krissy and that teto chick

1. People who won't take good advice given to them and then bitch when they get mad fun of for a shitty costume.
2. Yaoi fangirls who feel the need to turn every photo shoot into a tasteless man on man orgy, then whine "I'M NOT A LESBIAN!!!!!1! Yuri is DISGUSTING!!".
3. People who don't respect your personal space and hug/glomp/fondle you without asking. Then call you a bitch when you politely decline or tell them no.

People who won't use wigs. i don't care if the person you're cosplaying has the same hair as you, use a wig

Fat girls that cosplay Yoko

>>1792002
This.

Not having enough muslin to try again once I screwed up with my first mock-up. God damn it.

When cosplayers favor quantity over quality (makes me sad).

>>1792024
> fat girls

>>1792022
Not important if it still looks good. But then, most people have no idea how to to take care of or style their hair, so... I can see where you're coming from, sort of.

Anyway, OP's question:

Social ineptitude. A con badge is not a license to act like an idiot, nor is it your ticket into someone else's personal space. Also, SHOWER.

As for cosplay specifically... satin/shiny shit. DONT USE IT. The proper use of shiny is very, very limited, and no one seems to get that right. And two, press your damn seams. It takes about 30 seconds, and it makes your work look SO much neater. Goddamn.

>>1792050
I don't know, I've never seen a good cosplay where the person used their own hair.

>>1792063
My friend cosplayed Blue from Pokemon a while back, and used her real hair. It looked great.
I'll see if I can find a picture (no promises, but I'll see).

lol @ OP's picture.

I don't like people who keep glasses on.

Cosplay that is not ironed and hooker boots/shoes that don't belong.

People who either take pictures without asking (like, when you're walking and they just snap photos while you're making a dumb face, have glasses on, etcetc).

On the flip side, people waiting for the crowd of people taking pictures to disperse, and for you to start to pick up your shit before stepping up and asking for a picture. >< If you see people taking pictures, and us not minding, GO AHEAD.

>>1792099
Yeah, this.
I was in a photo shoot once and everyone was keeping a good distance away from the cosplayers. Then this one bitch with a HUGE hate came in, got in front of EVERYONE taking pictures and just started snapping away.
Everyone kept telling her to get out of the way but she ignored them and stayed there for the ENTIRE photo shoot!

>>1792089
As someone who wears glasses, I agree. I wish I could get contacts. ;__;

>>1792063
I think that's because it's usually a case of the person being too cheap to buy a wig - in which case, they've no doubt skimped on other parts of the costume. Also, there aren't many anime/game characters that have 'normal' hair. There are a few costumes out there where using your natural hair would be totally appropriate and do-able (FFX's Yuna, for example)... but most of them fall into the "why would you even try that?" category, such as, say, the ever-popular Ichigo.

tl;dr depends on the costume and the person in it. The story of cosplay.

>>1792109
i know how you feel, i normaly wear contacts, but then by the end of the day my eyes are all red and dry, so i just wear my glasses, and take them off for pictures.

I hate people who are too shy to ask for a picture so they just follow you around.

People who stop you to ask for photos, when its obvious you're hurrying somewhere and get huffy when you apologise and try to explain why you can't pose.

>>1792125

THIS. God, I hate that.

People who make their otherwise decent cosplay look bland because they didn't bother to put on a little makeup. Makes me rage every time.

>>1792130
I know! You apologise so much, but they still get arsey with you.

God forbid you need to get to a panel you're running or something.

Lilleah West and Kady

>>1792133
This, just because your anime character doesn't, doesn't mean you shouldn't

-People that butcher DDR pads and wear them around con and then pretend like they're clever and the first one to ever think of it.
-Anyone that feels the need to make it their goal to hug/glomp EVERYONE at con. Am I the only one that thinks the idea of physical contact with hundreds of strangers is gross?

any costume that is over 20% satin or silk or anything super fucking shiny.

Cosplay photographers who primarily take pictures of girls wearing skimpy clothing even when the costume sucks. That's just low to me. That's the way the whole world is, though.

>>1791965
people who rant and rave about other peoples cosplays when they don't know what they're talking about. (also a Bonus points if their cosplaying the same thing)

also yaoi paddles and those who think it's ok to hit people with them without asking.

