/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8140870
No matter what you do tumblr will find a way to attack you m8

Also, even if they're not human tumblr will go sjw on your ass for black facing
ex: Dark Link

why would you go out of your way to cosplay something not your skin tone when you are very light?

are you unhappy with the thousands of choices of characters that you do fit the bill for?

If you don't want to be distasteful, get a tan, or don't do it at all. I don't give a shit at this point I'm tired of these fucking threads.

>>8140873
This. You shouldn't care about offending people with glass sensibilities.

What you SHOULD care about is if it will look good or not. If you can find a way to achieve a character-accurate skin-tone without it looking shit, you're fine.

Tumblr will shit all over you. /cgl/ won't care as long as you aren't fat.

If you're really whiter than wonderbread, you'll never dark enough for Esmerelda or Pocahontas. You'll max out at John Boehner orange and look stupid.

>>8140878

> Giving somebody the business for wanting to cosplay their favourite characters

Okay

>>8140870
you can cosplay outside of your race, otherwise 90% of western anime cosplay would be considered mega racist. Painting your skin so you look like you had an accident and smeared it all over yourself is racist.

it's not rocket science. Also, on a semi related note- what is the current best body paint and sealant out there? I'm considering cosplaying Miss Martian and don't want to look like shit.

>>8140870
Just do the characters without trying to change your skin tone and literally nobody on either side will care.

>>8140888
this

>>8140870
It seems like you're already aware that this is going to offend people. So you're going to have to ask yourself - is it worth it?

>>8140888
they can do what they want. like I said, I don't give a fuck. I'm just tired of this thread.

Just go ahead and cosplay without coloring yourself. I'm black, and I don't put white powder or anything when I cosplay light-skinned characters, so I think it's stupid when a light person does the opposite. Just be sure to pick a wig that fits your skin tone.
>and smearing brown paint on yourself always looks shitty, pun intended.

Race isn't a costume.

Darkening your skin is not necessary to cosplay a character who is drawn with dark skin.

Think about it, brown/black cosplayers aren't baby powdering up their faces to look like white/asian charecters.

Sailor Moon looks like Sailor Moon because of the signature hairstyle and iconic fuku.

You would still look like Pocahontas or Esmerelda by wearing their costume. That's all you need.

Your options are basically to either not change your skin tone; like others have said, it's not like black women wear powder to look lighter, so you don't need to darken you skin. Or you can do it so well that no one knows it's fake, but honestly that's pretty difficult to achieve.

>>8140870
You literally have Cinderella, Alice, Aurora, Wendy, Snow White, Merida, Elsa, Anna, Belle, Ariel, Jane, Rapunzel, so many white disney characters you can cosplay.
Let the dark girls have their very few dark disney characters.
You stick with your dime a dozen mayo ass characters.

>>8141071
>Let the dark girls have their very few dark disney characters.
they don't even cosplay them

also
>wahh you can't cosplay characters you like!!!

>>8141080
Yeah cause you pasty bitches always gotta shit on them lmao what an upset jar of mayo...

>>8141071
>>8141086

You sound white. And mad.

>>8141071
>Let the dark girls have their very few dark disney characters.

How about.... no. You can cosplay as what you want, I'll cosplay as what I want, and the hypothetical dark girls in your scenario can also cosplay as what they want.

>>8141071
I know this is an unpopular opinion but I honestly agree. That, and pale girls look stupid as fuck trying to cosplay darker characters. I've only seen like one or two that actually looked good

>>8140870
Offending someone will most likely happen if you tan up. Unfortunately it will be unavoidable. However if you have the capability to tan, and want to enhance it, remember that you can use a foundation and a colored concealer to tone down the "fake" color of it. There are great charts online about what different color concealers/primers/etc can help with. I wish you luck OP! I will post some links for makeup tricks that could help.

>>8141161

>>8140870
OP, cosplay whatever you fucking want. If you love that character, you go show love for that character the way YOU want to. I have talked to several of my black cosplay friends about how they feel about this and they say they don't give 2 flying fucks about what other people do and they're right. Other people should follow their example. Shit balls, I'm tired of this being an issue.

