• Cosplay - My Life

    Cosplay is Not a Dirty Word

    Cosplayers can get pretty wound up when asked about the current state of the cosplay community. My generation in particular can get their wonder panties in quite a bunch over “cosplay” and what cosplay means and how it’s basically a dirty word ruining everything associated with costuming. Many of us have acquiesced and accepted the term because it makes thing so much easier to explain. But overall, we are “costumers”. Or at least, that’s what I always considered myself. Oh, when asked if we are cosplayers, we’ll probably shudder a little. Swallow a long detailed explanation about how we were…