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    In a lone bar far from her home, an esoteric plant tends her bar each and every day. Nobody knows much about her, but what is clear is that she cares for others and will do anything she can to help them. That is, if she can resist the pressure of living in a galaxy without her people.

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    24 Jan 2026

  2. Rec 19

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    Elena lives in the Compact. She doesn't have to work, she has a compiler that'll spit out whatever fetish gear she fancies, and she's happily independent. Everything's going great — except her love life. She's bounced from relationship to relationship, and none seem to stick. No one's fault, things simply don't work out, and so she spends many a night alone, at home, wrapped up in latex and watching the lewdest streamer she can find.

    Until she meets Ophrys Boquila, Third Bloom, at a game night hosted by a mutual friend. The fashionable affini, perhaps unusually, seems happy to merely date Elena, but Elena wonders if that can work. Affini are Affini, after all, and the urge to domesticate seem to be so deeply ingrained as to be unshakeable. What does it mean to let yourself fall in love with an affini like you would anyone else — and what will become of Elena if she does?

    This story is a companion novel to Sui Generis and begins roughly around Chapter 13 of that story; you should read Sui Generis first if you haven't already!

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  3. Rec 30

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    When Langley is captured by the Affini, she learns the terrible secret behind the Affini's mastery of the fifth fundamental force.

     

    (An absolutely ridiculous fic based on GlitchyRobo's story, Human Domestication Guide.)

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    Edgar won the great game of capitalism. He had it all: a private O'Neill cylinder, a ship-of-theseus body that gave him decades of life beyond his threescore-and-ten, and access to the finest meals imaginable. He dined like a king for every meal of every day, spent his every free moment honing the craft of cooking. Then the game was canceled. The Affini arrived, and it was only by capitulating that he saved himself. Now he's playing their game: freedom (such as it is) or domestication, the stakes his very soul. For five years, he stayed on top. Then he met Phorada.

    Phorada Insignis, Eighteenth Bloom, master mnemonic cartographer and culinary xenoanthropologist. If a sophont has cooked it, he's eaten it, identified each of its components with his impossibly sensitive palate, cooked it for himself, and written a book about it. The Milky Way is new territory for him, a culinary frontier populated with cultures and sophonts yet to be catalogued — but it's the Terran Accord, a culture living in the shadow of mass extinction and culinary collapse, that fascinates him the most. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, Phorada's going to do what he does best: turn memories into meals.

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  5. Rec 82

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    Tacey is an independent sophont who works at Lucky's, a coffee & tea cafe on Nepenthe, recently liberated by the Affini Compact. Life is great and only getting better — and then the affini of her dreams walks in the door and knocks everything off-kilter.

    For the HDG community's February Fluff Fics 2024, this is a tale of love, tea, silly misunderstandings, flornography, and raunchy workplace sex. I put the noncon flag on all my Human Domestication Guide fics just because of the nature of the setting, but everyone in Reading the Leaves enthusiastically consents to all the horny stuff they do, promise!

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    20 Jan 2026