Meet the Butterfly Squad!
The Butterfly Squad is a group of individuals (staff, veteran authors, longtime experienced reviewers) dedicated to combing through your drafts to pick all the nits, correct your tone, and make sure your article is looking its Sunday Best before mainlisting.
Though we all are experts of the basics for what makes a successful site author, each of us has our own specializations and skillsets for the different kinds of writing you see on the wiki. Using this page, you will hopefully be able to receive crit from a butterfly who is best suited for your particular draft.
GUIDELINES FOR CONTACTING US
εїз Please include a link to a forum thread, not just a sandbox.
εїз Please make sure to read through our individual profiles to find the best critter for you.
εїз If someone doesn't reply promptly, please don't spam their inbox asking why they haven't replied.
εїз Please make sure your draft is as complete and polished as possible before messaging us.
εїз Forum Crit members may decline to review a draft when the basics are not met.
εїз Please be polite! (We're unpaid volunteers here.)
Best of luck, and remember:
εїз εїз εїз All your draft are critique by us. εїз εїз εїз
Waiting for an answer?
Waiting for a reply from a critter? Why not take a look at this super helpful collection of essays in the meantime? Who knows, they might just have information you needed!
εїз Basic SCP Writing Help
εїз Helpful Information
εїз Syntax/Formatting Help
εїз Style Resource
A Random Day ~
Callsign: Brown Recluse
Moderator: Community Outreach Captain
Chat Nick: ARD ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: IRC ~ Response Time: Fast
Will Crit: SCPs
Strengths: Comedy, horror, action, clinical tone, prose
Likes: Short articles, articles with interesting containment procedures, articles without collapsibles
Captain Kirby ~
Callsign: Question Mark
Operational Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: CaptainKirby ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: ~ Response Time: Medium
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GOI Formats
Strengths: Structural critique regarding narrative-heavy articles, characterization, endings
Likes: Narrative heavy articles, character driven stories, pieces that do not revolve around site lore
DarkStuff ~
Callsign: Garden Tiger Moth
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: DarkStuff ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: IRC ~ Response Time: Fast
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats, anything else~!
Strengths: Line-by-lines, characterization, tales, horror (I think), dialogue (I also think). Creator of WWS so will always read those; fairly knowledgeable on Wondertainment.
Likes: Incomprehensible, nonsensical, abstract horror / concepts in general. I also really like cute and wholesome things. I also have different standards for what is considered a "long" or "short" article (all lengths probably fine).
DrCaroll ~
Callsign: Silver-Spotted Skipper
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: Caroll ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Medium
Will Crit: Any and all types of articles!
Strengths: Imagery, clinical tone, endings/conclusions, grammar
Likes: Short articles, GoI formats
fieldstone ~
Callsign: Pipevine Swallowtail
Operational Staff: Forum Crit/Community Outreach
Chat Nick: fieldstone ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Slow
Will Crit: Tales, SCPs, anything else
Strengths: Story structure, clinical tone
Likes: Horror, surrealist horror, weird horror, noir horror, sci-fi horror, dystopian horror, fantasy horror
Gabriel Jade ~
Callsign: Purple Emperor
Junior Staff:
Chat Nick: Gabriel Jade ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Medium (within 5 days)
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Clinical Tone, prose, dialogue, characterization
Likes: Strange anomalies, absurd/silly stuff, historical themes, fantasy themes
Jacob Conwell ~
Callsign: Oregon Swallowtail
Moderator: Wikiwalk Captain, Site Crit Member
Chat Nick: Conwell ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Slow
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Characterization, narrative arcs/tale series, plot weaving, Anderson Robotics articles, prose, Those Twisted Pines canon.
Likes: Urban Fantasy and Science Fiction genre anomalies. Three Portlands articles and tales. Short to medium length articles preffered.
LadyKatie ~
Callsign: Cairns Birdwing
Operational Staff: Internet Outreach/Forum Crit
Chat Nick: LadyKatie ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: IRC ~ Response Time: Medium
Will Crit: Tales, GoI formats
Strengths: Tales and INT GOIs, mechanics and grammar
Likes: Fun pieces that don't take themselves too seriously, trying to tell their story in their way
Leveritas ~
Callsign: Crimson Spotted Forester
Moderator: Forum Crit/Rewrite
Chat Nick: Leveritas ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Fast
Will Crit: SCPs
Strengths: Clinical tone, line-by-line, Containment Procedures, overall concept.
Likes: Narrative, psychological horror, authors that check their grammar before approaching me.
Modern_Erasmus ~
Callsign: Blue Morpho
Moderator: Rewrite and Internet Outreach Captain
Chat Nick: Modern_Erasmus ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Medium
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Idea, Concept, and outline critique.
Likes: Anything related to history, mythology, or exploration.
Pedantique ~
Callsign: Summer Azure
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: Pedantique ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Medium
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Line-by-line crit, conceptual/narrative review
Likes: General weirdness, drafts medium to long in length
Reverend Fox ~
Callsign: Crimson Rose
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Fast
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales
Strengths: SCP Formatting and layout, SPaG, containment procedures, trainwreck drafts, newbie drafts.
