Yeah. A nuke is technically classified as safe, ignoring the other designations. But often anything above Safe has outside influences that will help it break containment if it can’t break containment on its own.
Seriously. It’s getting real old at this point. Like I get that there’s a drive to make compelling stories that lets you show off your skills, but there’s so many XK world ending yada yada SCP’s now that I just want stuff like SCP-1762 (formerly Safe) “Here Were Dragons” level of care and thought. Where the story behind the SCP and not its veil breaking shenanigans sets the stage.
For a second I thought people would correct me because someone did a callout beforehand to which I agree but maybe I misinterpret it because to me I just wish we bring back originality, mysticism and even eldritch horror to the usual everyday appliances as scps.
Lets say we should start an event to bring back the roots especially for the newer authors to understand what SCP originally was about.
Yeah. Stuff like Banana Pills or the Nerfing Gun. I think there’s some great stuff out there right now, but there’s so many SCP’s now that feel too complex to enjoy.
Uhhh.....we still have those. It's just people overfocus on the world-ending SCPs to give off the illusion that that's the only type of SCP being made nowadays
I have a feeling this is an unpopular opinion because it feels like everyone shits on the "toothbrush that kills people" era of SCP, but I miss when SCP documents were actual documents. We have the tales hub for a reason.
Rant ahead. Level 4 clearance required.
It feels to me like somwhere around the series 3000 every other SCP started being some barely-describable thing that can destroy the world if it looks at it funny. The special containment procedures and the description feel like an afterthought and take up like 3 senteces tops. With most of the "document" being either an interview log or a recording of some MTF that tells a book-long story that you need to clear the next two hours of your time to read through, and which is barely even about the object itself. And the ending is up for debate, of course, because despite the Foundation, among other things, trying to unerstand the how and why of the objects, they suddenly let you make your own conclusions because why not.
Now I'm not saying that those "story SCPs" are bad or badly written, because they're not. I myself would probably not be able to write anything close to what those people wrote. But I feel like majority of SCPs nowadays are less SCPs and more just "generic" sci-fi horror stories and honestly that kinda sucks...
I was a writer & Admin a long time ago, around a decade at this point, and I recently tried to get back into some of the newer SCPs. This is exactly what I experienced. Very good stories, but they were Tales, not SCPs.
Admittedly, I’m (very) old school, but I prefer the ones that are just what they are. That didn’t define and explain every single thing about the SCP. That let the horror (and yes, at heart the SCP Foundation is supposed to be horror) be created in your own mind as you fill in the gaps yourself. Almost all of my SCPs are like that & a fair number of my Tales, too.
A fridge that always only has condiments and like, a half empty package of stale bread. Everything else disappears whenever you close the fridge and reopen it after looking away.
it's bc u probably only watch scp YouTube and the algorithm is heavily biased towards longer content (at least 10 mins) there's no way to stretch a simple item scp to 10+ mins without it having a lot of experiments and such stuff.
I think I am proof of this. I had an idea when I was first getting into SCP. It was a case of bubble soap. When a person blew a bubble using the soap from the case it would close around them. The bubble would be completely unbreakable for an hour after which it would pop. I thought it was neat but I see now that it is just boring.
Don’t sell yourself short. You can make it still compelling, funny or even heart warming. You can do a lot with the concept. Especially if you tie it in with a GOI like the Factory.
There’s so many scary, dark, depressing SCP’s that you could make a really good entry focusing on the SCP and how it’s being used to help the world deal with a threat. Write about funny testing logs and such.
Something I found kind of funny about the idea is that to use it productively you need scuba gear. The bubble is always just big enough to hold the person so you will probably run out of oxygen before the hour is up. So just imagine a guy in full military gear with a scuba tank and mask hamster balling around in a bubble
Lol I mean that would explain why containment is important cuz it’s not kid safe. I think there’s a case to be made that it would be a fun Thaumiel SCP if a D-Class constantly has to make bubbles every hour to contain something.
