History Literature / ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision

* TitledAfterTheSong: Several chapters titles, including “Unforgettable, That’s What You Are”, “Where Have You Been All My Life”, and “Champions of Nothing”.

* FatalMacGuffin: The most intense mnestic drugs out there grant their user extraordinary abilities — aging backwards in the case of Class-X, remembering every memory you’ve ever had in the case of Class-Z — at the cost of certain death a few hours after ingestion. [[spoiler:Both Marion and Adam die by taking a Class-Z mnestic]].
* {{Fingore}}: The disciples of SCP-3125 often maim the eyes or hands of the unconverted, including the right hand of [[spoiler: Adam Wheeler]].

** Alastair Grey, officially designated SCP-4739, feeds on “dense clusters of organically-stored information - essentially, extremely knowledgeable, complicated, interesting people” and their memories.

* AbstractEater: SCP-4987, the invisible monster that follows Marion around and eats her memories. She keeps it fed with useless trivia and has even trained it to eat ''other'' people’s memories on command.

* ApocalypticGagOrder: The Antimemetics Division has been aware of [[spoiler:the incarnation of SCP-3125]] for decades (possibly almost a century, if Marion is correct about what happened to the Unthinkables) — but because of the [[MindVirus nature]] of said apocalypse, they can’t tell anyone about it (including ''themselves,'' outside of specially-shielded Vegas rooms) without [[NiceJobBreakingItHero causing it.]]

* 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]]).

''There Is No Antimemetics Division'' is a WebSerialNovel by qntm (the creator of ''Website/ThingsOfInterest''), originally posted to the Website/SCPFoundation website from 2015–2020 as a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub series of short stories]] and later consolidated into a 2021 novel.

* {{Mundanger}}: How does [[spoiler:SCP-3125 kill people who learn of its existence]]? One of the thing it does is to just [[spoiler:send a giant invisible spider to stab them to death]].

* {{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]].

* 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]].

* 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]].

* PhenobletumPills: Mnestics, a class of memory-enhancing pharmaceuticals that enable their user to perceive antimemes, are the drug of choice of the Antimemetics Division and its employees.

--> ''…Wait, what were we talking about, exactly? There’s nothing here. Just a blank screen…''

[[TheMenInBlack The Antimemetics Division]], under the leadership of [[IronLady Marion Wheeler]], researches and protects humanity from ideas and entities we’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes? How do you win an all-out war for human consciousness against an enemy you can't even remember?

[[TheMenInBlack The Antimemetics Division]], under the leadership of [[IronLady Director Marion Wheeler]], researches and protects humanity from ideas and entities we’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes? How do you win an all-out war for human consciousness against an enemy you can't even remember?

The Antimemetics Division, under the leadership of Director Marion Wheeler, researches and protects humanity from ideas and entities we’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes? How do you win an all-out war for human consciousness against an enemy you can't even remember?

The Antimemetics Division, under the leadership of director Marion Wheeler, researches and protects humanity from ideas and entities we’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes? How do you win an all-out war for human consciousness against an enemy you can't even remember?

The Antimemetics Division, helmed by Director Marion Wheeler, researches and protects humanity from ideas and entities we’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes? How do you win an all-out war for human consciousness against an enemy you can't even remember?

The Antimemetics Division, helmed by Director Marion Wheeler, researched protects humanity from ideas and entities we’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes? How do you win an all-out war for human consciousness against an enemy you can't even remember?

The Antimemetics Division, helmed by Director Marion Wheeler, protects humanity from ideas and entities they’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes? How do you win an all-out war for human consciousness against an enemy you can't even remember?

The Antimemetics Division protects humanity from ideas and entities they’re physically unable to think about. But what happens when the mission changes? How do you win an all-out war for human consciousness against an enemy you can't even remember?

''There Is No Antimemetics Division'' is a WebSerialNovel by qntm (the creator of ''Website/ThingsOfInterest''), originally posted to the Website/SCPFoundation website from 2015–2020 as a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub series of short stories]] and later consolidated into a 2021 novel.

* GenreShift: The final third of the story (from [[spoiler:the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt incarnation of SCP-3125]]]] onwards) shifts from a straight CosmicHorrorStory to a more LovecraftLite tone. Before this point, each chapter involves the characters taking one step forward and twelve steps back in trying and horrifically failing to learn about a horror beyond human comprehension; once we find out exactly what the horror is and that it can be stopped, the narrative changes to a more optimistic (albeit still depressing and gruesome) adventure story [[spoiler:with a [[PyrrhicVictory (somewhat)]] happy ending]].