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* BreatherEpisode: “Fresh Hell”, by far the story’s most lighthearted chapter (a BloodyHilarious MeetCute!), comes directly after an incredibly depressing chapter (about the same couple twenty years later, with [[spoiler:one of them MindRaping the other for their own protection]].)
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* AndIMustScream: Immune to [[spoiler:SCP-3125]]? You’re still going to be subsumed into it and forced to commit horrific acts in order to spread it to other people; you’re just going to be [[CanOnlyMoveTheEyes conscious the entire time.]] [[spoiler:[[TheImmune Adam]] has a lot of fun with this]].
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* ShutUpHannibal: In “Blood/Brain”, [[TheHeavy Red]] shows up and starts monologuing, before he’s quickly interrupted by [[spoiler:Adam shooting him in the head. And then [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill ordering an orbital laser strike on him]]]].
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* LivingMemory: [[spoiler: Bart’s plan to destroy SCP-3125 requires a ‘countermeme’: a weaponizeable idea. Adam doesn’t have it, but Marion did, before she died — and Adam knew her better than anyone else in the world. So Adam takes a Class-Z mnestic in order to create a living memory of Marion and reproduce the countermeme she had in her mind]].
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* CuriosityKilledTheCast: [[spoiler:SCP-3125 kills anyone who looks too far into the isolated incidents it causes and deduces its existence — along with their entire research group and family. Ten years before the events of the story, there were hundreds of antimemetics research groups all around the world. But they all discovered SCP-3125 and died to it. Now there’s just one]].
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* DealWithTheDevil: It’s implied that this led to [[spoiler:Red becoming the human avatar of SCP-3125]].
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* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Main characters die often and without warning to a variety of antimemetic threats. By the end of the story, [[spoiler: every named character save for O5-8 and Bart Hughes is dead]].
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* AWorldHalfFull: The novel ends with [[spoiler: SCP-3125 banished and possibly destroyed]], but at tremendous cost. [[spoiler: Over a year of history is missing. Huge parts of every urban center are walled out from normal consciousness, millions of people are missing, and almost no one is even aware that this has happened.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: A few of them. SCP-3125, the big bad, is [[spoiler: a powerful meme which is completely incompatible with human civilization as we understand it, and wipes it out.]]
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* DramaticIrony: In the book’s first chapter, Marion and O5-8 speculate about how Bart Hughes might have died. [[spoiler:“Wild Light” reveals that they were both there to witness his murder — they just don’t remember it.]]
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* DramaticIrony: In the book’s first chapter, Marion and O5-8 speculate about how Bart Hughes might have died. [[spoiler:“Wild Light” reveals that they were both there to witness his murder — they just don’t remember it.]]it]].
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* HouseAmnesia: In “Where Have You Been All My Life”, Marion wakes up to the sound of someone breaking into her home. She tracks down and subdues the attacker. [[spoiler:It’s her husband, home from a work trip. She’s forgotten that he exists]].
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** [[spoiler:SCP-3125’s containment chamber is full of these. When Marion enters it in “CASE COLOURLESS GREEN”, she’s met with a videotape she recorded for herself six weeks earlier that she has no memory of creating]].
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* RegainedMemoriesSequence: Certain mnestic drugs (Class-X and some varieties of Class-Z) give the user access to all of their previous memories, at the cost of eventual death. In “Unforgettable, That’s What You Are”, Lyn Marness recounts sixty years’ worth of repressed memories after taking a Class-X mnestic. Later, [[spoiler:Adam used a Class-Z mnestic to recover his memories of Marion and experiences the past two years of his life in reverse]].
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* PhoneCallFromTheDead: How Ará Orún operatives, most notably Daisy Ulrich, communicate with the real world.
* RegainedMemoriesSequence: Certain mnestic drugs (Class-X and some varieties of Class-Z) give the user access to all of their previous memories, at the cost of eventual death. In “Unforgettable, That’s What You Are”, Lyn Marness recounts sixty years’ worth of repressed memories after taking a Class-X mnestic. Later, [[spoiler:Adam used a Class-Z mnestic to recover his memories of Marion and experiences the past two years of his life in reverse]].
* RegainedMemoriesSequence: Certain mnestic drugs (Class-X and some varieties of Class-Z) give the user access to all of their previous memories, at the cost of eventual death. In “Unforgettable, That’s What You Are”, Lyn Marness recounts sixty years’ worth of repressed memories after taking a Class-X mnestic. Later, [[spoiler:Adam used a Class-Z mnestic to recover his memories of Marion and experiences the past two years of his life in reverse]].
