Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day.

So… basically SCP Foundation fanfic gone solo?

Which makes it sound so much worse than it is. It’s really an absolutely bundle of fascinating ideas, a nice heap of existential dread, and an at times rough/how in the world are we getting out of this one plot.

I enjoyed it.

In a nutshell, we have a mysterious secret society that is dealing with the supernatural and just plain unexplainable parts of the world.

One part of that, we have a Meme division–those that deal with viral ideas. Ideas that can spread themselves and do terrible things.

Which would be weird and bad enough–except this book is about antimemes. Those viral ideas that you cannot remember. That make you forget things. Like their very existence. The existence of your job, your department. Your own history.

Things you can only really see–or even consider the existence of–through the holes they sometimes leave behind.

Yourself.

But if we have learned nothing else, we have learned this: humans can walk away from, and forget, anything. Civilization can go back to ’normal’ after anything.

Like I said, it’s a fascinating bit of worldbuilding and lore. I’ve always loved SCP style stuff.

It just gets really big, really fast. It really felt like the world was ending and we’re just living through it. I’m not entirely sure the ending pulled it off, but oh was it a fun ride along the way.

If you know it exists, it knows you exist. The more you know about it, the more it knows about you. If you can see it, it can see you. And you can see it. You’ve been looking right at it all afternoon.