#scp rant

[pchlenka]

Well, what does being back feel like?

I've been into SCP back in 2017 when it was thriving, now it has been 7 years since then and I am aware that communities change, not always for the better. I feel nostalgic looking at what was and wish that it would come back even though it's impossible. I am sure many feel the same, looking at the blogs which have been inactive for 2-6 years.

What happened to SCP fandom feels disheartening to me. The site has always been a creative playground with a setting that let people run rampant with ideas, but nowadays this unfortunately has turned into a case of using this freedom for grounds of power gaming. Rather than appreciate the variety of things an SCP could be which was never limited to object, human or animal, many have decided to create as powerful of a Apollyon as they could to pit it into the fight against 001, 073 or 076.

We had SO many creative things in here. We had toasters that made you think you're a toaster, rings which toughened you up for cost of feeling sleepy and fatigued, indestructible lizards, building bears, encyclopedias that gave you diseases, actual viruses, doors to other dimensions, devices that couldn't be explained by engineers, phenomenon and places that were engraved in our minds... why waste such potential? ://

For those who don't know, I am a roleplayer since 2019. It's my hobby which started back on amino, though nowadays I roleplay on discord server. And allow me to tell you that a lot of "SCP" servers have become 1% SCP and 99% multifandom 💀. I don't have anything against multifandom RPs, neither do I have a thing against crossovers, however when an SCP themed server has more multifandom stuff than it does SCP stuff, then my brother that's not an SCP server no more.

I overall dislike that people take SCP's freedom and use it against it. The old fandom feels scarce nowadays. I am genuinely glad that I've experienced this fandom at the time I did, I am also grateful for the people who still come back to it and to youtubers like volgun who don't cease to love it and introduce it to new generations, carrying its legacy. And I'm glad whenever I see people who create genuinely creative SCP OCs.

I guess this rant can be summed up to me disliking SCP "God OCs" and being salty that roblox SCP games are more SCP themed than discord SCP servers lmao

Eitherway I do know there are old school enjoyers out here and I see and appreciate you. I do hope I can make or maybe join an actual SCP discord server in the future because I genuinely crave roleplaying as 035 and roleplaying is like water for me. I drink it, breathe it, love it /J

For now rant is over. Feel free to share your thoughts too and see you guys around <3

[dorianvalentino]

Ignore how it’s in the cookie run font but rant

[makelifeyourbitch42]

Reminder: There Is No Canon to Creepypasta and Frankly, There Shouldn't Be

I already made a post about this (it was actually my first one), but I have gotten better at conveying what I'm trying to say here. I don’t know how many people will actually see this, but I hope some do because I think this is really important given how the fandom is going these days.

There is no canon to Creepypasta.

Did you really think the people who made Slenderman or Jeff the Killer planned for them to star in an AMV where they battle to the death with Fall Out Boy playing? Or that they’d be featured in cute ship animations and oWo storylines? Of course not. And the same goes for nearly every character in this space.

But people kept creating. We invented the idea of a shared universe. We gave it lore. We gave it depth. We gave it ships, AUs, Proxies, tragic backstories, and haunted mansions.

There. Is. No. Canon. There never was, and there never will be. And that’s a good thing.

We can do whatever we want with these characters. We already do.

Want a model for this? Look at the SCP Foundation. It’s got hundreds of characters, monsters, and stories and no true overarching timeline. Many of those stories contradict each other, and that’s the point. SCP works because it embraces creative freedom. Creepypasta can do that too.

In fact, calling things “headcanons” doesn’t even make sense when there’s no actual canon to begin with. If your “headcanon” changes a backstory, a relationship, or the emotional tone of the world, it’s an AU. And that’s not bad! AUs are where the most fun happens.

Jeff and Liu can be brothers or enemies. BEN Drowned can be a dead kid or whatever AI hivemind he was in the ARG. Slenderman can be a Lovecraftian nightmare or a weird neutral forest God. You can write horror, slice of life, romantic drama, or comedy.

We don’t need a Creepypasta wiki like SCP has, but if we had something like that? Something that gave space to all these alternate takes without arguing what’s “true”? It could help.

Because at the end of the day, we should feel free to tell whatever the Hell stories we want with these characters and the universe. IF ANY!

You can just have owo Yaoi, Yuri, and whatever a "straight" ship is! You want slice-of-life shenanigans in a mansion Slenderman owns for some reason? GO. FOR. IT. It’s valid.

There’s no canon. There’s only you, your weird brain, and the stories you want to tell.

Thank you for reading.

[the-pest1lence]

Are you a “can’t listen to podcasts in public due to facial expressions” kind of listener or a “can’t listen to podcasts in public due to the world being too loud and not understanding anything” kind of listener?

