SCP-5005 │ Lamplight │ Euclid │ Mind Affecting/Extraterrestrial SCP

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  @unggoymuffin9163 · 4 years ago

  Future people when they see a giant cosmic anglerfish:<br>“It’s free real estate.”

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  @daniell1483 · 4 years ago

  The best thing about this SCP to me is the overall message. Yeah, things in the SCP will probably always be weird, but weird doesn&apos;t mean hostile. Not all the time at least. A little bubble of stability in an ocean of strange. Facinating.

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  @gogeterdone · 4 years ago

  A society of artists and scholars from different universes living on top of a giant dead anglier fish deep in the middle of oblivion. <br>SCP Foundation Researcher: &quot;Yup, it&apos;s Tuesday.&quot;

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  @MrSmithSAH · 4 years ago (edited)

  <b>Sees thumbnail</b> &quot;oh it&apos;s a streetlight that acts like a anglerfish&apos;s lure, I get it&quot;<br><b>sees video length</b> &quot;oh God what happened here&quot;<br><b>60 seconds in</b> &quot;I wasnt even close to getting it&quot;

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• CR

  @crtrcrcs · 1 year ago

  there&apos;s a cosmic irony about the settlement being based around the esca of a long dead anglerfish, the lure keeps doing it&apos;s job even now when there is nothing else to feed but the void

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• JA

  @jarednewman7823 · 2 years ago

  Whoever that one biologist at the beginning of the article was must be feeling mighty impressed with themself.

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• SI

  @sirtoast4502 · 4 years ago

  Nothing fits themes of universe hoping, physics and reality defying matter, and existential crisis like a bunch of self centered, drunken poets building a half assed utopia on the corpse of a cosmic fish... I have so many questions.

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  @nowhereman6019 · 4 years ago

  Oh man, this one. <br>This encapsulates so much existential angst. You want to learn, you want to know and understand, even if it kills you to find out, you just want the truth. But when you do find out, you realize that it doesn&apos;t give you meaning, it doesn&apos;t fill that hole. The truth is banal. So what can you do? <br>Just enjoy your life while you have it. Enjoy the gentle snow, the soft lights, the kind people. Be happy, because all else is pointless in the end.

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• QU

  @quantumblur_314 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I <b>LOVE THIS ONE,</b> I clicked as soon as I saw &quot;The Lamplight.&quot; &nbsp;It&apos;s so remote and isolated. &nbsp;The nature of the mystery is nothing malicious - it&apos;s just so isolated and in such an impossible place that there&apos;s no origin to track. &nbsp;The &quot;Multiverse collaboration&quot; element also makes it extremely humbling.<br>This entry gives the Foundation a refreshing level of humanity.<br>Just a really well-written piece exploring existential dread and the various ways humans cope with their need to rationalize things, and how sometimes you manage to pull away from that rational dependency to enjoy the present.<br>Additional kudos to this piece for covering depression and creative growth, it&apos;s just...<br><i>&lt;chef&apos;s kiss&gt;</i>

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  @rowbot5555 · 3 years ago

  It may be that I have few poetic bones in my body but I think it&apos;s very cool that the author decided to have Ramirez succeed on her effort to find the true shape of lamplight.<br><br>It would have been so easy for them to write Ramirez walking out into the snow, and then ending it off there, or with an addendum, but instead she managed to make it and send back her findings. I think that&apos;s very cool.<br><br>The night may not give us easy answers, but we might still find them if we look in the right spot.

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• LE

  @LexReckless · 4 years ago

  Thanks for having me in this, I love how it came out!!

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• GA

  @gamemeister27 · 4 years ago

  You know, when I first moved to Lamplight at around age 16, I was obsessed with the darkness. Around age 20, I nearly walked out. These days, I realize the light really is more interesting.

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