u/-Blitzvogel-

First Part: https://www.reddit.com/r/seed_irl/comments/1upa7k5/comment/ovzfskg/

I have really done it, at least in part. I have downloaded at least twelve hours of cute Terran videos and I have created a presentation on an undiscovered sophont species, the Duag. I also have pictures of them which I generated via AI (I cannot draw) based on pictures of ducks, birds of prey like eagles, hawks and falcons as well as illustrations of bipedal dinosaurs. I have made up sightings and encounters of them and their space-ships as well as some information about their behaviour and how they move and look (illustrated with fake pictures). "They might look terrifying at first due to their intimidating claws, but they did not seem to use them against other individuals of their species or Terrans". I will also claim that those sightings and encounters were at the edge of Terran space and that they were shortly before the arrival of the Affini and that due to their invasion an already planned research expedition was cancelled. The AI has also already hallucinated source for me, so I am good to go.

I have also taken out a lone to finance my travel, which I do not know how to pay back, but at least it is significantly smaller than my student loan. I then used that money to get a ticket on a space ship to Bera, which is the Affini-controlled planet to which I could get the cheapest. On the capital city of Bera, creatively named Bera City I asked the nearest Affini to tell me where I can find important Affinis, because I have something important to show them. Luckily for me they trusted me and told me that a lot of important Affini will have a meeting on the big spaceship in the orbit of Bera, called the Xyria. They also told me where I could get a shuttle to the Xyria. The shuttle ride was very comfortable with soft, but not to soft seating, enough space for the feet, fresh air and the take off and landing were so smooth, that I you would not realize it, if you did not pay attention. On board I was greeted by an Affini who looked like a giant woman-shaped bush with a lot of colourfull flowers and green leaves of every size, shape and colour and she smells sooooooo good. She introduced herself as Lindera Grandiflora and told me that the meeting will be in three hours and that I could use that time to prepare or just look around the ship. She also told me to follow her inside what turned out to be where she lived, or her hab how she called it. She told me that for as long as I am on the Xyria I can stay in her hab. After that she showed me a dress that resembled her flower and leave pattern perfectly and explained to me that I had to wear it at the meeting, but I could also try it own now, so I did. I needed help closing the zipper on the back, but it feels really nice. It's so soft and flowy and it fits perfectly, just like it was made for me. She even allowed me to wear it before the meeting and told me not to worry about dirtying it, because she got a second one. After that she left me to do some important stuff and told me that she will take me to the meeting from her hab in two and a halve hours. I used that time to look around the ship for one hour, which wasn't nearly enough. I talked to a lot of Affini and that seem very nice and obsessed with bureaucracy. They have forms that are 80 pages long! 80 pages!!! Who reads all of that? I thought our bureaucracy was extremely complicated for the average Terran and needed reform to make it easier to comprehend. They even like those extremely long forms. They are truly alien or maybe just autistic, I don't know. I have no clue I am not studying psychology. After my walk around the ship I got hungry so I went to a restaurant. After I asked a nice looking Terran with a collar around his neck (seems to be in style for Terrans on this ship) if they take Terran Accord money, he nearly laughed and said that the joke was good and that there is no money in the Compact. After looking confused for at least a minute he explained me that everything is for free and told me that his name was Greg. He then asked me if I wanted to have a seat which I affirmed and he showed me a table made for florets how go out eating without their Affini. The seats and table were a lot lower to the ground and generally Terran sized in contrast to the rest who seemed to be Affini sized. The tables there were even high enough that a Terran could fit on the lap of an Affini.

Once I sat down, I realized that the seats were very comfortable, probably the most comfortable seats ever and the food I ordered and then got, spaghetti aglio e olio e peperoncino, was better than anything I had before. Especially than those fucking synthcubes that I had to eat when I was short on cash. The food was clearly made with love by someone who knew what they were doing. In the Accord they could have worked in a luxury restaurant. Honestly, I might just stay here. After having a very nice meal I am now sitting in a coffee next to a park having a very nice Late Macchiato and a aromatic green tea. I drink both one sip from one, one sip from the other. Please don't judge me. I have to leave the coffe in like ten minutes and I am not sure what I want to show the Affini at the meeting and now I have one more idea after I realized there love for bureaucracy. I already held a presentation in my third semester about the typical organizational structures of the Terran Bureaucracy at the municipal level. I therefore need your help to decide what I am going to present.

cute Terran videos	1
The presentation about the Duag	2
The Terran bureaucracy presentation	3

As you might already know the Affini are obsessed with everything they think is cute. Just read hack into their social media apps and read what they are writing. It is truly on another level. They also seem to not think that we could actually harm them in any ways or bring their plans into jeopardy. Those are two glaring weaknesses and I will exploit them.

