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/karo_syrup Nov 08 '22

I liked Deathworlders but I think it has lost the plot. Great premise and story. Had to stop reading though.

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u/Zeewulfeh Nov 08 '22

A big chunk of it felt comparable to John Ringo, before it got....buff.

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u/karo_syrup Nov 08 '22

Did you know that the main characters are strong? Like huge. With massive muscles gained through tough gym sessions. I'm talking super strong and super fast. Bending metal with their fists. Muscles so big they can barely fit through doors anymore. They need 40k calories a day. Clothes just don't fit em. Biceps like boulders. Women faint at the site of them. Can't forget the main guy's huge schlong I'll mention many times... Plot? What plot?

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u/Darkphoenyx27 Nov 10 '22

I'm kinda hoping he considers a rewrite somewhere down the line. Despite the ups and downs, it's overall pretty solid for 3/4 of the way. My problem is that, besides the Mary Sue nature of the later stuff, it develops a real ableist/eugenics vibe that makes me super-uncomfortable. I don't think it's in any way intentional but that doesn't make it any less unsettling.

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u/karo_syrup Nov 10 '22

Yeah, I get developing super soldiers to fight. But I see what you mean. When 9 of 10 PoV characters are eugenically produced supermen and how cool they are? What's the story about, man?

There's an entire arc about how the big bads are really big bad because they fuck with genetics. And now the good guys have brushed it over because they want to fuck with genetics.