/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

You're rich as fuck but you cut so many corners for cosplay.
You use cardboard that was roughly the correct colour to make a hat. A cowboy style hat.
You never use a wig.
You don't even into makeup.
Your last cosplay was a duct taped logo onto an expensive jacket that didn't even look like the character.
To top it off, you're obnoxious to everyone.
Your mom drives you everywhere even though you're like 25.
Everyone has to cater to you and if not, you get upset.
You argue with everyone who disagrees with you and you make no sense until they give up reasoning with a retard.
You bitch and moan about how people were nicer in the 'good old days' before cosplay became popular in our community. Guess what, no one liked you then either.

And you wonder why people don't recognise your cosplay or take pictures or even want to hang out with you anymore.

Yes, I mad.

I have a cosplay friend who in the past has never given me that many problems at all. He's pretty tame about shit but more recently has become more self-centered and a massive try-hard.

We did a skit where we got an award and he keeps on to this day raving about what a spectacular ninja he is for making the skit come together. to him. He just walked for a second to hand us an item, then left. He completely forgets us working on the costumes, the skit overall, and our work.

More recently, he decided to try to take the leadership in an upcoming skit and became the most critical person I have ever met. I appreciate critique and do take my projects seriously but he's done nothing to show for this project considering how picky he is. My friend and I sew all the costumes, including his, for free, and he said our cosplays weren't authentic enough for him, and that he kept whining when one of our members, in a current smaller budget due to switching between schools, can't afford higher end fabrics and shit like that. He came off standoffish to other regular skit members, who backed off immediately, and he tried to completely boot another member off when they have been nothing but productive in the group.

He hasn't done anything to contribute to the skit but whine literally. When called out, he began to cry and play victim and admitted to purposely being an ass to everyone because the skit has to be a do or die event to him.

I'm just done. I really am. I literally want to set fire to his costume that I have nearly finished.

[sorry about this rant]


dear J,

we have been cosplaying for years now. I don't understand how you haven't learned anything? You always rely on my to save your ass and do all your work. AND THEN not even credit me for it? I basically made your costumes and your saying you did it. Its getting old. You know I dont want to do your shit anymore too. So stop trying to guilt me "oh I don't know how to make this jacket. If I mess up I wont be able to cosplay with you" BULLSHIT. You have plenty of time to make this, its a double breasted coat you can find patterns, and you have more than enough money to try again. and WHY did you buy a shitty shiny thin fabric for a coat? You should know better than that and when I added my opinion you shut me down without a second thought. Im getting so sick of this. I used to love our cosplay hangout days but now I don't have much time to work on mine when I have to do yours. You are being pretty selfish to ask me to do yours when you know I have much more to do for mine.

and yes I know Im the best sewer in the group and do you know how I did that? through practice! you should try it sometime...if you don't want to go through this just buy your damn costumes.

I'm getting sick and tired of having to sew your cosplays a day before the con. For nearly ALL cons or just small meet ups.
I tell you how certain things can make your Cosplay look better when you're 'working' on it and then in the end just hand it off to me WITHOUT EVEN TELLING ME THAT I HAVE TO WORK ON IT a day before the con.

You're basically the main reason why I've had to constrict my time to finish my cosplays early before hand because I know you're too lazy to 'work' on yours.

Also I know you're in school and 'don't have time' to sew or make stuff, but even when I was in school just like you I MADE time for myself and my Cosplay regardless of school.

You're also the reason why I've stopped sewing things for people because if you see me sewing shit for someone else you're going to keep assuming ill sew shit for you as well the last second.

You need to fucking stop getting everyone interested in a cosplay group and then backing out/suggesting something else. We've had 2 or 3 great suggestions come from you and that was fine. Now the group is split on which ones to do because you keep bringing up things that appeal only to certain people. We have to work on costumes sometime. I really like that you brought a lot of people in the group together, but please just pick something!

You're literally the epitome of "8th grade syndrome" yet you're a sophomore in HS. You're attitude is a weeb and most of us know you're not going to grow out of it.

You have other people (including your parents-which to me is overly desperate) make, paint, and craft EVERYTHING for you, I've literally never heard you say you've made anything yourself. And when you talk about yourself "looking good" in a Cosplay you don't stop talking.

You use this sarcastic whiny voice that I'm sick off, and talk to people into making things in this annoying way ( some people have called you out on it and denied your request into making you shit thank fuck ), and when we deny you or just tell you "haha you're funny, I don't think so" you get offended and tell others behind our backs why you "hate them" all of a sudden.

You also get really agitated when your Cosplay doesn't "stand out" or isn't getting a SHIT TON of pictures taken even tho you don't try on anything or just Cosplay something with a t shirt and shorts.
You sometimes dye your hair to look "cool" and when a con comes by you think "my hair colors the same as this character- PSSH TOO SHORT? *MY* HAIR??? NAAAAH I DON'T EVEN NEED TO STYLE IT"

My group has ceased hanging out with you (I think we all figured out we aren't fond of you in any way) so I'm glad none of us have to put up with you now.

Also please stop talking in caps to strangers on Facebook it looks like your yelling at them and its obvious theyre not enjoying how you type to them as if you've known them for years and have no respect towards them like a human being.

>>6749003
Does this person hold a gun to your head or something? Just stop sewing their shit, if they want to cosplay they'll learn to stop being a prick.

What you said about letting me decide the fabric choice as your last choice really offended me. Also, why do we always have to cosplay shit YOU like? I told you a fucking million ideas and you haven't even accepted one. You know that I did that cosplay to join you, so why couldn't you return the favor you selfish bitch? I don't give a fuck, it'll probably never happen anyway, as the bunch of ideas you told me it was ok and never happened. And I hope you lose a bunch of your wigs and shit for making fun of me when I lost mine. I'm tired of hearing your opinion even when NO-FUCKING-ONE asked for it too! Shut up already.

Oh, and salmon is a shade of pink you fucking moron.

I've been venting about this friend since I got back from my recent con so thank god this thread exists right now so I have another outlet than my non-cosplay friends hahaha.

Basically I met this friend at a convention and he was super cool and fun and we became really good friends. After seeing how much fun me and my sister had at SDCC he was so about making his first cosplay. Zack from Final Fantasy. Cool awesome! I'm all about supporting my friends!

While the new enthusiasm was cute, he was cutting a lot of corners. Which is fine, I've done so myself when I had to. But to not wear a wig? To super glue something to your costume because it "looks cool" No. Sorry but no. I'm all about having fun in cosplay for fun, but it's clear to me after a couple of cons that he SOLELY does this for attention and not for the art. Which bothers me a lot considering his cosplay is far from being good other than a decently made weapon.

And it doesn't help that every five seconds he's proclaiming how much of hot shit he thinks he is and everyone wants him for photos and every girl wants to suck his dick etc etc. Delusional and annoying if anything. Ugh.

>>6749038
Salmon is a shade of orange

>>6749058
I think it can apply to either depending what kind of salmon color it is. Salmon pink is definitely in the pink category versus maybe a dark salmon might be closer to orange.

Holy shit, I am tired of being your friend. Why do I keep forgetting that you're older than me? Because you act like a fucking teenage jackass. You bring BB guns to gatherings at parks and wave them around like an asshole, you curse and shout constantly and don't care when there's children present, you look like you never shower or brush your teeth, and you're always talking about how "bitches be all up on you" when you're skinnyfat and I've never even seen a pretty girl voluntarily talk to you. You're like 24, but you still have emo hair, live in your parents' house, call them by their first names, and rely on your mediocre prop-making skills to buy more stupid BB guns and replica swords. I commissioned a prop from you once out of desperation and you not only overcharged me and gave me an unfinished product, but you dared to show me the new knives you bought on eBay with the money when you told me originally that most of it was going towards materials. You're all shocked that I don't hang out with you because the one time I did, you acted like it was a date and publicly humiliated me with your shamelessness. If you pull your stupid shit at Anime Detour, do not be surprised if I act like I don't know you, because I've called you on your shit before and you acted like it's totally fine to behave like a child and called me uptight for not making loud jokes about abortions in front of families. If we didn't have a billion mutual friends, I would delete you right this very second.
Just...just fucking stop and get your act together.

Alan stop acting so superior to everyone! Seriously you are a grown man! Your painting skills aren't good enough to warrant commissions! And stop telling people you're a cartoonist! you've been a butcher for 5 years and can barely draw!
I wouldn't even care about any of this, since its your own fucking life but you're so fucking critical of others! Stop telling me my wifes crazy for not liking you, I'm not her fucking keeper! And stop referring to every girl who shoots you down as a lesbian, its really offensive!

Um
Hey you, I may not be a cosplayer but merely the assistant friend who does a shit lot of things for you during your photoshoot and even help you a lot on your props
Just because you're rich, that doesn't make you have the privileges to treat me like your dog. I know I'm not into Kpop (in fact, kpop isn't my taste at all so never gonna get into it), so please don't treat me like I'm some lame bimbo because I don't sing hangul or dances to kpop songs. Don't act all might when all the costumes you have are bought, when I advised you to style your wig or wear more appropriate accessories you wouldn't listen, why do I have to deal with your rant on why people can't recognize your cosplay? Also, you're just 16 and I graduated high school already. "Oh, I'm not gonna study for my O-levels because daddy gonna send me to that expensive dream art school of yours" bitch please. Insulting my parents just because they're poor and couldn't afford to send me to private institute was really the last toll from me. Please grow the fuck up and realize not every family functions like yours and that not everyone is financially capable. Thank you. I apologise for being the lame friend who doesn't cosplay but I tried to look out for you because you're still young. Good luck trying to function without me. PS: Please stop taking photos from a high angle that shows your cleavage, your father is in FB too for christ's sake.

Been out of cosplay for a while, if this whole 'buttsex' and 'rape' everything thing keeps going on I think I'll just leave entirely.

I'm not even the type of person who throws fusses about it in private conversations despite thinking it's not funny, it's not the shit you throw around in public, especially not in front of a line of 400 children.

Handsewing =/= Always Superior

Stop claiming that your crappy hand stitched mess has better construction than machine sewn things. Reusing old T-shirts for literally every fabric you need is insane and it looks like shit. You hand stitch because you are incapable of taking the time to learn anything that requires more than 5 minutes of your attention. I also don't think that you could save up for a sewing machine if you tried.

We are in our twenties now. Come on.

F: "No one ever wants to cosplay with me! foreveralone.jpg lol T__T"
Me: "I will!"
F: *no response*

feelsbadman.jpg

Wow, I can feel with almost all of you anons.

