/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7124666
About a year ago I ran into a group of them with my brother at a Home Depot where they were trying to barricade an isle with paint buckets.

A few years ago when I was very into Homestuck, I saw a Gamzee cosplayer at a lantern festival. I'm so glad I stopped to say hello because he and the two girls he was with were very friendly and introduced me to the local Homestuck comm, which I previously had no idea existed, and which turned out to be amazing. Shortly after I met them, I moved to another country and I suddenly understood the stigma attached to Homestucks in North America, because all the nearby comms were embarrassingly awful. In the end, I got put off Homestuck altogether.

I miss my old comm though.

>be at the mall today
>go into bookstore
>girl wearing black lipstick/bad makeup and other assorted cosplay shit
>satchel with a bajillion weeb jeeby buttons
>assume it's a homestuck
Also if it makes you feel any better op, I'm in new york too and I still know people who go to Wal Mart dressed in cosplay just to hang out and don't buy anything.

>>7124666
One and last time I've ever been to a cosplay meet up was a Naruto one from years back (only one because it just scared me from attending any more). It was held at a mall and people were obnoxiously loud, disturbing a nearby spa place. After we were told to move away, a couple of them started pretending to be part of Shikamaru's family by gnawing on fake mall plant leaves because "Nara means deer, lawl!". My 14yo self just left as the group dispersed into two groups (I assumed the crazies went elsewhere for "fun" and the others just wanted to chill with bubble tea or something). There was drama on the forum after this so there's that I guess, just talking about the misbehavior.

>>7124677
Seriously why do they think it's okay to do this?

>>7124677
I guess teenagers + obsession+character personas = higher percent of Weeb behavior.
>>7124788
Not a naruto fan. But Im sorry to hear that. If only people actually had sense. Oh right. They dont.

I always get pissed off when I see homestucks and/or tumblr cosplays at Renaissance Festivals. I mean yes, it's technically a place where you dress up, but that doesn't mean you can do homestuck.

Fuck, why do these people seem to think any event that isn't super formal means it's time to cosplay?

>>7124761
Pretty much the same story from me, even the last comment.

Sage because I've got nothing awful to share specifically but I guess I'm just tolerant with cosplays. My real stories are with meeting weebs in general

>>7124782
what the fuck dont you go out
practically all teens just hang out in stores and buy nothing but without the costume

>>7125024
>teens
>implying
Bad news for you anon...

>>7125014
>event that isn't super formal
I've seen designs for formal-dresses based off Homestuck. Do not doubt these people in any scenario.

I guess that seeing Goth/Lolita/Steampunk/Cosplay/Hot Topic losers in my town should be taken as a side effect of growth.

Des Moines Iowa Worlds Food Prize festival had the most socially retarded group to ever embarrass and darken the event. Basically a group of ugly weaboos kept talking broken Desu to all the Asian food booths harassed the Korean booths by loitering in front and smelling like horrible BO and making terrible North Korean jokes. To top it all off they kept booing at the dancers at the Salsa Club booth.

I now for a fact that they weren't highschoolers because one of them was a teller at a bank.

I just couldn't believe it though.

>>7125057
Oh right, they have Promstuck.

I just don't understand why there'll be kids who think it's really clever and smart to go visit Santa in cosplay. I remember seeing tons of pictures of people doing that last year.

>>7125135
They probably have some kind of in-joke about it.
They have in-jokes about everything, AUs about everything, any excuse to wear Homestuck anywhere.

>went with friend to cosplay thing at local mall
>We're out of high school and just want to take some pics, eat some food, and shop
>mass of 14 year olds in closet cosplay find us
>they are messing with store displays, shrieking
>running up the down escalator
>playing in the fountain
>jumping on the beds in Sears
>loudly roleplaying and throwing candy
>they get the boot from security
>we are up at the food court enjoying some tacos
>get kicked too because we are also in costume
>walk to bookstore, take off wigs and jackets, walk back to mall, continue day
>two years later I work at that mall
>theres still a security lookout on "costumed LGBT activists in bedding dept"

How do all of you people always run into this kinda stuff? Is this more of an american thing? Outside of cons, I never see people like that (Germany)