Although prepare to lose friends over it because not everyone is going to approve, but imo good fuckin' riddance. It's not that big of a deal and they can go be a hyperbitch elsewhere.

>>8141071
>black girls can cosplay whatever
>but white girls cosplaying a character they love means they're stealing them from the darkies
SJWs, not even once

You're going to get shit on either way. What I don't see people mentioning is even if you don't tan or whatever, you are going to get bitched at for whitewashing. Do whatever you feel comfortable in.

>>8141196
The reason why is pretty obvious if you actually read the post...
White girls have so many characters to choose from.
Dark girls have barely anyone.
Even growing up, all you see on TV are white superheroes and princesses.
And about 1 dark character for ever 10.

Anyone who gets offended over it probably wouldn't be anybody with an opinion worth giving about a shit about anyhow.
>"I don't like this!! I'm offended!!"
>"So?"

Seriously. What are people going to do? Beat you up at a con? Act like a twat and publicly berate you? They'll be the ones people will be getting shit for being a cunt. Not the person who darkened their skin.

Unless you're doing blatant blackface, [I'd steer away from a classic Pokemon Jynx cosplay] who gives a shit?
If you're going to character accuracy, sure. Do it.
Fuck tumblr justice and insecurities. Let them cry over the internet. idgaf.

Although darkening your skin and having it look natural and nice is easier said than done, anon.

>>8141201
Don't bother, white people won't get it. All they care about is taking over things that aren't theirs, and stealing things that don't belong to them.
They get upset and cry REVERSE RACISM if you try to educate them otherwise.
esp. on /cgl/.

Anyone who says you are "taking" charecters of color away is retarded af.

Cosplay whoever the fuck you want, but changing your race for a cosplay is unnecessary, stupid and NEVER looks good.

>>8141201
> all you see on American TV
Fixed it for you.

>>8141086
go back to tumblr sandy cunt

>>8141212
I live in Australia

>>8141209
Then don't wear clothes made in western countries, don't eat western food, don't you even dare wear Lolita because it doesn't belong to you
Let's all just live in our hermetically sealed boxes and segregate from the rest of the population because THAT's going to work!
7/10, subtle enough to work but you're gonna need to try harder

>>8141218
Go back to the jungle you came from then if it bothers you so much

>>8141219
I'd love to but your ancestors kind of forced my ancestors to be here and deal with your western bullshit...

>>8141209
> implying I'm white
top kek

>>8141229
lemme guess
ur 1/56th native american

>>8141232
100% South-East Asian

>>8140870
Go with Esmerelda but don't darken yourself with makeup. It always looks like shit and vaguely offensive to the SJWs who want to squint. If you make the effort to tan, you should be able to cosplay her just fine without rustling anyone's jimmies.

>>8141224
My ancestors nearly starved to death and I'm not even a new worlder, try again

>>8141241
>>8141236
>>8141229

>>8140870
I regularly cosplay Jasmine because she is my favorite princess and I'm hella white-- I use the darkest Covergirl shade of foundation, with contouring bronzer all over. Then I use a VERY dark bronzer for actual contouring. It's important to properly contour, otherwise the darker shade just looks unnaturally caked on.

It's dark enough to look like I have a nice, natural darker skin tone, which keeps the SJWs at bay (can't get angry at a white girl for having a fucking tan), but didn't have to damage my skin to get it tan!

Have fun, cosplay how you want, and tell people who shit on your fun to go fuck themselves.

>>8141273
> being this in denial that not every ethnic person agrees with you

'you're taking this character away from poc' makes literally no sense
its not a fucking pizza or a stereo
you can't steal a character

I dont get offended over trivial bullshit like this. I bet all of you arguing are girls. Ask any guy and they wouldnt give a flying shit. Fucking women and their emotions and politically correct bull shit

>>8141283
that's not tanning... you're painting your face black with makeup... that's fucking blackface...

