— Hi Neil! I'm super anxious to ask this question,...

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Hi Neil! I'm super anxious to ask this question, because, well, Tumblr is a hellsite, but i'm going for it anyway. My girlfriend and i are already planning our Aziraphale & Crowley cosplays, but I also really loved Pollution. Now my question for you is, as i'm neither English nor American and don't know much about cultural appropriation/appreaciation, black/brownfacing etc. Can I? May I?

neil-gaiman answered:

I would never stop anyone cosplaying – and @lourdesfaberes doesn’t actually look like Pollution in real life.

Don’t try and make yourself up to be a member of a race that you aren’t, though. That way lies misery.

Cosplay at its best seems to me about embodying the things you enjoy about a character and the way they dress and look: I have been loving the African, Filipino, Russian, Spanish, Brazilian, African-American, Japanese, Chinese and Korean Crowleys, Aziraphales and Beelzebubs* that have been showing up on Twitter, after all.

*Why Beelzebub?

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which symbol do you think would look coolest on the back of a jacket?

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Let’s be real. All of them would.

But I think a NFPA 704 would be the coolest.

Mainly because you could make it personal.

How short is your temper? Do you consider yourself toxic to others? How mentally stable are you?

And of course, you could put a standard/semi-standard symbol in the white (biohazard and radioactivity symbols are always a hit), but you could also get creative.

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Took that bitch like a personality test. Needs to be finished and ironed tho :/

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