This may seem unrelated to LARP-ing, but on second thoughts -- well, see for yourself.

In an April issue of the New Yorker there's an article by Laura Miller about G.R.R. Martin and especially about his fans. It turns out that there are two separate Martin fandoms: and these two fandoms intensely hate each other. However, they fully agree in being strongly critical, if not outright aggressive, towards their favourite author. Ah the social dynamics of fandom...

Full text of Miller's article is available online, here.