>>8140870
I'm black, and though some of my favorite characters are lighter skinned, I just bite my toungue and cosplay characters that suit me.

I tried going out of my way to cosplay a lighter character, and despite the efforts I put into it, a wigless girl cosplaying the same character had more photos taken of her than I did.


Why cosplay something that doesn't suit you when there are hundreds of things that do?

>>8141224
>your ancestors forced my ancestors

I don't know what race you are. But I'm in the good old land of slavery, and I'll say, I'm so fucking tired of hearing black people say this shit.

WOW SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO

It has literally nothing to do with now. I didn't put your ass on a boat and ship you anywhere. Your own people did that. They sold your ancestors to the people who enslaved them.

However, because of us bad white folk bringing the blacks to America, they're not still in Africa, dying of ebola, living a tribal life in the dirt and literal shit. They have wifi, and smartphones that work almost everywhere, and running water, and toilets, and other first-world luxuries.

You're fucking welcome, for forcing your ancestors to be here, and for forcing them to deal with all this western bullshit.

And for the record I'm fucking German, my family didn't even come to America until the late 1800s/early 1900s so MY ancestors had jack shit to do with any of that, 'white' is as much of an umbrella term as 'colored.'

Oh, I'm sorry, that's right, it's "person OF color."

>>8140870
Body paints for human skin tones typically looks bad at best, blackface imitation at worst.

Tans are better.

>>8141331
No, that's putting on dark makeup. Blackface is theatrically making fun of black ethnic features through makeup.

>>8141334
>hundreds of years ago
black people didn't get the right to vote and weren't considered full on citizens until 1965 anon

>>8141334
also where are you getting your facts about africa?
those sad commercials about african villages?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vks2OrwFe4g

>>8141318
>>>/r9k/
Out of tendies again, Kevin?

>>8141334

> I'm german

that's actually worse in the "blame the new generation for what the last one did" scheme of things.

>>8141350
Then move there instead of whining about it?

Okay...but they're not the voice of all black people/ POC people. Just because your black friends are okay with it, doesn't necessarily mean the rest of us are. The are obviously going to be some of us that don't care, but a lot of us will take offence. I don't understand why white cosplayers can't just rock the costume without changing their skintone, black cosplayers don't do it, it's not rocket science.

>>8141364
because moving to a different country is so easy and cheap? If I could I would, trust me.

>>8141350
>>8141347
>exaggeration

Women didn't get the right to vote and for all intents and purposes weren't full on citizens until the 20s.

Anyone still dwelling on shit that happened before they were even thought of needs to chill the fuck out.

>>8141361
Yeah, but my fam left before Germany went ape. We were 'American' by the time Archdukes and Jews were being slaughtered.

>>8141360
No, this is coming from a vagina.

>>8141366
Because if you don't then you're whitewashing the character apparently

>>8141331
>Not knowing what blackface actually is
>Trying to troll this hard
>Failing this hard

Janitor, where the fuck are you, this thread is a nightmare. I can't even tell where the SJWs end and the trolls begin.

>>8141376
Sure it is bud

>>8141374
>Yeah, but my fam left before Germany went ape

I know I'm grasping at straws here but doesn't that make your family... prussian, or something? Germany when ape with the unification.

>>8141366
I have an honest question for you because I've never been able to wrap my head around this. Let's agree for the sake of argument that any degree of skin darkening with makeup is a nono. If a white girl decides to cosplay a black character but doesn't change her skin tone except for natural tanning, why does this still offend you? She's not blackfacing, she's not "pretending to be black when she can just wash it off" - she's just paying homage to a black character that she likes while still being white, similar to POC people who cosplay white characters without lightening their skintone.

This is a headscratcher for me, especially when the only explanation I ever see is anger over not getting as much attention as the white chicks like >>8141333 (which is kind of surprising since tumblr and FB regularly creme themselves over POC cosplayers)

>>8140886
>John Boehner orange

>>8141395
it doesn't have to make sense because it's ~muh feelings~

>>8141395
It's because of the fact that at the end of the day, she can just wash it off.
She can pretend to be black for a little while, and then call it a day and wash it off.
She doesn't have to live as a black person every single day of her life and deal with the racism and hate crimes that happen with it.

