/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>used to lurk /cgl/ years ago
>stop using 4chan in general
>come back
>"I wonder how /cgl/ is doing"
>coomer threads are a thing suddenly

Jesus, I don't know what happened or why this is allowed. This used to be a visibly female poster-dominated board.. now it isn't. These borderline nsfw threads are clearly by men and should be banished to a red board instead.

To clarify: Not that I have an issue with male anons, but that this is clearly taken something meaningful away from a women-dominated space.

>>10173748
I know, you're right and she always told me to tell her if there was something i was uncomfortable with but i'm too pussy and feel like i would disappoint in both cases

How long does White Rabbit typically take to buy the item you give them off mercari? I'm so worried someone else will buy my number one priority dress before they get to it. It's been three days.

>tfw 26inch waist at 5"3/5"4
i feel horribly fat now even though i'm considered "skinny" or "average" (118lbs).
Time to hate myself even more and skip meals again

It hurts me a bit whenever i hear my SO say "i'd smash the fuck out of her" looking at porn or cute thots. Even though i enjoy looking at it with her a bit it just makes me self conscious af
It reminds me how i'll never be pretty like those girls no matter how much she says she loves me the way i am

>tfw all this boob talk made me feel insecure about my measly B cups
I haven't felt that insecurity in years ever since I got into japanese fashion.
A-At least i'm not interested in guys so maybe girls won't mind me being a flatlet. My body isn't too ugly,i"m apparently kind and funny and "cute" (even though i think i look gross/ugli) so I have hope ;_; right?

>>9690883
You sound like someone that needs to be protected at all costs. Pls be safe.

>tfw your large shoulders will never fit into beautiful MM or VM OPs

My face hasn't hardly changed since elementary school, my voice is high pitched, and a lot of my interests/mannerisms are rather childlike.

Sometimes I worry people think I'm actually a child when I go out in Lolita. Even worse, I'm scared that my comm will think I'm an ageplayer if I started acting more like myself.

I don't think any reasonable person is going to look at the fact that I enjoy kid's shows and assume that I also have a fetish for wearing diapers and calling my boyfriend 'daddy', but the idea that someone might makes me really insecure at times. I don't really wear sweet all that often and that's part of why.

Went out with bf's normie work people. They super excitedly tell about their white picket fence life goals. Feel super awk af about own pop culture art and weeb goals, can already tell planning a house weighs more as social currency and not really into boasting either.

I had a raging fire of a thousand white hot suns of motivation inside me yesterday, now I just feel like every other sad talentless art faggit out there. How do you keep your spine when you meet new people?

>>9206668
Man, I don't think I'll ever see this print coordinated well.

>>9080807
>>9080826
nvm deleted it to avoid more shame, you are right it looks awful.
It's 2am here and i'm super tired + stressing over tomorrow so i'm probably not thinking straight

>>9003699

>>8938736
I've been finding myself like that more and more lately. I'm old enough to finally afford lolita pieces and it takes up half my wardrobe, but I can't bring myself to wear it except for meets. I thought I'd wear something casually dressy to go out and run errands in, but I ended up wearing pants and a tee shirt. Maybe I'll try again tonight and for around the house.

Unfortunately, I'm a comm rep/founder, and I'd hate to give up on lolita after all of these years and finally seeing new comers in need of guidance. Maybe I just have to get used to wearing it more often?

>>8938804
>>8938821

saaaaaame. gdi. I even miss just going to a kid neighbor on weekends to go out and play. I wish making friends past 21 was easy again. It feels weird moving back to my hometown because people here are either too young or too old to comfortably hang out with, or as >>8938804
pointed out, anyone close to my age are married and/or having kids. It kind of makes me miss being in a college town, but it's not going to help at all (my friend and I met up for an alum game and realized how we've transcended that stage). Maybe I just need to move to a bigger city.

I wish folks like us to could teleport for meets.

>tfw weekend passes are sold out, 2 months left until the con and still no brand guests
please for the love of mana just admit you dont have any so i can go buy things for my ott dream coord once and for all

>>8894575

>>8888839
>>8888826
Yasss. I also remembered a less popular site, Miss Bimbo that ended up on EGL because they had fairly accurate and cute lolita pieces. It looks like it was taken down along with Poupée Girl.

