Donna & Rose Cosplay @ C2E2
Best cosplays ever? They look so much like Billie and Catherine
I saw this Rose! She was amazing.
Bless.
LINCOLN LEE.
One down, three to go.
GO YOU!!!! I have an AltLivia, Goodwill put together cosplay I am testing at the Vancouver Fan Expo. I’m super excited and nervous about it. But I can’t wait to see how it goes. I want to see some Lincolns. :D I am glad that he’s getting some Cosplay love by you! I salute you, sir!
STRUGGLES. TO. BREATHE.
Oh love to the cosplayers. That’s Matt Holden as Ten and Matt Elliot as Eleven. Check them out on FB. They’re great guys!
I made my three-year-old niece her first convention/Halloween costume this year. If you ask her who she is dressed as, she’ll reply, “Tiny Princess Captain America!”
On Halloween, we discovered that if you point to a kid in a Captain America costume and ask her who he’s dressed as, she will also reply, “Tiny Princess Captain America!”
Attagirl.
ETA: I just added a post about how to make Tiny Princess Captain America!
From here on out, Steve shall be known as “Tiny Princess Captain America.” If Tiny Princess Captain America says they’re all Tiny Princess Captain America, who am I to argue?
I adore that little tiara.
This is the most adorable thing. Look at her!
This makes me smile so fucking much.
I picture Tony being more than happy to call Steve “Tiny princess Captain America.” With or without being prompted to do so.
I picture Steve being perfectly okay with it, especially after the day he runs into Tiny Princess Captain America, trick-or-treating in the city along with a bunch of other kids. And she kinda stops in the crowd, and gets this great big smile on her face, and bolts down the sidewalk and up to him, and she just can’t say anything because she’s just in AWE.
So Steve crouches down and says, “You look just like me!”, and she beams even brighter, as if that’s even possible. Then Steve remembers that time Thor told him about how much he loves his little-girl fans, and how when he meets them he lets them “hold” Mjolnir, and also Steve thinks about Thor’s room full of little girl drawings at Stark Tower. (Yes, I *did* just manage to connect this with that Littlest Thor Fangirl post that went around a while ago.) Normally Steven doesn’t get recognized quite like the rest of the Avengers when he’s not in uniform except by elderly folks who remember him from the old days, but since the attack on New York, plenty of younger people and kids spot him on the street out of uniform and know him, just like this little girl.
So Steve asks, “What’s your name?” To which she finally says, “Tiny Princess Captain America!” And he laughs, and then whispers, “I meant your secret identity.” So she tells him, and gives him a big hug, and then runs off to rejoin the other trick-or-treaters.
A week later, she gets a letter in the mail from Stark Tower, and when she opens it she gasps, because it’s a drawing of Captain America and Tiny Princess Captain America fighting bad guys and saving the world together.
I had to.
And now, a response from Tiny Princess Captain America, via her mom:
“She was HILARIOUS when I gave her a printout of the fanart. The first thing she asked was, “What am I doing with my elbow?” Then there were more questions such as, “What are we doing?”, “Are the bad guys sort of like pasta?”, “Is he poking me?”, and “Why isn’t he wearing a dress?” This went on for about half an hour. You know how she is. But she absolutely loved it and it is now standing up on her art easel.
“She decided she wanted to draw a picture for the nice person who drew a picture for her. Tiny Princess Captain America is helping Big Tiny Princess Captain America fight the bad guys all around them. They are both holding their shields and TPCA of course has her signature dress of ruffly tiers. Bonus random balloon, too.
“Next up she decided that she wanted to draw TPCA’s friend Tiny Princess Thor, helping Big Tiny Princess Thor fight the bad guys. This time they have some helpers - butterflies, puppies, and ballet dancers.”
OH MY GOD.
Eleven vs. the Master!!
@TylerinLA is seriously one of my favorite cosplayers ever. :D :D
My mother stopped in at the Starbucks next to MetroCon and stumbled upon some weeping angels. Nbd.
It’s not our fault that we occasionally enjoy a cold processed sugar filled coffee drink.