>>8141395
>person in front of you has an ice cream sundae buffet in front of them, all the toppings they could ever want
>you have only chocolate ice cream and are wishing you had as many choices as the other person
>all you will ever get is chocolate ice cream.
>you only get one scoop of chocolate ice cream, while the others have seemingly unlimited amounts of icecream and choices
>after seing the buffet laid in front of them of choices they decide they aren't happy with their choices, and end the day off with a single scoop of plain chocolate ice cream
>you understand that they want to try chocolate ice cream but are utterly baffled as to why they would choose the plain chocolate ice cream
>if you were them you'd just be stuffing yourself like a lardass at the ice cream buffet and wouldn't even think of trying chocolate ice cream if it didn't suit you anyways.

>>8141435
bless u

>>8141433
And 99% of other cosplayers, including Black people, are dressing as Japanese people, who were thrown in internment camps in the USA. But somehow it doesn't matter for them?

I have yet to meet a white girl who passes as a black woman in cosplay. Even if you're trying to be 'muh oppression' about this, they don't even have black lack of privilege because they don't pass.

All of this is centered in you trying to deny rights to people different than you out of some kneejerk possessiveness over characters that aren't yours to begin with. When instead you could be uplifting yourself and growing past it as a person.

I'm latina and there are maybe 5 latina anime characters and I don't give a fuck about white chicks cosplaying them because those fictional characters are not mine. They're not stealing them from me. They're not trying to be latina, they're trying to be Honey Lemon or some shit.

>>8141435
Except you are the only person in this example who is limiting yourself to chocolate icecream. Literally nothing else is limiting you. So example means nothing.

>>8141385
NGL I was never very interested in recent history. I'm more of an ancient history kind of person. I just meant they left before Germany started two world wars. Very late 19th century for the most part. I know that they mostly came from Bavaria, so they were... just barely actually German, at the time?

I am beyond curious about something.

I'm sure most of you have seen Steven Universe. Garnet and Amethyst are not necessarily black characters (they have red and purple skin tones), but in fan art they are perceived as black.

What are your opinions on people who want to cosplay them who aren't black?

Garnet has a stylized afro I suppose, and her and Amethyst's dance styles are "stereotypically black". Thoughts?

>>8141449
I tried vanilla ice cream once and everyone ignored me at the ice cream social.
since I wasn't a "true vanilla fan"

but the same goes for when someone tries chocolate ice cream that isn't a true chocolate fan.
its best to stick to your assigned flavors and everyone will like you more.

tbh whitewashing > blackface in terms the lesser evil. like you like this character and feel an emotional attachment, so cosplay it. know that the costume is enough. its sucky to think about social implications of something you want to do for fun/hobby/just want to do with friends, but like rather recognize that you are going to get called out for (whitewashing or blackfacing whichever you decide), and dont try to defend yourself?

>>8141460
Everyone ignoring you doesn't mean you couldn't eat it. Since when is cosplay about getting the most attention?

>>8141433
She's not "washing it off", did you even read? She's not coloring her skin at all or pretending to be black - she's paying homage to a character while white.

>>8141435
>all you will ever get is chocolate ice cream.
And this is why you will always be butthurt. Plenty of POC cosplayers see how stupid it is to put this artificial limitation on yourself. They cosplay the fuck out of white characters and look great doing it, and the best ones often get huge amounts of attention for being "so brave". They don't make a big fuss out of limiting other people as "payback" for limiting themselves.

>>8141456
i mean i think it's a little harder to place race headcanons on them because their skin colors aren't racially identifiable. garnet maybe being easier because of the afro which isn't only found in afr american cultures but like is pretty iconic of, and her skin color being the closest too. i personally headcanoned amethyst as s.e. asian bc id like some personal repping but like i think as long as you have the time and bravery to put on all that purple paint on your body and seal it, it's fine.

