So I’ve been spending a lot of time reading over on the SCP Wiki lately, and I think a few of you would really enjoy a lot of the stuff on there, but it’s… I think ’inaccessible’ is an understatement. After over a decade of colaborative fiction piling up on the site, literally thousands of articles and tales with mounds upon mounds of site-specific terminology and internal references across dozens of contradictory and half abandoned canons, even knowing where to start is a long way from obvious.
The clearest place to begin would be reading SCP-001 and going from there. Don’t do that. Really, Really do no do that.
For my part, I would recommend starting with the Anti-Memetics hub, aka There is No Anti-Memetics Department. It’s a (relatively) short, self contained narrative that gives a great glimpse into what the site can be, along with being a genuinely fantastic piece of media in it’s own right.
Any time you run into terminology you don’t understand (which will still be often, sorry there’s no real way around that), check out the ‘Essays and Resources’ tab along the top bar and have a look around in there.
If you enjoy Anti-Memetics, then I can’t recommend the On Guard 43 hub highly enough. It’s huge, but just start from the top and keep reading, I promise it’s worth it. Really a highlight of how great the format can be when it’s in the hands of creative and talented authors (and at least one mad genius. If you can get through a PHMD article without developing a headache then you’re a stronger person than me).
From there, go nuts. I’ve heard great things about S&C Plastics, and No Return seems good from what I’ve read so far. If you can slog through the first couple 'seasons’ of Resurrection then both the Old Foes and New Enemies sections are pretty enjoyable, and tie in nicely with On Guard 43.
Authors I’m particularly fond of are HarryBlank, Placeholder McDoctorate, IHP, Grigory Karpin, qntm and Rounderhouse, so maybe worth checking out a random SCP from one of them to see if the world and format interest you.
There’s just so much great content on the Wiki and I think it’s pretty easy to be put off by the non-linear, opaque nature of the site, so if this gets even one person to give it a shot then I’ll be really happy.
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