Ahhh, yes.  I should have just stopped cosplaying.

I mean, it wasn’t like I had just started sewing big cosplays, and this was my largest project at the time, two month after Dolorosa actually came out.

As for your terrible makeup tag, dear horrible-cosplays:

It was not like it was almost ten at night, after a long photoshot, after almost twelve hours running my artist alley booth, and then an hour table breakdown, with this being the first and only chance to get to the photography booth to get a photo.  Not like it was only my second time learning to apply makeup as such.  It’s not like I was experienced with wig styling.

It’s not like I made it ot have fun or anything.

I should have just stopped cosplaying.

I mean, it’s not like I ever improved.

Certainly not enough to make my own designs or ideas for characters:

Definitely not enough to make a cosplay that ended up in a published book:

I mean, it’s not like cosplayers don’t fucking start somewhere.

So yeah, horrible-cosplays, fuck your shit.  I find it adorable that you went and found an old cosplay photo, rather than actually going through at my new stuff.  I find it cute that you rather tell someone to stop cosplaying, rather than critique them to help them improve.

And to any cosplay that has had the misfortune to end up on that blog, or something similar.  To any cosplayer discouraged because you are worried that assholes will tell you your cosplay sucks: ignore them, and don’t give up.  Everyone starts off somewhere.  And if you stop cosplaying because someone like above got to you, then you let them win