But by god, PLEASE do something against your frustrations and tell those fuckers what you really think. Just talk about your problem. It can be in a polite way. And fuck, when but people openly exploit and insult you... FUCK THE FRIENDSHIP. Just say why and cut off contact.

I'm not even sure what makes me more raging mad in this thread.... that some people can behave like such assholes or the fact that said assholes rarely get what they deserve.

okay, cosplay friend:

Things used to be quite good between you and I. Used to. Then you started overcommitting to cons. Then you ditched me for prettier, more popular friends for plans we had. Then, you just kept on going to events you couldn't afford. You're an attention junkie. You manipulate people into stepping stones towards cosplay "fame". You seek validation all the time, especially through cute guys, and you're okay with compromising friendship with people if it means getting noticed by boys. You've completely obliterated yourself financially because you don't understand how to say "no" and actually manage your money. You were still planning on trips to out-of-state cons while on the brink of eviction, for god's sake, which would have been well-deserved considering all the months of awful, awful bullshit you put your housemates through by making them shoulder the shares of rent you couldn't afford. And you're a bad, selfish, slacktivist of a feminist. You fill your blog with social issues but all your time and money (including money you don't even have, jfc) goes into yourself and your hobby. You're putting hundreds of dollars you do not have, while still in debt, into cosplay that is not only outside of your skills but also from stuff you have not watched, just because you want to be noticed by the cute guys who work on the series.

When I try to be the better person and include you in my life and activities, you find some excuse for not joining and then turn around and do something else and think I won't notice even though you over-share your life on facebook. Why don't you just put on your big girl panties and say it to my face that I'm not cool enough for you. Stop pretending you're some Queen Bee. You're delusional. You're in a clique of 1 and you look ridiculous.

>meet new friends into same series
>Find out that K is obnoxious, self absorbed, bratty and refuses to watch anything other than that series
>sticks around anyway cause other peeps are awesome
>K insults group, is asked to apologize, doesn't and blocks everyone on FB
>feelsgoodrealgood.jpg
>Other friends make new friend, introduce me
>New friend is exactly like K

Why are bitches from the mid-west just a breed I cannot comprehend. YOU ALL NEED TO STOP IT.

>>6749164
YYYYYEEEEESSSSSSS. I'm so sick of people saying they hand-sewed something, and then awkward pause while they let you relish in that amazing fact. Why do you think they came up with sewing machines? BECAUSE IT LOOKS BETTER. (And easier, of course.)

To contribute....

Dude, stop bringing up "your group" from two years ago that won an award. You had entered that same costume by yourself at LEAST 3 times and never won anything. You won an award this time because we decided to enter with you. Shut that arrogant whore mouth, ya aspie.

I have a "friend" who likes to bash everyone's cosplay (eww, look at that hambeast, what an uggo, she's okay but her face is shit, omgablackgirlcosplayingawhitegirlgross, etc), but it's like, UH YOU'RE NOT EVEN COSPLAYING. She lurks /cgl/ threads claiming to be a pro at cosplay, but in reality, she never fully finished a single cosplay. And it's annoying because she's so negative within our group and criticizes everyone. At the same time, she constantly moves the conversation to herself, asking what characters are good for her, asking what series are popular so she'll be noticed at cons, whining, and not following anyone's advice. I'm so confused as to why we're even friends. You know who you are.

>>6749118
Oh my god, I think I know who you're talking about.

P.S. I'm going to Detour as well! Who are you going to be dressed as?

My cousin wears weeb hats. (neko ears, adventure time hat, long floppy bunny ears, etc.)

In public. In restaurants. To sushi places.

It burns us.

Two girls I knew decided to dress as nyan-cat for a convention. It was crappy and cardboard, but whatever. The real problem was they knew no one would figure out what they were doing, so they carried around a boom box blasting the nyan-cat song constantly. I got fed up with it pretty quickly and avoided them for the rest of the day because I didn't want to hear that bullshit. They got mad at me later for "abandoning" them (they have been to tons of cons, it was my first. They had plenty of friends there, not just me.)

>>6748849
>aerosols will melt the foam
oh god, babby's first armor
>night before the con, finishing terrible costume
>just have to paint the armor now...
>spray paint styrofoam
>next morning, looks like radioactive waste
>leave off the armor, be offended when nobody recognizes me
good times
It's a mistake that everybody had to make once, nobody ever makes it twice

>>6749129
Alan sounds fucking hillarious

>>6749011
underage b&

>>6749058
she's talking about the color salmon pink, not the salmon fish.

>mfw no friend who cosplay

I am living the dream

>>6749164
Handsewing is for people too unskilled to figure out how to do the same shit on a sewing machine.

No you don't look like Mallory Archer. You look like the book version of Dolores Umbridge. So don't go on about how our only black cosplay friend can't be Lana.

We're letting you be the main character and leader in the group because you're our friend so stop trying to school us in cosplay because you're "a perfectionist". You can't just DECIDE to be the best at whatever character you're going to cosplay.It takes experience and talent!

You've been sewing for like 2 months, cosplaying for maybe a year. Some of us have been doing this for over ten years. Why do you think you know more than the rest of us? Why won't you listen to our advice? And for that matter stop fucking trashing every other person who does the costume you want to do-- you claim you don't come on cgl but you're much more vicious than I have ever ever been. The fact that you would turn up your nose at the idea of putting a zipper/some kind closure in a garment means that you're a fucking moron. You don't even know the basics but you think you're such a fucking pro and so much better than everyone else.We fully expect you to fail the parts you're in charge of, steal the credit for our parts and then we're going to look like shit. You will probably still say we are the best.

You should know this will be the last time we will cosplay together.

>>6749589
>You should know this will be the last time we will cosplay together.

I mean, have you told them this or do you expect them to find this post and figure it out?

>>6749567
or too poor FOR a sewing machine. I had to make a whole costume and a dress by hand last year and cried when my mom dug up the machine from it's hidy hole

>>6749038
IT'S NOT PINK

>>6749567
>>6749598

Actually, no, for some bizarre reason some people legitimately believe that by hand sewing their costume it is better than someone who uses a machine. Maybe it's because of the time involved, but I know people that have bitched when they didn't win awards and lost out to amazingly made costumes because they hand sewed the whole thing and even though it was a basic garment at best it was somehow better crafted because it was hand sewn.

I love you to the ends of the earth girl, you're a cosplay and lolita goddess, and you're so fun to be around. I had just begun researching lolita when i was like 14, and fell in love. I understood from the get-go that lace + skirt =/= lolita. I knew the rules.

So for prom, i decided to maybe get a lolita INSPIRED dress/ensemble. It was a creme colored bellshaped short dress, with a black lace bodice. I wore it with a black shrug, black tights, and black mary janes. I really fucking enjoyed that dress, i posed in the mirror and pretended that it was a real lolita coord. I KNEW it wasn't lolita, but it was so fun for me to take inspiration from the fashion and i felt like a princess.

But you. You showed up looking adorable and princess-like as ever. And you immediately said it. Immediately.

"I hope you don't think that's lolita."

She went on to pick apart my outfit and criticize it in evey way. She laughed about it. She even called me an ita. How the fuck do you call someone an ita who doesn't claim to even be wearing lolita?

I was so proud of myself, I felt so pretty, but im 4 minutes, she cut me down to nothing. I explained that I wasn't even trying to wear lolita, I just wanted to try dressing up in a semi-similar way to see what it was like.

I went from princess to ita in a matterof seconds. I removed all my bookmarks of ap and btssb dresses i was going to buy. She convinced me that id never make a good lolita, and that trying would just bring failure and more judgement. If i was an ita not even attempting lolita, how awful would i be actually trying it? Worst prom ever.

>>6749653
I have seen people try to pull that act simply because it's more time-consuming (often with Amano costumes back in the day) but it's just plain silly to waste that much time on a garment you could've machine-stitched in 30 minutes or less. To a judge that would probably just scream "I confuse inefficiency for skill" (or "lolpoorfag").

>>6749704
please introduce me to her so i can kick her dumb ass into the ground. what a cunt.

>>6749653
I think people assume hand sewing is.better because it takes much more time and effort than using a machine. I can see why they become so proud. I hand sewed my entire Sally Stitches cosplay. Hand sewing doesn't make something inherently better, but it does give you a sense of FUCK YES LOOK WHAT I HAVE CREATED which can bring about the assumption that it is better than something.

Cosplaying Sally pretty much came with the obvious need to use handstitching for the majority. Does that make me a better seamstress? Absolutely not, i cannot operate a sewing machine. Does.it require more effort? Fuck yes it does.

Unless you're doing a cosplay that requires handstitching for looks or for other specific reasons, it's a total waste of time.

>>6749704

To be honest? You sound like an emotionally unstable, self-pitying child.

Why does what she have to say even matter? If you like lolita, fucking wear it. You can't depend on everybody else to make your decisions for you. If you can't handle being critiqued, then you clearly have no place in a fashion rife with people insulting you; fellow lolitas and strangers alike.

>>6749704
Why do you like this girl so much if she shredded you? Your story sounds a little strange.

>>6749721
She was a real jerk to me. I'm all for elitists and being all persnickity, but she was just over the top. She wanted to be an elitist so badly, she was willing to cut down someone who wasn't even wearing the fashion.

She and i are ok now. She's been a lot less judgmental, and now focuses on hercosplay more than lolita. Strangely enough, she is entirely less judgmental about cosplay than lolita. Makes me happy.

You're 30 fucking years old. Quit bitching about how you're not going to have any costumes to wear because your mom won't make them for you. Either learn to sew, or buy one online.

>>6749727
>>6749704
You seem like you made this shit up.

>>6749727
If you both are okay now, then why are you still hanging on to never wearing lolita? Get the fuck over it.

>>6749723
Well i WAS a child. I was in high school. It just really hurt me because she was my idol. Everything is great now, i don't give a fuck about it now, and she's grown up a lot too. If some random insulted me, i wouldn't care, but she was someone i really looked up to, and for her to crush something i found so special, it just really hurt.me.

>>6749731
Oh well, i didn't really include that. I kinda grew out of my loli obsession. I don't have the best figure for it, nor the money to put together the coords I'd like. I'm happy with being an onlooker.

>>6749734
>I'm happy with being an onlooker.
>and for her to crush something i found so special, it just really hurt.me.

Sounds like you're not happy.

>>6749734
Sounds like she did you a favor.