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JESUS CHRIST EVERYONE STOP COSPLAYING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE LOOK AT THIS AND HOW ADORABLE AND PERFECT AND I JUST——COSPLAY IS OVER. ;A;
so fucking cuteeeeeeeeeee ;A;
I’ve been wanting to post this picture for a while now. My name is Lauren, and I’m a US size 24. I’m a big, fat nerd who loves cosplay. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, cosplayers are the people at sci-fi/fantasy/anime conventions who dress in costume. Cosplay usually implies a professional air to the costuming. Lots of time, money, and care is spent making the costumes look as perfect as possible. Unfortunately, since fat acceptance isn’t common in mainstream media, most main characters in TV, movies, comics, and anime/manga are not fat. As a result, fat people can get a lot of shit for dressing as a character who isn’t fat. There are quite a few non-fat geeks who bash fat cosplayers and tell them that they should only cosplay characters who are also fat. While I cosplay fat characters often in an effort to keep the few fat characters in nerd-dom as visible as possible, there are a lot of characters I love who are not played by fat people/not drawn fat. That’s kind of where the story begins.
I recently became re-obsessed with an anime called “Sailor Moon,” which a large majority of you are familiar with. For those who are not, a lot of people in my generation watched it as children when the anime was dubbed in English. It came on around the same era as Pokemon. The western Sailor Moon fandom is experiencing something of a revival with the re-release of the manga in the US, as the manga hasn’t been on shelves in English in quite some time. In short, it’s a great time to hop back in to the Sailor Moon scene. So I decided, with a bit of trepidation, to do a Sailor Moon cosplay at Dragon*Con, a huge, 46,000 person convention, second in popularity in the US only to San Diego’s Comic Con.
If you aren’t familiar with the Sailor Moon getups, they’re probably some of the most intimidating outfits you can wear in terms of body exposure. We’re talking ass-level miniskirts, sky-high heels, big bows on both your boobs and above your butt, elbow-length white gloves, cleavage-revealing v-necks, and a little school uniform-style sailor collar, just to give it an added dose of some good, old-fashioned fetishism. So, needless to say, fat people in Sailor Moon costumes are among the most sought after by fat-bashing cosplay elitists.
Thankfully, being a lesbian has taught me a lot about saying a good, freeing “fuck-you” to close-mindedness and doing what you want regardless of what others have to say about it. I said a big “fuck you” to fat cosplay bashers and cosplayed as my favorite Sailor Moon character, Sailor Jupiter. Not because I thought I looked the most like her out of the characters, or because I liked the colors she wears, but because I identify with the character herself. Although she isn’t fat, she gets picked on for her physical appearance. She’s immensely tall, to the point that she has to wear a different school uniform than everyone else because they don’t have one that fits her. (That one is uncomfortably familiar as it has happened to me more than once at school AND work). People pick on her for her height, and for being “unusually muscular for a girl.” People are reluctant to make friends with her, thinking she looks “mean” because she’s big. She struggles with the masculinity/femininity binary just like I do, feeling she has to over-feminize herself to counteract her physical appearance and tomboyish tastes. She hates bullies, having been bullied a lot herself. She doesn’t take shit from them, often protecting other marginalized people from them. Like me, she tries her best to always be accepting since a lot of people don’t accept her. She’s unwaveringly loyal to her friends and fiercely protective of them, which I admire. Each character in the show is supposed to embody a value, and hers is courage. She does what needs to be done and what’s right regardless of what’s going to happen to her, what people say about it, or what they think of her. I figured I’d take a page out of her book and do the damn cosplay because it doesn’t matter what I look like, or what she’s drawn like, it matters what we’re all like (as someone else put it on this blog a few weeks ago) on the fucked-up inside.
So here’s a picture of my cosplay, taken by a professional photographer at a Sailor Moon photo shoot at the Con. I have a little bit of a double chin going on, a roll showing in the back, the fattest part of my arms showing, and I think it looks fierce as fuck. One of the best things was, I had fat girls coming up to me all weekend thanking me for doing the cosplay. People told me things like, “You always see skinny girls doing cosplays like this, I’m glad to see someone more my size doing it too!” and “I am so glad to see a well-made, tasteful, plus-sized Sailor Jupiter!”. I had an awesome time, I felt beautiful in the costume, and I hope that I encouraged more of us fat girls to get out there, love their bodies, and cosplay whatever the hell they want. I think I did the character justice, and fuck anyone who says I didn’t because I’m fat. And if the character could crawl out of the TV right now and talk to me, I think she’d approve.
