/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

"I'm going to cosplay so many of my favourite characters once I'm out of high school and can afford it!" ~2004

"Alright. I have 70 characters I really want to cosplay. Once I get a job I can get to work, but in the meantime I'm just going to pour through tutorials and look at other cosplays and write up how I plan to go about these." ~2009

"Okay, the list is down to 50 because I'm getting too old for some of these. Once I get settled in this new house and get a job, I can finally accomplish my dream." 2010-2013, 15 times (once for each move to a new home)

"Yeah, I'm never going to actually accomplish any of these ever." ~2014

Seriously spent years gathering tutorials off of DA, bookmarking Youtube video tutorials, and on a couple occasions asking cosplayers how they did certain things. I got screwed out of a normal college-age life when I lost my only parent, home, and almost all my stuff right when I graduated high school and had to spend 3 years moving from place to place, ending up living with psychotic strangers, and never being able to stay long enough to hold a job or start school. All I've wanted was some stability so I could spend all my time crafting (my second favourite part of cosplay, first being the "figure out how to do it" stage), but I'm almost 25 now and I might not even have the ability to get started on my big projects until I'm almost 30. I guess it's a good thing I'm not a fan of moe or high school characters (except Madoka). At least my wishlist is only ~30 now...

I'm pretty sure no one is going to be able to relate to this (except maybe vaguely related to financial stress or a huge wishlist), but I felt like venting.