r/HFY

165K archived posts · Aug 2013 – Sep 2026

Humanity, Fuck Yeah!

r/HFY

We're a writing focused subreddit welcoming all media exhibiting the awesome potential of humanity, known as HFY or "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" We welcome sci-fi, fantasy, and all other stories with a focus on humans being awesome!

Created Aug 20, 2013

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We're a writing focused subreddit welcoming all media exhibiting the awesome potential of humanity, known as HFY or "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!"

We welcome sci-fi, fantasy, and all other stories with a focus on humans being awesome!

##Beginner's Guide

New to HFY? Read the FAQ, read the Subreddit Rules, and check out our Wiki. The Formatting Guide has some helpful pointers on using Markdown.

The wiki includes author and reader resources, guides, story listings, and author/series pages.

Posting Rules

WRITING PROMPTS ARE PERMITTED ONLY IN THE WEEKLY [WRITING PROMPT THREAD] wp! This thread is always reachable from the sidebar link.

LOOKING FOR STORY POSTS ARE PERMITTED ONLY IN THE [LFS THREAD] lfs! This thread is always reachable from the sidebar link.

######[Latest Writing Prompt Wednesday] wp and [Looking For Story Thread] lfs

When posting, you must categorize it using the appropriate flair:

**OC—**For original, self post, story, audio, or artwork that you have created.
**Text—**For a story in self post, audio, or image form that you did not create.
**PI—**For posts inspired by writing prompts from HFY and other sub prompts.
**Video—**For a video. Also note, that videos in general may be subject to removal if people complain that their relevance is dubious.
**Meta—**For a post about the sub itself or stories from HFY.
**Misc—**For relevant submissions that do not fit into one of the above categories.

If you have written a series, please link the previous and next entries in the series in the main body of text.

###Alternate hosting available at: RoyalRoad

##Community Interaction

##Discord Channel

Looking for help with your story or want to assist authors? Review our rules and then come on in!

Use your Reddit nick, please. If you have previously used a different nickname under IRC, you may use that instead.

#####[Discord Invite] discord

##Steam Community

Looking for someone to play with? Come game with us!

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##Subreddit Highlights

##Writing Contests

Current Monthly Contest: [Perfect Ten]

You can comment !V or !Vote to vote for a story to win the contest.

###Previous Winners

Spirit World: The Cost of Doing Business by Rantarian

Mysterious Visitors: Glyphs by sjanevardsson

Ghosts: Served Lukewarm by RhoZie013

We're always looking for new entries. Take a look and see what you can do!

##Featured Content #117

You can comment !N or !Nominate to nominate a story for the next feature list.

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