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After a vigorous discussion with a friend last night about stories that are head trips, emotional bombshells, or overall mind screws, I was alerted to the genre known as SCP. And down the rabbit hole I went today, spending hours read the various ones. SCP is basically a sci-fi genre in the vein of a creepypasta meets Warehouse 13/Men in Black, but with way more fatalities and needless expenditure of human life. SCPs are all written like semi-redacted files as one would find in some clandestine organization that finds, captures, studies, uses, and/or kills weird shit. It's all the fun of conspiracy, creepypasta, and documentary all in one. It's like reading the write-ups from survivors of Lovecraftian horrors who see this stuff every day and are a bit blasé about it at this point.
It also makes me want to go back and read some of the better creepypastas, though at the same time, I kind of don't? I enjoy the what-if nature, that inherent quality of all good sci-fi, and many are incredibly well-written, but a person can only handle so much of the dark, depressing, and horrifying. Not terribly healthy to be in that headspace for long.
It also makes me want to go back and read some of the better creepypastas, though at the same time, I kind of don't? I enjoy the what-if nature, that inherent quality of all good sci-fi, and many are incredibly well-written, but a person can only handle so much of the dark, depressing, and horrifying. Not terribly healthy to be in that headspace for long.
