyways,

SCP-7881

This was originally an idea for the 7000 contest, but it went unrealized and ruminated-upon until I decided to make it the first article for pride month. Please read it, and leave a comment. I like the concept of hypotheticality a lot, and the current plan is to see where else I can take it.

I took chief inspiration from SCP-4774, regarding what's hypothetical, and SCP-6416, for some other stuff.

It was a long time since I posted something, and I'm extremely glad that other authors have been keeping up on the quality posts, and the unapologetic author-self-insert researchers. My high hopes are to keep the traditions alive.

All my ding dang tales

Tale	Created	Rating	Comments	Length
Every Other Day	09 Sep 2015 23:56	38	14	3033
2525 North Waterworks St.	07 Mar 2016 07:45	44	5	5578
My Loever, the Dog: The Incredibly True Story of Kain Pathos Crow	01 Apr 2016 03:30	122	14	1813
Rabbit Here, Rabbit There	07 Mar 2017 04:05	8	5	7035
Out of Many, One	09 Jan 2019 14:34	9	1	8214
Assured Loss of Life	28 Jan 2019 09:41	10	2	17127

Every Other Day

This was made very quickly after a walk. It’s weird, but I haven’t deleted it yet, so, you know. It’s about the banality of anomalousness, and stuff. 507 goes through different worlds, some of which are just weird, but most of which are normal. When it says "his" in some places, that’s because in those universes, those belong to parallel hims, and aren’t just separate points in one universe. That’s what it’s about, you see, but it could maybe have also served as an allegory or something? I dunno. Check it out, if you haven’t, you tell me about it.

2525 N Waterworks St

Remember what I said about the diligence and time put into 2446? Yeah, this was built out of the corpse of a half-finished tale in the space of a few hours. There seems to be a pattern with that an my tales. The original tale would have started the same way, then ended with a long conversation with the reality-bender which was scrapped, mainly because I didn’t have enough time to polish it. I think it turned out somewhat okay in the end, if pretty quick and unproductive.

My Loever, the Dog: The Incredibly True Story of Kain Pathos Crow

A tale about bestiality has won a contest on this site. How about that? Yes, it won.

rabbit here, rabbit there

Dec. 2017: I completely forgot that’s I released this. I don’t know if it’s gonna stick moving forward. I’ve been thinking about this a long time.

An SCP Worth Reading

SCP-5637