haha i love the observations about gender in this post, eho. well said.
perhaps the rule for gridcosm fights (since, for better or worse, they seem *inevitable*) should be that you MUST hand-draw (digitally or scanned from paper) your flame-volley. no pre-existing images, no photoshop filters. maybe this way they will at least be creative. (however, i could guess that they might just end up being hand-scrawled notes saying things like "YOU SUCK!" hmph)