Got cosplay?
Why do I cosplay?
Haha. Why not?
I don't think there's a need to justify what I do.
If you have anything against cosplay, you probably just never have seen good cosplayers, are stuck in an overly WASP mindframe (that's White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants for you people unfamiliar with American/European historical terminology, and no, it's not a compliment, it means you're a stuck up ass with no sense of international culture and you probably don't know what globalization is or that it has been going on for quite a few decades now), and most of the time, it's because you don't even know what cosplay IS. And if that's the case, I'd be against cosplaying too, because people who think cosplay is stupid or don't know what cosplay is are the ones who make make really really bad cosplayers.
Cosplay is an activity, much like tennis, paintballing, airsofting, collecting stamps, making scrapbooks......the list could go on and on. It's not dress up. It's not halloween. It's love of a character or series, materialised in your own hands and worn as a second skin, it's a result of your hardwork and labor, of both your mind and heart, your sweat and tears. You know those Lord of the Rings and Matrix people at the movie premieres? The Harry Potters, the people wearing slytherin and griffyndor scarves? The Jack Sparrows on Hollywood boulevard? Well then, why not characters from Japanese culture? From manga? From anime? It's pretty much the same. If you can understand and be accepting of the former then you can understand the latter.
So why don't I ever talk about it?
Simple enough --- because you're not into it. The rationale behind this reason couldn't be more simple. Just as I'm not going to listen to you rant on and on about why you think goat cheese is the best thing on earth, I'm not going to force you to listen to all my cosplay adventures unless I thought you were actually going to be interested. (Please note, however, that I am in no way attempting to draw a parallel between cosplay and goat cheese.)
Like how a lot of guys like talking about baseball....or cars.....or burritos......I'll zone out because I have no interest in that. If I don't think you'd be interested in stuff like cosplay, why should I bring it up in our conversation unless I want you to fall asleep?
Sometimes, maybe, I'm afraid that you won't understand. People have called this childish, stupid, retarded, a waste of time and money....but it is their unaccepting and stubborn mindframe that's childish and retarded....and then they go smoke pot and say it's not a waste of time and money. GOOD ARGUMENT THERE, BITCHES!!
...It all really boils down to this.
My party buddies are not my cosplay buddies, and my cosplay buddies aren't my party buddies.
I didn't intentionally make it so; it just turns out that way. And I would love to have a friend where I share 99% of everything in common, someone that I can do all of my activities together with, cooking, baking, napping, drawing, socializing, antagonizing, clubbing, cosplaying, painting, chatting, chilling, running to the beach at midnght just because we feel like it, skipping class for an entire week, making plans then breaking them, planning a careful trip or going out spur-of-the-moment........whatever-ing.....
but to tell the truth...if there was someone just like me...I'd probably get bored of them really fast.
I love what I have right now, which is having so many different and diverse friends. Everybody is a lil bit different....everybody has something different to offer....everyone has their own special trait that makes them interesting.......I may be like water....or like a leaf in the wind....going wherever the wind takes me....but you can't force people together, and neither will I.
Sometimes it's a little tough to be spread too thinly when you have friends in groups that are too different to mesh together....when two or three different circles each have their own plans....and you don't know how you can choose between them and you can't choose them all.....that's when it's tough.....but when you're just tired of everything.......of always being around the same people and doing the same things.....it's not that you don't like those people or you don't enjoy doing those things....but sometimes people get tired....tired of routine....tired of predictability......
but because these two polar opposites are so different.....because there's virtually no overlap......no common ground............when that happens......you can always escape to a different atmosphere.....experience something totally different.....it's like going to the opposite end of the world.... and that's exactly that reason that makes it so exhilarating.
I'm a fob...I'm an ABC...I'm a Japanese wannabe.....you may see me all glittery and glammed up in a club one day.....and then dressed up as my favorite manga character at an anime convention the next day....or gothed up and going to a J-rock concert the next........none of this really should be surprising....I'm just being me~ and being me encompasses all these things...I'm comfortable in my own skin.....so you don't have to be too surprised if you find out there's a side of me that you've never seen before.....
forget what you see.......too many people tell me my personality differs too drastically from my appearance...you will never be able to judge me based on what I seem to be...or on first impressions.....
I'm 50% nerd.......20% party animal..... 25% recluse....5% rebel... 100% me...and 200% more than what you think you know...
in the end, no matter what you call it,
an onion, lasagna, multi-layered, schitzo, MPD, it doesn't matter which side you see more, or if you've never seen any other sides,
in the end, I'm just me....I'm not pretending to be anything I'm not, or denying anything that I am. I'm just me, and just maybe......if you're special enough, or lucky enough, to see all sides of me, all the worlds I hop, all the skin I shed and put on,
you might realize....that I'm multi-faceted,
and like a gem...I shine. :)
In other news, I went to Anime LA and cosplayed Nanao from Bleach last last saturday, and this saturday I'm going to an AkPsi frat party with my twinnie, Peggy. ;D Oh oh and next next friday is the dir en gray concert!!!!
