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Expanded an acronym. Not everyone knows SF stands for Science Fiction.


Related tropes include FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither (fantastic beings consider humans to be fantastic beings) and DoubleBlindWhatIf (sf writers in alternate histories try to imagine what our history is like).

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Related tropes include FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither (fantastic beings consider humans to be fantastic beings) and DoubleBlindWhatIf (sf (Science Fiction writers in alternate histories try to imagine what our history is like).
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* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5-ayYTMiQ Cubicles & Careers]]'' series features a group of fantasy creatures playing a RPG where they're all office workers.
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[[caption-width-right:330:Elf parents worry that ''[[Tabletopgame/DungeonsAndDragons Houses & Humans]]'' will lead their children to [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Melkorism]].]]
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* In ''[[https://www.chrisroberson.net/edisons-frankenstein/ Edison’s Frankenstein]]'', the inhabitants of a [[TwoFistedTales two fisted tale]] world read a pulp magazine about [[DoubleBlindWhatIf a world where the]] [[AdvancedAncientHumans antediluvian ruins]] had never been rediscovered and [[PhlebotinumInducedSteampunk reverse-engineered]].
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* In ''Literature/HomeroomsAndHallPasses'', the [[StandardFantasySetting Bríandalörian]] main characters play a role-playing game set in what resembles a twenty-first century middle school.
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* ''ComicBook/TopTen'', set in a city where everybody has superpowers, features the incredibly popular comic book "Businessman", with the tagline "You'll Believe a Man Can't Fly!".

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* ''ComicBook/TopTen'', set in a city where [[EveryoneIsASuper everybody has superpowers, superpowers]], features the incredibly popular comic book "Businessman", with the tagline [[Film/SupermanTheMovie "You'll Believe a Man Can't Fly!".Fly!"]].
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* ''Webcomic/MoringMarkTOHComics'' shows that witches and demons have their own Tabletop RPGs centering around life in the Human Realm. The Human Appreciation Society [[[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/s304rd/moringmark_journey_through_the_human_realm_a/ is shown playing at one point]] (with [[TokenHuman Luz]] sitting in as the lore expert) and features such dangerous encounters like asking to speak to the manager at a coffee shop when their membership card is expired.

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* ''Webcomic/MoringMarkTOHComics'' shows that witches and demons have their own Tabletop RPGs [=RPGs=] centering around life in the Human Realm. The Human Appreciation Society [[[[https://www.[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/s304rd/moringmark_journey_through_the_human_realm_a/ is shown playing at one point]] (with [[TokenHuman Luz]] sitting in as the lore expert) and features such dangerous encounters like asking to speak to the manager at a coffee shop when their membership card is expired.
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-->'''Gus:''' ''[After Matt rolls a 1]'' Oh no, before you can even finish that sentence, he smiles and says "I am the Manager!"\\

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-->'''Gus:''' ''[After Matt rolls a 1]'' Oh no, before you can even finish that sentence, he smiles and says "I am the Manager!"\\Manager!"
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* ''Webcomic/MoringMarkTOHComics'' shows that witches and demons have their own Tabletop RPGs centering around life in the Human Realm. The Human Appreciation Society [[[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/s304rd/moringmark_journey_through_the_human_realm_a/ is shown playing at one point]] (with [[TokenHuman Luz]] sitting in as the lore expert) and features such dangerous encounters like asking to speak to the manager at a coffee shop when their membership card is expired.
-->'''Gus:''' ''[After Matt rolls a 1]'' Oh no, before you can even finish that sentence, he smiles and says "I am the Manager!"\\
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/PotsworthAndCompany'' had the heroes visit Supertown, the part of the [[DreamLand Dream Zone]] where all the superhero themed dreams happen. Nick, the kid who is a superhero in the dreamworld meets a bratty [[DreamPeople local child]] named Wonderkid who collects SliceOfLife and BadassNormal themed media, while Wonderkids love for mundane people is genuine he tries to use it as part of a scheme to make Nick take his place.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Caliborn, an alien from a species where mates violently attack each other for eons, requests of Dirk filthy, deviant alien porn to draw -- by which he means human courtship and fluffy romance.
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* A recurring joke across the internet regarding the FurryFandom is that the world their [=OCs=] live in has "made up" the concept of humans. ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'', for example, imagines an entire convention just for furries [[https://xkcd.com/629/ whose fursonas like pretending to be humans]].

