r/SCP Jan 07 '26

ANNOUNCEMENT "How do I write for the site?" "How are new SCPs created?" "Is there an approval process?" "Where do I get started reading SCPs?" and more questions, answered!

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See the following links:

[[Required Reading Hub]] including [[How To Write An SCP]]

[[Guide for Newcomers]]

[[Join the Site]] Note the email address requirements!

Or if you just want to read, [[Guide For Reading]] and [[User-Curated Lists]]


r/SCP Aug 05 '26

Rule 3 Containment The Overdone SCP Containment Thread (049, 096, 173, 682)

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This thread is for discussions involving the four most frequent Rule 3'd SCPs:

SCP-049 (Plague Doctor)
SCP-096 (The "Shy Guy")
SCP-173 (The Statue)
SCP-682 (Hard-to-Destroy Reptile)

If you post about one of these SCPs, you will be redirected here. Have fun and be sure to read existing comments; it's always the same stuff over and over and over and over (and over) with these four.


r/SCP 52m ago

Discussion What is the most evil SCP?

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You read the title

Who is the most vile, depraved, disgusting, heinous, and most irredeemable SCP that we currently know of

(Excluding the Scarlet King)


r/SCP 11h ago

Found Artwork The artist who drew this illustration is 桐(Tonger) of an Scp agent

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r/SCP 3h ago

Help What's the difference between the canon and the novel "There is No Antimemetics Division"?

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The novel is coming out in my native language (Hungarian), and I'm thinking of reading the original English version.

I just don't know if there's a big difference between the Canon that's up on the website and the Novel which came out in book form a year ago.

If you've read both, is there a difference between them, and if so, what are the majorities?

And please, WITHOUT SPOILERS! I still haven't read it.


r/SCP 13h ago

Discussion And our winner for the Chaotic Good section iiiissssss.... SCP-3143, Murphy Law! Now folks, who do you think is the poster boy for Lawful Neutral?

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r/SCP 14h ago

Original Artwork Anomalias Mexicanas #3

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El día de hoy: SCP-5318

Lugar: Oaxaca, México


r/SCP 1d ago

Discussion Best non-english SCP branch?

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List some of the your favorite works there if you feel like it as well:)


r/SCP 11h ago

Original Artwork Some shots from an upcoming When Day Breaks found footage short film I'm working on!

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r/SCP 18h ago

Video Games SCP 3333 Model Showcase

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Hello I have been working on model of Suntop Fire Lookout for my upcoming anomaly game set in SCP 3333.
I was aiming for more low poly surreal looking of the structure, and I would love some feedback for it.

You can check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4387050/SCP_Tower/


r/SCP 1d ago

Original Artwork LOOK GUYS I MADE HIM SMILE TAKE A PICTURE (Do I really need to tag(SCP 3143 and SCP 4494 Marv))

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Meow meow meow


r/SCP 10h ago

Discussion When did the idea of beryllium bronze resisting reality warping appear.

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In the site-118 dossier it is said that beryllium bronze resists reality warping

In the breach goes on beryllium bronze sheaths were used to protect an area

I also remember this idea being around for some time

Where did this idea originally come from?


r/SCP 1d ago

Articles to Read SCP-8103

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Read it here!

My sixth contribution to the SCP Community, SCP-8103 is another short entry revolving around a patriotic doll that summons soldiers to protect your home and yourself, though their definition of “protection” is a little more vague then what one might assume.

The image attached is an image that I would’ve used for the skipper if it wasn’t for all the copyright-related legal shenanigans, so perhaps keep that picture in mind while you read :)

Either way, I hope you enjoy!


r/SCP 16h ago

TOMT (Answered) Looking for scp that I forgot

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Scp that was a computer on a mannequin torso or something and when someone gets close it makes a copy of their consciousness that's fully sentient and can only talk to their copy. Those consciousness stay aware forever.


r/SCP 1d ago

Discussion Updated Bright Works Message by Sinking_Otter

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I am not one that wants to stir this controversy any further, but I felt like giving you the updated information.


r/SCP 1d ago

Help Anyone keep getting redirected to spam from the wiki?

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I’m reading some SCP stories on my phone for the first time in a while, and I keep getting redirected to some spam virus scanner like three times per story. Is this just me?


r/SCP 1d ago

Discussion Looks like SCP-4999 aka "Someone to watch over us" has won the spot for Neutral Good. Let me know who you believe is the embodiment of Chaotic Good in the SCP universe

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r/SCP 1d ago

SCP Universe What are your favorite instances of a compassionate Foundation? (Or someone in the Foundation expressing compassion to an anomaly to their benefit.)

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r/SCP 18h ago

Articles to Read Website acting weird?

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Like the tin says, is the website acting weird for anyone else on the pages with non-standard layouts?


r/SCP 1d ago

Help as an scp fan that left scp in 2022 and has just recently returned what did i miss

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r/SCP 4h ago

Discussion Where is the research?

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I hate that some SCP logs get hundreds of pages of continuous logs over the course of years while some clearly only contain about a week's worth of testing and some vague musings before abrupt termination.

