
This archive displays all works that have been featured on the site’s front page as part of the Reviewers’ Spotlight, which acknowledges the time and effort spent by forum reviewers helping other authors develop and edit and their works for the mainsite.
Each month, community members are encouraged to nominate forum reviewers who have been both particularly helpful and active. Members of the Forum Criticism Team will then discuss the nominations, and select four prominent reviewers to choose the month’s Reviewers’ Spotlight front-page features.
Nominations and recommendations and should be sent via wikidot message to Zyn (team captain of Forum Crit).
1 March 2021 - selected by Zoobeeny
- Featured page: SCP-5696 (One Last Ace.) by
cwazzycwafter
9 March 2021 - selected by Comrade Waldo
- Featured page: Wait and see!
17 March 2021 - selected by Truc Linh
- Featured page: Wait and see!
25 March 2021 - selected by Spoonr
- Featured page: Wait and see!
January 2019:
1 January 2019 - selected by scpcrnp
- Featured page: SCP-4164 (The Universal Instruction Manual) by
LiterallyMechanical
- These instructions invariably fail to follow the standard operating procedures intended by the device's manufacturer, but rather direct an operator to use the device in an unsafe manner.
9 January 2019 - selected by Shanor
- Featured page: SCP-4999 (Someone to Watch Over Us) by
CadaverCommander
- SCP-4999 has not been seen to engage in any other activity or behavior, and demanifests immediately upon the subject's death.
17 January 2019 - selected by MathBrush
- Featured page: Introductory Antimemetics by
qntm
- “You must know how that intro goes. It's like an atom bomb to the ego. I just had almost everything I know overturned.”
25 January 2019 - selected by Reverend Fox
- Featured page: SCP-3431 (Refuse Koala) by
Zyn
- All personnel regularly involved with caring for koalas are to be told to never take any food offered by koalas, and to remind guests to do the same.
February 2019:
1 February 2019 - selected by Pedantique
- Featured page: Maim the Sky, Slay the Sun Hub by
Pedantique
- Fire was stolen from the gods. Symbolically, literally, or something in between?
9 February 2019 - selected by Laneous
- Featured page: SCP-4378 (Her Noodly Appendage) by
Woedenaz
- SCP-4378 is a single uncooked De Cecco-brand lasagna noodle.
17 February 2019 - selected by RockTeethMothEyes
- Featured page: SCP-3367 (Prayers from Children, Eternally Answered) by
kinchtheknifeblade
- SCP-3367 is a Level 5 Ecto-geographical site, marked by its consistently changing layout, non-Euclidean spaces, and sentience.
24 February 2019 - selected by psul
- Featured page: On Mount Golgotha Hub by multiple authors
- "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood."
March 2019:
1 March 2019 - selected by Polynom
- Featured page: SCP-4144 (The Most Important Meal Of The Day) by
Mortos
- SCP-4144 is the concept of breakfast.
9 March 2019 - selected by DrChandra
- Featured page: The Den of Disquiet by
mayoculpa
- The mind called Herman Portunus Fuller was a burning tightrope, a taut thread strung across an ocean of suffering flesh, silence shredding in its grip.
17 March 2019 - selected by Ayers
- Featured page: SCP-4601 (No, It Is the Corpses That Are Wrong) by KindlyTurtleClem does not match any existing user name
- SCP-4601 is a headless humanoid measuring 1.5m tall with vestigial limbs attached to adjacent sockets on the torso utilizing hot-glue, duct-tape, and threaded bolts.
25 March 2019 - selected by DrCaroll
- Featured page: SCP-4616 (It Haunts The Fields) by
DrChandra
- During daylight hours, SCP-4616 appearances are rare and sporadic, mostly limited to appearing at the edge of the wooded area.
April 2019:
1 April 2019 - selected by TheMightyMcB
- Featured page: SCP-3741 (The World Is Your Oyster) by
TheMightyMcB
- SCP-3741 is a phenomenon that is currently exhibited by 29 eastern oysters, but may extend to a small quantity of wild oysters.
9 April 2019 - selected by ihp
- Featured page: SCP-2589 (Don't Leave Me This Way) by
faminepulse
- SCP-2589 only physically consumed an individual if it was assisted.
