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 The logo of the SCP Foundation | |
| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| URL | www |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | July 19th, 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
| Content license | CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0 |
The SCP Foundation (short for Special Containment Procedure) is a creative writing website housed on Wikidot. The website describes the exploits of the SCP Foundation, a fictional organization responsible for containing anomalies entities that violate natural law. The SCP Foundation has inspired many spin-off works, including SCP – Containment Breach.
Synopsis
The SCP Foundation is an organization tasked by global governments with containing paranormal entities (often referred to as SCPs) to prevent them from harming human health, global security and humanity's sense of normalcy. The SCP Foundation maintains multiple facilities throughout the world to help in their mission of containing SCPs. To aid in containment, the SCP Foundation employs multiple task forces to secure and contain SCPs. In addition, teams of scientists are employed to study and experiment on the various contained SCPs. Expendable death row inmates (referred to as D-class) are used by the scientists during testing. The agency is headed by 05 command, a group of 13 members.
The SCP Foundation maintains a database of the special containment procedures needed to keep the anomalies they have contained in captivity.
Community
The SCP Foundation series originated in the /x/ forum of 4chan, where the first special containment procedure was during 2007. In 2008, the SCP Foundation series was moved to its current Wikidot website. The Wikidot website has received media attention for its creative writing contests. The contests are free to enter for website members. However, users need to submit an application and demonstrate an understanding of site culture before they are allowed to contribute content to the website. Writers from the Daily Dot and Bustle have noted that the website maintains strict quality control standards. Sub-par content is frequently deleted by the website's twenty member moderation team.
The SCP Foundation also maintains a forum on Reddit and a role-playing community.
Analysis of writing
The core of the SCP Foundation series is a listing of over two-thousand special containment reports. The reports describe paranormal entities and provide guidelines for safely containing them. The reports also sort the objects into one of three classes: Safe for objects easily contained, Euclid for objects that are unpredictable, and Keter for objects that require extensive containment procedures and which pose a large-scale threat to human life. The containment procedures may also provide the history of the entities and any testing performed on them. The procedures are written in an empirical tone and often redact information. In addition to the special containment reports, the SCP Foundation series also contains several hundred "Foundation tales". The tales are short stories written within the SCP Foundation universe.
The SCP Foundation does not have a central canon. Rather, each containment procedure and tale forms its own continuity.
Reception
The SCP Foundation has received largely positive reviews. Michelle Starr of CNET praised the creepy nature of the series. Gavin Baker-Whitelaw, writing for the Daily Dot, praised the originality of the SCP Foundation and described it as the "most uniquely compelling horror writing on the Internet". He noted that special containment procedures rarely contained gratuitous gore. Rather, the horror of the series was often established through the reports' "pragmatic" and "deadpan" style, as well as through the inclusion of detail. Lisay Suhay, writing for the Christian Science Monitor, also praised the SCP Foundation's serious, "tongue in-cheek style".
Alex Eichler, writing for i09, noted that the series had varying levels of quality and that some of the reports were dull or repetitive. However, he praised the SCP Foundation for not becoming overly dim and for containing more light-hearted reports. Additionally, he praised the wide variety of concepts covered in the report, and noted that the SCP Foundation contained writings that would appeal to all readers.
Fan works
The SCP Foundation has inspired multiple independent video games. The most popular of these games is SCP – Containment Breach. In the game, the protagonist is a member of D-class who escapes during a containment breach. The main antagonist of the game is SCP-173, a concrete statue that moves towards and attacks the player when not observed. A blink mechanic was included in the game to force players to occasional shut their eyes. Another popular SCP Foundation video game is SCP-087. The game is a first-person horror game whose plots centers around walking down a flight of stairs and avoiding the SCP of the same name.
In addition to video games, a live-action web-series entered production in 2013 which was based off of the SCP Foundation.
Notes
- Seperate SCP Foundation wikis also exist in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Spanish, Polish and French.
References
- Roget. "History Of The Universe: Part One". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ Baker-Whitelaw, Gavin. "Meet the secret foundation that contains the world's paranormal artifacts". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Suhay, Lisa. "http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Culture-Cafe/2014/1110/Urban-Druid-writing-contest-What-s-behind-the-dark-side-fiction". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - Peters, Lucia. "The 10 Scariest Urban Legends on the Internet to Bring a Shiver to Your Spine This Halloween". Bustle. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- Dinicola, Nick. "Creepypasta Gaming: Where the Internet "Learns Our Fears"". Pop Matters. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Starr, Michelle. "SCP Foundation web series coming to YouTube". CNET. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- Eichler, Alex. "Enter the SCP Foundation's Bottomless Catalog of the Weird". i09. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- Smith, Adam. "The Neverending Stairway: SCP-087". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 7 February 2015.