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Elenee FishTruck

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Official portrait, 2021

Licensing Team Captain

In Office

April 16, 2022 - Present

SCP Foundation Wiki Moderator

In Office

March 4, 2020 - Present

Licensing Team, Images Sub-Team

In Office

February 22, 2019 - Present

Community Outreach Team

In Office

September 8th, 2019 - Present

SCPDeclassified Discord Moderator

In Office

May 7, 2020 - Present

Personal Details

Joined May 8, 2018
Occupation Author • Moderator
Notable Works SCP-6999, SCP-6150, I, Hub, SCP-173 Redesign Collab, among others
Language English

"Elenee", "FishTruck", "Elle", "LNE", and "Licensehower" redirect here. For the Licensing Team as a whole, see the Licensing Team Hub. For other uses, see Eisenhower (disambiguation).

Elenee "Licensehower" FishTruck is an SCP Foundation Wiki author who serves as captain of the Licensing Team and a wiki moderator for the Images Sub-Team and Community Outreach Team. FishTruck first joined the wiki in 2018 and, after unsuccessfully coldposting an SCP article about a Confederate solider's ghost stuck inside a rifle1, found relatively more success coldposting tales about SCP-1233 - Moon Champion. FishTruck would remain active throughout late 2018 and early 2019 before spontaneously parenting around 600 pages on February 20, 20192.

While this caused wiki staff to initially ban FishTruck for vandalism, she served her sentence by sourcing previously deleted images by faminepulse, thus convincing staff to reduce her ban by time served (2 days). FishTruck led the Images Sub-Team in sourcing, removing, and replacing the immense backlog of unsourced images on the wiki, along with leading several Community Outreach initiatives such as the Art Exchange and Gears Day. This led to a drastic decrease in her authorial output throughout 2019 and most of 2020. However, FishTruck would start her consistent writing again mid-2020 with Numerus's publishing.

Her writing generally displays a minimalist style, focused on emotional evocation and implications rather than plot. Her highest-rated work, SCP-6999 - Nearer, My God, To Thee, initially led the SCP-6000 Contest before its usurpation by the eventual winner.

Writing

SCP-CC BY-SA 3.0 - CC-Complant

Main Article: SCP-CC BY-SA 3.0

SCP-CC BY-SA 3.0 has been variously described as a "cry for help" and "why". FishTruck's convictions to write a licensing-themed article stretched back to the start of her Images career, without the proper idea for its execution. When, as with most April Fools ceremonies, April Fools 2020 was being organized the day before, FishTruck wrote most of the plant-based derivative versions of existing wiki articles and wanted to write an original plant-based article for the event. While she cannot remember whether the title's pun came before or after the article's conception, the actual content came together within a few hours, a theme shared by her later articles.

The plant depicted in the image is not actually a Dudleya greenei, as the image has changed various times throughout the article's life and the species has not remained consistent. The original draft did depict a Dudleya greenei, however.

Numerus

Main Article: Numerus

FishTruck had wanted to write an article for the Project Thaumiel series after the suggestion of an anonymous staff member some months previous. Her initial draft for a Project Thaumiel tale on qntm's Proposal depicted multiple universes, all clamoring for SCP-001. However, she did not finish this draft, thinking it too long for the series. Months later, when UraniumEmpire asked FishTruck to write a prompt for August's Underread and Underrated entry, FishTruck chose Project Thaumiel as the prompt's subject. Inspired by her own prompt, and perhaps to kick-start the prompt's success, FishTruck thought up a new approach for the old draft, the one seen in the current article. Her article inspired numerous other authors to write Project Thaumiel tales, creating a second series beyond TroyL's original few.

The reference to Stimson in the article refers to Doctor Ronald Stimson, a fake author avatar and featured character in other Project Thaumiel tales, including Pila which Numerus takes heavy inspiration from.

PEAK

Main Article: PEAK

PEAK came about as a confluence of several inspirational factors: constrained snowball poems by the French writing collective Oulipo, Mt. Everest growing 2 feet taller3, and Rounderhouse's SCP-5140 (focused on the eponymous mountain). An open writing prompt in English class stormed these concepts together, and FishTruck composed the poem in about an hour. The article originally had snowy CSS deemed non-compliant with CSS policy, but stormbreath and EstrellaYoshte fixed the Christmas Theme to allow a variant without the Christmas decorations, just the snowfall GIF.

The final image depicts a famous victim of Mt. Everest, posthumously named Green Boots, cropped to remove his eponymous boots.

