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//A Series 2 Sloth in Series 7's Court.//
- [[*user Elenee FishTruck]]
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Hello!  I’m bigslothonmyface. I usually go by Sloth. I started writing here in 2021 after reading the site for almost a decade. Though it’s not a hard-and-fast rule, I try to write pieces that leverage the SCP format to comment on social justice, especially environmental issues and marginalized communities. IRL, I’m an MFA-trained nonfiction writer, teacher and journalist. 

Thanks for reading! I’m flattered to work among so many talented artists.
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**%%title_linked%%: All Creatures Great And Small**
Created on %%created_at%% | Score: %%rating%% | //7th place, SCP-6000 Contest//
A tree with the DNA of every living thing in its branches, and the woman trying to save it.
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I spent over a month devising, revising and polishing this piece, my first (and still favorite) for the wiki, and my entry for the 6K contest.

In my original drafts, I learned harder into eugenics: Muller killed 10 percent of the human population overnight by ill-advisedly editing the Tree, and Rose free climbed up it for three hours to fight him off herself. I ultimately decided that a coverup was a more accurate depiction of how a powerful coward would act, and allowed me to explore my characters in greater depth—but rest assured that Rose is a certified badass and absolutely destroyed the old bastard in their fight.

The Aeterns are meant to encapsulate many different fictional creatures, and give backstory for a range of myth. I will, however, admit to a mild Pokémon inspiration. I’m a lifelong fan.
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**%%title_linked%%: Keystone Flats**
Created on %%created_at%% | Score: %%rating%%
A poisonous city, spilling out from our minds and into reality.
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Took me about three weeks to write from start to finish. I envisioned this as a story about urban sprawl, in the form of a suburb that never stopped expanding. Acting on that was a challenge, and I feel the final product falls a little short of what I hoped for. Still, urban sprawl makes for a good, but challenging, memetic skip: a series of interconnected, wasteful practices that collectively redefine physical space. I hope nobody was weirded out by me driving around their cul-de-sacs with my camera sourcing images!
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**%%title_linked%%: Beaver Power**
Created on %%created_at%% | Score: %%rating%% | //Front page feature, March 2022//
Hydroelectric beavers who love you.
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A feel-good article born from a pun, and one I decided I wanted to be short. For all that, I worked on it for a week, and most of that time was spent omitting needless words. I streamlined the conprocs and description dozens of times, saving maybe a word or two each time, until I was happy with my rhythm.

My favorite headcanon about this piece is that the beavers are using cold fusion to generate the power. I nearly acted on [[*user psychicprogrammer]]’s suggestion that the dams emit neutrinos to suggest that. So, if you’re wondering: beaver fusion. That’s how it works.
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**%%title_linked%%: Harwick Cemetery**
Created on %%created_at%% | Score: %%rating%% | //Winner, [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/nightmarefest SCPD Nightmare Fest] "Graveyard Shift" category//
An undying eternity buried alive.
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My (winning) entry for the 2021 SCPD Nightmarefest contest. Conceived, written, edited and posted in about 18 hours total, with the sole goal of being spooky and having a strong hook. I wish I had taken more time on it.
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**%%title_linked%%: The Hungry Season**
Created on %%created_at%% | Score: %%rating%% | //13th place, SCP-7000 Contest//
Rogue comet C/2022 I1 compels humanity to make a wish.
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This 7K entry was written in three days, but that doesn't mean I spent only three days working on the contest. I drafted another story for nearly a full month, but abandoned it when I realized it wasn't working. It was the right choice for me but it left me with little time to perfect the next attempt.

