Cosplay Paper

I got my paper back from my Anthropology teacher and she gave me a good review. When I hand in the final draft I think it will be an A. Here is a little exert:

"The first part of my ethnographic research was in an online forum. Cosplay.com is the largest and most well-known website dedicated to all things cosplay. The community is open to people all over the world. There are regional forums and specific topic related forums that I have taken responses from. I had previously been a member but had never posted in the forums, nor uploaded any information about myself. I renewed my profile and introduced myself on my profile. I did not expect to run into any problems since I had been a member for awhile but I was soon to see otherwise. I began to ask questions in the general forum and immediately received a response from a forum moderator:

#####: Posts asking people to answer survey or research paper questions are not allowed without prior permission from Admin. As you can understand if we allowed such posts, every year when finals comes around we'd get flooded with students.

Following this message I sent a letter to an admin explaining that I just wanted to ask a few questions and that I can limit it to a few people. The response to that email was just as short, my account was removed. Not wanting to give up my best source of information the next day I made another account."



And here are two of my favorite examples used later in the mini ethnography paper:

#######: Your room is now your "closet" and your closet is your "armory". I have quite literally turned my room and closet into nothing but clothing and weapon racks for cosplay. I sleep on a futon in the middle of my floor, next to my sewing machine, my hot glue gun, my sequin machine, and a few other necessary tools.

######: Being awesome & absorbing attributes and superpowers of the character I'm cosplaying, including but not limited to flying around and shooting lasers from my eyes. I wear my costumes under my street clothes and change in phone booths too.