#scp-579

[monsterfuckerratings]

Monster: SCP-579

From: SCP

F: 10

H: 10

T: 10

E: 10

Given the unknowable and infohazard nature of 579 clocking it as anything but a perfect 40 feels disingenuous. With that rating it achieves the religious truama tier! Thank you a final time @frightnightindustries for the asks!

[zal-cryptid]

SCiPTEMBER ✍️

[DAY 27 - Tactical Theology]

[DAY 28 - shadow]

SCP-5709 and SCP-017

[eparchclass]

579skipic | Dataexpunskipic — Gender related to SCP-579, aka "[DATA EXPUNGED]"

[justdreamsandmusic]

''49’x20’ all cleftv facing house plan''

Dr. Alto Clef's Personnel File & SCP 166 inspired. SCP 0166, 001, 017, 033, 048, 055, 073, 076, 105, 106, 140, 144, 148, 169, 173, 182, 184, 231, 239, 336, 343, 370, 397, 407, 416, 423, 439, 469, 478, 529, 557, 571, 575, 579, 581 (Eponnai), 582, 595, 597, 598, 600, 603, 604, 606, 614, 616, 631, 633, 646, 655, 658, 659, 660, 666, 668, 669, 671, 678, 682, 686, 688, 700, 701, 703, 705, 709, 710, 712, 722, 732, 734, 738, 748, 750, 752, 757, 762, 763, 789, 795, 835, 993, 1000, 1050, 1609, 1795, 2000, 2003, 2317, 3000, 4000, 4166, 4231 all in mind, etc

[bookclub4m]

Episode 184 - Horror

This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Horror! We talk about fear, control, Goosebumps, bad dogs, horror-comedy, creepypasta, the apocalypse, lizard romance, and more! 

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Straight by Chuck Tingle

Mister Magic by Kiersten White, narrated by Rebecca Lowman

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

Leech by Hiron Ennes

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen edited by Ellen Datlow

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit: Fazbear Frights #1 by Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper

Sadako at the End of the World by Koma Natsumi

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 3 by Eiji Otsuka and Yamazaki Housui

Things We Read (but didn’t talk about in this episode)

Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki! by Kanako Inuki

Résumé With Monsters by William Browning Spencer

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee

Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw

A Song for the Quiet by Cassandra Khaw

The Helios Syndrome by Vivian Shaw

Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum

Other Media (& Authors) We Mentioned

Captain Britain And MI13, Volume 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk, and Mike Collins

Stephen King

Misery

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Cujo

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Alien: Isolation (Wikipedia)

Dead Space (2008 video game) (Wikipedia)

R.L. Stine

Goosebumps

Fear Street

Junji Ito

The Enigma of Amigara Fault - “T-this is my hole! It was made for me!”

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu

Emily Carroll

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Smart Podcast Trashy Books: 579. Punk Rock Writing with Chuck Tingle

Candle Cove by Kris Straub

Candle Cove (Wikipedia)

SCP Foundation 

SCP-087

The SCP Foundation: Declassified (YouTube)

The Ring (2002 film) (Wikipedia)

We talked more about the novel The Ring in Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers

Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones (YouTube) 

Links, Articles, Etc.

Episode 176: Fantasy

Episode 123: Psychological Horror

Does the Dog Die?

Matthew’s spooky phone case is a variant of this one

Matthew did a “31 Spooky Manga” challenge a few years ago and read a different spooky manga every day in October.

The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry

Sound Effects

Big Thunder And Distant Thunder Rain Birds by morvei01

Dramatic Organ, A by InspectorJ

bats1 by sofie

Pigeons (St Stephens Green, Dublin) by iainmccurdy

31 Recent Horror Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

This list features horror fiction by BIPOC authors published within the last 3 years.

Jackal by Erin E. Adams

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

The Spite House by Johnny Compton

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Piñata by Leopoldo Gout

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia 

This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele

Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn

Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

Chlorine by Jade Song

Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories by Alex Soop

There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth 

Give us feedback!

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 7th when we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting!

Then on Tuesday, December 5th we’ll be talking about the genre of Suspense Fiction!

