The Cosplay Thread ("She Looks Very Healthy" Warning)

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Months early, but still funny....

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From this blog post

Literally, the hardest time of the year being a cosplayer on Halloween! …well besides being a cosplayer during 2020 canceled con madness. (Ignore my silent crying. Lol!) But really, for those of you going cross-eyed trying to understand, let me spell this out. Do you know how some women refuse to be photographed at events in the same dress more than once? Well, it’s kind of along those lines. Not completely, but close.

Okay, follow me on this.

Wearing a cosplay to many is different than just putting on a costume. Not saying this to sound like a gatekeeper, but there is more to “cosplay.” Cosplay is more like a persona that this cosplayer has become so attached to in many ways. Blood, sweat, and tears poured into this persona. Some making everything from scratch and fine-tuning over years. Getting this character as close to screen accurate as possible. Cosplayers even practicing traits, characteristics, and posing. These are almost like our alter-egos. A lot of cosplayers are even known for and recognized as these characters, so why on this special holiday would we want to be something we are pretty often?

You would think the options are limitless. Cosplayers have this full closet of character to dawn. (Hence the tweet at the top.) Some would even think the options are limitless. We’re ready and have a plethora of options on hand…NOPE.

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Halloween is like our one time of the year to completely mix it up and do whatever. A time do completely our own creations unrelated to those very loved in many geek culture. I honestly have to laugh because sometimes, I think of Halloween as our lazy dress-up day. Onesie costumes? Why not!? Ha!

Another reason, for many of us, why we tend to avoid wearing our cosplay to Halloween parties is just think of the extensive work and money invested. It is pretty risky to wear the cosplays out to parties where there are a lot of ruined clothes possibilities. No one wants to take the chance of a drunk accident or what not trashing their years of work. Just imagine. Such a travesty.

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Now in my case, normal years you wouldn’t catch me wearing anything, I’ve never previously worn for Halloween. It is kind of how I record my years, easy to remember when there’s a different outfit in those memories. But this year, I may be tweaking an existing. Most likely saving my grand ideas like the Labyrinth one for next year…or next con. In our case, we’re currently stalking Halloween Costumes and Amazon on possible tweaks to my existing Wonder Woman dress and making it a couple’s costume since the kiddo is in their own tween-land. Aka, pretty sure, group themed family costume days are gone for us, but who knows, maybe we’ll get lucky. (Pretty sure it’s gonna be one of their “fursona’s” wearing a Halloween costume at this point, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see what I post on Instagram.) Only time will tell.

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Curious, have you all figured it out already? Spooky friends?

Cosplayers, how you doing out there?

Anyone have a solid game plan yet? Please, tell me I’m not the only one totally thrown off my game this year! Lol.



*Update* Kiddo is definitely in the “what should my fursona wear?” mode and it is too cute not to share it here too!

Now we wait and see which is the winner. so far polls are looking like the “King.”
 
And randomly a foe of Black Widow from Marvel Fanfare days. That's the one and only time I've seen here. Unless it's a different Iron Maiden.

Different one. The THUNDER Agents weren't Marvel, and predate the appearance of the Black Widow enemy by over a decade.

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Besides drawing the Black Widow story with the above image, George Perez also illustrated a couple of covers with the original Iron Maiden during a short-lived 80's series.

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Since I have been doing little but reading games recently (See Blog), I missed the release of this. The con was February 17th 2023,




If nothing else, 3:12 is just funny
 
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That's terrifying.
What's terrifying is that the person was in that furry monstrosity, and it was hot in that exhibit room. A friend asked me if I'd ever dress up and the answer was an emphatic no. You really have to commit in order to do it, and I don't have that in me.
 
What's terrifying is that the person was in that furry monstrosity, and it was hot in that exhibit room. A friend asked me if I'd ever dress up and the answer was an emphatic no. You really have to commit in order to do it, and I don't have that in me.

On one hand, as long as you hydrate with water, you'll probably lose a fewe pounds wearing such a suit for any given length of time.

OTOH, the inside of that suit is going to be rank.
 
On one hand, as long as you hydrate with water, you'll probably lose a fewe pounds wearing such a suit for any given length of time.

OTOH, the inside of that suit is going to be rank.
Most furries wear a cotton body suit under their fursuits. Some baby power/ corn starch against the skin. Since they are use to wearing it, they know their own hydration level and don't sweat as much. So surprisingly not as bad as you might expect.
 
Most furries wear a cotton body suit under their fursuits. Some baby power/ corn starch against the skin. Since they are use to wearing it, they know their own hydration level and don't sweat as much. So surprisingly not as bad as you might expect.
Dammit why do people always interject truth and evidence into our wild speculation!
 


PCKS 2023 Hall Awards

Of course, this is Kansas City. I don't think it has a qualifier.
 
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Not from my favorite Cosplay Videographer, but these are nice.

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Wondercon 2023 - Cosplay Music Video




Long Wondercon.... like 3x Nice videography, but no music.


Wondercon... more reasonable length
 
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BEST COSPLAY OF MEGACON LIVE 2023 - Cosplay Music Video ft. Wednesday, My Hero Academia, Miraculous

Well it is the best so far.

 

WonderCon 2023 Cosplay Music Video 4K HDR

I know lots of WonderCon, but it is friggen WonderCon.

 
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