SCP Foundation

Right, it's been a while. Hope you like this… even if it ain't about the end of the world. ❤

Big thanks to the SCP-ES people and Mortos, whom have reviewed the original, unposted Spanish draft and the current one, respectively.

This is lovely. I have a feeling this one will get shared a lot around Valentine's day—dark implications notwithstanding.

Really liked this one. But shouldn't

a fear to be separated from their couple.

be 'separated from their partner'?

Without a doubt, this is the most wholesome SCP to ever exist, and potentially the greatest foil against the ultra-nihilistic monstrous things like the Heart of Darkness commonly found in the SCP universe.

I upvoted for the warm fuzzies this gave me, but it definitely does break my suspension of disbelief a little. With all the pda in the world this would be publicly visible and on YouTube constantly. Plus less than 9000 observed cases and an average of 3 per human doesn’t really jive. That’s 21 billion from the current crop of humans, at least half of which will have occurred already. You should make this a much rarer occurrence in order to make the math and containment more believable.

The concept here is nice, but the execution overplays the impact and notability, IMO. The quotebox in the containment procedures is formatted in a way that just doesn't do the tone any favors; why have a first-person note in the containment procedures when the information could be conveyed with "In accordance with the O5 Council's standing executive order, [information]" in a standard manner?

The note at the end doesn't do much for me either, and two Serious Announcement Notes From Higher-Ups in one article just left me wondering if I was missing something about how impactful or threatening this anomaly is. Unless (in reading it twice) I'm missing a key element here, I can't figure out if that end note is directed toward the personnel involved in the 85 documented occasions, or all personnel. It says "to all concerned Foundation personnel", which makes me think it's going to affected persons only, but then it talks about those affected people as if they are a different group than the recipient of the message. I can't see the Foundation allowing a message that calls attention to a specific anomaly to be sent to all personnel simply because several dozen people in an organization with thousands of employees were affected. Not when the concern is just that these people think they missed out on true love. That sounds like a personal problem that employees' individual counselors and psychs would deal with.

And yes, most of those eighty-five affected people became aware of SCP-3479 before they joined

If there were 85 cases of two people kissing, then it's 170 people.

Overall, I don't mind the concept at all but because of the execution I'm novoting.

This is a very original and interesting concept for an SCP, not for what it is, but for the way people might react to learning about it. Really interesting angle. +1.

Hmm. I like the anomaly and the simplicity of the premise, but I agree with the statement above that the execution kind of limits the enjoyment of the article. It does feel very professional, but that might not do it many favors for flash fiction. The bits about percentages and all the footnotes kind of make the piece dryer and the anomaly more difficult to visualize. Maybe it would work better if there were some logs giving examples of the manifestation and the reaction of those affected, so there's more focus on the anomaly rather than the minutiae detail?

I mean, still a +1 from me because it's short(er) and sweet, but it did feel pretty dry at parts.

+1. And as a Latin American it made so much sense to me that the original had been created in Spanish. Where can I read it?