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If you don't know about the SCP wiki, I really recommend checking it out, but be aware that it can be a really deep rabbit hole. The most important articles are the SCPs like this one, basically anomalous objects or beings. But often much more interesting are the tales, which are storys about the SCP foundation and everything else in the fictional universe.

And if you are confused: There is no shared canon, so articles can contradict each other (and they often do).

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After a long enough time reading, I've come to the conclusion that the contradictions are shared canon. Reality in the SCP universe is just such a fucked up place that trying to make consistent sense of it is entirely futile.

The Elder Scrolls series has various interesting in-universe explanations which help account for the multiple actions a player character could take:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dragon_Break

I suppose this fulfills the same purpose for the SCP universe:

http://www.scpwiki.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-...

There probably is an anomaly or two that allow interaction between parallel universes. The different SCP foundations in different universes might be working with each other.

This reminds me of early "Welcome to Night Vale" episodes when it was still revelling in novelty of desert-themed myth creation and delightfully paradoxical weirdness -- stories spawned from--but creatively fighting with--previoiusly assumed premises about that world (but with the added bonus of humour.)

And if you like SCP and videogames you should definitly check out the game Control.

That was pretty hard to search for https://www.remedygames.com/games/control/

Just have to know how to get google to go to the right category. Just use Control game instead of just searching control and it pops right up.

My strategy is to go straight to Wikipedia. It's not perfect, but their disambiguation pages are great for lots of ambiguously named proper nouns.

I had that in my library from PS Plus but hadn’t tried it, so thanks for the recommendation.

Recelty finished it. It's a great game.

If anyone's interested I'd also recommend The Exploring Series¹ youtube channel which does summarized narrations of SCPs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/ManggMangg

You just sent me down a 4 hour clickhole. I both blame and thank you.

There are a few in-universe explanations of the fractured canon, my favorite:

http://www.scpwiki.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal

I didn’t know about the SCP wiki. I started reading TFA and then I started reading the home page, and I don’t know what any of this is, nor see any kind of About.

I got a job and two kids. What is this?

SCP is probably the largest and most successful collaborative fiction project on the internet. It is presented as a series of database entries on SCPs, or "skips", which are anomalous objects, entities, or events that the SCP Foundation has contained or would like to contain if they could figure out how. It is largely horror themed. There are also "Tales" which are simply stories set in the SCP-verse.

Like anything, 90% of it is kinda crap, but that last 10% can be really really good.

It is a massive collection of the notes of a fictional organization that finds Weird, Dangerous, Magical Shit and keeps it out of the lives and hands of normal people.

Wikipedia has a decent capsule summary of the fiction and its real-world history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation

On the SCP wiki, you could have two jobs and a kid.

Yes. The site has also been through several rounds of civil war level drama, so you may or may not be able to find an article or version of an article you want to re-read. Don't give up; what you're looking for will be in the edit history or on an archive site.

I was reading about this and then... What isn't canonical? I don't understand your question.

I don't see a question in the parent's comment?

Nothing in particular on the 055 page isn't canonical. But any other page on the wiki might contradict anything on any other page. For instance, there are a number of other SCPs and articles that provide conflicting explanations of SCP-055.

SCP is the opposite of say, the Star Wars franchise where George Lucas (now Disney) gets to say what's canon even if all the fans disagree. In the SCP-verse, everything is licensed Creative Commons (I think), so your own headcanon is equally valid as anyone else's, and fanfic doesn't exist because it's all fanfic.

That also means it's popular to make live action movies like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVx2jyDPinw)

> What isn't canonical?

Yes.

Exactly.

(Glad to see somebody gets the joke!)

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