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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am very excited about this. I suspect it will be the last time we do it, but here it is for your Spooky Season pleasure ...

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I miss the days when we'd get emails warning of unexpected visitors in the office. Even better is that these tiny horses were guests on a radio programme, so folks only got to hear them.

four images of tiny horses indoors in a radio studio. They are really small, waist height on a human at most. Both brown. Wearing bridles. One rolls on ther red carpet, another looks at the camera. They are cute - if you like horses - which I do. We see a few edges of humans in the background, but they are not fully in shot or in focus. Can I revist once again just how cute and small these horses are?

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"How do you get from the bottom of Act II to the Happily Ever After? Asking for a friend."

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are a few tickets available for the second run of B Movie - June next year...

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There is actually a full 90 minute cut of the movie which seems incredible to me because the scenes we wrote for it do not fit together to make a coherent whole! I'm waiting for the premier on the 12th to watch it; I am fascinated to see if and how they pulled it off.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A little sad task this afternoon, starting to take down the ornamental cherry tree at the front of the house; a victim of the drought. As I cut further back hoping to see some signs of life in the wood. Nothing so far. However the branches that overhang the pavement are safely removed.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Somehow I mounted AWS S3 but it seemed too empty a space to actually put anything into it. An exabyte requires a degree of faith that I do not posess.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

it is definately too big to read in the bath; a veritable tome.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hope should not be a currency, nor a dwindling resource, Increasingly I fear it has become a tool of capitalism; getting through your shit week by buying a lottery ticket isn't really what hope was supposed to be about. It has become prophylactic rather than poetic. 2 happy days for the price of 1

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I've been really interested to see the reaction to the 4th July larp coming out of the recent Washington Post article. Folks on SoMe seem less angry this time around, but maybe that is a bluesky versus the musky place societal thing?

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I took a brain break to walk along some cliff paths and then lie on a beach watching the sun set with my friend, Emma. 17km and a vegan Thai feast.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It took a month to transcode and almost two weeks to upload the footage, but yesterday we released the 'rushes' from Invasion of the Atomic Space Witches to the players of the larp B Movie. A bittersweet lovestory to making a sci-fi flick in 1954 Hollywood, and a critique of modern society too.

A screen grab from Google Drive showing a sequence of black and white stills from a movie. Some of them have clapper boards in shot. Each photo represents a link to a video clip from the movie, Invasion of the Atomic Space Witches.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have not seen Nolan's The Odyssey; I am waiting for the book to come out.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I never said the theory was proven, although on those episodes there was no man with an ugly tie. In the later seasons the world moved on to a time and place where not all men wore ties. I never published on this topic.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I spent most of the weekend inside InDesign, I am still muttering eldritch phrases about the function that AI tags all of the images automatically. I do it manually and then check for anything that is missing; nothing is missing because it is overflowing with slop. My work is harder now.

A screen capture showing thumbnails of three two page spreads from a book being laid out in indesign. The first spread is four columns of text. They are too small to read. The second spread is two and a half columns of text and a stylised image of a woman sitting beneath a tree. The tree fills the whole side of the page as if it is growing out of the book. The third spread has four green playing cards, three dark, one light, and some text and icons next to each one. The text is not readable.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I once had a theory — based on careful observation — that you could always tell the murderer in Columbo by the relative ugliness of his tie.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

(he is also not — as far as I am aware — a real doctor, although the character he was playing was based on one.)

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Tickets for the re-run of B Movie are on sale ...

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

One of my favorite parts of the design of this larp was creating the Fixer team …

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Half of the tickets for the re-run of the larp B-Movie have already gone in only a couple of weeks! If you want to join us next summer you might want to grab your place soon .... www.bmovie.org

A still from a b&w movie that appears to have been made in the 1950s. A woman screams in terror, either at some looming space monster or at the idea that the tickets for a larp about B Movies have half sold out!

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

(Also for getting to NPC Conscience)

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Happy 10 years to NotOnlyLarp - responsible for the incredible Conscience as well as other important games. Thank you for letting me play, write for you, and have a hand in some of the designs.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

tomorrow I have a call with @happeningfish.bsky.social to talk through "Beyond Method - Modes of Enactment and The Immersed Aesthetic" which needs the signposting language stripped out of it.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It is a summer of revisions for me, with two chapters and one co-written article needing some minor tweaks. First on the list is "Ludonarrative Hegemony: Story Shapes and the Myth of Emergence in Larp" which needs some work on signposting and transitions.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Do you have a preferred email address?

