[ SECRET POST #057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #057 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Okay, so here we go. Just a little thing, but fun, plus you get stuff. :D And before anyone asks, don't worry, we don't want to know who has like the deepest, darkest secret or anything like that. The point of this is to boost fandomsecrets watchers/participation. We've tried to get word about the comm out there, but you know, we need your help. And so, a referral contest! How this works: 1. Grab people to join/watch/participate in the comm. Spam f-lists, post in comms that might be relevant, anything you can think of! New people submitting at least one secret is preferred, but hey, watchers are nice too! 2. Have them comment here with your lj username. They have to be logged in, but all comments are screened, so don't worry. 3. At the end of the month, March 31st, we'll count up how many people were referred by each person, and the top three get prizes. 1st picks first, 2nd picks second, 3rd gets whatever's left, it's pretty simple. :D Winners get a choice of: → $15 LJ gift certificate from benightedfate. (C'mon! Money!) → A choice of graphics/icon set/fan art by shahnichan. (She's good at it!) → Customized LJ layout/profile layout/anything requiring coding by grayout. Or fanfiction if you want, that works too. *dies* (This is pretty much the "Case gets to be your slave for a day" choice. I'm useful! I swear!) And that's it. Easy, right? Go! :D

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 060 secrets from Secret Submission Post #009.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, March 4th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Being too thin is also a problem but that isn't directly linked to my cosplays and therefore not a secret. If you don't have the body type and the general 'look' to be cosplaying a certain character then you should move a long and find someone else to cosplay no matter how much you like the character. I wouldn't cosplay someone who was insanely tall or looked like a twelve year old girl.

I think too many people fail to get the point of this place. It's not this general debate on whether or not fat people should cosplay. In my personal experience I do cosplay a lot of characters usually done poorly by overweight unattractive girls and as I said in the secret my friends say that people will start thinking I do it on purpose because of this continuing trend, when honestly it's just the fact that I like the characters and know I can cosplay them very well. And yes, by default I'm usually considered better because I'm considered 'pretty' in most generalized terms because I don't have a 54 inch waist to go with the double Ds. I'm small, I'm curvy, I pull it off better. This wasn't a secret that overweight people shouldn't cosplay, but ... in my experience I don't do it purposely, but I do still know I'm doing it 'better' by default.

I loathe stick thin cosplay of characters. Or people too tall for characters. Body type, height, look should all be considered ... but again that has NOTHING to do with the secret. Kthx.