I am thinking of working some more on a cosplay I started months ago and then haven't touched. It was a Jester Lavorre/Sailor Senshi cross over I posted about. But I'm thinking about my body shape and how I would look and feel in it. I mean, I'm definitely gonna make the skirt longer for one. But I guess my main issue is idk what to do about the v-shape where the skirt meets the leotard. I don't think it would look good for me with my stomach and I don't think I would feel good seeing myself in that. Idk what to do. I can try to get a little bit more creative with the shape on my body. I just also think a straight across waist line would look weird for the costume.
Maybe I need to take some full body photos of myself and draw on top of them to really get an idea for what I would like on me?
My Vex cosplay I feel like I liked some views of but then I also didn't like how it looked with my body shape and I got kinda sad seeing the one full body photo I took and the photos of me in the CR meet up. I just don't want to be sad about it again this year.
I have all these cosplay plans...Eiji Okumura...Glimmer...Kirari Momibami.
.. and now Reo Niiboshi and Chihaya... but just...
I love cosplay. I love doing the research and getting/ attempting to make the costume. But then I actually put on the costume and look in the mirror and I hate how I look so much.
I don't feel like I'm embodying these characters I love. I just feel fat.
So @tcfkag and I are going to NY Comic Con in October. This is great because it adds a mid-challenge goal for me. This year I’m hoping to avoid being so fat that the only cosplay that works is Kingpin. :)
I’m only sort of joking about this. The last couple years I’ve gotten a bit more into cosplay as a very mild hobby (I have no skills of my own, just a job that lets me earn OT that pays for components). However I’ve always felt a big obligated to dismiss costumes unless the character could fit me. And I’ve only gotten bigger. My Kingpin last year was awesome though so I mostly don’t mind (bald, fat, and white works shockingly well for the character). It would just be nice to be able to pull something else off too.
Today was another good day. Food was english muffin and peanut butter for breakfast (300 calories), a frozen pizza for lunch (1000 calories), and an egg and cheese sandwich for dinner (300 calories), snacks was just some peanut butter (200 calories).
Exercise was another half-hour on the treadmill. 15 minutes at 3.5 and 15 minutes at 4.0 (176 calories)
Daily Totals:
Food: 1800
Exercise: 176
Points: 1376
Total Points: 10905
i post this way too much but!!! i love it its my favorite cosplay i have done and probably will ever do. it means so much to me like steven as a character means so m uch to me and like????? i dont even know how to express it.
I am fat. And for YEARS, that stopped me from doing what i wanted to do: cosplay.
This cosplay just.....idk!!!! That whole episode was sososos good, and idol steven like...means a lot to me..... and look!! i’m fat!!! im wearing a short skirt and a crop top!!! im cosplaying one of my favorite characters in any media ever!!! I did this for AOD and got so much positive remarks about it (and of course, with positive remarks comes negative ones) and i’m gonna wear it for fanime this year, im getting a photoshoot done, and im so excited. look how cute i am. LOOOK.
If you say “cosplaying should be fun!” or “it doesn’t matter if your cosplay is perfect/ completely accurate!” but then put down fat cosplayers, you’re not “helping them [the fat cosplayer] be more accurate” or “making cosplay more fun”, you’re a fatphobic fuck. Sorry to break it to you.
Here is a somewhat lengthy rant about what happened today, it doesnt exactly warm the heart.
Now I wasn't expecting a welcome with open arms at Thought Bubble, given the queer-ness of ourselves, our outspoken feminism and general "omg bronys are so funny lol" attitude, but I wasn't quite expecting to face obvious discrimination.
The layout of the convention was three big halls, with an outside space for people to chat and take photos and stuff - last year it was really fun and a 'community' atmosphere, this year was slightly different but I put it down to the fact that it was bigger. So to get to the point, on the way to buying tickets someone asked to photograph both of us, which we were happy to do because we were really proud of our costumes! Then, after about five minutes a (professional) photographer approached us and our friend Alex (who wasn't in cosplay), and asked if he could photograph Emily. Alone. He didn't actually look at me, even though it was quite obvious that I was also in cosplay as I was PAINTED GREY?!?!??!? After thinking that might have just been my over-sensitivity about weight stuff we carried on, and were approached by another photographer who wanted to photograph Emily alone. At this point I'm thinking "okay maybe it's cos she's got neon pink hair and therefore they're not noticing me?", but after it happened again and the photographer refused to acknowledge that I was stood there next to Emily and WAITED for me to move away before she took the photo, I kind of had to acknowledge that something was up.
Now don't get me wrong it could have been a lot of things, but taking into account the fact that we were cosplaying as a pairing who are on a popular TV show, our costumes were both to the same standard as we had planned them to co-ordinate and bought things from the same places, and therefore it was INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS that we were together, something tells me that it was size-ist. That and the fact that none of the other plus size girls I saw around the con were photographed either (who by the way had AMAZING costumes that made both mine and Emily's efforts look half-assed).
Looking at the website of one of the photographers sort of confirmed it too - no photos of women who aren't tall, thin and white. Surprise surprise...