As a general rule of thumb, I hate anyone at a con who is in high-school or middle-school and isn't in a costume of some sort, because, generally, they are the ones who will start the most bitchy drama, like demand glomps and then turn into a vapid cunt when you deny them their free ticket to grope your ass.

As a side note, I have only met two people at a con who have been attending public schools and did not follow said rule of thumb, but they were both seniors, and fa/tg/uys.

- Idiot fangirls with yaoi paddles. They're the reason I will probably never cosplay some of the characters I'd like to do, not because one of them might whack me with one but because how I would react to it.
- The parents of underage con whores. Honestly, who'd let their 16 year old go around looking like she just came in off the streets?

>Am I the only one that thinks the idea of physical contact with hundreds of strangers is gross?
See, you really don't get this thing. Getting the flu from strangers means three days off school.

>people who rant and rave about other peoples cosplays when they don't know what they're talking about.
Closely related would be people saying it's great cosplay when it's hilariously clear they're focusing on the pretty face instead of evaluating the dress.

People who come on /cgl and talk about cosplayers like they know them when it's beyond obvious that they don't.

Expensive food at cons, flamers (obnoxious queers not people who yell), "free hugs, glomp me, etc signs", the involvement into your personal life if you become even slightly "famous" in the cosplay scene.

I know it makes me a prick, but girls who don't bind for crossplay.

I know it makes me a cunt, but boys who don't strap for crossplay.

>>1792334

lol

I'll keep my glasses on, but if somebody wants a picture I'll take them off.

As for peeves; fatties. Yes, I'm a bastard but I don't care.

>>1792238
>Bonus points if their cosplaying the same thing

People who don't know the difference between they're, their, and there

>>1792416
THIS, UGH.

>>1792416
Whoops, typo. Life goes on.

>>1792063
<--- ?

My pet peeve is people who just wear regular clothing with a character that has roughly their hair/body shape and call it an "alternate/original costume."

On a related note the opposite has also occured, I was walking around a con in black slacks and a dress shirt (which I wear a lot) and people asked me who I was...
"These are my clothes! o_O"

Having someone randomly take a picture of me without warning or permission so I'm fishing around in my purse and have a deer-in-the-headlights look when they snap the photo.

people who half-ass/don't finish a costume and still wear it.
my roommate does this all the goddamn time. she wants to do about 50 different costumes, gets 4 half done, and none of them look decent.

>>1792050

>And two, press your damn seams. It takes about 30 seconds, and it makes your work look SO much neater. Goddamn.

THIS.

sage for nothing new.

>>1792089
I wear glasses, and I try to take them off anytime anyone gets a photo, or when I'm walking around the main floor. But if I'm shopping in the Artist's Alley or Dealer's room, I want to be able to see what I'm up to.

On the same note: photos in Dealer's Room/Artist's Alley. I'm trying to shop or talk to my artist friends.

And flashbombing. I hate having my picture taken without my knowledge. Just ASK me. I'm in a silly costume, pictures are gonna happen. It's not a big deal. Just be polite, and it's not a big deal! Not asking usually means my glasses are on or I'm making a stupid face or have a bad angle, and NOBODY wants that.

>>1791965
L cosplay. In my opinion IT DOESN'T COUNT!

>>1792429
Thats sophie hatter you idiot. You must be <16

Got another one.
Girls who use conventions as a reason to run around in near nothing.
I've seen girls running around in just wigs and a bikini saying it's their own "original" cosplay of them.
Doesn't help that they usually should be in a bikini in the first place.
If there is an actual picture out there of it, it's fine, other then that, don't try to feed me bullshit.
pic related for acceptable swim suit wearing during a con.

>>1792470
It's the concept of using your actual hair you tard

you must be quick to post huh

>>1792482
>shouldn't be in a bikini in the first place.

Damn my hands of quick typery!

>>1792465

it will ALWAYS be a closet cosplay

-people who don't shave for their cosplay
-glasses take them off! Or get contacts!
-wearing cosplay but there is one thing on them that they don't cover up or get the right thing (example: Naruto sandals are hard durr hurr hurr...I'll wear my blue shoes it's the same thing)

when people by costumes, then use it in costume contests

>>1792631
>buy
damn typos

tennis shoes.


pic also related.

