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Yeah, this is gonna seeeriously hinder our plans for world domination, so if you could remove it, that'd be just greaaat.
+1.
if your reading this your gay
Tends to ignore the Cliche List and get away with it, and write up ideas multiple people have failed with.
Your reputation is well earned. Great example of how to take a relatively silly idea and make it seem genuinely threatening. +1ed with much aplomb.
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population of █████ █████
I think I know what's behind this blackbox. O_O
What's the best country you can think of that fits the number of black boxes?
I was thinking of the other one…but that makes a bizarre amount of sense, now that I think about it
*googles*
The concepts are superficially similar, but there seem to be enough differences to me for this to stand on its own.
Actually, it started out intending to be a straightinversion of the plot ofThey Live and a couple similar stories — it looks like the Foundation has uncovered a massive alien conspiracy (that you can only see through funny glasses) — but it isn't; it's just a weird illusion where the lens is reacting anomalously to something completely mundane and harmless. They would still want to contain this thing due to the potential for creating social chaos, but it's not what it seems to be.
Then I thought it would work better if the Foundation isn't sure what's going on:
It's an illusion.
It IS a massive alien conspiracy, but instead of doing the stereotypical "Hey, they can see us, let's kill them!" bit, the aliens are REALLY good liars.
There is something anomalous about the people who look "wrong," but it's not what it appears to be; this is just how the SCP-1719 device interprets some other anomaly.
There is an alien conspiracy, but it hasn't played out yet. The aliens are here, but genuinely have no idea what they are…they were left here thousands of years ago and nothing is going to happen until whatever placed them here comes back.If they come back. Maybe they just forgot.
What's really going on? You decide.
So, you see, I don't think I just SCPifiedThey Live, if you consider the story behind the object.
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Headcanon: It's actually a device made by a few enthusiastic furries years ago as a way to tell if someone is a furry/otherkin/etc, and it surprisingly worked, but the engineers just thought they created a really good real-time CGI animation camera. They revealed this device at a small and not-so-popular convention and used it in a LARP. The "recovered material" is part of the larger LARP that the Church blissfully was unaware of and the founders of the Church were not aware of its origins, as the original engineers just discarded it after they moved on to much more important stuff than a furry-finder. So, instead of finding aliens they harassed a bunch of Wolf's Rain fans.
But Otherkin don't exist outside the Internet, and furries aren't ubiquitous enough to be 1/10 of the population.
(account deleted)20 Jul 2013 17:06But Otherkin don't exist outside the Internet
Clearly, you haven't been around a big group of furries.
Actually, they do. I know of at least three or four meet-ups for therians/otherkin that are fairly regular, and far more that were basically one-time things. Far more simply have regular contact with each other that's offline.
However, looking at the largest directory of therians and otherkin I can find, there are maybe three to four hundred in the entire United States, which is notnearly enough to cause this sort of thing.
I was not seriously considering the "furry" aspect of this thing, and didn't think it would register that way because I imagine the SCP-1719-1s to look completely horrible to most people. How many furries do you know who consider themselves part jellyfish?
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As it is, it's kind of vague—I mean, you mention cetacean and procyonids, both of which aren't that uncommon as fursonas, and I know several raccoon therians.
Honestly, though, I don't think it should matter too much. The vast majority like it.
(As a side note, furries are not the same as therians/otherkin. Furries are people who have an interest in anthropomorphized animals. Therians are people who, in terms of animalistic behaviors, are on the far end of the bell curve, and generally have them match up with a single species.)
This is a really funny interpretation that I admit to not having thought of. Anomalously interpreting something psychological about some people? Sure, why not?
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Maybe to expand on my wild headcanon: the lens shows your primal envy/jealousy or just a plain fascination with animals. Liked fauns and centaurs? Currently using a wolf as a profile picture? Had sex with a snail? Told your dog that "man I wish I was like you"? The lens would show it. Pretty useless compared to what the Church believes it to be but interesting nonetheless.
I really like this idea - myself, I think it's more effective if the -1s are genuinely just normal humans with a genetic marker that is picked up on by 1719; They Live if the glasses just made yousee an alien conspiracy that wasn't actually there.
Well, that's most likely what's going on — but the Foundation can'tprove it, and if there is even a 1% chance the effect is real, they are going to make contingency plans for that.
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I really like this idea, and the way it was executed left me thinking for a while.
Great job! +1