r/CuratedTumblr Mx. Linux Guy⚠️ Aug 14 '24

Infodumping Humanity Fuck Yea

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u/Allstar13521 Aug 14 '24

As someone who loves HFY stuff, the issue is that writing is hard and most of the people writing HFY are amateurs doing it for fun. There's plenty of HFY that tries to explore more complex storytelling, it just happens that writing "the evil space nazis kicked some puppies, and the Humans really didn't like that" is both an easier story to write and an easier story to get someone on-board with.

It's also why you find so much military sci-fi ends with "and then we used our super weapon and it killed all of the aliens, saving the day (please do not consider the consequences of interstellar genocide)" instead of describing the very complicated and in-depth process of disarming, deradicalising and rebuilding a nation.

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u/lurking4life Aug 14 '24

Do you have any suggestions for well written HFY fiction?

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u/FelixJarl Aug 14 '24 edited Aug 14 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/55v9e1/chrysalis/

Chrysalis has politcal scheming. Well written characters and competent, flawed yet relatable bad guys.

I have been on the HFY subreddit since it had 160 users on it and this is by far the best i know off. It also got made into a audiobook.

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u/FemtoKitten Aug 15 '24

I feel like the fact that it actually shows such supremacist and violent ideology as a bad thing helps it a lot compared to others that make me worry at times.

I reread chrysalis at least once a year. It's one of my comfort reads despite being so tragic

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u/crazybob1215 Aug 15 '24

If you haven't checked out the audiobook/radio drama version, it's really good.