/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I don't like to be obviously hit on but I'm not going to shoot someone down for striking up a pleasant conversation over mutual interests. It's not a common thing for me because I'm tall, have RBF and a general air of reserve that keeps the party boys from approaching (which is fine with me!)
It does nothing for my ego to have a guy just trying to score come sniffing around though. I'll brush him off the few times it happens.

depends on the dude, if its a visibly normal looking dude it's fine not good or bad, but if its a greasy weeb being inappropriate or any of the things that greasy weebs do, i get uncomfortable. code red is when they try to hug you

>>9085371
lmfao of course! it's the whole reason i go to cons silly, it makes me feel so good

why would getting hit on bother anyone? lol they like you

-susie

>>9085371
I personally hate it. Men are nothing more than insufferable pigs!

>>9085371
*long sigh* Ughhhh... only when the guy's are hideous. Which is the case almost all of the time.

When you're a lesbian it's always annoying.

>>9085403
my first thought to your comment was "why is she saying being tall is something that would not attract guys? being tall is so hot?" because I am 6'1" and I have decided this is true about tall girls. (tip: boosts your confidence like fuckin hell)

then I remembered
"oh yeah, I'm tall, it sucks and intimidates men, how did I forget??"

I've never been hit on at a con cosplaying or not. Guess I'm fugly.

Also all these responses are hilarious.

>>9085484
>5'7" woman who also think tall girls are hot
Carry me into Valhalla like the goddess you are.

>>9085424
>>9085473
>seagulls unironically think /cgl/ isn't just female /r9k/

>>9085501
when someone actually thinks these were posted by seagulls and not some other board troll

>>9085501
Oh shut up.

Claiming the thread as a Valkyrie Love thread for girls admiring girls.

it gets boring

>>9085505
>muh cross-board bogeyman!

I generally don't mind as long as they don't get sexual and have the decency to stop as soon as they realize I'm married. For some reason cons are full of dudes who think they're such hot shit that they can convince girls to drop their SO for them. Honey even if I were going to betray my husband it wouldn't be with some acne-riddled chubby weeb with eBay cat ears, so give it up.

>>9085510
Those comments are so bait they pretty much have targets painted on them.

I've had dudes comment saying "oh you're so cute!" which kinda weirds me out but I usually just smile, say thanks, and move on. I draw the line at trying to grab me/hug me without permission and just being generally gross creeps.

I like having conversations about cosplay construction or the source, material, that's always fine. I will be totally honest and say it depends on how cute the dude is. Shallow, yes, but 100% true

>>9085403
You sound like my long lost twin. Also I guess I have kind of a matronly air in how I carry myself (I cosplay a lot of moms) so maybe that also keeps people from seeing me in that light. Or I'm just too dumb to realize when I'm being hit on, because I don't recall it ever happening.

>>9085681

Gross creeps = anyone unattractive trying to talk to me

>>9085743
>>9085473
>>9085424
>>9085371

>19 posts / 15 unique posters
>This level of shitty, obvious, baiting

Where's Janitor-chan when you need them

>>9085743
Slow down there /r9k/

My boyfriend gets scared that guys will always hit on me whenever I go out to places, especially cons he can't go to. But it rarely ever happens? I would say I'm too dumb to notice but I never had a guy try to talk to me at all so that can't be it. I'm not really attractive so I also guess that's it but maybe I look intimidating and have a bad case of rbf. I'm purely lolita too so that probably is also a boy repellent, I think we should differentiate which posters are cosplayers or lolitas. I don't particularly mind being hit on if it's just a compliment but I don't take it as that and also don't try to encourage it. I'm in a committed relationship so I'm not really looking for nor care about other people's attention so meh. I feel like it's mainly annoying for most girls since they want to go to the con for fun, not to hook up with anyone.

>>9085371
If they stop when the feeling isn't mutual or they realize there's a significant other in the woman's life then it's fine. Same as any other situation really.

Man, speaking of actuallycreepy shit though: I was 14 and dumb, and some guys once started chatting me up at a con and I thought nothing of it. I was a stupid/innocent kid. One thing turns to another and they insist on buying me a necklace from the dealers room that I had mentioned. At the time I just thought "cool! Free shit!" I also thought it was really generous but looking back I just get really skeezed out. They had to have been well several years older than me at least. Maybe even in their 20s... I wonder if my friends remember me talking to them. We were talking about totally innocent stuff like kingdom hearts theories we had, but I do remember my friends had to whisk me away because I couldn't shake these guys. They wouldn't stop talking to me even after I explained I had to go practice for a skit, which was true. I basically had to run off and hide.

