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#PennedPossibilities 1075½ World Cup #imposterToot: Does a big intramural competition (between villages, nations, planets) exist in your world? How do your characters feel about fair play, cheating, or whether they're being distracted by bread and circuses. Do they compete?

I'm pretty confident sports like football exist, but it's never surfaced as team sports on the page of any story. Bolt passingly has mentioned the day angel flying equivalent of track and field in high school. However, not intramural in the sense of "sporting," the devil-girl was a prizefighter: Mixed magical martial arts. The fights are a big thing up and down the eastern seacoast, but are run by the syndicates for the sake of betting, with the constabulary paid to look the other way so long as nobody often dies. Results and celebrities are covered in the papers. Though there are rules and protective gear, and fair play, it still feels a like a WWF cage fight. The devil-girl isn't against stretching the rules to the breaking point so long as she doesn't actually break them. The daemon figures they can tighten said stretched rules once they figure out what she did. Fair play, right?

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#PennedPossibilities 1075½ World Cup #imposterToot: Does a big intramural competition (between villages, nations, planets) exist in your world? How do your characters feel about fair play, cheating, or whether they're being distracted by bread and circuses. Do they compete?

I'm pretty confident sports like football exist, but it's never surfaced as team sports on the page of any story. Bolt passingly has mentioned the day angel flying equivalent of track and field in high school. However, not intramural in the sense of "sporting," the devil-girl was a prizefighter: Mixed magical martial arts. The fights are a big thing up and down the eastern seacoast, but are run by the syndicates for the sake of betting, with the constabulary paid to look the other way so long as nobody often dies. Results and celebrities are covered in the papers. Though there are rules and protective gear, and fair play, it still feels a like a WWF cage fight. The devil-girl isn't against stretching the rules to the breaking point so long as she doesn't actually break them. The daemon figures they can tighten said stretched rules once they figure out what she did. Fair play, right?

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#PennedPossibilities 1075½ World Cup #imposterToot: Does a big sporting competition (between villages, schools, nations, planets) exist in your world? How do your characters feel about fair play, cheating, or whether they're being distracted by bread and circuses? Do they compete?

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#PennedPossibilities 1075½ World Cup #imposterToot: Does a big sporting competition (between villages, schools, nations, planets) exist in your world? How do your characters feel about fair play, cheating, or whether they're being distracted by bread and circuses? Do they compete?

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