>>10910222
I know this is the "cosplay meta" but some photos get so shopped and filtered they might aswell be CGI..
Like, it pisses me off. There's a cosplayer I follow who's super handsome in-person and does really good makeup but you could NEVER tell from the photos because he always filters/smooths/liquifies the hell out of his pics

>>10910272
It really sucks that nowadays even if you're naturally good looking(specifically in the context of cosplayers), many people will just assume you have great makeup/photoshop skills instead.

>>10910369
What panels did you go to? I ran the horror panel.

>>10910460
Just chilled in the bar for the most, or chilled with people I hadn't seen in a while.

The atmosphere was definitely better than it was last year.

Nearly didn't go back after last year. Already swort it was my last one but things looked brighter....

>>10910478
What happened last year?

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>>10910492
Nothing at all.

There was just a massive black cloud over the weekend and nothing was fun.

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>>10910517
the whores are behaving overall, not whoredom overload on display, the car bombs worked
light up the fillies and pass the stout

>>10910213
nekopara does have an all ages version. this is a bit different, more like when people used to unironically cosplay black bible.
>>10910214
that's not kek lel kek my guy.

>>10910221
>that's not kek lel kek my guy
I’m guessing what they meant by that is that they don’t see risqué cosplays at cons anymore (which hasn’t been my experience personally, but that’s pretty dependent upon what cons you’re going to)

>>10910150
The nipples pastries are definitely too extreme to wear at a con. Maybe some cosplayers will use fake boobs or just wear a bra/bikini top with stars. But even then I wonder how many are willing to cosplay her since her design isn't that appealing.

>>10830427
Over a year after this anon's prediction and I'm seeing a shitton of Vash cosplays
Most of them are chicks too

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>>10910264
I've seen Sugar cosplayers before, confident people would wear the pasties. But those pants are a non-starter, they'd be so uncomfortable.

>>10910641
Yeah there’s people hanging around the fountain pretty much round the clock during the con. Usually the con coincides with some local high school’s prom too, so one of the nights you’ll see an interesting mix around the fountain of cosplayers/weebs and teens dressed up for prom

wish this thing were 21+

whats the flavor of the month? What will i see a lot of this year?

>>10910763
Elf with stoic autism or elf with sperg autism

New thread >>10910795

Basically what >>10910459 said. But I want to add that sculpting a face like that on foam without previous experience is really hard. The horns are actually the easiest part.

If you want a smooth and symmetric finish, either make a foam pattern or a 3d print. Paper mache or other hand sculpting/molding mediums will likely end up sad and lumpy looking.

>>10910459
>>10910462
>>10910464
Sounds like it'll be too tough for my first time, especially since the con is in a month and I was planning on making 5 for my whole friend group. Thanks for the advice anons, I'll go with something easier and try this again next con.

>>10910475
No problem anon, good luck with your future plans
Might I recommend Amaurotine masks and robes instead? Those are very easy to find on Etsy.

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>>10910475
>my first time
>the con is in a month
>I was planning on making 5 for my whole friend group
Thanks for the kek anon. The Dunning-Kruger effect is alive and well

>>10910469
unfortunately I had them on the way to the warehouse and not my address. some were gifts too. i hope they solve this asap

>>10910470
Not sure then. Your stuff isn't getting seized but you might be waiting a while for them to right things. Worst case the company goes out of business but seeing as that hasn't happened yet I don't think it will. Also to be clear 'reps' refers to Nike and stuff, not replicas of lolita or whatever. I would recommend Superbuy next time.

>>10910473
nayrt, and yes that's basically it. The police is after big brand replicas (Nike, LV, Balenciaga), and those replica products are what they mean when they say "reps". They've seized the PandaBuy warehouse and they're obviously not just going to blindly trust whatever it says on the packages so they're going to look into everything. During this investigation the packages are all stuck there and PB won't let you proceed with international shipping. There's no guarantee that your orders stuck in the warehouse will eventually be released so that you can get it mailed to you, but let's just hope things will get back to normal and everyone will be able to get their stuff.

WeGoBuy is undergoing the same thing.

