Character: Original Character/African Sailor Moon
Series:: Sailor Moon
Cosplayer: Jamila of Girl Gone Geek and Straight Outta Gotham
Photographer: Jmeezys
SUBMISSION
OMG this is so cool!
Lately, my wifey and I have been sketching geeky dress designs and bringing them to life. I sketched these two designs and she made them :)
I’m a fat, black, magical girl and no one can tell me otherwise <3 <3 <3
Photos by X-Geek and Nude Carbon Studios.
If I sit here and wait for someone to come out with a black, female, plus sized character… I would never end up cosplaying. So I cosplay characters based on who I love, not based on who I look like, because if I did… I’d miss out on all the fun.
Don’t miss out on the fun. Cosplay characters you love. Cosplay outfits you love. Alter outfits into a style you love. Sew. Purchase. Commission. Dig in your closet. Cosplay who you want, however you want, have fun, and love yourself while you’re doing it.
That’s what cosplay is all about :)
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Photo credits to DWB Photography, Nude Carbon Studios, X-Geek, and Dave Yang Photography.
All cosplay I wear is made by my lovely wifey of 13 years, Snow Cosplays (also she’s the Belle in the Tiana picture). The Sailor Moon, Mario, and Wonder Woman dress designs are mine :)
Special shout out to Beth from Verssen Werks for being an adorable Daisy.
Premiered my Sailor Moon wall scroll dress at Geek.Kon today! I did the design and my wifey made the dress. The picture of Sailor Moon is from an old wall scroll we had :)
Finished #sailormoon #cosplay #geekkon
My wifey finished my new dress for Geek.Kon: Sailor Moon wallscroll dress :) Gonna be wearing it Saturday at the con and will be (attempting) to do her hairstyle… or something close to it.
Looking at the drawing I did and a picture of myself in the cosplay makes me really happy… I don’t know why, but it does. <3
YOU ARE THE CUTEST!!!
I’ve had a creative block lately but have been slowly getting back into woodburning and painting with some Sailor Moon stuff. Based on some fanart my wifey did :)
Growing up, I was one of the weird kids. On top of loving video games, I loved anime, and back then that wasn’t “normal” for a black girl to be into. I was told that I wasn’t “a normal black girl,” to “stop acting white,” and was pretty much told that I wasn’t portraying my race accurately. I was also told that I “wasn’t a real girl” because I played video games. Add the fact that I was overweight and I was just this ball of oddness to people.
I did have friends, friends who I still love dearly today, but they weren’t into this whole anime/video game thing. Still, we were close like sisters, but I didn’t have too many people who could quote “Dragonball Z.” But at the age of 18, when I stepped into that convention hotel, I was suddenly surrounded by like minded people. It wasn’t just one or two people, but hundreds of them, and I suddenly didn’t feel like “the weird black girl.”
My interview with “Twin Cities Geek” celebrating #28DaysOfBlackCosplay.
Thanks so much to everyone who celebrated #28DaysOfBlackCosplay and thanks for letting me be a part of it. This movement has really shown that cosplay is something that all of us can take part in, and more importantly, it showed that there are many of us out there to support one another. To everyone who has ever been told that they’re “wrong” because of how they look or what they’re into, it’s o.k. to be different, and you’re not alone. The month may be ending, but the love and support is going to continue for the rest of the year and years to come.
