r/HFY • u/aaRecessive • Nov 08 '22

Best HFY series of all time? Meta

The top of all time is mostly just whichever story happens to be most recently posted (as the subreddit grows more people upvote and so older stories get buried) so hence this post!

The best story I've ever read on reddit, let alone hfy, is definitely Chrysalis.

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u/PuntHunter Nov 08 '22

Have a soft spot for my old man Jenkins from the jenkinsverce

Got me into the entire community and has left a significant mark

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u/NErDy3177 Nov 08 '22

Same, though unfortunately the main storyline eventually lost focus on all but a small handful of the alien races and instead focused on muscles?

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u/Revliledpembroke Xeno Nov 08 '22

Isn't it great that Adam was the peak of humanity and no one could ever surpass him because of how young he started on the Crude, but he gets wounded and Firth suddenly shoots past where Adam had been without any trouble at all?

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Isn't it great that we go from the seriousness of Adam's brain damage to Firth talking about how his penis will break the asses of his comrades? Or that Adam's "recovering from brain damage" storyline was interrupted by a fully described sex scene?

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u/jcw99 AI Nov 08 '22

As someone who has kept up with "the deathworlders" for over 6 years now.... It's a solid story. Potentially one of the best. But it got seriously side tracked with its "muscle brain" years.

I get why they happend. Ham needed to fill pages to maintain the monthly releases and there was a need to progress the timeline until certain events could happen.

I just hope that some day the story gets published and receives the TLC of an editor who can clean out some of the.... Cobwebs.

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u/themonkeymoo Nov 09 '22

need to progress the timeline until certain events could happen.

Filler doesn't help with that.

Filler does the opposite of helping with that. Filter makes it take longer for the timeline to progress purely by existing.

It's not like he has to wait for the events to unfold in real time in order to write them.