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[[tab Synopsis of Me]]

Picture someone --straight-- //bisexual, as of 2019//, white, male, middle class, reasonably young, British, mediocre and nerdy. This person is about as close to being me as anyone is ever going to get. I enjoy reading, writing, drawing, shitty puns, meta-humour, repeating myself, and meta-humour. The internet takes up a larger portion of my life than it perhaps should.

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[[tab How I Write, and How I Don't]]

To put it bluntly, I write in terms of colours, feelings, and themes. That's how my works start; the metaphorical seed from which they grow. A sense of an experience, a set of related ideas, and some key words or phrases are usually enough to set me on the path to an article or tale -- it's sometimes the idea that comes first, but usually not. [[[SCP-3663]]], for example, was stained, dirty cardboard, lying in a puddle in a dark tunnel, while [[[SCP-2856]]] was brownish-red, bloodstained, with slightly rusted metal and dirt-encrusted tools. [[[SCP-3617]]] was idea first, and I really struggled drafting it: a clear indication that, for me at least, the process works. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's how I write best.

As for how I get my ideas, I've always had a slightly warped imagination, and I enjoy writing about things that scare me. This has ended up meaning that the majority of things I've written have a core theme: Repetition, inevitability, failing despite your best efforts and being powerless to break out of a pattern of behaviour. Grim? Possibly. Good fuel for writing? You bet your ass it is. [[[SCP-2668]]] is probably the best example of this, what with its story of twisting a vaguely enjoyable experience into an eternal prison, but 3663, 3617, and "[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-world-forgetting-by-the-world-forgot The World Forgetting...]" all follow it as well. To be quite honest, the only things I've written that //don't// fall into this category are [[[SCP-3317]]] (as it was the first article I successfully wrote for the site, and didn't have the central aim of being horror) and SCP-2856 (which was part of a nightmare I once had, and so was terrifying for a whole host of other reasons).

Anyway, those are the two main aspects of my writing process. I may go into more depth at some point, but this is all you're getting for now. :P

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[[tab Ideas and Other Such Nonsense]]

At the heart, in my experience, the core concept for an SCP has to be //cool//. If you can write something that's just a really cool, interesting thing, then you're halfway towards a completed article. It's clear that this is what I do, I think: I've got a toaster-headed murderer, a coliseum filled with animatronic Romans, a teleporting monster made from cardboard and an MTF that can travel through time. These ideas were conceived of and shelved in various ways, shapes, and forms, and then slotted in to any narrative that would take them.

So don't just have a large metal cube or [REDACTED]-brand hairbrush, have a giant mechanical dinosaur or a living network of glass tubing. Have a shadow creature that can walk through dreams, or a person made of amber that can manipulate static charges. Be creative, and make your ideas awesome -- it's the shortest route, in my mind, to a successful article!

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The other tabs were getting too long to reasonably fit on the page, so this is a sort of cover for the section. There's no useful stuff here, so feel free to disregard it and move on to the pages containing //actual// information.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-1313"]]
+++ __SCP-1313 (Solve for Bear):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-1313]]] is an anomalous series of logical processes, capable of being defined as a mathematical equation to which the answer is a single female specimen of Ursus arctos...**}}

I don't even with this one. It's the most popular thing I've ever done, and I wrote it in a couple of hours because I wanted to try something humorous and people in IRC kept encouraging me. I posted it against my better judgement because there were a bunch of new Series II slots open, and I'm currently in a state of switching between "I love this and I'm really proud of it" and "I hate that this is my highest-rated article". What can you do, I guess. Sometimes you just gotta take the good with the bears.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-1917"]]
+++ __SCP-1917 (Industrial Revelation):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-1917]]] is a sapient biomechanical humanoid of abnormal strength and size. It stands 3.5 metres tall, can lift weights upwards of 1,500 kg, and has demonstrated sufficient knowledge to repair, maintain, and make minor improvements to its own structure. The entity possesses two additional arms extending from the shoulderblades, continuous track mechanisms in place of the feet and lower legs, and interlocking metal plates replacing all skin below the neck...**}}

