As a supplier to cosplayers, I have to speak up in their defense to say that some of them are aware of casting themselves well (picking characters that suit them) and do spend a lot of time and money on their outfits and are nice people. They're just having fun with their fandom, the way fanfic writers do - they just, you know, are attention fiends about it and need to be fannish in public.
I do cringe inside when people do crappy jobs of it, just as I cringe at badfic, but the poster here was being a dick. He gives the other side of fandom a bad name just as surely as the bad cosplayers give cosplayers a bad name.
I was considering cosplaying just for fun this year; thank god I didn't. I'm not even particularly crazy about going to cons after being reminded of this attitude (which is the majority attitude, of course).
I still think he was being an ass, though. Yes, we're not all "like that," but he could have said it a LOT more sanely and fairly than that.
Now would be the best time for one of those "stop making my side look stupid" icons. Yes, I agree with the basic message behind what he's saying--cosplayers seriously do need to take their body type into account when selecting a costume, and some characters should not be cosplayed no matter how much(or little!)you weigh. (The pink cat girl frightened me muchly, not because she was "fat" but because someone actually thought that outfit would be ok to wear in public!) The way that guy says it, though...geeze. Completely disparages any good points he might have made.
Hmmph. As a cosplayer, and having an overweight best friend who I just made a Songstress Yuna outfit for, I just want to tell that guy to shut up. Cosplay is an expression of fandom love just like fan art or fanfic, and as long as you genuinely put effort into the outfit (and you can tell which people in those photographs did and which didn't), and enjoy yourself doing it... YOU WIN.
Screw the snobs. We're going to have a freaking great time cosplaying our favorite characters, even if we're not perfectly cute, while they're standing around being jerks.
*sigh* Elitist attitudes like the dude who posted that is one reason why I've shied away from fandom as much as possible here lately.
But I will say, the pink cat girl suite scared me, and I admire the girl for having the guts to wear it when it covered so little. And I"m not talking body type, I'm talking body PARTS. I wish I had that much confidence in myself. ^^
not everyone can be a svelt 112 lbs. i bet that person was fat in a past life.
ok the crack head sailor moon was a bit much. dont that person like like the singer for Jane's addiction?
cosplay is cosplay. play. they're not the characters but an intrepretation. it is fun. I aint a 15 year old kid with a Egg-shaped spacecraft but i play one every sat night. Bleck upon her and a bleck upon anyone who crushed dreams.
ok, the third one down is not obese or fat... she's chubby but she's not really big.
And what's this person complaining about the 4th picture for? She's Kikyo-- and it's a very decent costume, too. If this poster doesn't know enough about popular anime to recognize a major character from Inu Yasha--currently one of the most popular anime series on American tv-- she's just stupid.
Case in point. Someone commented on that. She said:
Yeah, that one wasn't so bad--but I had a hard time telling who it was, which is why I said it sucked.
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As a supplier to cosplayers, I have to speak up in their defense to say that some of them are aware of casting themselves well (picking characters that suit them) and do spend a lot of time and money on their outfits and are nice people. They're just having fun with their fandom, the way fanfic writers do - they just, you know, are attention fiends about it and need to be fannish in public.
I do cringe inside when people do crappy jobs of it, just as I cringe at badfic, but the poster here was being a dick. He gives the other side of fandom a bad name just as surely as the bad cosplayers give cosplayers a bad name.
I was considering cosplaying just for fun this year; thank god I didn't. I'm not even particularly crazy about going to cons after being reminded of this attitude (which is the majority attitude, of course).
I still think he was being an ass, though. Yes, we're not all "like that," but he could have said it a LOT more sanely and fairly than that.
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Screw the snobs. We're going to have a freaking great time cosplaying our favorite characters, even if we're not perfectly cute, while they're standing around being jerks.
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But I will say, the pink cat girl suite scared me, and I admire the girl for having the guts to wear it when it covered so little. And I"m not talking body type, I'm talking body PARTS. I wish I had that much confidence in myself. ^^
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ok the crack head sailor moon was a bit much. dont that person like like the singer for Jane's addiction?
cosplay is cosplay. play. they're not the characters but an intrepretation. it is fun. I aint a 15 year old kid with a Egg-shaped spacecraft but i play one every sat night. Bleck upon her and a bleck upon anyone who crushed dreams.
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And what's this person complaining about the 4th picture for? She's Kikyo-- and it's a very decent costume, too. If this poster doesn't know enough about popular anime to recognize a major character from Inu Yasha--currently one of the most popular anime series on American tv-- she's just stupid.
Case in point. Someone commented on that. She said:
Yeah, that one wasn't so bad--but I had a hard time telling who it was, which is why I said it sucked.
So I just had to give in and respond with this.
She's probably going to make some stupid trollish comment back, but I do feel better now.