-Annoying fangirls
-Yaoi paddles
-Satin used wrong
-Anyone under 18 for the most part
-Obese people cosplaying skinny characters

Pic related

People who pick cosplays they just don't look good in. I'm nowhere near leggy enough to do some of the characters I'm like and have it look good, so I just don't.

>>1792429
Nah. Too much red in her hair, and Sophie has bangs, doesn't she?

>>1792700 Too much red in her hair
Learn to Diana Wynne Jones.

Pet peeve:

Great cosplay from the back, so you ask for a photo.

Surprise! They're a pizza face.

Life is cruel.

>>1792712
I was kinda guessing that she did the movie version, considering everything in that picture is based off the movie model of Sophie and there is no picture of Sophie on the cover of any of the original books.

Seconding (or however many-ing) the concept of people taking candid shots without you asking.

A lot of times at cons I'll just be sitting around chillin' and spot a camera pointed at me and ask if they'd like a picture before they can snap a deer-in-the-headlights shot. I don't know why people are always so hesitant to take pictures of cosplayers and resort to candid shots--chances are, if I'm wearing something, I'm okay with getting my picture taken in it. There's no need to take a crappy picture of me from twelve feet away behind a fake plant in a hotel lobby.

Another pet peeve of mine is people who make up weird nicknames for the characters you're cosplaying and only refer to you as those. I was known as "Chocolate Duo" at Youmacon by one girl, even though neither I nor Duo Maxwell are black or made of chocolate.

>>1792753

I've had the nickname thing happen to me once before. I was cosplaying Envy, and a girl cosplaying Sloth decided I was her daughter and she was my "con mommy". The worst thing about this is that she would keep calling me "Envy" whenever we hung out OUTSIDE of the con, which was often, because it turns out she lived down the street from me.

>>1792793

This happens to me all the time. People call me by the characters they met me in, even though I don't cosplay half of them anymore. So they're calling me by these random names; some of which are characters who's costumes sucked horribly and I'd rather not be reminded of. Ugh.

My peeve at the moment is when someone IM's me with a question or asks me how I did something and I tell them/write up a tutorial and don't even get a "thanks!" back after I do.

Pet peeves:
Half done costumes or people who run around in underwear, or basically nude except for a towel/cape, etc.
Too much fangirling.
People who act too smug to even seem they enjoy what they're doing. why be at a con if you're gonna just be an asshole and either not talk or look at someone weird. Or those who just think they're better. And those that are just too hyper and loud, or just act stupid cause they're at a con. C'mon, act mature enough to not get yourself and everyone in trouble. that's why most cons are banning signs and whatever else.
Someone's who TOO big for a cosplay. I'm not skinny, but I'm not gonna let everyone see the bakery. (lawl.rolls)
Like most posts, random pics taken without asking or without your knowing, basically being felt up or being countlessly harassed or hit on.
And everything else that has named, non-showering, substituting an item for something that's either cheaper or nothing to do with the outfit. Non wigs, or wigs that are either TOO bright or just wrong, not styled or very cheap. the ones that have that horrible spriggy deal going on?
The comment about the real hair ordeal, never seen anyone do their natural hair and it looked good. no one should ever really try.
And..that's about it for now. c:

>>1792856
You sound like quite a perfectionist...

>>1792325
THISTHISTHIS

Also when you can see cosplayers' hair from under the wig

People cosplaying characters of drastically different skin tones.

Black chicks cosplaying Yoko, white chicks cosplaying Sheva. Then there was the one black chick at fanime cosplaying as Rock Lee last year. What the fuck?!

People who refused to be a little creative with costume construction

>>1792865

When I see that I think it's less about trying to match someone perfectly and more about showing your fandom. So I'm A'ok with it.

I also think of it as a color variant.

Skimping out on shoes/make up

Huggy people. Yes, we're at a convention but it sitll doesn't mean I have to hug you. I'm not good with physical contact, my hugs are like hugging a wall. It's just awkward.

