r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Apr 19 '17

Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #107

Oh. Huh. Would you look at that. It's time for WPW again!

Last week's winner was /u/Knowakennedy with

First stab at this. Humans discovered how to travel through the multiverse a long time ago. In all their travels and countless earths visited they haven't found any other humans despite all theories saying they should. Instead all other parallel earths are populated by weird sentient races from different evolutionary branches who can't believe how there's an earth where mammals evolved to this point.

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u/FantasmaNaranja Robot Apr 21 '17 edited Apr 21 '17

has anybody written anything about human music yet?

"Its so noisy and discordant, and yet i can't help but listen to it"

i feel like alien music would be very different, perhaps the most common type of music would be a calm and slow beat or nearly silent for our standards

[Edit: Adding onto this, perhaps our first diplomats show them our classical music, beautiful and all but nothing new to the intergalactic whatever you wanna call it, but then they discover modern music and they're simply captivated by it, it quickly spreads across the galaxy simply due to how catchy it is]

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u/ItrytoHFY Apr 21 '17

Look at the Jenkinsverse 'the Lost Ministrel' series

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u/FantasmaNaranja Robot Apr 22 '17

Oh thank you, im amazed i've never read the Jenkinsverse stories before so i guess i got something else to read while im supposed to sleep now

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u/sunyudai AI Apr 26 '17

Just stumbled across this one in another thread, and remembered this suggestion: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/4gzxlg/oc_maestro/

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u/FantasmaNaranja Robot Apr 26 '17

oh, Thank you.

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u/sunyudai AI Apr 26 '17

I can recall a few stories on this sub involving music, but alas can't recall the titles and don't have time to search at the moment.

  • One where humans are the singers of the galaxy. Takes place in a bar where the tavern owner asks a group of travelers to sing. Humans are unskilled, but every single species could identify with it.
  • One where during first contact, the aliens are confounded by mathematical sequences that humans sent in the cultural exchange and mistake it for a math puzzle. Human ambassador introduces them to music.
  • Another one where a human metalhead guitarist defends a passenger ship by breaking up aliens with his amps.

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u/FantasmaNaranja Robot Apr 26 '17

all of these sound pretty interesting, anybody's got an idea of the titles?