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stunt_muppet at 03:50pm on 20/02/2009 under epic fail, life, things i want to write, writing
stunt_muppet at 03:50pm on 20/02/2009 under epic fail, life, things i want to write, writingWikipedia and TV Tropes just weren't enough, apparently. Although, like many of my internet distractions, this is still entirely TV Tropes' fault.
Really, I should just stop looking at the Nightmare Fuel pages. "High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Other" pointed me to The SCP Foundation, telling tales of the ghoulish and terrifying things that were listed as "collected objects".
And...well, yeah. Some of them are pretty disturbing (SCP-231-07 hits several major squicks; SCP-173 is a Weeping Angel sculpted to look like an aborted octopus-human hybrid fetus), but the concept of the site is really, really cool. I love it when the web plays with a story like this, acknowledging something as fictional but creating an entire, intricate, multi-layered universe for it and integrating it into our world as if it were real. It's a form of storytelling that I think the Web has really revitalized, and I think it's really well-executed here.
The SCP Foundation is, supposedly, an organization devoted to researching, cataloguing, neutralizing, and containing "extra-terrestrial and extra-dimensional artifacts". These "artifacts" are created and submitted by users, in the form of research dossiers and documentations, and range from the hilarious (SCP-394, "The Perpetual Motion Non-Name-Brand Gelatin Dessert") to the entertainingly braintwisty (SCP-055, "The Unknown", SCP -299, "The Boolean Sidestepper") to the disturbing (see above, plus SCP-217 "The Clockwork Virus"). It's all rather ingenious and fascinating, and I've spent far more time reading the pages (even the troubling ones) than I really should.
Anyway, it got me thinking about ( writing wittering... )
Real Life post to happen later, but at the moment I've got a class to run to and then a very serious nap to take.
Really, I should just stop looking at the Nightmare Fuel pages. "High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Other" pointed me to The SCP Foundation, telling tales of the ghoulish and terrifying things that were listed as "collected objects".
And...well, yeah. Some of them are pretty disturbing (SCP-231-07 hits several major squicks; SCP-173 is a Weeping Angel sculpted to look like an aborted octopus-human hybrid fetus), but the concept of the site is really, really cool. I love it when the web plays with a story like this, acknowledging something as fictional but creating an entire, intricate, multi-layered universe for it and integrating it into our world as if it were real. It's a form of storytelling that I think the Web has really revitalized, and I think it's really well-executed here.
The SCP Foundation is, supposedly, an organization devoted to researching, cataloguing, neutralizing, and containing "extra-terrestrial and extra-dimensional artifacts". These "artifacts" are created and submitted by users, in the form of research dossiers and documentations, and range from the hilarious (SCP-394, "The Perpetual Motion Non-Name-Brand Gelatin Dessert") to the entertainingly braintwisty (SCP-055, "The Unknown", SCP -299, "The Boolean Sidestepper") to the disturbing (see above, plus SCP-217 "The Clockwork Virus"). It's all rather ingenious and fascinating, and I've spent far more time reading the pages (even the troubling ones) than I really should.
Anyway, it got me thinking about ( writing wittering... )
Real Life post to happen later, but at the moment I've got a class to run to and then a very serious nap to take.
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