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Best British Cats - Trying to draw more art of my cat Waffles ( Facebook | Tumblr )
Some people requested ( Tshirt | Print ) !
EDIT: added some popular requests Sir Catrick Stewart
I added some pawpular requests Sir Catrick Stewart
I always have to reblog her art.
Always.
*Naruto and Sasuke fist bump*
*she’ll understand when she sees it*
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New coaster set in progress. Here’s the sketches before the wood burning commences. Let’s hear it for the Eeveelutions! It will also have some color and the edge will be painted like a pokeball ^^
Anonymous asked: With all she respect, men deserve to cosplay whomever they like too. And no man should be bullied for his weight. However. Men don't experience anywhere near the torment that women do, because our society objectifies women and teaches men to as well.
I’m not saying that doesn’t happen, because it does. Women definitely, definitely have unrealistic expectations of beauty thanks to society. But that doesn’t mean that men don’t get tormented about their appearance. Society has unrealistic expectations of men just like they do with women. That was the point I was making. Men have body issues, too. There are crazy expectations for them, too. But there’s this expectation of men, you know? They’re tough guys, right? They’re strong and mighty and are the providers. Leave the beauty to the women. But they care about those things, too. Men are insecure. But no! You’re a man, you shouldn’t let that bother you!
But if they don’t show that it bothers them, then we say, “Men just don’t understand where we’re coming from. Men don’t get it, they never will, he’s not capable of understanding what we go through.”
But let’s be honest, not every man looks like Chris Hemsworth, right? But that’s who women fawn over. Unless if you listen to the gospel of comedies. There are plenty of shows where the fat guy gets the girl, right? And the girl is hot. Family Guy. King of Queens. Hell even the Flintstones. So there’s this feeling of, “Well wow how come Peter Griffin with his size and his stupidity gets this smokin’ hot wife when, in reality, there’s plus sized men who can’t land a date?” And I enjoy King of Queens and there are a few episodes where he’s told he should lose weight, but in the end he stays the size he is because she loves him no matter what.
But that’s not always the reality.
Or even a series with just, I dunno, a husband a wife. "Oh that wife of mine takes so long in the bathroom. Always worried about her appearance.“ She comes out like, "You don’t get it. Men don’t have to worry about these things.”
But they do! They do worry about how they look! We live in a society that focuses on a woman’s appearance, so suddenly when a man is concerned about his looks it’s either a) looked down upon/seen as weak b) played off as a joke, c) he’s gay
Men are pressured into weight loss and things, too. The problem, and the point I’m trying to make, is that society rarely shows this. Because, as I said (and you said, too) society focuses on the appearance of women. So when some guy is like, “I have body issues too,” the response is, “Oh boo hoo, cry me a river, women have it harder.” Body issues effect everyone. We know it effects women because we speak about it. We believe it doesn’t effect men because either we don’t speak about it, or if we do, it gets downplayed somehow.
Not really a rant, more of an… observation?
A friend of mine is hoping to do a plus sized cosplay panel at Anime Detour this year and I’m happy to say that she has all sorts of panelists in mind, including a male voice too. I really do think in this plus sized cosplay supportive circle we should hear more from men. I’ve said before that there’s this assumption about men being, well… pricks towards women in the geek circle, or that the ones being bashed on are always women, but that’s not the case at all. Bullying doesn’t discriminate.
Now I’m not saying the ladies don’t need love and support, because they do, and yeah there are jack ass men (i.e.: the one who continued to comment on my article this week), but I feel like all it takes is one jerk of a guy to say something for people to assume that every single guy you come across is going to be like that. They’re going to assume that “anime/cartoon characters are supposed to be skinny and beautiful,” or whatever the quote is that that guy said on my article I don’t even remember anymore. They’ll assume that all a man cares about with cosplay is if he can fantasize about the girl and that’s it. There’s no way he likes the cosplay because he likes the detail and construction and he likes the character, nope, he just wants to think about that girl in his bed. All because of that one random guy who makes a dumb ass comment.
And I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but I’m guilty of this assumption, too! The first time I wore Tiana the first person who gave me a compliment was a guy and I thought, “… o.k. what parallel universe is this I’m not Catwoman I’m a Disney princess…” but honestly, I actually do have a lot of male fans! And I am deeply sorry, gentlemen, for the assumptions I made in the beginning. I’ve gotten much better about it, though :)
But I think we also assume that men don’t have issues with their body. We assume that a man can just walk around, being as plus sized as he wants, and he gets no crap for it. But that’s not true at all. There are men who are just as uncertain about this as we are, who won’t cosplay even if they want to, or they assume that they need to cosplay “the fat guy” because that’s their body type. There are men who get intimidated when they see that hard bodied shirtless Goku cosplayer and think, “Well nevermind I shouldn’t do it at all.” They see some guy pull off the skintight Venom cosplay and shake their heads because they don’t look like that, so they shouldn’t even attempt it.
So all and all, I hope this panel comes to life for Anime Detour, and I think hearing a variety of voices would be great :) If it does become a thing I’ll post about it ^^
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“Ebony Snow” by Anat Dayag
Damnit, she’s going to ask for this as a cosplay….. (really not complaining)
YEP! ASKING FOR THIS COSPLAY NOW! MAKE THE THING!
(Source: anatd.deviantart.com, via snowtigra)
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