Which is all to say that I'm not entirely thrilled with this piece, a metaphor for western exploitation of the global south in the mode of some shorter, hard-scifi skips I admire. There are parts I love (I think I nailed the rising action, and I like how I handled the logs leading up the climax) and parts I hate (the abruptness of the ending). I'm thankful that I at least avoided embarrassing myself, and thankful-er still that I lucked into an X002-slot repeat!
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**%%title_linked%%: I is for "Incision"**
Created on %%created_at%% | Score: %%rating%% | //Written for [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-anthology-hub ANTHOLOGY], day 11//
General surgical anesthetic, minus one key property.
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I was thrilled to be invited by [[*user S D Locke]] to participate in ANTHOLOGY, a 31-day mega-collab posted during October 2022. I was also thrilled to finally write a [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6630/offset/1 Fire Suppression Department] skip. The FSD capitalizes on bureaucratic horror and labor exploitation for some of the most twisted articles on the wiki, and it lines up perfectly with the kind of horror-commentary I want to work on. Taking a stab at it, and doing so for a project with some of my all-time idol authors as co-contributors, makes this piece a memorable one for me!
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These are articles I deeply admire by other SCP authors. Many of them have had an impact on my own style, and all have stuck with me for years. Bravo!
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**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2003 SCP-2003 — Preferred Option], by [[*user Kalinin]]**
My favorite SCP??? Maybe. From the conceit of a preferred timeline and how random events bring it about, to the twist use of BigDog, to the wild and often-prophetic alternative sets for our future… This is a piece that rewards you for clicking on its collapsibles. Its scope, structure and portrayal of the Foundation have all had a lasting impact on my work.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5001 SCP-5001 — Sacrosanct], by [[*user Yossipossi]]**
The other contender for my favorite SCP. Apparently I just love weird, bigass tech working in unexpected ways! The timeline of the breach is the strength of this piece: it builds tension so effectively and doesn’t waste words. A major inspiration for me as I try to write logs of my own.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1342 SCP-1342 — To The Makers of Music], by [[*user FlameShirt]]**
This is a science-y skip that ends on a note written outside of the Foundationspeak voice and which is utterly heart-wrenching. I blatantly rip this off for the commentary (especially the ending note) in SCP-6002.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6355 SCP-6355 — A Choking Grip upon the Neck of Propriety], by [[*user UraniumEmpire]] and [[*user T Rutherford]]**
The very definition of socially-conscious horror. You will be worked to death and nobody can save you. The Fire Suppression Department is a transformative canon for the wiki, and this article is the best of them.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1555 SCP-1555 — The Facility], by [[*user atomicthumbs]]**
Single-handedly cemented weird industrial locations as the scariest type of skip for me. Also my go-to example of something incomprehensibly strange. I borrowed from its suddenly-shifting randomness for SCP-6250, and I hope to do so again. Losing its images did irreparable harm and I hope they find their way back some day.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/on-guard-43-hub On Guard 43], by [[*user HarryBlank]] and many others**
If I had to pick a canon that best exemplifies “the Foundation but if it was real,” OG43 would be my choice. Harry's Canadian dug-out adds a much-needed element of relatable humanity back into a universe that often lacks it, and pushes the site to confront questions about justice, society and identity that go beyond its usual collection-of-curiosities vibe. Site-43 treats anomalies with fear and care, but also with respect; its characters are bored, curious and political just as much as they are cold geniuses; and it manages all of this without losing that classic SCP grounding in absolutely batshit, horrific anomalies that would destroy the world without containment in place.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3100 SCP-3100 — The Reliquary], by [[*user minmin]]**
This is my favorite by far of the “what if the afterlife is really shitty / what if we don’t die” trope on the site. What I like is that it does just far enough with the technobabble and unexplained decisionmaking to add creepiness, but still gives me something human and terrifying to grab onto.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-072 SCP-072 — The Foot of the Bed], by [[*user Kate McTiriss]]**
The reason that I haven’t been able to sleep without tucking my feet under the blankets since February 2013. Probably the skip that’s had the longest-lasting “real-world” effect on how I behave.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3091 SCP-3091 — Temporal Funnel Trap], by [[*user Sophia Light]]**
The Red Room anomaly is so ominous! And the mysterious facility built at an unknown time for an unknown purpose has big 5001 vibes (I know it came earlier, of course).

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Naming Mobile Task Forces is one of my favorite things about writing for the wiki. I try to name all of mine for media of some kind, usually to reinforce themes I want to make more present in the piece. This is my “library” of MTF crews I’ve devised so far—please feel free to check one out and use it in your own work!
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||~ Name ||~ Used in ||~ Named for ||~ Duties ||~ Specialties ||
|| **MTF Nu-45 (“Inherit the Wind”)** || [[[SCP-6002]]] || //Inherit the Wind//, the mid-20th century play and film dramatizing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial Scopes Monkey Trial.] || Enforces Project 6002-ARK, erasing the Aeterns (and any other murdered species) from collective memory. Renders real organisms into myths and legends. || Amnestics and storytelling. ||
|| **MTF Beta-16 (“Invisible Cities”)** || [[[SCP-6250]]] || //Invisible Cities//, Calvino’s 1972 masterpiece chronicling fantastic cities which may only exist in our imaginations. || Monitors the emergence of Keystone Flats from the human psychospace into the real world. || Antimemetics and conservation. ||
|| **MTF Omega-43 (“Leave it to Beavers”)** || [[[SCP-6622]]] || //Leave It To Beaver//, the classic sitcom which doesn’t actually involve beavers at all. || Links human power grids into energy generated via anomalous hydroelectric beavers. Avoids detection while doing so. || Electrical engineering and rodent husbandry. ||

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//I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, YOU LITERARY FUCK//
- [[*user Elenee FishTruck]]

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The below is a collection of media—some written, some not—which I adore and recommend to fans of my work or the site.
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**Anything by Amy Hempel (my favorite is "Weekend")**
//Prose poetry//

"And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought: stay."

