[ SECRET POST #2580 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2580 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/qJJpXeX.png

[(Anonymous)]

Characters that being slightly overweight disqualifies you from cosplaying, a complete list:

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[othellia]

For that matter, characters that being any other weight - over or under - disqualifies you from cosplaying, a complete list:

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[insanenoodlyguy]

this really.

Also, using your example, I don't think anybody is really going to say "That Amethyst is too small!" if you did her.

[(Anonymous)]

Some of the more hardcore SJWs might.

[diet_poison]

fuck that though. OP can rock on with their (presumably her?) bad self regardless of what the SJWs think.

[pantswarrior]

Agreeing with everyone in this thread and subthread. I'm under 70 pounds and cosplay healthy-sized females and even buff males, yet people still want my picture. It's about loving the character, not about being 100% accurate.

Well if you go homestuck

[insanenoodlyguy]

There's always Jane Crocker.

Re: Well if you go homestuck

[(Anonymous)]

It's kind of hard to tell with Homestuck's art style, though.

Re: Well if you go homestuck

[insanenoodlyguy]

A lot of people believe she's supposed to be larger. Since it is hard to tell, nobody saying it's wrong.

And she does enjoy baking. A lot. And only lives with her dad. Somebody's gotta eat all them sweets!



Plus the online misogenist final bad guy thinks she's fat! (and probably has a fetish)

http://youtu.be/wxTyBgR7vFY

Re: Well if you go homestuck

[lynx]

+1

I headcanon Jane being chubby as well, and she absolutely owns it ;3

Re: Well if you go homestuck

[(Anonymous)]

JSYK, enjoying baking doesn't make you any bit more overweight than average. I know a pastry chef who's extremely thin.

Re: Well if you go homestuck

[diet_poison]

No, but it does add plausibility to the headcanon. Besides, pastry chefs bake stuff to sell. Jane bakes stuff for exactly two people to eat.

[ibbity]

Ia that it sucks if no one in your favorite shows looks like you, but have you been to a convention where there is cosplaying? People are cosplaying characters they look nothing like in face, form or coloring, all OVER the place, and no one except a few sourpuss nasty no-life-having internet trolls cares. Cosplay who you want to cosplay!

[elaminator]

IA. Have fun with it; I thought that was the entire point. You don't have to possess the exact same body type as the character you want to cosplay. If you get the costume and makeup and props right then you'll look good regardless.

Some people might give you shit for it, but frankly certain people will give you shit for everything so who cares?

[lynx]

I came to say this ^^

[cloud_riven]

Meh. You should cosplay any of them any way. Your accuracy stickling is keeping you from cosplaying, and you and the intense cosplayers are the only ones who'd care. Nothing wrong with aiming for perfection, but that's gotta suck having to wait around for THE character who fits your exact whatever body type.

[ariakas]

This is really, really only something you have to worry about if you're gunning for awards and/or internet fame, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

for heaven's sakes no. NO NO NO.

"Accuracy" is about having the correct number of stripes on the collar, the correct number of buttons down the front, the correct color red instead of neon orange, brown shoes when the character wears brown shoes and black when they wear black. Accuracy is not about having the same bodily proportions (or skin color, or eye color, or height, or gender, or sexual orientation, or measurements, or length of arm, or distance from your thumb to your pinky finger).

Nobody stands with a scale and a measuring tape to check to see if you weigh the same as the character and meet the bust-waist-hip dimensions. Not even in contests.

Just cosplay. Seriously. If you're going to worry so much about such a non-issue dictating who you cosplay, you're already starting out doing it wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

1. Agreeing with everyone who says to cosplay anyway; almost no one will nitpick and the ones who will are missing the point. Make a beautiful costume of a character you love and wear it. Fiction is mutable.

2. A middling-chubby character I like (if you're looking for recs) is Helen Narbon, the mad scientist from Narbonic (http://narbonic.com). It's not everyone's cup of tea and the art takes a while to find its feet, but check it out if you like mad scientists and rampant pop-culture allusions.

[(Anonymous)]

Having the right body type helps, and can be a good starting point for making a choice (along with other features you might share with a character), but it's not in any way a requirement.
(I do always prefer seeing people with the same height/proportions/skintone/etc. as the character they're cosplaying, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the ones who don't.)