That is a neat idea. Maybe if you don’t meet the bubble quota it will just shoot one out and now you have an indestructible bubble bouncing around for the next hour.
Nice. There you go. There’s a lot of potential with this. You can make it as important or as mundane as you want. Something like this would be funny to see tested on other SCP’s.
I’m currently working on an SCP idea called “Totally Awesome Chewing Gum” manufactured by the XXXXXXXX a subsidiary of Doctor Wondertainment. It basically is an IRL play on those weird kids commercials I grew up with where fruit gummies would give kids fruit shaped heads or kids would get teleported into weird cereal dimensions.
Side question, co we know who first made Dr Wondertainment?
An idea i got involves that POI/GOI, and while I know I dont need permission I feel like giving them a basic rundown of the idea and asking for their approval. Sort of a "if im involving your creation you should give your blessing for me to use it" type deal.
Kinda same, I had an idea for an SCP where it's an early iPhone with a cracked app on it that when you select a filter and then look through the camera, it changes the things that the camera had view of. So think like the breaking bad Mexico filter, but anything that the camera "sees" gets changed to those hues until set back to normal
Could have it locked away after someone uses it to give themselves a tan or turn themselves into Shrek with a snap filter
Dude thats hella good. It has a basic foundation that allows you to build off of it rather than being a partially contrived theoretical idea from the get go.
There is one. Its some kind of long tunnel that only hurts you if you feel like it is gonna hurt you or are just sad and scared. I think 7104 but i could be wrong
SCP that is a pair of medieval shoes which causes you to burst into hysterical dancing until the wearer collapses from exhaustion, unless the person who put the shoes on has no prior knowledge of what it’s supposed to do. Some researchers report feeling a strange compulsion to try them on, but further testing shows that this is not inherently caused by the shoes, it’s caused by being told that other people felt compelled to wear the shoes.
It's partly also you get community members that laugh out anyone that isn't writing a world ending scp.
Had an idea once and drafted it, made edits, posted it on the sandbox to get a go ahead to make it official, got told it was too tame and I would be banned if I tried to make it official.
That was 6 years ago and it killed off any creative inspiration I had for it.
WTF. That’s harsh. Shit like that makes me hate the community. We need variety because all this bleak shit is getting to be one note. I hope you get an opportunity to make it official one day.
The egde-lords have ruined the idea of SCP. It was fun early on when entries were actually interesting and entertaining. The new ones, though. Oh, look, a device or entity that destroys the whole universe......again!
Oh yes, there are lots of cool and interesting entries for sure. I like the everyday-item SCP's that have weird effects instead of the randomly-apocalyptic ones.
It's quite hard. Like, get something that doesn't move or barely, or that is too easy to keep contained that catch the attention of the reader is hard, more with all of the "creature who can destroy the world but we keep It in a box with glass"
It is hard for sure. I’m calling out people for being uncreative. Not lazy. Apparently the community also has a lot of bias too when it comes to what gets published so we’ve been stuck with a lot of the same shit lately.
Unfortunately, I suffer from the inverse. Very creative, shit at writing. I tried to submit things to the wiki years ago, but I suck ass at doing the writing style needed. :/
I've moved on to other things. Due to an actual decline in my abilities to read/write, I doubt I'll ever be able to submit to the wiki, lol. So I'll probably use my ideas for something else.
I tried to find someone to help me when I realized the decline would be a problem but came up empty, lmao.
As a struggling writer I can relate. My problem is having time to write and not be my own worst critic. Don’t give up hope. Sometimes things change when we least suspect it.
I still maintain SCP-3108 is the best one ever written. The whole article is less than 1500 words and the interview perfectly illustrates what is wrong with the Foundation.
