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I'm sort of in this position right now. My best friend and I cosplay together a lot, and her cosplays aren't terrible, just mediocre. She leaves out important details because "eh, nobody will notice". Stuff like "whatever, I don't need black thigh highs, I can just wear white ankle socks," not wearing a wig when she's better off using one, or not hemming everything. Thankfully, she started taking sewing classes and now orders wigs for her cosplays. Next I'm gonna try to get her to wear makeup with her costumes and work on her posing skills.

I don't have the heart to turn her down for any groups because she's a really great friend and I have a lot of fun with her at cons. She just also has some work to do to catch up with the rest of us. She's been branching apart from me in terms of taste in anime/video games lately anyway so it's becoming less of a problem.

I have friends who want to cosplay but put no flippin effort to do dank about it. A friend of mine literally did nothing for his outfit.
Hes heard of our next plans and all he said was "oh, just get this, this, and this- done"
no.no.no. not "done" that is far from "done"
I, of course, dont say any of this because its just flat out rude and I am not queen of anything. I just wish they would put some effort into the outfit. Dont just slap on a t-shirt and a wig and call yourself Roxas.
Dont just buy a nerf gun and say youre cosplaying Left for Dead.
I will not be giving any aid this time around, if they want help- I will just tell them how to do something. Sorry friends, you wont learn unless you do it for yourself.

I used to be that friend. I'd just have the one most important feature of the costume. It was less because I thought no one would notice and more because I'd get slightly pressured into cosplaying, be into the idea, and then shy away from the crazy fans who would run up to you.

I've got the opposite problem, everyone in my group cuts corners and buys the cheapest fabric and sew it together the day of the con. And while I'm not a great cosplayer I put way more effort in my costumes and it shows in group photos. I know they're mad at me because the last con people kept asking for solo shots of me after group shots and didn't bother asking the others for solo shots as well.
I also get accused of stealing cosplay ideas because I start my costumes months before the cons and one friend keeps throwing them together the week before and getting mad when people want my picture more than hers.
I'm saying fuck it and cosplaying on my own now, but it's more fun in a group.

Wow, fuck, I couldn't even tell the guys were supposed to be Salvadore and Axton until I saw the ammo belt.

For some reason my ex boyfriend thought he would cosplay this last year. He decided to go as Finn the Human and it was horrible. He cut his pants to make shorts, bought a cheap ass green backpack that had zippers all over it, and one of those children's swords from Walmart. Everything was too small for him because he was into body building and he thought the fact he had muscles would make him "the best Finn ever". In the end it just looked ridiculous and I felt bad because no one took his picture like he was hoping.In the end I don't feel bad, if he wanted to do a decent cosplay he could have asked for my help, but every help I gave was ignored. So he ended up looking like a man child.

I've got two friends who are both cosplaying for the first time this summer with me who has been cosplaying only for the past couple summers.
I'm worried about their reasons behind wanting to do this and how it's gonna affect our relationships.
I'm pretty sure that they've been getting a little jelly of the positive attention I've been receiving for my photos, seeing all the pics that get taken during the con (not an absurd amount or anything, normal really for average costumes) and now they want a piece of that attention pie to.

It's no problem really but I KNOW one of them is going to cut corners and do the minimum amount of work possible. She also has like NO interest in anime/video games and all her costume ideas are from popular stuff she's never seen/ doesn't care about and that rustles my jimmies a little.

The other one is HORRIBLY insecure and a little overweight and I just know that if she doesn't reach her quota of what she thinks is an acceptable number of pictures she's going to spazz out and have a break down.

I have a feeling this con is going to be a massive trainwrekc but they both seem so excited how can I turn them down? I almost feel like I should back off and put my more complicated and showy costumes on hold just so I don't wind up getting more photos than them..

I have no beef with it as long as they don't get upset that they're not getting as much attention as the rest of the group.