Commentary pending.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-2235"]]
+++ __URA-9611 (The Ozymandias Effect):__
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> {{**URA-9611, formerly [[[SCP-2235]]], is a potent material infohazard affecting data about numerous historical figures. Any non-organic medium storing information about these individuals (termed Class 01 subjects for consistency) or URA-96112 will undergo a process of autonomous alteration and/or accelerated decay...**}}

Coming ev̸e̸n͠t̸ually̧.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-2668"]]
+++ __SCP-2668 (We who are about to die salute you):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-2668]]] is an extradimensional region resembling the Roman Colosseum (undamaged, appearing as it would have at the time of its construction) and a small quantity of surrounding landscape.**}}

Somebody in chat, whose name I can't recall, was writing about a time-loop battle with a bear or something, and asked for ways they could prevent the protagonist from just running away. I semi-jokingly suggested allowing them to live a long and happy life away from the bear, then have them re-spawn when they died of natural causes. Quite rightly, they thought this was both a) too convoluted and b) not something they'd wish on their worst enemy, so it was left up to me, months later, to finally incorporate that idea with a basic concept I'd had a while earlier -- an extradimensional battle arena where you could fight against abstract concepts and real people.

Funnily enough, M. Forth started off as an author avatar for myself, and it says a lot about my bibliocidal tendencies that they immediately got trapped for eternity fighting a monster made of forever-shitting ladybugs. I'll try again with the whole 'AA' concept at a later date -- Researcher Lloyd seems to be heading that way, so there's probably room for it there.

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+++ __SCP-2856 (Machines, machinations, and a warehouse in Leipzig):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-2856]]] is a large warehouse located on the outskirts of Leipzig, Germany, formerly owned by [[span style="background:black; color:black"]]█████[[/span]] Logistics...**}}

My third SCP and --my most successful to date--[[footnote]]--This is no longer true. Lloyd (3856) overtook it recently, so it's only my second highest-rated. I still consider it my best scip, however.-- None of this is true any more. It's been overtaken multiple times, and while I consider it among my best articles, my tastes are capricious and every-changing. SCP-3176 is definitely up there, as are Lloyd and 1763-EX.[[/footnote]]. The ToasterHead scene was ripped almost entirely from a nightmare I had (it's a strange day when your subconscious is a better writer than you), and the narrative just seemed to congeal around it. I knocked out a first draft in a matter of hours, as I do with a lot of spur-of-the-moment concepts, but didn't return to it for months -- I'm extremely glad that I did. While it went through modifications to fit various different formats (including a tale about 'I Am A Toaster' that I was sorry to abandon), it returned to something resembling the original SCP article and did surprisingly well for itself.

There's not much more to say about this one. It's dark, it's got body-horror, and I've hidden a very, //very// subtle Easter-egg relating to a fairly popular Series IV scip by a notoriously political user whose works I very much enjoy. 500 MalicePoints™ to anyone who can find it.

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> {{**The designation [[[SCP-3176]]] refers to a series of temporal anomalies, revolving around an as-yet unformed Mobile Task Force. The Task Force in question (MTF-Eta-Then, "Cause and Effective") will apparently be created with the aim of retroactively preventing containment breaches...**}}

Aaaaargh I love time travel so much. This started off as a writing exercise in which I laid out increasingly convoluted time-travel scenes and attempted to wrap my own head around it -- it then developed into an SCPverse-centric concept, and finally re-structured into an article. The fact that I made it an MTF is essentially my own love for that particular element of lore, and the idea of a team of time travellers jumping about and solving problems is sufficiently cartoonish to make me grin. I do not have a sophisticated sense of humour.

