Month: September 2013

korraisnottan:

dat-shit-schway:

So I was looking up Korra cosplay and i noticed this girl had used makeup to attempt to make her skin tone match Korra’s…and this is what she put in the description. I am not sure why this irritated me so much.

I’m not sure if its the fact that she said “No one else who cosplayed seemed to achieve the exact rich skin tone“ as if people who actually are Korra’s color have never cosplayed as Korra before…and the fact that she believes that brown skin is something that you can easily "achieve” by plastering on make-up and it will basically look like you actually have brown skin (which in fact it does not). :I

Ah. Idk. Its 1 AM and this irritated me. Thats what I get for looking up cosplay.

Deedee:

I have not made much commentary on this blog because plain and simple I’m tired. But I haven’t fully given up on working on it so here I am. 

This is exactly why many people have problems with light skinned people cosplaying as Korra. 

“No one else who cosplayed seemed to achieve the exact rich skin tone“ as if people who actually are Korra’s color have never cosplayed as Korra before…

You are right. They are acting like someone of Korra’s tone hasn’t cosplayed as Korra. There are a lot of brown skin folk that are REALLY happy about her design, her character, her outfit and her skin tone that they don’t feel out of place cosplaying because skin tones match. 

That isn’t to say you have to cosplay as only characters of your skin tone. But if you’ve never felt left out, or if you’ve never had to read about someone fetishing your skintone in this way “lovely milk chocolate color” then you don’t understand the isolation of being the odd man out in the cosplay world. 

This is disgusting, thank you for point this out