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We are not the same. You endure the world's cruelty, and I flee from it.

My 14th century boys, from left to right: Osric the physician, and Lovell the vagrant. The main characters from my comic project, I Saw Its Halo.

Dragons

One thing I feel like people don’t consider when thinking about Dragons is that they probably would have hollow, or at least really really light bones. I mean, think about it. They’re huge. There’s no way those thin membranes on their wings are gonna hold them up unless their skeletal structure is light as fuck. That or they basically have no muscles. And also, they probably would have hip sockets similar to birds and some species of Dinosaur, and they would also have a chest bone that humans don’t posses to help them hold more muscle without taking more space. Maybe that's why they tend to have ridges down their chest. Their claws would be really bad weapons because they’re hollow, so that explains the evolutionary need for a breath weapon.

And water dragons might have whale-like tails rather then a more reptilian one, because seriously, just lashing a thin tail back and forth is useless when you’ re swimming. Hell, they might have bigger talons because they need to move more water at once and they’d be clumsy as hell on land, constantly tripping over their own talons.

Acid dragons would have special immune systems maybe, making them immune to most poisons.

Fire and Desert dragons must have the highest heat resistance ever. Just imagine, their jungle dragon buddy crashing from heatstroke while they’re completely fine, if maybe a little sweaty. They probably have really thin scales, very porous to release any excess heat.

These have been my very weird and very short thoughts on dragon anatomy.

What I want in a Fictional World

“It’s dragons versus humans, it represents the crisis of racism-”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

NO. What I want in your high fantasy world is real representation. If you’re gonna show real word issues, do it right, Jerry.

I want more then just two races. (Multiple kinds of dragons, for example. Bonus points if they all come from different cultures.) I want lots of languages. I want lots of dialects of those languages. I want lots of religions. I want lots of cultures. I want biracial people. I want people with backgrounds so mixed they don’t know where the fuck they come from. I want different kinds of discriminations against different groups of people. I want people hiding their culture because they’re ashamed of what others will think of it.

And while we’re at it, discrimination doesn’t just stop at racism. Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Domestic Abuse, Abuse of Power, discrimination against disabled people, ageism, religious prosecution. These are all too real.

The world isn’t just one conflict. If you want to make a world, make it so it feels realistic.

And while we’re at it, there are no good guys. Nobody is really good. And if they are, they die quick. Governments tend to suck. Democracy is hypocritical. Get used of it.

The world is complicated. And if you want to make yours represent real issues, it better be just as complex as the one we’re stuck in.