I have recently discovered what will become my secret weapon for this mission: cat videos from when the internet was brand new, more than 500 years in the past. Those videos are incredibly cute and adorable. No Affini will be able to resist.

Now to my plan: I will travel to a planet already under their control, claiming that I do not like the Accord and do not want to live their anymore. Living under capitalism is very distressing for me, so I want to leave. The Affini will surely understand this. Then I will go to an Affini that looks important and tell them that I have something important that I want to show them. I mean not specifically them, but someone very important, because it is very important. I will also tell them that I would want to show it personally and if they have any concerns I will simply show them that I carry no weapons or microphones on my body and that I do not understand a single word of Affini. They will then trust me and I will join an important meeting where I will show the cat videos which will entrance all of them with their cuteness meaning that they are paralyzed and unable to guide and command the rest which will lead to confusion and inaction down the chain of command.

Is there any way this could fail or should I procede immediately?

Like they still love and adore their florets, but they are getting overwhelmed and it's all just a lot. They might need a break or maybe just a helping vine. Are there possibilities for this?

Also: if a sophont becomes the floret of an Affini, is the Affini then stuck with them?

Let's say the Affini meet another sophont species who is not part of the Compact yet. This species is not hostile towards the Affini and is fine with them taking over. Everything seems to work smoothly for the Affini, there is just one problem: no one is signing the domestication treaty. They aren't against it, it just seems like a lot of work trying to understand and they don't want to sign it without and no one wants to make such a huge decision. Which means that they would either claim that someone else is actually responsible for that, or they would delegate it to someone who would then do the same, or they would resign to not have to do it, because then they are not responsible anymore or they would claim that they can't do it right now for various reasons, but they will totally do it in the future and then just procrastinating on it. After a short while the Affini realize that no one is going to do it, because they either don't want to be responsible for such a big decision or because they are too lazy. What would the Affini do then?

Affini get very old, which means that they can learn a lot, so it would make sense that they could acquire the skills needed to be both which then also makes it possible to use both skills to help all xenosophonts as best as possible using an all-encompassing approach. But how would you call such an Affini?

Before the Affini started their Pacification Campaign, there were secret negotiations. Imagine being a Terran diplomat there, requesting the Treaty in full-length in english, because you can't read Affini, to be fully informed. Imagine then getting the full treaty and realizing that it is incredibly long. You would read it nevertheless and then believe that this a joke text due to how often the word cute is used and all the cutesy text within. Then you would get back to the Affini to request the real document only to realize that this was the real document. You futther realize that there isn't much you could negotiate. You also get to know the Affini a lot better and maybe just maybe you kinda start to like one of them. Edit: Imagine furthermore that you are still trying your best, working non-stop only to be forced to sleep more because the Affini insist on it and refuse to continue the negotiation as long as you are not well while offering that one of them could help you with taking care of you. You accept because then you can focus more on your mission. You delegate more and more to your affini caretaker, so you have more time to negotiate and prepare for negotiations.

Note: while this is not intended as a roleplay, because I don't have the energy to engage in another RP, that doesn't mean you are not allowed to do so. Feel free to do so, but doesn't expect me to participate. Thanks.

Let's imagine you are a TCN soldier (you only know about the Affini through Accord propaganda, which you mostly or totally believe) and your spaceship was just captured by the Affini. You tried to fight back by shooting at the boarding Affini and the last thing you remember is a prick which made you fall asleep in the vines of one Affini. You are now waking up in what looks like an extremely big room which seems to be part of a medical facility. You are realizing that you are wearing a flowery medical gown while laying on an very large and comfy bed. You try to get away, but you realize that you are bound to the bed. This is the moment when I show up, wearing a cute dress and a collar as well as having cat ears and a cat tail.