And lack of wigs, and fraying edges.

>>1792902

I never understood the hug thing. If someone's cosplaying a mascot character or is an actor/famous person/etc. I can understand the "Can I get a hug?", but if they're just random Joe Cosplayer I don't see the point.

I guess if you REALLY like the character, I understand it, and I usually never decline a hug unless they're creeper looking, but it's just a different phenomenon I don't think I'll ever truly comprehend.

I think real hair cosplays can actually look good! *cough Ninjattorney coughcough* It just requires effort that people, unfortunately, don't like.

Excuse me while I post some damn good Apollo hair with real hair

>>1792793
This sloth?

I always prefer real hair over wigs. It adds to the realism factor, and most (coloured) wigs look shitty and fake.

>>1792022
if you're good at doing your hair, what's wrong with this? alot of wigs look terribly fake and obvious. good ones are godly, but i don't get what makes natrual hair a no-no

Decorative eye patches and surgical masks.

>>1793413
what makes it take more effort, if it doesn't involve dying/cutting hair drastically? are wigs easier to style?
i know nothing of wigs, forgive me, lol. may possibly be cosplaying a character with similar hair to mine and i have no experience with wigs, but alot with styling my own hair, so i dunno if i should spend the money on one.

I know its been said, but it deserves saying again. Fatties. If you're a lard-ass, cosplay is not for you.

>>1793495
Unless you're cosplaying the MeatKing

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

I generally try to ask for a picture with and without glasses if the person wears them and looks cute in them. That and I don't bring the hate-o-rade to alternate costumes either, and while they haven't been mentioned yet I'll also step in to defend wearing kimonos at conventions and if it looks really good, use your own natural hair. Yeah, I went there.

lol, women...

>>1793470
9/10, would rage again.

>>1793461

This one.

Neither of our costumes were very good, but that's beside the point.

>>1792248
hey, i fit into this!

Fricken yaoi fangirls >_<

ITT we all baww about stupid shit.

Hentai panel at Ohayo-con....

Big. Fat. Disfigured. Lesbian Peach and LuLu in the crowd shared why they like hentai, because it was "the ideal beauty for a woman's body"

*Shudder Shudder Shudder*

>>1792429

That's not an 'alternate cosplay', that's what Sophie Hatter actually wears in the begginning of Howl's Moving Castle.

>>1792429
This is sophie hatter from Howl's moving Castle u_u'

>>1793840
They were using that image to respond to >>1792063
to prove that there are some cosplays that look decent with natural hair.

Fat Grils

>>1792482
I hate it when people are clearly violating the convention's dress code and no one says anything to them. SakuraCon is really pretty lenient, their only limit is it has to be equivalent to a NON-thong bathing suit. But I see some chick running around in buttfloss and no one says anything =|

But it's like Halloween basically, some girls treat it like an excuse to put on the sluttiest thing imaginable and walk around in public. (By the way, if I didn't know who the character of Yoko was, and I passed someone on the street dressed like her, I would immediately assume she was a prostitute.)

>>1793854
jealous.

cosplayers that say more than "hello", "thank you" and "I want to fuck you in my costume later".

Mostly just chicks that don't bind their fun bags.

And middle school fuck tards that cosplay L.

>>1794144
This.

>>1791965
People who always buy shitty costumes.

THIS! A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!

No bitch, you are not Goth Girl Temari. Get the fuck out and go make a real damn costume!

Very rarely can something like this be pulled off well.

>>1794323

THIS THIS THIS THIS

Unfortunately I only ever go to cons that are overrun with weaboos that think it's cool to be the goffik or Kingdom Heart versions of something. Stupid Northwest only having two cons a year I can actually get to...

It's gotten to the point where I just kinda expect it, though. I've only ever gotten one wrong, and that was "Human-form Akatsuki member version of Amaterasu from Ookami". I called her "Genderbender Akatsuki Haseo".

D: see what I mean?

>>1794357
I can kinda see the human form of Amaterasu, but Akatsuki version? Whut?

lol, I live in the Northwest, too :3

>>1794384

Yeah, lol@northwest cons. She was basically a horse-faced fourteen-year-old girl in a white wig with extremely Haseo-esque red tattoos on her face in an Akatsuki hat and cloak. What else am I supposed to think?