I ran into a girl cosplaying from Naruto in a paper shop once. She was actually well dressed, good wig, good make up, and very lovely and not a sperglord when I asked her what she was dressed up for. We exchanged emails and I still occasionally see her around at cons.

semi cosplay related:

>be at lolita meet
>everyone well dressed
> end of meet, about six of us walking through the train station heading to our platforms
>unholy screeching coming from somewhere in the main concourse, obviously directed at us
>turn around
>group of about 15 assorted weebs in bad closet cosplay, naruto headbands, at least two pikachu kigus
>tall skinnyfat girl pointing and screaming
>"OMG LOOK RORITA COSPLAYERS DESU"
>is wearing a petti as a skirt
>wiggles her petti-skirt-thing at us
>weeb mating ritual? idk

I've gone to a cosplay picnic in my town before, and there was a good mix of people - from a few middle-aged cosplayers to groups of screaming 14 year olds roleplaying their Hetalia cosplays.

In the end though, everyone kept the craziness confined to our corner of the park. There was a wedding nearby and everyone politely stayed away etc. I was impressed and happy to chill with everyone.

A few weeks ago I went to a local fall/harvest festival, and met a group I previously met at the picnic. They were doing a group cosplay together and just being cool and awesome.

>>7125410
I'm assuming it's american.
I'm scandinavian and I went into our local homestuck comm excpecting the worst after hearing all this from americans.
I am not lying when it is the most awesome and chill comm I have ever had the pleasure to be in.

When I was younger I used to enjoy watching youtube videos where people would cosplay whatever characters from a series, and just go out and do normal things like shop. Idk but I found some of them enjoyable and cute, it was as if I was watching a character I really like doing things they would actually do.
But those were the rare good few.
Good god I've seen a lot of bad ones, like...Naruto sleep over videos...what....
I think it's just an American thing because we're the cesspool for weaboos.
I don't really have a problem with tiny groups, like, 2-3 people when they're shooting a youtube video but a majority of them are dumb and just out of character.
This is 15 year old me's logic

>>7125014
Pisses me off too when I see people cosplay Homestuck at Japanese culture festivals, acting like it's an anime convention. Unless you're respectively cosplaying some kimono!AU, running around and acting obnoxious in black shirts, horns and grey paint or a fullout godtier outfit is just really out of place.

>>7125391
The exact thing happened to me, except I wasn't kicked out, thank god. There was a Homestuck meet-up, and they got kicked out because 1/2 of them were making out on the display beds at Kohl's.

>>7125885
My story was pre-homestuck by about 5 years, thank god. If I remember the most popular series at the time was Death Note.

>>7124782
>Wal-Mart
>New York

>>7126053
not them but yeah there are a few walmarts there
granted you have to take the subway and a bus for like 2 or 3 damn hours to get to outside the city though (they probably live upstate)

>>7125014
>Fuck, why do these people seem to think any event that isn't super formal means it's time to cosplay?
The Renaissance festival in my area actually has a couple official cosplay/costume weekends. They also have a time travel day but I'm assuming that means there's just going to be a whole bunch of Doctor Who fanboys running around.

>>7125410
I've heard France also has a weeaboo problem

>>7125014
Are Tumblrfags and Homestucks common at Renaissance Festivals?

I went to the Maryland Ren Fest on the 21st (first time going to one in years) and thankfully I saw no Homestucks. Just an Ezio and some GoT/LOTR stuff. Granted, I got sick after like 3 hours and had to leave, so I didn't really see much.

The local homestuck comms so fucking bad. This makes me so sad because I keep trying to give them a shot but they just make themselves unbearable to be around and I'm like why, why can't we just make this fucking 18+ and solve all our problems.

>>7126063
Ah, shit, sorry, I thought they meant NYC. I literally just saw a group that had an Equius walking around on University Place

>>7125410
You're just not looking hard enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS75qbUdN_U
^Fahrlight is German. She's also 30+ years old and still does stuff like this.

