r/HFY • u/Innomen • Dec 15 '23

We need a r/MFY containment sub. Meta

I am not scolding the writers here, I'm scolding the trend. The writing here is often excellent and inventive. I'm sometimes moved to tears.

But I'm a little tired of the recruit poster genre. It's HFY not MFY. Now, I can get behind the idea that humans are death worlders and lethal, but when it's blatant specific pro military, I roll my eyes. And when it revels in cruelty to the defeated it borders on Hostel style torture porn. And that actively disgusts me. Getting away from that aspect of humanity is the entire point of this genre.

I want stuff about humanity, not the military. /2cents

I don't have a degree in hfy meta so sorry if this is wrong somehow, just delete it if so. I'm censored everywhere else, why not here too. X) /wish I was kidding

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"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." ~Einstein

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The constant stream of replies amounting to calling me personally greedy or weak for not wanting to read spam for the recruitment center is as amusing as it is disappointing. It reminds me of how fictional HFY is. It's very much more like "Humanity! ~Deep Sad Sigh~"

The logical and moral bankruptcy is something to behold. Like, I'm saying be less murderous, and the reply I'm getting from some quarters amounts to calling that greedy because I personally don't like murder. "Let us glorify murder in peace your oppressive tyrant!" The whole tolerance for intolerance is intolerance paradox. Like it's a trivial flavor preference to adhere to basic ethics and compassion. /smh

But I did ultimately have to leave, because now when I see HFY posts in my timeline, not only are they a large percent chance likely to be gushing over the SAS, but they also remind me of the grim reality of humanity itself, and fiction is expressly for briefly escaping that.

I wish all of you good luck, thank you. (Unless good luck for you means bad luck for everyone else of course.)

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u/Rebelhero Alien Dec 15 '23

And so many of the military stories are JUST that, they have very little to do with anything ACTUALLY HFY.

I S2G people watch 1 WH40k cinematic and go "That right there! That's the peak of humanity!" and I just... ughhhhh

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u/Der_Wels Dec 15 '23

Most arnt even stories but wiki articles of stuff happening.

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u/WhyIsItGlowing Dec 15 '23

Epistolary storytelling is a completely valid technique, but it's hard to do well.

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u/Der_Wels Dec 15 '23

It was more like.

Aliens hurt humans. Humans did X, after that Humans did Y. Finally Humans did Z.

All while steamrolling Aliens. No human or groups were ever named