All That's Left. / Discussion

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hazellines 18 Jul 2023 15:56

Oh my god it's done. My first piece on the library lmao.

I'm not too proud of this one, to be honest. I don't think it flows well and is too short for my taste. Plus I'm also not the biggest fan of its premise. Maybe one day I'll rewrite the whole thing top from bottom, maybe I won't and just move on. The future will tell me when it's ready and art is just a miserable cycle of being constantly not satisfied with your work.

I've had the idea of "worldwide amnesia" brewing in my head for awhile now, but as a prop for a whole grand world I don't think it works. I wanted to tell a more personal, emotional narrative. I hope I captured this well, even if it's words aren't the most lingering.

Image Sources.

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The House.
The Home.
The Dog.
The Seesaws.
The Seagull.
The Hermit (9th)
The Tower (16th).
The Television.
The Library.

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Yours, Sevalif

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Vishardsh 18 Jul 2023 16:53

I like this- it captures a feeling of loss pretty well and the detail of the descriptions of the last few, fairly arbitrary memories the protagonist has left really cements how valuable they are to them. Just one thing, I thought this was referencing SCP-3848, the founding piece for the Ad Astra Per Astum canon. The big forgetti is already in the lore lol, funny that you had the same idea independently. You really succeeded on the characterisation though, this is a very intimate story that gets right inside the character's head. Well done, and welcome to the library

hazellines 18 Jul 2023 17:19

@Vishardsh Thank you so much!! A majority of this is inspired off of when I just sat in my room and listened to a certain infamous album and a very underrated book. I thought that the idea of dementia has always been terrifying, as well as similar diseases like Mad Cow and other brain degenerative diseases. So I thought what of it on a grand scale? I originally planned for this to be a web horror series, where the main protagonist (whom I never named) would've shown that the items in their house were gradually disappearing, and that everyone around them was gradually forgetting , too. Though with the decay of analog horror ( with only a few good popular ones that haven't degraded yet.)(those these three aren't the only examples, there's still a bunch of good well-known ones out there like Happy Meat Farms and Mysterious Flesh Pit- and I'm sure there's tons more that aren't popular that are great.) community this made me hesitant and eventually I ditched the concept all together. A few months ago I was recently revisiting my old SCP phase- something I did (and still do) hold very near to my heart- and, since I had always wanted to publish my writing to a site that was public but not too well known. I thought that the Wanderer's library would be the perfect place (plus I've always liked the vibes of this website and have been a Serpent's Hand truther since I got into SCP). I actually didn't know there was an SCP like this out there, lol, I guess that's just a fun coincidence. Maybe if I do flesh out this concept and turn it into a library series, I'll connect it.

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Yours, Sevalif

Staff Post - Open

UncertaintyCrossing 18 Jul 2023 17:56

Hey author! Congrats on your first piece posted to the Library! It's a big accomplishment, and I hope you're proud of yourself!

That being said, there's a few things I need you to do and that I need to check in on for this piece to stay on the site. Can you please

1. Check that all your images are licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 or a compatible license. The images need to directly state their license, free use or copyright free won't work here.
2. If all your images are CC compatible, I need you in your author post/a post here in the discussion to source / credit them. Name of the photo, name of the photographer, what license it's under, and a source link to where it was originally posted/where you got it from. If your images are not CC compatible, I'm afraid you're going to need to replace all your images with ones that are.
3. Localize your images. Discord can not be used as a file host. Please upload your images to the page itself (using the files button at the bottom of the page on your story) and replace the discord links to reference the page links instead.

If you would like some help, please reach out to a staff member and we'd be happy to assist you. Additionally, check out this page by our sister site for some further resources regarding what kinds of images you can and cannot use.

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Re: Staff Post - Open

hazellines 18 Jul 2023 18:34

@UncertaintyCrossing Fixed! Should be in the top author's post now (sorry for the ping on Discord haha I just now read this after I fixed the page). I had them set to being host on discord in the sandbox but they should be fixed by now. Thank you for your patience.

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Yours, Sevalif

Re: Staff Post - Open

UncertaintyCrossing 18 Jul 2023 18:48

Everything looks perfect! Thank you for handling this so quickly - really appreciate it!

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But the time flies, irretrievable.