#cosplaying with a disability

[fullmetalharmony]

A cosplay compilation ✨️ this isn't everything that I've done over the last two years, just a few highlights! I'm still very much at the beginning of my cosplay journey, but I have big plans for the next year!

Uh hi 👋 I didn't realize y'all would like this so much. Feel free to follow me on IG and Tiktok if you want regular cosplay updates! I'm @fullmetalharmony on both

[scarletstitchstudios]

I promise masking won't ruin your cosplays!! When did vanity become more important than protecting our community???

[hypnoneghoul]

this is for everyone who also subscribes to the disabled rain ghoul agenda

[covidsafecosplay]

Welcome to Covid-Safe Cosplay!

This blog was founded for cosplayers who want to show off their passion and hard work, but can't attend conventions or other cosplay events due to COVID-19 and other accessibility concerns. As fun as cons and fandom are, it's just not worth the risk for plenty of disabled and immunocompromised people, and it feels crappy to be left behind while the rest of the cosplay and fandom world moves on.

Here you will find posts about cosplay, COVID-19 news and advocacy, health and safety, incorporating mobility and other aids into costumes, crafting advice, tutorials, book reviews, and more! If it relates to COVID-19 safety or accessibility in fandom and cosplay, I want to talk about it!

This is also a place to spotlight cosplayers and their hard work! If you have a sweet cosplay to show off but you can't make it to a con, show it off via the submission box or using the tag #CovidSafeCosplay! To those of you masking up for events, or making cool character-themed PPE, we want to see you, too! Let's show the cosplay community that masking for crowded indoor events is still important! Let no disabled cosplayer be left behind!

We also have a Discord server, which you can join at this link!

(Blog admin: @renthony, they/them)

[cure-icy-writes]

Crip punk Miku but I decided to join the trend. And what's the most Illinois background? A cornfield.

Anyways. I decided to put together crip punk Miku a while back, on the basis that miku can be anyone and I wanted a comfy cosplay. The original outfit is slightly different, but I decided to use knee braces and socks instead of thigh highs because the change in pressure has been making my knees hurt. The shirt is pretty comfy, and has the signature leek painted on it.

I looked around for a Millikin shirt, because they've got the best choir program in the state, but I think I must have gotten rid of mine. I figured the flannel hi-lo skirt gave it a special flair, plus my cane matches pretty well. The headphones have a faded sunflower sticker on them, for invisible disability. I also went with one of the fuzzy athleisure jackets I see people wearing.

Also. Although it isn't obvious. I have hyperacusis, which has made cosplaying more and more difficult. I like Miku because with her, I can wear the headphones I use to protect my hearing on a day to day basis. I like to think that maybe she developed the same disorder, in the future without music.

[liliavacyncosplay]

It occurred to me that I never posted my new and improved Malevolent Wheelchair AKA Sukuna Bone Throne on here despite it being from EIGHT MONTHS AGO 🫠

Anyway, I met Ray Chase at CFCC and he was an absolutely lovely person, despite gleefully signing my print with "Let's go k#ll some kids" completely unprompted 🤣

[sol1loqu1st]

I'm gonna fuckin rage or whatever the barbarians are saying these days. Taliesin Jaffe owes me a crisp $20

My faves from the impromptu cosplay photoshoot I did on Saturday! Photography by @zinabug

[disabled-dragoon]

"You don't need a parking badge if you're not in a wheelchair. Your taking it away from someone who actually needs it"

Resident wheelchair user and qualified driver here to tell you that anyone who says this is wrong and and I will personally ram their kneecaps for you 👍 [thumbs up]

The issue is not that the spaces are being "taken away" from people who "actually" need them

The issue is that there's not even enough spaces in the first place

[ibuprofenator]

Sienna Shaw (Terrifier 2)

in honor of one of my favorite horror movies getting a third one, here’s my favorite character.

[acecookiesap]

New head canon just dropped: Sanji is extremely near sighted (like completely blind to stuff that’s over a ships length away and blurry if it’s more than like. 10 ft) and needs glasses (it’s a lot worse in one eye than the other). Used to not wear them bc of being ashamed and feeling like it’s a weakness, accepted it during time skip but still doesn’t wear glasses bc it’s not like it affects her cooking and it would be inconvenient in combat.

-inspired by me cosplaying Sanji and the half of my face covered is the eye I can fucking see out of. I’m so very blind but confident I could still see well enough to cook so I think she would be too. Let ppl have disabilities in media fr

[sartorialadventure]

My roommates just got back from a con in Philadelphia! Callie has always adored The Little Mermaid, and she got the chance to meet Jodi Benson, voice of the animated Ariel! @spark-of-jenius made her an entire costume. She got the sewing pattern, started putting it together, and realized that the pattern was sized wrong and the waist size was TWENTY INCHES off what it was supposed to be! But she’s such a good costumer that she managed to remake the pattern to make it all work and look amazing.

1. Callie with Jodi Benson and our friend ( @spark-of-jenius​ also modified the Elsa costume and made the magic effect she’s holding! More Elsa photos at the bottom of the post.) 2-3. Callie with other Ariels! 4. Wheelchair decor! Also by @spark-of-jenius​ 5. The full dress. Please note the slash-and-puff sleeves! 6. The underskirt. Iridescent fish scales, and a layer of gauzy iridescent bubbles overtop! 7. Lining of the sleeves. She just had to. lol 8. Embellishment 9. Painted and embellished shoes 10. Bejeweled dinglehopper!

More Elsa photos!

[incorrectly-quoting-mxtx]

wtf is the point of Halloween masks being for everyone if they can’t fit over my glasses.

[fansplaining]

It often feels like disability is completely invisible to fans, even those that make an effort to be intersectional around other marginalizations. I see people include mobility aids and facial scarring that are not theirs as props in cosplay, and no one bats an eye. I see maskless photos from huge inaccessible convention halls, effectively barring disabled and immunocompromised people from attending. I’m not the fandom police, I don’t want to enforce masks or take people’s cosplays away, but I would love for disability to be a part of the conversation and for disabled fans to be centered in more physical spaces and online communities. 

— Hannah in our “Disability and Fandom” double episode. Click through to listen to her segment or read a full transcript!

[liliavacyncosplay]

My costume for Collect-a-Con Orlando was Merlotic AKA Pokémon Gijinka Milotic! This is the first costume I’ve made by hand from scratch in a long time and boy did my neck injury remind me why 🫠 I do have some more improvements in mind for the next time I wear this…possibly Metrocon?

Everyone was so nice, and so many little kids were just like “MERMAID 😱👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻” which definitely made me shift into princess mode LOL

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

Today i was lying in bed and thought to myself that if i tried really hard I could run for a short distance. I wouldn't be doing well but i could do it. Then I stood up and suddenly i was lying on the floor and well.