summary
welcoming Black simmers across the African diaspora to celebrate BHM and the season of romance with a Black Love BC~!
Black is not a monolith - Black is as diverse as it is universal - all Black experience is valid
please let it be known that all Black simmers are eligible for this bc ~
βBlack *and* ____β is included
βAfro-(etc)β is included
itβs the solidarity for me, babes ~
who
- young adult & adult Black sims made by Black simmers (one submission each, human only, no minors pls~π)
what
- story-driven challenge about community and relationship building; sims will not be restricted in who they decide to form relationships with and no sims will be eliminated for not being into the bachelor or vice versa ~ everyone will have a fair chance to end up with who they like in whatever configurations they choose - weβre showing love for the whole spectrum of connection here! including: friendships, platonic arrangements, romantic friendships, woohoo buddies, etc -Β the bc will run until the bachelor settles down with a boo or he strikes out on finding love - heβs no mr. perfect, but is he perfect for you?
when
- deadline to submit a sim is (tentative) Feb 22
where
- tba!!!
why
- i love to see Black simmers representing and i love exploring different facets of love, so i thought what better time than now to do both and invite the community in on the jubilation ~ πΌπΎΒ itβs as important to me that we feel safe enough to fully take up space in whatever communities we exist in as it is for me that we always celebrate each other openly and build each other up - iβm so excited to show up and show out with you in this way, so i hope youβll join me in co-creating some Black as fuck frivolity for the cultureΒ πΒ
~ βmeet the bachelorβ and βsubmission guidelinesβ below the cut ~
Monster High CAS Challenge by @crazy-lazy-elder-sims
Scaress Clowness - Daughter of the Evil Clown
I was so excited when I saw this challenge cause monster high was such a big part of my childhood for the longest time. This sim is actually based on a character design I did when I was 10 years old. My OC designs from 2013 are under the cut - beware of major spelling mistakes cause I was like... 10.
YOUR CC ARE AMAZING!!! finally a new active male sims lover!!!! love it
Hello! I'm back from my CC hiatus! I'll be releasing new items this week.
Also, thank you, I am indeed an active male sims lover. I love creating them, sharing them and seeing how people react to them in my stories.
But as we know, lots of people just straight up HATE male sims. Which just intrigues me.
I decided to explore the topic about their "ugliness" rather than the lack of hairstyles/clothes as that's been covered a lot; read more if you'd like to kill a few minutes reading yet another rant about Sims 4.
I think the main problem is not the lack of clothes or hairstyles; It's the faces.
I don't blame anyone but EA, as they missed the mark with their male sim faces and presets, as we all know. But I still decided to test this out myself.
''Could it be that bad?'' I told myself.
I went into story-creation to see what male sim the game would generate after answering the quiz....oh boy.
I generated a female sim with the same quiz method both times to compare.
I don't think the male sims are ugly, but they just looks villanous, pompous and unapproachable, it's such a weird artistic choice to make male sim presets be so unnecesarily rough looking. I don't want to get to know these two characters, I don't even want to see them, they look dead. The girls look charming.
It's kinda like EA's saying masculine features can't be youthful, average, goofy, soft, next-door or warm. They're not even masculine either, the facial presets are botched. There's no softness, but no sharpness either, they're shallow, dislodged (like their lips, chins and jaws) and worst of all; empty.
The Sims community is full of talented people who make gorgeous male sims, and creators who make it possible to create male sims that can fit into the game's style a lot more than whatever the game generates. But not everyone in the community knows how to handle the awful presets and sliders for masculine framed faces. And it can be pretty frustrating to work with such crunchy and difficult faces like...these two male generated sims.
So that's why It makes me happy that the effort I put into my male sims is something a lot of you guys love and support, and I'm happy I can offer simspo for y'all to explore male sims a bit more and make the game just a little bit more diverse.
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