[ SECRET POST #5986 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5986 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

You know, in general, I'd tend to support your point, because I don't like the way commercialism encroaches on fandom, and recreates a situation where awesome skills are concentrated in few hands and instead of sharing what they know, the people who get used to being commissioned keep everything they've figured out to themselves and just go "pay me." And cosplay has a certain glamour about it, so it unfortunately attracts a lot of posturing and arrogance and nonsense.

At the same time, ever since a pagan friend of mine who works with both traditional gods and the muses from newer stories observed to me that putting on the mask and clothing that symbolizes a deity is how you invite their presence into your body ... it really clued me in to the fact that, for some of the people wearing a character's clothes, the point is very much NOT "credit my effort, I made it myself!" It's being able to look in a mirror and not even recognize themselves, and disappear so completely into their performance that other people will look their way but see the character they mean to portray.

I love fandom for its resourcefulness and creativity and dedication. But I also love fandom for its desire and willingness to create bridges between our world and fiction. Different methods are more attainable to different people, but I think the overall directions they're striving for, with cosplay, harmonize.