[mothervvoid]

ard talks about scp-5000

important note: scp-5000 is a work of fiction. it was created by the author Tanhony for the scp-5000 contest on the scp wiki, for which it became the winner. 

i will be referencing the declassified reddit post as well as >this< reddit post. 

have you ever heard the ballad of scp-5000? well if you haven’t i’ll give you a little summary here.

scp-5000 is a severely damaged suit called ‘the absolute exclusion harness’ that renders its wearer completely undetectable by man, machine and any entity supernatural, anomalous or otherwise. the suit appeared in scp-579′s containment chamber in a flash of light, severely damaged. its currently kept in a storage locker. but the suit isn’t whats important, the suit is merely a vehicle for the greater mystery here.

the suit contained the corpse of a man known as “pietro wilson” along with several files/journal entries written by wilson. only problem: pietro wilson is still alive, and still in the foundation’s employ, and more importantly: he doesn’t remember wearing the harness or writing those files.

we then launch into the story written within these files, trying to piece together just what the fuck is going on along with wilson as he makes his way across the country. he writes down what he sees, from the very first incident he encounters (his coworkers being killed by other foundation personnel that he, at first, believes are members of a GOI disguised as the foundation) to which scps have been released and the untold destruction of what the foundation has unleashed.

you see, the foundation has declared war on mankind. why, you ask? because of “IT”. 

“IT” is responsible for all of humanity’s pain, for humanity’s ability to feel pain and all of the negative aspects associated with it. “IT” tortures humans eternally, trapping their consciousnesses inside of their rotting bodies once they die to feed off of their shock and horror as they wither away. “IT” is in the consciousness of every living human, and apparently, the foundation doesn’t have enough of its magic “cure” to go around. their solution? kill everyone.

somewhere along the journey wilson acquired a briefcase (containing scp-055) that he doesn’t know how he came into ownership of, and is headed towards scp-579. he doesn’t know why, he just knows he has to get to scp-579. wilson does reach 579, but he dies in the process, throwing the briefcase at 579 as he plummets to the bottom of the hole its kept in. he ends his logs with this line:

Oh … so that's how it is.

LIFE SIGNS LOST

the actual scp article ends here too, with a lengthy bit of blank space between the final log and the footnotes. if you open up the source code, you can actually find a hidden conversation, but we’re not here to talk about the ARG elements that tanhony very cleverly worked into scp-5000′s article, we’re here to talk about what it all means.

My Theory.

several people have put forward their own theories on what’s going on. the declassified article postulates the entity, the eponymous “IT” that lurks in our collective unconsciousness, is not just responsible for pain but empathy--meaning humanity’s nature is a byproduct of whatever it needs to feed off of us. their “cure” is a set of cognitohazardous images that apparently “releases” the viewer’s mind from “IT”. 

but to me there’s just... something so OFF about how the foundation goes about this. if the entity feeds off of humanity’s pain, why is the foundation’s response to... cause more pain.

let me explain. in order to fight their war against humanity, the foundation decides to use their many anomalous creatures and items to help. for example: they release scp-682, they ask mr. deeds (scp-662) to assassinate people, they release the flesh that hates (scp-610) into major population centers. they released pictures of scp-096 onto social media, they weaponized cameron (scp-2241), they run propaganda using scp-1370, they release the builder bear (scp-1048) into paris. this isn’t even all of them. all of these scps were released to do the maximum amount of harm possible, and you know what else all these scps are causing? pain. 

but the foundation is suppose to be doing this to free humanity from an entity that feeds off pain... right?

there’s a really interesting throwaway line in a log between a member of the GOC and a captured foundation agent. the GOC is currently holed up in ganzir, a city in the middle of the atlantic ocean that was meant to house humanity in the event of an apocalypse. here’s the quote:

“(...) No matter how many times you fire Able at her, Professor Crow's Europa will rip this place open before long. (...)“

Able. capital A. as in scp-076. that able. ignoring the question of why would the GOC work with an scp when their main mission is to destroy anomalies--why is able working with the GOC against the foundation? surely they would understand his psyche finally, now that they’re free of empathy and pain, right? 

