Welcome to HFY!!!
This community is for authors to post their HFY themed stories and artists to share HFY themed artwork.
While traditional science fiction often presents humans as vulnerable masses seeking refuge from menacing aliens or as feeble beings overshadowed by aliens with superior logic, strength or empathy. HFY disrupts these archetypes by challenging the norm.
In the world of HFY, humanity is bestowed with exceptional qualities, giving rise to a sense of optimism and empowerment within the reader. It seeks to uplift and inspire, demonstrating the potential of human greatness and the capacity for overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds.
Alternatively, HFY can also serve as a thought-provoking cautionary tale. Emphasizing the significance of power and responsibility that accompanies any remarkable gift or advantage bestowed upon us.
Note: This community is not run by the mod’s of r/HFY from Reddit.
Rules for posting/commenting in this community.
- Only stories and artwork about HFY is allowed. It means your story or artwork should showcase the exceptional qualities of humans.
- If your story does not have a human character, then their defining characteristics should be influenced by humans.
- Content that’s not created by you, should be posted only with the permission of the original author/creator.
- Please dont copy content without properly crediting original author by including a link to the original post. In case the original author is not clear, atleast include a link to the original post.
- Promoting hatred in posts/comments will not be tolerated. Let’s all be decent human beings.
- Please be kind to first time authors in comments. Help them correct their mistakes and provide constructive criticism.
- Do not share links to external stories/artwork directly as posts. A seperate featured post is created for the same. Post your links in this thread. Links only posts should be in this thread.
Copying posts from HFY subreddit is allowed provided the following conditions are met:
- Posts that are tagged Text can be copied directly.
- Posts that are tagged OC can only be copied with the permission of the original author in reddit.
- In both cases, a link to original post should be included.
For posts that are copied from somewhere else, the following rules should be met:
- Make sure to get permission from the original author.
- Add a link to the original post.
This community is created for everyone in the fidiverse to enjoy their favourite genre of science fiction.
For Humans are Space Orcs themed stories, please visit !haso@sh.itjust.works
HASO themed stories/artwork can still be HFY if the humans in the story/artwork insipre the readers or other characters in the story. An example of this is Stellaris Invicta Season 1 - Greater Terran Union
If your story/art showcases how powerful/terrible/intelligent humans are, without any characteristics that seem to uplift or inspire readers or characters in the story, then the story belongs to haso
Out of pure curiosity, have any of you stumbled upon the story Accidental Displacement, that I posted over on Reddit?
Yep love that story.
Thanks! Than really means a lot to me! Just so you know, I will be continuing it in the coming autumn, but it will be reworked heavily.
Awesome. Looking forward to it. 🤩
Yes! Was about to make this myself the other day! So glad to have this over here too just in case!
If you’re looking for mods for this, I’m a former community mod from over there, left because life, and I’d love to hop back in over here.
Yeah, got beat on creating c/HFY by exactly ONE hour. Congrats! And yes, I am no ashamed of spamming my old stories here. Makes me “most upvoted c/HFY clown” for a day or two and gets the bandwaggon rolling.
It’s great to be here! I like this place. And I’ll be posting all my future works here and not on Reddit. I love the community there but there’s no way in hell I’ll be donating content to spez’s IPO.
Same, I will post all my future work here too. Fuck Spez.
2 chapters done, 3rd nearly done, final chapter ~75% done, 27 pages as of writing this (google docs, standard formatting), ~11750 words and still sooo much more to write. Waiting on more feedback from friends as to how it feels, preliminary testing positive. Hope it will be well received, once it is posted.
Please add a short explanation to the rules or somewhere else:
It is not possible to link from Reddit HFY to Lemmy HFY directly due to shadow-filtering. The whole message with the link will be only visible for the creator. Working around with eg https://lemmy(dot)world/post/94994 though works as long as the user edits the link while copying it.
What should we do about reposting stories where the author’s Reddit account was also deleted and you do not know where to find them again to ask permission? I know two old and golden stories that have backups on the Wayback Machine I’d like to post where the author deleted their account and the stories are gone too (perhaps they were banned from Reddit?).
@Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world, pinging you because I’m unsure if all mods will get a notification if I reply to this post or not and you are the only mod I know to be active.
You are correct to be careful with copyrightes content - and for simplicity we should treat “everything as copyrighted as long as not stated officially otherwise”.