>>8141435
NGL, I'm white and this made sense. When black girls play light skinned characters they are referred to as 'Black Sailor Moon, Black Snow White' etc. it's not fair or nice but it's a thing.

I'm also lazy so far, I've played characters who I look and can easily act the most like that do not require a lace front wig. Princess Kida with self-tanner would be about the most I'd push it. But she's also a Princess that I think a dark-skinned person could ace.

>>8141456
Amethyst, do what you want. The only people who pitch a fit are SJWs on tumblr.

Garnet is trickier because she so clearly IDs as black even though she technically isn't. If you're a white girl and want to cosplay her, it could work as long as your bodypaint is more maroon and you don't do something stupid like buy a stereotypical afro and leave it as-is.

>>8141451
>American education

>>8141435
But why are you limiting yourself to only chocolate ice cream in the first place?? Multiple times anons have said that you "can't" cosplay white characters, but why? The cosplay police aren't going to jump out of the wings and arrest you, so what's the problem? Is it because you don't get enough attention? Don't look the part? There's racist assholes on the internet? Why?

>>8141447
Wow, all of this. What's with this weird opinion that certain characters "belong" to a race? They're flipping anime characters, not statements on being black or pretending to be black. It's fucking cosplay: this is about dressing up like fictional people who DO NOT EXIST IN THE REAL WORLD for fun.

>>8141472
It's really quite funny you say that about buying a fro with Garnet because I've only seen black girls do that (which are also the only ones I've seen cosplay her so far)

I guess the only thing I'm kinda made weary on is that I've got a pretty decent body but I am also a prop maker before anything and accuracy as well as perfection is something I strive for...I don't want to be seen as someone who is only getting attention for being a white girl who cosplayed it, since that is something I saw black girls confess in the confession thread. If I get more attention, I want it to be because I worked damn hard on the whole thing. Not because I'm white and people like "looking at white people more". But I suppose that is something that cannot be helped...

As far as I'm concerned you should try to cosplay to be as accurate to the character as possible (within the realm of reality of course)

If you are white, too bad because black characters/non-whites are off limits. Not because of some tumblr-tier "stop le whitewashing characters" but because its not accurate to the character

same goes for blacks cosplaying white characters and all that shit.

>>8141502
>but only if you post ayy lmao
I can't. I'm sorry, I just can't.
>tfw no gains ever again

>>8141471
It's a shitty thing to say so callously but if you're referring to the hyper popular, trending posts about POC cosplayers, I don't know what you expect. Most of those cosplays like the Sailor Moon with Afro buns or "black Sailor Venus" get hundreds of thousands of shares BECAUSE of the cosplayer's race. The cosplays are decent but nothing jaw dropping: what everyone goes nuts over is the fact that a pretty good POC cosplayer decided to not subscribe to >>8141435 's retarded ice cream theory.

>you morons are shooting yourselves in the foot
>it's so stupidly easy for black cosplayers to get mad popular on social media If you present yourself right and network, go eat your fucking strawberry banana swirl sundaes

can't you also say that you're paying tribute to a fictional character when you choose to cosplay them, so it's like, actually the opposite of blackface, because you're doing it to pay homage to a character you love? And in doing that makeup, you're actively acknowledging that this character /is/ a certain race, and that you still love them for it? Isn't that like... the opposite of racist behavior?

I feel like this is completely American issue. Not in any other country I've seen such ridiculous drama over shit like bronzer or self-tanner. I just hope they kept this shit with themselves, I feel like the idiocy is spreading.

>>8140870
There is no winning:
Don't tan and you are whitewashing.
Tan and you are blackfacing.
Cosplay one of them at all and you are culturally appropiating them, beacuse "you don't know the real suffering of those races and can just strip of the costume, they can't!!1!1".

Jesus Christ not this shit again.

Haven't you guys beat this horse dead in the last thread on this? You're literally going to get the same responses in this thread.