Another weird story, same con but many years later. I was wearing a bunny suit and was with my friends. Some random guy was hovering around in the hall (my male friends spotted him, he was being really sneaky and since no one else was in the hall was clearly watching us). He finally works up the balls to tell me there's a cool party happening outside (it's dark mind you and by now I am not an idiot anymore.) I politely declined. He hovered a bit more and then peaced out. Shit was weird.

>>9085743
And yet nobody says anything about this
>>9085419

I made Gray Fullbuster's ice cannon, but I'm not really happy with the outcome. I want to make the handles round, but don't know how to do it properly, the actual ones on pic related are coming off, so you can't hold them. I also need advice on how to add smaller tubes in the between the octagons and how to create them.

No matter what cosplay or coord I'm wearing, if there's a blonde wig involved, I WILL get hit on without fail. I've had experiences creepy enough that I got a guy kicked out of a con, so I'm definitely not a fan of that kind of attention. Plus, it doesn't help that I'm genderqueer and despise being incessantly referred to as a girl, even when I'm clearly cosplaying a male character.

>>9085784
>wears Lolita
>gets upset when referred to as a girl


Kill yourself.

>>9085481
I feel like this is really the only appropriate reason you wouldn't enjoy someone hitting on you, assuming you are not in a relationship.

>>9085489
Post some cosplay then, we will judge. ;)

>>9085784
>genderqueer

You've got a vagina, Nancy. You're a fucking girl.

>>9085784
If you really want people to think your a guy wear a strap on in your pants.

>>9085497
Bless you!

>>9085784
>genderqueer
gr8 new copypasta

>>9085484
I'm a guy and tall girls are my fetish. Not all men are intimidated by height. Just have to find the right one.

>>9085769
Here's your (you)

Never been actually hit on straightforwardly while in cosplay. I get a lot of creeper shots (as a side note, I don't wear cosplays that expose my stomach and/ or a lot of cleavage) and I will occasionally get groped when someone asks for a photo. Even though I'm tall and not kawaii it always happens twice as much when I'm in a love live cosplay. It boosts my ego when people ask for a photo of my costume and get excited about it, but the creeper shots and groping make me feel like I failed because I'm really into sewing and if all they can see is my bust size after I put a ton of work into my costume then something went wrong somewhere

>>9085815
It has nothing to do with how well you made your outfit. When a creeper neckbeard sees your cosplay, all he sees is all the hentai of her he fapped to. Don't let them make you think you have bad sewing skills or anything like that.

>>9085751
>>9085752
well, they're not wrong

it applies to guys, moreso. creeps are just unattractive people, of both sexes

>>9085786
Clearly you can't read -- that phrase was attached to the sentence in which I specified I clearly was cosplaying a male character.

>>9085791
Surprise, most single women date through mutual friends, not by being hit on so social evidence says you are wrong.

Men don't hit on me as much at cons now that I'm not fifteen and under anymore. Can't say I miss it.

I have such an unfortunate face that I have never really had that happen to me. Its kind of a relief after hearing some of the stories that other folks tell or my friends complaining about post-con PMs, though.

>>9085840
Im wrong that its my opinion that its normal for gay people to feel uncomfortable when hit on by the opposite gender? ya, ok.

Two easy steps to avoid this:
1. Be ugly
2. Profit

Works every time so far unless it's really, really dark.

Any experiences with women hitting on men?

What sbout gay and lesbian?

/thread

>>9085878
Literally none

>>9085850
Of course that part is obviously usually correct but that is far from the only reason most women don't want to get hit on. Obtuse much? Many MEN say they get an ego boost from getting hit on or flirted with so I think that might be more common but it's usually different for women who often think it is creepy for a guy (attractive or not) to openly hit on her rather than just being low key, nice and without a sex agenda or expectation.

>>9085879
Agreed.

/Thread

>>9085760

>awkward virgin males are all killers

I feel ambivalent about it. I don't like being forced to politely interact with people and most of them are nice enough, but it's not horrible. If it's a cute girl I get flustered, though I'm okay with cute guys as I'm pretty immune to them (and if my husband comes up when a cute girl is flirting with me I know he's going to tease the hell out of me later). I know it's kinda condescending, but the really awkward ones who are nice and typically noticeably less attractive than me usually just make me think things like "Aw, he's trying so hard! Good for him." I even tried to play wingman for a guy like that before in the gaming room at a con, but the girl ended up being into me and thought I was going for her. Oops.

