I had never paid much attention to poetry, art and fiction. It was when I started to explore without his guiding hand that I started to find the positives. Asshole. Why would they do that? I asked, to make conversation as I prepared the official forms. More great storytelling, thanks again for writing it! Ugly motherfuckers.. to the breakdown of the Roman empire in Late . I don't make anything from, nor do I have any control over the ads that Royal Road runs. Ideally, it should mean a simple 12 pageloads for a day per new thread, and it does not re-download images, so the load should be negligible. oh man and here i thought my weekend would be gaming and now i see spellgun got 8 new chapters and prey 3 is out and oh my oh my. It has arrived!!! I have to think that you, as a contributor, have more sway than a random internet plebe theyve already decided to shit on. Classics; Must Read; Previously Featured; Old School Text Posts; Library of Published Works I looked at Jenkins, surprised. New stories, space dragons, kickarse tales, More of humans being the cutest race in the galaxy, and exploiting the hell out of it, /tg/ asks how well Lex Luthor would do in anon's setting of choice, and /tg/ explains why people from capeshit are bullshit. I ripped the data from the storage and attached it to the recording. A human who could fly without wings, and who was impossibly strong and utterly impervious to all attempts to harm him. Seems it already exists here, but with a less than optimal title: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/5xfaj1/mankind/, https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/6h1tdq/text_the_veil_of_madness_torn/, https://www.reddit.com/user/kirvin-/posts/, (Still upvoting this one though. In hindsight, I really should have expected that Jenkins would have attracted a journalists attention. YES! I nodded. It's back! Indeed it is! I enjoyed watching their movies, and Jenkins and I spent nearly a full diurnal watching first a series of enjoyable fantasies called Star Wars, then a trilogy called The Lord of the Rings which I then discovered had originally been a book and read. Vedreg and I exchanged a glance that bypassed the social implants.There are going to be a lot of nervous species out there when your kind develop quantum communication, Vedreg opined. Hunters dont wear inter-species communication implants, but I didnt need one to recognise the fear and panic it briefly had time to show before it was beaten to death with another Hunters severed leg. You're not a Crichton fan, by any chance? It was absolutely fantastic and exceeded my expectations in every way! David has another strange dream and meets back up with his crew. Can you check the site for Pretty III? Thanks for sending me the message about it or I likely would have missed it as I was on vacation when you released it. Jenkins thought about it. David and SHODAN raid their own ships and do a little hacking. You're a phenomenal writer, and I can't begin to tell you how much I'm looking forward to whatever you choose to write next! The human gave a worried smile. Purveyor Jenkins and I were discussing his petition to have his species reclassified as sentient.. The character writing and the world-building are fantastic, the plot and battle descriptions maybe even more so. A chair reconfigured itself for my anatomy and I straddled it. Interestingly, these two first stories spawned a series of stories written on this very subreddit, to which I'll link at the end of the last part. You dont know? He rolled up the sleeves of fabric that covered his forelimbs until they were bunched around the mid-joint. I've read a few stories based on this universe, most have been pretty damn good. The navy arrived to break up the resulting fight, but only after horrible casualties to both sides. All units, this is Specialist Teelm. On six legs, they were extremely stable, and their forelimbs were cybernetically fused into their heavy pulse guns, making disarming them impossible. In any other species the movement would have looked obscenely organic. The original post can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/631sm0/lablonnamedadon/ Thanks to the author /u/NoGoodIDNames for permission to read this. I saw Jenkins sway with the motion and remain upright, despite the fact that he was balanced precariously on only two legs. We don't know why, but they apparently had been doing this for some time. The wiki includes author and reader resources, guides, story listings, and author/series pages. Aliens can be surprisingly strange at the best of times, but I was beginning to suspect that humans may be weirder than most. Another HFY classic that really stuck with me. Looking at your account name versus what you've been posting, I've gotta ask: is this account purpose made? I think this is fantastic because it makes a lot of the classics much more easily searchable. But the other blinked at me and his mouth curled upwards at the corners. New Humanity Fuck Yeah-stories mixed with old