Wasn't expecting to see larping mentioned on the second(!) post-summary page of the 270 page VML Future 100 global trend report. This stat is based on a survey of nearly 14,000 people across 14 countries! How are the 41% of the population who are apparently larpers hiding from us so stealthily??

Hey look, the finest award anyone can win is getting niche internet famous (RIP)

Art is what helps us through every other fucking thing.

European larpers, if you left Facebook but haven't deleted your account yet, today is maybe a day to look back in. It's sad over there, but beautiful

I love Lisa's graphic design for The Pokémon Corporation - that name badge does a load of mechanical work too (such as it's ever needed in a Smoke-style game)

Turns out I've been designing larps for over ten years. This was my debut and it's been played in more countries than I've been to!

So far Bluesky mostly feels like a firehose of (justifiably) outraged politics reshares. Facebook may suck but at least over there my political commentators have the decency to turn their radicalising content into amusing little memes.

Captain Marvel is just Wicked but in a genre the dudebros expect to be all about them. In this essay I will

Trying to do this meme without naming any blokes, and I'm having to dig pretty deep! N K Jemisin Naomi Novik Dianne Wynne Jones Catherine Fisher Enid Blyton

So why don't larps list their larp inspirations as well as their media inspirations. Or "if you liked larp X, you might like this"? (am I doing it? Is this how you tweet?)