Fata Morgana

Main Article: Fata Morgana

The Scavenger Hunt Contest, a derivative of the wiki's several Jamcons, on the Wanderers' Library, began with the theme "FORGOTTEN CITIES", spurring the most entries out of any theme in the contest. This theme inspired FishTruck, an avid fan of Italian author Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, and she decided to write an entry for the theme. The resultant tale used a variety of influences, including the lost Ross Expedition (which the article directly references with the HMS Erebus) and Belgian painter René Magritte's The Castle of the Pyrenees, which influenced the city-ship's stone composition. The image displays not the HMS Erebus but the wrecked ship Endurance. As with previous articles, Fata Morgana took only a few hours to write and post.

FishTruck originally intended Fata Morgana as the first in a series of tales for the Scavenger Hunt Contest, but did not have the time to produce the remaining tales.

Prelude: First Bell

Main Article: Prelude: First Bell

While originally not counted as one of FishTruck's works, she later requested and received rewrite credentials after circumstances left the article's original author unavailable4 This article represents one of FishTruck's initial excursions into image manipulation, one of several images created as replacements for the previously-mentioned anonymous author's works in early 2020. FishTruck has allowed others to create a better replacement, but none have thus far offered their services.

The tale's original iteration by the anonymous author only featured a faux yearbook quote, without Digiwizzard's image for SCP-1833. Only after feedback in the discussion page was the original image added.

I, Hub

Main Article: I, Hub

On Feb. 20, 2021, then otherwise-unpublished author Machen2 released I, 682, consisting only of the sentence "I did not like being stuck in an acid bath." Although Machen2 had not then finished the intended article, the userbase, particularly the SCPDeclassified Discord, did not know this, and treated it as a modern The Death of Alto Clef until the article's eventual deletion. For April Fool's Day that same year, JakdragonX released a tale also titled "I, 682" with similarly laconic content. From here, FishTruck decided to write, potentially based an an off-hand joke by Harry Blank, "I, Acidbath", constructing the vignette in twenty minutes. Limeyy subsequently released "I, Researcher", riffing off "I, Acidbath" and further personifying SCP-682's containment facility and containment. These three tales necessitated an "I, Collapsible" underneath each tale, linking to all other tales in the series. As other authors joined in with the series, releasing 27+ individual articles which filled that day's posted content, FishTruck created I, Hub to better link all related-articles, including a separate story under a collapsible which, ironically, is longer than all the other vignettes contained on the hub.

As the posting grew out of control and new I, Hub-related articles began to dip into the negatives, FishTruck began messaging all I, Hub-affiliated authors, requesting they delete their I, Hub article and post the text on the hub, leaving I, Hub the only remaining evidence of the April Fool's trend. All authors save Ihp (whose I, Ihp may still be read) agreed5, and FishTruck edited I, Hub to include collapsibles with vignette contents rather than links to individual articles.

The reference to "shrieks" on the hub refer to a now-deleted tale by Vezaz on SCP-682 and the behavior of an anonymous author.6

37 Rat Movies Starring Lana Neal

Main Article: 37 Rat Movies Starring Lana Neal

Upon the Creck Fection Contest 2's announcement, FishTruck knew she had to write an article for the prompt title, considering herself a fan of Jerma985 and Kalinin's SCP-1229. FishTruck sought to balance comedy and subtle horror in the article, though the tale itself has received limited attention due to the flurry of content posted on April Fools that year, spurred by the contest and I, Hub. The current article matches the draft almost exactly, excluding one table removed for pacing purposes. FishTruck intended the dates to align with the onset of Jerma985's streaming career.

The only reason FishTruck included Stick Stickly was to fulfill the "include a character from a different work of fiction" rule for "eXplained" Creck Fiction Contest articles, particularly for obscurity. FishTruck did not know Stick Stickly existed prior to starting the draft.

SCP-5709 - In Heaven a spirit doth dwell

Main Article: SCP-5709

FishTruck had long wanted to write a Department of Abnormalities article, particularly after the initial trend of articles which arose after AbsentmindedNihilist's SCP-5832. However, FishTruck lacked the precise idea for an aspect of SCP Foundation Wiki lore to touch upon until considering the combination of qntm's SCP-055 and scroton's and Sophia Light's SCP-579, known to cause a universal reset.789 FishTruck received further inspiration from a post by S D Locke on SCP-579's discussion page, interpreting the anomaly as an "undeniably religious figure".

After researching Islamic Eschatology and the angel directly referenced in SCP-579 (Israfil), FishTruck constructed the first draft mentally while taking a standardized test, and transcribed the text later that day. She further included a reference to the Department of Tactical Theology with encouragement from Yossipossi, and an initial note in a lockbox reading "Wasted one of the four. Try harder next time. So much for round peg," per suggestion from djkaktus. Only upon further criticism from A Random Day did FishTruck remove the note and replace the Object Class with "Israfil", thus making the connection to the angel and, consequently, SCP-579 much clearer. While FishTruck considers SCP-5709 a first step towards continuous SCP writing, she considers it among her lesser articles due to the SCP's dependence upon site lore and eschatology to make sense.