17 April 2019 - selected by Crashington
- Featured page: SCP-1193 (Buried Giant) by
ophite
- SCP-1193-01 is a genetically normal human arm of unusual length, located in a drainage pipe inside the basement of a telephone switching station in Scottsdale, Arizona.
25 April 2019 - selected by Schumacher
- Featured page: SCP-3758 (The Last Dodo) by
daveyoufool
- Due to the fact that SCP-3758-B emits 12,000 roentgens per hour of ionizing radiation from its skin, exact measurements have proven impractical.
~
May 2019:
1 May 2019 - selected by qntm
- Featured page: SCP-3454 (The Land DENIERS of Tall Bees) by
TL333s
- SCP-3454 is the designation for individuals who don't agree that the bees are tall.
9 May 2019 - selected by Gabriel Jade
- Featured page: SCP-4522 (The Mystical Village of the Jade Peach) by
Woedenaz
- Grasp this offering between both hands. Feel its weight both in hand as well as in self. Know that which is displayed will tell all that I need to know.
17 May 2019 - selected by RockTeethMothEyes
- Featured page: SCP-3721 (Obsolete Weapons System) by
UraniumEmpire
- “I can still feel it, though. I'm constantly fucking angry. Every single second I spend cooped in this fucking machine, you know what I'm thinking about?”
25 May 2019 - selected by calamitous1
- Featured page: SCP-3007 (World of Two Artists) by
Zhange
- SCP-3007-1 is a reoccurring hallucinogenic phenomenon, with no apparent pattern regarding age, gender, race, health or occupation.
June 2019:
1 June 2019 - selected by aismallard
- Featured page: SCP-4985 (High Finance) by
ModernMajorGeneral
- As a result, the operation of SCP-4985 approximates that of a European monarchy of the Late Middle Ages.
9 June 2019 - selected by Crashington
- Featured page: SCP-4958 (You Are Loved) by
N_Aepic_Fael
- SCP-4958 refers to Lycoris radiata (more commonly known as red spider lilies) that bloom near individuals who have had a major conflict with their loved ones.
17 June 2019 - selected by N_Aepic_Fael
- Featured page: SCP-4064 ("It's not you, it's us") by
Henzoid
- SCP-4064 is a hive-mind, capable of inhabiting six distinct bodies.
25 June 2019 - selected by unclenicolini
- Featured page: SCP-4981 (The Room You Used To Live In) by KindlyTurtleClem does not match any existing user name
- MTF Gamma-76 ("Mother Mara") currently guards the entrance to SCP-4981-B's rental apartment, disguised as custodial staff.
July 2019:
1 July 2019 - selected by wishun
- Featured page: SCP-1169 (Lamarck's Giraffe) by
wishun
- Assignment preference will be given to staff who are irreversibly infertile.
9 July 2019 - selected by DrSevere
- Featured page: SCP-3844 (To Slay A Dragon) by
Captain Kirby
- A dragon. There was a dragon in the mountains. And it looked just like we'd imagined.
17 July 2019 - selected by RockTeethMothEyes
- Featured page: SCP-3881 (A Disregarded Proposal) by
Ayers
- When worn by a human being, SCP-3881 will immediately transport the wearer to an unknown location.
25 July 2019 - selected by Zachary Maxwell
- Featured page: You Never Visit Me Anymore by
Zachary Maxwell
- She pushed page after page into my hands, always littered with notes and lines under words, in red Sharpie.
August 2019:
1 August 2019 - selected by AKFrost
- Featured page: SCP-4597 (Thick-Skinned Man) by
Weryllium
- SCP-4597's skin possesses accelerated, if flawed, regenerative properties.
9 August 2019 - selected by tupacofficial
- Featured page: SCP-4853 (&SCP-4853) by
aismallard
- Other references to SCP-4853 may exist only in this document, and may not exceed ten instances.
17 August 2019 - selected by Gee0765
- Featured page: SCP-4954 (Long Live the Tinsmith!) by
Nameless Mediocre
- SCP-4954 is a series of self-replicating satellites, currently ████ in number, that subsist off of orbital debris…
25 August 2019 - selected by Ayers
- Featured page: SCP-4279 (A Toast to my Finished Thesis) by
Nameless Mediocre
- SCP-4279 uses electrical power to generate and assemble matter into theoretically any molecular or atomic form…
~
September 2019:
1 September 2019 - selected by cybersqyd
- Featured page: Cuteness On Main! by
Ellie3 and
Laneous
- Found something utterly unnatural— yet still adorable? Post about it here!
