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Wearing the costume so hard you briefly become the footnote in your own biography.
means Dressing up as a specific fictional character, usually with elaborate costume and performance, typically at conventions or gatherings for that purpose.
from A Japanese coinage blending English 'costume' and 'play' — 'kosupure,' credited to writer Nobuyuki Takahashi after attending an American sci-fi convention in the early 1980s and finding 'masquerade' too stiff a word for what he saw. The term traveled back into English wholesale, the rare loanword that's actually a re-import — English gave Japan the parts, Japan welded them into something new, and English borrowed back the finished machine.
- origin
- coined in japan 1984, blending costume and play
- economy
- commissioned armor can cost more than rent
- craft
- foam, worbla, and bleeding fingers before any glory
- myth
- not an invitation, just enthusiasm wearing eva foam