In the end, it's pretty much what-you-see-is-what-you-get. The concept is time travel, the content is extremely convoluted time travel, and the theme is how convoluted and difficult time travel can be. //Eventually// (read: possibly) I'm going to use it as the basis for a DoTA series.

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> {{**[[[SCP-3317]]] is a composite narrative, manifesting entirely through text presented via the written word...**}}

This was my first SCP, and went through a butt-ton of editing and revising before metamorphosing into the beautiful pseudo-Communist bibliovore you see before you today. Initially, it was a fairly basic format screw, with the Supreme Government of the Amalgamated Union of the Textual Plane taking over the 3317 slot. While reasonably interesting, it (ironically) lacked any kind of narrative, and the format-screw angle was eventually ditched in favour of the current layout. Regarding the political angle, and there's been some discussion over this: it's a parody of people misunderstanding Communist ideals. The way the entity chops and changes fragments of concepts, mutilating them to fit its own goals is allegorical of the way certain people wilfully misunderstand Marxist ideologies. This did not, unfortunately, come across as well as I'd hoped. I still love it to pieces, despite its many foibles.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-3564"]]
+++ __SCP-3564 (The Immortal Bard, Act Ⅱ: Return of Shakespeare):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-3564]]] is a humanoid creature (sans head), approximately 3 metres in height. The entity exhibits unusually high levels of muscle mass, tumorous growths in multiple limbs and organs, and appears to have been grown via anomalous means from the remains of William Shakespeare...**}}

This is a kind of tribute to [[*user CadaverCommander]], who I regard as one of the best new-ish writers on the site. He's certainly better than //me//, anyway. He has a strong talent for writing brilliant characters, and I wanted to emulate that with a concept I'd fallen in love with: the giant zombie mutant clone of William Shakespeare. I don't really care that it hasn't done particularly well, it's certainly not my best work, and character-oriented scips are nowhere near my strong point; I'm just happy it succeeded, so I can use it as a basis for future works in a similar vein.

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+++ __SCP-3617 (The Parasites of Normal):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-3617]]] are small, semi-insectoid creatures composed from various types of human body tissue...**}}

My least favourite article I've written for the site, and one of my favourite concepts. I don't think I did it anywhere near justice, and I hope one day to be able to go back and give it the re-write it deserves. The plot is contrived, the body-horror on-the-nose, and the inclusion of conceptual stuff confuses more than it explains. There are //elements// in it I think are great, but the way I tied them together is frankly awful. It shouldn't be anywhere near as well-liked as it is. But hey, I suppose that's life.

On that note, if you feel like you know a better way of doing the concept, hit me up over PM or on chat -- I'd be more than willing to collaborate on an improved version, or even allow a complete re-write if you're a cool enough dude.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-3663"]]
+++ __SCP-3663 (The Adventure of the Cardboard Box):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-3663]]] is a humanoid entity constructed primarily from cardboard (in the form of boxes and tubes), adhesive tape, and twine...**}}

Ah yes, my second SCP article, and my first real attempt to convey a structured narrative. I had a much clearer picture of what I wanted to do this time round (see the "M" section of this page), and got to posting a lot more quickly than with 3317. Certain details have been changed along the way, and the narrative's been re-ordered and clarified more times than I care to count, but the central theme and ideas have remained the same throughout. Consider this one an experiment into the lands of humanoid Keters, and one that's been moderately successful. I'll probably get around to re-writing the dialogue at some point.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-3766"]]
+++ __SCP-3766 (Reverse Cargo Cult):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-3766]]] are semi-metaphysical creatures, capable of feeding on the conceptual base of anything deemed "man-made"...**}}

This was a strange one for me. It was written for Day 2 of the 2018 Jam Contest, and the theme was "tropical". Accordingly, I started thinking of tropical imagery -- rainstorms, dried grasses, bonfires and so-on. I remembered reading about cargo cults, and subconsciously inverted it to get creatures that actually //cause// vehicles to crash through some kind of retrocausal voodoo. The metaphysical bit was then added to give the creatures a reason to do it[[footnote]]And also I love concepts and anomalies themed around them. I wanted to work it in to get the full Jamcon mindfuck trilogy of time-travel, metaphysics, and metafiction. Sue me :P[[/footnote]], and the addendum was the most logical extension of the core idea for me. 