9 September 2019 - selected by N_Aepic_Fael
- Featured page: Karcist Halyna Ieva, or The Mother Who Demands One's Toes by
N_Aepic_Fael and
TheMightyMcB
- Where her legs would be instead lies a writhing mass of tumorous blackened tentacles.
17 September 2019 - selected by PrLosash
- Featured page: SCP-4465 (No Man is an Island) by
DarkStuff
- Arnold Dubar was 3,000 kilometers away from the nearest victim.
25 September 2019 - selected by RockTeethMothEyes
- Featured page: SCP-4294 (In the Cold Shadow of her Ovary Tower) by
Gabriel Jade
- SCP-4294 is perpetually surrounded by a severe snowstorm with wind speeds in excess of 130km/h.
October 2019:
1 October 2019 - selected by MacWarren
- Featured page: SCP-4436 (Jesus Saves) by
spikebrennan
- SCP-4436 is an large active distributed database, presently stored in an array of supercomputers located at Site-48.
9 October 2019 - selected by gee0765
- Featured page: SCP-4389-J (Can the Foundation do THIS?) by
gee0765
- The anomalous effect of SCP-4389-J varies in potency depending on how long a member of personnel has been employed at the Foundation.
17 October 2019 - selected by DrAkimoto
- Featured page: SCP-4795 (Feathered F(r)iends) by
Lt Flops and
Mew-ltiverse
- A large flock of an estimated 30,000 pigeons had amassed above the park and attacked.
25 October 2019 - selected by Tanhony
- Featured page: SCP-4866 (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘳™, a product of Optimark Synthetic Personnel Solutions) by
CadaverCommander
- SCP-4866 is a series of murderous synthetic humanoid constructs explicitly advertised as a commercial product, to be sold and purchased by the consumer public.
November 2019:
1 November 2019 - selected by Kybard
- Featured page: SCP-4361 (Red is Her Favorite Color) by
Kybard
- Hurts to talk. Please. Hard to tal— (video ends)
9 November 2019 - selected by PrLosash
- Featured page: SCP-4204 (To Pluck the Moon From the Sky) by
Dyslexeon
- SCP-4204 was discovered when a person attempting to break into Fort Knox failed to exit the vault before sunrise.
17 November 2019 - selected by Vincent Van Gone
- Featured page: Dr. Michaels (Dr. Michaels is not in danger.) by
Lt Flops and
Henzoid
- DOMC NOTICE: This file requires non-anomalous comprehensive inoculation.
25 November 2019 - selected by Dyslexeon
- Featured page: SCP-4608 (Appleseed) by
DrAkimoto
- Engraved on approximately 75% of trees within SCP-4608 were thaumaturgic sigils and symbols relating to Norse mythology.
December 2019:
1 December 2019 - selected by gee0765
- Featured page: SCP-4677 (Coke, Cow, and Capitalism) by
DrAkimoto
- SCP-4677-1 is a 100-page document detailing the Coca-Cola original formula and the four rituals required to produce it.
9 December 2019 - selected by cybersqyd
- Featured page: Adoption Poster: Darius! by
Uncle Nicolini
- I can get pretty loud if someone I don't like comes near, so be careful!
17 December 2019 - selected by RockTeethMothEyes
- Featured page: 'Weissman Model Assistance Clones' (ET796/IH249/W3336) by
OthellotheCat
- Be in the best hands in your twilight years.
25 December 2019 - selected by Simartar
- Featured page: A Clean, Fast End by
Simartar
- If there are seven-year-old gala posters up, the chances of the site being operational are slim at best.
January 2020:
1 January 2020 - selected by TheMightyMcB
- Featured page: SCP-2410 (We Are Beary Sorry) by
TheMightyMcB,
Crashington, and
N_Aepic_Fael
- SCP-2410 refers to stuffed bears that have experienced an ectoentropic phenomenon…
9 January 2020 - selected by Francis Scalia
- Featured page: SCP-4755 (When We Are Omnipotent) by
Nagiros
- The following anomaly is Level 6/4755 classified.
