I like reading songs/poems on it and have have not found anything good

Need a break from preparing your ComboCon entries? How about you come and read the March Features!!

First is "Single Days and Snow Flurries" by Gatoni, a story steeped in the complications of one's past

And second is "Possessed" by aismallard, an abstract story exploring transfeminine gender dysphoria

Enjoy!

Almost a year after the Debate Club, we're happy to announce our latest contest - Welcome to ComboCon2024!

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The contest involves combining two prompts, which will inspire your entry. Also, winners will be decided by nomination rather than votecount.

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Posting opens in two weeks, on the 18th March, but writing STARTS NOW! Please read the contest page for all the info you need:

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/combocon2024

Every year we hold a survey to get an idea of how the WL community has changed, what their interests are for the future of the site, and more. That time of the year has rolled around again, so we'd really appreciate as many of you as possible to take this short survey about yourself and your experience with the site - especially if you've taken a similar survey like this before, as this is a yearly thing with new questions! Most of the data accrued from the survey will then be compiled and posted on the main site for everyone to view, and will affect how we move forward this year. Thank you!

Link: https://forms.gle/s1RmYWL9Us51EefF8

Here's this month's features!

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Number one is The Devil in Purple Silk by Stygian Blue, a part of the site's newest and hottest collection, Mages of Rela!

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-devil-in-purple-silk

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Number Two is Last Meal by zipzipskins, a piece that's part of the recent explosion in popularity of the Journal of the Walk!

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/last-meal

Enjoy!

Hi! I recently got into the WL universe and I want to make a character for it. Specifically, I want to make them a librarian. From what I've seen though, becoming a librarian seems to be a punishment and not a job you can just- get.

Which begs the question, is there anyone in the WL universe who wanted to become a librarian? And if so, would the WL even want them?

a re the er any storyies th at eithor involve o r mentioan scp-343 aka god aka allah aka big mna in sky

it seem s lik e somethi ng or soonemone so po werful should be documantaed in the librayr

Looks like we fell a bit behind on porting features, sorry folks! Here's the last three months of features for you to check out and enjoy:

November:
Our first feature is The Day the Lampposts Walked Away by Spoddette, a delightful poem
https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-day-the-lampposts-walked-away

And our second is A Gravedigger in the Ten-Tongue Empire by Sobek, a poignant tale of death https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/a-gravedigger-in-the-ten-tongue-empire

December:
Our first feature is Midnight Ride Radio by IndustryStandard, a wonderful exploration of the night, angels, and bus rides from an enigmatic radio host
https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/midnight-ride-radio
Our second feature is Empty Architecture by Gavin, a whoppingly large piece delving deep into the psychology of Daidalos, famous creator of The Labyrinth
https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/empty-architecture

January:
Our first feature is a poignant short story by ironshears , the world will have to wait on us today.
https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-world-will-have-to-wait-on-us-today

Our second feature is In Their Wake- an awesome collab between vishardsh and akam80 for the TitanClash canon!
https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/in-their-wake

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big evil thing called sir reginald comes out of tv and terrorize library does any on e know it

just got into the Wanderers Library as a whole. Definitely one of my all time concepts from the scp universe, if not fiction as a whole. I adore the idea of an infinite library where prose and reality overlap. And it's also pretty funny how in contrast to the SCP wiki, TWL treats world ending monsters with so little regard.

I want to know more about the wanderers library and it's style of writing for most works similar to how most of the main scps have a sterile and medical style

Happy October everyone! We've got your features here, fresh out of the oven!

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First is Versos, a series masterminded by the wonderful Maxyfran73, a series that is said by many readers to get better and better as you go on!

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https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/versos

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Second, we decided to choose Coagulate by retiinas, a short but horror-themed piece to get everyone in the Halloween mood.

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https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/coagulate

I'll reply with the photo, but it's a Tumblr post, think it could be a nice way to give the library some secrecy against the foundation in-universe? Think it could add some realism. In IRL security there's always this game of, found an exploit, a couple of years or months later, the exploit is patched, few weeks later, found an exploit. This could be really interesting considering the chaos of an inter-universe setting.

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That time of the month again - features are here! We have returning author floridapologia's short, thoughtful poem about reptiles and wet things, Amphibious!

We also have an older article from the Scavenger Hunt contest, Dysadron's delightfully self-referential I Purchased a Story!

Get to reading, folks! Until next features!

So, as the title states, i am looking for a story i once read.