> Homestucks ice skating while at rink waiting for kid I nanny to finish lessons
> Stare in awe as they use one of the orange seal-shaped riders to ride around on since only one of the three could skate
> mfw

Back in the early 2000's I went to the Risingsun.net photo shoots in. FL. Cosplayers were mostly collage aged, and well behaved. ( I was young for the group) We mostly met at parks, and then lunched together when the light was bad. Never had any problems, just very curious wait staff , the " it's not Halloween" jeers, and little kids that were drawn to anything that looked like a princess.

Cosplay kids sound nuts these days! Oldfag out!

>>7126158
Did you go to the Rainbow Springs one? I was there.

>>7126068
Time travel days are just in hope that the steampunks will stick to a single day instead of "lol lets go to the faire every weekend and be time travelers it will be hilarious"

>>7126173
I don't think so, mostly I did the Orlando meet ups. Looks like Mab has stopped doing shoots. It's too bad, he's pretty talented. (And the pictures made awkward teen me feel soo pretty- thanks Mab)

>>7125410
You have never been to Düsseldorf? Everytime I go there, there ist at least one group of cosplayers in front of the japanese supermarket..

>>7125014
I had a former friend, who was in her 30's who tried to turn any outing(that wasn't just like, shopping) we did into a cosplay opportunity. At first I went along with it. Did one or two in costume, because hey, why not(it was stuff like mini golf) But then she kept doing it, again, and again. But then it just turned into her dressing up. The final straw was when I suggested a simple beach day since she lives like, 30 mins. From a beach, and she wanted us to drive 2 hours out of the way, to another one so she could go cosplaying in a pier because it has a boardwalk at the end with a Ferris wheel and so on. When I told her I didn't want to deal with cosplay, she told me "oh, you don't have to cosplay!"

Yeah, I don't think so.

>>7126132
I wish I knew what you were talking about

>local homestuck comm hosts meetup at mall near me
>it's on my birthday and planned to go there so why not
>only one cosplayer was good, everyone else was shit
>try to talk to them, they act standoffish for whatever reason
>lolokay go on my merry way with friends
>enjoy them being obnoxious and embarassing themselves and people staring

the best thing was when my sister came and asked "why was one them dressed like a candle?"

>friend posts "Just saw a girl walk by my work with homestuck horns. NOPE NOPE NOPE"
>remember another friend talking about a homestuck meetup at a local mall
>first friend's boss was freaked out and thought they were some pagan group

>>7126767
I was drunk when I wrote that post. Let me explain better. I work as a nanny and one of the kids I work with takes ice skating lessons. While she was having her lesson, I noticed 3 Homestuck cosplayers start skating on the public session. I knew there was a John, a troll and some other person, I don't remember. Only the John could skate, so that one skated while the other two used a large, plastic seal-shaped carriage (it's what they let people rent for little kids who want to go on the ice but literally can't skate, that way they can be on the ice but they just sit on the back of the "seal") and rode around and fell all over the place looking like idiots. The kid I work with came up to me and asked me what the hell it was all about, since she knows I'm into cosplay (since she figure skates, she likes costumes). It was kind of hilarious.

Make more sense now?

>>7129269
Interesting. Which area are you around? Im OP btw. I dont really see many cosplayers here in Manhattan unless theres an actual reason for it. No strolling or shopping from what ive seen

>>7129712
Southern California. I've seen Homestucks randomly cosplaying so much around here. I have no idea why it's always them.

>>7129716
are you around the la area? or more towards san diego?

>>7125135
>>7125139
it's just so that they can post pictures on tumblr and try to become famous. there was this one photoset where a set of beta kids did that, and it got a lot of notes, so obviously everyone's going to try to copy them.

>>7126087
>>7125014
i know my comm likes to have meetups during renaissance festivals sometimes (although they usually only get around ten to fifteen attendees, since most of them are too cheap to pay entrance fees)
there's a lot of homestuck medieval AUs, so that probably contributes to it. most of the god tiers have vaguely medieval names/backings (prince, knight, etc.), so when people do fancytier and shit like that it tends to go more in the medieval direction, which also adds to the reasons why they tend cosplay at ren fairs.