I have no doubt I could do it better if given longer to work on it, but considering the time limit I'm extremely happy with what I managed to churn out.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-3856"]]
+++ __SCP-3856 (Researcher Lloyd, Destroyer of Worlds):__
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> {{**[[[SCP-3856]]] is a probabilistic anomaly affecting all iterations of Foundation Researcher Samuel Lloyd across all known variants of the Foundation, in all known life-supporting universes...**}}

This was, without a doubt, the single most procrastinated piece of writing I've ever produced. The first draft was made before I'd even conceptualised my first scip (SCP-3317), and looked //nothing// like the finished product. It was an SCP about a stone sphere that shifted through universes, dragging all information about itself along with it -- in addition to this, it would prevent any universe it was in from being destroyed; as a kind of 'backlash' to this, any universe it left would be destroyed shortly afterwards. The Foundation would have had to battle an army of extradimensional invaders who desired this protection, while also dealing with millions of SCP articles from different universes filling up their database. The story here[[footnote]]Yeah, that's right, I wrote scips with narrative back when I was new to the site. Get on my level B)[[/footnote]] would be presented in the journals of one Researcher Lloyd, who worked with the anomaly in almost every universe. I hope to revisit the concept one day.

As a corollary to the above, it's worth noting that I used the name Samuel Lloyd as a kind of placeholder name in a lot of drafts -- I'm not very imaginative, and thought it had a nice ring to it. The first of these drafts to be posted was "The World Forgetting [...]", and so when the time came to pin down the multiversal Lloyd draft I'd had in my mind for a year, I had to make it fit with my established canon. 3856 was the result.

So there you have it. --My most popular article-- One of my most popular articles is a mishmash hodgepodge of scrapped ideas, multiple iterations, unfinished concepts and accidental continuity. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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[[module ListPages name="SCP-4774"]]
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> {{**[[[SCP-4774]]] is the hypothetical "Planet Nine", a trans-Neptunian gas giant potentially orbiting the sun at a distance of around 700 AU. If it exists, SCP-4774 would be two to four times the diameter of Earth, and approximately ten times the mass....**}}

I'm blown away by how well this has done. It's the combination of two drafts; a hypothetical scenario whose implications were controlled by a group of unperson-ed researchers, and a star that didn't exist but altered the universe (imperfectly) to act like it did. Neither did particularly well, with the first being two confusing and the second not making it past drafting stage for want of a good twist or expansion. It took the Ad Astra Per Aspera canon to get me thinking about it again, and then one day while browsing wikipedia it hit me. I wrote the first part in one sitting, and then the addendum in another -- a round of editing later and it was posted.

I honestly expected it to languish around +40. Aside from 1313, it's my fastest ever +100. I still can't quite believe it, but I'm not complaining -- I'm just glad other people like it as much as I do.

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> {{**[[[SCP-4856]]] is a 2.4 metre tall humanoid entity capable of willingly transferring itself forwards and backwards through time at increments of exactly one hour...**}}

Commentary coming if and/or when I get around to it.


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> {{**They open the door, and my body freezes. The light is so bright it burns, and although I have no eyes to see it I know it is there. They move slowly around me, and I cannot run. I can never run, even when they no longer see me. [[[ex-nihilo-nihil|I am a slave to myself, and to my shapeless limbs.]]]**}}

Believe it or not, this was my first successful contribution to the site. It was (as far as I can recall) a coldpost, and was written in an evening for the 173-fest. It's a little too purple, a little too pretentious, and could have been structured better, but it holds a special place in my heart -- it's lack of failure gave me the confidence to start writing more, both on the site and off.