Some general recommendations regardless whether you buy reps or not
-don't buy reps anywhere or with any SS. Most sellers won't even send it to SS right now
-there's been talk that other SS can come under investigation and there will be more warehouse raids
-if an order isn't time sensitive please hold off on ordering it for another month at least
-don't put more money in your SS account at the moment
-if you have anything in your SS warehouse or currently being shipped to your SS warehouse it's recommended to ship it to your address asap

>>10910473
>>10910480
neither bought lolita reps nor these big brand reps at all, I used pandabuy for legit chinese brands. My friend is the one getting fucked by proxy since we had a split haul and she spent the most. She just wanted an itabag and stuff while I just got very small stuff and I offered my coupons and stuff to ship at a good price. Goddamn, right after the anniversary discounts

>>10910429
here you go bb. that store has a lot in general, but just note most if not all of their products are dreamv or lizlisa designs(mostly factory "extras" since it's all made there and the style is less popular now so a lot of stuff is sold out.
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=733507672862

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>>10855458
>char is a himbo
Char couldn't be any further from himbo if he was a chick. The stereotypical image of a himbo is someone who's muscular, kind-hearted, and may or may not be "stupid" but is definitely not making his intellect the forefront of his personality. Your typical himbo is someone like Kronk from TENG, Inspector Hildibrand from FFXIV, arguably even Goku.

Char is ripped in Zeta, sure, but he's about as far from the other two criteria as you can get. The man is a permanent ball of mental conflict, stress, anxiety, and depression. Even as early as 0079 he spent the entire series living a double life as the heroic Red Comet, icon of Zeon, and as the bitter young man Casval trying desperately to get revenge on the Zabi family. He successfully does just that but also in the process helps to facilitate the Federation's dismantling of Spacenoid power and dignity that Zeon zum Deikun had worked so hard to built. Zeta has him trying to let the idea of the Red Comet die while he ignores (at best) Neo Zeon, even outright becoming its enemy with AEUG but also trying to stop Haman from indoctrinating Mineva - the heiress of the family he'd fought so hard to exterminate, and ironically the last real hope for his father's ideals. Mineva being alive renders everything he did in 0079 meaningless. In CCA he's forced back into the role of the "Red Comet, hero of Zeon" that he had tried to shed before, and despite being visibly uncomfortable with it (see: the train scene) he's once again held up as some sort of spacenoid messiah. He sabotages his OWN WAR EFFORT by leaking the Psycho-Frame data to Londo Bell in order to give Amuro a fighting chance against the Sazabi. Char is outright suicidal in CCA.

His bitter, violent, miserable nature is a far cry from any sort of "himbo". He's a cold man juggling so many masks even he doesn't know who he really is. And yes I AM replying to a nearly year-old post just to seethe.

Rather minor but at A.F.A. Singapore 2023 they had a massive amount of the second floor dedicated towards a Warhammer 40k tournament (idk how it is in America but in SG cons of all kinds are a mix of TCG, board games, anime/manga, lolita, comics; doesn't matter whether it's a comiccon or an anime fest by name, all of it will be there)

I get tapped to go to the hallway for a cosplay photo by event staff. They threw it together last second so as the photo was being taken a lot of people were running down the hall until the photographer said no more were allowed. One of these groups of people included a Warhammer 40k player in a full SS officer uniform outfit who was easily 300+ lbs and in a group of regular guys also playing in the tournament. After leaving the photo shoot they pointed me out and threw some remarks my way and towards a HSR crossplayer. Later when I was doing a paint-a-mini at the warhammer tables on the second day I saw con staff ask them to leave.

A lot of young Singaporeans have low knowledge about ww2 in Europe so I am not surprised it took con staff a while to ask them to leave, but also knowing Singapore there is a chance that some ISD Agents had lunch with that guy a few days later.

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>Day 1 of con, staying in a massive room with loads of people
>Hear they're going down to the hot tub area and I decide to join in
>Get in cosplay costume which sees instant approval from the girls
>One starts with the most obvious flirting I've ever seen
>Passes around the drinks she snuck in
>Soon feel like my brain is frying for (at the time) unknown reasons
>2 light beers suddenly feels like 6 cocktails in a row
>Another of the girls comes up to me, really excited
>Eyes are bugging out and she seems to be talking fast but I can't hear a word
>Next thing I remember is heading back to our room with my arms around both of them
>Picked one of them up and did some squats, spun around in circles
>Black out
>wake up in the bathroom like 9 hours later
Yeah, that was the day I learned that sitting in a hot tub for hours and drinking isn't a smart idea

>>10910483
>hot tub
>in costume
The fuck were you cosplaying as?

>>10910494
Plugsuit Shinji. I knew I was making some kind of mistake there, and you pointed it out. This was ColossalCon, where swimsuit cosplays (what I meant to say) are common

>>10909448
1 by a huge lead followed by 8 followed by 7 if 7 is taller than me and is female then i wanna upskirt her. 6 is fairly mid and everyone else are either uggos or men

>>10909448
6

>>10909448
1>7>3 are good looking people, the rest are average 0 is average but has a good body

>>10909448
2-3 POWER GAP 0 HUGE DROP INTO POOP. Straight white cis dude for context. Hope you're 2 or 3 OP, u good looking.