>>7129716
I agree that a lot of it is unneccesary but then again we are apparently not welcome to cosplay at a lot of cons because anime and we are not welcome to host our own meetups in public because it weirds people out or whatever so I really can't blame people who jump at opportunities like renfaires with what >>7129727
said.
Of course, there's also some of the ancestors.

>>7129743
People are going to hate you more if you wear it to Ren Fests since it's not really a place to cosplay at all, especially from Homestuck of all things. It's just as stupid as when people dress as Storm Troopers and the like, except that Homestucks and Tumblrfags have a much worse reputation.

>>7129761
I'm not saying it in itself is right I am saying there is nothing wrong with wearing a cosplay outfit if it sticks to the theme.

>>7125410
Where in Germany do you live?
Here in Hamburg you just need to go to the city/central station on weekends and there's a 90% chance you'll spot a group of weebs and/or narutards on their way to the local McDonalds or the Japanese gardens

>>7129774
>flower crown
>tumblr filename
Get out.

>>7129774
But at the end of the day, no matter what ever AU you decide to do, it's still Homestuck. It does not belong.

>>7125854
What is your opinion on people cosplaying at Japanese festivals in general?

I've seen a handful of cosplayers attend my city's sakura festival and I am never sure if I should cringe or just shrug. There are people who wear traditionally Japanese clothing but then there are others like Naruto, etc.

>>7126712
>>7126158

I miss Mab..he was always a little awkward but his photos always made me feel prettier.

>>7129971
I'm not that person, but if it's from something that uses traditional Japanese clothing (ie. cosplaying someone from Inuyasha other than Kagome) would be okay, I think.
Now if you're cosplaying something like Miku Hatsune, try to stay away from that.
There's a Japanese festival in my area in the springtime, and I'm thinking of doing Rin's outfit from Senbonzakura. It's not really traditional, but it does have ties to that sort of thing, so I think it'd be fine.

No one's extremely strict about clothing choices at these sorts of things, but it is in bad taste to cosplay something like Homestuck and not even try to fit the theme of the festival.

>>7129970
This.

>>7129970

I agree that the paint and horns and tee shirts aren't ok to wear, because they don't match the theme. But if the costume is period appropriate how does it not belong at an event where the only content guideline is "from x time period".

I'm genuinely curious where your line is being drawn for what's ok to wear to the Faire. Recreations of actual historical garments? Can I cosplay as Henry the 8th? What about a costume from Robin Hood? What about Ezio as mentioned or LotR? Can I be Scarlet Witch from that marvel mini set in the dark ages? Is everything ok as long as its not homestuck?

>>7129971
I think it depends on the festival. The ones in California that I know of (Little Tokyo and San Fransisco) have cosplay contests and parades they have the cosplayers participate in.

>>7130032
Different anon, but I'm not sure as to why you're getting so defensive about it.

There are plenty of people who get irritated seeing cosplayers at Ren Fests, including Links, Ezios, Hobbits, etc. I know one guy who rants about it every time. No one can stop you from cosplaying, but don't act all surprised when people find it annoying.

Besides, dressing up is not mandatory for Renaissance festivals.

>>7130032
I'd honestly find Homestuck fine at Ren Faire if you did a historically-accurate cosplay, forego the horns and grey paint, etc. Make it look like a normal Ren Faire outfit, but you and people in your fandom recognize that it's Homestuck, ya know?
I'm a Hetalia fan and we do this shit all the time. I don't expect people to ask what I'm cosplaying from or what Hetalia is if they see my pirate!England outfit, I just expect them to think, "Oh, it's pirate weekend and there's a pirate. How jolly." while other Hetalia fans will get who I am and such.

>>7130039

Yeah not to sound like a sandy vag, I really just couldn't tell where the "it's not ok" line came in. The two pics posted looked like regular shitty fantasy Faire outfits that they sell at Faire for mundanes to dress up in. So it's ok to dress in period-ish wear unless you call it "medieval hamstuck" then it's not.