>>6749736
I was very young. I have no desire to wear lolita any more, it's just not something that really interests me any more. I prefer drawing, creating, and looking at coords than trying to fit my giant ogrelike self in to a fashion built for feminine and petite girls. I really am not bothered by what happened, i was just taking myself back to that night.

I have this friend. She's awesome to hang out with and we share lots of interests, and often she knows way more than I do about what's-what in anime.

For years and years she's wanted to Cosplay as her favorite Sailor Scout. Unfortunately, she's obese.

I don't know how to be a supportive friend in this situation. If it was just her going to a con with friends, I would say "you should do what makes you happy" and tell her to go for it. But I'm worried she'll have her pictures mocked, or worse, have someone insult her to her face.

Venting because I don't know who to even talk to this about.

>>6749738
Yeah, to be honest!! I'm glad i didn't really delve in to it to it, I would have embarrassed myself greatly. I guess her.moment of cruelty was a blessing in disguise.

>>6749742
Like, how obese? Do you know her weight? Can you ballpark it?

>>6749742
Maybe help her with a scout costume that will flatter her body type? Even if it's not exact due to her body, if it's well constructed with really good fabric/wig/accessories/makeup/etc she could potentially get mad props for being fat and not being a cosplay disaster.

You're a self-centered, narcissistic casual-fag who's only in this hobby because of all of your fangirls. You treat said fangirls like your servants; you won't even put on your own goddamned cosplay jacket, or hold your own drink. Stop taking advantage of these girls in return for that smile and a little bit of attention they get now and again to keep them going. From the outside, it just looks sad and pathetic.

>>6749011
I think I might know this girl South-East London, by any slither of a chance?

You're a gigantic two-faced cunt and your personality is not only grating, but simply abhorrent. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, said to myself "She's probably fine, everyone else is just over-exaggerating" but no, no they weren't. Your costume construction is abysmal, you've never learned to use an iron in your life, and your crimes against wigs are forbidden by the Geneva Convention. Your attitude towards other people for liking things that you don't like borders on the sort of fanatical hatred that, in large groups, leads to lynchings. Ever stop to think that maybe the reason why you can't pull together a cosplay group for that thing you like isn't because people like the thing you hate more, but because people just don't want to be around you?

There's a difference between being frank and being a massive, horrible cunt. You are not the refreshing voice of clarity and truth that you like to think you are, you're just a terrible person. Maybe if you stopped that you could actually get someone to stay around your voluntarily for more than ten minutes.

I'm disappointed in you. You used to be the kind of cosplayer that I wished I could be; you cared more about having fun and making friends than anything else and you were always positive. Then you got popular and it went right to your head. You talk about people behind their backs now and tell your friends "you're better than so and so" whereas before you only said "but as long as you're having fun!" You let the spirit of competition take you over and now all that matters is being the best, or the first, or the most of something.

I don't like you very much anymore. I don't want to hear you brag about your cosplays or who you're friends with, or how much better you are than someone else (in fact I often want to find and post pictures of your costumes that show all your amateur mistakes so you'll stop saying that you're so great). I just want to hang out with nice people and have a good time. I miss the you I met all that time ago. I wish they'd come back.

>>6749649
Google salmon color and then tell me those aren't varying shades of pink and/or at least a pinkish orange. learn your shit

>>6749779
>grade
>sophomore
Something tells me they're not from the UK

>>6749275
You have my feels

You're a cunt plain and simple. You constantly try to get the sympathy vote over Twitter and the amount of pictures you post of yourself on there and Instagram is ridiculous, no-one needs to see the same picture of you a million fucking times. You're not the cosplay goddess you think you are. You squeeze your sausage body into skimpy outfits and then complain when you get torn to shreds on here. You can't handle it when people have a different opinion from you or when someone doesn't like something that you do, it's ridiculous you are a grown woman, you need to accept that people like different things from you. You don't even make your own cosplays, you commission them from everyone else at ridiculous prices then make shitty props and pretend you made the whole outfit. Just piss off.

>>6749740
http://4chanfit.wikia.com/wiki/Harsh's_Worksheet_(WIP)

It's never too late, I was really fucking chubby at 210 pounds. Went down by 35 pounds and gained 10 of muscle in about 4 months...now at a stable 175.

>>6749571
is your friend an old person?

I hate how you always beg for money and premium DA membership yet have like a 100 costumes done.

>I secretly read each story really carefully because I'm worried that someone is talking about me.

So I had this friend in high school that was nothing but drama.
Looking back, she was kind of toxic to me, or at the very least was a bad influence...High drama, liked to burn things, could get away with anything with her parents...They did not have much money, but she always had all the latest stuff, and got whatever she wanted. Was always kind of jelly of that and spent most days after school at her house doing whatever the fuck we wanted.
Cosplay wise, she always made shit costumes or bought cheep shit from ebay, (this was in the early 2000's though so well, so was everyone else, but even by those standards shit was bad, I want to cry thinking about the knit skirt she used for sailor Mars.)
She also did not really watch anime, but OMG SHE WAS SO INTO IT. She did watch a lot of old school stuff, and we were very into naruto when it first came out.
OH god her timari cosplay, we painted a red huge ebay fan white with dots on it and it kept cracking and her wig was so bad...
My sakura cosplay was equally shit, shiny satin shit. Fuck I want to strangle myself. But at the time, it was wonderful.
And then we graduated highschool, and grew apart like everyone else. She took a year off, then went to my school for a year, we had a few classes together and re-connected and it was all good fun.

>>6749834
>10lbs of muscle in 4 months

ahahahahahahahahaahahahahahah

>>6749899
Then her father passed and she dropped out and I haven't really heard from her since. She also deleted her facebook and call me shallow but fuck it is hard to communicate with people without a facebook for me. I need the convenience of your life pooping up on my dash if I don't see you every day.
But she walked into my place of work today.
And asked me if I was going to my favorite convention that I have gone too for the last 6 years, and HELL YA I AM.
But I don't really know if I want her back in my life.
We are a lot a like on stuff, we tend to like the same things, we get along great. But sometimes, I find myself doing stupid shit with her, or I did in high school
I'm not some pussy highschooler now, I am a big girl and can make my own decisions, so I am going to stick with this chance to connect with her again. And maybe hang out with her at the convention a bit.
I don't really have a best girlfriend anymore. I have work friends, all my collage friends are boys because my campus was all boys basically....She was my BFF in high school, and I could really use to have a BFF again.
But I am scared I will be a pussy and she will manipulate my life again.
But, somewhone to talk to about girl shit would be the best shit ever. Maybe I could even get her into lolita and FINALLY HAVE A LOLITA FRIEND.
Fuck it all, taking that chance. I have to many normal friends now, I want just one who is into what I am into.

>>6749910
Now lifting more than half my weight on all compound lifts, but I wouldn't expect auschwitz mode anons to understand.

Not quite sure why I was friends with you to begin with. Since the day we became "close" you've been nothing but a fucking e-fame whore, who doesn't cosplay for fun, but because "omg this will get me more attention with the weeb legion online". You constantly bitch about how people are riding your "coat tails of e-fame" and how "its not worth losing all my friends" because of it. You're suspicious of everyone now, and have shut yourself away from the people who care and who were close to you before all this shit started. I think you're toxic to yourself, your SO and everyone who considers you a friend.

You can claim all you want that you're over the shit from a few years ago, but you keep bringing it up. You're holding grudges against people who have moved on with their lives and forgotten you, and won't associate with longtime friends who choose to still talk to them. Grow the fuck up. Leave the cosplay scene. You did it once, you can do it again. For good this time, because seriously other than the yaoi obsessed weeb teenagers who are your legions, no one fucking cares anymore.

>>6749923
My kinda women ;)

>>6749969
No no no dude, bro here- sorry to disappointing.

On that note, I'd be a pretty big fucking bull of a woman if I weighed in at 175 and lifted more than half my weight.

>>6749820
It's a tint of pink. Maybe a tone. Certainly not a shade.

I hate that your boobs are still growing and mine stopped ._.

>>6749999
Green tea and milk.

You're an okay cosplayer, but you have a serious e-fame and attitude problem.

I am so passive aggressive it hurts.

I met this girl at a con and realized I knew her from tumblr and we became friends of sorts, but the longer I knew her the more I realized what a terrible fucking person she was

she brags about how great she is at cosplay when she's slightly above average AT BEST and only talks about like three costumes she's done when I know she's done more. she cosplays from popular series but only at tiny cons so she'll be the only one/ the "best" one there and just ugh

I know all of this sounds petty but she's just been super rude to me and my friends personally and now I just keep her added on shit to laugh at her. she got into homestuck and her first troll cosplay looked like SHIT it made me so happy

I wish I had someone as helpful as OP. ㅠ_ㅠ

1. She doesn't take care of her body and as a result has the most ridiculous mood swings that have frequently caused her to drop out from a group cos THE DAY BEFORE THE CON.
2. If she gets into a series she must cosplay EVERY SINGLE FEMALE IN IT and if anyone else she knows tries to do the same character, she blows up. AU cosplays she ALWAYS has to do the one character otherwise she PA bitches about it all the way up to the con.
3. She pretends she's modest but then whines that no one takes photos of her at shoots. She hogs photographers. Other friend had made a nice cosplay for a shoot and then the bitch just laid down in the grass in a slutty pose closeby, yelling "SOMEONE TAKE MY PICTURE!" after hogging the photog for the previous hour. At another shoot when photogs were just starting with me, she yelled at us that if no one took photos of her immediately she was going to change out of her cosplay.
4. She frequently takes crap shortcuts, never styles her wigs, and always attempts to finish a cosplay within a week. She nitpicks at other peoples' cosplays for being rush. THEN when no one favs or reblogs she mopes all over her social networks. Asking for buttpats so she can feel pretty. When she finds a photo of herself she likes, she harasses the photog to give up the unedited full-size file.
5. When she gets in a bad mood everyone must share it. We were going to a con as a group after having slept maybe 30 mins (she slept the whole night because she gave up on finishing her costume at all). She had her hood up, earphones in, and never looked up from her phone for the 2 hour commute. At the con she just dumped her suitcase with us and found a corner to hide in then tweeted about how shit she felt. With us she just kept sighing as loudly as possible so we'd pay attention to her.

She's a two-faced attention whore who dishes out insults but can't take them herself and likes to believe she's as badass as the characters she picks to cosplay.

>Cosplays a character from a popular series, gets mad that there is another person cosplaying the same character at a 2000 person convention and that they're getting more attention.

