I won’t, anon!  I promise!  Honestly when I decided to put myself out there more in regards to cosplay, my mind immediately went, “… I’m gonna get bashed aren’t I?”  I think a lot of plus sized cosplayers, or cosplayers of color, are on guard.  Because you hear the horror stories so you’re just waiting for it to happen.  Or you hear the “just so you know people might make fun of you” from people who are trying to be supportive, but it ends up scaring cosplayers more, at least to me.  I mean, honestly, look at the society we live in.  Plus sized people are well aware of their size and how some people look at them, so they don’t need to be told this again.  It just makes it worse.  

I don’t want people to be discouraged, because there’s always going to be that one person out there, no matter what size you are.  As a friend once told me, you could be the character, actually BE the character, and someone will find fault.  I have friends, skinny, attractive friends, who do such a great job and I see them dealing with hate on their cosplay.  And I feel like, “Wow but you look just like Naoto why are people doing this to you?!”  But nope, the bashing is there too. “Attention whore.”  "Fap bait.“  Just… I’ve seen all sorts of bashing, for all sorts of people, and I know there’s some great cosplayers I see at cons who won’t share their pictures or anything because they’re worried about what people will say.  They don’t have cosplay pages, or photoshoots, or anything like that.  Or they talk about how they wish they could cosplay but they’re too this or that to do it.  

I want that to stop.  

I mean, that Peach cosplay has over 3000 notes.  I never expected that.  I never expected to have so many people like it.  I was actually going to retire it because it’s so old (Smash Brothers BRAWL launch was the first time I wore it), but now I want to revamp it because, holy crap you guys!  But you don’t know until you put yourself out there, and I want to put myself out there so the cosplayer I use to be years ago won’t be so worried about what people will think.  Think about how long I’ve had this Peach cosplay, and I’m just now taking decent pictures in it and posting them online.  I had very, very few pictures, and they were all from other people taking them and posting them to their Facebooks and stuff.  I never stopped and went, "I should take pictures myself and share them.”  It’s time to get over that.  

My not so secret dream is to show off the costumes my wifey makes, I want her to take on more commissions and I want her to be this sort of, I don’t know, plus sized seamstress?  Like I told her, it’s a big deal that you’re not only able to make stuff for plus sized folks, but you’re willing to.  You can make a hoodie for a girl who’s a size 28.  You can make huge ballgowns for a girl my size.  That’s a big deal, and I want to get the word out there.  

Oh!  And thank you for the support, lol.  Sorry, I should’ve said that first  >.<