If you hate costumes and think cast is the only one allowed to dress up that's a whole other thing and that's fair seeing kids in their goth/emo/Faire/hippy/"vintage" peasant shirt and square dancing skirt claiming to be Renaissance rustles my jimmies too

>>7129950
>not expecting flower crowns at a ren faire
Have you ever actually been to one? They sell pretty princess posy crowns everywhere.

>>7130032
Ok not same anon but I have a point to make here. Cosplaying as a particular character can actually make things difficult for the people running the faire. Most have specific characters walking around, usually including Tudor royalty, legendary charcters (like RobinHood) and pop culture characters like Jack Sparrow or Ezio. that are a major part of the "show" and have set things they're supposed to be seen at and say. If you show up also cosplaying as them, can be recognized as them, or tell people thats who you are directly, it can cause issues either with the faire's script, or if you do something innapropriate the faire will be the one getting in trouble and may ban you or any similar costumes.

All this, plus you are NEVER the only one who decided to cosplay that character. By the time you've seen your 12th Tim the Enchanter, you're ready to binge drink honey mead and drown yourself in the moat.

>>7130106
Seriously. They sell Flower crowns AT the faires. I have one I bought years ago at a Ren Faire. Tumblr's just latched onto it and now people are associating it directly with tumblr even though they've been around for thousands of years.

>>7125544
I used to follow a local hetalia group that did that they were really cute

>>7130140
So in this case, flower crowns are appropriate to wear?

>>7130032
A lot of people - or at least myself - find cosplay at Ren Fests annoying mostly because of the mindset. Ren Fests aren't cons, so people acting as if they're another thing to cosplay at irks me.

>>7129970
How exactly does cosplay like >>7129774 not belong at a ren faire? If I hadn't seen the photo before I'd have no idea that it was a Homestuck AU because of the lack of paint and horns.

>>7130118
I'm someone who has worked at a renfest in TX. We don't find this annoying at all - in fact, we are specifically told to interact with anyone in costume. If someone has a story or character behind it, it just makes it more interesting. It is the job of the actor to play along.

The only way they would be disruptive is if they yelled or tried to talk to actors during a stage show. This has happened, but it usually with drunk fuckers in regular clothes, not anyone dressed up.

>>7129720
Kinda inbetween. Orange county. I saw this at a rink technically in LA county but RIGHT on the LA/OC border.

>>7131078
Which ice rink? Cause now I'm curious and I live within walking distance of the Anaheim one.

>>7131078
oh god that was almost definitely my comm

I was actually at the Des Moines Iowa Asian festival too. I saw a Rei Ayanami cosplayer with a Kenshin Himura and some blond chick in green. I heard some desu from them for sure. I really don't think that cosplay is appropriate for that kind of event. I think it's kind of disrespectful. Wearing a Kimono or something like that however, I can understand. But I really don't know why people would cosplay at such an event. I find it irritating.

>>7131082
I'll say it's part of The Rinks system, but not Anaheim. Kind of Long Beach area, near the airport. I have a confidentiality thing signed with work, so I can't reveal toooooo much.
>>7131091
Haha, it was kind of funny to see the dad of one of them come pick them up. Endearing in a way because I remember when I gave that little of a fuck about what people in society thought of me.

A friend of mine would often closet cosplay Bruce Banner (aka wearing a purple shirt and dress pants) and obsess over how she ships him and Iron Man.

>>7130966
Anon you replied to. The one nearest me had a thing saying specific things were banned. Costumes of any quality were encouraged, but ones directly based on movie/tv characters were asked to remove a few things or change it so it wouldn't be confused for faire employees. I imagine an incident had to have happened for that rule to be made, because the first time I was there it wasn't a rule and there were Monty Python groups aplenty.

>>7126095
Not really. I've been to more than one barstuck (set in actual bars meaning you had to be 21 or older) that still manage to fuck shit up. It does make it better, but it doesn't solve everything.
I'm on the east coast though.

