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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Oh my god if you’re going to judge someone’s cosplay you better learn your fucking shit because this is Duela Dent you goddamn assholes.
AHAHAHA
Perpetually laughing over the fact that “real gamer/comic book nerd” males keep insulting women for cosplaying things they’ve never even heard of
who’s the “fake geek” now, fuckers?
(a) Gorgeous work no matter who she’s playing.
(b) PWNED.
I think the one who made “trying too hard” into an art form was the one who slapped the label on the picture.
Girls can be geeky enough to know about shit that guys don’t know. IT HAPPENS. Wanna see it happen? Come to my comic book store on a Wednesday and watch Andy needle me about the X-Men. I will CHAPTER AND VERSE on mutants most people sensibly forgot fifteen years ago.
True story: when the big explosion of fake-geek-girl crap started to bloom where I could see it, and women started talking about being constantly challenged, for a bit I was pondering how that’d never happened to me.
Then I realized that actually, it had, quite a lot, when boys found out I’m a gigantic Tolkien nerd. I just hadn’t noticed because, um, in true autistic-me fashion, I’d been too busy correcting some of the misapprehensions behind their statements/questions, and then I was too busy educating them and demanding their opinions on some of the lesser-known Noldorim.
Which also: if I ever randomly drown you in Tolkien-babble that seems super superior/snotty, I’m not trying to be a jerk, I promise. It’s a reflex. I’m working on it. >.>
(Source: cosplay-paradise)
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT
Best Amaterasu Cosplay!
I stumbled upon these fantastic Jinora cosplay photos in an unrelated image search. The one with the book is especially charming. I *think* these two aren’t the same model, but I know they are both from Totally Toasty on Flickr where you’ll find an overwhelming number of amazing cosplay photo sets: http://www.flickr.com/photos/totallytoasty/sets/?&page=1
EDIT: OK, sounds like this is indeed Teeny modeling in both photos. I wasn’t sure because there were different names listed in the Jinora/Asami shoot, and because my brain is mush from making animation all the time.
Characters: Sailor Pluto, Aluminum Siren, Black Lady
Series: Sailor Moon
ASIAN AMERICAN DISNEY PRINCESSES:
by Kim (annakimskywalker) & Donnie (donniekompany)
11x17 inkjet prints
Most of us grew up watching Disney classics featuring the beautiful Disney princesses we all know and love. Disney was and continues to be a staple in the lives of many children. However, despite how much we admired these princesses, it was difficult relating to them because they didn’t physically represent us. Take a look at any Disney princess product and you will see the preference towards the White princesses, white washing of princesses of color (skin color, facial features, etc), and the shoving of these princesses to the side.In the 76 years since Snow White was released, there have been 11 (soon to be 12) Disney princesses, only 4 of whom are women of color (Jasmine in 1992, Pocahontas in 1995, Mulan in 1998, and Tiana in 2009). It took 55 yearsto portray a woman of color as a princess, and these portrayals also came with problematic and inaccurate representations of their respective cultures & histories (not to mention Tiana was a frog more than half of the movie).
How are young APIA children supposed to believe in “happy endings” when we don’t see them happening to people who look like us?
All of the above was the inspiration behind this photoshoot. We believe physically showing some of our favorite princesses as Asian American women will allow us to build more of a connection with the princesses who weren’t women of color, but who still possess qualities we admire and/or see in ourselves.
**These are just 5 of the 15 we recently showed at our university’s Asian American Studies Expo.
Andrea as Sleeping Beauty
Henna as Belle
Cat as Cinderella
Young as Snow White
Jenny as TinkerbellPhotography/lighting: Kim
Hair/makeup/wardrobe: Donnie
Editing: Kim & Rachelle
Howl’s Moving Castle: animation → reality
credits for cosplayers:
↳ howl & sophie | [x]
↳ howl’s castle | [x]
↳ howl & calcifer | [x]
↳ sophie & calcifer | [x]please do not remove cosplayer sources
Here is just a sample of some of my recent photo project, CONsent, which you can read about here.
Please read and spread the word around. I got to work with some great cosplayers, photographers and fans and I really hope to continue this project if it gains enough support.
Thank you for looking!After I went to a con in that genderswapped Comedian costume my friend put together, I saw photos of it pop up on a couple sites and facebook pages and stuff. Honestly, the comments from strangers talking about what they wanted to “do” to me probably put me off even more than the guys making comments that were some variation of “this gross bitch looks like a man”.
