#humans are space orcs fandom

[all-eyes-no-dragon]

I wanted to rec this for a while. This is the most amazing humans are space orcs story I've ever read. It's called, "In Search of Home".

It's an original work so there's no fandom you need to know to read it, it's over 362,000 words, which is more than decently long, and has an ongoing sequel that's surpassed the word count of the first story (we love getting closure 💞). It has a happy ending (not a spoiler, it says in the tags) so don't worry about your heart breaking too much.

I'm rereading the first story and I feel kind of cool knowing the alien words.

I cried reading it, I laughed, I felt victorious. I love it so much and want more people to know it exists because original works aren't as popular on ao3.

Mind the tags!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43547319

Summary:

[rewrittenwrongs]

It is late and I am quite tired so this might be incoherent but alien music. Alien instruments and alien anthems. Alien nursery rhymes. You know how certain pitches and tones just sound sad? To some other race they sound happy. Things that sound uplifting and happy to us use notes that are sad and melancholy to them.

[mumblesplash]

do you ever end up accidentally getting super attached to a trope so specific and rare you don't even know how to look for it? 'space aliens failing to understand that a human showing teeth usually isn't a threat display' isn't even an ao3 tag. finding that shit in published fiction or tv shows is next to impossible

[sonicasura]

Shin Godzilla feels like the type to follow and act like a super affectionate cat to anyone who could make their pain go away. This iteration of our favorite classic monster is a mutated animal whose genetic structure is highly unstable. Shin Godzilla can evolve to counter any serious threat but the price for this ability is constant unimaginable pain.

You can compare it to Monster Hunter's Deviljho, a powerful Brute Wyvern whose species evolved so fast that it became detrimental. They burn through their energy too fast and will devour entire ecosystems just to maintain themselves. Even Deviljho chicks will cannibalize each other if there isn't enough food.

The worst thing about Shin Godzilla is that he wants to live. Despite the immense pain, he continues to evolve to survive whatever the military threw at him. His entire being is a consequence of nuclear weapons and radiation. Shin adapted like any animal would in order to survive such a hazardous environment.

It's pretty clear that his DNA is unstable hence the pain and unstable mutations. Meditating the pain would be easier to handle than trying to stabilize genetic code. Also the only opening to do so is before Shin emerges to run around Tokyo i.e 1st or 2nd.

When you consider humans have a tendency for taking care of creatures in trouble, it won't be unsurprising someone spots the mutant and tries to help. I bet Shin would latch himself onto anyone who would give him kindness or compassion. A mixed bag considering the bloke will probably have a giant affectionate mutant follow them everywhere.

Kinda like Godzilla the Animated Series with Zilla Jr but its Shin whose evolutionary pattern has become unpredictable. The new caretaker would do their best to hide him from danger so any potential incident that leads to further evolution beyond legs is unpredictable. Shin Godzilla's evolutionary path could alter through other factors than just life or death. Kinda like a genetically fucked up Eevee.

What do you think?

[mollyjimbly]

im just feeling amazed at the internet and how anyone can make a story and then a whole multiverse can grow from it, so many different ideas and au's and gorgeous things and memories. you can practically build an entire universe right inside your head.

im looking directly at you humans are space orcs ❤️ /pos

[luimagines]

Another request because my brain has decided to start working somewhat the chain finding someone not from their world

This one... Is very vague. So don't mind if I take many creative liberties XD

Masterlist

Part one will include Wild, Legend and Hyrule.

Content under the cut!

Wild

Wild wasn't sure if he was meant to be looking at this person at the moment.

She had a high ponytail, with their quiver and shield strapped to their back. The sheath which held her sword rested at their hip, a very familiar sheikah slate was hooked on the other side.

She was blond with blue eyes and burn marks all over the side of their face in a very familiar pattern.

Wild gulped and stuck a hand out, trying to mean no harm. "Uh, hi. Why do you look like me?"

She eyes him with suspicion and slowly puts her hand in his. "I could be asking you the same thing."

"Hey Cub, have you seen- oh god there's two of them." Twilight fumbles out of the surrounding foliage. He blurts his words without thinking and points.

The girl eyes him with just as much suspicion, borderline glaring at him. Twilight shrinks back somewhat, not expecting this. "Hello...Can we help you?"

"You look familiar." She mutters and but shakes her head. "Where am I? Who are you people?"

Twilight coughs. "My name is Link and his name is Link. We're... actually not from here. But you can call me Rancher or Twilight. I respond to both. He goes by Champion or Wild. What's your name?"