>>10909448
8
k-kawaii >.<

>15 fucking necrobumps for a thread at image limit since July
NYS already, retard

>>10906393
uh oh wannabe janny period alert
like any thread on this board is more worth the spot

>>10906393
you seem upset

>>10910484
Not them but they're literally bumping threads and deleting their post after, the thread is dead, just let it die.

damn I wish my house looked cool

>>10910499
what if I sage it?

>>10910053
this print is taobao tier and a lot of meta prints in general are too. do japanese lolitas wear this stuff?

meta is a weird brand, they've been around forever and old meta is cute, but a lot of nu-meta looks like it was designed by someone with a vague idea of what lolita is, but with no actual experience with the fashion. the webshop's substyle categories are also indicative of staff not knowing much about the fashion. i wonder if they're having trouble finding good designers. they've been sticking with a lot of rereleases lately. the decline in quality and design reminds me of what happened to moitie.

>>10910068
It’s nowhere near as bad as Moitie imho, at least the re-releases they’re doing aren’t like Chinese knock off tier. The fabric for nu-Meta is interesting. It’s not as cheap as AP poly, and the construction is definitely better than AP, but it’s still not what I’d like to see. I also feel Meta did a great job keeping the fullness of the skirt, and there’s no skimping on fabric, so you can get a really nice poof. What happened to MMM is a tragedy. That one dress with the forest print is literally taobao tier.

>>10910005
Yeah, I'm the op and that wasn't what I meant it was more like the entire global economy seems shit rn. West, jp or China or anywhere. So the decision to release a lot of expensive dresses in a row is odd.

>>10909594
its so crazy that cgl just happens to be full of skinny people with 23" petite dolly uwu waists but every self poster thats been exposed on here is far, far from that description. its all cope.

>>10910468
nayrt, it's a mix in here. I'm pretty sure there are some fat people here who have that waist size who admit 82cm waist is fat because they don't want to fuel anyone's delusions.

There've been plenty of fat and chubby people on cgl talking about their own measurements and which dresses they fit in, and they weren't jumped or mocked for doing so. People just hate it when fat people pretend they're not fat.

>>10904817
I think unless they can provide tracking codes its safe to assume the package has been lost. However, I think you can call post offices to try and locate them!!

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This is #6737, hopefully the last person to still check in besides the people with gifts lost in the mail (here's hoping they show up!). The last few months have been an absolute mess especially health wise, and I've ended up having to move apartments as a surprise on top of that so I'm just getting my bearings back and starting to work through the stuff I'm behind on.
>>10897861
#9406 - I'm glad everything got to you safely and that you liked it! Especially the bauble really freaked me out since it seemed pretty fragile, but it looks to have made it to you nicely. Sorry again about the delay with shipping, but thankfully everything made it to you only a little delayed (and in that sense, the delay in shipping out helped - I live elsewhere most of the year).
>>10893105
(I had your ID here, but it's somewhere in my heap of stuff to be unpacked) Thank you so much, you're a sweetheart. <3 The belt pouch is perfect, I'll have to test out the ears at my next event and the spirit gum removal liquid in particular was spot on - I never bothered to get anything to remove it with in the past and have just been ripping stuff off in spite of the pain so my ears will really thank you there lol. Also, after the parcel arrived, I was ever so slightly disappointed since one of my favourite things about these gift exchanges is getting a little card/note from the gifter - and then a few days later I found your card in my mailbox. I have it pinned up next to my desk, some of the stickers have already ended up on the back of my laptop and I'll try to get around to at minimum finding you on social media when I get the chance, since you added your tag. Thank you again, and I'm so sorry about being so slow with checking in!

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To #1066, Card tier. I didn't see any ID number for who sent it.

Finally my card arrived this Friday, and thank you for all the extras, it was fun to open with all the things inside! I will be saving the tea for the perfect moment!
I also really liked the Cardcaptor Sakura decoration tape on the inside of the card, Cardcaptor Sakura is an anime I liked a lot and it has played a big role in how I view the mahou shoujo ideal, and it also contributed to me deciding to try roller blades (alongside Kaleido Star)!

And thank you for all your good wishes!
I actually got what may have been the closest thing to a dream dress for me late last year (Saint Gabrielle), but now there are new items I want!
And it was really cool that we had so many similar interests!