>>8141333
So you're cosplaying for attention basically? You shouldn't give a shit if someone else is getting more photos than you if you enjoy the character your cosplaying. Jfc

>>8140870
Go ahead and do Esmeralda and/or Pocahontas, but for the love of the cosplay gods, please don't use a fake tan or super-dark foundation/makeup. 99% of the time it looks extraordinarily bad (because people pick a poor shade or don't contour and end up with botox face), and the other 1% of the time I'm side-eyeing it hard. Go a shade darker in foundation if it helps your skin match the clothing color palette better, but don't go orange or brown. A natural tan would look nice, but I wouldn't advise it - treat your skin well and don't subject yourself to unnecessary wrinkles or cancer!

There are probably already comments in this thread about the historical/social context of treating darker skin tones like a costume (I kind of skimmed it because the thread title threatens a minefield). Accept your whiteness, accept that you'll get negative comments (especially if you choose to wear Pocahontas, because of the genocidal consequences of white people coming to the Americas). It'd probably be good to mentally prepare yourself for cosplaying the character -- come up with the reasons why you love her so much, an understanding of the historical racism that she faces in her story (Esmeralda as a Romani gypsy, Pocahontas as a native), and be prepared to deal calmly with possible vitriol from people who disagree with the implication of a white girl wearing a non-white costume. (I don't think the last would be too likely; I would like to believe that people tend to avoid public confrontation)

It's good that you're already self-aware of the issues in cosplaying a dark-skinned character as a light-skinned person. I appreciate that.

>muh opinion cred:
>ethnic Asian, nationality American
>yes, I post about social justice stuff, attend rallies, etc
>sure, I'm a SJW and a cosplayer

>>8141719
I just prefer accuracy.
I cosplay some characters that don't suit me for fun, but for accuracy, I prefer looking like the character.

>>8141726
That's fine, but you really shouldn't not cosplay something because someone else gets more attention. Cosplaying is about dressing up as a character you like, it shouldn't stop anyone from cosplaying any character.
As like as they aren't doing actual blackface with shoe polish and giant red lips and mocking black people it should be fine.
If it still bothers you, you can at least think what most people are, "Wow they look like shit" just due to the fact most people can't use make-up for shit.

I don't get this whole "stealing characters". It's not like after they cosplay the character it makes it off limits to anyone else from cosplaying it.

>>8141201
>>8141071

Who gives a shit. Black people cosplay white as fuck anime characters and that's fine, because the cool thing about cosplay is dressing as the characters you like, body shape and skin tone be damned.

The SJWs whining and pouting about white people cosplaying things they like but giving the a-ok when it's a black person doing it is shallow and hypocrite as fuck. You're the ones making a race issue.

OP, cosplay whoever you like, tumblrinas will roast you anyway, and you shouldn't care a damn bit.

>>8141722
>SJWs need to post up their ethnicity to have their opinions validated while claiming they rally against discrimination

You people sure are a sad funny bunch.

>>8141744
>You people sure are a sad funny bunch.
Oh, we totally are. I figured OP might be concerned specifically about reactions/input from non-white people, so I threw clarifying details in at the end.

This thread is so full of tumblr cancer, it's always the same fucking discussion

>>8140870
this is the lamest "black face" troll i have ever seen

females are fucking sad

>>8141331
>Jasmine
>black

I really hope you're a troll

>>8141490
>someone who is only getting attention for being a white girl who cosplayed it

I don't think you'll have this problem. The only popular Garnet cosplays I've seen where both by Poc cosplayers who really fit the part. If you've got the right build for it, go for it.

>>8141597
Yeah, the other day there was someone in my country's com asking for tips on how to look more tan for a cosplay, and nobody threw a shitfit. I sure love being European sometimes.

At this point I'm considering all "I want to cosplay x character can I darken my skin with makeup" threads as bait. You'll look like a shit either way, and can everyone stop pretending like racism and blackface history only exist in America. Trust America wasn't the only ones doing this stuff.

>>8140870
OK SO I'M A TROLLKIN AND ALL THIS PEOPLE PAINTING THEIR FACES GREY TO COSPLAY HOMESTUCK IS TRIGGERING ME PLS STOP.