17 January 2020 - selected by Kilonova
- Featured page: SCP-4823 (The Whole World Has Gone Bananas!) by
Sebarus
- SCP-4823 is a ripe specimen of Musa acuminata, more commonly known as a Cavendish banana.
25 January 2020 - selected by Cerastes
- Featured page: Sometimes It's Not Funny by
kinchtheknifeblade
- jockjamsvol6: Guys, I got some bad news.
February 2020:
1 February 2020 - selected by cybersqyd
- Featured page: Ambrose Backdoor Soho by
UraniumEmpire
- Ambrose is proud to present Ambrose BackDoor SoHo, a unique blend of contemporary art and fine dining experiences.
9 February 2020 - selected by MalyceGraves
- Featured page: SCP-4372 (So Very Small, So Very Safe) by
Francis Scalia
- Due to these compression effects, the internal topography of SCP-4372 appears vastly larger than its outer dimensions.
17 February 2020 - selected by F15H35
- Featured page: SCP-4438 (FOURTH) by
Tanhony
- SCP-4438 is a rare phenomena which is known to occur when an individual is making a choice between three similar objects or entities.
25 February 2020 - selected by gee0765
- Featured page: SCP-4357 (Slimelord) by
LiterallyMechanical
- SCP-4357-0-A: OH MY GOD, RUDY, LEARN TO READ SARCASM. I WAS JUST MOCKING YOU.
March 2020:
1 March 2020 - selected by N_Aepic_Fael
- Featured page: SCP-5621 (Jealousy, Murder, and Alchemy) by
DrMagnus
- Due to the immobile nature of SCP-5621, the pool complex at Calvin University is marked as closed at this time.
9 March 2020 - selected by RockTeethMothEyes
- Featured page: SCP-4236 (It's the End of the World (And Everyone Feels Fine)) by
Legotrekker
- "It doesn't really matter anymore anyway. The hype is gone, the movement is over."
17 March 2020 - selected by DrUnoriginal
- Featured page: SCP-4192 (As Above) by
Connor MacWarren
- SCP-4192 refers to the nucleus of a single Hydrogen atom that emits radio waves at random intervals.
25 March 2020 - selected by HammerMaiden
- Featured page: SCP-4197 (Hollow) by
Dyslexeon
- SCP-4197 is a thirty-two-year-old adult humanoid female named Doctor Sarah Veers, an acclaimed surgeon and known practitioner of cytomancy.
April 2020:
1 April 2020 - selected by Zoobeeny
- Featured page: SCP-5908 (Missing Bullets) by
DrAkimoto
- SCP-5908 was designed with thaumaturgic runes along the barrel capable of triggering a ritual upon firing of the weapon.
9 April 2020 - selected by barredowl
- Featured page: SCP-4529 (A Walk in the Park) by
barredowl
- SCP-4529 is a forest neighboring the playground of Herbert Baker Elementary School, situated in Edmonton, AB, Canada.
17 April 2020 - selected by Dr Sage Evergreen
- Featured page: SCP-5199 (I Always Loved You, Dear, and I Always Will.) by
Notochordian
- Both components of SCP-5199 were brought into containment on May 5th, 2019, shortly after the surgical removal of SCP-5199-A.
25 April 2020 - selected by Sonderance
- Featured page: SCP-4645 (Blackmailing Computer) by
Calibri Bold
- SCP-4645 is also capable of targeting individuals with threats; however, its influence has not been seen to extend beyond Site-15.
~
May 2020:
1 May 2020 - selected by Calibri Bold
- Featured page: SCP-4456-D (No One Expects The Spanish Decommission!) by
Calibri Bold
- After every reproduction incident, the new SCP-4456 instance is to be provided with 2,500 pounds of pure silver.
9 May 2020 - selected by Nagiros
- Featured page: SCP-4310 (The Hero's Journey) by
A Random Day and
The Great Hippo
- SCP-4310 is an anomalous species of centipede.
17 May 2020 - selected by cybersqyd
- Featured page: Serpent Bound \\\ BEAR WITNESS by
Nagiros
- The Eschaton is self-evident.
25 May 2020 - selected by RockTeethMothEyes
- Featured page: SCP-3520 (Fourteen Orangutans) by
LordStonefish
- Despite apparent ease of containment, reclassification to Keter is under possible consideration.