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> {{**It wouldn't be a proper blackout/memory-loss drama without a poorly worded message from [[[the-world-forgetting-by-the-world-forgot|his previous self]]].**}}

Remember when 055 didn't have multiple contrasting headcanons? Me neither. This was my first narrative, and my first original character. I'd been bouncing the idea around for weeks, but finally plucked up the courage to write it after seeing the (moderate) success of "Ex Nihilo Nihil". 

As for why I chose fifty-five as the subject, I suppose I've just always loved it. It's insanely popular, so was obviously one of the first I read, and I just found it to be one of the most creative, cleverly-written entries I've ever seen. I was desperate to explore exactly //why// it was Keter class, and wanted to write something pleasantly cynical and futile -- throughout the drafting process Lloyd essentially turned into my self-insert.

I'm planning on revisiting it eventually, once I've sorted out the rest of the story, so, uh... watch this space, I suppose? I was probably going to say something else about the tale, or 055 in general, but I can't for the life of me think what it was.

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> {{**Over my time at the Foundation, I came to hate time-travel with a [[[conservation-of-bullshit|burning, firey passion]]].**}}

I don't often do author commentary for tales, but this one had an interesting enough development process that I reckoned it was worth the effort. It was written for Day 1 of the 2018 Writing Jam, and I love it more with each passing day. The original idea was one I had a couple weeks earlier, while daydreaming about how the Foundation would talk to a kid. The time-travel aspect flowed in quite naturally (which should tell you a lot about how my mind works), but it was missing a catalyst -- something to act as a conduit for tension and a way of achieving a narrative climax.

Cue the Writing Jam, and the prompt: "Murder Mystery". It became clear then what I had to do. I had to take that time travel aspect, ramp it up to eleven, and then use the ramping up //itself// as the central theme. I thoroughly enjoyed writing it, and it is (to my knowledge) the first example of a murder mystery in which the killer, victim, bystander and investigator are all the same person.

The title is a reference to a pet theory of mine relating to any fiction involving time travel: that the level of bullshittery required to make the story work is always the same. Whether you have one major logical flaw, or spread it out subtly over extended lore and worldbuilding, it's always there.

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> {{**It was a dark and stormy night, and [[[magnum-opus-or-a-diatribe-in-defence-of-cliche|two men sat in a cave]]].**}}

When I was a young child, my Grandad used to tell me this story (or at least, the story this is based on). I found it simultaneously haunting and encapsulating (he was a very dramatic man), and it's been lurking in the depths of my mind since I first heard it. Curiously, and perhaps ironically, it's one of the few things nowadays that exists pretty much only in the oral tradition -- there's very little written recognition of it, but it has still been passed down through generations and spread across the world. If you look around, there are still a lot of people who know about it, and were told it by their own parents and grandparents.

When I saw the topic for Day 3 of the Writing Jam was "It was a dark and stormy night…", it seemed obvious to me what I had to do: write about the story my Grandad used to tell. So I decided to go a little meta, included Fred (who I've always had a soft spot for), and let my mind delve deeper into the madness. As I said in my author post, I'm incredibly proud of it.

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More to come!

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> {{**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1763-ex SCP-1763] is a semi-metaphysical entity capable of excising itself at will from various aspects of reality, both real and imagined. SCP-1763 is currently both invisible and silent, possesses no heat-signature, can render itself selectively intangible, and is capable of exerting a strong memetic effect on nearby humans...**}}

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This table format was stolen directly from Tufto, who stole it from Mortos. The circle of life, ladies and gentlemen.