now obviously it might just be that able was one of the scps originally released to wreak havoc along with the others, only to turn on the foundation out of anger at being imprisoned for so long. he might just want revenge. the GOC might have just been able (haha) to get their hands on able’s resurrection box-coffin and are just repeatedly firing him at whatever prof. crow’s “europa” is. obviously we’ll never know for sure, but it struck me as odd. 

because of all of these factors listed above, i want to put forward another idea: whatever “IT” is, the foundation might have found something cognitohazardous, and then spread it around as an apparent “cure”. dr. bright’s dialogue offers up some evidence to the affirmative: 

Pietro: The second file? You saw it? (stands) What was it?!

Girl: Woah, cool your jets, kid. We've got all the time in the world. They were just a bunch of images - eggs, trees, religious stuff. Didn't mean anything to me by themselves, but I guess they had something encoded in them. (...)

do you know what that sounds like? the daevites have symbols that can turn anyone to their cause upon viewing them, and the scp foundation has made a similar image (scp-2140). these are known as cognitohazards, artifacts that can manipulate the mind through sight. whatever “IT” was, it might have influenced the foundation, and the “cure” they made increased its effects. 

Final Thoughts.

scp-5000 is, in the end, a story that has no good ending, no matter what. the author of the declassified post theorizes that wilson throwing the briefcase containing scp-055 into scp-579 and resetting everything is the bad ending, because project PNEUMA is abandoned and “IT” will continue to lurk in the human collective unconscious. the author of the second linked reddit post, saying they don’t like scp-5000, theorizes empathy is what “IT” is responsible for, and that the story is needlessly nihilistic. 

even with my own theory, i don’t think scp-5000 has a good ending. and i don’t think it’s suppose to. scp-5000 is nihilistic horror. it’s suppose to stick with you, it’s suppose to make you think and it’s suppose to make you feel bad and uncomfortable. that’s the point!! and that’s okay. 

[the-scp-files]

ONLY YOU CAN SAVE THE WORLD - SCP-055/SCP-579 EAS Scenario

By: scroton, rewritten by: Sophia Light

[johannesviii]

[Images: The “American Chopper Argument” meme. First guy, reading a paper: “SCP-579″. Second guy, annoyed: “What is it?”. First guy, shouting: “[redacted]”. Second guy, throwing a chair: “What the fuck does it do??”. First guy, still yelling and pointing at him: “[redacted]”.]

[narcoticwriter]

The Foundation, initiating SCP-5000: Fuck it! We don't care if the entirety of humanity has to die! We're finally going to neutralize SCP-682!

Pietro Wilson, diving into SCP-579: The fuck you are.

[mortalorder]

Fuck SCP-579 I hate it’s existence

[monsterfuckerratings]

I have a few if you dont mind

Leshy (Inscryption)

P03 (Inscryption)

Habit (EverymanHYBRID)

SCP-579 (SCP, IDK how you would do this one lol)

I'll work on getting these up!

[scp-l4-clef-alto-001]

Which do you think is worse and more terrifying: SCP-055, Procedure 110-Montauk, what SCP-447-2 does to dead bodies, or SCP-579?

- Clef

[zal-cryptid]

A square hole for a peg that isn't round and a self-abstracting semioplex.

[shythalia]

Ok, so, I just watched SCP Illustrated's SCP-5000 Explained video and it is said that [SPOILERS BTW]:

When Pietro joined 055 with 579, it reset a lot of the events which ends up in a new timeline where none of the kill-of-all-humanity thing & Project Pneuma ever happened. And this means that no one on Earth no longer knows of the existence of the entity that was in humanity's collective consciousness and that said entity has an awful & terrible plan to do to humanity in the future, right?

But the Foundation still ended up having the suit (5000) - because you know, it just appeared in the site in the new timeline - and they managed to extract/recover the files saved in it. So, there might be a chance they would figure out the entity's existence again.

Idk. Maybe they won't figure it out because Pneuma was never created in the first place in the new timeline. But Project Kaleidoscope was said to be like Pneuma. Maybe Kaleidoscope was just based on Pneuma since Pneuma failed. Idk.

