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Royal's HDG Recommendations

My entirely biased favorite fics I've personally loved and believe others should read ^^

If it's on this list then I enjoyed it enough that it consumed my life for a non-zero number of days (weeks in the case of the longer ones ;P)

| Last Updated: May 6th, 2026 | | (Note: I won't always update word counts of WIP entries) | | (Note: List is in no particular order :P) |

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Optative Mood

by: "Saranthos"

| 230k words |  | 📖📝Work in Progress |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


"Optative Mood? More like Optative Mooooooo haha am I right ladies?" -Excerpt from my notes about this fic

A magnificent slow burn tale following our protagonists Aoife, an extremely talented linguist and Ulmacea, a lovely failffini who is anxious as all hell that Aoife doesnt want to be florted. Aoife is similarly convinced that Ulmacea would never want her as a floret. Adorable will-they-won't-they florting shenanigans ensue. Oh also, Aoife's Class-G regimen results in some rather milky attributes that lead to lots and lots of brain-meltingly fun kinky milking scenes :3

Oh also also this work has a FUCKING AUDIOBOOK and its so so so so good yall go listen to and read this one its so goods

(also also also theres lots of linguist segments where we follow Aoife's POV as she figures out HOW TO SPEAK AFFINI aaaaaa its so fucking good yall im not even a linguistics enjoyer and i was vibing every time Aoife sat down to spend three paragraphs figuring out what a two sentance exchange meant)


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One Analyst's Opinion

by: "stuck_in_pi"

| 178k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


Stars, how to explain this one… Okay, so since the terrans are losing the war to the Compact, they throw together a moonshot program to brainstorm any way to help win the war(this of course fails, they never stood a fucking chance etc, etc) Okay so our protagonist, who's definitely a normal cis guy and definitely not plural "he" just calls "him"self "we" sometimes which could mean nothing.

Anyways, its an amazing love story mixed in with tragic trauma that had me in tears so many times and there's so, so, so, so, so much good stuff it might be my favorite hdg story of all time- at the very least its in the running for that title. Also it depicts what happens when the Affini learn about the Voyager probes and its fucking adorable what they do with them.


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HDG 1999

by: "Kanagen"

| 145k words |  | 📗✅Complete & 📖📝Work in Progress |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿HDG Alternate Universe🌳 | 


This Alternate Universe is a series of 5 completed stories, with a 6th in the works eventually. None are stupidly long but all together it's one big story.

As the name of the AU suggests, the Affini show up to domesticate earth in 1999 and its fucking amazing. Its got some great queer elders as major characters and our two primary protagonists are so fucking adorably in love. The whole series is bursting with personality and honestly I'd recommend it even if the stories didn't have plampts in them it's just that good of a story!

Our protagonists have to go on the run from government agents, escape top secret facilities, get experiments run on them, etc. Also the affini leave crop circles for some reason lmao. As far as things to be aware of going in, it very much takes its time getting to the florting, but I mean it when I say its an amazing story even before it properly gets into what the plampts are up to :3 I could gush about this story forever methinks so time to move on lol.


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Through the Looking Glass

by: "PyxxieStyxx" & "TheMothCourt"

| 106k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


Local egg gets her gender trans-ed and florted and hypnotized into being Alice, of Wonderland fame by her kinky professor. Its a delightful tale and very, very, very smutty ;3

Warning: This story contains ALOT of second hand embarrassment, which is normally a huge no-go for me, and if its the case for anyone reading this, I urge u to at least give this one a shot if it sounds fun, as I don't know why, but I normally have to skip past embarrassing scenes but this story is like 40% embarrassment kink by volume and I love it anyways somehow :P


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The Tillandsia Trilogy

by: "Kanagen"

| 430k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


Alright this ones 3 stories for the price of one list-slot. All three are great, and to save time ur just gonna have to trust me. This series is a large part of what got me properly obsessed with HDG. The main overlap between the stories is the setting and characters. But the stories are def readable in isolation if ur fine with some slight confusion about who certain people are. At the very least the last story's ending scene would be very confusing without all the context :P

If u enjoy alot of leftist infighting in ur smut, No Gods, No Masters and Freedom's Ember are great for that, The Floret In the Mirror is also amazing, but has less leftist infighting ;P (and more smutty content per capita if i recall correctly)


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Milk & Cookies

by: "Darkfalli" & "Fluxom"

| 159k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


"A Gay Autistic Disaster/An Even Gayer More Autistic Disaster FROM SPACE!!!"