I do get pissed if they're being low-key condescending or aggressive assholes, though.

>>9086027
>"Aw, he's trying so hard! Good for him."
This is so messed up but also true

>>9085825
not necessarily. even if a person who wasn't conventionally attractive came up to flirt with me I wouldn't think they were creepy. what makes a creep is having no respect; someone who is persistent even after getting a clear answer, gets up close in your space, basically has no regard for the fact that relations, even one-nighters, are a two-way deal and require all parties to be on the same page.

creeps are all about persuasion or being forceful. I don't care if the person looks like a physical 10; if I don't return their sexual interest and they get mad or appear to enter "challenge accepted" mode, they're a fucking creep (emotional 0/10). I've had a lot of experience with male and female creeps alike, and girl creeps have a tendency to be more sly and act innocent while trying to pinch your fruit up.
people who are attracted enough to a creep make the conscious decision to ignore the bad behavior, because the potential sex seems worth it. they also either feel safe/confident enough that there won't be any danger, or are too horny to have planned that far ahead...or they themselves are a higher ranking creep, which often happens.

tl;dr the actions/selfishness make the creep, not the ?/10. just because the target wants to bone doesn't mean the approacher isn't a creep. and sometimes all parties involved are creeps,

>>9085878
quick greentext
>I'm straight male
>at convention a couple months back
>in costume that has man tights, I'm by no means fit but skinny enough that tights make my butt look good, or so I hear later
>this girl/guy duo are doing a genderbent ash/misty, I keep running into them at random occurrences, once at registration, another time in merchandise, and another time in a panel. No matter where I go they just happen to bump into me. Getting a bit weirded out by it.
>girl is kinda qt but from a brief 30 second talk get the vibe that she has mad issues
>guy is outwardly flirty with me
>my first take is that the girl is trying to wingman her guy friend onto me
>guy at one point puts his arm around my waist
>sidestep out of it pretty smoothly but damage is done, guy backs off
>this threw me for a loop, now the girl starts to flirt with me
>watching some skit or something and she starts rubbing her tits on me
>asks me "what I'm doing later" and "if I've got a room..." she left that second one open and made it very suggestive
>she finally drops the question if I would be into spitroasting her with the guy, who I find out is her ex that she just keeps around for emotional gratification
>nope.avi.png.gif.webm
>eventually ended up brushing her off, she found my on FB and added me, and her guy friend did immediately as well.
>she sends some query about wanting to go do something sometime, don't respond
>about a month later, see a post about her joining the navy
>know she's never going to do anything beyond basic, as she'll get knocked up and cash in shore leave for several years

I've got a few more fun stories, but none quite as just WTF out there as this one.

>>9085784
Did you cosplay link at AX this year? I may know you.

>>9086060
>I've got a few more fun stories
feel free to keep going

>>9086099
>at another con, in a panel for cosplay chess
>whole bunch of people standing in center of room
>girl who's probably around 16 is lurking in shadows
>when I get rid of my stubble I look 18 at the most, am actually 22 (it's relevant)
>I turn my back on creepergirl , start talking with my friend
>about 5 seconds later he gets a weird look on his face and something grabs my arm
>creepergirl is holding my arm in 2 hands
>blows a raspberry on my forearm and leaves a hicky mark
>tries to give me her number afterwards, report her to con staff
>think she got tossed

And this board thinks guys are the only ones that sperg out. I've still got a few more.

>>9086060
>>9086117
god that's horrifying. I feel like a lot of people at cons have this mentality that everyone wants to hook up. coupled with the fact that half of them lack basic social skills and things like this happen

>>9086117
...was she fat?

>dude at fanime sees me and some friends
>approaches with two of his friends, girls, to be non threatening
>talks to us out of nowhere about nothing
>my friends and I are really wanting to just get out
>dude invites me to a party later, not my friends
>I said I don't go to parties which is true
>too old to be doing that shitty con party crap
>dude says too bad he'd like me there
>I tell him thats too bad because I don't drink and I hate socializing
>his friends start laughing at him
>made the mistake at first introduction of giving real first name to be polite
>friends and I say we have to be somewhere
>5 hours later I get a facebook notification from the dude
>instantly block his ass

Fuck. He was clearly hitting on me and even when I said I wasn't interested he fucking finds me on Facebook. Its creepy as shit. He didn't seem autist or awkward or anything. Just a grade A fucking creep trying to pick up chicks and bring them back to his 'party' in his room.