I hope you have a good continued 2024!

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Here’s my card that was lost in mail for a while! (from santa 3460 to me, 9460) I love all the small stuff and the postcard, I read your letter and since we matched I’m thinking of sending a letter back with a longer personal reply. You suggested keeping touch in social media before but I don’t have any so sending some snail mail might be nice (if you don’t mind). Thanks again!

The event is essentially done, but we may have some more things to share to wrap it up. It's not ready in this moment though, so here's an empty bump post.

>>10910458
You don't understand lm bidding

>>10903128
>>10903106
>controversy
>muh persona
But, but the autopedophilia not weird at all right? The dressing up to look like the cartoon avatar someone made for themselves that looks like a human toddler to say trashy things for dumb coomer pedos. That's not weird at all, right?

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>>10910568
i'm pretty certain i do, and this is just a glitch. but if i'm wrong, could you explain to me how the bid on this auction jumped to €897 instead of €166? like i said, i've never seen this happen before and didn't know it was possible to bump your own bid to max.

>>10910498
Okay, but my feels change so much from one day to the next. The day after I said it was actually quite good, a lot of good things happened. But one thing happened then too that points towards something that bothers me in my life, that's often a major part of why I'm feeling down a lot of days.
I was waiting for class, and I'm always early but some other people also arrived, but I just couldn't talk to them. It was actually a bit better than it usually is because the people I usually wait next to are even more closed off, but they were still just talking and I couldn't be a part of it, and that happens in every part of my life, always.
This weekend, I was going for a walk with some people, or that was what I wanted, but I was really just walking next to them, not a part of their group, and what really drove it home was when one of them stopped to take a selfie, and they took it with themselves and everyone else, but not with me. That's when I truly realized, and then I just gave up and walked on my own and listened to music instead.
And this happens EVERYWHERE.
I guess, as soon as there's more than one other person, I become the outsider, end up outside of the group by myself, just being next to the other people rather than being with them.

Also, there's one person that I go to classes with, I really wish we could talk, but it's always only like three minutes a week or so, but I want to talk a lot more, I used to feel that they were the perfect person to try conspiring with to try to organize social activities with class, but now I've given up on socializing with the class, but there's a lot else to talk about too. And last Thursday was actually a perfect opportunity to talk to them, because for once they were going the same direction as me, but then the rest of the class arrived before we could actually get into a proper conversation, and I ended up paying attention to what the rest of the class was saying, even though I maybe could have talked to them.

>>10910700
There's probably some more to say about this, but instead I'll talk about something that's kind of slightly /cgl/ related.

I recently messaged someone I went to school with in the past, after randomly seeing them a couple of times, and we talked a little bit about how it was at the school, and lately I've really been thinking about how sad it is that I had such a poor relationship with my class (which had a lot of cosplayers). It really bothers me. And the person I messaged too, I'm unsure about where I have them, it's not impossible that they're friends with the people in my class and shittalking me with them for daring talking to them, don't I realize no one wants to talk to me etc.
I feel like that's probably not the case though, but they feel dangerously close to the cosplayers I have a terrible relationship with. I wish I could just talk to them about everything, but we aren't friends so we can't meet and in any case, that'd just be me using them as my therapist which would be shitty of me.

That reminds me of another thing, I just want people to talk to in general, and the professional person I go to to talk to kind of sucks, they ask questions about everything so it just feels like I have to justify what I'm feeling, and that they don't believe me when I tell them about how they feel, and maybe also like they treat me like an object to study rather than someone I feel close to and that feels like I can just tell them things.
So on one hand you shouldn't treat people you don't know like a therapist, but on the other hand those people are the only people who would give you what you actually would want from sharing, the people who are actually paid to listen are just annoying and feel like they don't believe you.

>>10903242
Cosplay whomever you want, I'm a trans woman and I love this hobby

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>>10907027
pic related, whoops

>>10903242
Look, there are a lot of really great questions out there about crossplaying as a trans person. Questions like: "How do I keep people from assuming I'm crossplaying and misgendering me?" or "As a trans person, is it safe to cosplay if I'm alone at a convention?"

Asking the dumb question: "is it okay?" and then bitching about transphobia in an effort to get others to either rally around you or bitch with you is not helpful. A "Trans Cosplay" thread on this board, related to real issues trans cosplayers face, would be very helpful and uplifting for may people. This pity party / bitch fest thread is not. Please go back and try again. You community deserves better from you.

>>10907085
OP is obviously bait but we have always had crossplay threads here on cgl and they've always been pretty active and successful
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>>10907028
I like it