MollyMcIsaac

April 18, 2013 1:49 pm YES. Nite Owl knows me.

April 4, 2013 4:15 pm No, that's a character from League of Legends.

April 4, 2013 4:13 pm "Booth babes" are not allowed at most conventions any more. These "normal" girls all spent hours and tons of money on making their costumes, and they're all beautiful.

April 4, 2013 4:13 pm Contacts are a cosplayers best friend.

December 28, 2012 2:58 pm That's Scarecrow :-)

December 6, 2012 3:58 pm @Grandturk Indeed! In the past (about a year ago in an article for this very website!) I explained that I believe you can be a geek about ANYTHING - even if it's making homemade ice cream. I think as long as you're passionate about something, you can say you're a geek for it.

December 6, 2012 3:48 pm I refer to myself as a geek because it was used as a bad word through extensive bullying I encountered as a youngster. Basically, I'm re-claiming the word, and I think that's why many people refer to themselves as such.

December 6, 2012 3:44 pm Ahem, fixing my typo: where = were

December 6, 2012 3:43 pm I received over 30 testimonials, and the one running theme I found in the majority of them is that cosplayers have low self esteem or where bullied for their interests when they were younger. Cosplay is self expression of the things that they love.

December 6, 2012 3:42 pm And finally: wearing the biggest, craziest, most eye catching costume gets photographers to take your photos. It means you get on MTV and Maxim. You can become a psuedo celebrity overnight just by embodying a fictional character, and to some there is major appeal in this. Everyone is just trying to make their own way in the world, and while cosplayers may sometime have "attitude", I implore you to put yourselves in other's shoes before passing rash judgements - cosplayers or otherwise.