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StClair
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859 posts		 Jul-27-25, 02:42 PM (EDT)
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"good boys (and girls)"
 
   Last night, before bed, I revisited one of my favorite stories in the so-called "Humanity, F* Yeah" subgenre. But my waking realization this morning, helped along by the note someone else left on it, was that many of the traits we admire and would like to imagine being known for among other species are the ones we share with dogs - loyalty, resilience, fierce protectiveness, selfless love, etc.

So really, "DFY".


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: good boys (and girls) Gryphonadmin Jul-27-25 1
     RE: good boys (and girls) StClair Jul-27-25 2
     RE: good boys (and girls) Peter Eng Jul-30-25 4
         RE: good boys (and girls) McFortner Jul-30-25 5
  RE: good boys (and girls) dbrandon Jul-28-25 3
  RE: good boys (and girls) CdrMike Jul-30-25 6
     RE: good boys (and girls) Kendra Kirai Aug-03-25 8
  RE: good boys (and girls) mdg1 Aug-02-25 7

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Gryphonadmin
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23256 posts		 Jul-27-25, 04:46 PM (EDT)
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1. "RE: good boys (and girls)"
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   By extension. this gives me the amusing notion of humanity also becoming famous throughout the galaxy for its willingness, nay eagerness, to eat as much as possible of basically anything.

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StClair
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859 posts		 Jul-27-25, 09:53 PM (EDT)
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2. "RE: good boys (and girls)"
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   I can definitely see that, yes.


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Peter Eng
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2104 posts		 Jul-30-25, 02:07 PM (EDT)
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4. "RE: good boys (and girls)"
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   >By extension. this gives me the amusing notion of humanity also
>becoming famous throughout the galaxy for its willingness, nay
>eagerness, to eat as much as possible of basically anything.
>

So, we're stereotyped as Anthony Bourdain?

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McFortner
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5. "RE: good boys (and girls)"
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   >So, we're stereotyped as Anthony Bourdain?

I would think more like Sgt. Schlock.

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There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".


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dbrandon
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234 posts		 Jul-28-25, 09:31 AM (EDT)
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3. "RE: good boys (and girls)"
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   I mean, that makes sense-- humanity deliberately bred those traits into dogs specifically because they are so highly valued.

-dbrandon


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CdrMike
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1215 posts		 Jul-30-25, 11:50 PM (EDT)
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6. "RE: good boys (and girls)"
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   >many of the traits we admire and would like to imagine being known for
>among other species are the ones we share with dogs - loyalty,
>resilience, fierce protectiveness, selfless love, etc.

Could really fit in with two related but separate tropes I've seen in different pieces of scifi literature. The first is the "humans are guard dogs" trope, the idea that we're the product of some ancient civilization's efforts to create an offshoot that are just bred for (and thus excellent at) war. The second is the "humans are peacemakers" trope that says that centuries of constant fighting (including a possible Third World War) has left humanity uniquely suited to negotiating peace even among factions that have been at war for ages.

Actually reminds me of one of my favorite vignettes from the 80s revival of The Twilight Zone called "A Small Talent for War."

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Kendra Kirai
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932 posts		 Aug-03-25, 09:06 PM (EDT)
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8. "RE: good boys (and girls)"
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   I've always kind of liked the concept of being *so* 'good' at war, that eventually a species has to stop or else they'll wipe themselves out, and becoming effective pacifists as a culture.

(I'm also a fan of them then being pushed into fighting and just utterly steamrolling everything with the racial bonuses 'War Economy' and 'Hold My Beer')

I'm co-writer of a setting where there was a continuous global war that went on so long that nobody even knows how long, or how many people died, and when it was over the entire population kind of just went 'yeah, I think that's out of our system now.' and there's barely been a border skirmish since.


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mdg1
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1367 posts		 Aug-02-25, 10:50 PM (EDT)
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7. "RE: good boys (and girls)"
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   My particular favorite entry in the HFY genre is a little story called "Pencils down, Death rays up."

It's a crossover between Mass Effect...

And the original Word of Darkness games (mostly Mage).

MFY?

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10239811/1/Pencils-down-Death-rays-up

One scene in chapter 12 has a very UF vibe.

Mario


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