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**ENTERTAINMENT**, //n//. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

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- Ambrose Bierce, //The Devil's Dictionary//
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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

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- G. K. Chesterton, //Utopia of Usurers//
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Westhead Global Entertainment.

Alternatively called GOI-1783, KTO-1926-Eisner, Westhead Media, The Gorgers, the Shredders, and other names of varying derisiveness.

They don't care what people call them, as they'll still be making profit anyway.

The company has a lot of tendrils in a lot of pies, both above and below the Veil. Whether it's through acquisition, investments, or partnerships, Westhead does not discriminate. If there's a form of entertainment people enjoy, they //will// capitalize on it, forcefully if they have to.

All towards two intertwined goals.

Gathering as much profit as possible.

And the Opening of Night.

The latter must be stopped at all costs.

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//Creative Destruction// is a open series, showran by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]. It mainly revolves around a vastly reimagined version of the minor GOI [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/westhead-media|Westhead Media]]] created by [[*user Tanhony]], its influences on creative expression on both sides of the Veil, and the ramifications of its existence in a world where Toons exist.

But there's also room for:
* Standalone stories involving Site-247 and/or the Department of Anomalous Broadcasting
* Stories about individuals and groups affected by what Westhead Global Entertainment and the Site/Department do
* Stories that don't involve either of those, but still touch upon themes relevant to //CD// as a whole

It is borne from a love of human creativity, and frustration towards the detrimental effects things like capitalism, corporatism, automation, generative AI, and greed have placed upon it.

Please note that - as this is an in-progress series - some sections of these tabs contain spoilers for potential future plot beats and characters. They will be hidden under collapsibles; only open them if you're curious and/or want to contribute. They are subject to change.
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**Note:** All of this is subject to change as time goes on.

° = Author(s) have given permission to officially make them part of the series

+ __A-Plot:__
Consider this the "main" storyline of the series.
**__PROLOGUE__**
* //[[[dab-orientation|And Now, Our Feature Presentation... ]]]// by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
* //[[[site-247-dossier|LEAKED SKIPPER DOCUMENTS (WTF) (THIS GOES DEEP)]]]// by [[*user Alienspacebat]]
* //Jessie Morse in: The Search for "Poindextina"// by [[*user Alienspacebat]]

**__Chapter One__**
* SCP-XXXX, //"Months on End"// by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
* //TBA//
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* [REDACTED] - //The Westhead// by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]

+ __B-Plots:__
Side-stories and standalone works that happen concurrently to the main plot.
* Tales From Site-247/the Department of Anomalous Broadcasting:
 * [[[SCP-2352]]] by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
 * [[[SCP-6569]]] by [[*user Prismal]]°
 * [[[SCP-7213]]] by [[*user Doctor Cimmerian]], [[*user EmotionalEntropy]], and [[*user Billith]]°
* Stories About Affected People:
 * //Imprisoning Animation Cels (ATWDD/ANHV8/EX2KH)// by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
 * [[[SCP-5042]]] by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
 * [[[SCP-6874]]] by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
* Thematic Margins:
 * [[[JensenAleph]]] by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
 * [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/parawatch-lost-media-the-lost-creepypastas-of-gungelover|Parawatch Lost Media: The Lost Creepypastas of Gungelover]]] by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
 * [[[SCP-8507]]] by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]
 * [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/isabel-v-fights-art-block|Doctor Isabel Helga Anastasia Parvati Wondertainment V, PhD Attempts to Brainstorm]]] by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]

+ __Crossover Episodes:__
Stories that bleed into other series/canons.
* //TBA// by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]]

+ __Spinoffs:__
Stories and sub-series that are more centralized on certain characters or motifs.

+ __Imaginary Stories:__
Diverging paths, what-ifs, and AU scenarios that are "non-canon" to all the above.

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+++++ **Westhead Global Entertainment**
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An international media conglomerate with an unknown founding date, tens of thousands of employees and contractors, a myriad of divisions/subsidiaries/shell companies, and a seemingly bottomless amount of cash. Does not brazenly advertise itself in associated works, so the majority of the public is unaware of just how far its influence spreads.

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Cannot "create" anything without being exploitative in some fashion or another. Whether it's stiffing artists out of payments or enslaving Toons for their own ends, they see the phrase "no ethical consumption under capitalism" and make it an ethos.

Was not "founded" in the traditional sense. It just inserted itself into reality one day, and temporally spread from there. Earliest "record" of its existence is a mention of a "//testa ovest//" in an early draft of Dante's //Purgatorio//, though unverified reports indicate it might have been "present" in some form or another even earlier.