>>7125410
Americans have to much freedom to abuse

There is a girl at my school who cosplays the same character every day. I believe it's a character from Naruto, but having never watched/read it, I'm not 100% sure. But it definitely is cosplay. Thankfully she isn't too annoying, she just sort of leans against the outdoor portables and tries to look cool in between periods. But her friend wears cat ears to school a lot, cosplaying some character from Loveless? I read most of Loveless and I never saw anyone who looked like that. She's annoying. Doesn't understand school is not the time for cosplay and is generally obnoxious because "cosupray give me confidence, desu nyan~~" Emphasis on the "u".
None the less I am scared for my life that she will recognize my backpack and go full weeb. (my backpack is a slight nod to my fandom, so slight I've had people ask what brand my backpack was because they'd never seen the logo before. Hah.)
In short I've never met anyone terribly insulting, just mildly annoying.
Rural/Suburban New Yorker here, btw

>>7137741
What is on your backpack anyways?

>>7137847
Wings of Freedom. Picture relevant.
(Now that I think about it, not sure if it's a slight nod or a very visible and elaborate nod. Either way it's roomy and by far the best backpack I've had size-wise.)

>>7137878
Where did you order it from?

>Be Disney employee a few years ago
>Family visiting me for my birthday
>We're at my favorite park Epcot
>Hetalia Day is happening
>Hetaliaboos all over world showcase
>Feel so much shame and second hand embarrassment

I was friends with one of the girls working in the Japan pavilion and she said she saw them there running around the shop. I should also mention that no one except for her really knew what cosplay is or gave the slightest shit about anime/otaku culture.
She said weeaboos would go into that store and scream or Japanophiles would come in and flirt with the girls working there.
Please, if you are visiting Epcot or Disneyworld do not do this.

>>7137940
I got it from this taobao store
>http://fendm1818.taobao.com/

>be at academically selective high school in australia (you have to pass a test to be accepted)
>this means that autists and asians are a majority in the student population
>compulsory uniforms
>every year we have a 'mufti day'
>basically we dont have classes that day and stalls are put up and we have a talent show and shit
>uniform is also not required that day
>everyone, fucking everyone takes that as an excuse to cosplay or just dress fucking retardedly
highlights include
>3 guys in 'we r leegun' masks trying to be 2spooky and following people around
>people with badly made cardboard cut-out rage faces
>some fuckhead in a cardboard box with green spraypaint and a minecraft creeper mask running around making the noise as loudly and as obnoxiously as he can
>a shitload of naruto cosplayers
>one of them was this fat bi bitch who thought she was hot shit and paraded around in a fucking shikimaru cosplay, with the fishnet shit
>if people werent in costume, most of them were in their typical autist uniform, jeans and running shoes, cargo shorts and ironic graphic tees

>>7130118
If there are official Faire members in a costume, though, they can't get pissed at a visitor for wearing the same costume. That's hypocritical and retarded.

>>7130521
But... Ren Faires sort of... ARE cons.

Just because you don't call it such doesn't mean it isn't.

It's a Renaissance Culture Convention, if you will.

>>7138530
Its not "you can't wear a costume only I can!", its that the character is on programs and part of shows and stuff, and they don't want other guests to think the non-staff in costume is the guy on the program. Its like how DisneyWorld doesn't let adults in costume in, just in case a kid thinks they're an employee and they do something stupid or offensive.

>New Japanese restaurant opens
>For once it isn't a fucking hibachi place
>Decide to go for lunch
>Nice place, very casual with good food
>Enter high school Naruto cosplayers
>Everyone gets very quiet
>Cosplayers sit down at a table
>They're very quiet
>Even their laughter is quiet
>No broken Japanese uttered at all
>Leave restaurant feeling lost and confused

I still don't understand what I experienced that day and I don't think I ever will.

>>7126158
I did a lot of his Orlando and Tampa shoots, too. Never anything crazy. Everyone who went was pretty chill. I miss those...

We try to get shoots together still and since it's the same crowd, they're still chill. It's nice.

Sad about his hands, though.

>>7138181
My boyfriend & I always end up playing "Spot the Weeaboo" whenever we visit EPCOT and get to the Japan pavilion.

Thankfully, we've never run into cosplayers, but I've seen photos, and that alone made me feel the secondhand embarrassment. I'm so sorry, anon.

>>7125014
Went to King Richard's Faire a couple of weekends ago....saw not only Homestuck but also neon furries.