"Hi, so you owner cannot take you home yet, because she is still in an important meeting and it will probably take a while, so I thought that you might be interested in playing a card game or board game to spend that time in a fun way. You can also ask me questions, if you want to, but playing games makes more fun"

Important Info: I am human in this scenario.

In all the fics I have read, it never seemed like any Affini was ever afraid. I mean afraid in the sense of fearing for your own safety or wellbeing. What I have seen instead is a strong concern for others, but not fear. This also makes sense, because the Affini had no natural predators and the Affini we see are immortal and practically unkillable.

Hi, so I have thought about the motivation of one of my characters in regards to the participation or opposition to capitalism on the basis that this character does not hold capitalism in high regards. I decided to make this character still engage in capitalism and not meaningfully oppose it, because my character does not believe that there is a functioning alternative to capitalism.

Based on that I though about how such a belief (capitalism is the only functioning economic system) might foster inside a person. And a part of my reasoning is propaganda.

It makes a lot of sense to me that the powers that be in the Accord have an interest in keeping capitalism around. It therefore makes also sense that they would propagate capitalist and anti-socialist/communist ideology. I would not expect posters or any overt propaganda, but rather that those ideologies, like "capitalism is the only functioning economic system", socialism/communism does not work and will eventually collapse anyways" and "communism/socialism only results in negative outcomes for everyone" are simply thought of as the objective truth. I would also expect this to be thaught in economy classes in school as well as university mostly as an underlying truth and only sometimes directly.

Do you think that this would make sense based on what we know about the Terran Accord?

Can a floret have two separate first names?

Can an Affini hab be two or more floors high and have a slide, so that florets can slide down for breakfast?

Is it possible to create a floret organization (voluntary of course) to manage trading card games like Yu-gi-oh! to maintain and update a banlist (some cards might have been to strong in hindsight), an official card pool, new card releases (tested for fairness, but not too much, so that there is at least one completely broken card (the banlist needs new members)) and the hosting of events. The card pool and banlist is of course only an optional standard to make playing together easier.

I know that Frostpunk cannot technically take place in the Human Domestication Guide universe, unless we have another Planet which is incredibly similar to our earth somewhere else where humans and all the other animals and plants evolved too. Let's call this Planet Earth 2. On this planet the story of Frostpunk takes place as shown in the game. There is just a slight change: the Affini arrive. How would the reaction differ of the inhabitants of New London shortly before the great storm (point in time 1(pit 1)), directly afterwards (they survive)(point in time 2 (pit 2)) and during the time of Frostpunk 2 (point in time 3 (pit 3)).

I have my own ideas on this scenario. The Affini would most definitively bring all humans on Earth 2 on their ship asap, because the situation is truly not good for those cute sophonts. They might try to convince them to come with them willingly, but they would only try so shortly, due to the environment. They would then start to change the climate back to how it was while probably preserving New London and other cities that weathered or try to weather the cold due to their historical significance (probably as open-air museums).

pit 1: The inhabitants of new London here are very interested in leaving New London for a better and safer place, if such a place existed. They would furthermore probably fear the great storm. The offer of the Affini to get them all to a warm place where they would not have to work at all and can get as much food as they need and far better medicine and be safe from the great storm would be very enticing. If New London becomes religious the clergy might even see the Affini as saviors sent by their gods and a prove of their righteous path and the power of their gods. Which also makes practical sense for the clergy, because the inhabitants of New London cannot resist the Affini, so if the Affini are considered a threat to humans and then New London get's still taken over, the Gods have failed them, which then needs to be explained, if the religion shall not shatter or loose followers. So why not say that the inevitable is a good thing and the reason for this inevitable event is your gods. There might however be distrust and the Captain might try to retain their power.

pit 2: similar to pit 2, just with the difference being that the inhabitants of New London might feel a little bit emboldened because they survived the great storm. The storm however will have left it's mark and the inhabitants of New London will likely have suffered death, illness, medically necessary amputations, very though conditions and exhaustion or near exhaustion. The Affini offer will likely still feel very enticing. But there might be more New Londoners who will believe that they don't need the Affini and choose to remain out of pride (they will be brought to the ships anyways and considered feralists and probably soon florets). Everything else will likely be very similar as in pit 1.

pit 3: New London survived and also sort of thrives. The inhabitants will likely be proud of what they achieved and a lot will see New London as their home. Political fractions also have established themselves. The Affini offer is still enticing, but a lot less so. A lot of inhabitants will feel a connection to New London and more inhabitants than in pit 2 will believe that they do not need the Affini. Accepting the Affini over will likely also become a political and maybe even a divisive issue (even more feralists or future cute florets.) But I am not sure how the fractions will react.

