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Cosplay help!
No, I'm not cosplaying. :) This is the Seekrit Project I mentioned the other day: I'm starting to create a database of characters to cosplay as, with a list of characteristics in stupidly fine detail, that I can use to feed into a quiz/form that people can fill out to get back a list of suggestions of character to cosplay as. Woo, aren't you excited?
Anyway, I now need your help to feed data into it! I have created a Google Docs form to fill out for each character that feeds the answers into a spreadsheet (currently private), which I will then run some basic authority control on (spelling, standardizing names of series, etc.) and then import it into a database which I will be creating shortly. :)
There has been MUCH discussion under filter as to what characteristics should and should not be in the database, and how to handle them. I am arbitrarily declaring RIGHT NOW as the point after which I will no longer add or remove characteristics for version 1.0 of the quiz. Feel free to chime in with your opinion and I'll happily consider it, but if it affects the structure of the database or the form, it'll wait until Version 2.0. Make sense?
I would LOVE YOU TO DEATH if lots of the people who will read these words would take the time to add a few characters to the spreadsheet using this form. Yes, it is indeed stupidly long, which is why I hope that many many of you just add a couple of characters each, which would mean I'd have many many many many characters in there!
I figured out how to make a separate Google Docs spreadsheet that contains just a few columns from the original spreadsheet so I could make it public (I'm guarding the other one because it has potentially identifying info from submitters in it, which I will not make public), in order that you could tell what characters are already in there. I am not sure how often it refreshes, so it may be a few minutes behind the actual spreadsheet. You can find that lurking behind this link.
If you need more clarification on what I mean by a particular entry on the form, or if the character has an edge case that you can't decide one way or the other on, feel free to let me know.
And, really, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I truly do appreciate any time you may give to this project. THANK YOU!
Anyway, I now need your help to feed data into it! I have created a Google Docs form to fill out for each character that feeds the answers into a spreadsheet (currently private), which I will then run some basic authority control on (spelling, standardizing names of series, etc.) and then import it into a database which I will be creating shortly. :)
There has been MUCH discussion under filter as to what characteristics should and should not be in the database, and how to handle them. I am arbitrarily declaring RIGHT NOW as the point after which I will no longer add or remove characteristics for version 1.0 of the quiz. Feel free to chime in with your opinion and I'll happily consider it, but if it affects the structure of the database or the form, it'll wait until Version 2.0. Make sense?
I would LOVE YOU TO DEATH if lots of the people who will read these words would take the time to add a few characters to the spreadsheet using this form. Yes, it is indeed stupidly long, which is why I hope that many many of you just add a couple of characters each, which would mean I'd have many many many many characters in there!
I figured out how to make a separate Google Docs spreadsheet that contains just a few columns from the original spreadsheet so I could make it public (I'm guarding the other one because it has potentially identifying info from submitters in it, which I will not make public), in order that you could tell what characters are already in there. I am not sure how often it refreshes, so it may be a few minutes behind the actual spreadsheet. You can find that lurking behind this link.
If you need more clarification on what I mean by a particular entry on the form, or if the character has an edge case that you can't decide one way or the other on, feel free to let me know.
And, really, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I truly do appreciate any time you may give to this project. THANK YOU!
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I need to keep in mind the *costume* and what a cosplayer may look for when thinking of these questions: what, exactly, is a cosplayer looking for a trans character to cosplay looking for? Are they doing it because they want to celebrate this character? Because they want to crossplay? Because they want to highlight their own physical characteristics while playing a character of a different gender? Hmmm.
Edited the gender explanation - and I wish I could add line breaks in the actual form! -- to read:
" Now this is the most complicated question of all, I think! And I can't put line breaks in so bear with me. This question refers to the gender with which the character *identifies*, irregardless of appearance. (There is another question that deals with the character's appearance, placed at the end because I added it late.) "Androgynous" refers to human-appearing/passing characters identifying as a blend of the typical male and female genders. Humanlike characters identfying specifically as a third distinct gender or as no gender are currently placed in "other". "dna" refers to characters for whom the human concept of gender has no meaning, such as dogs (hello, Ein the corgi!) or robots.
If a human soul is in another body, such as another human body or a robot or animal body and the human soul identifies as a specific human gender (for example, Al Elric or the giant robot chicken from Planet Ladder), then use that gender. Naruto's Sexy no Jutsu and other transforming characters that may switch gender are edge cases: use your best judgement. I'd consider the Sexy no Jutsu female in and of herself even though Naruto identifies as male.
Characters who identify as one gender but who dress in typically oppositely-gendered clothing should be listed as the gender they identify with - for example, Oscar from Rose of Versailles and Smellerbee from Avatar: TLA both dress typically masculine, but identify as female. If an alien race has three or more genders, two of which correspond to human male and female, then the others count as "other." (Have I come close to listing all the possible edge cases yet? If needed, these questions will be revisited in version 2.0.)
Canonically trans characters should be listed as the gender with which they identify. If it's unclear as to what the character identifies as, use "other" or your best guess and explain in the notes field. I'll revisit this and the related question in version 2.0 in order to make it more helpful to cosplayers looking for someone to cosplay as."
Re: typos - fixed, thanks!
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I like the questions and the whole concept!