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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Delighted to see that Vintage Covers is back in action, after like a three-year hiatus? vintage-covers.com

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Vintage Covers Publications

I make spoof books & posters. Get prints via bio.vintage-covers.com

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New blog post! -- about the larp A Place of Greater Safety, which happened a few weeks ago in Denmark. blog.undyingking.com/a-place-of-g...

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A Place of Greater Safety in Denmark – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: It's not a real Ironman unless you're wearing heavy boots of lead and filling your victims full of dread. Otherwise it's just a sparkling megatriathlon.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New blog post! - the next chapter of my larp retrospective. We're still in the 1990s, but branching out. Vampire larpers of a sensitive disposition may wish to look away… also a bit about the Society Game! If you don't know what that is, here's where to find out: blog.undyingking.com/larp-retrosp...

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Larp Retrospective, chapter 5 – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Laagland, the one-day larp festival in Utrecht, is happening again, next February! And they're calling for content at the moment: www.laaglandlarp.com/home-en I had a lovely time at this, last year – see here: blog.undyingking.com/laagland-sho... Recommended, if it's easy for you to get to Utrecht!

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Laagland Festival

Yes! After this year’s overwhelming success, Laagland III is coming! The shortlarp-festival of the Lowlands. We are looking for larp runners! Sign up with the questionnaire!

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

new larp alert! -- well, a Fastaval-style scenario really, but you can larp it -- How's Mum Doing? Free to download and use. It's about families, destructive patterns, generational trauma, and all that kind of troublesome stuff. But framed within a nice summer holiday. holkar.net/larps/hows_m...

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How's Mum Doing?

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Got a new debit card in the post today, as mine is close to expiring -- it has a signature strip on the back. I can't think when I last got asked to sign when paying for something. Is there still some arcane purpose to the signature strip, or is it just banks not liking to change things?

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A blog post about Voidspace Live! Including some thoughts re differences between larp and interactive experiences. blog.undyingking.com/voidspace-li...

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Voidspace Live – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is an interesting thing which seems to be a form of larp: www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/ch... "... against the uncertainty of real-world dating, a few carefully scripted hours can feel like a simpler and more predictable way of getting what they want."

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Chinese women are paying for romance - and they know it isn’t real

In China, young women are paying hundreds of yuan to experience scripted romance, fuelling a booming industry built on manufactured intimacy. But as the boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, qu...

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is quite a fun game -- estimating where and when for a selection of objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Anthropeum.com · Jun 15 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩🟨🟦🟨🟩 71,146 · top 11% of players today!

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Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New blog post! -- about attending the MyPo!nt festival, in Poland, and running a mini- version of A Place of Greater Safety there. blog.undyingking.com/mypont-festi...

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MyPo!nt festival – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In Michael Marshall Smith's 1999 story collection What You Make It, he acknowledges "the three authors who most made me want to write – KA, RB & SK". Do any of you know, or can guess, who they are? Stephen King -- some of the stories are very King-like. Ray Bradbury? and Kingsley Amis maybe?

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

new blog post! -- the next instalment of my retrospective. This one's about discovering types of larp other than the mainstream, in the early 90s. blog.undyingking.com/larp-retrosp...

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Larp retrospective, chapter 4 – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

There's something about receiving a message like this that triggers a very childlike wonder in me. I can't but hope that it's a secret code that's inviting me to come and find pirate treasure, or join the Space Spy Squad. (Rather than a bot asking if I can contribute to the Tamazight wikipedia.)

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"Larps based on or inspired by other things have been popular for as long as there has been larp, and they always will be. So I was thinking: what are the differences that relate to different types of source material? And what are the different approaches..." blog.undyingking.com/larps-being-...

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Larps being based on or inspired by other things – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Approaching 40 years of larping, I wanted to try and capture some memories of my early experiences. So I've written about the first phase: medieval fantasy larping. This might not be of interest to anyone but me (and maybe to larp historians) but it starts here: blog.undyingking.com/larp-retrosp...

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Larp retrospective, chapter 1 – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I've got a new blog post! -- about the lovely Laagland chamber larp festival, in Utrecht. blog.undyingking.com/laagland-sho...

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Laagland ShortLARP Festival – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New blog post! -- about BOX: Northern Larp Festival, which was great. blog.undyingking.com/box-northern...