June 2020:
1 June 2020 - selected by sirpudding
- Featured page: SCP-2656 (The Idiot Box) by
CupertinoEffect
- Stage 4: Sections of the brain are further dissected.
9 June 2020 - selected by DianaBerry
- Featured page: SCP-5553 (Psycho Social Media) by
CityToast
- Premature shutdown of the device does not mitigate the lethal effect of the infohazard.
17 June 2020 - selected by Naveil
- Featured page: SCP-5909 (The Endless Shrimp) by
DrAkimoto
- SCP-5909 is a crustacean measuring an estimated 2.1 light-years in length, located 7.5 light-years from the Sol System.
25 June 2020 - selected by Zoobeeny
- Featured page: The Seed of an Idea by
thedeadlymoose
- "Not Pandora's Box," Suit said. "Let's call it what it is."
July 2020:
1 July 2020 - selected by OCuin
- Featured page: SCP-3385 (The Last Voyage of the Far Horizon.) by
MalyceGraves
- SCP-3385 is a retrofitted Vanguard-class nuclear powered submersible vehicle.
1 July 2020 - selected by caspian2
- Featured page: SCP-5440 (Hotline Moses) by
DrAkimoto
- SCP-5440 caused the bush to spontaneously combust and remain burning for approximately two and a half hours.
17 July 2020 - selected by Captain Cold
- Featured page: SCP-5545 (𝙰 𝙱 𝙽 𝙾 𝚁 𝙼 𝙰 𝙻 𝙸 𝚃 𝚈) by
Yossipossi and
Calibri Bold
- Conceptual Site-344-2 contains SCP-5545-2 via association lock.
17 July 2020 - selected by REDESERT
- Featured page: SCP-5898 (Corn Belt) by
Its a Bad Idea and
Ohnonium
- Update 13/01/2020: Under no circumstances should Barn-002 be left unattended.
August 2020:
1 August 2020 - selected by Riemann
- Featured page: SCP-3393-EX (Girlfriend) by
Captain Kirby
- Dr. Rivera is unable to retain knowledge regarding Dr. Verity or perceive him when directly confronted.
9 August 2020 - selected by forbiddenquest
- Featured page: Mission Accomplished by
weizhong
- Well. No other way around it, he supposed.
17 August 2020 - selected by Sonderance
- Featured page: SCP-5785 (Craptivism) by
Deadly Bread and
Sonderance
- SCP-5785 is capable of manifesting two connected portals of equal size with the sole limitation that one portal must be located within its body.
25 August 2020 - selected by cybersqyd
- Featured page: Project Proposal 1994-103: "A Song of Hope and Home" by
stormbreath
- A listener that listens to the entirety of the song will experience a vision of my journey to the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen.
~
September 2020:
1 September 2020 - selected by CelesteKara
- Featured page: SCP-5380 (My World) by
chiifu
- I hope you'll live a good life. I'm sorry I couldn't be with you more.
9 September 2020 - selected by REDESERT
- Featured page: SCP-5595 (Geoffrey Quincy Harrison the Third: Site-Director, Gumball Machine) by
PlaguePJP
- PLEASE BRING ME TO MY OFFICE. DR. CROIX IS HOSTING A MUTINY.
17 September 2020 - selected by Naveil
- Featured page: I Don't Wanna Be Special (I Just Wanna Survive) by
Oboebandgeek99
- It's Eric, by the way, in case you've forgotten. My therapist is making me do this.
25 September 2020 - selected by Francis Scalia
- Featured page: SCP-5335 (The Freudian Split) by
MalyceGraves
- SCP-5335 was originally a highly decorated Special Agent with the FBI: Unusual Incidents Unit.
October 2020:
1 October 2020 - selected by Cerastes
- Featured page: SCP-5462 (Misery is the State of Every Soul Burdened by Mortality.) by
Cerastes
- […] commonly referred to as his Black Paintings due to their emotionally disturbing contents, themes, and use of dark colours.
9 October 2020 - selected by Grigori Karpin
- Featured page: SCP-5456 (Sweatmother) by
faminepulse
- “We can be human, yeah we can be respectful, but we can't tolerate chaos. You have to be our[sic] own dads.”