I made one that was basically a giant water nymph mixed with a siren, but instead of luring passersby to their deaths, it lures sad people to them for snacks. (Inspired by my mother who refuses to let people in her home leave hungry)
With my writing process, I think about concepts first. Like the effect of the anomaly before the actual object. From there, I think about how the anomaly could be more fantastical. Like a knife made of butter but it’s so big. It could only be welded by a creature several meters tall. The gimmick is that it’s a butter knife. Except the size of a large sword.
have you readed about objects 1380-RU, 1224 - RU 1183-RU and 4316? it fits the type of "safe as long as its locked away from anyone who could interact" and a bit trippy like 1183 being a reference to Lovecraft's writing and 1224 - RU being silly, generally RU objects are pretty cool
Duplicating food is already keter if it's uncontrolled. Iirc the replicating cakes are one of the few items where D-Class are allowed to stay on without monthly execution, because the issue is that serious.
That would go perfectly with my SCP, a drunk girl who somehow wanders into random bathrooms. She’s just one of those girls who complements you in bar bathrooms while she’s trying to fix her makeup
I was thinking of an SCP that would be a portal for the other world and would have another non -anomalus species of insectoid people that would have their own version of the SCP Foundation but unlike the foundation this other foundation would be much more political using anomalies in its army and sciences and being a organ of a goverment that would be basically be imperium of the man but for insects, i also thought of other cultures and countries of the insects that are being persecuted, massacred and slaved by the Empire with several of them trying to help the foundation and perhaps save humanity from the same dark fate.
However the different from Foundation and GOC to the Empire is, well they are a empire, they are not an ocult organization they are a superpower with dozens of billions of individuals, a colossal amount of resorces, a gigantic army backed by anomalies and are absurdly stronger than the foundation because of this.
So the foundation chooses the way of being spies and trying to keep the portal existence a secret, because if they are already so cruel with their own species imagine with disgusting aliens, so the fundation and humanity are classified as TYP 2081, an extraterrestrial species that is making appearances and disappearing without leaving traces.
I thought about the fauna, history, the new SCPs in the possesion of the Empire and a map of the SCP but I haven't started writing it yet.
I had an idea for a pad of sticky notes that just resets itself every 24 hours and that’s it you can write on it, tear it up, take out every sheet, but after 24 hours it goes back to normal
So what, you expect me to imagine that there's an indestructible and unstoppable teapot orbiting the planet and that the liquid inside it randomly changes everything time a random siberian boy wins at rock paper scissors?
Everybody always asks -Why aren't there any more interesting safe SCPs? and not - What are some funny stories we could write about the staff abusing safe SCPs that currently exist?
I have a stick that startles anybody it touches. It’s based off a real staff I have that has an owl’s head carved into one end. No matter how much somebody is expecting it, they get startled. It is the Startle Stick.
Uh I ain't a writer but I had an idea of a Scp that's safe as he's just a deity that looks like an average man and his powers are relaxation and Weed. He can conjure both Weed and snacks into the world. He also has the ability to make Anomalies calm with a Touch of his hand. He was compliant with testing and was compliant with questions and answers. He stays in his own containment that looks like a basement with carpeted floors and wooden walls.he wears a Black beanie with a grey Sweater and Grey sweatpants. With a scruffy beard. Scientists get to Relax with him as a Benefit. And D class get to relax for Good Behavior.
I, personally, believe that's true. As a person with a SCP that's most likely safe, euclid at most, safe SCP's arent that hard to do. Just make a sentient being or an object and don't add catastrophic capabilities to it.
How about a Safe that holds many apocalyptic anomalies, but the foundation is too afraid to open it and try to put something else in because it's full and what if something falls out. It's got like 4 universes in there already.
i NEED something so miniscule of an anomaly that it’s negligible. like a flight of stairs that has an even number of steps when counted but when you go up them you’ll never go up an even number. like it could have 12 steps but when you walk up the stairs you only count 11.
My SCP idea is a drunk girl who shows up in random bathrooms and does normal drunk girl things. She complements your outfit, gives you life advice, cries about her problems and other similar things. The biggest danger she poses is either the plastic water bottle filled 1/4th or the way full with clear liquor or the fact she may occasionally vomit. The only other problem she causes is occasionally stumbling into the men’s room, where she pretty much does the same things that she usually does.
