mazarinedrake:averyfatopossum:lovelylandfillcosplay:(all photos by bunny-speak)This is my Rose Quart
mazarinedrake:averyfatopossum:lovelylandfillcosplay:(all photos by bunny-speak)This is my Rose Quartz cosplay. I wore it to AnimeNEXT in June, and have never in my life felt more accepted, beautiful, and at home in my body. I want to thank my cosplay partners, bunny-speak and elyseexplosion, for their help on this costume, ghostcowboy for calming me down every time I thought I wasn’t good enough to cosplay, and averyfatopossum for being so enthusiastically supportive of me even attempting this. This costume was hand-made. Every curl on the wig I put there. Every stitch on the dress either bunny-speak or I sewed. My father helped built the sword. elyseexplosion helped me spray paint. I hand-painted all the details. It took months, but it all came together and to me, it is absolutely perfect.From the moment I stepped out of our hotel room door, I felt a wholeness I had never really felt before. I felt that people were looking at me and not seeing a monster. Every time someone asked for a picture of me, I knew it wasn’t to mock me later. I could look people in the eye and feel like I was worth something when I was rose. Rose is huge. Rose is beautiful. I am huge.So, to Rebecca Sugar, and all of the crewniverse, THANK YOU. Thank you for giving me, and anyone like me, someone beautiful and kind and bright and shining to look up to. Someone who isn’t the butt of every joke, someone who isn’t seen as repulsive. Someone who is, most importantly, loved. Thank you for giving us a giant woman who is shown as worthy of love and respect. I’ve never been able to cosplay comfortably before because I’ve never in my life seen a character that looked remotely like me that wasn’t a joke. Thank you for Steven Universe. Thank you for Rose Quartz. AAAHHHHH LOOK AT ROSE QUARTZ REAL AND IN THE GEM-FLESH!A+ COSPLAY HELL YEAAAAAAAAH -- source link