Even simple stories may reference dozens of SCPs that may be common knowledge to frequenters of the wiki but can make reading tales tedious, forcing newcomers to stop every few sentences to read through another article anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand sentences long (occasionally with accompanying photo, audio, and Choose Your Own Adventure-style components). You’d think writing a story about humans fighting an imperceivable god-like being would be incomprehensible would be impossible to execute, but Hughes’ beautiful prose, incredible characterization, careful dialogue, and impeccable pacing bring such an improbable narrative to life, and expand it far beyond its origins as a memory-wiping non-sphere.Ī common weakness of SCP tales is the sheer mythos behind this fictional universe. However, Antimemetics Division pulls it off and brings it to heights far above this already-lofty idea by doing the opposite of what you’d expect from the SCP Foundation: focusing on the humanity. Such a unique, difficult-to-imagine conception with such ripe potential seems prime for a disappointing, or at least indecipherable, execution. It is up to the Foundation’s Antimemetics Division – the last vestiges of a once-worldwide antimemetics community, all since erased by SCP-3125 – and its head, Marion Wheeler, to defeat an enemy capable of destroying a person’s humanity and puppeteering their hollowed body by simply existing in the same sphere of thought. These range from impossible-to-remember (non-spherical) objects, a gun that turns targets into anti-memetically cloaked worms, multiple extinct once-great civilizations, predatory ideo-complices that prey on Foundation researchers’ memories and erase them from cognition, and the malicious, omnipresent SCP-3125. There Is No Antimemetics Division – written by self-published author Sam “qntm” Hughes from 2008 to 2020 – tackles the idea of the inverse: concepts, objects, and entities that censor themselves through memory loss, data corruption, and other anomalous means. The terms “cognitohazard” and “memetic kill agent” are forever etched into common Foundation narratives. In the context of the SCP Foundation – a 15-year-old community-driven writing project about a clandestine non-governmental organization dedicated to Securing, Containing, and Protecting objects deemed anomalous to baseline reality, now nearly 7,000 objects strong – these ideas may spread, benefit, corrupt, maim, or kill simply by existing in a human mind. Memes and memetics refers to the concept of ideas behaving like genes, how cultural information transfers throughout society and, in so doing, mutates.
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