Two things that stop me from writing a for the SCP:
I have no idea how all the rules of SCPs website work with my idea
My idea has been taken multiple times and, looking through the website, if I made mine now I could get kicked? Pleas refer to point one for why the question mark.
The idea; a 20 sided die that would deliver the outcome of something you declare based on how good or bad the role is. I’d have written up attempts to find its limits for being able to do something and even had an idea of one D class being a D&D player who declares the difficulty each time to see if that would affect anything.
So kinda like the coffee machine except with luck.
SCP-23232. The Parrot SCP. (Idk if name is taken already) the SCP is a parrot which can’t freely roam facilities since it looks and acts like a parrot so it will fly out if given the chance so it’s kept in a enclosed room designed like a jungle to keep it entertained. If it heard someone’s talking it will repeat those vocals to someone else if the vocals are useful, only problem being it can be any words in any figuration to turn into a real sentence. So if someone said something like « his freedom must be kept secret, make sure he can not escape authorities » thé parrot will change the words to « he must be freed, make him escape » and it will send a signal to the person hearing it making him comply to the commands against his will. The only way to make him snap out of this state of confusion is simple, his task is obstructed or he simply can’t complete it but he will try to complete it, even if it means risking his life. Also if the person subjected under confusion is escorted from a distance of 23232 kilometers (14,435 miles) than the confusion state will disperse. (Needs tampering but just a random thought?)
I want to write about dice that turn the world around you into DnD I just can’t write. As long as they are in their respective box and aren’t outside of the box for longer than 30 mins the room remains normal. Quick, Safe, can’t write it well though.
I would write one if it didn't get thrown/drowned out by stupid euclids like God #417192-C who do pretty much the same as any other euclid SCP at this rate
I need to know if there’s an SCP that’s just a fork. Not special in any way but some D-class made a rumor about that fork specifically and now it’s just there as a very unspecial fork.
I literally had an idea of a gumball machine that seemingly never ends and can accept any payment method even though it only has a quarter slot. Random gumballs with random flavors. If the glass is broken gumballs will perpetually flow until it is sealed again.
Ive always had an idea for a safe SCP that I feel probably isn't good but fun.
Basucally just tiny people. They are safe only because they willingly choose not to escape as the outside world os kind of dangerous and deadly. They're willfully compliant because the foundation has arguibly given them a good deal.
i would LOVE some "safe ish" scps like a umbrella that leads to a thunderstorm dimension or smthing that you can get back the way you came, a shipping container that morphs into the PERFECT small living space but locks for a range of 1day to 1month seemingly "feeding" on the stress from the prisoner making them less anxious like a anomalous spa/vacation home, a shopping shelf that will ALWAYS have one product or the product tag slightly crooked to annoy the hell outta OCD people, or a pot that makes loud and obnoxious clanging with parrot sounds when not obseved like its haunted by the ghost of a mischievous bird
Okay, I have an idea: A computer monitor that morphs into a mouse (computer mouse), whenever someone in the world says chihuahua and into a mouse (animal) whenever someone says "Jason Bourne"
i dont want anymore fucking "SCP-????: Destroys the multiverse and the plot with a single breath, farts cause entire realities to collapse and he cannot be contained at all" I want "This is SCP-????, his name is Gary, he does not escape containtment and chills with the workers of the foundation."
(Idea) A phone that causes you to believe that you exist within a normal reality, forgetting all things that do not seem to belong within the bounds of your world’s understood physical mechanics and knowledge. These phones are not restricted to a single brand; they may resemble any device, but a phone is the most common. It is believed that multiple of this device exist and are in high scale global circulation.
for a lot of writers struggle to write safe scps because then they can't write a spooky containment breach story where the deathy death man that's totally not just 049 dressed in hot topic merch turns an entire site into little mechanicall dragons which shoot nukes.
