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Ah yes, the wonderful world of SCPs. When I first discovered the subreddit[0] I read through a ton of them. Some are very well written and the whole universe is very interesting. Would recommend to anyone interested in sci-fi. 0. https://old.reddit.com/r/scp

For a time, I read through hundreds of them, but then I had a bad trip involving seeing a lot of imagery from them, and it rather soured me on reading more.

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This website has some truly great stories. Where/how do I begin to understand this one?

The important thing is that 2521 (ohgod don't hurt me) seeks out and destroys everything which contains information about itself, but only if that information is words. It doesn't destroy pictorial representations.

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Could the person who made the entry write in abstract? Like what if I say: you shouldn't write or talk about beings that don't want to be written or talked about.

One of the general principles of the SCP-verse is that it hates rules lawyers. If you try to get clever, things tend to react even worse. This is used in-universe as an explanation of why they "contain" rather than "destroy". One of my favorite examples, albeit a very old one now, is http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-145 .

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Antimemetics Division stories are very well written, and make for some great reading. http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub Imagine fighting something that actively eats any knowledge about itself and anything you know about it, including yourself.

You can now buy it as an e-book or paperback from the original author: https://qntm.org/scp

I can highly HIGHLY recommend reading this. I blazed through it within 24 hours.

Favorite pun: "digitized" to describe being absorbed by a monster consisting of a mass of fingers...

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This website has some truly great stories. Where/how do I begin to understand this one?

Read on, I found I could figure out most of it on the go. I still don't understand this part, though: https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-2521/clearance...

Those are in-universe classification levels. It says low-level personnel are not allowed to access this file, only Level 4 and O5, the latter being the top tier Foundation ruling council. So that one can't really be decoded without a bit of SCP-specific knowledge.

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post #12

Could the person who made the entry write in abstract? Like what if I say: you shouldn't write or talk about beings that don't want to be written or talked about.

One of the general principles of the SCP-verse is that it hates rules lawyers. If you try to get clever, things tend to react even worse. This is used in-universe as an explanation of why they "contain" rather than "destroy". One of my favorite examples, albeit a very old one now, is http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-145 .

Another really good example of that is SCP-1609: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1609

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This website has some truly great stories. Where/how do I begin to understand this one?

Read on, I found I could figure out most of it on the go. I still don't understand this part, though: https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-2521/clearance...

O5: http://www.scpwiki.com/o5-command-dossier

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post #5

This website has some truly great stories. Where/how do I begin to understand this one?

Read on, I found I could figure out most of it on the go. I still don't understand this part, though: https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-2521/clearance...

Access to information restricted to Level 4 clearance and O5 council only.

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post #21

Ah yes, the wonderful world of SCPs. When I first discovered the subreddit[0] I read through a ton of them. Some are very well written and the whole universe is very interesting. Would recommend to anyone interested in sci-fi. 0. https://old.reddit.com/r/scp

For a time, I read through hundreds of them, but then I had a bad trip involving seeing a lot of imagery from them, and it rather soured me on reading more.

Yeah, if you're in the habit of taking such trips, I think I'd recommend considering very carefully whether you want to start reading through that wiki. There are some real-life, no fooling psychologically-hazardous things to read on there.
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