17 October 2020 - selected by Sonderance
- Featured page: SCP-4423 (StepDemon) by
Dyslexeon
- SCP-4423 is a Tartarean-Class demonic entity that manifests during sleep paralysis.
25 October 2020 - selected by OCuin
- Featured page: SCP-5788 (Partners in sync) by
Riemann
- The integration of SCP-5788 into the plumbing of the kitchen makes removal and characterisation difficult.
November 2020:
1 November 2020 - selected by cybersqyd
- Featured page: To The Dreams He Is No Nobody by
SoullessSingularity
- Suffice to say, Nobody and the dreams have something that humans may identify as a friendship.
9 November 2020 - selected by Dr Moned
- Featured page: Catching Up by
Grigori Karpin
- “I know you and a group of MTF-Beta-777 went into an alternate reality. You ‘read’ a structure there and had what amounts to a psychotic break.”
17 November 2020 - selected by Truc Linh
- Featured page: Procedure 420-Perinaldo by
peppermint_legos
- My grandpa dodged Vietnam with a bari sax.
25 November 2020 - selected by caspian2
- Featured page: SCP-5610 (To Put a Cat on Your Head) by
Veralta
- Approximately 56 percent of Japan's population has been found to have an instance of SCP-5610 resting atop of their head.
December 2020:
No Reviewers' Spotlight features this month due to contest prize feature schedule. Happy Holidays!
January 2021:
Double Reviewers’ Spotlight features this month due to contest prize feature schedule!
1 January 2021 - selected by TheAlienBaby
- Featured page: SCP-4333 (The Profligate) by
CadaverCommander
- SCP-4333's behavior is distinguished by its primary anomalous property, which allows it to spontaneously manifest currency.
1 January 2021 - selected by cybersqyd
- Featured page: Penny for Your Thoughts? by
Rex Atlas
- "Heads I tell them, tails I don't."
9 January 2021 - selected by Nagiros
- Featured page: SCP-5699 (Take Care of Yourself.) by
Amelia Wright
- As such, the O5 Council have ruled that SCP-5699 does not require active containment.
9 January 2021 - selected by Quadraginta
- Featured page: SCP-5266 (IDIOT SUCCUMBS TO NEUROTOXIN WHILE LISTENING TO MACHO MAN CLICK NOW TO SEE) by
IAmTheOoga
- Object Class: Keter
17 January 2021 - selected by RockTeethMothEyes
- Featured page: SCP-5178 (Eat The Sun with Seth Uhar) by
DecoyMesa
- “The sun…the sun…is the only guaranteed death waiting for you…if you continue to stall…”
17 January 2021 - selected by Grigori Karpin
- Featured page: Off the Road, Off the Rails by
Ihp
- "Don't have time for this," he grumbled. "Putting up with some hick cop who has a Punisher bumper sticker and a chip on his shoulder…"
25 January 2021 - selected by EthanHanson
- Featured page: SCP-4240 (The Roundabout Game) by
Tanhony
- “Don't leave the loop before you win! Don't go back through a door you've just gone through!”
25 January 2021 - selected by Sonderance
- Featured page: SCP-5751 (The Last Word) by
HarryBlank
- SCP-5751 is the phenomenon of additional items appearing in collections of disc-based storage media after their owner's death.
February 2021:
1 February 2021 - selected by caspian2
- Featured page: SCP-5186 (The Depths That Hunger) by
Dr Dodds
- According to Dr Rening's notes, the song itself has existed as far back as 1513.
9 February 2021 - selected by Uncle Nicolini
- Featured page: SCP-5580 (Heresiography) by
Tufto
- The heresiographer's task, then, is to determine that which is is an untruth and yet nevertheless exists.
17 February 2021 - selected by REDESERT
- Featured page: SCP-5079 (Isolation Reverie) by
Grigori Karpin
- Genetic analysis of the fungal growth continue to show human DNA in all generated biological material.
25 February 2021 - selected by CelesteKara
- Featured page: Hurt by
CelesteKara
- It wasn’t like they tried to isolate themself, it just gradually happened.
March 2021:
1 March 2021 - selected by Zoobeeny
- Featured page: SCP-5696 (One Last Ace.) by
cwazzycwafter
- When viewed upon immediate entry, the area surrounding "The Dying Roses" consists of empty space.