Haha. Why not?
I don't think there's a need to justify what I do.
If you have anything against cosplay, you probably just never have seen good cosplayers, are stuck in an overly WASP mindframe (that's White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants for you people unfamiliar with American/European historical terminology, and no, it's not a compliment, it means you're a stuck up ass with no sense of international culture and you probably don't know what globalization is or that it has been going on for quite a few decades now), and most of the time, it's because you don't even know what cosplay IS. And if that's the case, I'd be against cosplaying too, because people who think cosplay is stupid or don't know what cosplay is are the ones who make make really really bad cosplayers.
Cosplay is an activity, much like tennis, paintballing, airsofting, collecting stamps, making scrapbooks......the list could go on and on. It's not dress up. It's not halloween. It's love of a character or series, materialised in your own hands and worn as a second skin, it's a result of your hardwork and labor, of both your mind and heart, your sweat and tears. You know those Lord of the Rings and Matrix people at the movie premieres? The Harry Potters, the people wearing slytherin and griffyndor scarves? The Jack Sparrows on Hollywood boulevard? Well then, why not characters from Japanese culture? From manga? From anime? It's pretty much the same. If you can understand and be accepting of the former then you can understand the latter.
So why don't I ever talk about it?
Simple enough --- because you're not into it. The rationale behind this reason couldn't be more simple. Just as I'm not going to listen to you rant on and on about why you think goat cheese is the best thing on earth, I'm not going to force you to listen to all my cosplay adventures unless I thought you were actually going to be interested. (Please note, however, that I am in no way attempting to draw a parallel between cosplay and goat cheese.)
Like how a lot of guys like talking about baseball....or cars.....or burritos......I'll zone out because I have no interest in that. If I don't think you'd be interested in stuff like cosplay, why should I bring it up in our conversation unless I want you to fall asleep?
Sometimes, maybe, I'm afraid that you won't understand. People have called this childish, stupid, retarded, a waste of time and money....but it is their unaccepting and stubborn mindframe that's childish and retarded....and then they go smoke pot and say it's not a waste of time and money. GOOD ARGUMENT THERE, BITCHES!!
...It all really boils down to this.
My party buddies are not my cosplay buddies, and my cosplay buddies aren't my party buddies.
I didn't intentionally make it so; it just turns out that way. And I would love to have a friend where I share 99% of everything in common, someone that I can do all of my activities together with, cooking, baking, napping, drawing, socializing, antagonizing, clubbing, cosplaying, painting, chatting, chilling, running to the beach at midnght just because we feel like it, skipping class for an entire week, making plans then breaking them, planning a careful trip or going out spur-of-the-moment........whatever-ing.....
but to tell the truth...if there was someone just like me...I'd probably get bored of them really fast.
I love what I have right now, which is having so many different and diverse friends. Everybody is a lil bit different....everybody has something different to offer....everyone has their own special trait that makes them interesting.......I may be like water....or like a leaf in the wind....going wherever the wind takes me....but you can't force people together, and neither will I.
Sometimes it's a little tough to be spread too thinly when you have friends in groups that are too different to mesh together....when two or three different circles each have their own plans....and you don't know how you can choose between them and you can't choose them all.....that's when it's tough.....but when you're just tired of everything.......of always being around the same people and doing the same things.....it's not that you don't like those people or you don't enjoy doing those things....but sometimes people get tired....tired of routine....tired of predictability......
but because these two polar opposites are so different.....because there's virtually no overlap......no common ground............when that happens......you can always escape to a different atmosphere.....experience something totally different.....it's like going to the opposite end of the world.... and that's exactly that reason that makes it so exhilarating.
I'm a fob...I'm an ABC...I'm a Japanese wannabe.....you may see me all glittery and glammed up in a club one day.....and then dressed up as my favorite manga character at an anime convention the next day....or gothed up and going to a J-rock concert the next........none of this really should be surprising....I'm just being me~ and being me encompasses all these things...I'm comfortable in my own skin.....so you don't have to be too surprised if you find out there's a side of me that you've never seen before.....
forget what you see.......too many people tell me my personality differs too drastically from my appearance...you will never be able to judge me based on what I seem to be...or on first impressions.....
I'm 50% nerd.......20% party animal..... 25% recluse....5% rebel... 100% me...and 200% more than what you think you know...
in the end, no matter what you call it,
an onion, lasagna, multi-layered, schitzo, MPD, it doesn't matter which side you see more, or if you've never seen any other sides,
in the end, I'm just me....I'm not pretending to be anything I'm not, or denying anything that I am. I'm just me, and just maybe......if you're special enough, or lucky enough, to see all sides of me, all the worlds I hop, all the skin I shed and put on,
you might realize....that I'm multi-faceted,
and like a gem...I shine. :)
In other news, I went to Anime LA and cosplayed Nanao from Bleach last last saturday, and this saturday I'm going to an AkPsi frat party with my twinnie, Peggy. ;D Oh oh and next next friday is the dir en gray concert!!!!