>tfw you're finally old enough to buy brand regularly, but no ribbons to show it

>>8755030
Whatever you do make it extremely clear that it's not monogamous and you have a boyfriend. Nothing is more disappointing than hitting it off and finding out she has a boyfriend and that she wants an open relationship or have him try to get involved in your sex life.

Incoming bag o feels

Man, this is just not a good month to host any meets. Everyone's either busy with finals coming up or burnt out from AM. I have one coming up and I've put up a lot of hype into it, but all I'm getting are a bunch of maybes, and the people who said wanted to go during a feeler post haven't responded. I'm seriously thinking about canceling it pretty soon. I have no idea what i'm going to do on my day off though.

Anyone else have been dealing with a similar problem in their comm (bunch of no-shows)?

Also:

>seeing everyone's AM posts and posts about winning Baby tea party tickets
>not sure if envy because kind of falling out of the con scene
>would like to be more into the music scene, but worry it'll end up like the con scene
>but with dirty hipsters instead of weebs

>tfw started a comm, only to feel more like a lone lolita
>tfw only close friend moved away and moved on from the fashion

>been going to the gym a lot lately
>getting stronger, running longer, and more flexible
>still not seeing ab definition
>125 to 128
>niggawut?

I think my scale is off. I just want to go back to having a 27 inch waist. I'm no where near overweight, but I always feel uncomfortable wearing my fully shirred skirt. What the fuck gives?

>>8102720
>My waist is giving my IW skirts trouble
I know this feel. I'm not even near plus sized and their skirts are uncomfortably tight. I've tried on a high waist one with partial shirring and I couldn't get them to zip up.

I just want skirts so I can wear lolita casually.

>>8008452
>this year we fell on hard times
>keep getting unexpected bills and shit
>feel like shit because I want to give my family a nice Christmas this year

I know this feel.

I'm glad that you're getting the awesome commission though. I hope it keeps going up from there.

I told my parents about how hard it's getting for me and we've made arrangements for me to pay for my rent (because I had recently graduated and cannot find a sub-leaser yet) while my dad takes care of my car bill (it needed break repairs over Thanksgiving; we lost a lot to a shitty and shady mechanic and had to find someone else). I'm doing some work at my old job, but it's not a lot of hours at the moment and I won't get paid until Jan 6th. I'm kicking myself for quitting my job during finals week because I thought that I needed to focus on that. My folks told me that I don't need to give them gifts so I can focus on paying off bills and fines (yup, I have one due by Christmas Eve - fuck you statewide tollway), but I still feel shitty. I really don't want to resolve to my credit card.

A part of me wants to cry until I've let out all of my anguish, but the other part of me is trying to keep calm and pro-active. Ugh.

>tfw not a kid with silly, easily resolvable problems
>tfw not that rich white male baby boomer who showed up at your workplace in his Jaguar

>>7870114
I miss old school so much.
I miss the times where forums and lolita communities on LJ were still active and that lolita wasn't so popular. I miss a bit of everything except for the fact that my favourite brands were so hard to get because the internet wasn't what it is today. I really miss the old lolita aesthetic for some parts especially sweet, now it's a lot of pastel vomit and colorful wigs and cupcakes and rainbows and there's all that social status bullshit in lolita now.
What happened to just dressing up and feeling pretty and enjoying it? Now it's like a contest to who's the most popular and shit,there was that kind of shit before for sure but a lot less.
I stop ranting now. Sweet nostalgia.

>>7770480
I really want Meta's pintuck jsk in all colors, but especially in navy. It was years ago when Baby had a really good summer sale and they sold one of the pocket embroidered jsks in navy for half off. Now that I think about it, I also don't like that many navy pieces I run into don't have shirring.

>I can't help getting my grubby hands on these kawaii pieces.

Yeah, I still have trouble avoiding looking at cute sweet lolita prints. I used to dislike them, but now I see them as much easier to wear casually than "plain" ones that are embellished with mostly lace and ruffles. I really want more stuff I can wear casually.

>your wardrobe sounds like the kind of wardrobe where there's a million ways to coord one piece.

Kind of, except that reds are so fucking hard to match.

>>7675256
I know that isn't her boyfriend, but damn, I wish I had a hipster/neo-dandy bf to match/compliment with.

Man...all of the live shows, record shops, and galleries we could visit while looking stylish as fuck