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+++ ADDITIONAL COLLABS:

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+++ OBJECT CLASSES:

* **Safe: {{[4½]}}**
 * Basic Safe: **{{[3½]}}**
 * --Euclid-- Safe: **{{[1]}}**
 * --Keter-- Safe: **{{[##red|0##]}}** 
* **Euclid: {{[6]}}**
 * Basic Euclid: **{{[6]}}**
 * --Safe-- Euclid: **{{[##red|0##]}}** 
 * --Keter-- Euclid: **{{[##red|0##]}}**
* **Keter: {{[5]}}**
 * Basic Keter: **{{[4]}}** 
 * --Safe-- Keter: **{{[##red|0##]}}**
 * --Euclid-- Keter: **{{[1]}}**
* **Thaumiel: {{[½]}}**
* **Apollyon: {{[##red|0##]}}**
* **Archon: {{[##red|0##]}}**
* **Other: {{[4]}}**
 * --Euclid-- Neutralised: **{{[1]}}**
 * --Keter-- None: **{{[1]}}**
 * Unregistered Anomaly: **{{[1]}}**
 * //Currently debated//: **{{[1]}}**

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+++ TRANSLATIONS:

* SCP-1313 (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish)
* SCP-2235 (Japanese)
* SCP-2856 (Chinese)
* SCP-3176 (Chinese, Spanish)
* SCP-3317 ([https://scp-wiki-cn.wikidot.com/scp-3317 Chinese], [https://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-3317 Spanish])
* SCP-3564 (Japanese)
* SCP-3663 (Japanese)
* SCP-3766 (Japanese)
* SCP-3856 (Chinese, Japanese, Spanish)
* SCP-4096 ([https://scp-wiki-cn.wikidot.com/scp-4096 Chinese], [https://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-4096 Spanish])
* SCP-4177 ([https://ja.scp-wiki.net/scp-4177 Japanese])
* SCP-4774 (Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish)
* SCP-1763-EX (Chinese, Japanese)

* Ex Nihilo Nihil (French, Thai)
* Magnum Opus; or, A Diatribe In Defence Of Cliche (Chinese)
* The World Forgetting, By The World Forgot (Chinese)

* ASCLoMTF (Korean)
* Malicious Content (Chinese)
* Tales of Anomalous Items (Chinese)

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+++ TAG GOLFING:

+++++ TWO TAGS
* SCP-1313 (//mathematical ursine//)
* SCP-2668 (//automaton performance//)
* SCP-3176 (//thad-xyank meta//)
* SCP-3317 (//self-replicating narrative//)
* SCP-3617 (//antimemetic invertebrate//)
* SCP-3673 (//spacetime arthropod//)
* SCP-3766 (//predatory probability//)
* SCP-4029 (//self-repairing agent-laferrier//)
* SCP-4234 (//canine concept//)
* SCP-4411 (//electronic moon//)
* SCP-4417 (//thaumiel loop//)
* SCP-4478 & SCP-4763 (//structure concept//)
* SCP-4773 (//toy cadaver//)
* SCP-4774 (//planet concept//)
* SCP-4788 (//bovine cadaver//)
* SCP-4817 (//equine cadaver//)
* SCP-4887 (//apian extraterrestrial//)
* SCP-5717 (//species paradox//)
* SCP-1763-EX (//intangible nocturnal//)

+++++ THREE TAGS
* SCP-1917 (//safe self-repairing automaton//)
* SCP-2235 (//entropic esoteric-class infohazard//)
* SCP-2856 (//hostile appliance building//)
* SCP-3663 (//humanoid container loop//)
* SCP-4177 (//telekinetic sleep document//)
* SCP-4377 (//uncontained ectoentropic performance//)
* SCP-4478 (//meta structure concept//)
* SCP-4517 (//featured safe concept//)
* SCP-4617 (//glass ectoentropic humanoid//)
* SCP-4763 (//empathic structure concept//)
* SCP-5557 (//immobile indestructible paradox//)
* SCP-5790 (//religious miscommunications//)
* SCP-5885 (//electromagnetic probability loop//)

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I can often be found on #site19 under the nickname "MaliceAforethought", "MaliceAF", or some variant thereof. I'm usually willing to crit anything reasonably short, or anything long if it's reasonably good -- while I'm often unable to develop ideas, I'll happily correct tone, grammar, spelling, and other such things. I plug my own pages relentlessly, and will check out everyone else's if I have enough time and energy (be warned, this is a fairly rare occurrence). 

