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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-09-26 06:45 pm

[ SECRET POST #2094 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2094 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Anonymous) 2012-09-27 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Considering the OP's grammar skills in the comments, it may not be race that's holding them back.

Paragraph breaks are a very useful thing.

And in all honesty OP, you are a white person who is literally making a list of characters for people to cosplay based purely on their skin tone. Perhaps you come off better in your tumblr, but my instinctive reaction is fuck you, asshat, let people choose whoever the fuck they want to cosplay. It is fucking cosplay. You do not have to look like the character to dress up as them.

...fuck it, lets put it into "how would you feel" terms. Since the vast majority of anime characters are Japanese, let's make a list of the canonically Caucasian ones that you could 'successfully' cosplay as. Short list? Okay, so now are ANY of your favorite characters on that list? No? Too bad. You get to be a French chef from Ranma 1/2.

A POC Character tumblr? A-okay!

List of characters for non-Caucasian people to dress up as? Not okay because it implies that they can't just choose their favorite character and say fuck skin color. The statement of "If you could take a picture of yourself and give me the HTML code for your skin tone, I can search the database to find the closest match." is a really, really terrible one.

(Anonymous) 2012-09-27 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
I wish to marry this comment and have its babies.

(Anonymous) 2012-09-27 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
You do not have to look like the character to dress up as them.

no you don't, but on the flip side there are a lot of poc cosplayers who like cosplaying characters who look like them - in other words, characters who don't look white. i know several poc cosplayers who actively seek out characters with darker skin tones to cosplay because for them it's a way of celebrating characters that aren't lily-white.

they can absolutely cosplay whatever character they want, and for them whatever character they want happens to be characters who look more like them than your standard anime character. there's nothing wrong with that either and i think a list like that would be something they might appreciate.

(Anonymous) 2012-09-27 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
I thought the point of her tumblr was to help people who wanted to cosplay characters with a skin tone near their own have inspiration, not force the cosplay on them?

(Anonymous) 2012-09-27 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I saw some people asking for characters of certain skintones to cosplay and decided to make a list = I want every person to only cosplay their specific skintone.

BRAVO, BRAVE ANON. YOU HAVE DEFEATED READING FOREVER.

(Anonymous) 2012-09-27 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, how dare POC want to cosplay characters who look like them. They should all cosplay Caucasian characters instead!