Before I start; I want you all to have a look at this picture I've found.
A few months ago; a friend of mine asked me; Why do you want to cosplay Lara Croft? My answer was simple:
"I want to cosplay Lara Croft because she is so inspiring to me; she represents what I want to be in the future: an intelligent; beautiful and brave woman. To be her for just a few hours will be amazing"
A few weeks later I saw a Youtube video from a guy which says that he went to Comic Con and when he saw fat girls dressed up as slim and sexy female videogame's characters he wanted to go to them and tell them: "why are you doing this to humanity?" and stuff like that.
That one video made me really upset.
So I'd like to tell everyone a few things about cosplay and cosplayers:
- Every cosplayer have a reason to cosplay a fictional character; some of the reasons they have are really personal and might be attached to really strong feelings
- Cosplayers do not have to match their idol's sex, body, age, weight, height & similar things. Because If we have to be identical to the character well... no one will cosplay in this world; because we all have flaws and we cannot be identical to the character we worship; but we try our best to.
- Some the cosplay photos that people see in the internet are models, a profesional photographer and yes; photoshop; sometimes lots of it.
- People should not laugh about other's cosplays because in a cosplay, cosplayers invest: money, time, effort and lots of love and dedication so if you laugh about their costume you will hurt their feelings.
Last but not least, I'd like to say one thing to cosplayers:
Cosplay is not about perfection or physical appearence, It's all about what you feel about that one special character you worship and love.
Do not let people tell you that you're doing it the wrong and always believe in yourself because you are doing it for a reason.
BECAUSE COSPLAY IS FOR EVERYONE!
Brava! This is so true. As they say, "haters are gonna hate," but life is too short not to do the things you enjoy for fear of someone else's disapproval. There will always be people who are so shallow and insecure that they need to put other people down in order to feel good about themselves. But we can't live our lives for them. Dress up, play games, have fun! :D
ResponderEliminarTHANK YOU SO MUCH STELLA! Your comment means a lot to me :D
EliminarGreat post! It sucks that there are people out their who judge cosplayers on physical appearance, both on the internet and at conventions, but it's important to not be put off by it and have fun. A lot of people can learn so much from this, especially those that are thinking of starting to cosplay :)
ResponderEliminaryeah, I think we all shall respect each other :)
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