The Occasional Solipsist

I've never really gotten my head around the whole cosplay thing. I have in fact bashed cosplayers repeatedly on this blog (here's a sample).

I mean, a person can get away with wearing a costume at Halloween, and maybe a costume party (although does anyone even have those anymore?), but there's something creepy about dressing up as your favourite superhero or videogame character and walking around in public.

I am all for self-expression; I've had various parts of me tattooed and for a short while at least, pierced. But cosplaying is just fucking weird. Sorry, but there it is.

However.

Because I am a huge comic/scifi/videogame geek, I can think of one place, and one place only that this sort of thing is okay, and that would be in the bedroom (preferrably mine). So it was with a larger degree of enjoyment than I will care to admit to that I came across a clip during the most recent geek-week.net video podcast of a gorgeous blonde girl dressed as Sue Richards pillow-fighting another female cosplayer (the lovely Sarah, one of the show's hosts).

Here's the link to the clip. The show is pretty good; the people are clearly geeks like me and (if you're still reading this post, likely you), and they more than make up for any production shortcomings with their enthusiasm.

And did I mention that they randomly insert sexy pillow fighting cosplayers into their podcasts?

I did? Well, it was worth mentioning twice.