classics. Humanity Fuck Yeah! This was then followed by the angry growl of a hull breach alarm, but oddly not the decompression alarm. I agree that they are frustrating and that they make the site a pain to use for mobile users. Passed out around 4. US Marine David Rockefeller is abducted by greys and hilarity ensues. Kevin Jenkins had clearly been one of their victims. HFY. Everyone knows (or is supposed to anyway) what just happened and what is supposed to happen next, as time on comms is supposed to be as short as possible. By the time I realised that Jenkins had taken off at a flat sprint toward the locker, he was almost a third of the way there. He did it because there are more challenges down there among his own kind than he would ever find up here, among us. He fired upon the Supremacy, which in a placating gesture had lowered its shields. Maybe theres even a POW camp where all the races are together? I understand youre doing this for free and ads make you a buck, but seriously fuck the inescapable full screen ads on your site. New to HFY? It do be crazy sometimes. When the Kondar realized that both our entrance and escape vectors lead directly into the veil, a panic started. Thank you so much for giving us more man. Though I would love to say I chose this username specifically for these posts, my account is much older than the past two week in which I started posting this, so nope! ThePoshFart 5 5h40m. A Good HFY Thread: With reposting of classics, statement of what HFY is, and plenty of new OC. At long last, and pretty much right after my birthday! The shot was able to breach the hull at a single point, and cost the lives of three crewmen. For nearly seven hundred years, mankind grew and expanded. We did not find another living race during that time, or find out how we were immune. Today I found your first Prey story and felt it was one of the best stories I've ever read. The idea of the suicide bomber was alarming, and caused something of a stir when it was presented to the committee for interstellar security, who called an emergency session to think up means by which such an insane tactic could be countered. That isdeeply troubling information, Purveyor Jenkins. Vedreg said, eventually. Now, twenty diurnals after the attack, there was just some greenish discolouration to show that he had ever been injured. It was only when I encountered the idea of the tortured poet that things started to fall into place. So excited to see this. I meant by the standards of your own species. Vedreg clarified. Site code and contents 2007-2023 thisisnotatrueending.com. I nodded, fighting back the urge to excrete in my terror. And what it means for their war. I had noticed already that his water intake was surprisingly high considering his size, and made a note to ask him about it. For muscle, her team relies on the Kethkan, Ploel, who is known for his prowess in close quarters combat and fearlessness, a trait not shared by, Teelm, the team's hacker. The Supremacy blew away a single craft to secure its escape victor; a sad but necessary tactic. I collapsed, shaking from the pain. The whole system is far too rigid to accommodate me and mine., I caught myself nodding my agreement and shut the gesture down. Woohoo! Our first inhabited planet was less than thirty light-years away, far closer than we would have thought. They are tortured geniuses. We appear to have crashed the web page! Our first contact did not go so well, however. The area of inquiry spans more than two thousand years, from the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age (ca. But I can guess. Free shipping for many products! I only looked up when the machine flashed a message I had never seen before: ERROR: Unknown Species. I reread those two (in between a thousand petty annoying things that slowed me down), and then promptly read this - and it was well worth the wait! Was wondering when you'd bring that up. Or at least, that's what I choose to believe. Then a moment that would change our history came. . I had not finished gathering my thoughts when there was a sudden violent lurch that knocked me from my feet. This only hurt our reputation further, with what happened later. Fascinating biology, Vedred agreed with me, and I indicated embarrassmentclearly I had been displaying my fascination openly enough for my social implant to broadcast it. How this great powerGodhad made the universe in a handful of diurnals, and crafted the first humans from the dirt of their homeworld. Then I realised I was treating this man who had saved my life as if he was a threat that I needed to figure out how to kill and suppressed a flash of shame. They didnt evolve to merely overcome adversitythey evolved to thrive on it. Once, and just once, we found a sentient race still alive. The story of Lablonnamedadon is one of the classic HFY storie. Normally, I only read one offs on here, but this one makes it so I cant wait for another. Their skin was a grotesque matte ceramic-white, and their seven eyes, each blinking