She takes a step back, very purposefully looking them both up and down.. "...My name is Linkle..."

Twilight looks just as lost as Wild feels. Wild shakes his head, smacking his cheeks for good measure. He hopes that there's no triggered memory because of this. That would really bad at the moment.

"A new hero maybe?" He ventures tentatively. "We're going to have to tell the others."

She looks even more on guard. Her hand goes to rest on the hilt of her sword. "Others?"

Twilight nods, putting his hands up. "We have a group of others named Link...We're all heroes of Hyrule. Sound familiar?"

She doesn't relax but she nods. She makes no move to follow them though. "Where's Prince Zelden?"

Wild frowns. "Never heard of him....There's Princess Zelda though but she's not here right now."

Everything about her reminds him of himself but it's never been so... off. Is it because she's a girl or too similar to him? Wild cant figure it out.

He looks over Twilight as he pinches the bridge of his nose. He's getting a headache. Wild isn't sure why though. She's his look alike- Oh wait, that might be why.

Wild offers his arm like any good gentleman (Sky would be proud). "We all have questions, I'm sure. Together we can both try to figure out what's happening. Would you like to join us for lunch? I was about to start the fire."

She slowly reaches for his arm and nods. "...Yes. I'd like that actually. Thank you."

Twilight shakes his head. "I'll let the boy know we have company... Please don't set anything on fire."

"...I need to start the fire though."

"You know what I mean."

The girl next to him giggles. "I have a friend just like him. She tells me the same thing all the time."

Wild smiles. "She sounds fun."

Legend

He had to crane his neck to get a decent look at them.

They were huge, as big as a hinox. They had four arms and a massive maw full of razor sharp teeth. They has large scales on their body in a brilliant green color. The closest thing Legend could compare them to were beatle wings but they must much larger and hard as a rock.

"Admiring my armor?" They said. Their voice shook Legend to his core. Something about it spoke of power and restraint.

He finds himself nodding. "It's armor then? How do you put in on? There's no strap of anything."

They laugh. "Of course not. It's a part of my body. They've only gotten this strong because of all the times I've torn them off."

They poke their shells. It makes a small dull sound. They bring it closer for Legend to touch as well. He does, only because he has no idea what would be considered weird in this circumstance. It's smooth but warm. Solid. "Did it hurt, Sniper?"

"Of course." They pull back. "The blood is always a pain to clean up but it's necessary where I'm from. My people pick from the toughest warriors and strongest soldiers. There's someone I have my eyes on so I hope to prove myself tough enough to form a life bond."

Legend nods. He understands only the need to peacock to catch attention. He doesn't understand the rest of it.

"The Drev are a war species." They explain, as if that's an normal to say. "We pride ourselves in being unbeatable and we train our young from a young age to be a merciless on the battle field as out predecessors."

Legend finds himself only getting more freaked out by this conversation. Is this normal? Can someone call him or something? Get him out of this!

"We..." He tries to explain himself and his people. But how does he not piss off this giant behemoth of a creature?

They had met up while they were tracking down the shadow. The shadow ran out of a portal like their life depended on it and this...Drev, came out chasing him. It appears they they did enough damage to be thirsty for more.

It's unnerving.

No one really had a choice when they said they were traveling with hem now to track down the shadow and given their battle prowess... they weren't going to turn them away from that either.

"You are all soft and squishy." The drev pokes his leg. "It's incredibly you've all survived as long as you have."

They laugh and Legend is inclined to let them have their moment. Of course it's obvious that they've all had close calls. What does he even say to that?

Hyrule

Hyrule knew by this point that there were many worlds beside his own. His own world has changed so much that he could hardly recognize it outside of his own existence. It might as well be a different place entirely.

So when he comes face to face with a person who's entire bottom half is a serpentine, he's not exactly inclined to ask many questions at first.

Their eyes are bright and vibrant. Between the slits down the center and their yellow color, Hyrule finds himself drawn further into their differences.

Their tail is black with orange bands. Similar scales trail up their uncovered torso and over their joints and arms. Their hands are completely covered by the scales and end with razor sharp black tinted claws. The scales become more patchy by their neck, face and hairline and end when long black hair starts to grow out of their scalp.

Hyrule seems to focus more on the their face, trying to make the situation as less awkward as possible. It only polite to hold relative eye contact. "Hello."

They slither away, crouching lower to the ground.

The others shout and cry out from just behind him. The creature has made itself known but apparently by mistake.

"Hyrule! Are you hurt?" Warrior calls out, running with his weapon out.

