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[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Special Containment Procedures/Secure, Contain, Protect/SCP is really cool if you haven't read them before. There's thousands, but you only need to read a few of the well-known ones to understand the story. In addition to what other posters have said, it's a website where everything is in-character. It's presented as a secret database for a shadowy organization investigating cryptids and the paranormal.

The short story contests are much easier to digest, since some of the entries can get incredibly meta. What's especially cool is how it's entirely public domain. There are some specifics about how entries are used by third parties, but it's pretty open. There have been short films, video games, and fan art for all of it.

It spawned from a post on 4chan's /x/ board years ago and has since been taken away from chuds to be a leftwing space. The original post:

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