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CosPain0067

10/23/2018

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The original punchline was much darker, but thankfully the stupendous Trickssi provided me with this more appropriate (and honestly funnier) alternative.

I like keeping CosPain funny, but I also consider it important to periodically call out the cosplay community on its bullshit. I'm hardly novel for me to discuss cyberbullying, but it has affected people close to me in very negative ways. When given online anonymity, we can be emboldened to say things we shouldn't, and we tell ourselves that it's all fun and games and doesn't actually hurt anybody. Except when it does.

Cosplay is about having fun. It's about connecting with characters. It's about embracing our own geekiness. The next time you comment on a cosplay photo, remember that, and make sure that you don't take that positivity away from a fellow enthusiast.


Oh, and if you're going to post someone else's cosplay photo, check with them first. Just good manners.
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P K
12/26/2019 01:47:17

Goes for real-life too

I made the effort to go to the out-of-town version of my hometown con in our biggest population areas, and upgraded my Raven (teen titans) cosplay from bought leotard to one I made myself. I was pretty proud of me, a novice sewer, managing to make a stable, functional leotard, and with the rest of my costume I was comfy in it as a complete and accurate costume.

When I got to the contest, one of the other people (pretty sure she was the previous years winners, and if I am right, a professional seamstress) looked me up and down and went in the most dismissive tone "Oh, I see you made that *yourself*". She might've not meant it that way, but her expression told me no, she really was dissing an amateur for being less skilled.

Never went back to that con up there. My home town one is much nicer.

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