Ever wanted to read a story that's 50% horror movie and 50% smut? Now you can! Follow our beloved cast of queers as they all attempt to survive the most dangerous thing imaginable! A scary plant monster!!! D:

It's definitely trying to kill everyone mhm, definitely not just a big misunderstanding which results in a whole bunch of body horror. Anyways, that's the first half of the story, the second half is much fluffier(& smuttier). I have complex feelings on the final arc of the story but the ride is def worth it ^^


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Divaricated

by: "annabool"

| 348k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


Slow burn. Read the Word count. The word count is worth it, trust.

Local jump drive technician tries to blow up an affini via self-destructing a jump drive. This does not work. It does however strand the jump-drive technician and a now very injured affini alone in space together. Will they figure out a way to work together and survive??? There's no way to know!!! They could die at any moment!!!1! Don't look at the word count.

In all seriousness the whole thing is lovely and the eventual obligatory "begging to be a floret" scene has one of the most epic romantic gestures ever imho, i was literally jawdropped as it was happening like "yeah, no the affini would absolutely [REDACTED] if it meant making sure [REDACTED]"


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Hypogeal

by: "Astraction"

| 125k words |  | 📖📝Work in Progress |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


I cried so hard. so so hard. so many times. fuck. Oh also there's smut in here, and masochism. It's very hot, I highly recommend it!

This story is a cotyledon story, which for anyone unfamiliar, means that it follows the Affini as they're figuring out how humans work, on a biological level, which means shit's fucked. I highly recommend it, but... yueah lol

Also the main Affini is so very normal and the other affini are scared of her for no reason probably (<- lying)


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From Pawn To Princess

by: "Sheepwave" & "slylittleprincess"

| 303k words |  | 📖📝Work in Progress |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


Lynn Walsh, a trans woman who's lived a broadly sucky life learns that she deserves good things under the caring vines of a draconic Affini. There's lots more, and it's really good & very hot, but I haven't finished reading it yet ^^ Oh also its illustrated which is always cool as hell!

Oh, notably the story has two versions, the one linked is the f/f variant cause it's my personal preference but there's also a m/f version you can find pretty easily ^^


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Wellness Check

by: "Darkfalli"

| 106k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


This one follows Aster, who is a very competent hacker and definitely doesnt get hypnotized into a loving pet, mhmmm def no florting happening, she just gets a cool affini roommate and doesnt become a pet mhmmm


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Sui Generis

by: "Kanagen"

| 103k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


Our protagonist is an attorney, she spends her days fighting to make the Terran Accord just a little bit more ethical. She spends her nights doting on her adorable puppygirl of a wife.

When the affini show up, our protagonist immediately picks up the roll of helping the affini in their take-over and subsequent prison abolishment. She's really good at it too, in fact she's good at lots of stuff and feels more like an affini than a human sometimes- oh no.

Oh yes, this is an Affini-ification story :3 Now hold on, I was skeptical at first too, that sounds like an idea which would be axiom breaking in lots of ways and would have to be handled INCREDIBLY delicately to manage to do well. Worry not, Kanagen manages to nuances of this concept marvelously.


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Galactogenesis

by: "Coralectric"

| 23k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📔One-Shot |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


A band of rebels sneak their way onto a planet with an Affini garden full of weird plants. Their objective? Collect samples of xenodrugs and bring them back to the mother ship for analysis. Surely nothing could go wrong with this plan.

Surely they wont end up stranded on the planet and then end up having to eat lots of the strange alien plants. Surely the strange alien plants wont forcibly feminize and forcibly bovine-ize everyone present until they're all a domesticated herd of lactating florts, that's crazy that could never happen why would you ever think such a thing? ;3


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Good Sensory

by: "Sheepwave"

| 111k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


"I am autistic, and so are all my partners. I think autistic girls are the cutest thing ever. This is a story about that."
-Chapter 1 author's note

Honestly that authors note kinda says it all, the story is marvelous and it's illustrated as well! :D


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Vines to Lift This Heavy Heart

It's my recommendation list and I get to pick the movie!

