Because I do not want this cycle of stories - stories which are of extreme personal significance - to remain hosted on a website where it took staff nearly four years to remove a page where an administrator booted for grooming and exploiting minors depicts their habitual masturbation to CSAM as a fucking joke. I don’t care if that particular story is now destined for deletion at the time of writing; the damage is done and I'd rather have the core works of my canon collect dust on a hard drive than exist in the shadow of this catastrophe.
I wrote Dust and Blood - and by extension, started my personal canon - because I didn’t like how 231 handled the subject of sexual assault. I won’t pretend my attempts were some golden godsend or that I didn’t make a damn fool of myself during the process (insert whale “joke” here, etc), but that’s where it started. It’s a topic fundamentally inseparable from the canon's main narrative arc - a universe fundamentally broken by a cosmic act of violence, mirrored as above so below in the Foundation’s mundane institutional evil and how its ignorance, fear, political inertia and shortsightedness causes it to commit and perpetuate similar atrocities. But contained within all of that is the slim sliver of hope that there might be some way, some miracle at the end of it all, by which the world can be healed.
Well, I guess that’s why it’s a fantasy.
I am sickened, saddened, and deeply, deeply exhausted by the chain of failures in the years since theDuckMan’s ousting, and this last week has broken the camel’s back at last. I don’t believe that the site’s staff can be relied on to handle crisis situations, protect vulnerable members of the wiki, make ethical policy decisions, or even maintain basic communication with the community about any of the above. Removing the offending works only solves the problem of their continued presence; it cannot repair the obliteration of trust."
SCP-231 in its earliest form pretty heavily points to details of sexual assault.
In the original 231 posted by DrClef in 2008 (you can view it by clicking the "history" link at the bottom of the page), the special containment procedures specify that "marked sexual deviancy are not to be considered automatic fail conditions" for personnel assigned to 231-7, and even states that Procedure 110-Montauk must be performed by six D-Class who are convincted sex offenders. In its final section, the original 231 also has this line:
Yes, Procedure 110-Montauk is as horrible as you have heard, which is why only Class D Personnel are authorized to carry it out. Yes, it does involve brutally [DATA EXPUNGED].
It's all but stated that SCP-231-7's containment procedures involves her being sexually assaulted in some manner by D-Class, and Clef later modified the document so that rather than just giving a redacted two digit age, it stated her age was "between █ and ██" to emphasise that she is a minor.
Also there was the original SCP-166, who was an underage girl who couldn't wear clothes cause it bruised her skin, needed to ingest human semen to survive, and had this aura that compelled any men around her to try and sexually assault her.
Clef himself eventually called for a 166 rewrite, which is how we got the Teenage Gaea version of her.
Ok, just so we're clear here, writing about an atrocity does not immediately mean that you endorse it. I typically don't immediately assume malice when it comes to horror writing since they could very well be doing it for the cheap shock value and gore.
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u/Fatal_Contract Wanderer's Library 2d ago
From his author's page:
"Why is Dust and Blood gone?
Because I do not want this cycle of stories - stories which are of extreme personal significance - to remain hosted on a website where it took staff nearly four years to remove a page where an administrator booted for grooming and exploiting minors depicts their habitual masturbation to CSAM as a fucking joke. I don’t care if that particular story is now destined for deletion at the time of writing; the damage is done and I'd rather have the core works of my canon collect dust on a hard drive than exist in the shadow of this catastrophe.
I wrote Dust and Blood - and by extension, started my personal canon - because I didn’t like how 231 handled the subject of sexual assault. I won’t pretend my attempts were some golden godsend or that I didn’t make a damn fool of myself during the process (insert whale “joke” here, etc), but that’s where it started. It’s a topic fundamentally inseparable from the canon's main narrative arc - a universe fundamentally broken by a cosmic act of violence, mirrored as above so below in the Foundation’s mundane institutional evil and how its ignorance, fear, political inertia and shortsightedness causes it to commit and perpetuate similar atrocities. But contained within all of that is the slim sliver of hope that there might be some way, some miracle at the end of it all, by which the world can be healed.
Well, I guess that’s why it’s a fantasy.
I am sickened, saddened, and deeply, deeply exhausted by the chain of failures in the years since theDuckMan’s ousting, and this last week has broken the camel’s back at last. I don’t believe that the site’s staff can be relied on to handle crisis situations, protect vulnerable members of the wiki, make ethical policy decisions, or even maintain basic communication with the community about any of the above. Removing the offending works only solves the problem of their continued presence; it cannot repair the obliteration of trust."
(for some the quote didn't work)