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* SupernaturalHotspotTown: Ojai, California has a thing for memetic cults.
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* Mundanger: How does [[spoiler:SCP-3125 kill people who learn of its existence]]? It just [[spoiler:sends a giant invisible spider to stab them to death]].
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* Mundanger: {{Mundanger}}: How does [[spoiler:SCP-3125 kill people who learn of its existence]]? It just [[spoiler:sends a giant invisible spider to stab them to death]].
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* Mundanger: How does [[spoiler:SCP-3125 kill people who learn of its existence]]? It just [[spoiler:sends a giant invisible spider to stab them to death]].
* NoteToSelf:
** Much of the Antimemetic Division’s research is conducted asynchronously — as a series of notes for their future selves, who have presumably forgotten all of the research that came before.
** [[spoiler:SCP-3125’s containment chamber is full of these. When Marion enters it in “CASE COLOURLESS GREEN”, she’s met with a videotape she recorded for herself six weeks earlier that she has no memory of creating]].
* NothingIsScarier: Most of “Ará Orún” is completely blacked out, with only a few fragmented snippets of text left to describe [[spoiler:Adam’s experience within SCP-3125]].
* NoteToSelf:
** Much of the Antimemetic Division’s research is conducted asynchronously — as a series of notes for their future selves, who have presumably forgotten all of the research that came before.
** [[spoiler:SCP-3125’s containment chamber is full of these. When Marion enters it in “CASE COLOURLESS GREEN”, she’s met with a videotape she recorded for herself six weeks earlier that she has no memory of creating]].
* NothingIsScarier: Most of “Ará Orún” is completely blacked out, with only a few fragmented snippets of text left to describe [[spoiler:Adam’s experience within SCP-3125]].
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* TheImmune: A small portion of the population (including [[spoiler:Adam]]) has a natural genetic immunity to antimemetic influence, and can perceive antimemes to some degree. People with this immunity are also [[spoiler:able to overcome the effects of [[MindVirus SCP-3125]]]].
* InescapableHorror: [[spoiler:SCP-3125 is present everywhere on Earth except for the Foundation’s containment chamber]].
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Because [[spoiler:SCP-3125 kills anyone in the same “headspace” as its target (people who think in the same way as them — which usually includes the target’s close family)]], Marion decides to [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedAmnesia wipe Adam’s memory of her]]]] in order to protect him should she be attacked.
* JustBeforeTheEnd: The first half of the book (and [[AnachronicOrder several chapters from the second half of the book]]) take place [[spoiler:one year before [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the incarnation of SCP-3125]]]].
* InescapableHorror: [[spoiler:SCP-3125 is present everywhere on Earth except for the Foundation’s containment chamber]].
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Because [[spoiler:SCP-3125 kills anyone in the same “headspace” as its target (people who think in the same way as them — which usually includes the target’s close family)]], Marion decides to [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedAmnesia wipe Adam’s memory of her]]]] in order to protect him should she be attacked.
* JustBeforeTheEnd: The first half of the book (and [[AnachronicOrder several chapters from the second half of the book]]) take place [[spoiler:one year before [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the incarnation of SCP-3125]]]].
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''Literature/ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision'' is a WebSerialNovel by qntm (the creator of ''Website/ThingsOfInterest''), originally posted to the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' website as a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub series of short stories]] and later consolidated into a novel.
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''Literature/ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision'' is a WebSerialNovel by qntm (the creator of ''Website/ThingsOfInterest''), originally posted to the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' Website/SCPFoundation website as a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub series of short stories]] and later consolidated into a novel.
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''Literature/ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision'' is a WebSerialNovel by qntm (the creator of ''Website/ThingsOfInterest''), originally posted to the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' website as a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub series of short stories stories]] and later consolidated into a novel.
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The Antimemetics Division of the SCP Foundation protects humanity from things that they can't even remember exist two minutes after looking at them. But what happens when the mission changes from merely secure, contain, and protect? What happens when they have to engage in an all-out war for the mind of humanity against an enemy they can't even remember?
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The Antimemetics Division of the SCP Foundation protects humanity from things that they can't even remember exist two minutes after looking at them. ideas and entities they’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes from merely secure, contain, and protect? changes? What happens when they have to engage in an all-out war for the mind of humanity human consciousness against an enemy they can't even remember?
