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How does a picture of the sun not fall under CC by default? It's the god damn sun!

the poem and Ari's level of characterisation - have been dramatically improved here

The earlier poem was indeed thrown together with little thought, while I spent a good three weeks (the main thing which pushed back the rerelease) trying to really figure that out - so I'm glad it paid off!

As for the latter issue regarding characterization, it wasn't something anyone else mentioned, and I hadn't considered improving, so I've got you to thank for that. Once I did work on it, my first critiquer pointed it out without my prompting, so it's satisfying to know it's noticible!

I still find the "ghost" subplot, and the associated video scares

A necessary evil, partly due to foreshadowing and plot-ball, partly due to me wanting to 'remind' readers of their 'physical' presence in the story.

Glad you liked it, and thanks again!

Going to echo the above points as well. This is a great piece Shaggy, and whether 3000 contest entry or 001 proposal it deserves a spot on the site.

Totally missed this.

What? In what possible way?…Half of it is even written in second person.

Because it is an SCP file framed through the use of prose. The beginning and end, and the two collapsibles not containing documentation are as close as it gets to 'tale', but the bookends are there to provide context to the 'who' who is accessing said file, and contribute to atmosphere as an added bonus.

There is a lot of prose besides this, but throughout the rest of it, it is the same as any transcription one can find in other files. All of the video portions, while in second-person, are part of the SCP documentation. The SCP to tale ratio isn't half, more of it is the file than the tale¹ it's just the way the SCP file is presented. It made no sense to write them as (in-universe) transcriptions because there is no one alive to transcribe it.

It is literally and objectively a tale.

Except for the fact that it is not objectively a tale, as it would have held a spot on the mainlist as an SCP (and is tagged as such) had I not posted it here.

I'm glad you liked it (I think?) aside from that, I'll try to post the prose-free supplement soon, perhaps that would be more palatable.