Her tattoos were dying her wig's bangs red, too.

>>1793461
LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcbZslp1KPM

>>1792470
>>1793849
>>1793840
The picture was responding to the person I quoted, my text was unrelated to the picture because I didn't want to not contribute a pet peeve to the thread. I thought that that would be fairly obvious from the formatting.
I'm 20 years old, she's 22 :p


>>1792737
You are correct, that was the goal

>>1791965
People who don't seem to have even thought of looking at reference photos of the character they hope to cosplay. Or people that buy whatever fabrics they can find, even if it doesn't work, and they use it anyway for the costume. It isn't even that the costume construction is crap. Sometimes they do a great job making the costume be the color choices and fabrics f' it all up.

I can't STAND people who come up and invade your space at cons. Especially when they do shit like touch/stroke a really nice, expensive wig that you do NOT want ruined.

People who wave those "free hug" cards in your face are really annoying too, especially when they do it every. time. you pass by.

>>1794432
It's like I like to say, the con badge is not permission to be a jack-ass.

when people bitch to me about other cosplayer's costumes, which I really don't give a crap about, because they just like to start drama

>>1792125
WORD! Fucking hate that shit!

>>1791965

This is just me personally but I hate being in a group and someone asks to take a picture and pretty much weeds out all the guys so that only girls are in the pic.

People that don't run to get to the group posing but instead take their sweet time, and once the group has broken apart and is about to go to something they run up and say they want a picture.

Uh, hello? We just did a pose for like five-ten minutes while a shitload of people took pictures. You could have run to get a shot, instead of making us stand for ANOTHER five-ten minutes while even MORE people come take pictures.

>>1792670

FUCK I saw that EXACTLY at a con. They were just walking in circles and the L said "I have to go to the toilet"... and that was it. I was bitching all the time about their boobs urg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf6J465Z39M

This embodies EVERYTHING that pisses me off when it comes to cosplay.

>>1796005

People who expect somebody to act in character constantly.

>>1796005

Easy mode: get through the opening
Hard mode: 2 minutes
Nightmare: entire video

As the proud holder of a mechanical engineering degree, my pet peeve would definitely have to be just about anybody who has ever made a "prop."

Amateurs.

I don't like disrespectful people in or out of cosplay. You should atleast be considerate enough to not demand for yaoi,not 'glomp' without permission and etc.

But that's asking to much out of the fandom.

>>1796248
Do you commission then?

>>1796255
Absolutely, but while one of the fundamental tenants of engineering is to make designs economical, I DO NOT build crap -- in part due to my pride as an engineer, but also because honestly...you can build crap by yourself. YOU tell me what you want, I come back with a "bare minimum" design which I consider adequate, and we can work up (but never down!) from there in terms of price and features.

I have a day job that keeps me very busy, so I typically only work on 1-2 designs at a time. I never accept a commission I'm not prepared for the buyer to flake on and typically run a two to three week turn (depending on complexity) from sketches to delivery.

>>1796272
Any tips for us civilians to improve our stuff in general?

>>1796248
Pompous dick.

>>1796248
you troll meeee!

>>1796248

>engineering degree

>prop

>>1796248
And yet you have nothing better to do than to come on here and try to act as if that makes you cool.

Cool fake story bro.

>>1796248

'Cause God forbid anyone NOT want to make a fully functional gun, or a live steel sword, or a magical staff that has REAL magic, eh?

>>1796401
Actually, I was at my desk for six hours today. And it does make me cool :(

>>1796409
God damn right.

Mostly though, what bugs me is fit and finish. Wood keyblades in particular make me sick to my stomach. It's like there's no filter between their eyes and their brains to say "oh, hey, this looks like shit, I probably shouldn't show it off."

>>1796415 Wood keyblades in particular make me sick to my stomach.

Why? If it's not obvious as to what it's made of, what's the issue?

>>1796469
Hate to defend that faggot, but I think he was saying he doesn't like it when you CAN tell it's made of wood.

>>1792022
People like you are my pet peeve. If it looks good and is accurate, who the fuck cares?