ruby cosplay made and modeled by www.facebook.com/chaosfoxcostuming

Crescent Rose scythe made www.facebook.com/madhattershion

I think this is a question many of have asked ourselves more times then we possibly should have. Cosplay should be fun, cosplay should be accepting, cosplay should be so many positive things but sometimes there are just those bad apples, those little flaws, that end up scaring people away from such a wonderful hobby.There are so many reasons though sometimes people won’t like your costume because of the color of your skin, others won’t like it just because of your size, while others even believe that you should only cosplay characters that you resemble,even the cosplay photo locations. My personal opinion. cosplay whoever the heck you want. I truly do believe though that the biggest reason why people don’t like a lot of your costumes is due to their own personal insecurities. I have dealt with my share of this by having anonymous posts about me ranking on costumes that I spent hours, shed tears and blood into making and were so perfectly accurate but yet these people still made fun of me. I used to be a skinner girl but due to life changes I actually gained a bit of weight and man have I heard so much from it. Personally I don’t think my size should matter but some people say that I shouldn’t be cosplaying as anything due to being a tad bit overweight. Yes it hurts my feelings, yes it makes me uncomfortable, discouraged and all the negative but will I stop? NO, never stop what you love because of someone else.

I personally have a friend she is down in the photo who cosplays as a great version of yang from rwby and this costume is just absolutely amazing but she did at one point have someone try to insult her about it. This person was running around telling lots of people that her costume wasn’t on point, it was extremely inaccurate and she didn’t look anything like the character and shouldn’t be cosplaying as yang. Her costume is so amazing though so why would anyone even dare to go about saying that you might be thinking. Well this leads me to the part where people get cruel when their insecure.

The person who actually went around talking so much about her costume, should have been more talking about themselves to be honest.Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against them everyone starts off somewhere and their a newbie. But I think he was very jealous and insecure since some of his costumes have some minor inaccuracy and he doesn’t resemble a lot of characters. In the end all in all I truly wish that this person would realize they don’t need to be insecure no one does. The cosplay community is so welcoming and so nice. Well at least the majority of it. Of coarse you have those bad apples but people please just ignore them, have fun let them be sour sprouts. I have totally met the best people I have ever met in my entire life through cosplay and anime conventions though. I have met my best friend, who I love to death and I have also met my life partner through cosplay and can not wait to keep meeting and learning more. I hope that this topic will inspire you who has read this to go out there and cosplay whoever and whatever you love and meet new people. Always be careful but have so much fun, we only live once make the best of it through your passion, and I defiantly know that cosplay is mine.

Happy cosplaying to all!

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Yang cosplay made and modeled by www.facebook.com/KikiMika