SCP Foundation

There is no means to contain SCP-001 known to the Foundation.

…

Aaaaand downvoted. If you OOC cannot think of a way that an object or event could be contained given resources with no canonical limit whatsoever, it's a failure on your part as an author to think and write creatively.

More importantly, it makes absolutely zero sense in character. The Foundation does not believe in "cannot be contained". If a researcher turned in a report on an SCP object that began "this cannot be contained" to his superior, that researcher would be fired.

So, fix that. I don't care if you make it "cannot be contained yet but here's how we're trying", or "containment has failed consistently, but MTF-fucknazis is currently working to implement and test a new containment strategy" or what, but put something down. We don't do uncontainable around here, because both in and out of character that is lazy.

This isn't so bad, but it's a concept that's been done before. You already mention SCP-140 (and I think this would be an excellent rewrite of this article, if the scale were adjusted), but it's also seen in things like Metafiction and a few others.

Well written for the most part, but… I've just seen it too many times to upvote it.

Edit: Derp. Remembered incorrectly!

Edit Again: And the emergency protocol at the end has just secured my upvote. Well done.

Figure out a way to contain it — Yoric speaks truth on that! — and I could upvote this. It's a little trite, but it makes a great deal of sense that if the Foundation in-universe learned that it was fictional (and I'm not going to touch those literary-theory implications with a ten-foot pole), it would call its writers SCP-001. After all, whose sole purpose is it to make the Foundation's life as complicated, dangerous, and dark (or at least deeply weird) as possible?

…Wait a minute.

This is "Stranger than Fiction".

No.

Frankly, I think that we should be scared that they'll figure out a way to "contain" SCP-001.

too meta for me. Well written, and I certainly don't mind it being one of the 001 proposals, but I can't upvote.

I like it. But, then, as anyone who's met Tamlin knows, I'm a huge fan of Meta.

This is wonderfully meta. I have mixed feelings about it actually being 001 though.

I hope you're happy at what you've unleashed :P

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Delightfully meta. I'm not usually a big fan, but this is very well done.

Note to self: poke an article, watch the universe jiggle.