I mean if they're just doing it to be part of the group and hang out with friends that's awesome. Just don't start pouting and sulking in the bathroom because everyone else keeps getting photo requests and no one wants your picture because you thought a ball of aluminum foil on a stick could pass well enough as a mace.

I have a friend like this. She waits until the very last minute to make costumes for our group. They end up looking awful and she goes around laughing, saying she just shit them out last minute, like she's proud of that fact until she's with us, then she gets all upset and throws a shitfit about not wanting to wear the costume with us until she "redoes" it.

Bitch. Why not make it right in the first place?

>Do you let them cosplay with you anyway?

Yes, because this is a hobby for most people not the reason for their existing.

Yes. Many. I honestly couldn't care if my friends do the laziest, most half-assed closet cosplay. I really don't. I just want them to have fun and it doesn't matter to me what they're wearing, I do my own thing.

The problem is that they DON'T have fun with it. They throw something together and laugh at how funny/ghetto it is at home, but they get to the con and get massively butthurt when no one wants their photo. They get even more butthurt if we're all standing together and people only ask for mine.

At first it starts with them looking a little put-out when we're standing in a main photo area and no one asks them for a shit, then a little mad when people ask for mine, and then bitterness after a few hours of walking around and seeing other amazing costumes and how much appreciation they are getting.

They'll make little off-hand comments to me like 'COME ON, LET'S GO, YOU DON'T NEED ANY MORE PICTURES!' when someone wants a shot and we're not even going anywhere or doing anything, or rolling their eyes when people come up to me to talk about my costume. They won't take any pictures of anyone else, and scowl at people in nice outfits and bitch under their breaths about how only a loser would spend that much time making something.

It's really, really getting old and I just want to stop going to conventions with them at this point. Every year I try to tell them that if they just did a serious outfit they would have a lot more fun, but they never want to put the money or effort in and think 'oh a cute girl can just throw on a gijinka and get thousands of photos!'

Their new thing is whatever I'm doing, they decide they need to be a part of it too. Except they don't like what I like and just want to do popular crap, so they keep trying to convince me to make shit I don't like so we can do a group and they can have an excuse to be in every shot.

They never used to be like this and I'm not sure what I can do to change their increasingly shitty attitudes.

>>6450880
>I do shitty cosplays of popular characters so I can get attention teehee~

Ugh this. My husband's friend's wife is always dragging us into cosplay groups while the two of them are mediocre at best cosplayers. She's annoying as hell and will list off every little detail of her costume in four part harmony past the point where no one cares and beyond. Also she'll get really into one idea like an Ocarina of Time group for months, I'll have planned out my Zelda costume and started buying materials and then suddenly says we're doing Tales of Vesperia instead.

Her husband is worse because he'll just put on whatever she makes but never wears a wig or takes off his weird yellow-tinted glasses. He won't pose or even try to be in character for group shots.

I gave up on the notion of any of my friends cosplaying. They come every year and only 1 of them ever cosplays. Sadly nothing I'm ever interested in. I've been wanting to do a Borderlands group cosplay because we all play BL/BL2 like crazy and fit our characters well but I'm the only one that wants to do this. I've been modding a nerf gun just to look like an in game pistol and shit.

TFW no one gives a shit.

I had this problem through a friend of mine. We're both reasonably talented cosplayers, and not hard on the eyes (she's bigger, but she makes it work), but she would constantly invite this friend of hers into any cosplay group we did. Girl had a horseface and could not sew, and was also the tackiest white trash I have ever met in my life. She wound up making what would have been a pretty neat Disney Princess group look awful with her saloon-whore Aurora.

I don't cosplay with the mutual friend anymore, though, so problem solved.

I want to do a Zero cosplay and have a full Borderlands group but none of my other friends are interested or say snarky comments like "Why are you being Zero when you're a tiny chick? You'll look stupid. It doesn't even show any skin!!" And then go on and wear a fucking green swimsuit and call themselves Poison Ivy and be done with it all.