>Tries to force herself into a photo every time someone asks for one of me.

>A few guys talk to me at the after party. "Why did they talk to you and not me?! My boobs are bigger, you don't have curves like me!"

>Won't even so much as piss without trying to drag me with her. Expects me to accompany her outside when she smokes. Lolno.

MJ put your ass away.

still pissed at this bitch who backed out on my group for hotel fees twice in a row, made her ex - of all things - pay for most of what she had owed, and still hasn't paid my friend back what she owes us.

shes a popular cosplayer and very good at what she does. shes just not very good at being a decent person.

Sometimes I wonder if you're a bitch or just really socially retarded. You say the rudest shit about mine and other peoples cosplay when yours look like closet cosplay ass or cheap ebay shit.
You will take a cosplay that is damn near perfect and tear it apart viciously when you could never DREAM of making something that looked even half as good.

You come up to me at cons and pick apart my costumes/props, you leave passive aggressive comments on my photos and if I wasn't worried about the ensuing drama in our cosplay group I would tell you exactly what I think of you. I'm pretty sure you do all this because we met wearing the same costume and mine was better than yours but only slightly so now you hate me.

You constantly latch onto very skilled cosplayers and follow them around when it's clear they arn't fond of you, you force yourself into every picture with them even though they clearly asked for a picture of THAT cosplayer only and you're not even from the same series.
Then, when all those pictures show up all over the web because of THEIR costume not YOURS you get a big head and tell everyone how popular you are and how your cosplay is all over the internet.
You picked a cosplay that's way too complex for you, never showed any progress shots and expect us to believe you made this huge ornate cosplay in a few months time when your other cosplays are closet/ebay shit. Nobody believes you.

>>6750158
Make me.

>>6750158
Make me.

I haven't been able to take you seriously ever since you complained that having to style your long hair in order to get it under a wig cap was gay.

Somehow, cosplaying is fine. Learning to sew for it is fine. Styling wigs for it is fine. But braiding your hair for a wig cap is unacceptable.

>>6749058
You're a fucking retard

>>6749058
>>6749062
>>6749463
>>6749820
>>6749984
Wow guys hahaha, I was pissed but I didn't mean to start a debate about that. Thing is that she said salmon wasn't pink but I was like this bitch would do or say anything to try to prove me wrong? Fuck her. I may have used a wrong word since English is not my first language, but fuck, salmon is some sort of pink, dammit.

>>6749649
Oh, anon. You made me smile, thanks!

>>6749649
It's lightish red

I might be shooting myself in the foot for leaving my trip up while I do this, but I'd rather be honest about it.
There was a cosplayer that I really admired. She had some really pretty costumes, had a lot of skills with make-up, and was very pretty. She seemed nice on her profiles; she didn't reply to individual comments, but she was always thanking her new watchers/followers/etc. in her notes and journals. We had similar tastes in games, and she had some costumes I really liked from series I wasn't familiar with. Even though she rarely said anything to me, I complimented every one of her costumes and thought she was awesome.
A few months ago, she got in a lot of trouble with a con organizer for telling people they didn't need a badge to go to the con and enjoy all the events the con had set up. She used all the things the con paid for, but never paid for her share of it. When she got called on telling other people not to pay either, she flipped out on every one of her profiles and basically said they were making enemies with someone who, with all accounts' followers combined, had a few thousand followers. I mean, she was a good cosplayer, but her faves and views and such couldn't touch a truly popular cosplayer like Jessica Nigri or Yaya-Han. She tried to threaten the con by telling her followers not to even go to the con and basically had a huge snit-fit about how cosplay famous she is and how the con should thank her because of the publicity she gave them.
She ended up apologizing on Tumblr for her behavior and took the offending video and other notes down, but I can't look at her the same way. As someone who looks at cosplay as a fun hobby and not a way to get "famous," her attitude towards the whole thing was just offensive to me. Ever since then, I don't like her costumes as much and I can't look at her without being disappointed in her behavior. It just really saddened me that someone I admired that was so pretty and talented ended up acting like a diva.

Accept the fact that I no longer want to be associated with you.

And get it out of your head that you have these glorified reasons to dislike me or think you know me or my goals at all anymore since I locked you out of my life. Aside from the fact that I can IN FACT no longer trust you, your constant bitching and complaining about our mutual friends became tiring, and I didn't appreciate having to take blame for you posting someone on here. Unlike you, I will say it to someone's face when I have a fucking problem with them.

Most if not all of our conversations consisted of you complaining about someone. Whether it was someone I knew, or not. You are not the sweet, gentle con mama you like to think yourself to be, and god only knows what you've bitched about behind my back

You're so full of shit. You want to make me out to be this horrible person, yet where the hell were you when I needed you most? And how did you make it better? When I was at my most heartbroken, you did something that had this board up my ass again, and where I do question your intelligence sometimes, I know you are not so foolish to think that the action you made wouldn't result in fingers pointed at me.
But it's okay, I understand. I'm just the person you're pissed at this week. You'll post about someone new next week. Or maybe you'll cry about it in a facebook post. Yeah, I know about that.

Do me a favor, since you think you're so much better than me. If you want to make yourself a martyr and me out to be the villain, have some more class and don't air our shit on the internet, you hypocritical cunt.

You were never close enough to understand anything about who I am or how I truly feel anyways. And that was your choice. I won't miss you.

>>6750583
How is anything you just said something you don't want associated with you?
That post was coherent, reasonable, and overall well-written.
9.5/10, could use a few more line breaks.

Will you guys accept somewhat tangential confessions from someone not a regular on this board?

I'm a guy, and a fairly good looking one too. People have literally told me they admire me and my style, and even though they say things like that with the best of intentions, it really hurts my feelings. I hate it. I don't want to look like a guy at all. I'd much rather be able to wear cute female clothes and not be called out on it.
The worst part is that I am self-aware enough to realize that it can never be... and it hurts me deeply.

>>6750738
ur a faget

>>6750757
Maybe a little.
We all have dreams though, don't we?

>>6750738
I'd want to see you in cute female clothes. <3

>>6750738
I'm sorry, were you looking for
>>>/lgbt/

>>6750762
You've made my night. Thank you.

I think I'm going to buy some otk and thigh-high socks to wear incognito. I think it'd be nice.

>>6750774
No problem!

Wish we could see pictures too... ;D

>>6750779
No such luck anon.
I-I've actually got a phobia of cameras for reasons unknown to me. More than once I've done something wildly dangerous in an attempt to avoid being photographed.
I definitely don't own one of those horrible things.

>>6750797
Guess you'll just have to enjoy it all on your own. Happy dressing up to you then! :)

>>6750800
Th-thanks.

I can't figure out where /cgl/'s reputation on other boards comes from. You guys seem really nice.

>>6750804
for the most part /cgl/ is nice... but when /cgl/ is not nice, it is very VERY not nice.

>>6750804
It may be due to different eras of this place. Recently it's been a lot more tame compared to before...

wishdiswasntanonweshouldbefriend

>>6750811
I-if you want, we could find some other medium of communication, maybe.
I don't really have any friends, so I won't say 'no' to an invitation like that.

>>6750810
How so? I haven't heard any specifics... it's just that a lot of other boards think this board is evil or something, so I assumed it was like /v/ or something... but it's really cozy and friendly.

>>6750820
honestly we are for the most part nicer than a lot of boards. If you are a complete idiot you will get reamed but that happens fairly rarely. I think the problem is that /cgl/ is the only primarily female populated board and a large portion of 4chan is notoriously anti vagina.

>>6750820
Awkward?! Why? And what other form of communication hmm... maybe a tinychat? tinychat,com slash whyareyousonicetome

I'll go wait! Nice to meet you!

>>6750820
We're only cunts to outsiders. Once we've absorbed you we'll love you forever.

>>6750833
Like some sort of horrible alien hive mind...?

>>6750825
You wouldn't know it from some of the jokes that go around there, but /a/ has a huge female population. If you can coax people into talking to you outside of the board--which is hard--you'll find like 1/3rd are female.

>>6750825
I think /x/ has a lot of females. I'm pretty sure /cgl/ is just the most open about being a female board.

>>6749409
Fuck off alan

>>6750862
>>6750916
I also think the difference between /cgl/ culture and the rest of 4chan culture is that we are open about our female population. I'm sure lots of other boards have a pretty big number of girls, but it's not something you can 'let slip' without being met with open hostility and cries of "attention whore!", "tits or gtfo" etc. It's no problem for guys to talk about being guys, however. On most boards the 'default' gender is male, and if you don't fit into that mold it bothers people. On /cgl/ the default gender can be female or neutral depending on the thread. Nobody cares if someone mentions they're a dude unless they're being douchey about it.

At our worst we're hardly worse than the average 4chan board on a bad day but because we're mostly girls, that makes us a pack of rabid hyenas because girls r suppose 2 b lovlies, don't you know.

No I will not let you borrow my clothes, you are 3 sizes bigger than me, don't try to make out I'm selfish just because I don't want clothes I've saved up for out of my hard earned cash ripped.

We're not friends anymore and I'm damned glad. You're a bitch, a liar, and an attention whore. You're rude and incredibly cheap when it comes to cosplay, and then when you're not cheap I don't know where the hell you got the money to do so. When we were friends I realized you leeched off those around you for your cosplay, I stayed up late into the night to help your poor gf sew your cosplay as you slept because 'not like I can do anything anyway', your wigs are always gifts from relationships or borrowed from friends. You nearly ruined one of your friends wigs and got fucking blood in it even. You're even selling cosplays that aren't yours, that Gin was never yours. Then you even had the balls to, when we planned a trade for a cosplay piece in trade for a wig, you went back and took the wig and then still expected me to give you the jacket? Hell no. To top it off, your kid is nothing but a prop to you, and that's so sad and heartbreaking. I'm sick of you.

you're a really nice person and I don't mind sewing your costumes but if you want to cosplay at every convention please learn to do your own makeup and learn how to put a wig on by your self...
nobody likes having to drop everything in the middle of putting on their own makeup to get you ready

>>6751138
Next time I see an open male on this board I am going to go "dick or gtfo"

>>6751465
i believe that or gtfo /fit/ and/or /r9k/ is usually the response

>>6750583
I knew this rang a bell: Sirene/Hythe/Nina.

