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[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reading this I start to miss r/HFY again

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Humans being the goofy, weird, but kind-hearted cro-magnons of the galaxy/universe is one of my favorite tropes.

Edit: if you want the exact opposite, try They Are Smol. It's an sci-fi, hfy-parody shitpost. Humans have just as much of a instinct for ultra-violence as the other sapient species of the galaxy, if not moreso. However, humans are about half the size and possess about a quarter of the agility, speed and strength of their Dorarizin (big space wolves), Karnakian (big space raptors) and Jornissian (big XCOM vipers) counterparts.

This means humans are utterly adorable and basically seen as cats if cats were intelligent apes.

It also makes everyone else very concerned that humanity's first response is to fuck things, and our second response is to fuck things. They're concerned about our lack of counterbalace (aka a tail) and think we look very wobbly and clumsy. Finally, they're very concerned about the fact that the entirety of the human race falls into the margin of error for the galactic census, which means that, like cats, they baby humans as much as they can without offending people.

They're also very amused (and sometimes very disturbed) by the fact that humans have a significantly higher penis-to-body ratio (still smaller than the aliens, but an alien-sized human would have a ridiculously large penis in comparison) and have a desire to fuck anything that moves (and yes, there is official interspecies smut on the author's patreon lmao).

I love this series so much.

There's also a more serious companion detective series by Frank Leroux (rip :c) called The Smol Detective (he also wrote some other, shorter Smolverse series as well as a standalone series called The Adventures of Iron Hu-man). It's absolutely phenomenal.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

That sounds great, thank you!

[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Me too :(

Is there an active one on the fediverse? Id contribute but I can barely write my name.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] Caesium@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I might have to consider starting up my own story or something. I've had the base of an idea rolling around but haven't gotten much farther than that

[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Do it. I'll be your first up vote.

[-] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, if one is so inclined,the Jenkinsverse is well worth the read.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/ref/universes/jenkinsverse/

this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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