If you spot me online, feel free to say hi: I generally consider myself a nice person and I'm always happy to chat/talk/shitpost. Just don't be a dick, and I'm sure we'll get along like a house on fire.

One final note: do not start a pun war you cannot finish. My current record is 23 minutes of god-awful hilarity. 
 
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[[tab MY STUFF!]]

At this point, you're probably thinking something along the lines of "is there anything this guy can't do?" Well guess what, I've done an art page as well! I update it --semi-regularly-- whenever I can be bothered, take requests, and the art is mediocre but improving.

You can find/investigate/hunt down/plagiarise/downvote my 'art' under the semi-hilarious title of [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/malicious-content|Malicious Content]]].

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[[tab OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF!]]

I needed something to fill out my page a bit, so I guess it would be good to show off some other people's stuff.[[footnote]]As a side note, if you're stuck for ideas for SCP fanart, I squeal with delight every time anyone makes some of my stuff. It's frequently the best part of my day. Not to pressure you or anything. *nudge nudge*.[[/footnote]] "But Malice!", I hear you cry, "This is //your// author page, why would you show off the works of people who are clearly superior? Does that not make you look worse?" To which I reply, shut up.

Four amazing drawings of SCP-3317, by [[*user Mendelssohn]], [[*user Flawed]], [[*user SpookyPizza]], and [[*user SourBacteria]] respectively:
 
 
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"The world forgetting, by the world forgot" by [[*user SpookyPizza]]:
 
 
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A beautiful SCP-3663 by [[*user WindyCat]]:
 
 
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A couple of //chilling// 2856s by [[*user pastarasta1]]:
 
 
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A wonderful sketch of SCP-4856 by [[*user RegularSlambo]]

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That's right, it's everything that didn't fit anywhere else!

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+++ SCP RECOMMENDATIONS:
* **[[[SCP-1463]]]** -- **Comprehension/{{Invasion}}/##red|{{Evasion}}##**
 * One of the best use of memetics I've ever seen. It manages to tell a story through a format screw that's both justified and engaging, and takes just the right amount of brainpower to unpick -- not too confusing, but not so blatant that you feel the story's being shoved in your face. Reminiscent of qntm's antimemetics series but with a great original twist on the concept. Sorely underrated.
* **[[[SCP-1780]]]** -- **The Temporal Anomalies Department**
 * I love time-travel, and this is one of the reasons why. It's a great element of lore that introduces a great character, an awesome setting, and yet //still manages to be engaging in its own right//. No mean feat.
* **[[[SCP-2514]]]** -- **Make-The-Tears-Go-Away Pony**
 * One of the first Wondertainment articles I read, and one that's stuck with me. The amount of depth and narrative is impressive, but the creativity of the surface-level anomaly alone is enough to carry the article.
 * I drew fanart of this one, and the author graciously featured it on [[[mlister|their author page]]].
* **[[[SCP-2719]]]** -- **Inside**
 * A wonderfully concise mindscrew, and honestly one of the biggest influences on my writing I've had from the site. It's a masterclass in how to subvert an entire genre by writing less than 250 words.
* **[[[SCP-2737]]]** -- **A Dead Lamprey**
 * Beautifully emotional and absurdly well-written, as is most of [[*user metaphysician]]'s stuff.
* **[[[SCP-3393]]]** -- **For Your Eyes Only**
 * Really, really clever. Stupidly, insanely, '//I wish I'd thought of this first//' clever. I really love articles like this, and it's the cream of the crop as far as they go -- it sends you off on a train of thought and then punches you in the gut with a climax that resolves everything, finishes the narrative swiftly, and presents the whole story thus far in a new light. It's fully deserving of its rating, which is not something I say about a lot of high-rated articles :P
* **[[[SCP-4005]]]** -- **The Holy and Heavenly City of Fabled China**
 * Categorically my favourite entry from the Series V contest, and among my all-time favourite articles. Definitely the most immersive thing I've read in a very long while.

