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Since folks are ramping up on costume design and building for DragonCon in the Fall, I wanted to take the time to bring up a topic of sincere interest to those of us that are admires of the human form: In appropriate Cosplay. Please take this comic to heart
Guys, do not let your “friends” get you drunk and convince you that this is not truth. Please. For the sake of the eyes and limited sanity of everyone that might be near you. If you do not already look good in speedo, then odds are you will not look good without it. Remember, all actors usually go through intense training plus have damned good makeup and special effects artists working on them soley to make them look that good. Its the work of dozens of people. You probably have just yourself, your creativity and way too much alcohol.
If you think I’m just picking on people then fear not. There is unfortunately way too much empirical evidence that this is a bad idea. Lets not have a repeat of the incidents back when every fangirl on the planet wanted to dress up like Xena, Warrior Princess. In case you forgot, I shall remind you.
1X-Xena (AKA Heroine Girl) was creepy. Should have chosen Callisto instead. Unfortunately they ended up looking like Calista Flockhart. Someone forcefeed that woman a sandwich please.
XXena was more true to form. After all, it takes muscle to kick that much ass and muscle don’t come from a size 4.
XXXena was acceptable. But remember, that leather ensemble gets mighty hot so you you might want to remind yourself that almost nobody looks good sweaty unless you helped them get sweaty if you know what I mean *wink wink nudge nudge*. (What did you expect? there were 3 X’s in that name)
XXXXena. Just say no. Really. Your female companions that said you looked great in this outfit were not your friends . Now there is one caveat to this, you can still pull this off as long as your stomach is not larger than either your hips and your boobs. Remember, men are simple creatures and the vaguely hour glass shape is pretty much all they need to say you are attractive. There is nothing wrong with being big. There is only something wrong with wearing it badly. (Spoken as an admirer of big women of course )
And never forgot, Once you go Klingon, you never go back :-)
Kaplah.
Which reminds me, anyone women interested in competing in the Ms. Klingon pageant this year? I’ve got some costume ideas that I would love to try out.
Guys, do not let your “friends” get you drunk and convince you that this is not truth. Please. For the sake of the eyes and limited sanity of everyone that might be near you. If you do not already look good in speedo, then odds are you will not look good without it. Remember, all actors usually go through intense training plus have damned good makeup and special effects artists working on them soley to make them look that good. Its the work of dozens of people. You probably have just yourself, your creativity and way too much alcohol.
If you think I’m just picking on people then fear not. There is unfortunately way too much empirical evidence that this is a bad idea. Lets not have a repeat of the incidents back when every fangirl on the planet wanted to dress up like Xena, Warrior Princess. In case you forgot, I shall remind you.
1X-Xena (AKA Heroine Girl) was creepy. Should have chosen Callisto instead. Unfortunately they ended up looking like Calista Flockhart. Someone forcefeed that woman a sandwich please.
XXena was more true to form. After all, it takes muscle to kick that much ass and muscle don’t come from a size 4.
XXXena was acceptable. But remember, that leather ensemble gets mighty hot so you you might want to remind yourself that almost nobody looks good sweaty unless you helped them get sweaty if you know what I mean *wink wink nudge nudge*. (What did you expect? there were 3 X’s in that name)
XXXXena. Just say no. Really. Your female companions that said you looked great in this outfit were not your friends . Now there is one caveat to this, you can still pull this off as long as your stomach is not larger than either your hips and your boobs. Remember, men are simple creatures and the vaguely hour glass shape is pretty much all they need to say you are attractive. There is nothing wrong with being big. There is only something wrong with wearing it badly. (Spoken as an admirer of big women of course )
And never forgot, Once you go Klingon, you never go back :-)
Kaplah.
Which reminds me, anyone women interested in competing in the Ms. Klingon pageant this year? I’ve got some costume ideas that I would love to try out.