>>6751138
But that's not really true.
/tg/'s female population is small but well-liked. We call them ca/tg/irls.
Also, /a/'s semi-serious statement on the matter is that everyone on /a/ is a little girl. Being female won't get you scorn on /a/. It's only a problem if you act like it makes your opinion superior... and even then it'd be forgotten in a few posts anyway.

>>6751480
Not who you're replying to but...
>Being female won't get you scorn on /a/.

Yeah okay. Maybe in recent times but over the past years hahaha okay.

>>6751503
Well you have to realize, /a/ is huge. It will have shitty trolls no matter what you say.
On a busy board like that, you have to be able to brush off some nonsense.
Overall, it's never been an issue. fem/a/nons have always been a part of the club.

>>6751462
Omfg this. I dont mind helping people but its really frustrating. I usually end up applying zombie esque makeup shit to people. Which, i usually dont mind but if i'm short on time, it irks me. I tell people to call/come over early so i can apply that shit sooner than later. Ironically, i'm terrible with actual girly make up. I usually never wear it. For the last cosplay i did, i ended up needing to wear it. Months before the con, my friend offered to help me learn some basics. Days earlier i had tried applying the makeup for this character and it just looked god awful. I felt and looked like a tranny. My friend applied it and it looked awesome. I felt so horrible to ask for her help on con day that i decided to teach myself. I just didn't want to leave her in a situation like yours, anon. It's not her responsibility to do my makeup. It's my own. My friend couldn't come the first day of the con so i was stuck putting the make up on myself anyways. I did fine. I felt SO guilty for even thinking of having her do it.

>>6751474
She actually thinks she is cosplay famous? Seriously delusional.

I kept thinking you meant Syren as I read the post you were responding to.

I'm starting to think I've become THAT cosplayer because photographers have started avoiding me? I'm like well I don't demand people to take photo's of me and I totally understand if you'd rather not waste film on me but outright running away is a bit much. . . I don't smell ether because I'm super paranoid and people say I have the personality of a doormat.

>>6751536
Nah, Sirene is one of her cosplay handles. Different person. It was 4ng31 she got into an argument with. Basically she didn't buy a pass at Colossalcon and was promoting the convention as being enjoyable without having to buy a pass. She did a lot of things that the convention specifically arranged for attendees including a very exclusive engagement where they did photos with a baby tiger. None of this would have been possible without the convention organizing it, and it came off as really ungrateful to flaunt not having paid for the con itself. 4ng31, being his usual self, called her out on it. She initially got defensive and pulled the shit Katsumiyo mentioned (implying she has enough of a fanbase to deter people from the convention if she gave them a bad rap for treating her poorly). Later she was apologizing profusely and pulling the martyr card. It was surreal but it really put me off her as a cosplayer and a person.

Venting about a cosplayer, but not because of their cosplaying.

I tried to be a supportive friend by telling you that it'd be a better idea to improve before going into Artist Alley. Instead, you told me I was a jackass and just trying to keep "profits to myself", as if you would impact it in any way. So, instead, you dished out a hundred and a half dollars for a table. You told me that you were working on merch, everyday, but you showed up with three prints. With no display. Then you only sold two things on the first day, then complained about how I DIDN'T FUCKING WARN YOU. Then you just ditch your table for the next two days. I've never met such a pathetic, unmotivated, blame pushing person.
And no, I'm not going to cosplay with you.

You call yourself a cosplayer and a seamstress, yet you don't finish a hem on your own costume or add boning to a sleeveless dress. You don't iron things before you wear them and you start your projects sometimes only a week before the convention, and often finish them AT the convention.

Quit telling people I am good at working with wigs because I am tired of all of there retarded questions and people asking for help all the time when I don't do commissions.

You call yourself a cosplayer and a seamstress, yet you don't finish a hem on your own costume or add boning to a sleeveless dress. You don't iron things before you wear them and you start your projects sometimes only a week before the convention, and often finish them AT the convention.

Quit telling people I am good at working with wigs because I am tired of all of their retarded questions and people asking for help all the time when I don't do commissions.

>>6751680
She's always had a bit of an attitude problem, I noticed. Which is disappointing, since in most public places (like her facebook and tumblr) she always tries to come across as this really nice girl who is friendly with everyone. When really she just is nice to other "popular" cosplayers who will post photos of themselves with her everywhere and photographers who will help introduce her to those people.

I feel like a lot of younger cosplayers who have vlogs and a weeb following seem to think pretty highly of themselves. She just seems to be the epitome of it or a poster child for the moment.

>"Hey anon I bought us costumes!"
>"Okay, let's see them."
>Friend pulls out slutty Halloween cop costumes and cheap accessories
>"We're going to be cosplay cops and give tickets and warnings to people who suck at cosplaying!"
>Both are the XL size, too big for me and too small for her
>She keeps going on about how much fun we'll have
>no no no no no no no no no god no
>Convenient illness strikes
>"Sorry too sick to go."
>She ends up posting on her Xanga that her dad told her she wasn't allowed to go because he found out that his card was charged for the shit and then blamed me
>Cue one sided feud that started in 2002 and lasted until her parents took away her computer in 2007

And I haven't heard from her since. Started out nice and went completely mad once she discovered anime conventions.

>>6749923
compounds meaning what, squats and deadlifts? if you're lifting half your weight at 175 that's actually pretty bad.

>>6751840
>>Cue one sided feud that started in 2002 and lasted until her parents took away her computer in 2007
The delightful part of this story is when the reader does that math and realizes she had to be a legal adult when her parents chopped down her internet.

Story time. It's been like a year.

>Room with people for 2012 AX
>My credit card is the one down
>Most of the people are up here for the lolita fashion show (not me)
>1 girl vanishes entirely from the con, is still gone late into the night
>finally find out she's not dead, just met up with some LA-area homies and is getting very very drunk
>doesn't reappear until nearly noon the next day, shows up at the hotel a hungover wreck
>misses fashion show; runs off again
>don't see her again until like 6pm
>cries the whole carpool home
>doesn't pay me her part of the hotel bill, still posts pictures on FB in various new expensive outfits

I'd feel bad except your problems are all self induced, you made us chase your butt down to make sure you weren't dead in the gutter, and you're all "HI GUYS HOW ARE YOU~" when you see me/other people despite owing mad money.

>>6752466
Oh, uh
>mfw I see said PROFESSUHUNUL PHOTOSHOOTZ on facebook
i suppose.

>>6749003
God I know this feel.
I have a brother that does this exact thing to me and I am forced to due to my parents.
He is "too busy" with school so I am obligated to make shit for him.
Bitch you don't do anything in HS and back when I made my shit in HS I did sports, band, theatre and MORE and I STILL MADE TIME.

I mad and so fucking done.

>>6752466

Does this girl happen to be filipino? If so, I know who you're referring to

>>6752466
the moment they enter the room, you get your damn payment. in fact, before they enter the room, you get your damn payment. i don't care if they have to rummage through their luggage in the middle of the hall for the money, you get your damn payment first.

Not a personal friend, but lately I've been seeing a lot of cosplayers 'borrowing' other peoples costumes. Usually it's pretty cool if they're just wearing it to complete a group that the person who made the costume is a part of as a different character, but I keep seeing this one girl in particular constantly borrowing other peoples costumes. I'm pretty convinced she has never made her own, and since she is more popular than most of the people she borrows from she gets tons of attention and comments like 'omg you r the best x character ever!!' Which of course, enrages me to no end because not only did she not make any part of the costume whatsoever, but she didn't even pay for once to be made for her. It just comes off as being a cheap leech. It also doesn't help that she 90% of the time looks terrible because the costume isn't fitted to her at all and she keeps choosing things that ill-suit her.

>>6752530
what area are you in? Sounds like someone I know

>>6752503
She is indeed Filipino.

>>6752513
I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW. lesson learned the hard way.

>>6750583

youre talkin about sirene arent you, squidward
if so, I feel the same way

plus that whole group is just bandwagoners now so....

>>6752605
>plus that whole group is just bandwagoners now so....

Honestly this is what bugs me the most about them, and I didn't even know about this particular drama. Yeesh.

>>6752617

i get that the whole hometuck thing was a stupid joke but the whole sailor moon group, and now apparently evangelion group is just starting to keep me away from them. if theyd at least admit that they are just doing it because its whats "in" that'd be one thing. but i'm sure theyd all say "what no we've always loved evangelion wuuuuuut" I used to love their kh cosplays but now i couldnt care less about any of them.

>>6752636
They're doing EVA now? Ugh...one of my favorite series. Guess I'll just have to try and avoid their crap.

>>6752636
I can forgive Sailor Moon a little because let's face it, every girl in America in this agegroup grew up on it and can appreciate it at the very least for nostalgia's sake. But a lot of their other stuff, like Guardians etc, really rubs me the wrong way.

>>6752644

i dunno for sure i just saw somewhere that one of them was doing asuka so i figured the rest of them would follow suit.

>>6749704
i feel bad for you and all but i REALLY want to see that dress...
(itsoundsadorable)

>>6752576
this is just a person I see online, I don't know where they live exactly.

>>6750150
>A few guys talk to me at the after party. "Why did they talk to you and not me?! My boobs are bigger, you don't have curves like me!"

Fuck, I have a a friend who does this. She's absolutely fucking gorgeous, great body (especially compared to fat manfaced me) and gets super offended and jealous whenever I get attention at parties/cons. Uh, maybe it's because I talk to people and know how to have a conversation? I'm an anxiety-ridden nervous wreck but I try and push myself to socialize. You don't make friends by acting like you're better than them, you make friends by conversing, listening, etc. People have told me that they have no interest in talking to her because it doesn't seem like she has anything to say, or anything going on behind her cosplay face. It sucks because she's such a nice girl but this attitude is dumb.

>>6752758
Do they tend to borrow Bioware stuff?

Sometimes...sometimes I feel like THAT cosplay friend...

Truth is, I'm just not as enthusiastic about cosplay as all my other friends. I'm okay with working on one or two costumes maybe a year...I don't mind rehashing costumes for a year or so... IDK I just don't mind it...

So when my friends are freaking out about their costumes messing up and their cons being ruined because of it...it's just so hard for me to relate...

And some of them get mad at me when I choose not to doa more complicated route or fix part of a costume that's been messed up...I just don't care that much...as long as it looks nice to me, that's fine...

I'd rather my money go to clothes or travel than cosplay...but all my friends sink all their funds into cosplay and because of that, it's hard sometimes...

Nobody has money to travel with me, and I don't have money to jump into their cosplay groups. Maybe I need new friends, but I am really close with all of them.