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

(I can send you a copy if you are interested, but I suspect it is a derail from your research)

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So if you are in Norway, have an interest in this type of thing, and want to say hi, why not come along?

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Time and date: July 11, 12:00-16:00 Location: Brygg, Storgata 7, 0155 Oslo Program: 12:00-12:15 Arrival time 12:15-12:30 Introduction 12:30-13:15 The EDGE project 13:15-13:30 Break 13:30-15:30 Character creation, relationship building and co-created activities at Lumen 15:30 Finishing thoughts

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We will discuss the textbooks on design and implementation used in the Master’s programme at Uppsala University, provide a short character creation demo used in Lumen, a larp about using game design for personal change, and we will tell you where you can learn more.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Oslo: Avalon Larp Studio from Erasmus+ EDGE is running a dissemination event July 11th, 2026. Learn about the EDGE project, how to design analogue role-playing games for transformation, and see how to use this in your work whether you are a game designer, a teacher, a psychologist or something else.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nope, it’s a new registration (I think the original was bmovieclub.co.uk)

bmovieclub.co.uk

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Can you find the most elusive magic Hollywood has to offer and play your way to a Happy Ending? Join our movie-making adventure larp at B movie dot org

A woman makes adjustments to a monster costume on a movie set.

A glamorous actress in 1950s clothing wears sunglasses and smokes a cigarette as she examines costume fabric on a movie set. The cigarette is not real. She is not real. This is a larp

A man in 1950s clothing walks with speed and intent towards the camera. He looks busy and important and has a fine hat.

A script writer types on a mechanical keyboard. The image is in black and white. The Typewriter is surrounded by half written pages, notes and scribbles.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

B Movie is a bittersweet love letter to 1950s Hollywood, to the stars who faded from public memory, and to the stories that never made it. Come and spend some time with us in this sci-fi dream of tinsel town and make a low budget film for real!

1950s a man operating a movie camera on the set of a film. The background appears to be some UFO control room

1950s a woman screaming in a black and white photo. It is a movie still and she is an actor.

Movie still 1954 a decorated soldier leans on a desk with a US flag behind him. Serious men with hats lean in to give him a briefing. They are worried.

A blonde woman with a 1950s hairstyle operating a movie camera. The image is black and white. She is lost in the image that she is capturing just as the photographer is lost in the image that they are capturing of her. It is recursive.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A stunt goes wrong during the filming of 'Invasion of the Atomic Space Witches' (1954) Here we have actress Tallulah Falls showing her emotional range as she flees a building that has exploded. (I have no idea why it exploded.)

Two women are on a fire escape leaing a buidling that appears to be on fire. Smoke is billowing out and they look in a panic. The image is in black and white and they are wearing clothes from the 1950s. It could be a still from a movie.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I did some writing and design work on the European runs. Who did you play?

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

But I acknowledge the name causes some confusion

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I mean we are coming up on 25 years … but I don’t think I could do it without @pummell.bsky.social

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

www.bmovie.org Tickets are now on sale for the rerun of BMovie. A bittersweet love letter to 1950s Hollywood

bmovie.org

Home - B Movie

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

|First in an occasional series of photos from the larp B Movie. This one showing a still from the film that the players actually shot.

A black and white image that shows three atomic space witches and their evil genuis scientist Dr Zarkon at the controls of their flying saucer. It is a supposed movie still from a low budget sci-fi movie. One of the space witches is pressing buttons on the console infront of her while the others look on with concern.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The arrival of the first batch of photos for a larp is always exciting. (Even though the ones of me are terrible: "I look like The Queen, and she's dead!")

An outdoor movie screen with a sunset behind it, the picture showing on the screen is the title for 'Invasion of the Atomic Space Witches'.

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

in the workshops for B Movie one of the things we should have done was teach the players how to use a manual typewriter. This never occured to me as being non-standard knowledge because I come from GenX

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

20 years ago I played an 80s DJ set to a crowd of 300 wasted Goths and Punks in a terrible bar on the Whitby seafront. Part way through the night I broke my hand/discloated a finger. So I 'pushed it back in and strapped it up with duct tape.' Today, in the morning rain, my hand hurts. #memories

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A few behind the scenes introductions from the larp, B Movie. (Although I missed the instruction to wave at the camera)

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Not a real doctor @simonb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This textbook explores implementation practices for running transformative analog role-playing games. I was one of the editors and writers. It is POD or a free PDF books.uu.se/uup/catalog/...

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Implementing Transformative Role-playing Games | Uppsala Scholarly Books

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