The Space Between Stories: A Blog About Stories, How We Tell Them, and Designing for the Best Narrative Possible
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The Gift of a Beginning
(Featured photo by Spencer Plouzek on Unsplash.) Well, I guess we’re starting now? Yeah? I’m writing. Yes, this is a blog. Yeah, we’re here. Okay. So… you’re reading and I’m writing. And we both like larp. Okay. Oh, you weren’t ready yet? Sorry, sorry, just save it in your inbox. It’s fine! I’ll, like… go…
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Admit It: You’ve Used Larp as Therapy
A Guest Post by Anna Velilla (Featured Photo by Meridian Photos from Atropos Studio’s Mayfair Larp.) Whether or not you intended to, you’ve used larp as therapy at one point or another. Whether or not you intended to, you’ve used larp as therapy at one point or another. Not because you neglected your mental health,…
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Listening to the Music of Larp
(Featured Photo by M. G. Norris Photography from Helicon Run 1, US designed by Katrine Wind and Maria Pettersson, Produced by Journeys and Tales.) “You wanna dance this next one?” “Sure, mind if I follow?” “Not at all, I’ll lead.” And then we walk to the closest open spot on the floor and wait. My…
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Sex and Death : To be Human and Larping
(Featured photo by Photo by Cyrus Crossan on Unsplash) Sex and death – the two things in life that are impossible to escape. Even if you are ace and you decide to never touch a human being sexually, I bet that informs a whole bunch of your human interactions – I know figuring it out…
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“I’m Down for Anything”: how NOT to fill out a LARP Application
(A huge thanks to Aj Mooney for this brilliant guest post! Please read more about our author at the end of this blog! Featured photo also by Aj Mooney) Let me tell you about my mistakes…. As a rather new initiate to the world of Freeform LARPing, filling out an application for a game can…
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Our Bodies Know What’s Real
(Featured Photo by Ardian Lumi on Unsplash) “Your body doesn’t know that was pretend.” If you have ever been in one of my debriefs or spoken to me after a game, it’s likely you have heard some version of this. While our minds know we were just playing characters and nothing happened in the game…
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