OP, do as you like. If you love that characters try and cosplay them, because Tumblrettes will find a way to attack you anyways. As they attacked the "blackface Link" when the dude was, actually, black; and the "yukata weaboo girl" when she was actually haffu.

Esmerelda is a gypsy and all the gypsies i know (i'm living in middle europe and there are a lot of them) have more or less the same skin like everyone else. If the go sunbathing the get tan like every fucking person. Hell i even no a gypsy girl which uses fake tan all the year. So for esmeralda it's not a "racial" thing but an aesthetic thing.

>>8141816
Ignore all the fucking writting mistakes, i hate posting from a tablet

>>8141815
You mean dark/water temple mirror link?

>>8141821
Yes.
>Captcha: Laughs
Even the captcha thinks this is absurd.

>>8141816
Gypsy can mean knacker or Roma. If the gypsies you know look like everyone else then they're knackers. Roma look vaguely Indian and are dark skinned, and Esmeralda is one of those. I want yanks to stop talking about things they don't know anything about.

>>8141825
Pic related is a knacker

>>8141825
Pic related is the other one

>>8140906
>Boo, people can't be special snowflake like I am because of my color

>>8141751
I'm not even sure why tumblr likes this board so much.
I feel like you see the true tumblr faces in the drawthread when random people post pictures and who have obviously never spend more then 2 minutes on cgl

Maybe black people just shouldn't cosplay at all? Judging from this thread the rest of us would be better off.

>>8141911
Maybe white people just shouldn't cosplay at all? Judging from this thread, the rest of us would be better off.

> while not in this case, most of the characters being cosplayed are Asian anyway so

>>8141963
Asian only in name, not in feature.

>>8141963
> taking the bait

fucking hell anon

My friend's favorite Disney princess is Tiana and she is very white. Sadly i dont think should could ever cosplay her, even if she wanted to because all of thus bullshit. And she wouldnt darken her skin or anything, just be the character she loves.

It is so hypocritical that people who lighten their skins for cosplays (like white people for anime characters) start bitching about this when if you go the other way that it is horrible. Example, i am olive skinned and look horrible in any wig lighter than brown. Bought a blonde wig, need to lighten skin in pinker tones to wear = ok. But if i wanted to wear korra and wear make up a couple shades darker im evil and black face. Pretty much you cant win.

>>8141816
Esmeralda isn't even a real gypsy in the original novel, she's a French girl who was kidnapped by gypsies as a child (Quasimodo, on the other hand, is one)

>>8142038
This is technically true but she's still raised in gypsy culture so like >>8141816 said she'd probably still tan the fuck out of her skin. (Just like every pasty white cosplayer could do)

>>8141827
No, this is a Knacker.

>>8141888

I'm sooooo shy but I'd looooove a drawing tehe! Sorry for my coord - I'm actually just trying it on! (*^▽^*) (✿◠‿◠)

>>8142184
no, that's a sausage link
ya thilly goothe

>>8141597
A few white as hell girls chuck bitch fits in Australia where we really never used to or should have this issue?

Most Aussies tan so I don't see why girls should get butthurt when someone tans for Pochahontas or something because the person can naturally tan the colour if they wanted to? I think that's acceptable tbh.

>>8141815
So then, if an ita white chick shows up in wa or qi lolita coordinate, we should just throw her to Tumblr? I think I'm getting the hang of this.

>>8142038
shhh this is a fact free thread

>>8142207
seriously I avoid them just because of that. I'm convinced the only reason those come to cgl or 4chan as a whole is because "teehee free drawings"

>>8141469
so she's never going to wash it off?
you're seriously stupid if you don't think at the end of the day she's just going to wash it off cause it was a costume.

I honestly hope anyone who tans their skin for cosplay gets skin cancer and dies miserably. Serves them right for making skin colour a cute accessory or costume.

