Hurtling toward Cougartown
I had a delightful conversation with Alison S. last night involving LARPs, romance plots, and macking on undergrads. "At what point do we start being considered cougars?" asked Alison, only partially in jest
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1. Larp is fantasy. Why do larpers larp? Well it is because we want to be something we aren’t. I mean seriously Lise... how many college bars do you go to in skimpy hooker dresses and hit on boys who were in diapers when you were having your first kiss? How many times have you been an international art thief? How many times did you fly to the moon or fight dragons or be a pirate?
You would never steal or murder or seduce younger men at college bars. Why? well because that isn’t you, but all those things that we as people wouldn’t do we have that inner desire to do. Everyone dreams of doing and being more than they are. That is what larp is. And so WHAT if your romantic opposite isn’t attracted to “you” they are there because they want to be someone else too... and they owe it to you for 4 hours to predend to love you...and there are times when you are in a romantic role with someone you don’t necessarily want to be in a romantic role with, but you suck it up and do it because karma comes around.
I’ve been in roles with guys who WANT to be dashing and romantic and have a woman on their arm, but in real life they are... guess what... shy geek boys. I give them that thrill of having a woman hang on their every word (even if I wouldn’t in real life) in the same way sometimes a guy might be in a role with you that they wouldn’t be attracted to you in real life, but for 4 hours they are letting you live the “Lise’s dirty romantic cougar fantasies of younger college boys) :-P
2. Ian and I were having that conversation just the other day about how romance in larps in a healthy way to have that “new romantic interaction thrill rush” without the dirty entanglements of an actual relationship. I’m in a happy non-poly relationship, but I love flirting and I do miss that rush of a brand new sexual tension encounter. I would never act of that in real life because I’m loyal and I don’t like the messy aftermath, but larps are this perfect place where both adults know it is make believe, but you can have crazy love affairs and swoon and have passionate scenes of undying romance and pattycake love making (HOT). Yet when it is all over you don’t feel the guilt of romantic entanglements that you really wish you hadn’t gotten yourself into. The funny thing is Ian doesn’t like larp romance for that very fact. The part in a relationship he doesn’t like is that uncertain tension at the beginning. He likes the calm, steady of a relationship. But for people who miss that uncertain excitement. LARP IS AWESOME! It should be part of relationship counseling around the world!
3. So when I get around to writing Lamaze the larp (subtitle) The larp written for Lise. I should add a special plot where the Lise character is also a cougar who goes after 18 year old boys for the thrill and just happened to get knocked up? I could add the element “cougartown” to the already “Jerry Springer meets the Real Housewives of Somewhereville”
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I especially wanted to reply to two things:
But for people who miss that uncertain excitement. LARP IS AWESOME! It should be part of relationship counseling around the world!
You know, this reminds me of how, in my run of Happily Ever After, when Prince Charming and Cindy were talking about their problems (no one knew about his sexuality in my run), Randy as Robin Hood made this awesomely meta comment like, "Maybe you consider some role-playing..."
“Jerry Springer meets the Real Housewives of Somewhereville”
I totally misread that as "Somerville." Which... yeah.
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