>>6752929
I don't think so

Hmm... I'd have to say that I'm not too happy with myself. I am a try hard but I don't force anyone to do anything for me. I force them to get the fuck to work when they're goofing off. And I try hard to see how good of a costume I can produce with everyone's help. And I'm trying to get better with what I can do.

I'm just not too happy that I hang around people who say they want to do cosplay as well but end up doing nothing about it. I'm kind of blaming myself at this point but does anyone have this problem? Where you try hard on your cosplays and you want to work with people who also want to try hard but in the end they're just all talk and don't really care about cosplay in the end?

>>6751465
Well... as a frequent browser of other boards, you're missing the point of "tits or gtfo."

Anons there are all guys so the moment a girl says she's a girl, everyone goes all white knight and starts to do whatever they can for her. Except this is the internet so there's no guarantee that she'll put out for the white knights. Hence why people feel more boldly about calling out a woman for being an attention whore. The logic behind "tits or gtfo" is that if you're going to be an attention whore, you might as well go the full 9 yards because on the internet, anyone can claim they're a girl.

So saying "dick or gtfo" is, if you want to follow the spirit of the law, saying that all girls on a board will fawn over OP if OP says he's a guy and therefore he is an attention whore.

>>6753116
>implying the OP is ever not a faggot attention whore
Son, do you KNOW what website you're on?

>>6753116
>So saying "dick or gtfo" is, if you want to follow the spirit of the law, saying that all girls on a board will fawn over OP if OP says he's a guy and therefore he is an attention whore.
Right. Is it your first day on this board or something?

>>6750583
Oh god, I remember the thread we had here about it. She and her friends came in to defend her and just kept making things look worse because of her bullshit justifications.

I just wish you would fucking cosplay to your body type. You would be doing yourself so many favors. Ever since you dumped me off to find cosplay friends before you even knew I was into the hobby, you were already godawful from day 1. You are short and chubby; why cant you choose characters with that sort of appearance? You like Adventure Time; why not cosplay the space princess that is chubby. No, instead, you choose Marshell Lee; the rail thin vampire boy. Good luck hiding those G sized cups, girl. Since you're SO INTO HOMESTUCK now, yet havent read it since act 6 began, why not do MS. Paint? She's goddamn adorable and is often depicted as chubby and curvy--No, of course, I mean the only logical choice is to cosplay as Damara (because you totally read the wiki page and decided that was it) or Kanaya and Davesprite. Perfect logic there. Not saying there is any wrongdoing in wanting to cosplay outside of your body type, but for heavens sake tuck in your gut, get a corset; just try to make yourself look flattering and accomplish what is so easily attainable with just THAT much more effort.

Another thing; You. Have. Money. You have shittons of money; why in the hell dont you save yourself the complaining of "I CANT sEW????? :((((( HOW DO I s E W???????" and get the stick out your ass and just buy your damn cosplays. You keep harping and harping about how you have no idea what you want to cosplay and always ask for suggestions; well how about this, sugar, why dont you uh, dress as someone you LIKE.

I know you're a bitter, selfish, rich cunt who always complains about having "no money" for cosplays :(((( yet you go out of state to meet new internet friends every weekend; and it's apparent that that wont ever change.

I want you to feel as lonely and worthless as I felt when you stopped talking to me and your other friends who cared. Have fun looking like a jackass with the friends youll dump once you move onto another fandom.

I'm so disappointed in you.

>>6753209

>dumpy girls
>davesprite

please stop her from ruining my favorite character, lord knows enough people do it already. sage for no contribution and homosuck.

>>6749786
>'your crimes against wigs are forbidden by the Geneva Convention.'
I crown you the Snape of /cgl/, you wonderful anon.

You, madam, are a hypocrite. You're turning into the kind of Sailor Moon cosplayer who gives Sailor Moon cosplayers a bad name. Your rationale for refusing to answer any questions about how you make your costumes are because you do commissions and need the income. So do plenty of other cosplayers who are better-educated in the craft than you. Meanwhile, cosplayers who are more popular than you are completely fine with telling everyone about their methods. The main reason you got better at making Senshi costumes is because you got to use a pattern from someone more popular and talented than you. So really, just can it with the excuses. You look like a crazy elitist.

No matter how much you wish you were as kickass as Mindfang, you never will be. Nor will you ever be as sweet as Aranea or as wily as Vriska. Get over yourself.

>>6753040
>that feel when i'm feeling that feel too

i usually stick to two or three (sometimes reused/touched up) costumes a year for one or two cons at most.
i just have too many things going on and too much money spent on a weekly basis and can only spend holidays, evenings and weekends on costumes - and that comes after studies!
i like my cosplay looking fairly decent (wearable, good wig and makeup, good prop construction) but now some of my friends are complaining that i don't make my cosplay better than "passable" but fuck that. i do it for fun and a hobby but its not my life.

>>6751099
I'm not Alan, and he does.
Hilarious in a train-wreck sort of way,

>>6751840
That cop cosplay idea could actually be cute if done differently, like ticketing people for good things, ie "Sir, your prop skills are too fly. I'm going to have to fine you for that."
Or Creep Police

>>6754039
I'm not much of a cosplayer, but I'd rather see killers and assassins from various franchises with sticks just showing up out of nowhere and kneecapping creepers, assholes, and snotty bitches before vanishing back into the masses.

Admit it. It would be awesome.

Dear X,

You're my dear friend and I hope for you to get better at cosplaying.

I don't think the issue it that you can't do it, I think it's you try to rush it, or you simply don't care enough to put an effort into it. Despite a con being months away, you seem to want to get it down NOW, and in result it looks sloppy.

I try to help you, I really do.
I try to teach you. But why won't you listen.

It seems you just want to do things on a whim, and then use fabric that wouldn't work for it. I've told you that cotton broadcloth isn't good for any costume.

You also complain about a lot of toxic friends in your life, I tell you if you don't want them in your life, then simply don't talk to them anymore. For some of them all you have to do is unfriend them on skype. Could it be you still wish to be friends with these weeaboos?

Some of your costumes are just flat out embarrassing to look at. It seems unless I'm around you you don't try at all. I wish you would. And I can't even press this issue on you because I fear it'll cause too much of an upset.

>>6752912
It's the other way round with our friendship. I'm a bit more petite than her, not flat chested or boyish though, I'd say I have reasonable curves.

I think it may be because she's a bit insecure about her image so she has to put me down a bit to feel better.

I tend to be pretty confident socially, whereas her main topic of conversation with new people tends to revolve around herself.

>"I wanna reduce the amount of cosplays this year in order to save money!"
>makes a new one every few DAYS of closet cosplay quality
>I only know of this because she posts a new "progress picture" almost every other day
>when sewing, there are uneven sewing lines everywhere, loose threads, and obvious lack of ironing
>the costumes that do look decent sewing-wise are in actuality commissioned but she claims that she just didn't have time to make the actual outfit
>remember, trying to save money
>says that she commissions and then edits them so they fit better and yet fit-wise these outfits are so bad that it's just painfully obvious she has no idea what she's doing, stahp
>speaking of closet cosplay quality, that Kogami of PSYCHO-PASS looks more like Kiritsugu of fate/zero
>gives advice on wigs even though her own are mediocre at best

It's too bad because she's so nice IRL but I had to block her picture posts on Facebook because all she's been doing is posting these progress pictures.
>mfw every time she makes a sob-story post about her financial situation but COSPLAY ALL DAY ERR DAY

Dear cosplay friend. You're costumes are amazing but you need to learn how to say no to others and focus on your stuff. You burn yourself out finishing everything a week before a con and then complain about the lack of sleep you get when you get there and barely shuffle around. If you stopped making props for the other people clamoring for your commissions a month before a major convention you'd have more energy. Also stop hiding behind your costumes to make up for your lack of self-esteem. Everyone loves you outside of costume as much as in it you know; though it's been improving :).

TO MY OTHER FRIEND: dear god get your act together and stop trying to have such a "bro" attitude about everything. You are a major moocher and can't even order a wig without using someone else's bank account and shipping address (yet you have so much cash in your wallet?) I thought you were cool at first but you don't listen to advice and you get drunk every time I see you at a convention.

How do you plan a group with a person with you know that person isn't going to get their shit together enough to even get to the con? He keeps saying he's working on it but it's not going to fucking happen. I need to yell at him asap because this isn't going to become my fault when I don't do everything for him later.

Dear F,

Stop complaining about how poor you are when you clearly just don't know how to manage your money. No, you're not poor because you spent all your money on fabric for a cosplay. If you don't have money for food because you spent it on a paid of $150 cat ears and con badges - it still doesn't make you poor. Stop using your "poor" excuse to borrow money from friends or guilt them into buying cosplay accessories/toys for you without paying them back. It's fucking disgusting and manipulative.

Why don't you act like a responsible adult and learn to prioritize? Clearly your rent and groceries come before shitting out a new cosplay and getting wasted at cons. It's really pathetic when you take commissions/ask for donations online for rent when you spent the money on hotels and booze for cons or a trip to Disneyland.

Also, please stop acting like you're the best cosplayer for a certain character and that everyone else's opinions on said character is invalid if they don't agree with you. It's dumb as fuck and there are better cosplayers out there. (It's also creepy how you want to be addressed as said character.)

Good luck trying to make money in the Artist Alley. Your art is shit and all you do is copy other people's ideas and poses. (Really? Copying a tumblr graphic for one of your prints? Do you ever think about composition on your own?) With your shitty attitude and sense of entitlement, it's no wonder you didn't break even on your first try.

I hope you enjoy my wigs and cosplay props that you refuse to give back. Your pettiness knows no bounds. It's hilarious seeing you throw fits on tumblr whenever our mutual friends hang out with me. Telling them to stop being friends with me will only isolate you further. If you keep this up, you're gonna end up alone and bitter.

>Friend walks into my dorm room while I'm doing cosplay work
>"Hey is this that costume thing that you're doing?"
>"Yeah it's in the very beginning stages an--"
>Begins to critique the entire thing and complains about how it's not accurate and how he could do a better job at it then I could ever do when it's not even 10% done yet.

Holy shit

>>6756632

>every time I post in the progress thread ever

Stop pretending you don't want con fame when you are lucky enough to have everything handed to you on a silver platter.

"I don't really take cosplay that seriously....I have a CAREER to worry about!"

> Spends months on one costume at a time, find her basking in attention at every con.

"Oh...who's that again? I don't really pay attention to famous cosplayer."

> Starts dating con guest of honor

"There's so much more to life than anime!"