+++ TALE RECOMMENDATIONS:
* **[[[i-stared-into-the-face-of-everything-and-nothing|I stared into the face of everything and nothing and made it back alive]]]**
 * A tale about [[[SCP-3999]]] that made me more emotional than the actual article it's based on. One of the greatest tales on the site by anybody's standards, and (although I personally enjoyed the original 3999) the best part of that whole canon element in my opinion.
* **[[[iteration-0|The Tales of Thaddeus Xyank]]]**
 * See: SCP-1780. If anything, these tales are better, with each one a unique time-bending clusterfuck that makes full use of the rest of the universe. They build on each other, forming a continuous canon of engaging characters and endless paradox-skirting tachyons; if you like time travel (or even if you don't) this is one of the best series out there.
* **[[[Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel]]]**
 * Sickening and gripping. Like a lot of [[*user Decibelles]]' work, it's not afraid to get to the point and doesn't skimp on the realistic horror. It turned out the real monster... was //man//.

+++ OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS:
* None at the moment, sorry!

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[[tab Achievement Badges]]

See [https://sandbox.scp-wiki.net/achievement-badges here].

* Olympian
* Hall of Fame
* Flush
* Safety Dancer
* I Clid, Euclid, We All Clid
* Keter? I Hardly Know Her
* Twin Birthed
* Stuck In Neutral
* EX Man
* Man Of Steel
* Sharpshooter
* Batting Average Champion
* Home Run Derby
* You CAN Please Everybody
* Force of Nature/Combo
* Untouchable
* Human, All Too Human
* Plato's Cave
* Why Won't You Die!?
* Front Man
* International Man of Mystery
* Gallery of Legends
* Prolific Scribbler
* Order of Bright	
* Dare to be Different


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[[tab In The Event That I Disappear]]

If I'm not active in any form for a period of time exceeding one (1) (i) (unus) (ein) (|i^^2^^|) (0000 0001) year, the following people are granted authority over my articles:
* For stuff explicitly set in a single canon or series, authority will go to the person responsible for the creation of the canon. If they're not around any more, [[*user DarkStuff]] can decide what to do with it -- I trust him to know what I would and wouldn't like done.
* Additionally, [[*user DarkStuff]] gets any SCPs, tales, and GoI formats involving Wondertainment, WWS, or █████ Industrial.
* Overriding the canon rule, [[*user NatVoltaic]] gets anything set in Ad Astra Per Aspera. She can also have anything explicitly mentioning metaphysics or conceptual/ontological anomalies (except, of course, my █████ stuff).
* [[*user Captain Kirby]] can have control over pretty much all my tales, unless they fall into the above categories. He knows his way around a piece of prose.
* Collaborative articles, of course, belong to their respective co-authors. 
* My other stuff... eh. Staff can figure something out. SCPs can be open for re-writes if they below +20, tales if they fall into the negatives (but who re-writes a tale anyway, am I right?). Just don't do anything you think would piss me off. Consult one of the people mentioned here if you're not sure.

I give [[*user DarkStuff]] and [[*user taylor_itkin]] executive permission to override any of these decisions if they think it's what I would have wanted. If none of them are around... I dunno, ask [[*user weryllium]] or someone else I'm close with. Hopefully, none of this will ever take effect anyway; I don't plan on leaving any time soon. If I leave without a reason and don't show up for more than a year, you can probably start mourning my death.

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oh no you found the secrit testing place

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shh its a secrit tell nobody
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