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* A recurring joke across the internet regarding the FurryFandom UsefulNotes/FurryFandom is that the world their [=OCs=] live in has "made up" the concept of humans. ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'', for example, imagines an entire convention just for furries [[https://xkcd.com/629/ whose fursonas like pretending to be humans]].

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* ''Big Bun Burgers'' takes place in a world of anthro rabbits, so its equivalents to anthro art and characters often use humans in place of the typical animals:
** One strip is set just before the staff deals with customers from the nearby human convention. One particular customer shows up in a human suit that resembles an office worker and asks for a conspicuous amount of mayonnaise, along with [[NoodleImplements how many people can legally fit into their bathroom]].
** Sprangbo the Christmas Human was a formerly popular Christmas character. Dolls of him, however, were noted to be unsettling to look at.
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* In ''Literature/BarryTrotter and The Unnecessary Sequel'', Barry's son, Nigel plays a game called ''Accountants & Attorneys''.
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One possible answer is that they enjoy fantastical stories, or play MagicAmpersand games, [[JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites about people like us, who visit "shopping malls" and do things with a mystical force known as "science".]]

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One possible answer is that they enjoy fantastical stories, or play MagicAmpersand games, {{Tabletop RPG}}s, [[JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites about people like us, who visit "shopping malls" and do things with a mystical force known as "science".]]
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-->''"Ah — I am a golem. Robots are a thing of fiction."''

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-->''"Ah ->''"Ah — I am a golem. Robots are a thing of fiction."''



* A major part of The Folk Lords by Creator/MattKindt, the Main character goes on his coming of age quest based on the dreams of our reality, which looks like a mythical kingdom compared to his StandardFantasySetting world.

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* A major part of The Folk Lords by Creator/MattKindt, the Main character goes on his coming of age coming-of-age quest based on the dreams of our reality, which looks like a mythical kingdom compared to his StandardFantasySetting world.
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* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': Jason and Marcus once played a game called "Houses and Humans", whose characters were [[WriteWhoYouKnow suspiciously similar to the Fox family]] (except the youngest son was President of the Universe).
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dresd->''"Ah — I am a golem. Robots are a thing of fiction."''

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dresd->''"Ah -->''"Ah — I am a golem. Robots are a thing of fiction."''
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->''"Ah — I am a golem. Robots are a thing of fiction."''

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->''"Ah dresd->''"Ah — I am a golem. Robots are a thing of fiction."''



* "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" by Creator/NeilGaiman is set in a GothicHorror world where everyone lives in an OldDarkHouse and works like ''Literature/TheCastleOfOtranto'' and ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfUdolpho'' are considered realist literary fiction. The protagonist is trying -- in between feeding the MadwomanInTheAttic and defeating his EvilTwin -- to write a serious literary novel in that vein, but eventually admits that he finds the real world too boring to write about and instead starts writing a fantasy novel about a suburban housewife feeling dissatisfied with her marriage.

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* "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves "Literature/ForbiddenBridesOfTheFacelessSlaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" by Creator/NeilGaiman is set in a GothicHorror world where everyone lives in an OldDarkHouse and works like ''Literature/TheCastleOfOtranto'' and ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfUdolpho'' are considered realist literary fiction. The protagonist is trying -- in between feeding the MadwomanInTheAttic and defeating his EvilTwin -- to write a serious literary novel in that vein, but eventually admits that he finds the real world too boring to write about and instead starts writing a fantasy novel about a suburban housewife feeling dissatisfied with her marriage.
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-->--'''Reggie''', ''Webcomic/TheSwordInterval''

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-->--'''Reggie''', -->-- '''Reggie''', ''Webcomic/TheSwordInterval''



* In ''[[VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls]]'', one area of the dormitory at Sorcerer University is occupied by group of gamers playing "''Malls & Muggers''".

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* In ''[[VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls]]'', one area of the dormitory at Sorcerer University is occupied by a group of gamers playing "''Malls & Muggers''".
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* A recurring joke across the internet regarding the FurryFandom is that the world their [=OCs=] live in has "made up" the concept of humans. ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'', for example, imagines an entire convention just for furries [[https://xkcd.com/629/ whose fursonas like pretending to be humans]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', one popular game in an intergalactic arcade is ''Roy'', a BrainUploading VR experience where you play the mundane life of a human man from birth to death.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', one popular game in an intergalactic arcade is ''Roy'', ''Roy: A Life Well-Lived'', a BrainUploading VR experience where you play the mundane life of a human man from birth to death.

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