Not a real doctor

We ran one before the pandemic - just a day of talks and networking - it managed to sell out AND to be wildly unpopular at the same time :)

Yesterday was reconnecting with the worldbuilding for Adventurer's Academy which is a larp project I did some writing for in 2024 and with another run later this year:

adventurersacademy.net/setting/

I am a big fan of bleed. Happy to offer a definition if that helps. I am not sure that the safety tools l’ primary function is bleed management though

I think Nordic larpers struggles to define Nordic larp, although a few articles have tried. The experience of any larp is inherently subjective and most universal definitions don’t capture that. See also ‘trying to answer the question ‘what is goth?’’

A blonde woman in a white low cut dress shoots a ray gun in front of a city in shadows that is being attacked by a flying saucer. In the bottom corner a man, carrying an unconscious person cowers in fear. The text reads "Can you face the terror that is Invasion of the Atomic Space Witches." it is written in a white, sinister, 50s B Movie font. The strap line for the movie is "Beautiful ... Bewitching ... And bent on destruction." The logo in the bottom reads "Fairfax Pictures, Established 1916, California."

In June we are running a larp about making a movie. Specifically this movie:

The view - of the tide going out and the sunset over the English Channel - was rather lovely.

it took me three hours to get home afterwards, but based on the amount and quality of sleep I had last night it was definately worth it. It was not as hot as a sauna in Finland but ... it was *completely* silent - by design - with any conversation banned.

Yesterday, at the end of what would have otherwise been a working day, I went for a sauna overlooking the sea on the South coast of England. I was there for an hour other than the time when I was standing underneath a bucket of cold water or (checks notes) in an ice bath.

Oh hell no

@darkerlarper.bsky.social are you coming this year? Do you still have The Mouse ?

A superimposed image of Paul Simonon from The Clash smashing his guitar at the Palladium in New York City in 1979, and a couple of walnuts

Who on my feed shall I see at Knutpunkt in Gothenburg? If I do not know you already, do you want to say hello?

Behind the scenes was a chunk of Javascript that takes text out of a spreadsheet and formats it ready for export to PDF AND ready for import into an Indesign Template. All in all I'd estimate about a person month of effort for which we were all paid nothing. #larpmaking

I am hoping this will cover a multitude of accessibility needs. We also made a searchable, filterable spreadsheet with everything in it. Upside to all this - it was a lot of fun to write and make - downside is that the players need to read up to 20,000 words of text.

Then we produced two text only versions, one with the same content as the magazine, and one that reverted to the original blurbs which are written in the second person and are more direct in the description of the character, for example, we don't alude to their sexuality, we specify it.

We then re-wrote each of those blurbs in the style of a salacious gossip columnist and wrapped them all up in the style of a magazine published in that year, pausing only to check that no two characters had the same first name. (They did. We fixed it.)

Five pages from a magazine rendered in a 1950s style that appears to have something to do with movies and move making. The font is too small to read, but one page has the headline FAIRFAX PICTURES and an icon of a movie camera. The Magazine title is B Movie and the logos for Wonderlarp and Avalon larp studio are visible.

Yesterday we released the teasers for our pre-written characters for the larp B Movie, which is the story of a low budget film being made in Hollywood in 1954. We went through a design phase - identifying character archetypes and concetps - and then wrote a brief (300 word) Blurb about each one.

I love this!

There is also a wonderful piece of work done by Amanda Natalie Rasmussen in 2016 that presents a model for building redundancy into inter-character relationships at scale (15 up to 50 players)

Researchgate keeps checking if I am human. The imposter syndrome is real.

From preforming arts to larp - Jamie McDonald YouTube video by Nordic Larp Talks

MacDonald, J. (2012): From performing arts to larp. youtu.be/TeCJX-OeJz8?...

At best there will be an edge to it, like a Jazz Club for the damned whose name is just a diacritical mark: good ideas get eaten, bad ideas the theorist gets devoured? (I dunno, still trying to work out that part of it - but "Fuck Passive arts!" (Macdonald, 2012)

No powerpoint, ideally more like a boiler-room DJ set than your traditional KP programme item. I have asked for the smallest space that is available. I have no idea if it will work, At worst it will just be me talking about Ludonarrative Hegemony to some inebriated Danes making out in the corner.

What is new and dangerous in Nordic Larp Theory? I have a programme item at Knutpunkt where I need a couple of extra people to come and share their ideas with an audience playing the role of potentially malevolent supernatural entities; The session is planned to take place at night, by candlelight.

A computer keyboard - black, Alienware, UK layout - with the back legs of a domestic cat - semi-feral, tabby, short hair - covering the keys in the bottom left hand corner.

My typing speed this morning has reduced. I can’t work out why. Perhaps I am just tired?

Secret covens in the main … it depends on where you are based

A crudely drawn sad face on a piece of A4 paper that has been atached to a piece of wood in the corner of a desk in a corporate office space. The image is low resolution as though taken on an early Blackberry

In January 2009, in the days before Emjois had entered the mainstream (outside of Japan, obvs) , I invented the Real World Mood Icon. Here is a rare photo from that time.

he and his mates had probably been responsible for the injuries that had plagued me through the years and led me - via the long way around - to the door of his surgery.

We bonded over memories of Klub Foot at the Clarendon Hotel Ballroom, the place where I learned to slamdance on account of suddenly finding myself at a Meteors gig, however he still charged me £30 even though, and he acknowledged the veracity of my argument,

I remember discovering that he was an ex-psychobilly and so, whilst having my bones moved around by some bloke with tattoos, we discussed incidents in the past where I had my bones moved around by blokes with tattoos on dancefloors in Hammersmith.

[27th January 2004] I went to an osteopath, I can't remember the cause of the injury but it was probably something to do with falling off a horse.

A day talking about larp and TRPG design with my friends and comrades, an evening of good conversation, and a full night of sleep. This morning I got up early to do some writing. Outside there is snow in the spruces; inside there are words and coffee. And post-it notes. We are very analogue.