The article's title takes from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe titled "Israfel", concerning the eponymous angel.10

SCP-6999 - Nearer, My God, To Thee

Main Article: SCP-6999

FishTruck knew she wanted to write an entry for the SCP-6000 Contest, but had trouble nailing down an idea she both found promising and executable. Ideas prior to SCP-6999 included a hunting trip conducted by the SCP Foundation Administrator in a snowy pocket dimension and a document listing several forms of amnestics, taking place in a universe where amnestics never existed. FishTruck eventually abandoned both ideas and, by the last day before posting opened, had no plan for the contest but still wanted to submit an entry.

Wanting more horror-based inspiration, FishTruck browsed the r/truecreepy subreddit and found a post on the Turner Doomsday Video11, a tape CNN intends to broadcast at the end of the world, depicting several US military bands performing "Nearer, My God, to Thee". The idea of a Foundation doomsday contingency to comfort humanity immediately appealed to FishTruck, who attempted to write a draft regarding several such contingencies, what would later turn into SCP-6999 only one part of the protocol. Eventually, FishTruck decided only focusing on SCP-6999 (the most immediately striking of the contingencies) and only implying the others through Project AISA formed a more cohesive article. Thus, SCP-6999 transitioned from a horror/unnerving article to a more wholesome/tragic article. Another scrapped aspect includes a name for the broadcast towers designed to transmit SCP-6999, named "Jacob's Ladders" in-reference to the hymn's subject matter (Jacob's dream of a ladder beset by angels ascending and descending).

The article during its first draft largely resembles the current article, with two key differences: the email framework and the audio file. The former came by suggestion from Rex Atlas, who critiqued the article and found it lacked a completely satisfying conclusion. The latter arose out of necessity; FishTruck always wanted an audio file, but couldn't find suitable cc-compliant performances of "Nearer, My God, to Thee". Only one hour before posting, FishTruck managed to find the recording by Conway's Band. FishTruck had no preconceptions of success, which made the sudden growth and accumulation of +100 in 12 hours pleasantly surprising. The article would lead the contest for a couple days before its usurpation by Rounderhouse's SCP-6000, eventually ending up in 5th place. FishTruck theorizes the article derived its initial popularity from its welcoming shortness, compared to the much longer entries also posted on the first night.

Project AISA's name derives from the Greek name of one of the Fates in Greco-Roman mythology, particularly the one responsible for decided one's death.

SCP-6150 - Voskhod 3

Main Article: SCP-6150

Upon TheYeIIowDucK's initial iteration releasing, the concept and structure proved promising to FishTruck. The original particularly appealed to FishTruck due to its tone, which struck FishTruck as similar to S D Locke's SCP-4910. FishTruck worked with Tufto in conceptualizing the rewrite, with Tufto considering the ending not inexplicable or mysterious enough12 Thus, rather than containing an implied alien entity as with the original version13, FishTruck conceptualized the space inside the probe as an attractant for Lost Cosmonauts, the dead bodies eventually drifting to that space. The first draft differs little from the current version in the Special Containment Procedures and Description, but the ending Addendum initially consisted of one sentence, implying that the interior of the probe was a portion of space through text. GremlinGroup suggested creating images to visually show the cosmonauts' predicament, rather than use text, which spurred FishTruck to create the ending as it appears today.

The suit in SCP-6150's final image is an actual Russian spacesuit, released into space14.

Sole Singularity: The Works of Cyren Pligmolon

Main Article: Sole Singularity
Further Information: The Totem In Air and Stratosphere

For some time before WanderCon officially dropped, rumors had spread regarding a Wanderers' Library team contest, which FishTruck wanted to participate in. The contest's theme inspired her to create a persona based off one of her favorite authors, W. G. Sebald, particularly his novel The Rings of Saturn. FishTruck solicited authors from a groupchat she frequented to form the "But man is a Noble Animal" team, using a quote from Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial as the title. The team initially fleshed out the conceptual backbone of the author's work, the technological singularity premise and authorial style, and Limeyy posted the well-received I Cannot Recall my First Thought, but efforts slowed for some weeks afterward. Only during the last week of posting did Limeyy encourage the remaining team members to finish their works, and FishTruck, R4_EX, and jakdragonx-rage-collection JakdragonX finished their corresponding works.

The Totem In Air focuses on one of the initial concepts created for the series, the Bridge. FishTruck focused all her creative faculties to write the tale within only an hour, and spent another hour writing the second tale, Stratosphere. Both works received little critique before posting, a minor regret of FishTruck's, but the team went on to win the contest, bringing much joy to the team's members.

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