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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-10-09 06:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #2472 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2472 ⌋

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

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[Whitechapel]


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03.
[Hannibal]


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[Bartender]


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[WTNV]


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[Agents of SHIELD]


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[Agents of SHIELD]


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[kill la kill]


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[Gravity]


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[Revenge]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #353.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-10 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
The only time you really need to paint your skin is if you are doing a non-human cosplay. Otherwise, hair and costume trump skin color if you are trying to dress up as another person. And that's because unless you color your skin when you are cosplaying as a non-human, people are going to assume that you are cosplaying as a human. Like for example, say you dressed up as a Homestuck demon but you didn't paint your skin gray. People are going to assume that you are doing a human form of a Homestuck demon. However, since Nick Fury is already a human, you don't need to do that. What you need is the correct hair and costume. Because people will read this as a uniform and put it the correct person you are cosplaying.

Or to put it simply. You see someone with gray skin and horns, your mind goes to Homestuck. You see someone dressed in black, bald with an eye patch, you head goes to Nick Fury. It doesn't matter what the cosplayers skin color is.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-10 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
If a white person cosplays a black person and paints their skin, it's blackface and totally offensive. But if a white person cosplays a black person WITHOUT painting their skin, it's white washing and still totally offensive. A white person simply can't show their appreciation for POC characters through cosplay. Or at least that's what SJW people have told me. And at least that "white washing" part feels really, really weird to me.