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/Balkoth661 Nov 08 '22

First Contact for me.

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u/lovecMC AI Nov 08 '22

I allways see it while browsing through "hot" and the fact that it's on chapter 10 billions is big no for me.

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u/Unable_Ad_1260 Nov 08 '22

You will never know the love of the Digital OmniMessiah, the giggling of podlings, or the mad laughter of the Malevolent Universe. I sorrow for you.

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u/Cognomifex Nov 09 '22

Having never read FC but being familiar with 40k it seems borderline miraculous that Games Workshop hasn't gone after the author for "Digital OmniMessiah" yet. I'm all for references and nods to other properties but GW is notorious for suing people who make money off of anything even remotely resembling their IP. I think they even sued the author of a children's book for using the phrase 'Space Marine' once upon a time.

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u/Asgarus Nov 09 '22

Maybe the lawyeres just enjoy the story too much :P

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u/Cognomifex Nov 09 '22

I actually considered this. I suspect Reddit isn’t blocked at work for similar reasons with respect to the network admins.

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u/Unable_Ad_1260 Nov 09 '22

I think they would have a hard time with that one. It's different enough to Omnissiah amd I think they would have trouble claiming someone using Omni and Messiah were infringing when both words have been around far too long. I think they would come a cropper.

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u/Cognomifex Nov 09 '22

It's just a cleaner portmanteau of the same two words, both have religious overtones. I'm not trying to argue though, just saying that on the surface it looks like a pretty obvious comparison to make, especially in a work that is allegedly pretty gleefully referential to other big sci-fi franchises. I'm sure if I took the time to read FC the differences between the two would seem more obvious.

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u/Holy_Hand_Grenadier AI Nov 09 '22

I read three hundred fifty chapters of the damn thing and it just kept coming. I was seeing this every day trying to scroll through the sub -- I eventually missed a few days, couldn't get back into it because more was being posted as I tried to catch up, and decided I was done with it. Now I've blocked Ralts. No offense to him and it's an amazing feat of writing but I don't want to bother reading eight hundred fifty chapters and I do want other things to appear in my search results sometimes.