>>9086120
when autism is bottled up in such high densities, it eventually reaches critical mass, and that's when... the magic happens.

Think I've got 1 more story after this one.
>Ohayocon, like 2010 or so
>In the rave, trying to teach an acquaintance how to do the hardstyle kick (melbourne shuffle, white person rave moves), whatever you want to call it.
>do like 15 seconds of shuffling, just back and forth to explain it to him
>girl comes up to me (wanna say I was 17 or 18 at the time?) and she's no older than 16, so I'm turned off already
>she's overly enthusiastic about my dancing, and thinks my friend learning is "So kawai-ee~"
>she actually said kawaii like kawhy - ee, as in 3 syllables. it irked me.
>she wants to learn the kick so I make the mistake of including her
>she's fucking awful at it
>stepping on her own feet, actually kicked a passerby once
>put a hand on her shoulder and tell her to watch closely
>PHYSICAL CONTACT: BIG MISTAKE
>she instantly leans in and tries to make out with me
>what the fuck
>back up pretty quickly and push her off
>grab friend and we leave
She wasn't even stoned or anything, just assumed that I was into her... I don't understand people...


>>9086129
actually no. She was nerdy-ish looking, thin, quiet, with glasses. All around pretty average, in that "girl next door" kinda way. As soon as she spoke though, you could instantly tell something wasn't completely connected up there, so to speak.

>>9086117
Thats not how hickies work.

>>9085878
I was straight up groped by women multiple times in this thing. I still have no idea why.

>>9086133
since you want excruciating detail, here you go
>she grabbed my arm at like the elbow and just above the wrist, put her lips on my arm like about 6 inches from her right hand, blew a loud ass raspberry, I start to push her off and that's when the suction kicked in, her parasitic lips made a little suction sound as they were pried from my arm. The second half of which caused the hicky.

>girl in con approaches me and asks for a hug
>she gives off strange vibes, but I'm polite, so tell her of course she can. >She runs off excited, and afterwards run into her a few more times. She always creeps her way into my circle and stands there.

>later in the evening on the train leaving the con, pretty crowded from Canada day fireworks.
>Get on with friends, look at the there and of the train and see her
>she was staring at me
> the moment out eyes meet, she b-lines it towards us and gives me an unwarranted hug
>then, while still not saying anything, uses me bicep (which is holding the ceiling, so it's kinda flexed) for balance instead of the pole beside her
>friends are all bert-faced
>she eventually gets off at her stop
>random British guy standing next to us who observes this chimes in
>"well that was fucking weird".

I felt bad that day, but after hearing she had a creepy reputation from everyone at the con, and the fact she apparently knows where I live makes me not feel bad.

I'm going to be honest.

I don't mind being hit on if the dude is attractive to me (he doesn't necessarily have to be conventionally attractive but -I- have to be attracted to him), I really mind if they're socially awkward or not attractive to me though.

I'm pretty bad at confrontation and I hate making people feel bad, so I usually manage to turn down people nicely. I've also only hooked up with one person from a convention and we dated for a little at least. I'm not really into the hookups, but I don't mind flirting.

However, now that I have a boyfriend I usually avoid situations where I might end up getting hit on.

>>9086139
I think a lot of people see cosplays like this and instantly assume "oh he/she can't see me so I can do whatever I want and I won't get caught!"

>>9086188
That's my biggest problem is a lot of people assume everything based on your costume. Mind you, the women who dress like sluts are doing it purely for attention, but a freaky monsterman makes no sense to me.

>>9086054
I've noticed that girl creeps tend to be more aggressive than dude creeps. People tend to give women more of a pass when it comes to sexual harassment. If it's a dude, then a dude shouldn't be mean to her and should like the sexual attention (gag) and if it's a woman then she's "just playing around, teehee!". Girl creeps can also gather white knights more easily than dude creeps.

>>9086190
There's a cosplayer in my area that cosplays as the Sugarplum Fairy from Cabin in the Woods. I mean extremely accurate detail, completely covered and people still try to touch her boobs, say things like "oh I'd still bang you" to her face. Do people just have some sort of disconnect since they can't see you? It's very odd.

>>9086197
I still can't figure it out. But the only thing I can think of is just straight up assumptions that are in no way accurate.