Fandom Fest was safe this weekend.
One time my wifey shared my Wonder Woman dress on Lynda Carter’s Facebook (yesterday, it was JUST YESTERDAY) and Lynda Carter responded and said she loved it.
May have freaked out a lot a little.
May have cried a bunch a little.
Seriously, how awesome is this?
So my wifey sent me a link to a meme generator and things happened. Because, you know, I always speak on cosplay and positivity and loving yourself, but those ramblings get long, so here’s some quick memes to keep you going in cosplay and, well, anything you need them for :) Share them, save them, print them out and put them by your fabric as a reminder that you’re awesome and should be having fun instead of stressing about someone’s opinion <3
The Wonder Woman meme is pretty much my feelings on cosplay. Have fun, be whatever you want, love yourself, the end :)
The Tiana meme is pretty much my feelings on fat bashing and this idea that, somehow, a fat person’s existence glorifies obesity. This is a ridiculous notion. You can’t say that a fat person is lazy and useless and needs to go out and do something, then when that person does go out and does something you shoot them down. Me being in this world is about me enjoying my life, period. My weight is simply that: my weight, but there’s more to me then that, and honestly, if you choose (yes, choose, because your opinions are a choice) to be bothered my a woman who has some rolls and flabby arms then I feel sorry for you, because there is so much more to this life than one fat lady in a costume.
Holy wow, my cosplay got shared on a pretty big group called Elite Girl Gamers, which is pretty rad! There’s a mix of comments about it, from me being awesome to me promoting some unhealthy lifestyle by simply existing. In the end, everyone is entitled to their opinion, it’s just interesting to see the different view points and people going back and forth about me and what I do, and what people view as being inspirational or not.
Honestly though, cosplay, to me, will always be about having fun. There’s no reason to tell someone they can’t have fun based on superficial things like weight or race or gender or whatever. We’re dressing in costume as fictional characters, who really has the right to tell someone that they’re doing it wrong? Who sets the rules? Someone says I’m too fat to be Wonder Woman but, in an instant, Gal Gadot – who is playing Wonder Woman – looks too frail and isn’t big enough. We could get a room full of Wonder Women and I can guarantee you that none of them will be perfect, because someone is going to point out something. No one is perfect, we don’t live in a perfect world, and frankly I don’t want to. I want the diversity and the differences between us. I’d be boring if we were all the same.
Truthfully, people already have to deal with ridiculous beauty standards outside of this community, and people seem to forget that this community is supposed to be enjoyable. Being told that I’m fat isn’t something that only happens in cosplay, society already has its never consistent standards of beauty and I grew up being told that I’m wrong in some way: too fat, black girls don’t do that, or that, and other such things. We have magazines that tell us how to lose weight while telling us how to bake a cake, they tell us how to diet, then it changes that diet, then it changes that diet. We’re told curves are in, then they’re not, then they’re in again – but don’t get too curvy, but then you’re not curvy enough, then we want thigh gaps and flat tummies, but not too flat.
Then you see that the “beautiful” people get photoshopped anyway.
It’s a mess, it always has been a mess, it always will be a mess, there’s never going to be a set answer to what “acceptable” is because people change their opinion all the time.
Am I setting a bad example by walking around with my rolls and flabby arms? People think fat means lazy, but then fat walks out the door and doesn’t sit at home all day but then that’s just gross to look at. So you don’t want fat to be lazy yet when its not lazy its not appealing to look at. You can’t have it both ways. You won’t have it both ways. And, for that matter, why does me being outside need to concern you? Why are you so focused on the physical? Is the smile not enough? The costume? Me being happy and living my life? Who made you dictator of my lifestyle? Out of all of the hatred that exists in this world why is one fat girl setting the bad example?
She’s not. You just think she is, and it makes you uncomfortable that she doesn’t think she’s a bad example, and others don’t think she’s a bad example, but an inspiration, a reason to get out there and join in on the fun. Because that’s what cosplay is, and cosplay never once said that fat people weren’t allowed to come out and play.
[Image Description: In the picture is a black woman wearing an original design she made based off of the character, Wonder Woman. The costume was made by her partner. The top is red with the Wonder Woman logo on it while the skirt is blue with stars on it.]MY ORIGINAL DESIGN WONDER WOMAN IS DONE! Designed by me and created by my wifey. And somehow I got a little red dress out of it, too. The entire costume (wig and all) will premiere on 4th of July at CONvergence, I am so excited!
The only thing missing is the yellow piece but I really like this better. Man the wifey knows best <3
Edit: My cosplay page is here. I’ll have more pictures there <3 Also, here’s a blog post on how the dress was made courtesy of my wifey :)
That moment when a page you watch reblogs your work so you scroll through Tumblr and suddenly see yourself. Also 7000+ notes what the holy bananas?!
So I’m not at SDCC or anything but hey, they showed what Wonder Woman is going to look like in Batman vs Superman, so I’m having a mental celebration as if I’m at the con, cuz, Wonder Woman yay! If I were there I’d be wearing this right now, and cheering, and things.
So I love walking around conventions with my wifey just so I can embarrass her fangirl over her existence and be like, “THIS IS THE ONE WHO MAKES OUR COSPLAYS SHE IS THE WIFEY I SPEAK OF!”
Seriously though, she’s so awesome and pretty and talented and amazing and she deserves all the love in the world. Go and follow her here!
Also, as a side bonus, I got the Wonder Woman hat from a good friend who surprised me with it at Convergence. You can follow her here.
You can be a princess. You can be a queen. You can even be a goddess. You can be anything you want: to love your cosplay is to love yourself.
slowly, green screen photos emerge from Cosplay Photoshoot 2-Convergence style @brichibi
This was such a great shoot I can’t wait to see the rest of the pics!
Person: Fat people are just lazy, they need to get out and do something.
Fat Person: *gets out and does all of the things*
Person: Ugh you’re so fat you need to stay inside so we don’t have to see this shit.
Fat Person: ………..
See. This. This is why it’s not worth stressing about.
So you know the drill, smile on the count of three: 1… 2… 3!
