As a big girl in the cosplay world, I feel I have to make this rant. Warning, there may be colorful language used. I apologize if this offends you. But then again, I don't.

My only 'accurate' cosplay would be Yunbo from Xam'd. I only would have the options of Yunbo, or a list of big, yet not so popular or doable, characters. Obviously this pisses me off. Yes, I think it's ok to cosplay anyone regardless of race or size. But many people don't feel this way. And that is a very sad thing.

I don't do skin reviling cosplay. That's just not me. But I think if a girl wants to cosplay in a bikini, she should.

No, I don't often like to see a girl cosplay Thor in a bikini, but that's only because I feel it's a little inaccurate. Who would honestly wear a bikini into battle? Now, dammit, I don't care if the girl is doing it for fun. It's the girls who do it for attention alone that makes me angry.

Another thing that upsets me is when a person who is starting out with making their cosplays don't make the best costume, and people let them know it. Who cares if it doesn't look like a professional did it? If that person has fun, that's all I'm concerned about.

As I stated before, I am a bigger sized girl. I have social anxiety and it scares me to cosplay at times. Even in the friendliest of conventions, there's always that one asshole. I know you'll probably think, "But Beccu, that one guy shouldn't ruin anyone's fun!" But that one asshat could ruin the entire trip for someone. I've been there.

So here is my message for the bigger girls cosplaying, or even those girls who don't feel comfortable with themselves: Try to ignore the media. Some of the big girls in anime are used for comic relief, and we shouldn't have to put up with that fat girl stereotype bullshit. Always have fun.

Also, to the future artists who may some day make anime or manga: Please don't make ridiculously overweight characters who's main purpose is to be picked on and walked all over.