Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-8140 - Burial Goods

Therapist: "The Daevites aren't real they can't hurt you" The Daevites:

Foundation personnel: I'm going to rewrite history Everyone reading/listening: Sigh, here we go again

Sarkisism and these anthology based stories in the scp universe is why I still love it as an adult

Thank you for covering my entry to the 8000 contest. This article is easily the best SCP I’ve made, I think Was a constant struggle to come up with a narrative that was both entertaining and embodied the insane tragedy of the loss i experienced (for those interested, the author post in the discussion of the article goes into detail) The way this article was written was meant to evoke the blind panic and dreamlike existence when you’ve lost someone in a traumatic way. Interesting fact, all three perspectives (Lindqvist, the Daevites, and the SCP-1000 entities) are all coming to the events with the same mentality: denial of the trauma/loss, and refusing to accept things, raging against the futility of trying to change something terrible that’s happened to them.

lindqvist 🤝 deering messing with time to save a sibling (or at least attempting to)

While I'm an average 40k enjoyer, I confess that SCPs generally bang and slap on a much grander scale.

Having a narrative of "It wasn't actually some weird anomaly influencing Children of the Night history, we were just wrong in our assumptions" take place around Göbekli Tepe is nicely symbolic.

I was definitely waiting for there to be a "turns out, those Daevic sigils were a version of 2140, and now Lindqvist is a more-subtly-converted Daevite agent who's gonna be using retrocausal mojo to mess with things"

While my favorite story about the Daevites is the one where the book catches up to modern day they turn into just a normal country, this is now a close second.

As an aside, I love the feeling of hearing you read the character’s vague description of entities, and suddenly a lightbulb goes on and “WAIT THAT’S CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT” 😆

My god, everything related to Daevites is so interesting, it's incredible. If you take these comments into consideration, please consider covering more of these!

We've gotten lore on the Fae, the Mechanites, the Children of the Night, the Sky Kings, and the Daevites. We NEED Sarkite lore!

This was my favorite entry for 8kCon, not just for the story but because it was written from such a deeply personal place that I relate to so much. I won't give specific details out of respect for Grigori (but he tells about it in the discussion forum for the article) but he lost someone he deeply loved a decade ago, and this article was a way to convey that trauma of struggling to accept such an immense loss. I lost my father almost a decade ago as well, when I was just a teenager. It took me years to try and come to terms with it and find a way to move on. When I first read this story, it drove me to tears as I was reminded of the pain I suffered during that time. But it was good to feel that, because it allowed me to look back on all the things I loved about him and the part of him I still carry with me. You can't change the past, no matter how much you want to. But the pain of it doesn't have to last.

a thought: What if the Child of the Night that was advocating for them to go to war with the daeva wasn't being entirely honest? What if they also knew of the Daevite propensity for meddling with time, and hoped to undo humanity's victory over the CotN? It would make for a nice bit of symmetry with the modern-day narrative.

I thought I knew what the twist would be, but I was double twisted!

They turned @burialgoods into an SCP, as if he wasn't already.

The Deva and the Children of the Night? Yes please.

I thought I was getting a collaboration with BurialGoods the YouTuber!

I freaking LOVE Daevic skips!! Thanks for keeping the awesome content flowing, love ya Mang!

9th series already? I remember when everyone was excited we'd reached 1000 😅