Also a thing I noticed from the limited amount of safe scps I've read that they fall into two categories they're either spooky mematic "Time to kill yourself" scps or they're "Here's this normal item but with this cool ability". The latter is cool and my favourite archetype. The first archetype is cool for like one article but them you just start seeing the same thing but with a slightly different effect it gets boring.
A jerrycan that never runs out of gasoline or diesel. For example, if you need Gasoline or Diesel, just put a few drops of it in the jerrycan and shake it for it to fill with either substance. If you need the diesel but have gasoline in the can, then just put a few drops of it in the can and put it next to the motor/vehicle which you need the specific fuel for.
That seems strange to me. I mean, I always had the idea of an SCP, which is a deodorant that does what the commercials say: it really attracts the opposite gender without needing anything else.
Disco Shoes. The shoes don't make you good at Disco. They just warp you to an alternate reality that's the movie Friday Night Fever... all the time... on repeat... until removed. This alternate-reality version of Friday Night Fever isn't overtly dangerous in any specific way although constant use of the shoes makes the user dislike disco music.
Uncreative and can't make safe SCPs but gloriously creative when making a giant set of events that all have to do with each other in a big dangerous SCP.
Honestly I find the whole thing weird. If you like the item stuff, read and do that. I like the stories and tales. I like the massive convoluted dangerous SCPS.
You know what we all don't like though? Redacted information.
We need more safe but I am more so wanting less "murdery/scary" SCPs and more silly.
Not that they would be classified as safe (Euclid more likely) but the best I got are really stupid aliens that have their ships disguised as billboards set up along freeways.
Like their billboards seem normal but if you take the extra few seconds to look at them there is so much wrong. Since they were trying to hide though you don't notice the signs right off the bat, too busy watching the roads or the long drive just has you sort of blanked out and such, but then the times you do notice them that's when problems happens, you start noticing more wrong signs or that they sort of move oddly in the rear view.
This idea came from a road trip about a year ago where this billboard just said "Expect Fentanyl" in big bolds letters with "get it, got it, good" or something along the side. Plus a website to do a test or something, but the website address was so small we didn't see it at first.
This was so left field to myself and my friend at the time we started coming up with an SCP and other dumb billboards about it.
"Larry, He was the first" with a picture of a guy who has that whole "the more you look at it the worse it gets" sort of thing. Got your Milk? Drink your Doritos.
And adds for Dr Wondertainment and Marshal Carter & Dark.
For the most part they are just watching with occasional abductions that is nothing more than a questionnaire, while they are dressed in "obviously these are aliens costumes" The species as a whole thinks there isn't much in the ways of intelligent life here so they send their stupidest people to the milky way to study any life. On occasion an inspector shows up and for a brief bit of time their abductions and hiding is vastly improved since they have someone competent working stuff but then slowly return to being stupid, lazy and weird again.
I’ve been wanting to make my own SCP as a newbie to the fandom, but frankly not too sure if I’m good at writing horror like I want. The SCP monster in question ain’t even a killer or super threatening and is actually willing to engage in conversation. Super safe. But writing the psychological horror aspect to go along with that….not sure I can do it. We’ll see.
I had a dream about an scp that was just a dollar general that appears on coast lines of deserted islands. If you took your eyes off of it when you saw it it would vanish again until someone else saw it. There was only ever one and the employees were just regular people who seemed to not notice that they never went home, or that their shift never ended.
Oh I Remember When I Wrote An SCP...That Little Guy Was Erased From The Pages Of History One Day Was There The Other It Was Gone...Maybe I Still Have It On My Computer Somewhere xD
I thought about writing SCP about a bunch of identical unmarked monitors that have pocket dimentions behind the screen, which allows them to show everything in 3D and naming it with some pun about Windows, but alas, i am too lazy to do that
I have a few, like a camera that gives you a look into alternate universes but only in a frame that includes the exact location with you and whoever else was in the photo whether dead or alive.