It was about a month ago, and I have no clue of the name, but I remember it was about three distinct concepts of death coming into existance and watching the worlds creation and happenings. I remember they called themselves the 'Elder Death', (cant remember the seconda name), and 'Little Death'

I'll add edits if any more details come to mind, but I would greatly apreciate help in finding this story again.

August Features are here!

Check out first time WL author Nylo 's piece, Phillip's Plain! A SSS entry in which an old audio cassette is recovered and the story within it revealed. Lots of worldbuilding and culture in this one!

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/phillip-s-plain

And secondly, JackZR's piece A Story About Buckets brings us, well, a story about buckets! A fun piece told in verse exploring philosophy and nature.

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/a-story-about-buckets

Get to reading!

Hi, I know that the Library isn't necessarily supposed to be read in chronological order and can really be read in (mostly) any order like the SCP foundation, but I like reading things in chronological order. The SCP wiki has a helpful Page Calendar but I can't find anything similar for the Wanderer's Library, is there something similar and/or could someone help me set that up if not please?

And we're live! Let's get ready to rumble folks!

The third SSS event, TitanClash LIVE, has just had its hub page posted to the site, meaning the writing phase can now begin! Let's see some epic kaiju battles!

This canon will always be open to contributions; however, if you write something between now and August 15th 2023, you'll get a novelty role on our Discord server!

Check out the hub page here:

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/titanclash-live

And if you're new here and are like, what's SSS? Learn about our collaborative canon creation events here:

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/sss2

Let's get to writing!

July features are here!

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Today we are bringing you not just two stories, but many! This month's features are entire series you should check out.

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First up, a series that's still ongoing. Visards's Ocular Haze features magic, sci fi, body augmentation, awesome characters, and more! No hub page yet (get on that!) but you can start with the first piece here:

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/scabs

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Second up, an older but still beloved completed series. MuseHill brings us the The Heptateuch of Eve. Follow a mysterious manuscript discovered by a secret agent working for the Serpent's Hand in this multi part series with clever formatting, beautiful art, and even more awesome characters.

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-heptateuch-of-eve-hub

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride, Wanderers! 🏳️‍🌈

I'm here to bring you this month's features:

At Tannhäuser Gate by Din Bidor - only access these memory logs if you're ready for an amazing cyberpunk gay romance tragedy. Din Bidor hits us yet again with another stunning piece of prose https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/at-tannhauser-gate

And if cyberpunk is not your speed, get down in the dirt and dig up some bones with one by one by yours truly, inspired by the thoughts I had as a queer man studying forensic anthropology https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/one-by-one

Sorry Patrons of Reddit, I fell a bit behind porting our features. You can always find the features on our front page, or announced on our Discord as well though!

That out of the way, here are the belated features!

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April Features:

For this month, the two individuals that had the highest scores per team from the Debate Club Contest chose our features!

First, "Mile High" by Fishish and FLOORBOARDS was chosen to be featured by Uncle Nicolini

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/mile-high

Second, "Flamebearer's Elegy" by StrangerSwing was chosen to be featured by ROSIE/meltedbee

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/flamebearer-s-elegy

If y'all haven't checked out these stories, both are worth a good read!

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May Features:

First, "No Flights Out" by Stygian and Snapdragon!

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/no-flights-out

Second, we wanted to bring attention back to a classic gallery page, and we decided to go with "Stay Here, Draw Spaceships" by MAFT .

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/stay-here-draw-spaceships

This month also marks an important landmark, as these are our 99th and 100th features ever! In the entire site's history! Wow! Make sure to check out these lovely stories!

Hello folks! We're doing a trial run of a mentorship program, where experienced authors can help out newcomer authors! Right now we are looking for new and inexperienced authors who are willing to be a part of our trial run. If you'd like to learn more about this opportunity and what all is planned, or would like to sign up, please check out the link below:

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-15826377/wl-mentorship-program:alpha-edition

This is open until May 4th at 11:59 central time.

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Hey, Wanderers!

Today's a big day. On April 18th, 2010, DrMann and Paradox made the forum post announcing their new sister site for the SCP Wiki -- making today our favorite extradimensional library's 13th birthday! The Wanderer's Library is finally a teenager, and we've had a lot of ups and downs along the way. It's been an incredible year for the site full of plenty of changes, events, new staff members, projects, and everything in between, and we'd like to thank all of you for sticking with us and being part of the Library community. Three years ago, an active community of this size for the SCP wiki's rinky-dink sister site would be unfathomable. But here we are!