Likes: History, lore, religious and pagan mysticism, the desert, mining, animals, gore, contract-writing, employment/deployment.
RockTeethMothEyes ~
Callsign: Grease Moth
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: RockTeethMothEyes ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Fast (Estimated response: 1-48 hours)
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats (Finished Drafts Only)
Strengths: Proofreading, line-by-line crit, fluff removal/condensing
Likes: Absurd concepts.
Roget ~
Callsign: Bombardier Beetle
Administrator: Gretzky of SCP Writing
Chat Nick: Roget/Bananaman~ Accepts Crit Requests: Anytime
Preferred Contact: WikiDot PM, #thecritters ~ Response Time: Slow
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: SCP structure, brainstorming for ideas and drafts, determining if a draft has legs, world history, SCP universe expert, finding that missing piece that will complete the making-your-article-work puzzle.
Likes: Well-written containment procedures, short-and-sweet SCPs and small-batch bourbon whiskey.
Shanor ~
Callsign: Anna's Eighty-Eight
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: NA ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Fast (up to 24 hour wait).
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Conceptual Critique, newbie articles, narrative and backstory
Likes: Short snappy articles, allegorical articles, story-focused ideas
sirpudding ~
Callsign: Snowberry Clearwing
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: N/A ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Medium (within 5 days)
Will Crit: SCP, Tales, GOI formats, poems, but not most -J articles.
Strengths: MTF focused stuff, fairly technical stuff, mythological stuff, and stuff that takes some research to develop
Likes: Thinky pieces and stuff aimed at verisimilitude. SPC formats, 3rd Law, and stuff with Tau-5 or Omega-Zero
Stallmantic ~
Callsign: Zebra Swallowtail
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: Stallmantic ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: IRC or Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Fast (up to 24 hour wait).
Will Crit: Tales, SCPs, GoI Formats
Strengths: Line-by-line, grammar and spellchecking, idea workshopping, narrative critiquing, Fifthism, comedy
Likes: Tales, anything weird, SCPs that have an interesting anomaly, consistent internal logic, silly things, joke articles
Taffeta ~
Callsign: Blue Triangle
Moderator: Disciplinary, Forum Crit and Tech Team Staff
Chat Nick: ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: IRC/Wikidot PM/Messenger Pigeon ~ Response Time: Medium (Feel free to shoot me a reminder PM if a week has passed without response. I am busy, small and tired.)
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Prose, brevity, making things weird.
Likes: Things that are stranger, things that are shorter.
taylor_itkin ~
Callsign: Tailed Jay
Operational Staff: Forum Crit/Community Outreach/Internet Outreach/Chat Staff
Chat Nick: taylor_itkin/taylor_iOStkin/taylor_critkin ~ Accepts Crit Requests Sometimes
Preferred Contact: IRC or Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Slow
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales
Strengths: New-author articles, clinical tone, dialogue, character development
Likes: Short articles, unique anomalies, music/musical anomalies, guitars, horror articles
The Great Hippo ~
Callsign: Glasswing Butterfly
Junior Staff: Forum Crit
Chat Nick: Hippo ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: IRC or Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Slow
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Clarity, brevity, tone, and narrative structure; fairly decent with dialogue and characters, too.
Likes: Restraint, verisimilitude, and strong, bold prose. Pieces that achieve a lot with very little.
TheMightyMcB ~
Callsign: Tarantula Hawk
Junior Staff: Forum Crit Team
Chat Nick: N/A ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Fast (generally within 24 hours)
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales (seldomly)
Strengths: Brainstorming, line-by-line, scientific literacy, fluff/prose removal, US history, potpourri knowledge, grammar and spelling, clinical tone.
Likes: WTF articles, fridge horror, interesting subversions, comedy, psychological/body horror, obscure historical references, accurate science.
Uncle Nicolini ~
Callsign: Common Buckeye
Junior Staff: Community Outreach/ Forum Crit
Chat Nick: unclenicolini ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: IRC ~ Response Time: Medium
Will Crit: SCPs, Tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Newbie articles, clinical tone, trainwreck drafts, GoI expert
Likes: Whimsical oddities and bizarre combinations of things.
UraniumEmpire ~
Callsign: Amazonian Giant Centipede
Junior Staff: Community Outreach, Forum Crit
Chat Nick: gumbal1 ~ Accepts Crit Requests
Preferred Contact: IRC/Private messages ~ Response Time: Fast
Will Crit: SCPs, Standalone tales, GoI Formats
Strengths: Black comedy, psychological horror, dialogue, characterization
Likes: Arthropods, worms, sympathetic abominations, horror based around an increasing loss of comprehension.
Zyn ~
Callsign: Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
Administrator: Forum Crit Captain
Chat Nick: Zyn ~ Accepts Crit Requests on WEDNESDAY through SUNDAY
Preferred Contact: Wikidot PM ~ Response Time: Fast (depends on admin duties)
Will Crit: Any type of draft, within reason. No drafts over 4000 words, please.
Strengths: Clinical tone, unusual containment procedures, emotional articles, narrative and backstory
Likes: Short snappy articles, fantasy-genre anomalies, heartwarming-not-horror
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