[ SECRET POST #089 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #089 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 20 secrets from Secret Submission Post #013.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, April 5th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

1. That's so cute. I have a fandom friend who's first language is Spanish and she does the same thing whenever commenting on my fanart/fanfic. It doesn't make you a bad friend.

5. I think you should at least make an effort to cosplay a character you can pull off. I wouldn't cosplay say ... er ... some character that looked blatantly Asian or crossplay as a character that looked really really male regardless of how much I liked the character. Or if you do want to cosplay a character that you can't easily pull off, at least make a strong effort to make it convincing with makeup or whatever other techniques you might need. There are a lot of characters out there that I absolutely adore that I know I couldn't cosplay and therefore I won't. Luckily, a good deal of my favourite characters or extensions of my favourite characters fall into the sphere of what I'd feel confident cosplaying. Yes, it's first and foremost for fun, but there's also an element of wanting to be as convincing as possible. I have friends who cosplay who are every body type and build and we all work with it.

8. Hehe. Totally.

[(Anonymous)]

5. *rolls eyes* It's costume play. The emphasis is supposed to be on the costume. Fine and good if you feel like limiting yourself, but I hope you don't ever try imposing the same incredibly stupid standard on others.

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[(Anonymous)]

Have fun looking stupid in costume, then.

Some people have no taste or sense of style, and it carries over 100%.

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

I don't really care what others do, but personally I'm not going to make a fool out of myself by cosplaying a character I cannot pull off.

[x-of-greene-x.livejournal.com]

I would! =P Maybe it would make someone post a secret about me.

Seriously, some people do it just to have fun.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough.

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5.)I don't think her standards are stupid as you so implied. She has a very valid point. A lot of people don't ever take into consideration characters they that should cosplay because they look more like them because they're too interested in cosplaying what's popular or easy or a character they associate with. This mentality is what sets aside good cosplayers from the rest. It's not just costume play as you put it, it's a way of using both theirselves and the costume to properly portray a character. Sure if you want to look like every other cosplayer who doesn't seem to care then by all means don't set any cosplay standards. But whatever, you let this drop so I suppose now that I've spoken my mind I'll respect that.

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[shahrizai.livejournal.com]

I have a rule of thumb - if I want to cosplay someone from a series I like, I pick a character who I don't mind but who isn't my favorite. That way, if for some reason it just doesn't work out, my mind will not automatically relate that character to my cosplay.