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BOX Northern Larp Festival 2026 – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

thanks! I've given it a couple of goes at larp festivals over the last month or so, and people seemed to have a good time.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New chamber larp published on my website! -- The Anatomy Lesson. "The year is 1632: the place, Amsterdam. Aris Kindt, a desperate violent criminal, mugs a passer-by in an attempt to steal their valuable cloak. Kindt is arrested, tried, and swiftly executed by hanging..." holkar.net

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Mo Holkar's website

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

New blog. "If a designer says ‘this larp was about X’ and you, having taken part in it, are like ‘oh but I thought it was about Y’ then you are right — for you, that is what it was about. And this [...] can’t change what you actually felt in the moment of play." blog.undyingking.com/different-re...

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Different readings of larp experiences – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This weekend just now it was The Smoke! -- and here's my blog post about it. "The organizers work really hard to keep a warm and welcoming vibe going, in which empathy and kindness (for others and for oneself) are paramount…" blog.undyingking.com/the-smoke-20...

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The Smoke 2026 – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

"In my dream, I was in the painting, and it was a live scene — people clustering round and peering at the corpse, while trying to show their good side to the painter..." New blog post, about a larp called The Anatomy Lesson: blog.undyingking.com/the-anatomy-...

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The Anatomy Lesson – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

new blog post! I was at Grenselandet, the Oslo larp festival, and this is (some of) what happened there: blog.undyingking.com/grenselandet...

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Grenselandet 2025 – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Whenever I see this bottle of conditioner (which is basically every day, as it lives next to my shower) I get earwormed by the Fine Young Cannibals. (So now, you can, too.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utvm...

Bottle of VO5 conditioner saying 'Revive Me Daily'

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

iirc my group, finding this frustrating, house-ruled that a crit did max damage as far back as 1985 at least. Evidently word never reached the TSR/WotC honchos.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Here's another new blog post which is basically just a home for a recently-crowdsourced list of larp festivals that have happened in the UK. Thanks to everyone who's contributed so far! blog.undyingking.com/larp-festiva...

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Larp Festivals in the UK – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

new blog post! About the excellent Stockholm Scenario Festival: blog.undyingking.com/stockholm-sc...

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Stockholm Scenario Festival 2025 – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

and another blog post! -- this time about the Immersion larp festival: blog.undyingking.com/immersion-th...

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Immersion (the larp festival of that name) – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A new blog post, about some chamber larps that I've run / taken part in recently: blog.undyingking.com/recent-larps/

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Recent larps – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

110 minutes! What is this witchcraft.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

they're called wood pigeons! We have them too -- they have a very charming and distinctive call.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

oh sorry, I only just saw this! No, it's a novel, with painted illustrations.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

New book from Simon Stålenhag has arrived!

Front cover image of Swedish Machines, by Simon Stålenhag

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Another blog post, about the larp Shadows in Time! "… The characters are a group of people who each have the ability to travel freely in time and space … they do not age, but they’ve all been doing this stuff for at least several thousand subjective years…" blog.undyingking.com/shadows-in-t...

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Shadows in Time – Mostly about larp, these days

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A new blog post, about my old chamber larp Keep It in the Family: blog.undyingking.com/keep-it-in-t...

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Keep It in the Family – Mostly about larp, these days

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Feel like we need a term for the phenomenon where a political party interprets any election result, win or lose, as evidence of the need to tack further right. McSweeney’s Ratchet, maybe

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Interesting analysis of AI as a 'normal' technology. "...in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which ... treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially superintelligent entity." knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

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AI as Normal Technology

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I've ordered the next two in the series now, fingers crossed they'll be as good!

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I read this book, and it was terrific! -- excellent mixture of funny, clever, and intriguing. Not cosy crime, but not gritty either -- somewhere inbetween. Knives Out is probably a fair point of 'if you like that, you'll like this' comparison, I think. www.penguin.com.au/books/everyo...

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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle meet Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club in an ingenious blend of classic and modern murder mystery.

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Mo Holkar @mo-holkar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

ok so not everyone is going to like this new blog post, about larp safety practice, by me and Laura Wood, but we feel it's important to say -- and if you disagree, then so be it, but we hope that you'll accept our good faith at least. blog.undyingking.com/about-green-...

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About ‘green flags’ – Mostly about larp, these days

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is called ‘The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange’.

$The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange And in today’s financial news, a sharp fall in the competence and capability markets have led to a rise in dolour against such a pounding and a yen to return to a rational world. The SADSAQ index has plummeted by a further 22%, following severe marble losses. Intelligence and acumen slumped by 34% and 45% respectively, while credibility tumbled, grazing both knees and fracturing its collarbone. Elsewhere, the FFS 100 index has seen a 12% rise in incredulity, as shares in buffoonery and idiocy continue to soar in response to another record-breaking day for the US president at the laughing stock exchange. Brian Bilston$

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Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 27/03/2025

My new larp, The Language of Bones, will premiere at Make a Scene this year!

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