Edit: I’ve made a poll

[monigote001]

That horrible moment you realize you are non-sharing and suddenly you start to feel like the most egoist egocentric bitchy insufferable terrible and unlikeable asshole ever

[antipathy-arsonist]

everything about dr bright is one of the worst things to ever happen to the scp foundation community and im being 100% serious

[jinxisjonx]

I drank an energy drink and I’m now aggressively shaking I DO NOT FEEL OKAY

Anyway here is a old Glass doodle I never posted cause I kinda hate my art style

[myasoko]

Okay, if clef is satan, is Meri sin? In paradise lost I believe that sin and death are the equivalents of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to Satan, and Sin is the female character in the mix. I think that Lilly is based off of Lilith so it would be fitting to have Clef’s offspring form an unholy trinity to continue the biblical theme

EDIT: I made a shitty chart to clarify because I sound insane

[mtx-lol]

a little more froma bit before in reblogs soon just give me a sec

[sleepanonymous]

I usually don't get into discourse or discussions of Sleep Token lore for Reasons™️but I would like to bring forth a proposition that Sleep Token's songs are not offerings about Sleep but offerings to Sleep.

[twoa-plus]

every once in a while i have a brief little flash of an scp phase & i wanna scream a little abt 049 bc maybe . perhaps there is someone out there who gets what im sayin

049 is and always has been my fav bc he’s a weird little freak and i love weird little freaks. but i feel like i’m kind of alone in how i view his weird little freakiness. a lot of content with this character revolves around him being Cool and Dark and Mysterious - which to some extent he is !! his design and voice and the fact nobody knows wtf his problem is are all very neat & interesting . however. i feel like a lot of people either disregard his actual personality in favor of aesthetics, or overcompensate & exaggerate his personality to a degree where it’s no longer true to the character

i feel like the former is more common & is most of his depictions atp - people see a Spooky Doctor character who wears all black and has a voice like his and go “ah yes he must be this super mysterious apathetic quiet cool guy” when he’s ,,, not? like the mysterious part i get but he isn’t like that on purpose, & everything else just . isn’t true? like, i wouldn’t say he’s an extrovert by any means but he does clearly take at least some enjoyment from talking to people every once in a while & is a very animated speaker*, & he’s pretty easy to read emotionally - he might not be a super touchy-feely type, but you can tell when he’s feeling a certain way abt something

*i can’t bring this up without this i love this bit it is everything to me

like idk i’ll admit 049 is a difficult character for me to really put into words but hopefully this makes sense so far? like he doesn’t really fit into the archetype he’s constantly getting shoved into - there’s a lot of contrast between his external presentation & the actual content of who he is as a person, and it’s smth i really like abt him & also think is a really neglected part of his character. a lot of people write him not as a Person but as like a generic slasher villain & i think that is very unfortunate

anyways, i also mentioned people overcompensating on this, & what i mean by that is like. people making him Overly silly. y’know focusing way too much on “i am the cure” jokes & making him out to just be some funny crazy guy etc etc u know what im talking abt . i’m sure i don’t really need to explain much why i’m not particularly fond of this it just sucks a lot of the fun out of him, i think it’s way more interesting to go down the path of “he genuinely knows something the foundation doesn’t.” also i think a lot of these depictions of his character can end up falling into the category of horror that’s just “haha look at this mentally ill guy isn’t that scary” which is obv bad for its own reasons & is just. boring tbh. again this is difficult to put into words but hopefully u get it !! he’s way more compelling as a character (& a horror monster !!) if u take him seriously & don’t just disregard him as crazy

idk i just feel like with 049 people either don’t take him seriously at all (boring) or they think he needs a completely different personality to be a serious character (also boring). Who He Is As A Person is probably my favorite part of his character (it makes him fun to dissect & play around with !!!) & is also something that’s consistently tossed aside in favor of either spookiness, silliness, or sex appeal, & there are very very few depictions of this character that i actually like because of this. am i alone on this

[dr-sylvester-prince]

I’d love to be part of the scp fandom again, and interact with more scp people. But a lot of the people who make good stuff still use bright and I genuinely cannot understand why they can’t just atleast rename him or something.

hits a bit close to home for me, and it’s frustrating to see this character that was used for grooming be everywhere. Weird rant but it’s frustrating. More people should know that the character shouldn’t be used.

[naphthalenegirl]

Call me old fashioned but I can't stand the way most of the SCP Foundation fancontent now is just heaps and heaps of twink fanart and the same jokes over and over again.

I know the site looks better and more modern and all of that, but I can't help but miss the old times where articles were hardly approved and only the best sifted through, the entire fandom was just nerds/4channers. Nowadays it feels like liminal Poppy Playtime.

I sort of knew this would happen when they changed SCP-049's page again for God knows what reason a few years ago...Shame

Also what the hell happened to SCP Sedition?

[curiousspecterr]

A little rant/vent about my worries about posting my Meri X Aziel content

I'll be honest I'm a little scared every time I post Meri and Aziel content. Every time, I feel worried that someone in the comments or so on is gonna trash on me because I didn't make Meri lesbian. I've seen people in other communitys who have done that for simmelar characters, and I'm scared it might happen to me too. I just felt like I needed to get that off my chest. Thank you to all the friends who have supported Meri X Aziel through my time here, you guys mean a lot to me. (Mainly goes out to ChocoMoonTiger, garden of absurdity, and Aronaax)

[the-pest1lence]

ANNA MAGURE, RELEASED THE NEXT FUA EPISODE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[max-starcatcher]

Doodle on a light up thingy I got as a Christmas eve present ✨ (Also, first post. Took me a long time to finally warm up to Tumblr and stuff. I'm quite new to this social media thing so uh. Yeah. Clarf SCP.) (I am so nervous someone pls idk stab me a couple hundred times I beg. 🔪)