Tales from the Cosplay Trenches | Art + Storytime

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  @Psalm139.1-MyJesus · 3 years ago

  Wardrobe malfunctions usually go unnoticed by other people unless you bring it up. It's very likely no one noticed the ripped shorts.

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  @bea.art2023 · 3 years ago

  Ah yes, cosplay. I don’t know the amount of times I burned myself with a hot glue gun working on a fursuit. It hurt really bad. I got a blister one time :’)

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  @amandajones8841 · 2 years ago

  Your shorts malfunction story makes me want to make the cloak on my upcoming mandalorian cosplay easily detachable, so I can be a helpful gallant lesbian in case of emergencies

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  @sophialorinetravis · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWGNGGdEUc8&amp;t=1510">25:10</a> Then I realized three fundamental truths at the exact same time

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  @TheCalamityArtist · 3 years ago

  I just started cosplay last year, I was cosplaying Marcy (amphibia) This year, I’m making a Luz (Owl House) cosplay for a con this October!

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  @DigitallyRemoved · 3 years ago

  Now, I&apos;m not a cosplayer, but I can&apos;t help but wonder if it&apos;s common to have that many fire incidents while making clothes from characters who don&apos;t exist

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  @WishfulThinkingArt · 2 years ago

  I’m a very casual cosplayer. I’ve only gone as Disney princesses and the Evil Queen from Disney’s “Snow White”: outfits that require knowing how to sew and not necessarily how to craft. My biggest “crafting” accomplishment was figuring out how to make my huge Evil Queen collar stand up. But I LOVE seeing other people’s creations and telling them what a great job they’ve done and seeing them just embody their character so well! That’s why cons are one of my favorite times of year! 😊😊

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  @wanderingdreams · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s so funny to hear people say &quot;but I didn&apos;t know how to sew....&quot; for their first cosplay stories since I remember that just like, not even coming up in my mind for my first cosplays lol. Granted I had taken some sewing classes 5 years earlier and my mom knew how to sew/let me use her sewing machine, but &quot;of course I&apos;ll sew this, that&apos;s what a pattern is for, of course I&apos;ll buy a wig, my hair isn&apos;t pink&quot; was definitely my line of thinking as a 17 year old back in 2008 lol.

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  @clover_paintfull · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWGNGGdEUc8&amp;t=1840">30:40</a> what about... the CastoffCon?👀<br><br>or maybe just cosplays of its charachters? 👀

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  @OmegaMagus5947 · 3 years ago

  Such funny stories! Glad nobody got seriously injured from any of the fires. <br><br>I&apos;ve only cosplayed one time but it was very special to me. A group of friends and I all dressed up as Team Rocket grunts! We brought plushies in little pokeballs and challenged every other pokemon cosplayer we saw! Cosplaying is so much more fun when you do it with friends, i Couldn&apos;t have done it without them! :D

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  @Hastur-Vtuber · 1 year ago

  One of my first homemade cosplay was a human version of Funtime Freddy. I remember it was falling apart half the time and made of random fabric that I could find and I didn’t think it looked good at all. But I still wore it to a con. I was about to leave the con when I heard a little girl yell my character, she had the biggest smile on her face. It in turn made my confidence go up. I no longer have the outfit I wore on that day but I still have the Bon Bon puppet. It sits on my work desk so every time I feel as if my cosplay isn’t good enough, I can look at it and think of that little girl who was so happy to see her favorite character.

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  @applejustice · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWGNGGdEUc8&amp;t=1072">17:52</a> THIS COSPLAY IS SOO COOL AUUUGH

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