I was just getting used to Cosplay.  Cosplay isn't just dressing up; it isn't just putting on makeup, and trying to look like a favourite Character from a book, a game, a movie, or a comic.  Cosplayers take their avocation very seriously.

I was startled by how some cosplays stretched the character, and sometimes the actual scene they were trying to represent.  Can you imagine a female Superman?  A female Flash?  A mellow Harley Quinn?  All of these seemed to be reasonable at some level.

But m more I'm seeing a totally nude cosplay.  Wait a minute; what is left of the character if you take away the entire costume??  Suppose you take the character Tifa Lockhart, and submit a photograph of her completely nude?  Without even her characteristic suspenders?  The very universe should howl in protest.

There's a lot of nudity on DeviantArt; the site tolerates a lot of weirdness, and nudity is one of the least objectionable of those.  I'm just saying that if someone is playing the role of some character from the popular media, one is