> Goes to 10 cons a year.


Just stop. You want to be famous for cosplay, and then manipulate everyone around you into thinking you don't so become even MORE famous for being the real deal and "omg so nice."

Dear chatbuddy:

It's cool that you want to get into cosplay, but every time you ask for advice in the chat, you ignore me entirely and pester other people for help on how to do things, and I'm the only person that cosplays and can actually offer help.

>>6756830

This post is full of so much jelly I can taste strawberries.

>>6749011
>10th grade drama
Pls leave right now.

>>6749567
>>6749164
>>6749653

>Not knowing that hand sewing can actually be better

>>6757112
It CAN be, but let's be real, most of the people who hand-sew their costumes do it because they're too cheap to get a sewing machine and they're too impatient to handsew neatly so you get a costume with crooked, lumpy seams.

>>6757112
It can be, but most people that do it for cosplay are broke and/or shitty so it ends up worse than with a machine because of big and uneven stitches that don't hold things well.

This is more of a pet peeve than a complaint about an actual friend, but the people who post in progress threads about their bought costumes annoy the shit out of me.

>lol ordered my costume
>lol it was shipped today
>omg still not here
>omg where is it
>omg where is it
>lol wig is in, progress pic [wig fresh out of bag, bangs will never be trimmed]
>omg my costume is taking so long it's been a whole 3 days
>lol costume is here omg it took so long a whole month to come from china
>lol here's a progress pic of my costume + wig, so happy to finally be done!!!

Yeah this will probably sound elitist, but the progress threads should only be used by people who are actually making shit and want to share their progress, be encouraged by others' progress and get feedback.

>>6757112
Simetimes, hand sewing is better. I will always be able to prick stitch smaller than my machine. For big lines and even gathering, electricity is your friend. Rather than seeing one as superior, I like to look at them as they apply to specific techniques.

>>6757129

>>6757140
This. A sewing machine can save so much time and energy, but hand sewing has so many uses. Also sometimes if you need to just sew a tiny bit, it's just easier to hand sew it.

Also I'm a sucker for beading and hand embroidery.

I'm excited and afraid to have you accompany me this year to the convention. I'm excited because I'll finally have a girl to go with and not just drag my not so willing boyfriend along or go by myself. I'm excited because I havn't seen you in awhile.

However I'm afraid because I know you're only getting into this due to the attention you've seen my costumes get online. You're also extremely self conscious to begin with and I know you'll throw a snit fit/get all depressed when people arn't going to take your picture as much. You're wearing a not so great ebay costume, you won't work on, or let me work on your wig, you don't want to wear any makeup and you won't let me give you advice about having your stuff altered so it fits nicer.

It's like you think putting on a costume automatically means you're entitled to all the attention and praise and you're going to be ass devastated when you find that's not true.

You'll point out that I'm skinny and that's why I'm praised even though you KNOW I work my ass off on my costumes all year long.

Part of me thinks I should just wear something really low key and simple just so we're on a more level playing field and it's fair and I don't outshine you on your first try cosplaying but the other part wants to say FUCK THAT because goddamn I worked really hard on my costumes and I don't wanna give them up because you're doing this for the wrong reasons..

>>6757116
I hand sew most parts of my costumes because the thread disappears better into the fabric than machine stitching. I use my machine mostly for inseams.

Of course it's going to look shitty when people are sloppy about it, but I find it dumb that the anons above are so convinced that hand sewers are cheap and lazy. Humans have been making clothes for thousands of years, and sewing machines weren't invented until the 18th century.

Hand stitching also takes a LOT more time and dedication than machine stitching, and is generally harder to get the hang of. In a way, it's safe to say that people who only sew by machine are the lazy ones.

>>6757591
>Hand stitching also takes a LOT more time and dedication than machine stitching, and is generally harder to get the hang of. In a way, it's safe to say that people who only sew by machine are the lazy ones.

No, they're the efficient ones. Continue working in snailmode while everyone else crosses the finish line, anon.

>>6757614
>continue working in snailmode
I shall.

>In a cosplay group
>One person mentions how they get nervous
>Another person, being supportive makes a comment that we all get nervous
>one stupid idiot starts rattling on about about her "panic attacks"

I'm tired of your constant need for attention to the point of one-up-manship and exaggerating your so called health issues.
Sick of your lies and bullshit too

YOUR OLD COSPLAY GROUP WAS SHIT
YOU ALL LOOKED RIDICULOUS ALL OF THE TIME
I HAVE NO IDEA WHY YOU GOT SO MUCH ATTENTION
LEARN TO SEW
I KNOW YOU'RE PRETTY BUT YOU STILL NEED TO LEARN TO SEW TO BE A GOOD COSPLAYER
JUST BECAUSE TUMBLR PATS YOUR ASS EVERY TIME YOU POST A SELFIE DOESNT MEAN YOURE GOOD AT THIS CRAFT
STOP ABUSING MY SEWING MACHINE TO MANGLE HEMS AND THEN PUPPYFACING UNTIL I HELP YOU

>>6757614
I think they meant to say "seams" rather than "inseams". Because otherwise having a sewing machine would be completely useless.

Either way I do agree that hand sewing is better for outer stitches on natural fabrics (esp. cotton and linen). You can barely see the sewing even when the thread a slightly different shade than the fabric. It doesn't do so well on polyester or vinyl tho.

So God forbid you spend a little longer on your costumes to make things look nice.

>>6749910

he was cutting AT THE SAME TIME

you aren't supposed to make huge gains while on a calorie deficit

do you even fucking lift

I knew it was time to officially cut contact with you when you started making snide comments about how pale and sickly one of my friends looked when you knew very well that they were going through chemo.

>>6758423
You should've cut out their reproductive organs as well. People like that should not breed.

It is time to grow up girl; you are in your mid-twenties. Cosplay is a hobby, not your life. Stop trying to be tumblr famous, it’s sad. You don’t work on yourself enough (hell you barely brush your hair) to be that pretty. And your cosplay construction skills are nowhere near good enough.

Stop dicking around in college. You are nowhere near graduation and you are way over twenty two. You want to major in Japanese? Fucking seriously? You don’t even know any Japanese girl. Get a real major, finish school, and move out of your parents’ house! They fucking pushed you out of the nest and you moved right back in!

And stop, please stop dating other cosplayers. It never works out for you because you aren’t looking for someone to love; you’re looking for someone to cosplay with. That’s so messed up.

I've got two, both with messed-up priorities.

>friend 1 calls in sick to work so she can work more on her costumes
>lies to her school about family emergencies so she can go to conventions when big assignments or tests conflict

>friend 2 spends all of her time playing video games
>whines about how she never has enough time to finish her cosplays

I just want to sit them down and tell them to sort their shit out.

You're a self-centered asshole. You know you're attractive, popular and e-famous and you exploit this fact all the time. You obviously know your cosplays are getting worse because you don't have anyone to help you anymore and nobody's going to give you advice anymore because a.) you won't listen to it b.) you bitch and moan about it c.) you don't appreciate those more talented and experienced than you are. But you're also aware that you're still appreciated by your fans no matter what kind of excrement you spew out so you don't even have to try. Skills and devotion don't matter to you anymore, if they ever did - it's only about the fame.

I'm sorry. You've sunk so low I don't know if I'll ever respect you again as a cosplayer nor a person, nor a friend because your attitude is so excruciating. Your fame won't last long. To be respected as a cosplayer you HAVE to have other qualities than just good looks. Your attention whoring is getting more and more shameless and a lot of people see right through you.

You also blatantly use people for your own benefit and talk shit about everyone behind their backs, I can't name one person you haven't badmouthed.

>>6758438
This honestly sounded like someone hated me for a while without knowing anything about me.
Then I got to the major and it was different. But it really does sound like someone has major misconceptions about me and it's kind of weirding me out. (aka all these things could be criticisms from a cold outsider who has no clue.)
Are you sure that cosplay is their biggest issue in life? A lot of people use it to deal with other stressors in life that perhaps they are too embarrassed to tell a judgemental person like yourself?

>>6758438
Sounds exactly like someone I know. Midwest cosplayer?

Hey /cgl/.

This is my first time stumbling upon this board having previously stayed on /g/, /v/, /ck/, /fit/ and /b/, because I thought that "Hey, cosplay is pretty cool, why not take a look at this board?"

So then I saw this board, and figured I'd come in here to read some funny stories.
Boy was I wrong, all I've read so far is people bitching about being "forced" to continually make things for their "friends" when any self-respecting person would say "No, fuck you, I'm not your mother", ESPECIALLY AFTER THEY DON'T SAY THANK YOU.

Is everyone in the cosplay community this autistic and sad?
Yes, I'm including the people that beg others to do their work for them along with the people that actually DO it for them, and the latter isn't better in any way, most likely worse.

>>6758993

>>6759004

>me-megenerator.net

>>6758993

Please respond with an honest answer /cgl/. I'm legitimately curious. Tell me if I'm right or wrong.

>>6758993
>/b/
It's so cute when 13-year-olds try to act smart.

It is literally depressing to watch cosplay become the center of your universe. Out of the three years that I've known you, you have not once gone on an outing with friends. I remember clearly when your supposed "best friend" came to you and asked you if you wanted to go to Renfest with her because she hardly got time to see you outside of conventions. What did you say to her? "Sorry, I just HAVE to work on cosplay!" It's starting to get sickening.

There's a reason why nobody is commenting on your twitter and facebook posts anymore; because they all know that you take cosplaying too far. Sure, your outfits are beautiful and they deserve all the awards that they get but when they people can't talk to you about anything other than your outfits or the fandom that you're currently in then don't expect to have friends that stick around.

Also, I can't wait for someone to call you out on here. It will be so fucking refreshing.

Threatening mutual friends that you'll stop being friend with them and unfollow them on tumblr because we had a falling out is ridiculous and dumb.

Maybe you should have thought ahead before calling me a cunt and cutting me out of your life if you were going to have a giant jealous shitfit every time I interact with someone on tumblr. Also, I just found out that you're angrily stalking my tumblr page, so kudos to you.

>>6758993
>/b/
>/fit/
okay

>>6759023

It's so cute when you automatically assume I spend all my time there.
Still haven't gotten an answer at any significant level.

Autist community confirmed.

>>6759024
Oh my god. I feel the same about cosplay friends I dislike, anon.

I'm just waiting for the day they get posted on /cgl/ to feel validated about disliking them

>>6759034
>Autist community confirmed.
I don't think you understand what autism is.

