Photosynthetic's Leads to Investigate
  • A sentient printer that creates origami whenever the paper jams (source
  • A video game with a breathalyzer, because playing it drunk is a really bad idea
  • Crop circles. Everybody: "Aliens." Nobody: "Corn is sentient." (source)
  • What would fully-motile critters evolved from Earth plants actually look like? Roots ~ mouth, leaves (or stipules or stems) ~ muscle, anything with lignin ~ structure… but how do you deal with indeterminate growth? (By going semi-determinate a la Clintonia?)
  • Human wings. Batlike, probably, but with unmistakable fingers.
  • A numbers station where the numbers are irrelevant: it's the tone of voice, the general creepy aesthetic, that conveys the message.
  • People. Dozens, maybe hundreds of them — the forest makes it hard to tell. Each is bent backwards (ref. urdhva dhanurasana), hands and feet anchored to the ground, body turned to wood and sod and stone. Humans shaped into arches, loops out of the forest.
  • A document of some kind — legal writ? band flyer? — inscribed on "paper" apparently cut from the wing of an enormous fly or beetle.
  • The real reason that the Gulf Stream runs so far north. Whatever it is, it has begun to require regular maintenance.
  • Something that turns your corneas into pillbugs
  • "It tastes like an accident"
  • Cookie-cutter housing developments — twisting streets of identical houses, every one of them perfect and soulless
  • In chat, Faminederp wrote (completely out of context): "sun dried banana leather plantain carapace chestplates / banana cannons made out of banana carapace / cogworks of balsa blocks"
  • Mondegreen: "A disease that can replace us"
  • Frankly (source)
  • Camouflage
  • "The death of thought", with apologies/thanks to Foweraker
  • Magic described scientifically: a force of nature that pays too much attention to conscious intent & the laws of narrative
  • The way incandescence ripples across campfire coals
  • "Ooooo Face" from the cave system
  • Thing that eats environmentalists — litter lure
  • "mrmph" — An object that causes select parts of inanimate objects to start growing; accrescence. Sweaters that silence or suffocate the wearer. Garments that stifle complex thought.
  • Aloe polyphylla — A plant showing the effects of something whose passage makes things more geometrically ideal; sharper angles, more precision.
  • From Google Maps:
  • Taxidermy:
    • Mushrooms: Something contained by claiming it's art.
    • Hybrid: A psychopomp. Wisdom. Elusive knowledge
    • Cats: Internal conflict duking it out. Shoulder angel/shoulder devil.
    • Fawns: A sinister gift in those vials.
    • Throne
    • Tetrad: Meiosis gone wrong. A cobbled-together protective spirit. Manifestation of a child's hate. Cerberus.
  • From Fuelbucket:
  • From Picture is Unrelated:
  • From the Metapicture:
From the SCP Foundation Idea Generator:
"An article about a date associated with the Church of the Broken God. The article should evoke delirium."
Dionysian holiday for Mekhanites?
"An article involving electricity that explains the origin of the demon myth. The article should convey deceit."
"An article about a meteorite made of milk that will kneel when you die. The article should explore love."
Pietá Plagiarism, or just a worshipful sorrow?
"An article about some swans with human eyes that can destroy themselves. The article should convey desire."
Their desire is ardent, in the literally "burning" sense; they feed themselves to its flames and are consumed.
"An article about some hares that threaten you with guns. The article should evoke childhood."
Borderlands meets the Hundred-Acre Wood?
"An article about some lizards that are anomalously kind. The article should convey infatuation."
Not sapient or anything — they're just lizards, except that they take a pet's trait of comforting its human and crank it up to eleven.
"An article that explores the Fifth Church and the weather. The article should explore worshipfulness."
A sect that loves the sky as much as Southern Fifthism loves the stars?
"An article that explores the Voynich manuscript and the link between viruses and the street light interference phenomenon. The article should explore goodness."
"An article that explores the breakdown of society and Prometheus Labs, Inc.. The article should evoke friendship."
Post-apocalyptic — or peri-apocalyptic? — buddy-cop/buddy-agent/buddy-scientist sort of thing.
"An article about a humanoid with its head composed of ceramics that threatens you with growing old. The article should evoke forgiveness."
We fear aging in part because it reminds us that there is only so much we can do in the time we have; this SCP would grant us peace, freedom from regrets. The threat draws its own teeth.
"An article about a mug made of vegetation that's anomalously good. The article should evoke grace."
"An article about a bus crash that recurs once a day and that's anomalously rich. The article should evoke violation."
"An article about a humanoid with an unusually nocturnal skeleton that seeks destruction. The article should explore intelligence."
Boneless by day, motile by night?
"An article that explores kidnapping and the link between body horror and infrastructure. The article should evoke love."
The borehole arm and the piping intestines ring these kinds of bells.
"An article about a hill that makes you experience a sense of mercy. The article should evoke comfort."
"An article that explores ESP and Dyson spheres. The article should evoke wrath."
"An article about some elephants that are anomalously anxious and that make you kneel when you listen to whatever they tell you to. The article should explore grace."
You won't be compelled unless you submit willingly at first, and then being led gives you a sense of freedom. Careful: D/s undertones probably unavoidable, and handling it gracefully will take work.
"An article about a coffee cup that mysteriously emits marble. The article should explore surprise."
"An article about some humanoids with their bones replaced with fingers that can read. The article should explore delirium."
How's that for flexibility? I can't even imagine how they would look when they moved.
"An article involving self-loathing that explains crop circles. The article should convey infatuation."
The whole hoax was always just an attempt to build monuments to a person who the builder loved, but hated him/her/itself too much to pursue. Maybe, they hoped, if the tribute was obscure and misleading enough, it'd sublimate the unwanted desire without the loved one actually noticing that it's for him/her.
"An article about a lesson that's anomalously whispering. The article should evoke wariness."
A place where the wind in the spires literally tells secrets, only it's less "secrets" than "upper-division lectures".
"An article about a chair associated with crowds. The article should evoke adventure."
Some kind of Indiana Jones sedan chair in a parade?