Personally, I don’t take TF2’s “man hands” as canon, I take them as style. Just like how when I’m thinking about cartoon characters, I don’t think about their eyes actually being half their face or what have you. Some of the characters I’m sure have large hands (Heavy at the very least to be sure) but I find it a little odd/humorous some people take it that way.
Of course, it’s still interesting to see people who do actually look at them or at least draw them that way (though from what I’ve seen that’s mostly just Sarcasmosaur) and I’m not about to get in an e-fight over it. But seeing a picture comparing the hands of, say, Heavy and Medic, or pretty much anyone and Pauling, kind of tickles my brain. Like, it works as an image, but if I start actually thinking about it I sort of mentally resize everything to what I would assume to be their real world sizes. And we all know Heavy gets tons of that already, or else he’d be the world’s first successful orangutan hybrid.
But I’ve always figured it’d take too much time or craftsmanship. It’s kind of funny, though I’m a BFA my actual craft skills are pretty lacking, though that could just be due to my domestic skills overall not really being where they should be. And I’m not saying that because I’m a woman, I’m saying that more from the “ability to be independent and thrifty” perspective. I’m always envious of people who are better than me in things I wish I was good at, and people who can make gorgeous replica outfits are one of them.
Technically I cosplayed Caroline from Portal 2 at Pax Prime ‘11, but you can’t really say that’s much of a cosplay, and it was practically a closet one. It’s a start I guess, though I even had someone else to hem the skirt. I know how to sew (kinda)! I just have issues threading the bobbin…
Also I know next to nothing about choosing fabrics. Le sad.
Oh right the whole point of this was me wondering if there were sites that hooked you up with things to cosplay. Usually I loathe people getting all fanarty about things they aren’t even a part of (seeing TF2 art by non-players is weird), but if there was someone who I just happened to look like that’d be cool. I know I know, anyone can cosplay anything if you set your mind to it/are going for shits and giggles, but I like to look nice when I dress up, you know?
Also I’d prefer video game characters as I’m really not into anime any more, unless it’s something I loved when I was younger. /nostalgia
Lately I’ve been getting these urges to revisit old characters I loved as a kid. And I mean like the ones I had schoolgirl crushes on, my first forays into anime/games. It’s funny to look back at the type of characters I used to be into compared to the ones now. It really is almost a parallel to my own aging; as I got older, I got into older, more mature characters, and less bishie boys. Just the nostalgia though still makes them sort of attractive.
I bring it up ‘cuz just last night I had a Digimon-heavy dream, but lacking any Digimon except Myotismon, who captured/mind controlled all the Digidestined (the originals of course) except me. I was playing the role of the tall and blue-haired one, and while I was angry at first eventually I succumbed to, I don’t know, Stockholm Syndrome or something, and wanted him to make me a vampire, but he kept blowing me off even after all the stuff I did for him. Myotismon was probably the first anime character I ever thought was “sexy,” or as much as you can think someone’s sexy at the age of 10. A few episodes gave him a butt chin though and that’s really not very attractive.
Who else was I into? Let’s see, Kurama of YYH fame of course, and every now and then Hiei if I was feeling rebellious. Jin was cute, too; hell, half the bad guys were contenders. Zelos Wilder of ToS, and maybe an NPC or two but they never had official art that I saw. Oh Sojiro from Kenshin, though you didn’t see much of him. Kenshin a bit, too, I guess, though he could get a little dark or emotional for my then-tastes. Maybe I just had a thing for red-heads?
Thinking this would be a fun project if I ever got the free time.