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The enigmatic "founder"/Chief Executive Officer of Westhead Global Entertainment. The number of people who've met them  face-to-face can be counted on one hand. Overly polite, if smug and smarmy, when conversed with, except for the fortunately few times they've gotten angry. Everything Westhead as a company does requires their explicit approval.

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The Westhead isn't human, despite their vices.

They aren't a Toon, either.

They're something //else//. Something parasitic but no less egregoric that originated from the Mnemosyne Expanse before symbiotically attaching itself to baseline reality, siphoning off of creativity itself.

They see art only as a means to an end, not a method of expression. Doesn't //need// all the money the company makes to Open the Night, but thinks it's nice to have. Can fictonautically insert themselves into media, in order to directly voice their displeasure towards individuals that have heavily inconvenienced them. Their presence is announced by a low hum of static and the word "champ" (or "bucko" if pissed off). 
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+++++ **The Foundation**
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One of the "nicer" Foundation operations. Headquartered at [[[dab-orientation|Suppression and Archival Site-247]]], located on Aspen Mountain, Wyoming. Directed by Gaston U. Kyrie, its front is a radio tower station, with a public ground floor and four Foundation floors. Monitors radio, television, and online media for anomalous properties, and acts as needed. Very rarely deals with physical anomalies. Cooperates with Sites 433, 15, and 43 on Westhead Global Entertainment and Vikander-Kneed Technical Media matters.

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Floor B3 nominally hosts the Department's Paratelecommunications division, focused on making sure communication and surveillance channels are clear with minimal delays. Its true purpose, only known to a select few outside of Director Kyrie and division head Ray Erstwhile, is tapping into the Mnemosyne Expanse for the purpose of easily spreading Foundation-wide propaganda within its employees. That will surely end well /s.

Has a secret B5 floor, where the few "Alucinari-class entities" Site-247 is in possession of are held. What they do to these Toons makes their claim of being "nicer" than the rest of the Foundation dubious at best.

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Lead Researcher of Site-247. Jaded, deadpan, smokes herbal cigarettes like there's no tomorrow. French and American dual citizenship, pronounced Français accent. Primary lead in matters relating to Westhead Global Entertainment.

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Smokes as a psychological coping mechanism, despite knowing that they are no more healthy than the nicotine ones. Has a bitter but one-sided rivalry with Site-43's Lillian Lillihammer, over her greater success when handling VKTM compared to Amelie's wranglings with Westhead. Is not on speaking terms with her older brother Jacques in Site-15, for reasons she refuses to elaborate on.

Underneath her irritable exterior, the burden of working in the cold and cruel Foundation while trying to tackle something even worse weighs heavily on her mind. Deep down, she hopes her smoking habits off her before the psychological toll - or the Westhead - does.
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+++++ **Unaffiliated Individuals:**

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A genderflux 19-year old college dropout from a podunk town in Minnesota, who ended up on the Westhead's shitlist for trying to search for a show that WGE deliberately suppressed. Frequent poster on the Parawatch forums, the Sputnik Studios Wiki, and their Discords.

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The //real// reason the Westhead wants Jessie is because they are a human/Toon hybrid, as a result of a union between their father and a Toon that escaped WGE's clutches. In fact, said Toon was - ironically - the main character of the show they were searching for. Can they keep themselves together (figuratively and literally), when the truth comes out? Only time will tell.
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++++ **##purple|Arcadia##**

Though they are a far-cry from their drug-fueled glory days in the late 70s through early 90s, ##purple|Arcadia## and Westhead Global Entertainment still frequently collaborate with each other whenever they feel it'll mutually benefit them. After all, gaming is an extremely profitable market, especially in the modern generation.

++++ **Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting**

Westhead Global Entertainment has an advertising agreement with the Circus, as well as occassionally providing Toons for their performances, often against their will.

++++ **Marshall, Carter, & Darke**

Westhead Global Entertainment and MC&D have a mutally beneficial relationship. In exchange for WGE investing in MC&D's more artistically-inclined subsidiaries, they are provided extremely rare items from the Westhead's archives for rental towards interested clients.

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++++ **The Foundation**

The Westhead does not see the Foundation as a threat in the grand scheme of things. If anything, they find its attempts to suppress and contain anything their company puts out amusing, like a bunch of ants scurrying across a busy sidewalk to gather crumbs. That said, Westhead Global Entertainment will not slack in making sure the normalcy org can't stop them from Opening the Night.