>>6451125
WHERE DO YOU LIVE BE FRIENDS WITH ME AND COSPLAY WITH ME

;_; I need more cosplay friends in my life who think like us, and less like them.

>>6451133
C..can I come to? Id like to do borderlands...I'm planning to do tannis

>>6451125
>>6451165
Are either of you going to ALA?

>>6451133
>>6451165
Let's all meetup and fulfill our Borderlands dreams ;o; I really don't mind body showy cosplays but shit damn I just want to get into prop making and armor craft these days.

>>6451174
I'll most likely be going to Dragon Con with this!

>>6451125
Zero has a really girly figure.

I'm sorry you have such crappy friends.

>>6451239
I'm east coast..

>>6451239
I'm going to D*C 2013 as Gunzerker. Let's do this!

(and yes, I am putting effort into it :-P )

I have no friends.

Oh god, this thread. I've never found a more perfect thread.

Everyone in my group is really cool about group cosplays, they ask for help when need it, don't wait til the last minute, are really agreeable people that share the same interests and want to do the same things when it comes to choosing what to do.

Except for one person. Who also happens to be my housemate. Nothing seems to make her happy, she has different tastes and is usually the only one kicking up a fuss about doing a certain series/group. She leaves her shit to the last week then just shits them out and misses lots of details out of it.
The latest problem is she changed her character in one of our groups to a gijinka version of an animal character. I told her if she does that, she cannot enter the cosplay competition with us since the rules state no fan-made characters and non-offical designs. She still talks and plans out the competition like she doesn't understand that she's not going to be in it. And what's more her gijinka is just going to be a dress and wig. No one's gonna know what the fuck she is, and to be frank I don't like gijinka's because they are really half-assed and just don't want her in our group if she's doing that. She might as well just go off and do her own thing which I have hinted at her before but she keeps insisting on being in the group. Urgh....
She never smiles or poses in photos and always looks like a sourpuss when he character is suppose to be happy. Doesn't wear makeup.
The thing is she claims to love cosplaying so I don't understand why she half-asses it and looks miserable as fuck all the time in photos.

The worst part of this is I've just gotta grit my teeth and take it, since she's my housemate and I don't want any drama until I move out.

Thank god most of my friends that go to conventions with me are guys. And when they want to cosplay, they're perfectionists about it. So what ends up happening is that I help research what to buy. They don't even mind wearing makeup. When it's stuff like this, I really enjoy it. Because we both want it to be pulled off well. The only downside is that they always push their cosplay plans to another convention, but that's only because they're low on money. But that can't be helped.

Usually when I put groups together I'm the most experienced cosplayer, so luckily most of the time, if someone has a question or problem, they'll come to me with it and let me help them.

But... For my most recent group, sometimes they'll go ahead and do stuff that they don't know how to do on their own and they usually half-ass those details. Once they do it, though, it's too late for me to give them a suggestion for a better way to do it. So, usually their costumes come out pretty average-tier, which is fine, since that's their skill level and they're trying, at least. As long as they don't grump about it once we get to the con, I really don't care.

They all have their little things, though. One is ridiculously shy and will flip-flop on if she wants to be in the group or not. One will get really pouty part-way through the day if her costume is anything more complex than casual clothes and will want to change out. And the last one is really cheap and tends to skimp on more expensive details of her costume by reusing wigs, or buying shitty fabric. She also has a tendency not to trim her threads and not to hem her edges. And it's a struggle to get ANY of them to wear makeup- one even asked me to do hers for her, and then got mad because I was putting on 'too much eyeliner/lipgloss'. Bitch, I know how to do cosplay makeup- let me do the job you ASKED me to do.

Nothing bad enough to 'throw off the group', but it gets to me sometimes when they do stuff like that and then complain later about not having a lot of pictures taken or me having the best costume.

>>6452014
Ditto.