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''Literature/ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision'' is a WebSerialNovel by qntm (the creator of ''Website/ThingsOfInterest''), originally posted to the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' website as a series of short stories and later consolidated into a novel.
''Literature/ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision'' is a WebSerialNovel by qntm (the creator of ''Website/ThingsOfInterest''), originally posted to the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' website as a series of short stories and later consolidated into a novel.
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Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: In an in-universe example, O5-8's assistant, Clay, is apparently some kind of antimemetic agent, or an agent working on behalf of an antimeme. O5-8 does not have an assistant, but this entity was inserted into his office, apparently first to get him to forget his class W mnestic medicine. It appears his further mission was to destroy the Antimemetics Division, but we will never know for sure, as he was killed soon after being discovered.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The first chapter mentions that Marion Wheeler has two children. They are never mentioned again.
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* AmnesiaLoop: The Antimemetics Division, as well as numerous other similar agencies, have been locked in one of these for decades, possibly centuries, regarding [[spoiler: SCP-3125. Every time they become aware of its existence and fail to contain that knowledge, it attacks and destroys everyone even tangentially connected to this awareness]]. Once this became understood, deliberate, and carefully managed amnesia of it was their only defense.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: All people who take sufficiently strong mnestic drugs experience some degree of this. [[spoiler: Marion Wheeler]] gets an even stronger for, ironically after she'd been rendered DeaderThanDead.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: All people who take sufficiently strong mnestic drugs experience some degree of this. [[spoiler: Marion Wheeler]] gets an even stronger for, ironically after she'd been rendered DeaderThanDead.
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* AWorldHalfFull: The novel ends with [[spoiler: SCP-3125 banished and possibly destroyed]], but at tremendous cost. [[spoiler: Over a year of history is missing. Huge parts of every urban center are walled out from normal consciousness, millions of people are missing, and almost no one is even aware that this has happened.]]
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A meme is an idea that, by its nature, spreads to other minds. An antimeme is an idea that does not want to be spread. And an anomalous antimeme? That can be a very dangerous thing indeed.
The Antimemetics Division of the SCP Foundation protects humanity from things that they can't even remember exist two minutes after looking at them. But what happens when the mission changes from merely secure, contain, and protect? What happens when they have to engage in an all-out war for the mind of humanity against an enemy they can't even remember?
Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day.
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!! This book provides examples of:
* CivilizationDestroyer: When SCP-3125 finally fully manifests in our reality.
* EldritchAbomination: A few of them. SCP-3125, the big bad, is [[spoiler: a powerful meme which is completely incompatible with human civilization as we understand it, and wipes it out.]]
* {{Fingore}}: The disciples of SCP-3125 often maim the eyes or hands of the unconverted, including the right hand of [[spoiler: Adam Wheeler]].
* GiantSpider: The forces of SCP-3125 have enlisted the aid of antimemetic spiders as tall as skyscrapers. Exactly how and why they are allied is never made clear.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Combating anomalies which create this is the entire business of the Antimemetics Division. Have I told you this already?
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: [[spoiler: The human avatar of SCP-3125]] is shot twice in the chest. It continues to bleed, even over a year later, but it also never kills him.
The Antimemetics Division of the SCP Foundation protects humanity from things that they can't even remember exist two minutes after looking at them. But what happens when the mission changes from merely secure, contain, and protect? What happens when they have to engage in an all-out war for the mind of humanity against an enemy they can't even remember?
Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day.
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!! This book provides examples of:
* CivilizationDestroyer: When SCP-3125 finally fully manifests in our reality.
* EldritchAbomination: A few of them. SCP-3125, the big bad, is [[spoiler: a powerful meme which is completely incompatible with human civilization as we understand it, and wipes it out.]]
* {{Fingore}}: The disciples of SCP-3125 often maim the eyes or hands of the unconverted, including the right hand of [[spoiler: Adam Wheeler]].
* GiantSpider: The forces of SCP-3125 have enlisted the aid of antimemetic spiders as tall as skyscrapers. Exactly how and why they are allied is never made clear.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Combating anomalies which create this is the entire business of the Antimemetics Division. Have I told you this already?
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: [[spoiler: The human avatar of SCP-3125]] is shot twice in the chest. It continues to bleed, even over a year later, but it also never kills him.
