My proud republic of the owned must secede from the oppressive states of California and Oregon, on account of being Too owned
"The two Xs are known as the "Double Cross" and signify the two regions' "sense of abandonment" by the central state governments, in both Southern Oregon and Northern California."
I don't think doing mma (and navigating that culture as a trans woman) has necessarily given me the clearest perspective on violence but I do think you have to have a pretty tight give-take relationship with it to start understanding what the different forms of violence are, when/why people use them, what they achieve and what their unforeseen consequences might be
I love action movies, I've *written* action movies, if you want to write a story about the biggest badass in a world of itchy trigger fingers then you should commit to that framing instead IMO.
I don't think most scifi writers realize that most people are unwilling to do violence on a dime, and also that violence gets you nowhere very fast unless you have some very narrow objectives. These aren't stories where being quick to violence is both foible and virtue: they just play it as a virtue because *everyone* wants to do violence, you see, so the quickest draw wins.
HERE BURN THE SOULS OF A THOUSAND GENERATIONS. GATHER DEMONS AND COME AGAIN.
Minor luck deity. Truest Muscle fan.