>>8142600
> hoping anyone gets cancer ever

good to know people fighting for this 'cause' are actually despicable people

>>8141086
>Only insult niggers can throw out is mayo

But yeah, totally not the inferior race

>>8142600
>ablooobloo somebody upset me i'm a big baby and they deserve to die

Go back to tumblr retard

>>8142691
good to know people fighting for this 'cause' are actually despicable people

>this thread
ayy lmao

who gives a fuck, just cosplay it.
People are so fucking sensitive about something as harmless as cosplaying different races in GOOD TASTE/RESPECT?
Hope you get ass-blasted every time you see a white person cosplaying their favorite character that happens to not be white, SJW's.

>>8142702
>not being able to see a troll
>2069

>>8141224
You realize there are European countries that did not invade/colonize and participate in slavery...right?
Not only that, but not every white American has a lineage to a slave owner, nor even has ancestry to those countries that participated in the act.

>You're literally grouping all white countries/people together like an uneducated idiot.

>>8142600
I know this is bait but I know people who think like this. My skin tans very easily but goes very pale by the middle of winter so, in summer, I plan my tanned characters and winter my pale ones. Some SJW went off her nut at me for 'brownfacing' and said my tan looked so fake she thought I'd fallen over in shit and tried to wipe it off. Apparently someone who cannot help tanning unless she actively avoids the sun all summer is racist for something her skin does naturally. Thanks social justice.

I don't give a fuck if negros or natives cosplay obvious white skin characters and neither should they give a fuck if I as a white person want to cosplay Mulan.

Y'all are retarded.

>>8140878

>You can't play Perrin Aybara, you're blond
>Just go pick some blond guy from the setting
>Oh wait.

>>8140901

You must be pretty new if you don't think people will raise a shitstorm over "whitewashing" a character by not having the appropriate skincolour.

>>8142589

And try to change people's minds on an anonymous fucking board with their shitty chocolate ice cream and poisoned m&m analogies.

People are going to speak their minds and people are going to have shitty opinions, deal with it. Not everyone will buy into your misunderstood sociology 101 mindset. You can try, but it sure as hell won't be effective in a place that automatically turns into a shitstorm or circlejerk nearly immediately (or in this case, a bizarre combination of both).

>>8141435

1. You can choose any icecream you want.

2. There is enough chocolate icecream for everyone, so it's not like your fat ass can't have any when someone else has some.

3. If some white girl gets morepictures taken of her when eating icecream, maybe she's just plain prettier than you.

>>8141456

Assuming these two characters are black is quite racist in itself.

>>8144232
You're an idiot

Why the fuck has this thread not been deleted yet

>>8144266

So tell me why they're perceived as black, anon.

And when you've done so, you can try and explain why it isn't racist to straight up assume all those caricatural traits are black.

Seriously, it's all going to boil down to "that's so black"

>>8144281
>afro
>dark skin
>their way of speaking
how is any of that racist

>>8144298

>exaggerating stereotypes well into the realm of caricatures
>how is any of that racist

>>8144306
>stereotypes
so are you saying black women don't have big curly hair naturally, don't have dark skin and don't talk the way they do?

>>8144281
Maybe because they could be? Its hard to explain what exactly makes a race, anon. I just feel like they are; I see similar thinking from them as I do from myself.
The fact that you can't even entertain the idea that they could be black is kinda...Even if you never heard them speak or act (as that doesn't define what race someone would be) why couldn't they be?
What about them makes you feel that way?

I won't withdraw the fact that your first statement was asinine though - how is imagining that two interesting characters might possibly be a different race racist - but I'm curious about your reasoning.

>>8141456
Weird, I always thought of Amethyst as hispanic. And purple.

>>8144317
Are you saying that white people aren't all pale as shit, trailer park trash, and can't dance?

Or are you still too retarded to see how stupid that response was?

>149 replies and 14 images

>>8144530
I could see that too

>>8140870
Well in all honesty, black people or people with tanner skin don't color themselves white/bleach their skin for a character. They just cosplay it. Just make sure your outfit/wig is great and you're good.

Idk why people are coloring themselves for different races, it looks weird.