Cosplay schedule for this weekend!
Friday afternoon/night: Princess Peach
Saturday morrning/afternoon: Sonic dress
Saturday night/Masquerade judging: Storm
We should hopefully be at Anime Milwaukee before noon so we can get the table set up. If you see me, please feel free to say hi!
I was trying to wait until Anime Milwaukee but NOPE! Here’s Storm and the revamped Sonic the Hedgehog dress I hope everyone likes them!
Costumes made by the best wifey a girl could ask for, and she also takes commissions ^^
For the morning folks :)
I was trying to wait until Anime Milwaukee but NOPE! Here’s Storm and the revamped Sonic the Hedgehog dress I hope everyone likes them!
Costumes made by the best wifey a girl could ask for, and she also takes commissions ^^
Went to the Halloween store just to look around really when I found this fun wig. I’ve been wanting to do new styles for Peach’s hair, especially after asieybarbie’s fantastic fanart, so I thought I’d give this a shot :)
It was kinda funny, because the lady working at the shop was asking what the wig was for and we were like, “Princess Peach.” She kinda looked confused for a moment then smiled and was like, “I’ve never seen a black Princess Peach, that’s awesome.”
So yeah instead of looking for like a long, flowy wig or putzing around with my own hair… let’s just go all out! Black Princess Peach is go!
Because it’s February and Valentine’s Day and stuff ^^ And we all know Princess Peach would love Valentine’s Day.
Many thanks to this wonderful person for adding the extra things to my picture. I came up with the words, but she was nice enough to do this for me :)
STORM! Mistress of the elements! At least my attempt with the wig I got last night so forgive my silly face ^^;;; I really hope I do her justice! Black headband will be upgraded to her actual head piece by the time the cosplay is done :)
Man it’s a ranting morning!
Sometimes I still get responses to that article I wrote. Sometimes they’re not always positive. They’re jerky with lots of swears and lowercase letters and the occasional misspelling. And sometimes I think, I can type out some elegant response to “Anime/Cartoon characters are supposed to be slim and beatiful” but then I realize… what’s the point of getting all frustrated with someone who actually thinks that every single animated character fits with some realistic model of beauty, which isn’t even realistic to begin with if you look into how much photoshopping goes into making people “beautiful,” at least according to this person’s definition or what being beatiful is.
Maybe that is what being beatiful is? That’s not how you spell beautiful so…
Or how I should be ashamed of how I look. I mean I have 12 years of a relationship, friends, family, and fans who are apparently wrong in thinking that I’m a good person, and that I’m pretty. SHAME ON ALL OF YOU! You should listen to this guy, for shame! Stop protecting me o.k.? Because clearly I’m a person who needs protection in the first place it’s not like I wrote that article to say “love yourself” I wrote that out of needing protection from my own… fatness?
Or how apparently it’s the outside appearance that makes us love these characters, not their personalities or anything, that would be silly. I’m clearly attached to Tiana for her good looks, not for her “you have to work for what you want” attitude, no that’s not it at all. I spent 25 episodes watching “Attack on Titan” because Eren’s so hot, not because it’s a gripping series that keeps you at the edge of your seat and OMG THERE’S A TITAN BEHIND YOU RUN!
And how cosplay should apparently exclude a large chunk of the fandom that even makes these characters popular in the first place. Unless, of course, you believe that everyone who enjoys anime/manga/cartoons/movies/television/video games/ect. is this skinny, beatiful person who looks like they walked right out of that series you love. Or that the creators of these series are just these flawless beings. Plus sized people are too lazy to make your favorite shows you know every single person who worked on the Avengers is as skinny as a cartoon character… wait Joss Whedon isn’t…
Or how I guess skinny cosplayers just magically look like that all the time and don’t do anything to achieve that look. Or that they don’t get any grief in the cosplay community either because they are perfect. They’re never called “fake” or “attention whores” or anything like that.
I do apologize for the existence of men like this person who can’t spell “beautiful,” because people like him are why female cosplayers are so defensive about men and assume that they’re going to be picked on by them when, in reality, male cosplayers have insecurities too. But because of people like this guy it’s assumed that men are just big bullies who have this inaccurate sense of what beauty is when, to be honest, the ones I’ve met at conventions are just as realistic as I am
Oh and I also don’t feel the need to get frustrated with comments like this because when I click on the article and see about 400+ positive remarks out of maybe 4 or 5 negative ones, I smile and put my cool kid glasses on ^^
Oh and in case you missed it this is the article I wrote, the negative comment is in there somewhere, if you don’t mind going through hundreds of positive notes (I know it’s there I get notifications lol, you don’t have to look for it)
My 2013 cosplay year with the added bonus of the fried chicken incident that led to the article I wrote :) It’s been a crazy year, but 2014 will probably be crazier with new cosplays and all ^^
Seriously, thank you so much for all of the support with my cosplay and everything else I do. I never expected all of this. I never expected to have followers who wanted to meet me, or who decided to cosplay because of me, and just… it’s been kind of surreal, and I still don’t quite know how to react except to just keep smiling :)
So here’s to more plus sized cosplay, more black girl geekery, more of me and my wifey going to cons and advertising our art and our book, and just… here’s to all of that.
Cheers to 2014!
Reblogging for the morning New Year folks <3
My 2013 cosplay year with the added bonus of the fried chicken incident that led to the article I wrote :) It’s been a crazy year, but 2014 will probably be crazier with new cosplays and all ^^
Seriously, thank you so much for all of the support with my cosplay and everything else I do. I never expected all of this. I never expected to have followers who wanted to meet me, or who decided to cosplay because of me, and just… it’s been kind of surreal, and I still don’t quite know how to react except to just keep smiling :)
So here’s to more plus sized cosplay, more black girl geekery, more of me and my wifey going to cons and advertising our art and our book, and just… here’s to all of that.
Cheers to 2014!
So asieybarbie did some fantastic Princess Peach fanart, so I did my hair and took some pictures in my Peach dress <3 If you haven’t see her art yet, go and check it out, it’s really, really amazing :)
My cosplay page: Brichibi Cosplays
