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I would suggest fleshing out what your planet is before focusing on your creatures. That would give you a base to build upon. It would be a much much more natural way to go about this.

You will find the previously mentioned documentary very helpful to do this.

For more specific answers take a look at individual animals.

You could have dragons that glide with their skin flaps like flying squirrels instead of actually flying.

Burrowing dragons as I mentioned taking inspiration from the biology of badgers.

Dragons like tree frogs and chameleons with the ability to camouflage and have sticky pads on their feet.

Ice dragons with thick layers of fat. White scales for camouflage and countercurrent heat exchange system for the cold climate. Hey maybe you could have cuddling dragons.

I’d say have variations in sizes and environments. Some could reproduce like elephants and once in a long time and are going extinct. Others could be pests essentially. There is a lot of room for the differences you want.

With the whole alien element you could also add genetic influence. Maybe add genetic or tech enhancements that changed them.

From a world building perspective I’d suggest adding like evolutionary history. Maybe finding cave paintings or fossils.

Also there’s a documentary I’d like to recommend called ‘Alien Worlds’ which explores how life would evolve on different planets and it would be VERY VERY useful to you I believe.

Well for starters I’d suggest utilising geography. Using your topology to create differences will make a richer and more natural world. Your creatures should make sense in their environment and not be there in spite of it.

Is it a specie that’s in the dessert? Well take inspiration from desert animals and give it those traits, sand resistance, burrowing behaviour. A dragon that uses claws to dig itself dens. Being nocturnal. Specialised eyes.

Maybe one that’s on a marsh like topology. There you could have webbed claws for swimming. Water resistance and maybe have a powerful tail to help swim.

What advice do you need? I’m sorry, didn’t quite understand what you’re looking for

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I have definitely been personally victimised by honk

https://literature.cafe/post/10596641

I love what pronell said and you could go that route! Although I’d also like to suggest going allegorical as an option.

There was a poem I read, which used a snake bite as an allegory for SA. I can’t seem to remember the name. I think it was by Francesca Lia Block although I’m not certain.

Depending on why you want to write that as part of your characters story you can adjust the allegory. If its about the abuse of power and the effects it leaves on people that snake allegory would do you well.

If its about being realistic, that won’t work. Unless you want to make it like an adjusted memory. Smth the victim doesn’t wish to remember and hence remembers smth else instead.

Off the top of my head:

• A rose losing it’s petals to represent loss of innocence/ beauty.

• Trespassers destroying someone’s garden, a violation of boundaries.

• A painting that’s torn, destruction of ones sense of self.

Good luck, but before you make your decision I suggest you make sure you know why you want to write about it. That’ll help you make the correct decision for you.

All 4 words sounds like words for a fart that kids might use.

Okay meemage might be a bit more disgusting

That’s a cool explanation, thanks!

It’s why he got it on his amr

Different language?

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slrpnk.net is another but for some reason i didnt consider them as interest based. Probably bc science, tech and nature are everywhere.

Wow I hadnt heard of a single book there before this. Incredible how much you can read, your worst years are better than my best lol.

Ps. Id like to recommend Basti for you as an emtry from pakistan tho it looks like youre going alphabetically. Wouldve recommended ‘patras ke mazameen’ but that probably wont translate well. Also you get to add lemmy as a source of book recommendations.

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The full essence of a person goes beyond the narratives constructed around them, like the richness of personal experiences, thoughts, and emotions that are beyond the scope of any story or snippet.

Having said that, I like your point and perhaps capturing a snipett of a person is all we can do anyways (Outside of ourselves). Which is exactly what stories do too