Artorius said:
Goddamn!?!
and here i thought Escapists were free of sjw's and their inclusivity agenda >.>
you guys do realize that if you like to cosplay and like a character you body doesn't even matter?
i mean did this guy http://imgur.com/a/6kE1F
complain about it not having a burly bearded character? no... he GODDAMn COSPLAYED the character he wanted >.>
Bat Vader said:
Thank You. Sure there are some people out there that will complain about cosplayers not having the right body for the cosplay but I just tell them to fuck off. A few years ago I cosplayed as the Undertaker from Black Butler and I have a beard which I refuse to shave for any reason. Some people made remarks about how I was cosplaying wrong but I just told them to fuck off.
008Zulu said:
I don't like the idea of restricting plus sized people to plus sized characters. I know that probably isn't the implication, but it is how it reads, to me.
I have seen a few plus sized do cosplays of more idealised body-characters, and they have done fantastic work on them. I have seen X-Men's Storm portrayed by white girls, and I have seen black Wonder Woman's.
Cosplayers pick someone they like, and dress up as them. If the ones I have seen don't let race or weight decide their options, then no one should.
Here's the thing, I agree that cosplayers shouldn't be limited by their body type, but so does Liana in this article.
"I'm not a "cosplay for your body type" purist. If you like a costume, you should wear that costume. Period."
This is near the start of the article and I'm not sure how it comes off as "DON'T YOU LITTLE/BIG TURDS DARE PUT ON A COSTUME THAT ISN'T ORIGINALLY MADE FOR YOU'RE BODY TYPE!"
Also the rest of the article is talking about the difficulties of cosplaying out of body type (especially for someone with a larger bust size).
Some examples:
"That bikini ties around the neck, and on a woman with boobs above a certain size, that leads to welts on the skin over your spine because there's just too much weight. It's not pretty, and it hurts in a unique and special way."
"Similar issues plague the J-Lo-worthy plunging neckline of Vivienne's best-known dress. Tape is designed to secure, not defy gravity. There's nowhere to put an ample busom in that outfit, especially the way her boobs are spaced apart like the Grand Canyon."
"Leliana's Inquisition costume has a different issue for curvy ladies: she's wearing so many layers of draping chainmail and tunics that it just drops straight down and kills your killer curves. While her costume doesn't provide the same outright technical problems as Morrigan or Vivienne, you're not going to capture her spymaster air of sleekness and mystery if you look like you're wearing a chailmail mumu."
LostGryphon said:
Ya know what? I don't really care any more.
It's Bioware. I'm honestly amazed they haven't done this yet...but with that said, I-
Does Liana consider herself to be plus-sized? Or am I just misunderstanding here?
Johnny Novgorod said:
I think Liana and by extension posters keep using a certain word, and I don't think it means what they think it means.
But then that's what happens when you boil down language to imprecise Orwellian nonsense such as "plus-size". The speaker's own mental print is lost. A comparison all the more appropriate because Newspeak parlance asks of speakers to affix words such as "plus" for emphasis. We can't say "buxom" or "fat" anymore, god forbid you offend anybody, we have to be ambiguous and go for "plus-sized".
THIS is Liana. She's not "plus-sized", she's
buxom.
Try searching for images under "plus-sized" and "buxom" and tell me what results match Liana's figure the most.
She also has the same body type as 99% of every female videogame character ever conceived.
I don't know what she's getting on about.
Why does this matter?
One of the examples of plus sided women Liana gave was Isabela. She isn't exactly "fat" either but she'd probably have a hard time putting on Morrigan's, Vivienne's, or Merril's outfits due to her proportions.
Also, what does this matter if they end up with the same problems mentioned in the article when cosplaying out of body type?
Problems the article talks about such as the ones put in above your posts.
Also, here is the video of hers she mentioned in the article.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/agents-of-cosplay/57436-Bioware-Cosplay?utm_source=latest&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all
The part about the problems she had cosplaying Morrigan is at 3:40 if you wish to skip the cool costumes.