independently, provided them with exceptional depth perception. IIRC, it's one of the scenes on the Helena, but it could be one of the Bonthans too. Article 227, paragraph 16 of the Galactic Treaty of Laws, He said, stretching out and rolling its head. The Wiki. In fact the only reason this race had not yet gone extinct is a combination of high birth rates, short life spans, and a child being able to defend itself hours after birth. The Hunters trotted round the corner, eerily silentnobody had ever heard them communicate verbally. Small, but powerful and dense-seeming. You've delivered and then some, imo, and I'm frickin stoked!! How strong are you, Purveyor Jenkins?, Jenkins shrugged. Ho-leee shit!! Thank you. Wow, I'm super surprised that the author of Spellgun or royalroad is also the author of an HFY I started reading 2 years ago on reddit. It took me half my life to realise that the people who taught me this thing didnt have to be lying, they could just be wrong., He swallowed the last of his glass of water. Your story telling is very good. No friggin way. You have those nervejam grenade things. he pointed out. My desk registered this as the creatures Interspecies Communication Implant, though it seemed like a shockingly crude example. I would suggest contacting Royal Road to let them know about the specific ads that cause the problems. This is the only thing Ive seen over the course of this series, and only pulled the suspension of disbelief for me as it would for a firefighter watching/reading a fiction about firefighting and seeing something off. On the news, his eye had still been swollen and ugly, much of his flesh had darkened and bruised from minor haemorrhaging, and he had been wincing with pain every time he drew breath. Vedreg ignored the correction and forged ahead. You had to, didn't you? Jenkins and Charlotte got into a vicious argument about a protracted conflict in a dry, hot part of the world that had apparently only just started when they were abducted. David and Cylia deal with a worm while Clank flexes on some aliens. But theyd work. Eagerly looking forward to more, no matter how long it takes, and will certainly check out Spellgun. HFY is a genre for stories in which humanity as a whole and our abilities, knowledge, culture, pmore [close] HFY is a genre for stories in which humanity as a whole and our abilities, knowledge, culture, physiology, psychology etc is shown to be of superior quality. Excuse me while I go read. Every attempt to convince people that we wanted fair negations was seen as a deception. Man this is fantastic (spellgun is too). Thank you for posting more! Jenkins issued a coarse sound through his nasal orificederisionbut said nothing. My shot evaporated harmlessly against a protection field identical to mine. Rather than fight a losing battle, we played to the role given to us. While judging any species by the aesthetic values of your own species doesnt make a lot of sense, Hunters were ugly. I literally did a mini-jump as soon as I saw the words "HFY" and "Prey" in the same alert box. Muscles shifted under his thin brown skin as he tapped his digits on the tabletop in a simple one-two-three rhythm. Them? Absolutely amazing, really love how youve developed the story from the original. Years of study later showed that the reptile-like race had taken nearly ten times as long as we did to reach the industrial age, and had not gotten very far beyond that. "And suddenly, when all of the fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls were ready to pitch in to buy HFY's tombstone, OP delivered. Oh, I know which one you're referencing. Hostile, vicious and forever primordial. Time went on, and we soon discovered that this was not an isolated occurrence. We are the premier choice for classic car customs, restorations, electrical rewiring, electrical repair, LS Swaps, motor rebuilds and performance upgrades, suspension and brake upgrades and repairs, audio . David licks his wounds, interacts with the crew and does some cooking. It was only after Reddit user Guidosbestfriend set his own story Humans Dont Make Good Pets in the same universe and I confessed to having created the setting that I learned that The Kevin Jenkins Experience was considered a HFY classic. At first I thought it had received some pleasant comments and then sank without a trace. There was the sound of pulse-gun fire and a squealing being galloped into the customs area before being caught from behind by a kinetic pulse that hurled it to the ground, broken and dying. As had their descendants, and their descendants, until apparently one tribe had tortured this beings physical avatar to deathhe gestured to the tattoo at this point, explaining that it depicted a crucifix, the very instrument of torture in question. And humans believe that this is the real way in which the history of your species unfolded?. Not impervious, just highly resilient, I corrected. You are AMAZING!!!! I'm looking forward to reading them! 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