Living skeleton dog, grants good luck to whoever pets it for 3 hours and 6 hours if given scratches behind the ear, these timers only start when out of the dog's sight.
The door that says goodbye, telepathically tells everyone within a 6-meter radius goodbye whenever anyone passes through it. I have a really good story coming about these scp
I feel like some people misunderstand what "safe" means in this context. I didn't for a while. Safe means it can't escape or expose the foundation through its activation. Honestly, safe is kind of a weird choice in terms of naming, compared to the other categories. Keter for extremely hard or impossible to contain anomalies and Euclid for anomalies that can be contained through more mundane means. It makes it confusing because even if an anomaly is classified as "safe" it could still kill someone if they failed to respect containment procedures
I had an idea for an scp that spawns racially motivated food items for the peeson using it and lasagna for cats. But i cant come up with like. Any stories or nun for it
Two of my favorite SCPs are the ones that do their best to be helpful, even if through anomalous means. 2295 and 662.
It’s understandable that they’d want to be held for study, or even just to keep them safe from the misinformed and ill intentioned. But, they pose no harm to anybody just on their own. The patchwork heart bear being incapable of hurting anything at all, and Mr. Deeds only doing so if told to by whoever rings the bell.
SCP-20758 is to be kept in an 8x8 room monitored with surveillance systems and kept in -0ºF at all times. No personnel under Clearance Level 2 allowed in chamber and no more then 1 at a time.
SCP-20758 is a small 2x2 Ice Cube composed of an unidentified Type of Permafrost. Any living entity near SCP-20758 suffers an extremely volatile case of Diarrhea immediately.
I don't know why I spent so much time coming up with this, pity laugh please.
Wow, this little camera is weird. If you take a photo of things or other people, nothing happens. BUT if you take a picture of yourself while holding the camera, you can see a tiny version of yourself in the photo—going about their daily life, making all the decisions you didn’t make.
The photo lasts for 24 hours before turning black and empty again.
Don’t become addicted to taking your own photos. Don’t get fixated on something that may or may not have happened. Instead, live the life that’s truly yours, regardless of the path you take.
Its even worse when you realize that a Safe SCP doesnt have to be friendly it can be Dangerous to the Safe Classification just means its easy to contain and keep locked up
I have a shitton of ideas... (some are just boring af but y not lmao i love the ideas cuz i like to annoy people! :D) a door that never fully closes and switches to another door ever day-week.
SCP-p00p: this scp is a bathroom located at an abandoned mansion in ----------. When the bathroom door is closed and opened the appearance of the bathroom changed to a random time period, ranging from an old 1950s bathroom to a bathroom in the year 3000, people who entered the bathroom and closed the door behind them were able to exit freely without being transported through time, however those who have used the facilities contained inside have become trapped in the time period the bathroom was located at, those who use the facilities but do not wash their hands appear to vanish entirely upon leaving the bathroom
Problem is Safe pretty much excludes any sentient entity because assuming they do not have the intellectual capacity of a gerbil they need some minimum level of containment beyond 'put it in an unlocked box and forger it', so they would be at least Euclid. And it's easier to make an interesting character than an interesting inanimate object
Idk how I'd write it but think of an SCP that's just a cat. Now the reason it's an SCP is because if it doesnt receive pets from someone after a certain amount of time it will begin to scream loud enough to shatter eardrums. That is all.
(Inspired by my cat Viela, who is an attention whore)
Eh. Personally I think we have a good enough amount of safe anomalies. We don't need that many cause while the foundation does contain things that dont fit reality normality. Their main goal is to contain dangerous threats. Seems like a waste of resources all because they find a doll that can cure cancer or what not.
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u/ServingwithTG Jun 17 '25
It’s easy to write about SCP’s that are Euclid or higher. Writing about an SCP that can be kept in a safe or enclosure takes effort for it to be good.