>all I've read so far is people bitching
Welcome to /cgl/, kiddo.

And you're not getting a "significant" answer because your post was dumb to begin with.

If you don't like it here, why are you sticking around? No one is forcing you to stay.

>>6759095

Being socially retarded and not being able to speak up your mind when someone is walking all over you because of that social ineptitude isn't autism? Well golly.

The fact that you give me a significant answer and then claim that I'm not getting one is interesting.
But thank you.

Never said I liked it here bud? Just paying a visit and seeing what some of the other boards are like, instead of ignorantly sitting in a few and ignoring the others.

And what's with everyone here calling me a kid, or a 13 year old? Is there some sort of massive form of projection that all of you are in on?

jesus fuck don't respond to trolls you fucking idiots it's not even summer

>>6756432
S & S?

omfg get over yourself. I get it, you have anxiety issues and need everyone's attention on you at all times and god forbid that it be negative even though you act like a brat nonstop! After complaining about having screwed up funding for your studies and being desperate for money you draw up a list of 20+ cosplays you want to do??
On top of that you NEVER want others to cosplay the same character as you, but now you plan on cosplaying every single fucking female character in the series? INCLUDING IN HOMESTUCK?

I really wish you'd quit cosplay and just go away. Or move somewhere else so I don't have to deal with your shit all the time.

Oh and it would be nice if you'd stop bragging about how your boyfriend's banging you every other day.

>>6759407
>cosplaying homestuck
>expecting to be the only one of your character

good luck to your friend.

>>6758954
Get over yourself. Are you really trying to defend yourself against a post that probably isn't even about you?

>>6758993
This board is a direct representation of all cosplayers. Everything read here should be taken as fact.

>>6759583
Lol wat
It's not about me I know. I'm just saying that person doesn't have all their information. My life just shows that... most of my issues are private and people judge me similar to what this person is saying.
That's all.

>>6760024

>>6759436
EXACTLY. It's a case of "Um... hello? HOMESTUCK???" and then she bitches about the other people who cosplayed the same character as her and how crap they were compared to her.

This thread still alive? I've got a sort of vent/brag:

> be a masquerade judge
> everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg
> one of the contestants is a local guy doing an original character/steampunk thing
> we like it so we put a judge's award on it
> talking to guy a few weeks after the con, he ends up losing his shit at me for getting a judge's award
> dude is having a Christian Bale-tier temper tantrum: "IT'S NOT A REAL AWARD", talking shit about the Best in Show winners, accusing the judges of being unqualified, dragging the masq director's name through the mud, the whole 9 yards.
> like I'm putting up with this bullshit
> well that escalated quickly
> doing a follow-up via email about the masq with the director, she asks me advice on who she should invite to be judge next year, mentions Judge-Awardbro
> Tell her about my experience, blah blah blah he's not right for the job IMO, maybe MC instead
> Director-chan emails me a week later, she did some digging and found out that JudgeAwardbro has been sandbagging competitions in an attempt to become cosplay famous and this isn't the first time he's talked shit about local masq people over not winning Best in Show so she's blacklisted him from working as a judge or MC at the con or its partner cons
> carry on with my life because I have other things to worry about, busy with school, new job, etc.
> months later, find out via mutual friends that JudgeAwardbro has declared a jihad against me
> buddy is pushing 30 and has nothing better to do?
> doing some supply shopping last week with some friends, including Director-chan
> She pulls me aside, "So, JudgeAwardbro has been emailing me asking to judge or MC the masq."
> lelz were had

moral of the story: don't suffer dipshits. you can turn a vent about THAT cosplayer into a victory if you're proactive.

Babe, I love you, but you need to start buying some fucking wigs. Doesn't matter if your hair looks similar, wigs are better in so many aspects and I keep trying to explain but you won't listen.

And buy wigs meant for cosplay, please. Not ones meant for everyday wear or parties. And please stop layering shirts underneath your suit, it's inaccurate and very visible. And please start using makeup yes even for crossplay. Just... Please start making some effort.

I'm such a wimp I can't even tell her what she needs to change to be a good cosplayer, I don't want her to get angry with me.

You continuously cancel cosplay plans we make because you suddenly "have no money". But then where did your brand new 3DS come from? Where did that PS Vita come from? I don't mind if you don't wanna cosplay with me, but please tell me instead of pulling lies so transparent I feel offended that you thought I'd fall for them,

>>6760024

>>6759136
It's because /b/, /fit/, and /v/ are shitholes. They are notoriously the WORST boards on 4chan, only to be enjoyed by minors.

>>6760644
>/fit/

wait what? how?

>>6758967
....does a lot of dancing?

>>6756830

This honestly sounds like you're mad atsomeone for having their shit together and STILL being successful in cosplay.

>>6760796

Honestly, they're the male version of /cgl/. Everything's about trash-talking and attention-whoring.

>>6759136
lolno. That's not even remotely what autism is.

And people are calling you a kid because not only do you SOUND like a kid, you also come from the kiddie boards as well.

>>6760897
Full of fatties too.

>>6760897
/cgl/ without even the pretense that they're discussing costumes

>>6760807
... Begins with a K?

You always choose characters with body paint for whatever fucking reason, and you never put it on right or even seal it. You're also upwards of 60 pounds overweight and refuse to do anything about it, despite your family members begging you to. Your cosplays are terrible because you're inexperienced won't accept help from anyone, even after all your friends have offered it to you countless times.

Please stop hitting on male cosplayers while acting like a hyperactive retard and then cry like a 2-year-old when they tell you to fuck off.

>>6761005

YUP. I'm not even the OP of that! It was just so obviously her.

>>6761053
The one who's obsessed with Magi and lives in Wisconsin? Because if so, I am so happy that someone else understands uggggh

>>6761085


Actually no then. Wow. There's one in Illinois who does the same exact thing and starts with a K. Creepy.

I cannot BELIEVE that this person is not answering their phone. I don't even know if she's up yet and we were supposed to do a sunrise shoot. I am livid that I had to wake up at 4 AM, get ready, and now I can't even get in contact. Argh.

You don't sew and cosplay characters outside of your body type. That's fine. I have no problems with that. But don't come up to me and tell me how shitty my friends' costumes are when they actually try to make their own costumes. What's worse is you get made fun of a lot for picking the wrong character type so you know it feels to be nitpicked and made fun of. Why would you do it to someone else? You're a good friend, but when it comes to cosplay, you are an overcritical asshole.

>>6760601
You're just pissed because you are probably judging someone who doesn't deserve any of your bullshit... and you might be missing out on someone who is cool from your misunderstanding. But okay, keep the stick up your butt. No skin off my back.
I swear your guys' reading comprehension is shit.

>>6756432
I hate this in the fact it sounds like it's directed at me; the first one.

Because I did just this; all to please other people with commissions. Gladly I took my friend's advice and direct people elsewhere for help. Work and my life comes first.

I've already told my friend this; but sometimes, telling someone doesn't fix the issue and you need to rant elsewhere. So just need to get this out:

Please stop joining cosplay groups and trying to dibs characters when you have no intentions of doing them; and then cry about it when I find someone willing to do it. Yes, You are allowed to change your mind; hell I've done it multiple times. Difference is I am doing a hell of a lot of solos and they're the costumes I keep changing. You join groups and then drop out when its most inconvenient.
Also, don't whinge when people drop out of your groups. You do it to them, they have right to dish it back.

And for the love of god babe, please do something with your best friend that has like, a shit main character so you both don't fight over who is going to be said main character. It's frustrating to mother you both when you come crying to me about your fights, but all I want to do is knock your heads together.

I love you guys so much though. Just, stahp.

You choose characters that don't suit you, yet you like them because they're the main characters.
I get that cosplay is about cosplaying who you want because you like them but you should also choose characters that fit, you're not fat or ugly but if you have a certain type of face that doesn't suit some anime characters.

I really, really wish you'd quit cosplaying. I hate you and your attitude so much.

I love you to bits and pieces and I understand that your kink is your kink.

But please, stop cosplaying mpreg at conventions. You get picked on enough.

>>6749240
Handsewing is important for only a few things, things that usually do not come up in cosplay.

I have friends that piss me off, but several people in this thread have described similar people already.

I'm going to cosplay as the character you love because I love her as well and you can't claim her just because she's your favorite, I've liked the series for much longer, you don't even know the other characters names and you haven't even finished the series yet!

>>6766343
Oh, wow. My condolences, anon.

when we started cosplaying together you were fun. you had a passion for the hobby, for fandom and wanted to have fun. you had gone to school and had knowledge I didn't, I had the experience and the problem solving skills to make up what there wasn't a rule for. we made really awesome costumes togethers of things we both loved.

but once you 'got into' it you started comparing yourself to everyone else. you stopped caring about what we were doing and got obsessed with what other people were doing. suddenly it was about the favourites and likes and being invited places and not about making cool costumes and goofing around. instead of making good costumes it was about making flashy costumes that would 'compete' with everyone elses.

then you started comparing yourself to me. it started with snide comments. then blatantly offensive ones. all because of some fucking favourites and likes and making friends. which I got from being friendly and interested in other peoples work and not being a snob, sitting around waiting for people to appreciate me for how amazing I am. you turned into a bitter, catty brat and despite your growing ego your costumes are getting worse and worse because you're putting all your energy into being a hater and not making good shit for your own happiness. then you got into homestuck because taking a poo and putting troll horns on it would get you a few followers and fancy yourself BNF.

you threw me under a bus and threw away our friendship hoping to become the next big thing at our last con, and you didn't. hope it was worth it.

>>6758423
>>6758437
As someone who recently lost a family member to cancer, I have to second this. I'd've broken his/her nose. And then the rest of their face.

Stop trying to give me shit advice to create my cosplay and how to sew it. I know I am not the best but seeing as how you have never used a sewing machine and you have never made a cosplay before it really pisses me off that you act like you are so good at it. All the advice you give me is awful and I wish you would listen when I tell you to stop.

Talking to friend about future cosplay plans. Express interest in doing a character from a series they've never heard of. First reaction is "IS THERE ANYONE I CAN COSPLAY FROM IT?!?!" Okay so you're going to ignore any information about the series itself other than if there is someone that looks like you or not. I don't mind if people cosplay from a series they have never played, see, read, etc because they like the design or something. But if you're going to base you interest in a series entirely on whether or not you can cosplay it, then come on! Jesus. They do the same thing if me and our mutual guy friend express interest in cosplaying the same series....just stop.