/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I'm really lucky because my parents are really supportive. I can ask my mom about sewing-related things and my dad helps me with my props. However…
>Years ago, making an Entei costume for a masquerade skit
>Masq group members meet up at my parents' place because it's the only place with a large enough area to practice in without being in public
>I bring the Entei costume over for practice no matter the shape it's in because we really need to learn now to move and interact with the group with such a big costume
>So like 9 out of the 10 practice sessions Entei looks creepy as hell
>Mom insists on taking pictures one day
>Okay, sure, and I'd like the files later for my own records on the build progress
>Eventually finish costume, compete, yadda yadda
>Half a year passes
>Stop by my parents' place and my mom goes, "oh, here's this year's Christmas letter!"
>It has a bunch of pictures of the family, including the attached picture with the caption "Jacuzzi dressed as a Pokémon!!!"
>Scream at her silently: WHY DID YOU USE THAT PICTURE? WHY WOULD YOU SEND THIS TO PEOPLE? IT LOOKS SO AWFUL! AT YOUR REQUEST, I SENT YOU PICTURES OF THE FINISHED COSTUME!
>"Mother please change this, PLEASE don't use this picture. I have so many others…"
>"Don't get upset! No one will know what you dressed as anyway, so it doesn't matter! And I can't change it, I already sent them all out!"

The finished costume did not look particularly good, but it wouldn't have been nearly as bad as her sending out what she did. She didn't do it in a mean-spirited way, but I still feel embarrassed thinking back to it. I've tried to get her to use other cosplay pictures in more recent X-mas letters in order to heal that embarrassment, but "since you threw such a fit the last time" she won't do it. Chances are no one else cares or remembers, but… meh.