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.

  1. Only stories and artwork about HFY is allowed. It means your story or artwork should showcase the exceptional qualities of humans.
  2. If your story does not have a human character, then their defining characteristics should be influenced by humans.
  3. Content that’s not created by you, should be posted only with the permission of the original author/creator.
  4. 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.
  5. Promoting hatred in posts/comments will not be tolerated. Let’s all be decent human beings.
  6. Please be kind to first time authors in comments. Help them correct their mistakes and provide constructive criticism.
  7. 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:

  1. Posts that are tagged Text can be copied directly.
  2. Posts that are tagged OC can only be copied with the permission of the original author in reddit.
  3. 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:

  1. Make sure to get permission from the original author.
  2. 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 [email protected]

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

  • Elevator7009
    2•7 months ago

    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?).

    @[email protected], 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.

    • Crass SpektakelMEnglish
      0•7 months ago

      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.

      • Elevator7009
        1•7 months ago

        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?