041: A guy in a coma who broadcasts other people's thoughts to the minds of others. Not sure how I feel about this one. Kinda unfinished-feeling, also vaguely ableist but I can't pinpoint why I feel that beyond "I don't trust S1 SCP articles about disabled people to not be ableist." It's fine, I guess. -0
042: A pegasus with its wings ripped off. This one is just sad. There's not enough intrigue or horror to make the misery worth it, IMO. The "horse girl movie" addendum at the end is honestly the best part, I think the article should be rewritten to focus less on the torture of a miserable animal and more on its desire to fly at all costs. -1
043: A Beatles record that has a ghost in it or something. The article itself is very short and has both a tale and another SCP linked to it, and I'm not reading either of those, so I'm incredibly neutral about this. I guess it's funny that it refuses to answer Beatles questions. +0
044: A super-powerful railgun made by Nazis. Boringggg. -1
045: A 4-dimensional shape made of ice that creates life in salt water. It's strongly implied to have started life on Earth. Neat idea presented as a bit of a brain puzzle to put together over the course of the article, so sorry if I spoiled it for you. It can get a little overly-technical at times, but I can't really fault it for that, and I think it's really cool for what it is. +1
046: A plant that makes people with disorders feel calm and if they lay down in front of the plant they get overgrown by it and die peacefully. Half of the article is dedicated to a "fake" description that emphasizes how evil and scary the plant is, and I don't really get it. It has that S1 crust of "people using SCPs voluntarily and selfishly" that was so popular back in the day. I also don't love how it implies people with chronic pain and trauma (not even specified what kind, just those words) "just want to die peacefully." It just didn't age well in a lot of ways. -1
047: Gas canister that mutates microorganisms and makes superbugs. It's spooky but doesn't have much to make it stand out from other disease SCPs. I'm never a big fan of "someone stole it" plots in articles either. -0
048: A "cursed number" that has been removed from the catalog due to superstition. Stupid, but in a classic way. I think it deserves to be kept as is, for history's sake. Vampyre Boat is still funny to me. +0
049: A plague doctor who operates on living beings to "cure" them of an unknown "Pestilence." This one is one of the real legends, but I've never really cared that much about it. The article got a revamp to make it more modern and fancy, and it's nice and clearly has a ton of love put into it, but the SCP itself is still just not my thing. It mostly just makes me think of high school. +0
050: A monkey statue that is bestowed upon "The Cleverest." It cleans whatever office it's left in, but leaves traps for its owner. The idea is pretty neat, but in practice, it's simply a vehicle for one of the most circlejerk-y pages on the site: the Great Researcher Prank War. I read this whole thing back in the day, and I'm not reading it again. It is so much that I do not like about classic SCP culture, but mainly for petty reasons. Aside from Dr. Bright being the author insert of a really shitty guy, he's not a funny character, and I don't really like any of the popular Researchers from the old days, especially since they're mostly all self-inserts of the most self-important nerds of the site circa 2011. Also, so. Many. Crosslinks. I can forgive a couple of precisely placed crosslinks, especially if they're not necessary to understand the main article. But this is all just "haha look at all these SCPs you know them." I have spoken enough about this article. I don't like it. -1
051: A model of a pregnant woman that makes pregnant women feel a compulsion to take the baby out of it, and that makes them miscarry and/or give birth to a demon. Some real nasty S1 misogyny vibes, plus it's inexplicably Japanese in origin, so it's weirdly racist too. Also, what the fuck is the phrasing of "non-sterile females." Gross. -1
052: A NYC subway train that sends people who board it back in time. Cool idea at first, rapidly devolves into being all about the Foundation instead and then hits you with the Dr. Bright mention at the end with a link to a tale I'm not reading. Ugh. -1
053: A little girl who makes people want to kill her. That's about it. The new image for this article is really weird. That kid is clearly older than 3, for one. And it looks more like a YouTube thumbnail than an article image. The writing has also not held up very well at all. It's one of those articles that's well-known enough to probably never be rewritten, but it could really use one. -1
054: A woman made out of water. The article primarily consists of the Foundation torturing her for no reason. This sucks. -1
055: A "self-keeping secret" that is knowable only by what it's not. This is a real classic, and gets pretty clunky after the main description, but I still have a soft spot for the "not a sphere" conversation. +0
056: An entity that changes to be a superior version of the entity interacting with it in order to cause jealousy. It suffers a little from Male Writer Syndrome but it's too funny for me to hate. The conprocs are weird and dated, as most S1 humanoids are, but the rest is great. +1
057: A chamber full of monoliths that move around until the person in the chamber gets crushed. Has potential as a random weird thing for the catalog, or even a funny game show parody, but the exploration logs feel kinda gross with the extreme distress of the test subjects, and it just ends up being another unnecessary torture SCP. -1
058: A cow's heart, with legs, and sharp tentacles, and a stinger, and it runs around really fast trying to kill people. It's not very interesting and especially combined with the "interview," it feels like the lolrandom of horror. Tales and crosslinks as well, no thanks. -1
059: A radioactive mineral that grows radioactive fungus, and infects people which makes them immune to radiation and also merge with the fungus, and try to spread the fungus. There's a lot going on in here, but none of it is very interesting. It's okay, I guess? +0
060: A grove of trees that, when burned, generates a flaming skeleton that runs really fast. It's not amazing, but it's funny enough that I can't really hate it. I have no idea how funny it was intended to be, but come on, it's a skeleton. +0