Like last year, Rounder has written up a State of the Site post (https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-15821658) recapping major events over the last year and sharing our plans for the coming one. You can check that out for a more in-depth analysis of where the site's at and where it's going. You can also leave some birthday wishes there!

We're also doing a nice little event in the Discord: there's now a thread ⁠Happy Birthday, Library! 2023 to share some nice messages about the site, staff, community, and anything in between. What this community means to you, why you love the Library. I know I have plenty of thoughts on that -- I'm sure you do too.

Happy birthday, Library! Here's to 13 more!

Congratulations to TEAM RARE for winning the Debate Contest!

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With 306 points and 14 entries (2 of which were collabs), Team Rare beat out Team Common, who had an extremely respectable 285 points with 18 entries!

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Congrats are also in order for Uncle Nicolini and Rosie/meltedbee for being the top rated for each team, as well as top rated for the con overall! Fantastic job guys.

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We had a good handful of people who qualified for the Critic's Choice Award, but only one could take away the victory! Anyone who's taken a look at the discussion pages for this con probably saw this coming, but I'd like to extend a special congrats to Stygian Blue for winning the Award! Your food analogies made us all hungry.

You can view the final ratings for everyone in the con, along with some fun additional awards, on the contest page here: https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/debate-club-contest

As you may know, the Jailors keep a file on every GoI (including us). We've changed a lot in the past years, so we took the liberty to help out the Jailors just this once. Check out the new WL Hub (on scp), with rewriting and new images from yours truly!

See the updates here:

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/wanderers-library-hub

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Some of the new art!

Features? On Time?! You better believe it‼️

For the current month feature, we decided to feature "Kiss Thy Chains" by Piano_WL! https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/kiss-thy-chains

For the past feature, we're delving back into the underworld of Vitalis LLC, with "Stygian Blues" by Maxyfran73! https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/stygian-blues

If you haven't before, please check out these lovely stories.

Another belated post, sorry Wanderers! Here's our featured picks for the month of February.

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For a current story, we chose "Ode to the Professor Who Wore a Dinosaur Costume to Work" by Stygian Blue for writing a wonderful poem that really captures the spirit of the Library (https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/ode-to-the-day-the-professor-wore-a-dinosaur-costume-to-work)

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And for a past work, we decided to revisit Last Light and feature Samudra Manthana by OriCat. We know people in here like soup, so eat up! (https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/samudra-manthana)

The sign up for this contest is closed already, sorry for the delay in announcing this here, Wanderers! You can still help out this contest though by reading entries when they're posted, commenting, and keeping an eye on our main forums where things are announced first and foremost!

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Disagreements have been rumbling through the Library. Two opposing concepts are the focus. Which makes the better story? Research papers are written with intent of battle, treatises are fired across the trenches, and words are smelted into proverbial swords. Librarians whisper to each other about the merits of either side, their memories of repositories of millions of books aiding in their ideation, but with near-infinite stories there are near-infinite arguments to be made. A decision must be made, a consensus reached. A new door has appeared in the middle of the Main Hall, leading to an area deep within the Library. A long hallway, the end imperceptible, lies beyond the door. Grandstands line both sides of the hall, towering high up into the Rafters, but instead of seating there are podiums shaped for every size and shape of Wanderer. The time for the Debate Club to reconvene has come.

Theme: Common vs Rare

Breakfast on an overcast morning, the change in your pocket, fast food, that graffiti you pass on the way back home, a global pandemic, the air in your lungs. Proponents of Commonality believe beauty is found in what is taken for granted. A normal life can hold so many stories. What makes up one's life, the few and far between fantastic moments or the much larger majority of consistent, average days? What do we share as individuals, as groups, as people? What is completely normal for one but bizarre for the other? These are just a few of the many essences of Common.

A star-filled sky, a new sensation, a discovered species of salamander, a bloody steak, an unprecedented disaster, a soul. Proponents of Rareness believe that a great story focuses on the unbeaten path, the uncommon experience. What moments do someone hold deep in their heart, never to forget? An abnormal experience can change an entire outlook on life. What makes up one's life, the many forgettable days or the moments that define a personality? What makes something unlike any other thing? What drives a man to act like he wouldn't? These are just a few of the many essences of Rare.

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Check out our latest contest here!

https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/debate-club-contest