(I wrote this, im shamelessly self promoting :P)

| 93k words |  | 📗✅Complete |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿Human Domestication Guide🌳 | 


My first voyage into writing in this universe I'm still very proud of this ^^ I did lots of fun artwork and CSS crimes to make it look pretty. The story isn't the most original but I had lots of fun with it ^^

Our main character is a transfem egg who escaped a toxic relationship on Terra in favor of an almost worse indentured-servitude on Ganymede station, then the Affini arrived. Whisked off in the initial chaos of the “attack”, Holly ends up conscripted into a feralist crew on the run from the Affini. That is, until she finds a strange piece of Affini tech which allows her to get a new perspective, and potentially a path to a happier life, if only she can be brave enough to get there.

This story includes exploration of dysphoria, gender, and sexuality, and also contains explicit sexual content at the very end. We follow Holly as she learns about herself, and in turn, learns to heal from her past emotional abuse.


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OneAffini% (AKA:"Flort the Species Any% OneAffini Challenge Category") (AAKA:"What Happens When You Send An Affini With Imposter-Syndrome Back In Time To Modern Earth")

It's my recommendation list and I get to pick the movie!

(I wrote this, im shamelessly self promoting :P)

| 38k words |  | 📖📝Work in Progress |  | 📚Multi-Chapter |  | 🌿HDG Alternate Universe🌳 | 


My second long-form HDG story, I'm having a blast writing this atm ^^ Im continuing my habits of doing lots of art and CSS crimes ^^

Several hundred years after the terran domestication campaign, an unlucky Affini gets sent back in time to 21st century earth.

Stranded in time and severely wounded, Stellate Monad has to figure out a way to save herself, and domesticate the much earlier version of humanity she has found herself surrounded by. Surely this task will be easy and have no complications whatsoever.


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"Which Could Mean Nothing"

An incomplete list of signs I missed that I was transfem which are glaringly obvious in retrospect:

| Originally Posted: Mar 26th, 2026 |

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  • Used to stand in the shower, cover my hands and body in soapy water, blow giant bubbles through my fingers and press them to my chest and imagine i had boobs. Id even imagine what my skeleton looked like as i did this, because if someone could somehow only see my skeleton while I was doing it then i would be indistinguishable from a woman holding her breasts. I justified it to myself as probably part of my BE kink at the time but like, I wasn't sexually excited while I was doing that? I was just fascinated by the thought, Which could mean nothing...
  • Erp'd with strangers on the internet for YEARS and after doing so for a little bit, quickly concluded that it would be much more time efficient if I just "pretended" to be a woman. Ya know, cause like the erp population on those sites was mostly male and men aren't gonna just erp with another guy and stuff mhm no other reason. Mhm made a list of feminine names to refer to myself for this purpose as well Which could mean nothing...
  • Frequently got nosebleeds as a child and sometimes got them in the shower. Once I learned about periods I sorta stared at the blood mixing into the water sometimes wondering if that was what it was like (and then proceeding to judge myself harshly for daring to compare having a painless nosebleed to a period) Which could mean nothing....
  • Treated my EXTREMELY masculine deadname as "just a noise people use to get my attention" and absolutely hated when people would use nickname shortened variants of my deadname. (Because my brain had not yet successfully dissociated the gender from the less common variation) Which could mean nothing...
  • Made "hating sports" into a core aspect of my personality in elementary&high school. Which was definitely cause I just found them boring and definitely wasn't because I found the masculinity which permeates the culture around alot of them to be disgusting mhm. I just didn't enjoy the excited masculine shouting over pixels on a screen mhm Which could mean nothing... (I have come around on sports as a concept being fine)(except football, fuck football, why the fuck are we letting little kids give themselves brain damage for scholarship money, shits fucked)
  • Made "hating music" into a personality traits until I discovered listening to music through the internet sometime in high school and even then I was allergic to music that had any lyrics for A WHILE. Which might have had something to do with the fact the majority of music I listened to before that point was all "i sure to do love beer and my truck and saying misogynistic things about women ye-haw" country music. Which could mean nothing... (Admittedly this may have been more of a sign i wasn't straight than a sign i was trans because its not like i enjoyed the female country songs due to how much they focused on finding a man etc etc)(Side note, recently been listening to some lesbian covers of country songs from my youth and it has been a deeply healing experience lmao)
  • Never used to care about what i wore. Jeans and t shirt(sometimes a hoodie once i got fat) were my default and only outfit for the majority of my life. I just didn't care about fashion. Which could mean nothing...
  • Hated being called "handsome" I was allergic to compliments in general, but handsome always felt differently bad. Which could mean nothing...
  • Often felt "exposed" when going to swim, especially when I got fat but like most of that embarrassment was definitely centered around my chest. Which could mean nothing...
  • Was always turned off when the men in porn were in frame. For some reason I was unable to project myself into their place. Which could mean nothing...
  • Viscerally hated changing my shirt in front of anyone like in the locker rooms for gym class while I was in hs to the point where I would change in the bathroom stall until the gym teacher banned me from doing that (which was some bullshit.) Which could mean nothing...
  • Always struggled writing men any time I did anything creative. It always felt like every male character I invented was somehow like a cardboard cutout of a person meanwhile every woman I wrote had like, a personality. Which could mean nothing...
  • DM'd a dnd campaign for my younger brothers for years and because it was just the three of us I played as a DM-PC who was a lesbian teifling artificer and was my by far my favorite character to voice/interact as. Which could mean nothing...
  • Some of my most formative memories of the characters I enjoyed in media was the 2000s "edgy alt girl" archetype, ya know, the girl with like black hair and a pink stripe in her hair yeah that one. I was just really invested in those characters rather than the typically more plentiful male protagonists. For some reason. Which could mean nothing...
  • Growing up I(a blond-haired and blue-eyed "boy") always wanted to play as Rosalina(a pretty, blonde-haired blue-eyed princess) in Mario kart in spite of not even learning what game she was from until much later. Which could mean nothing... (Not that I ever did play as her, growing up I was always too scared of someone seeing me and questioning me so then I played as a distinctly genderless skeleton turtle until I transitioned and realized I could finally play as Rosalina without any voice in the back of my head)
  • When I first learned about queer folk I did so via Tumblr posts about them which were screenshoted and put on Pinterest. I was basically instantly sucked in and latched onto the community. I thought, "okay there's no way i don't have some kind of connection to this thing." Spent like a day trying to decide if I found men attractive in the slightest, quickly decided that they were gross and that i must simply be a ✨️Good Ally™️✨️ and lived like that for years. Because surely "gay man" is the only thing I could be and enjoying posts about lesbian romance was definitely me being creepy and I should stop "fetishisizing" lesbians in order to be a good feminist. WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING.

Tracking my decent into madness

A post thread documenting my journey into HDG

| Original Root Post: Nov 14th, 2025 |

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RoyalFurthermore | Posted: Nov 14th, 2025


discovered the human domestication guide last night btw, high probability of the next story i write taking place in that universe :3


RoyalFurthermore | Reblogged: Dev 8th, 2025


TOP 10 SCREENSHOTS TAKEN BEFORE DISASTER-LEVEL HYPERFIXATION


RoyalFurthermore | Reblogged: Dev 8th, 2025


oh stars just looked at the date and it's been less than a month O_O

ive read

644,719 words

since then 🙃


RoyalFurthermore | Reblogged: Jan 20th, 2026


my reading has slowed since the last reblog but like uhhhhh

1,475,998 words nows :3

(35 separate works)

thats from my hdg reading tracker spreadsheet :3


RoyalFurthermore | Reblogged: Jan 31st, 2026


[Screenshot of a zoomed-in excel spreadsheet, the two cells of note read: "1,962,000 Words" and "47 Works Completed"]

Almost to 2 million now lol


RoyalFurthermore | Reblogged: Apr 17th, 2026


look upon my spreadsheet ye mighty and despair >:3

(heavily pixelated to avoid subjecting anyone to unasked for criticism in the forms of my ranking system and notes)

[Screenshot of a stupidly long, zoomed-out spreadsheet]

(and those are only the works I've FINISHED reading, there's a few stories which im like 70-80% through which are several hundred thousand words lmao)

2,658,174 words :D

and for the madness of it all here's the whole spreadsheet which includes all my tbr stories:

[Heavily pixelated spreadsheet of an ungodly length, it's existence is a crime against nature and an act of hubris]

204 works in here adding up to a collective 8,640,687 words

something something category-7 autism event /ref ;P


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