**//Citizen//, Claudia Rankine**
//Lyric//

"Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word."

**//Hiroshima//, John Hersey**
//Narrative nonfiction//

"There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books."

**"Street Haunting", Virginia Woolf**
//Personal essay//

As the foxhunter hunts in order to preserve the breed of foxes, and the golfer plays in order that open spaces may be preserved from the builders, so when the desire comes upon us to go street rambling the pencil does for a pretext, and getting up we say: "Really I must buy a pencil.”

**"Once More To The Lake", E.B. White**
//Personal essay//

"As he buckled the swollen belt, suddenly my groin felt the chill of death."

**The nonfiction of George Orwell (particularly "A Hanging" and "Such, Such Were The Joys")**

"When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide."

**//So Long, See You Tomorrow//, William Maxwell**
//Memoir//

"Memory—meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion—is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling."

**The //Bartimaeus// trilogy, Jonathan Stroud**
//Fantasy fiction//

"A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick."

**The //Jeeves and Wooster// series, P.G. Woodhouse**
//Fiction//

“Psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope..."
"Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves."
"No, sir."
"There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't."
"Very true, sir."

**//Limetown//, Two-Up Productions**
//Audio drama//

"The gate to Limetown was left open. What the world discovered was the complete disappearance of every man, woman and child. Three hundred and twenty seven people."

**//She-Ra and the Princesses of Power//, ND Stevenson**
//Animated TV series//

"I am brave, strong, loyal, and I give great hugs."

**//Howl’s Moving Castle//, Hayao Miyazaki**
//Animated film//

"A heart’s a heavy burden."

**//Disco Elysiym//, Robert Kurvitz**
//RPG//

"Every combination of words has been played out. The atoms don’t form us anymore."

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Some of my favorite fan works based on the pieces I’ve written. I love seeing this stuff—if you make anything based on something I wrote, please hit me up so I can be wowed!
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**[[[SCP-6002]]], by [[*user SunnyClockwork]]. [https://twitter.com/SunnyClockwork/status/1405541967094632463/photo/1 Link]**
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**//Draco ignis// from [[[SCP-6002]]], by Miguel Higueras. [https://www.deviantart.com/miguel-higueras-art/art/Aeternae-SCP-6002-909366192 Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6002]]], by Duy Giang. [https://twitter.com/duygiang_1207/status/1563146287406813184/photo/1 Link]**
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**Three atern species from [[[SCP-6002]]], by [[*user Ihp]] for the 2021 Holiday Gift Exchange. [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/cool-aetern-facts Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6002]]], by The Exploring Series on YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7UT8pDPN8I Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6502]]], by [[*user IronShears]]. [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/art:art-mycotherapy-6502-pix Link]**
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**[[[SCP-7002]]], by Un[REDACTED] on YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucc7HuP08po Link]**
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**Dr. Rose Wildcat from [[[SCP-6002]]], by Rob is not a deer on Twitter. [https://twitter.com/Robisnotadeer/status/1508684640868917248 Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6622]]], by Zal Cryptid. [https://mobile.twitter.com/Zal_Cryptid/status/1458490432443277317/photo/2 Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6502]]], by Zal Cryptid. [https://mobile.twitter.com/Zal_Cryptid/status/1456751136166264832/photo/2 Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6002]]], by Zal Cryptid. [https://mobile.twitter.com/Zal_Cryptid/status/1454944641804013568 Link]**
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**[[[SCP-7002]]], by [[*user DodoDevil]]. [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-15053085/dodos-7kollages Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6002]]], by Sinsekai. [https://sinsekai20130227.tumblr.com/post/658736253418733568/scp-6002/amp Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6622]]], by 하다Hada on YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oH30lNZ41w Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6622]]], by Доктор Ноль on YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzcU9de4GI Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6622]]], by Site-42: SCP Foundation Fanworks on YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-2k9E62dq0 Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6502]]], by CreepyOtter on YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYCrEoibuPE Link]**
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**[[[SCP-6250]]], by Withered DayZz on YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJtTal3zNU Link]**
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