Cosplay rant!
So I've noticed some things that have pushed my buttons, yet again.
The cosplay community, a part of it, is so beyond fucking shallow that it makes me sick. When someone is asking on tips for being a plus-sized lolita costumer and all the advice people are giving is to lose weight, there's something absolutely fucking wrong. The girl was a size 20, which is around the same/a little smaller than what I normally wear. People should be giving advice, not being total douchehats and killing her self-esteem by telling her that "lol, you're fat, lose weight".
It's not just the lolita incident, I've had people tell me I need to lose weight if I want to cosplay a lot of the characters I do. Excuse me? Last I fucking checked anime measurements were not something someone could get without a lot of damn surgery. Take Tsunade for instance, no fucking WAY can someone be as small as her and yet have a chest as large as that. Unless they're fake, but you can tell when someone has a fake chest. The only way to have a chest comparable to that is to be on the larger side, because when you lose weight, the breasts are one of the first places you lose fat from.
Also. You know what? Cosplay is NOT about how how someone looks. The point of cosplay is how good the COSTUME looks. If someone is hot but has a shitty costume, that is not a good costume. Though, I do admit, the same works even if you're a plus-sized cosplayer, if you have a shit costume it's still not a good costume.
My point is that I'm sick of how shallow and petty the cosplay community is, granted it's not all of it, but there's a good chunk that do that. If I want to fucking cosplay a character, then I will fucking cosplay that character. If someone as large as me can pull off a revealing costume and look good doing it, then all the power to them. There's certain things I personally know I wouldn't look good in. Such as things that show my stomach or my arms.
Cosplay is based around a good costume, not how fucking skinny or ripped you are.
The cosplay community, a part of it, is so beyond fucking shallow that it makes me sick. When someone is asking on tips for being a plus-sized lolita costumer and all the advice people are giving is to lose weight, there's something absolutely fucking wrong. The girl was a size 20, which is around the same/a little smaller than what I normally wear. People should be giving advice, not being total douchehats and killing her self-esteem by telling her that "lol, you're fat, lose weight".
It's not just the lolita incident, I've had people tell me I need to lose weight if I want to cosplay a lot of the characters I do. Excuse me? Last I fucking checked anime measurements were not something someone could get without a lot of damn surgery. Take Tsunade for instance, no fucking WAY can someone be as small as her and yet have a chest as large as that. Unless they're fake, but you can tell when someone has a fake chest. The only way to have a chest comparable to that is to be on the larger side, because when you lose weight, the breasts are one of the first places you lose fat from.
Also. You know what? Cosplay is NOT about how how someone looks. The point of cosplay is how good the COSTUME looks. If someone is hot but has a shitty costume, that is not a good costume. Though, I do admit, the same works even if you're a plus-sized cosplayer, if you have a shit costume it's still not a good costume.
My point is that I'm sick of how shallow and petty the cosplay community is, granted it's not all of it, but there's a good chunk that do that. If I want to fucking cosplay a character, then I will fucking cosplay that character. If someone as large as me can pull off a revealing costume and look good doing it, then all the power to them. There's certain things I personally know I wouldn't look good in. Such as things that show my stomach or my arms.
Cosplay is based around a good costume, not how fucking skinny or ripped you are.