<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>Cosplay is among the most hit-or-miss of the geek arts. The problem is that in order to want to engage in Cosplay you have to pretty much be a hardcore geek. Mild geeks, or normal people who might be geek-curious, do not spend weeks making costumes and attending movies at the multiplex dressed like Luke Skywalker and Optimus Prime. So while Cosplay requires a certain high degree of geek dedication, at the same time you have to look nothing like the stereotypical geek. You have to be in exceptionally good shape, because the characters you’re going to be emulating are going to have impossibly idealized physiques. <\/p>\nA lot of people fail to realize this, and so for every well-crafted Mahoro<\/a> costume out there you’ll have a scrawny guy in an oversized Batman outfit and a fat guy in Vulcan ears and a dirty t-shirt. <\/p>\n Still, when someone does well at Cosplay, the results are really amazing. Here is a young lady who did a brilliant Samus Aran<\/a> (of Metroid<\/a> fame) that would pass for a professional quality costume in my book. If they made a big-budget Metroid Prime movie, I doubt the main character would look much better. (The excellent photography helps.) <\/p>\n The other costumes are worth a look as well. Nicely done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cosplay is among the most hit-or-miss of the geek arts. The problem is that in order to want to engage in Cosplay you have to pretty much be a hardcore geek. Mild geeks, or normal people who might be geek-curious, do not spend weeks making costumes and attending movies at the multiplex dressed like Luke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}