[ SECRET POST #5986 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5986 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I’m glad you included the part about disabled people, because others haven’t in the past on here. And it was extremely frustrating to see people defend cosplay, only to say that people who buy costumes don’t deserve to call themselves cosplayers. And I know they probably didn’t think about people with disabilities, but when they said there’s no excuse to not make your own cosplay, I couldn’t help but feel indignation. Like, “Excuse me for having a debilitating injury in my arms that makes doing something repetitive and time intensive like sewing extremely painful to downright impossible, but I should be able to show up with a costume I bought and not get gatekept!”. And I do really hate that gatekeeping that people are trying to enforce on people who buy costumes instead of making them. No matter their reasons, it shouldn’t matter, just let them be. Cosplay is literally a portmanteau for “costume play”, and nowhere in that title is an indication that you’re required to make it. Just wearing a costume is considered cosplay, and that should be that. I still get thinking it’s cool to make your own costumes, good work should be appreciated. Just not done while looking down on buying costumes. And obviously, people with cosplay they didn’t make shouldn’t be allowed to enter contests, I’m not saying that they should, considering most contests require you to have made your costume.

But as you said, your feelings are irrational, and you made a special case for people who actually can’t make cosplay. So while I disagree in some ways, and made a long-ass comment to share my feelings, I don’t actually have anything against your secret. Except maybe the “fuck you” at the end. While I think it’s valid that you admit your feelings are irrational, I think it’s excessive to feel that angry at people who’re just having fun wearing costumes they bought, just because they’re not cosplaying the way you approve of.