++++ **The Global Occult Coalition**

Unlike the Foundation, the Westhead takes much more stock in the Coalition's actions towards them. It has prevented Westhead Global Entertainment from expanding into certain countries and communities, and has destroyed more of their assets than they would have liked. However, the Westhead grudgingly does not interfere with the Coalition's operations too much, as even with their unconvential biology and reserves, they would not win in a full-on war.

++++ **Just Girly Things**

Surprisingly, Westhead Global Entertainment occassionally provides funding and distribution assistance with the trans-exclusive radical feminist group for their media endeavours. However, the Westhead finds KeeLee's demeanor and obsession with hyper-femininity grating, so they are loathe to converse with them for more than 30 minutes at a time.


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++++ **Deer College**

Westhead Global Entertainment is legally forbidden from hiring creatives who have attended Deer College, which the Westhead has seemingly begrudgingly accepted. Key word being "seemingly".

++++ **Doctor Wondertainment**

Wondertainment and Westhead Global Entertainment have a mutual hatred for each other, despite both companies thriving on capitalism in some of the same markets. The Westhead thinks Wondertainment are naive and short-sighted with no coherent end goal in mind, with disgustingly cloy whimsy and playfulness that holds it back. Dr. Isabel Helga Anastasia Parvati Wondertainment V regards her fellow Mnemosyne Expanse entity as a soulless and nihilistic husk, whose meddling deprives WGE's creations of the soul and joy they desperately need, and would like them to stop ripping off her company's toys thank you very much.

++++ **Pseudogenesis Productions**

Pseudogenesis Productions sees Westhead Global Entertainment as anathema to their works, as the latter prefers mindless and cheap spectacle over intimate and well-crafted experiences.

++++ **Serpent's Hand**

All past, present, and future employees of Westhead Global Entertainment are metaphysically barred from entering the Library. This is a source of great frustration to the Westhead, who sees untapped potential in those infinite shelves.

++++ **Vikander-Kneed Technical Media**

VKTM greatly vexes the Westhead, and sees them as their greatest rival. VKTM, on the other hand, barely acknowledges Westhead Global Entertainment's existence; the rare times it does, it's usually to thumb its nose at it and its CEO.

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Feel free to reach out to [[*user AlienSpaceBat]] with an idea, and they'll likely say yes!

When writing for Creative Destruction, here are some themes you could consider exploring:
* The commodification of popular culture and the arts over the years/centuries;
* The dark and exploitative underbelly of the entertainment industries (sweatshops, labryinthian contracts, production crunch, draconian copyright and trademark enforcement, etc.);
* The corruption and regurgitation of nostalgia;
* The proliferation of content farms, generative slop, and automation in the artistic world;
* Anti-capitalism and anti-corporatism;
* And many more.

Here are some guidelines:
* For now, do not try to explain what the "Opening of Night" is. Demystification has proven detrimental to many a work, as has showing one's hand too early.
* Run anything that might have huge ramifications for the series by [[*user AlienSpaceBat]] first.
*  Consult with [[*user Alienspacebat]] before incorporating any elements of/crossing over with certain canons. Some things are more canon than others to CD, and ASB would prefer things not get muddled.

__What //is// considered canon, sorted by hard, soft, and non-canon (spoilers):__[[footnote]]Subject to change if good enough ideas are pitched.[[/footnote]]

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* Hard canon:
 * All extant [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/westhead-media|Westhead Media]]] skips (just replace the name with Westhead Global Entertainment)
 * [[[yggdrasils-surveyor|Yggdrasil's Surveyor]]] (Future article planned to explicitly connect it to the wider YS multiverse)
 * [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/parker-informational-breach|The Magic Circle Hijacking]]]
* Soft canon:
 * [[[But a Dream]]] (Shares some concepts (Toons, Mnemosyne Expanse), but is considered a separate continuity due to vastly different interpretations planned for CD)
 * [[[on-guard-43-hub|OG43]]] (Site-43, VKTM and Lillian Lillihammer are confirmed to exist; presume other elements and beats exist unless otherwise contradicted)
 * [[[no-return-hub|No Return]]] (Threshold timeline; the group itself can be considered in the background)
 * [[[black-diamond-billions-hub|Black Diamond Billions]]] (only the Sextet, their personalities, and the way MC&D is run by them; no events are canon)
* Non-canon:
 * [[[BobbleCon 2018]]]
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Chesterton, G.K. //Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays//. Boni & Liveright. 1917. Via [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Utopia_of_Usurers_and_Other_Essays Wikisource]
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