1. You’ve cried while making a costume…
…but kept working on it, careful not stain it with your tears.
Why can’t I quit you!?
2. You’ve thrown part of your costume across the room.
Then gone to pick it up while apologizing to it.
3. You’ve passed over social plans so you could craft
Cons wait for not man. Or woman. Or cat.
Can’t leave for my niece’s birthday. Gotta make Armor.
4. You’ve pulled another all-nighter
despite promising yourself you never would again.
Then slept the whole way to the Con
5. You have a folder of ‘planned’ cosplays…
…that reaches at least a year ahead.
If not two.
6. You lie to tell yourself that you won’t start any new costumes until you’ve finished the ones you’ve started.
Then you see The Most Perfect Costume Design Ever.
7. There is something cosplay related in every room of your house.
Despite you trying to keep things contained.
Protip: Never move between Cons!
8. You fantasize about your current project being done on time…
…more often than you do about Scarlet Johanssen or Chris Hemsworth.
But Hemsworth helping you get your cosplay done on time? Now we’re talkin’!
9. You actually have nightmares about your cosplay.
It’s not done. It breaks. It falls off on stage.YOU fall off stage.
The possibilities are endless. And terrifying.
10. You’re on a first name basis with your local fabric/craft shop.
Swatch the dog from Mood Fabrics in NYC. We’re besties. (I wish)
Photo ©Mood Fabrics.
How well did you do?
I’m 9/10. The local fabriclands don’t know my name… yet. But they know my face now. THEY HIDE.
xox Calamity
this is going to be me soon… my daughter wants to cosplay, and since she’s 11, guess who’s making 95% of the costume LOL.
I’m sure you can get her involved in cutting out patterns and pinning, I learned to sew around her age 🙂
not so much anymore. cosplay in the closet not all over the house. nothing is worth crying about. I have thrown things before but I havent lately. and Iam not too worried about it to not sleep or function. I have a 20 month old daughter to attend to.
SAME HERE! I have free fabric from work so they do not know me either.
I’m a pretty recent cosplayer myself. Number 4 is a HUGE problem for me. But could you really call yourself a cosplayer unless you have at least once experienced the time honored tradition of staying up all night the night before a con?
I think you can! But it’s bound to happen sooner or later the longer people cosplay XD
I jsut started making my first costume ever, and yes I have cried, but thats because I have zero talent in sewing and am learning and when I think I finally got it down where I feel good about it, the machine messes up for two hours and I’m left frustrated and a crying mess out of pure despair at my inadequeacy.
yep to everything except for all nighter. Two things that I will never pass : food and sleep.
its true story haha 😀
I live across the road from my fabric store.
they’ve stopped asking what I’m making because they just have no idea what a Harley Quinn or Morrigan is. hahaha.
I think I’ve experienced about 9/10 of these.