rants and future plans

So as I've been planning this cosplay list I've thought a lot about picking characters. I tend to pick characters I identify with in some way, or characters that resemble me not only physically but mentally as well. I think its fine to pick a character in any way really, the thing I can’t understand is this endless competition that seems to be going on in Finland of who makes the costume first and who makes the best version. This may sound silly, but I know for a fact there has been people who have gotten mad over someone else announcing that they are going to cosplay the same character… What the hell is that about? Whatever happened to twenty Narutos running around one convention? No one complained then (well actually they did, but not because someone was cosplaying the same character as they…).

So I do kind of get where people are coming from when they hope they are the only one cosplaying a certain character. For example last year, I saw an awesome Gokudera and it made me feel really inferior. But was I mad at the other cosplayer? NO! Why should I have been? Should she have called every person in the cosplay community and announced she was going to make an awesome version of Gokudera "so if you want to feel good about yourself stay at home?". I think not.

Which brings me to the role of the mighty internet. It seems that its expected from every cosplayer that writes a blog or is active in the internet community in any way, to announce what character he or she is about to cosplay. And if she doesn’t, and shows up as the same character as another blogger, all hell breaks loose. This sounds silly I know, but believe me I know for a fact it has happened… If not literally that way, in a very similar scenario.

But what about the people not online? Are they also supposed to read your mind and pick a different character? And since some (normal) people don’t give a shit about what character someone else cosplays, how are we to know which ones are gonna rage about us in their blogs or on a forum?

I must say I kind of get the competition as well. If you take cosplay very seriously, you are bound to compete with others at some point, after all, who doesn’t want to be the best? But being mad at someone for liking the same character? And just happening to pick it for the same convention? Well I think this is where we se how immature some people are…

I study advertising which is a higly competitive field. People are constantly fighting over who has the best ideas and who gets to do them first. When we discussed this in our class one of my classmates said that the best way to secure an idea is to talk about it! That way people have heard you talking about it and cant say you are imitating or stealing ideas... So heres me talking about my future cosplays to avoid drama! 

Cosplay Gaala (if I can make it)

Digging Luneth (Final Fantasy III) out of the closet:

costume and picture from last summer :)

Desucon Frostbite: (February 2013)

 

Serah Farron- FFXIII-2  (part of a group)

  

Pixie- X-men (part of a group)

No conventions decided yet but in my plans:

Lilith- Borderlands

Princess Shirahoshi- One Piece

Night Elf Druid (T9)- WoW

Luna Lovegood- Harry Potter

Trucy- Apollo Justice

One costume I'm still keeping a secret though :D

tataaa!