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As far as writers and authors writing their near past from around 20 to 150 years before them, what time period and region had the largest amount of mythic and or obviously fallacious writings, either from a point of propaganda or rumors just being accepted as facts. Please do avoid holy texts which still exist in responses but I would still love to hear if there were periods where a faiths post book folk miracles were being written down seemingly too often (folk saints, wandering sages, king sees a sign from god, etcetera).

I am writing for sci fi and have come to an artistic hurdle. Designing proper tools, weapons, and material culture for my species based on their actual hands. For most this is fine in the sense that they obviously could carry things up to about 20 pounds at minimum, but obviously human tool use depended on us carrying far more far more often then wherever we could bring wheelbarrows. The question is, how do you all find work around for how species or groups with different hands operate/build their stuff, rules for finger number? Different rules per hand shape? Go by feel? Trying to make sure I don't make it impossible for them to operate the tech or build the simpler technology I make for them. It might be odd for speculative evolution but I don't know if there is a better place given the nature of the question.

I am writing for sci fi and have come to an artistic hurdle. Designing proper tools, weapons, and material culture for my species based on their actual hands. For most this is fine in the sense that they obviously could carry things up to about 20 pounds at minimum, but obviously human tool use depended on us carrying far more far more often then wherever we could bring wheelbarrows. The question is, how do you all find work around for how species or groups with different hands operate/build their stuff, rules for finger number? Different rules per hand shape? Go by feel? Trying to make sure I don't make it impossible for them to operate the tech or build the simpler technology I make for them.

Hi, I'm an American and trying to be a writer for science fiction. I just want to ask if there are lesser known stereotypes that might be well known outside the United States; so I can keep them in mind when writing ideas for cultures or stories when I am working and not land on anything too close to something negative or sacred? Asking since I write a lot of cultures and in turn some will inevitably resemble some other cultures in some minor ways, I just want to avoid explicit duplicates.

Edit: I am not talking about writing on roma characters but rather writing cultures which may end up accidentally sharing features. For instance nomadic cultures, cultures which have faced hardships in history, or cultures which have a history of joining their traditions with those of one or many other cultures. I would not be touching Romani traditions, I simply want to make sure I don't come to a stereotype by convergent evolution of thinking.

Edit 2: shoulda taken more time really writing down the question well the first time. Apologies.