/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7466823
One event that touched me in cosplay was seeing this group at Katsucon. It was toward the end of the night I spotted them, ran up to them, pulled out my iphone, asked for a pic.. and they all turned around and spent about a minute putting all their stuff down and coordinating their pose. Probably tired and picture-weary, still doing the best they could for some random chick with a cell phone camera. If it was me I probably would have refused or given a half-assed smile with my backpack still on.

This is a really nice post. I've been a real bitch in cosplay before, refusing pictures when I just didn't feel like it, or not bothering to do a halfway decent pose when some mom with a cell phone camera stopped me.. I regret that (less so for the people who got mad or took a picture of me behind my back) so thank you for making me feel more humble and appreciative.

I'm going to try to do better. I've really been a jerk and that's not the kind of attitude I want people to see or emulate.
I originally got bitter because I feel like a lot of people treat cosplayers and lolitas (I hate getting stopped for pics in my lolita group) like props for their entertainment. But they aren't all like that. Treating someone who might be innocent poorly just because I've been treated poorly just perpetuates this cycle. It's better to grin and bare it, try to spread the kindness and hope for the best. You never know, you might be cosplaying something they never though they would see, or you might be exactly how they envision your character would look. I get caught up in photoshoots and reblogs but it's stuff like this that is really memorable.