Let's All Get Dressed Up In Elaborate Costumes and Have Sex!
I'm not sure I really even know what cosplay is, other than that lots of people do it, and not necessarily for sex, just for fun and coolness, but the other night I was watching The Switch, one of the best movies of 2010, despite its problematic insemination issues, and (no spoilers!) at one point there's a kid's birthday party and all the adults are dressed in pirate hats and you can't help but think: wouldn't it be sexy and fun to dress up as a pirate or a lion or something like that sometimes? It'd be like you were in an Adam Ant video all the time! There just aren't enough excuses these days to dress up in elaborate costumes. (Also, think of the truly excellent costume party in Beginners! Who wouldn't want to meet Ewan McGregor when he's dressed as Freud and also carrying a puppy? I mean, what more do you need, shoes made out of chocolate cake?) Anyway, Comic-Con is coming and the goose is getting fat, please fashion for yourself a complicated hat. But who to dress up as even? I totally get stumped there. Just don't leave your sexy funtime costume thingies laying around or half of Chicago gets evacuated.
I'm growing my stubble just so for my Choire cosplay!
@jfruh Excellent. I'll grow my asshair to play your life partner, Balk.
@jfruh My dyslexia read that as "subtle" and I was all, "Why?"
OH. I thought this was an announcement for a summer Awl Bawl.
@forget it i quit OH. Hmm yeah we should probably do one of those? Lemme talk to the powers.
Oh, Choire. This is why there's a San Francisco.
@BadUncle You're not wrong!
@Choire Sicha
Seriously right?
Is this before or after we all get stomach flu?
I'm really really disappointed with the article attached to this title.
I'm just going to buy a gorilla costume and go as Beeks from "Trading Places".
This is one of the major advantages to having children. Halloween: I was a pirate. Bought a white shirt with semi-poofy sleeves, put a red bandana on my head, borrowed an actual cutlass from my buddy who retired as a Navy master chief, got a meerschaum pipe, some fake blingy necklaces… awesome. My daughter dressed up as a Spanish princess, and the line was I had kidnapped her from the Spanish main. We had tons of fun.
School benefit chili cookoff: I was a cowboy. Big hat, boots, etc.
School "space day": I was the deputy rocket man, helping a real rocket enthusiast launch water rockets and Estes rockets for excited groups of kids. Costume: flight suit, boots, etc (couldn't locate a spacesuit helmet, unfortunately).
Kids: great excuse for cosplay without feeling like a perv.
It's not really the costumes I mind so much, but the accents and the "in-character patois."
I believe that cosplay "not necessarily for sex" is called LARPing.
Lightning bolt!
I saw a steampunk man in London last week! Just walking across the London Bridge with square goggles on and lots of gadgets and leather tunic-type things in the middle of the day! I most certainly did not want to have sex with him! (The Indian businessmen in their tailored suits, on the other hand… wait, is that cosplay too?)
That's just a costume party.