Hyrule forces himself to his feet. The sight of the new being has left him a little unsteady, but he doesn't want them to attack for no reason. "I'm ok! We're all good here!"

That gets them to slow down at least.

Legend makes it to him first with the help of his pegasus boots. Hyrule is tackled into a hug and pushed behind the other hero. "What on earth?"

"This is new to you too?"

"I've never seen anyone like them."

They slither back even farther and start going up a tree.

"Wait!" Hyrule moves away form Legend, even putting his hand on the outstretched blade to lower it. "Don't go away! We won't hurt you."

"But will they hurt us?" Warrior slide in, also holding his weapon.

"They didn't even do anything!" Hyrule tries to defend. "We just crashed together, that's all."

"Looked more like an ambush to me."

The snake being pulls themself higher into the tree, never taking their eyes off of the young boys as they begin to gather around.

Hyrule bounces his knee nervously and coughs. "Do you have a name?"

The person tilts their head and looks to the rest of them.

Legend clicks his tongue. "Do they even speak?"

"....Kara."

The entire group stills.

"My name is Kara."

Part 2

[riddlemethisjeremy]

Jeremy what's a furry

Xeno bumbled across the spaceship, searching for his new human companion, “Jeremy?” He called, “Jeremy, I have a question!”

Jeremy appeared in the doorway, having scuttled over from the room he’d been given in the ship, “What’s up?” He asked, vague concern flashing in his eyes.

“I have been “surfing your inter webs,” Xeno began, cocking his head lightly to the side.

Jeremy let out a slow breath, “Oh god.”

“I found something, and it confuses me. You humans have a very complicated language, and your culture is very complex.”

“What did you find, Xeno?”

“Jeremy, what is a furry and why do your people hate them?”

Jeremy sighed heavily, “First of all, I don’t think they were hated? Just regularly made fun of, and that was because they were humans who would create humanoid animal ocs, and cosplay or identify as them? And uh. The community had a few. Questionable components.”

“Were you ever a furry, Jeremy?” Zeno asked, seemingly filled with genuine interest.

Jeremy quickly shook his head, “No. No it was not my cup of tea.”

[differentdancesfandom]

I have risen from the dead

(and fuck, what happened to Tumblr? Is Xkit not working anymore??)

If you're not subscribed to my AO3 author account, you may have missed:

They're Your Paladins, Allura (genfic, humans are weird) (1,159 words)

Pobody's Nerfect (Lotidge fluff) (469 words)

Let Me Cut In (Lotidge if you squint, fluff) (738 words)

These were also from the 2023 Fandom Empire Monopoly challenge on Dreamwidth, and I hadn't realized that I never posted them to Ao3 despite them being short and complete.

More old VLD challenge fills from FE Monopoly 23 and half-finished drafts to come; good news is they're more substantial than the three above, bad news is because they're 2k or more words, it's taking longer to edit and polish.

And more new stuff to come, too. As if my brain wasn't always working on new ways to throw these two together.

I know it's 2024, and even if y'all are quiet, I know you're still out there!

NGL I was very sad to come back and see only one new fic tagged Lotor/Pidge since my shortfics in 2023 though. Was kinda hoping more people would join the ship.

Yes yes, be the change you want to see. Okay, I'm gonna captain this ship.

[aimportantdragoncollector]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki & Kirishima Eijirou, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Inko, Bakugou Katsuki & Yagi Toshinori | All Might Characters: Bakugou Katsuki, Kirishima Eijirou, Midoriya Inko, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Izuku, Iida Tenya, Akaguro Chizome | Stain Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, Humans are space orcs, Bakugou Katsuki-centric, Bakugou Katsuki & Kirishima Eijirou Friendship, Angry Pomeranian Bakugou Katsuki, Fan Bakugou Katsuki, Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Parental Midoriya Inko, Bakugou Katsuki is Bad at Feelings, Kirishima Eijirou is a Ray of Sunshine, Hero Killer Stain Arc (My Hero Academia), Protective Iida Tenya, Crack Series: Part 7 of A Guide to Death Worlders Summary:

Kiri-Shima has decided to become best friends with the new human student Katsuki Bakugo. And he’s not taking no for an answer.

[nerdybluephoenix]

Next Page (will come back to link it)

Short comic I'm working on

To manage your expectations, it's not a full story. It's really just a test comic. I originally made a sketch to practice comic-making. Then thought: "this isn't bad, I should see what this looks like cleaned up." I proceeded to make a 3D spaceship model for it so I didn't have to waste time agonizing over the ship's angles, chose a color scheme, cleaned up some sketches, and now we're here

[catherinerandom-blog]

Guys, guys, guys.

