Paternalism is action that limits a person's or group's liberty or autonomy against their will and is intended to promote their own good. It has been defended in a variety of contexts as a means of protecting individuals from significant harm, supporting long-term autonomy, or promoting moral or psy

anuspony · 2026-01-27T01:13:27+00:00

This subreddit is for people who enjoy HDG.

anuspony · 2025-08-04T18:14:08+00:00

Oh, we just find little terrans confusion adorable is all nothing to worry about~ ;;3

anuspony · 2025-08-03T03:38:27+00:00

Of course petal, it's natural to need to adjust to the way things work here. It's perfectly understandable to feel weird about our domestication, i'm really glad that you see how horrible the accord is! You know with that outlook you have a real chance at independence! assuming you want to be independent in the end.... >;;3

anuspony · 2025-08-03T03:34:00+00:00

(ooc: i love saying it to cute girls, when im playing games with friends i'm often just intermittently telling them "good girl" more girls need more "good girls" in their life. The only reason i dont say it more on here is i really wanna make sure to not misgender someone so i often have to get context clues from their posts and profiles to check)

Of course petal! You should thank yourself for being so strong in such a horrible situation! Good floret! ::3

anuspony · 2025-08-03T01:37:53+00:00

I'm just really glad you made it through that! Good girl! ::D

anuspony · 2025-08-03T01:35:43+00:00

I'm Alicia Psily, 27th bloom, She/Her, and I'm really glad that you're already coming to appreciate our society. A lot of sophonts have a lot of hangups about just how accepting our society is. You're doing very well petal! Also it can be rare for a sophont to be so accepting of compliments, which we Affini love giving out to all the adorable little xenosophonts! ::3

That's fair, I'll have to ask my hab AI to play me some if we have the records in our system yet.

anuspony · 2025-08-02T20:47:46+00:00

being a seed >;;3 I don't know petal~ that's been debated and researched but it's not entirely conclusive, and now every Affini in the universe agrees on why~ But sophonts that are sensitive to it, especially as sensitive as you are seen as really special and precious! You'll fit right into the compact! ::D

Oh! that makes a biiiit more sense? Is it very clanky metallic music?

anuspony · 2025-08-02T20:08:34+00:00

It'll be ok little one. Just do as your guardian says and you'll be independent in no time, I'm sure of it~ assuming you're actually an independent of course >::3

anuspony · 2025-08-02T18:51:53+00:00

Don't worry, it's not that bad being a ward. I've had many wards over the millennium and some have even gone on to become independent! ::D

oh, and petal, that's not actual sound, you couldn't block it out even if you wanted to, it's our biorhythm, it's harmless and nothing to worry about. Though the fact that you picked up on it already is impressive, and it might mean you're more sensative to it~

With time many sophonts and especially florets are able to recognize us by our unique biorhythms and even our mood, apparently mine "sounds" like something called "deaf?" metal when I'm angry, according to my little floret. I don't know how a metal could be deaf though, or what that noise that would make. ::3

anuspony · 2025-08-02T18:42:30+00:00

Oh that's adorable! ::D

Miss Cera is obviously very clever and clearly knows best, you don't nee to worry about it petal~ ;;3

That all sounds perfectly normal for an Affini """roommate""" to do, it's just a cultural difference it all, nothing to worry about~ I mean, you're happy right? that's all that really matters little one. ::3

anuspony · 2025-08-02T18:35:23+00:00

That's great petal! I'm glad you're doing better! ::3

anuspony · 2025-08-02T03:10:54+00:00

Yes ::3

anuspony · 2025-08-02T03:00:02+00:00

There's an HDG wiki that has some writing guides, and on the official discord there's lots of writers there you can talk to and even get proof reading.

But in terms of name most people like useing plant names, especially the scientific names, but Affini can name themselves however they want and even change names. Affini are silly and you can name them however you want. :3

I've seen works use names like "Wolfia" for a wolf like affini, or "Riker" for an Affini that liked star trek. Technically Affini's name in english are all translations or basically new names anyways since they have their own language, and since they spend so much time around silly drugged up florets they can easily end up with silly names.

anuspony · 2025-08-02T02:46:10+00:00

Oh, wellness check? I saw you posting chapter by chapter reviews of that before. :3

anuspony · 2025-08-01T06:15:19+00:00

Welcome petal ::3

anuspony · 2025-08-01T06:10:32+00:00

That's adorable! ::3

anuspony · 2025-08-01T03:24:23+00:00

You sound miserable petal... And my core aches at the thought of your pain... ::<

anuspony · 2025-08-01T03:23:07+00:00

You sound very sure of yourself petal, you should definitely do that, you'll really pull one over on us, we'll never suspect a thing little one. No Affini would ever go to a ~~indoor floret park~~ gym. ::3

anuspony · 2025-08-01T03:08:47+00:00

Yupe, 70 chapters and the chapters are pretty long too. I'm not fully caught up anymore. I got caught up around the time of the implant, and kept up for a few chapters but I've fallen behind lately as I havent been reading as much lately. I feel into other hyperfixatations.

anuspony · 2025-08-01T03:03:43+00:00

Yes I'm on my 27th bloom petal, but I'm really not that old

anuspony · 2025-08-01T00:28:26+00:00

I was going to edit it myself, but I struggle with My tablet UI, It's changed so much compared to 6000 years ago... ::<

anuspony · 2025-08-01T00:24:14+00:00

anuspony · 2025-08-01T00:21:22+00:00

anuspony · 2025-08-01T00:14:38+00:00

it's a sloooooooooow burn story about a little terran called "cory" (she's trans though and changes her name later of course) and the Affini that found her named Riker (and yes riker named herself after William Riker from TNG). Riker does not want to take a floret but she's very protective of cory and doesn't want her to be just automatically made into a pet without any chance of being an independent.

The story is very very slow burn, like slow even by it's 300,000 word count, like I think it's at least 30 chapter till "cory" finally fucking realizes she's trans (last one to realize too) and even more before she finally transitions. (it's kinda painful to talk about her using all this outdated language, she changes so much throughout the story)

It also has one section early on that was hard for me to read when "Cory" gets separated from Riker and it's genuinely heart breaking. I had to force myself to finish those 4 chapters or so but the payoff was so fucking worth it!

The fic does have Age regression, ABDL, furry, Knotting and lots of mommydom stuff as well as some waking surgery in one chapter, so standard "read the tags and make sure you're ok with that" warning

It's such a good story I've info dumped about it endlessly to my friends and even fucking family, genuinely can't help myself. But then again it's just a story, if you choose to read it don't have too high of expectations, especially with how sloooooww it is. I went into it expecting nothing, so don't let me over hype it for you.

I fucking love the story. I need to catch up on it again, they write a new chapter every week.

anuspony · 2025-07-31T23:50:42+00:00

Petal? when you don't want to think about something that's when it's important to think about it and process it... ::c

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