The Death of Calvin and Hobbes

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards.

what does art become when the form goes extinct?

LARP world has limits and rules, as opposed to the relentless and grinding unknowable logic of our own world. Fantasy, in a sense, has become more stable than our reality.

living in an era where art is commerce because scale of distribution is influence is success, I’ve begun to believe it’s short-sighted and almost selfish.

The art is the experience. With the Star Wars cruise, tourists are seeking to see the familiar from a new perspective, agreeing to suspend disbelief and, better yet, agree that this moment of life is all taking place in the same universe

The reason that there’s such high demand for new worlds, and why we wonder what House we belong to in Harry Potter: we know the values and the feelings we’ll take away from our chosen fantasy world. We find comfort in those easy laws and inevitable outcomes.

LARPing has become an elevated form of world-building. Disney agrees. That’s why the company made a big bet on the Disney Star Wars cruise where everyone is expected to stay in character all the time. Remember, this is from the company that calls employees “Imagineers.”

“The world is so huge now, it feels endless… When you go into a fantasy universe, it’s smaller, you can focus.”

Commercialization is not the enemy. Commercialization is the afterlife.

a LARPER’s lifestyle is about seeing life from a different angle - not by discussing those angles but by inhabiting them.