Do you guys know about the 'Humans are Space Orcs' trope?

[nine9000]

this is a style you probs wont see again but i hope you enjoy!!! this was fanart for the amazing star over on ao3 <333

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42219675/chapters/106002009#workskin

[a-little-birdie]

Okay, if I started to write about a ROTTMNT space Au but with the humans are space orcs vibe how would y’all feel about that? Because I’ve got the bare minimum of an idea for a story right now and I’d love to grow on it with you guys.

(Ps. I might do some x reader stuff with this as well)

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Does anyone else remember when humans are space orcs was all over tumblr. Anyways. Can’t believe I haven’t posted about my Kirby space orcs au ever

[motherarts]

What is your main fandom(s)?

mkay lets see uuhhhh

well i like undertale, welcome home, hazbin hotel, fnaf (kinda), and uhhhhh there's like one i'm forgettingg? but that's fine

[chibikittens]

a little sad and frustrated again over HFY. I used to love all these stories, and I’ll admit I haven’t been involved in it lately so I could be completely wrong, but are there any... good stories anymore?

(ngl this is just a vent post about nothing important bc I love to complain, but hey if you have any recommendations... ;_;)

It feels like so many of them steal ideas from one another, and- fine. It IS a fandom, after all. That’s kind of the point. But it seems like so many stories out there are just really wonky (barely there) science facts without any real overarching story. Or stories with interesting ideas but NO drive to explore them. It’s just “woooa humans have this funny organ/bio-chemical and it makes them WAY BETTER than these weak silly aliens who have the personality of a wet napkin haha!” (which is its own problem too ngl)

(and some of them are like, ‘posted 8 hrs ago’ and blatantly rips off a 5m youtube video that just came out about the exact same super niche trivia knowledge... like... cmon)

And then there are the... pro-war, weirdly eugenics-y ones out there that make you raise your brow at the moral. Like all the stories where humans (or whoever) have to prove their personhood, and then... they do. They prove it, as if they needed to in the first place. Or the ones like “fuck with humanity and find out” and then the aliens fuck around and they find out, and there’s SO MANY of those, why are there so many...?

And like I’m not saying there can’t be stories with complex and flawed societies! I’ve read great stories out there like that! It just doesn’t feel like those are being written anymore, and any sense of nuance has been lost, exchanged for this sense of genetic or mental superiority, and it’s so off-putting...

And I think it’s frustrating ‘cause I have read super amazing stories that frankly, baffling that they’re free?? Like, published-book-quality stories I would’ve been glad to pay for.  I remember Prey, an unfinished story where humans were one of two of the only predatory species in the galaxy - and sure, it wasn’t perfect, the enemy was genetically evil. But, as the human race was being shown in its complexities within the story, and their predatory-nature was mostly political and they directly acknowledge the more nuanced hunter-gatherer type of background humanity has had, maybe there would’ve eventually been something like that for the other species too. Sad it ended, but it was showing a lot of promise for unraveling more nuanced ideas along the way.

And then there’s Betty Adam’s short stories! Where, yes, the humans are wacky but their alien counterparts are just as wacky, too! And, not only are the alien cultures unique, but so are the individuals within the cultures as well! And they’re not all just drab fucking dry and salty fucking white-coat scientists! (Just god how much I have come to loath that character sub-type) (I should just be reading those ones honestly, like can I tell you how fucking refreshing it was that, instead of reading another adrenaline-story ((you know the ones they’re ALL the same)) I read a short story where a cleaner wouldn’t start cleaning cause someone moved his favorite broom, and an insectoid person was like ‘what does it matter lol also you have a favorite broom???’)

And then the shorter stories that actually had heart to them, stories that were smaller in scale but just as passionate as the galaxy-wide stories. I remember this one where a man crashes onto a planet, and is rescued by the aliens living there, only they don’t live as long as he does... he ages so slow in comparison that he becomes a sort of living historian/weather predictor for them, and when he finally dies at the end, its like such a profound shift, like this man who has seen generations after generations of this species live and grow and thrive, and he’s just... gone, too. Like everything else that came before.

I dunno. I just needed to vent about it I guess. I miss those stories. Maybe they still exist and I just can’t find them because the sites they’re posted to aren’t really meant for story-archiving and they become buried and lost, but if they’re there then I cannot find them, and I get sad thinking about that too.