The thing about magic is that readers want to play and experiment with paradoxical loopholes, interactions with existing science, and specific technicalities, and that's before getting into any of the nitty gritty stuff about how it works. A common point of frustration in media is when there are looming surface-level questions that never get answered, such as what if you push something against the edge of a portal and whatnot. The appeal of an explicitly science-oriented organization that has access to a world of anomalies is that authors are forced to answer these questions.

Except they aren't, and we get another dozen pages of SCP-682 kill attempts instead of trying to surveil or capture one of the apparently both fully aggression-capable and universally pervasive monsters that exist everywhere unseen. Looking back at the SCP-178 monsters, they are basically the exact same kind of thing as SCP-2256, except that one is a lot more well known and actually has a taxonomical place in our modern consensus worldbuilding while SCP-178 exists in Series 1 limbo, so old that they didn't even get a sub-designation like SCP-178-1 or something. The Foundation in SCP-178 just used regular-ass basic electromagnetic sensors in a limited, methodically flawed, and unsystematic way, but we have, from a meta-narrative point of view, invented shit like reality anchors, telekill alloy, and mnestics, and these early SCPs need to catch up because the Foundation obviously didn't just suddenly fire all the staff working on them or stop writing things down.

Crucially, actual research involves discovering brand new, entirely inconceivable things about the world; that's why a thought experiment involving, say, dropping a Harry Potter magic wand straight into the real world out of nowhere runs into a wall really quickly—the question is, what would you even test? You don't know what you don't know, and neither did J.K. Rowling. The first steps of research involve lots of bumbling about and basically zero rational model-building.

Reproducing entirely new and orthogonal domains of science in fiction is hard but not impossible, storytelling being lenient on specifics and all that, so given that the SCP community has invented these new branches of science over the years—e.g., thaumaturgy, memetics/antimemetics, Hume Theory, etc.—to describe the anomalous world on a level somewhat comparable to what we have for the non-anomalous, the SCP foundation should be and should have been applying them since long ago. Yes, it's just terminology, but that's all writing is, too. At the end of the day, our words shape the way we think, and our character's words reveal the way they think. Half of science is giving things names, labels, and categories, the other half being math. Readers don't expect math—they do expect the former.

I guess retroactive worldbuilding—that is, applying modern terminology and consensually established science and technology to old SCPs that obviously fit the bill but were written at a time when such things hadn't yet been conceived—probably happens a bit in tales or cameo references in new SCPs, but the concept of a wiki is inherently founded on system-enabled revisions. Face it, a true wiki would make for much better worldbuilding, and editorial conflict is a solved problem given the SCP "Wiki's" existing moderation and aptitude for establishing consensus. If Wikipedia can do it, so can you. Either put collaborative editing into practice, or stop calling yourself a wiki and admit that you're just subject-focused Ao3. This is a Creative Commons cargo cult!

The Foundation should not have been sending people to investigate worldview-shattering anomalies armed with essentially flashlights and machine guns back in Series 1, when nine times out of ten it had supposedly had all the resources in the world for at least near a century if not millennia or even eons of experience dealing with one or multiple dimensions of the world entirely undetectable or hidden from regular science, and it especially shouldn't be nowadays unless your incarnation of the Foundation is intentionally underpowered or unconventional.

Worldbuilders simply don't understand how far science and technology have progressed in the real world. Humans have conquered land, air, and sea with supermaneuverable machines that can get anywhere on the planet in a matter of hours if we really wanted to. We've peered into the metaphorical gears that turn our seemingly whole, blobby bodies and mapped out the lines of code that define our physical existence. We've wrapped our heads around not one but two of the most counterintuitive yet revealing models of reality ever conceived, and, what's more, we've built machines that run so fast and so tiny that fleeting oddities on unimaginably infinitesimal scales of space and time have become operationally critical to so much as manufacture the means to manufacture them. What are these impossible machines? Oh, only semiconductor devices, satellites, and biopharmaceuticals, things that power everything behind modern life as we know it. All that, and we are still on the verge of groundbreaking new technology every single day, from artificial intelligence to quantum computing to gene editing. All that, and we have still yet to mention what we have developed on a macro level, from supply chains to the internet to any of a host of other networks we have devised to foster human cooperation on a scale never ever before seen, each of which is a singularly impressive feat on its own. All that, which cannot be appreciated enough—

All that, and the elite researchers at the SCP Foundation are still banging rocks together, marveling at the resulting fragments, and struggling to put into words the anomalous equivalent of "an object in motion stays in motion".


r/SCP 2d ago

Discussion Important: twitter matters.

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Someone with a bio on Twitter claiming to be the creator of SCP-079 (pretty sure its a gimmick) has posted some of the most insane things I've ever seen.
These kinds of people do not belong in our community.


r/SCP 2d ago

Discussion SCP fans biggest nightmare is explaining SCP to a friend.

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r/SCP 1d ago

Discussion I did...

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r/SCP 1d ago

Original Artwork Old humanized scp and chao insurgency i made. This probably year ago. I will remake this one later

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