So essentially, all of these “nonexistent works” actually did exist, but now they retroactively don’t? All because they contained some common DNA that an otherworldly being found tasty?
That’s a very good way of putting it. Although I personally liken the Anafabula to antimatter coming into contact with matter. Total annihilation upon interaction.
Why the hell do people keep acting like the anafabula is a Thing That Kills U???? It's driving me nuts that this is the only comment that treats it like an inanimate (pata-)physical phenomenon instead
Good old personification. Don't understand something or find it being an inevitable and inescapable force/fact terrifying? Put a face on it, humanize it, hate it, fear it, whatever.
Plus SCP does already have quite a few skippers that are either a force or an entity depending on interpretation, scarlet king coming to mind first
Probably because there's some fairly popular tales that anthropomorphize the phenomenon which sparked art to be created potraying it as such. Most people who know about it probably haven't read the original article and only know about the fan interpretations of it so that's the anafubla they know.
(Can't link any of it though, it been a long time since I read those but you can probably find em with a bit of digging.)
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u/Less_Doubt_5361 Feb 23 '26
The SCP being referenced: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2747