The tag alias #61395 cosplaying_as_character -> cosplay has been approved.

Reason: It means the same thing.

EDIT: The tag alias cosplaying_as_character -> cosplay (forum #358015) has been approved by @furrypickle.

Technically, you could cosplay as things other than characters, such as buildings. Not that this distinction will ever be useful here.

waydence said:
Technically, you could cosplay as things other than characters, such as buildings. Not that this distinction will ever be useful here.

Building cosplay is hilarious, lol

waydence said:
Technically, you could cosplay as things other than characters, such as buildings. Not that this distinction will ever be useful here.

One could easily counterargue that, by cosplaying as a building (or something else), they're effectively turning that building into a character. There's more than one way to depict something as anthropomorphic, after all.

On a related note, should non-specific costumes really be tagged cosplay? I'm struggling to understand why these are tagged cosplay and not just costume:

post #3826635 post #3688226 post #3497554 post #3773454 post #3376829

It's not even that they're not cosplaying characters, but that these costumes are to my knowledge completely generic. Generic magician, generic ghost, generic nun, generic witch, generic teacher...

I'm working on trying to tag copyrights and characters on cosplay images where appropriate and I keep getting tripped up by images like these which seem like they should just be in costume.

The tag alias cosplaying_as_character -> cosplay (forum #358015) has been approved by @furrypickle.