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sorcyressWhuf. I have lost basically all of this weekend. It's...not good. Time to bring myself back to life, through whatever means possible.
(Mostly this means I'ma go upstairs and clean my room, probably.)
Characters I hella relate to numero two: Daria Morgendoffer.
Look, I am only human, and like every sarcastic brunette geek with childhood ties to the nineties or early aughts, I find myself reflected in Daria's deadpan glare. She is, in fact, the first character I ever cosplayed1! My first Dragon*Con I wandered around dressed as her on parade day, and was fortunate enough to meet some other Daria-ites. We all went and got pizza together --two Darias, two Janes, and a Trent. Absolutely fucking perfect.
A big part of my incentive for cosplaying Daria originally was that there are aren't a lot of characters out there with brown hair and big glasses. Fewer still characters who don't shave their legs. (What's that you say? The cartoon doesn't have enough detail to tell? Are you *really* going to sit here and tell me Daria --who hates conformity like it's her job-- is actually going to waste half an hour in the shower every morning to make herself look sexier to the scintillating young men at her school? _really?!_)
Getting right to the heart of it though, it was so valuable (as a freshman in college --I watched all five seasons of Daria during the summer of 2008) to have a protagonist who wasn't all delicate and bubbly and excitable. As I've mentioned before, my sense of humour is dead-babies-dark, and I speak sarcasm like a first language. Daria was the first of a new kind of hero, and I'll always find her existence of value.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Well, she's the first character I ever cosplayed of my own accord. For various Halloweens, with mom's help, I was the Pink Ranger, an M&M, and Pippi Longstocking, the last of whom will be getting their own post.
Oh right, and I suppose technically "Booty Chest Girl #6" and "Ashley J. Williams" both came before her too. Okay fine, so she's not actually my first cosplay but she's the first one I ever did at a con.
(Mostly this means I'ma go upstairs and clean my room, probably.)
Characters I hella relate to numero two: Daria Morgendoffer.
Look, I am only human, and like every sarcastic brunette geek with childhood ties to the nineties or early aughts, I find myself reflected in Daria's deadpan glare. She is, in fact, the first character I ever cosplayed1! My first Dragon*Con I wandered around dressed as her on parade day, and was fortunate enough to meet some other Daria-ites. We all went and got pizza together --two Darias, two Janes, and a Trent. Absolutely fucking perfect.
A big part of my incentive for cosplaying Daria originally was that there are aren't a lot of characters out there with brown hair and big glasses. Fewer still characters who don't shave their legs. (What's that you say? The cartoon doesn't have enough detail to tell? Are you *really* going to sit here and tell me Daria --who hates conformity like it's her job-- is actually going to waste half an hour in the shower every morning to make herself look sexier to the scintillating young men at her school? _really?!_)
Getting right to the heart of it though, it was so valuable (as a freshman in college --I watched all five seasons of Daria during the summer of 2008) to have a protagonist who wasn't all delicate and bubbly and excitable. As I've mentioned before, my sense of humour is dead-babies-dark, and I speak sarcasm like a first language. Daria was the first of a new kind of hero, and I'll always find her existence of value.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Well, she's the first character I ever cosplayed of my own accord. For various Halloweens, with mom's help, I was the Pink Ranger, an M&M, and Pippi Longstocking, the last of whom will be getting their own post.
Oh right, and I suppose technically "Booty Chest Girl #6" and "Ashley J. Williams" both came before her too. Okay fine, so she's not actually my first cosplay but she's the first one I ever did at a con.
small confession...
on 2016-10-02 08:33 pm (UTC)