ANYWAY, it was a good SCP. I love it. Nicely done, Tanhony.

[girldraki]

5000 also relies on a bunch of older articles to make sense, beyond that weird list of “heres a bunch of random numbers that the foundation set loose, hope you recognize them or ur willing to spend an extra three hours reading up on other articles just to understand this one”. i first read 5000 when i was relatively new to scp, so not even the declass of 5000 made any sense. you NEED to know about 055 and 579 at the bare minimum to even guess whats going on (the declass is even prefaced with: you should read these specific articles before reading the declass) and you should probably know about most of the other skips mentioned to actually enjoy the article as intended.

for 055 and 579, i think tanhony was going for “why are those two scps related and/or important” since the theme was supposed to be mystery. but thats literally just what scp articles are supposed to do in the first place. theyre supposed to explain the objects. if you walk into 5000 with no background knowledge, it comes across as the world’s vaguest macguffin that needs to be inserted somewhere (also never explained) to solve the plot. for some reason.

alright this one gave us pause because to be honest, we barely processed 5000 at the time, being rather wrapped up in the whole MEGALOMANIA fiasco. we will have to reread it to give you a proper answer. we dont remember it being super reliant on other articles, more a little "everything is fucked up and the foundation is doing murder, why" and then we look in the collective unconscious and go oh okay i get it and the viewpoint guy dies?

[lesbianchemicalplant]

Some Good SCPs

Strong favorites marked by (⁂)

Series I

SCP-033 - The Missing Number

SCP-055 - [unknown]

SCP-087 - The Stairwell

SCP-093 - Red Sea Object

SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original

SCP-186 - To End All Wars  (⁂)

SCP-270 - Secluded Telephone  (⁂)

SCP-342 - Ticket to Ride  (⁂)

SCP-387 - Living Lego

SCP-426 - I am a Toaster

SCP-579 - [DATA EXPUNGED]

SCP-592 - Inaccurate History Book

SCP-711 - Paradoxical Insurance Policy

SCP-804 - World Without Man  (⁂)

SCP-914 - The Clockworks

Series II

SCP-1171 - Humans Go Home

SCP-1193 - Buried Giant

SCP-1322 - World We Helped

SCP-1425 - Star Signals

SCP-1500 - Zachary Callahan

SCP-1539 - Semantic Dissociation Zone

SCP-1689 - Bag of Holding Potatoes  (⁂)

SCP-1733 - Season Opener  (⁂)

SCP-1802 - Skip

SCP-1981 - "RONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING"

SCP-1983 - Doorway to Nowhere

SCP-1986 - Imaginary Library

Series III

SCP-2000 - Deus Ex Machina

SCP-2090 - Potentially XK Tim Duncan

SCP-2135 - 91st Street Station

SCP-2288 - Copy of A

SCP-2316 - The Bodies In The Water  (⁂)

SCP-2459 - When the Traffic Clears

SCP-2499 - Harmony of the Spheres

SCP-2521 - ●●|●●●●●|●●|●  (⁂)

SCP-2557, A Holding of Envelope Logistics®

Allison Eckhart - Allison Eckhart

SCP-2571 - Cragglewood Park

SCP-2602 - Former Library

SCP-2637 - A controversial chunk of rock with 196,884-dimensional stakes  (⁂)

SCP-2718 - What Happens After  (⁂)

SCP-2719 - Inside

SCP-2740 - It Wasn't There  (⁂)

SCP-2871 - Strong Interaction Amplifier

SCP-2900 - Participation Trophies

SCP-2935 - A Dead World

SCP-2951 - Too Long  (⁂)

SCP-2979 - Your High School Physics Teacher, Mr. [REDACTED]  (⁂)

SCP-2998 - Anomalous Transmission, 2485 MHz

Series IV

SCP-3001 - Red Reality

SCP-3002 - Attempts to Assassinate Thought

SCP-3005 - A Light That Died  (⁂)

SCP-3008 - A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA  (⁂)

SCP-3104 - Cops Magnet  (⁂)

SCP-3116 - It's time to stop posting

SCP-3125 - 55555 (NOTE: I recommend reading 3125 after reading everything preceding it on the Antimemetics Division Hub page)

SCP-3127 - Nineteen Year Old Jessica Lambert And A Female Pig Of Abnormal Size, Forever

SCP-3128 - Let's Play Monopoly!