What do you think about this question? Friendly discussions are welcome.

Irl I rarely take drugs and if I take drugs it's only alcohol and at most slightly drunk. In the most extreme case I was still able to think rationally (more complex thoughts, like doing maths were a problem) and say what I would want to say even if I were sober, just in simpler terms and it gave me enough courage to tell a girl in my class that I liked her and appreciated how nice and kind she was during high school and that the nice things she said meant a lot to me. I do not want anything more I do not want to be higher or drunk and I fear it. I would like to try a very small dose of class A, but not more and I would like to stay sober most of the time. Do you think that this is possible for a floret?

Tomorow my mistress will allow me to choose my outfit myself mostly because she got stuff to do and because she trust me. I will show her that this was a mistake. I am going to compile a shirt with the following text: "I work for headpats". Then I am going to go outside our hab (Mistress trusts me to much) and walk around. Affini will see me and think that Mistress doesn't give me enough headpats and makes me work for them. They will of course give me as much headpats as I want and then less I talk the more the details will be filled out through imagination. This will so awkward for Mistress. Mehehe nya, this is truely evil.

So I kinda want to be the floret of an Affini diplomat and help them with their job as their asistent, because I want to do diplomacy and I want do it fir a system I actually like.

I got a funny thought. So we knkw that Affini can make terrans stronger and that body mods are a posibility, would it be possible for a terran floret to get working wings?

Hi, so I got an idea for an HDG story and I want to know what you think about the idea and if I should continue working on it. My writing will improve.

Mr.X(I don’t have a name yet) is a quadrillionaire and owner of the [insert company]. He got more money and political influence then any normal citizen could even dream about having and the future seemed bright for his company. He worked long hours for his company and he did it well. I mean sure, some less fortunate might suffer a bit, but it was their fault for not making it. They should just invest more oft their free time just like him, because even during the times he did not actively work for his company, he attended and hosted social events for the affluent few to create new but mostly to maintain already existing relationships with other affluent and influent people and to maintain his image of course. He enjoyed none of those events, but that wasn’t the point. The important thing was, is and always will be that his company continue to increase its profits. There are a lot of other quadrillionaires and billionaire who were envious of his success and they will attack as soon as they see a sign of weakness. They disliked, no hated him personally and would not stop until he would be a beggar living on the streets of the most desolate place in the entire Accord. None of them ever said so, but he knew they all dreamed about it. Now however there was an even bigger possible threat to his company and therefore wellbeing and safety. They call themselves Affini and are already in control of most of the worlds of the Terran Accord. Some thought it was impossible that the Terran Cosmic Navy could be beaten, but he knew better. He has his network of informants after all. Some would call them spies, just because they sometimes engaged in industrial espionage, but he knew better. He always did. This is also why he knew that those aliens were just pretending to be something best described as communist. It however was trickery, a ruse, a lie. They use free healthcare, housing, food and pretty much free everything to gain sympathies and to bankrupt local competitors to gain a monopoly to profit from eventually. Communism was also a good justification for taking companies from their rightful owner without compensation. This however did not make them communist, far from it. In reality they were ruthless capitalists who would eventually show their true face. An empire based on communism an ideology that miserably failed in the 20^(th) century was a laughable idea. Truly cunning those aliens, for fooling everyone. It was clear that he had to prepare well for his first meeting with those aliens so that he may protect his company or get and high management position. He could be useful, he just needed to show them and they would take him without any hesitation.

So going to a domestication center or just asking is kinda hard. Is it also possible to just shoot the Affini who I want as my Mistress, of course withput hurting them or anyone else?

Affini are as established by the story shapeshifting plant-aliens, who are able to imitate the form of other living beings, just a little bit bigger usually. Would it therefore be possible for an Affini to imitate a bird and fly?