As a plus-sized cosplayer myself, I think it's refreshing to see women (and men!) of larger sizes with facebook pages and followings. I don't knock the thinner ones, I follow tons of them too. It just makes me happy to see larger people cosplaying, it helps remind me that its okay to cosplay. So thank you!
Anonymous
That’s a good point, anon, and I feel the same way. I follow a lot of cosplayers and I love the work that everyone puts into their costumes. At the same time, it’s nice to see plus sized cosplayers, black cosplayers, all sorts of cosplayers doing their thing and getting recognition. It’s nice to see a variety. I feel like that with everything, really. Black Disney princess? Yay! GLBT dating options in video games? Score! Female action heroes? Yes please! I’ve always felt like that. Representation is so important :)
evergreenring:
GloZell shows why cultural representation is so important (x)
No joke, when I cosplayed Tiana at Daishocon last year, I wander over towards the waterpark area full of kids and got a lot of attention, but I’ll never forget the little black girl who smiled up at me and tugged on her dad’s arm.
But it’s not just her face I remember, but her dad’s face. He had this look of, “Thank you so much for being here,” and he let me walk over and hug his daughter. It was just this moment of, “Finally, she’s got a princess she can look at.” And I love Disney and I love the princesses and I wholeheartedly believe that you can cosplay whoever you want, but there’s something about that moment of, “Wow there’s someone who looks like me, finally, in this lineup of princesses, there’s a princess like me after all these years."
It’s quite nice <3
Moments that make me love working in a comic book store
fyeahsuperheroes:
professorthorgi:
This Wednesday, Marvel comics released All New Marvel Now #1 which featured the first super hero appearance of Kamala Khan, the new Ms Marvel who will be getting her own series next month. She is the first female Muslim character to receive her own series from either of the big companies, and because of this some people are saying this is all a stunt, that this is just something Marvel is doing to get attention. And you can say that all you want, but today two Muslim women who had never come into my store before came in and asked for the new book with Ms Marvel in it. We gave it to them and they started flipping through it and they both had the biggest smiles you could imagine on their faces. In fact I would describe both of them as being “giddy” even. So you can say its a stunt all you want, but end of the day thanks to the new Ms Marvel, those two ladies now have a super hero that they’re excited about, and that’s pretty awesome.
REPRESENTATION MATTERS
It really, really does.
It’s that feeling you get when you’re a young girl playing video games where you have to save the princess always or the entire cast of fighters is men… then suddenly Chun-Li is there in the roster.
It’s that feeling you get when you’re a young, black girl and you see a black lady shopping in a mall in the cartoon that looks cool and suddenly she transforms into Storm.
It’s that feeling of being the overweight kid but seeing women like Queen Latifah, plus sized, female rapper, actress, not seen as lazy or pathetic , but actually successful and beautiful.
It’s that feeling you get when you flip through a comic or watch a cartoon or anime or movie or whatever and a boy kisses a boy, or a girl kisses a girl, and it’s o.k. It’s quite all right. It’s fine.
It’s being thirty and cosplaying Tiana, and walking past the little black girl with her dad, and she stops and stares up at you. And you smile and you kneel down and you hug her. And her dad smiles at you.
Representation matters :)