SCP-3264 - Causeless Effect  (⁂)

SCP-3333 - Tower  (⁂)

SCP-3455 - 411 Days A Year

SCP-3733 - Everybody Else

SCP-3773 - 9,000 Lives

SCP-3900 - The Internet of Things That Are Wolves  (⁂)

SCP-3930 - Does Not Exist  (⁂)

Series V

Taboo  (⁂)

SCP-4022 - Great Big Nothing

SCP-4065 - Ancho(red) Reality

SCP-4121 - The Loop That Never Breaks/Never Has/Never Will Be Broken

SCP-4228 - Karma Kameleon

SCP-4330 - A Moment of Silence

SCP-4365 - Five-Story Upside-Down Hotel

SCP-4417 - The Long Way Round

SCP-4493 - Keep Pride Out Of Corps  (⁂)

SCP-4703 - Perfectly Legal

SCP-4774 - Ninth Planet, Perhaps

4807 - Minimalism

SCP-4857 - [DESIGNATION AVAILABLE]

SCP-4885 - Find Him

SCP-4999 - Someone to Watch Over Us

Series VI

SCP-5005 - Lamplight

SCP-5031 - Yet another murder monster  (⁂)

SCP-5087 - When Have They Gone?

SCP-5095 - We Need to Talk about O5-3.

SCP-5320 - The People's Church Of The Fish That Just Goes On Forever

SCP-5520 - The Rabbit Hole

SCP-5522 - Pizza Delivery Speedrun (RTA) 100% Completion

SCP-5538 - Holder of Abnormalities

SCP-5552 - Our Stolen Theory

SCP-5579 - Boba Roe

SCP-5920 - Work on What Has Been Spoiled

SCP-5994 - You Can't Top Pigs with Pigs  (⁂)

Series VII

SCP-6006 - Theseus

SCP-6273 - The Empty Skin

SCP-6761 - The Sorting Machine

SCP-6803 - True Earth

Series VIII

SCP-7186 - Rock and Stone

SCP-7819 - no vacancy

SCP-001 Proposals

S. D. Locke’s Proposal - When Day Breaks  (⁂)

Kate McTiriss’ Proposal - A Record

Antimemetics Division Hub  (⁂)

I recommend reading the Antimemetics Division Hub page in order from the beginning (SCP-055) through SCP-3125:

[...]

Critical background reading

SCP-055

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (2015) This story is complete.

We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five

Introductory Antimemetics  (⁂)

Unforgettable, That's What You Are

CASE COLOURLESS GREEN

Your Last First Day

Five Five Five Five Five by qntm (2017–)

SCP-3125

[...]

reading anything past SCP-3125 isn’t needed IMO, especially since the rest of the “Five Five Five Five Five” series is unfinished. (EDIT: It's been finished now, but IMO you should still just stop after 3125)

Also, in my opinion, Introductory Antimemetics is the best tale on the site by far

Other Good Tales

SCUTTLE  (⁂)

Your Very First SCP!

Your Very Last SCP!

Footnotes/Disclaimers:

This is a provisional draft, and has been assembled retroactively after reading the site for many years -- I’m definitely forgetting some I really liked, especially in Series II. This will be updated as I add things, and I’ll reblog myself when I’ve added to it significantly

This is non-exhaustive, it’s not a list of all good SCPs, just some of my favorites that I remember. (682 is both not one of my favorites and also Not Good, though)

This also isn’t an intro guide for beginners, which would be organized differently and would require a lot more thought about order, when to introduce different aspects of the Meta, when to start linking format-screws, etc.

CW for ableism, carcerality, body horror, etc. on all of these links. It’s the SCP wiki

Lastly -- you can figure out what ██████ is in SCP-3005 - A Light That Died (“An ██████'s safe on shore but it's the last thing you want to hold when you're drowning”) and figuring this out really pulls the entry together!!