Content out of copyright or free to distribute is always welcome as long as its creator is marked correctly. I have done that with “A pail of Air” on Lemmy and Reddit in the past (https://lemmy.world/post/4616294).
Links to external content is appreciated if done right: Either post it in https://lemmy.world/post/121582 if it is just a single link (please still add a short description) or create a new topic if it is a collection of links.
Linking to archive.org is totally OK.
Yeah, I realized some of my “hey look they moved to RoyalRoad!” announcements probably should have gone in the External Links thread after checking the rules a bit ago. Sorry about that. Something something Kbin not handling posts that weren’t originally federated to it well (I know of Lemmy’s “paste the URL to force-fetch the post” solution, don’t think it works on Kbin right now. But perhaps they updated Kbin and it does…). At the time I made some of those posts I think I literally could not post on the External Links thread without using a Lemmy account instead of my Kbin one, so I just made a separate post. But I could be misremembering the timeline on this and just have violated the rules when it was possible to follow them and still post on External Links. Won’t happen again.
Can I just have a plain “yes” or “no” on reposting deleted content from authors who also deleted their account?
I will be bringing my stuff over here too (once it has been rewritten/reworked), but does this thread work with fantasy as well? Seem to remeber that it was allowed in r/hfy and have had a huge insperation for a storie that is more fantasybased.
Yes, fantasy is allowed too. As long as it has humans of course. I read your WIP story. It was good. Looking forward to more stories.
Any and all genres are welcome! I, for one, was always craving more fantasy content over there, but they have a very sci-fi lean because of their origins so it was usually difficult to find.
Excited to see HFY in the Fidiverse.
What are your thoughts on trying to implement a bigger tag system if/when Lemmy gets one? I remember a meta post discussing it on Reddit.
I, admittedly, don’t remember that much of it, but I do remember feeling like it boiled down to a combination of “we tried before” and “we’re too old a community to be adding big new things”
Of course, it should include the basic “required” flairs (OC, meta, text (rename?)), but I think a series, oneshot, and maybe in-universe or episode 1 tags would be a good basic minimum to add.
Maybe proper genre tags could be voted on by commentors rather than relying on every poster actually using them or correctly identifying all relevant genres.
Honestly, if we can somehow make a bot for that and have it working early, I don’t see why we couldn’t. Make it a poll that closes after 24/48 hours that then autosorts them into the genre in a wiki of some variety.
I’m all for it, but I’m not even remotely proficient at that stuff though so someone smarter than I would need to figure out that problem.
Edit: just remembered I was part of the mod team at that time. We were talking about 10s of thousands of posts, a lot of which were archived, that we would need to go back through and we didn’t have the manpower for something like that. If we do it from the get go it should work fairly well.
I’m down to try my hand at making the bot, but I’ve never maintained one of my projects before. In fact, most of my projects have been those pick up for a couple months and then drop it with the “plan” to pick it back up later.
Long story short, I’ll give it a try but someone else should probably take over at some point.
Can we get SpacePaladin to start posting here?
You’ll have to ask them yourself. We’re not looking to spam the subreddit with ads for this place though, just be a potential landing site for if Reddit crumbles and authors are looking for a centralized home to post to.
Or, write your own! Best part about being part of something new like this is you can add your own stories and have them almost guaranteed to be read.
Would be awesome if he starts to post here. I don’t want to spam other sites like reddit to get people here. Will maintain this community as a focal point in fidiverse for people like us who love HFY to share and consume hfy content.
Maybe once we are a bigger community we can ask him to start posting here.
Pls add some explanaition about the difference between HumansAreSpaceOrcs/HWTF and HFY. I don’t mind HumansAreSpaceOrcs/HWTF sometimes but overall I don’t think/like seeing them being seen as an accepted part of HFY. Treat them as the weird uncle who you keep away from the kids and neighbours.
Updated the post!!!
How about allowing links to external HFY stories, so we can link good stories from people not yet posting here?
At least for the time being until people start posting their own stories here.
Maybe in an “low hanging fruits” topic so we don’t get a gadzillion posts with one single Link inside.
It is a fickle decision though as it could move c/HFY away from what made r/HFY popular. But then in my humble opinion at least the “low hanging fruits” topic shouldn’t hurt anyone for a while.
We could create a featured post, where people can share external links to good HFY stories.
sounds lovely.
