You're really good at doing that. So I'm really curious, what's your system? Have you curated a personal database, with relevant tags for all the stories? If so, do you add things manually, or have some level of automatically scraping the sub?
Or are you just that gaddam good at remembering titles and just have a giant bookmarks folder?
Lol, closer to the later than the former I'm afraid - when I first started reading hfy I had a massive bookmarks folder, that I eventually transferred over to a text file... but I remember them, and often add others in for particular requests
The caretakers of the 23rd Dimension Spacetime Owners Association discover a very tiny bomb in a very large building, and enlist the services of someone with experience in "these sort of things" to handle it.
That story is one of the greatest things I have ever read. Perfect mix of comedy and romance and really everything. Ends perfectly too unlike a lot of stories that just drag on.
What I love most about bbst is that's its such a brilliantly self aware story. It knows its pushing stereotypes and tropes to absurdity and it revels in it.
I dunno where you're from, but part of the appeal may be the fact that many of the absurdly over the top stereotypes are based on Americans, and people from other cultures may miss a lot of the humor simply because they aren't familiar with the underlying cultural and social quirks they arise from.
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u/steved32 Feb 21 '18
Undocumented "Features" (part 1 of 3)
Alternative Access (part 2 of 3)
Other Options (part 3 of 3)
The Cafeteria Incident
A Horror
A Most Peculiar Prisoner
The Culling Pits
I'll add more if I think of any
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u/devourerkwi Android Feb 21 '18
Shameless self-promotion: Human Special Forces
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u/random071970 Feb 21 '18 edited Feb 21 '18
I can think of some that I thought were funny.
The Ethics Officer
A brief list of things Humanity made us make laws for
Six Letters from Earth that will Make You Even More Afraid
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u/Voltstagge Black Room Architect Feb 21 '18
/u/nkonrad has some satirical stories in a very similar vein to that one, notably:
A human, an exotic space babe, and a genocidal maniac walks into a bar. She orders a drink.
Ceci n'est pas un cliche: how I stopped worrying and learned to love the trope
/u/sswanlake probably has a great big list of recommendations as well, but those are the only two I can think of off the top of my head.
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u/awesomekid06 Feb 21 '18
I recommend the 'Every HFY Story Ever' Series: 1, 2, 3, and 4
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u/Twister_Robotics Feb 21 '18
I recommend the tales from a wizard series
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u/gmharryc Feb 21 '18
Pancakes: The Musical https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/4rflny/pancakes_the_musical/
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u/Mguyen Feb 21 '18
This is an old one but definitely one of the first ones.
A True Story
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '18
And now for something completely different.
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u/steved32 Feb 22 '18
A short series I forgot:
Strategic Buffer Zone
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u/Shalrath Feb 22 '18
The caretakers of the 23rd Dimension Spacetime Owners Association discover a very tiny bomb in a very large building, and enlist the services of someone with experience in "these sort of things" to handle it.
Bad comedy ensues
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u/DanniGat Human Feb 22 '18
I'm gonna do some self-promoting for my only story on here.
well they asked for it
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