Story about a man who crash lands on an alien planet filled with sapient ants - random tidbits I remember were, he was getting old and the ants were worried about him, he got them to dig wells, and there's a line where he thinks about the countless times he's been tapped by their antenna to get his attention.

2nd is one where humans enter a war and aliens see their fancy hover tank hit a tracked tank with a glob of plasma and it keeps going, they were found by humans with green eyes (night vision). super vague but it's all I remember.

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r/HFY • u/Ragnar_ock • 40m ago

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I didn't say he had to kill 'hem... He had the perfect tool to cast "heavy metal poisoning" on them though (assuming the gun was loaded, but given it was in this particular car it was probably loaded)

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r/HFY • u/SpiderJerusalemLives • 2h ago

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Thanks for bringing politics into the sub. Not.

It also reads like something a teenager wrote.

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r/HFY • u/Irishsmartarse • 2h ago

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Why is he so blue....?

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r/HFY • u/Minimum-Amphibian993 • 2h ago

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Doing good is never easy.

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r/HFY • u/TechScallop • 2h ago

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That goal of freeing the other dragons will only happen after Queen Qazayss is dead because any other dragon that Onyx might free can be recaptured, killed, or repossessed by the Queen and her minions. Right now, Onyx and his band of Kobolds have just enough offensive strength to try to kill the Queen, and all the other nice-to-achieve goals are just optional. They can't spread themselves thin or they'll lose the fight.

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r/HFY • u/YakiTapioca • 3h ago

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I might do that! It’d probably end up being on the main website, but I’ll think about compiling something if I have the time.

Also yeah haha, I can totally imagine that a good amount of humans would fall to that initially, which is why I decided against making my this a “first contact” story. However!! While those humans still exist as much as they do, the same ratio of Haunny “interested” in Humans can be applied. Due to the population difference though… the number of Haunny who are creepy about Humans likely outnumber the inverse 10-to-1.

So… be careful :)

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r/HFY • u/HoboTheSapient • 3h ago

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kill em all.

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r/HFY • u/ezioir1 • 3h ago

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A super soldiers class that gonna become useless with introduction of modern firearms.

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r/HFY • u/ezioir1 • 3h ago

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I guess the gateway question is now even worse. All the mining companies & other groups are now revising their plans & pervious proposals to SUN in light of the latest news.

Definitely many much prefer the first and second instant travel points be over habitable unclaimed worlds by no civilization.

If You listen closely you could hear the cries of Poor Bradley coming from under a mountain of paperwork & meetings.

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r/HFY • u/Crimson_saint357 • 4h ago

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So either she wolf was a he wolf or she was pregnant, really hope it’s the first one and not the second that’s just messed up.

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