Your Fav is Black!✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

A blog I created for fun and to highlight/celebrate Black characters in media. Submissions are welcomed, so feel free to send one in Some art and media posted may have suggestive or potentially triggering content so viewer discretion is advised. Inbox status: Open 👐🏾

[yourfavisblack]

Blog rulez for Your Fav Is Black!

Here's an updated list of guidelines for the blog

What is 'Your Fav Is Black? - This is a blog in the same vein as other 'your fav is' blogs. Specifically, I made this blog to celebrate Black and Black coded characters in media.

2. Who runs the blog?- I do. There's no group of mods here, it's just me. I don't have a specific name I want to be referred as; but some basics about me are that I'm Black American (monoracial), 28 years old and my pronouns are they/them.

3. What is the flag/What does it stand for?-

Pan-African flag - Wikipedia

Pan-African flag - Wikipedia

4. Can I follow/make a request?- Ive got the usual DNI.

No Fasc/Right Wing/Centrists. No TERFS/SWERFS. No transmeds. No fatphobes/ableists. No Gore/Yanderecore/ED blogs. No pro-shippers/anti-antis.

Also Im sorry, but this is a general audience blog and a lot of minors interact and send in requests. So, NSFW blogs do not interact (that includes likes and reblogs).

Everybody else is welcome to follow this blog so long as you're respectful to me, the content on here and those that interact with it.

Requests are for Black people only. Non blacks liking/reblogging posts is fine though.

5. How do I request something?- Just send in a message to the ask box. Make sure you check the text in the bio first to see if i marked the inbox as 'open' before you send one in.

I ask that you all only use the ask box for requests as sending me PMs through Tumblr messages makes it difficult for me to keep track of them. Submissions are also okay if you decided to take it upon yourself to make your own flag (again for Black people only).

6. Can I make multiple requests?- Yes, although since it's just me making these posts; I ask that everybody make no more than 4 requests at a time so I don't get overwhelmed.

7. What characters can I request?- Any character from any form of media except those from the Do Not Request list as the media on this list either contain extremely questionable/problematic portrayals of minorities or their creators are weirdos/racist pieces of sh*t.

🚫DO NOT REQUEST🚫

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss/Anything made by Vivziepop

Homestuck

Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin

Hetalia

Black Butler

FNAF Series

Huniepop

Camp Camp

American Horror Story

South Park/Family Guy/Big Mouth (basically any adult animated comedy that has that brand of humor)

The Simpsons/Futurama

IRL celebrities/youtubers

Media with sexually explicit content (ex. Ecchi anime, NSFW webtoons/comics, etc. If you’re unsure feel free to ask)

Newgrounds animations/games

That's all I have for now, but if you have questions on whether a piece of media that's not listed is okay; feel free to ask me.

8. How does a character qualify as Black?-

Well the most obvious answer is that the character will have physical features denoting blackness (brown skin, kinky/curly hair, etc.). Other things that can denote Blackness are speech, mannerisms, displays of Black culture and the like.

Sometimes acknowledgment of a character's race will be outright said in the media or be confirmed by the media's creator.

Racial coding is also an aspect that is used to determine whether or not a character is Black. As with Skeeter Valentine from the Doug cartoon series who is considered to be Black despite him having an unnatural skin color (blue instead of brown), his mannerisms and demeanor lead many Black fans of the show to consider him to be Black coded. A couple of non-human examples of this are Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z and Darwin Watterson from The Amazing World of Gumball.

Darwin is an anthropomorphic orange fish, so one would wonder how he could be considered Black. Well for starters, Darwin's VA [voice actor(s)] has always been a black boy. And Darwin's mannerisms and cadence within the show has always mirrored that of a Black child.

In the case of Piccolo though, he's a humanoid alien from the Planet Namek. Though he doesn't have much in the physical sense that would be reminiscent of Black features (In addition to his VA being a white man) Black fans of Dragon Ball Z feel a connection to him and believe that his character reflects that of a Black man.

9. Well what if I personally don't believe a character is Black?-

Unless you yourself are Black, you have no authority to speak on the credibility of anybody's race/Blackness. I've had my fair share of smart ass comments of people going 'he's not Black he's green! she's not Black, she's orange!'; and I'm not entertaining them with responses anymore. I don't find these types of comments helpful or amusing and if you leave one here, you will be immediately blocked.

With that being said, enjoy the blog; and Happy Black History Month ✌🏾✌🏿

[creatingblackcharacters]

✍🏾CBC Creative Writing Challenge!✍🏾

Dates: June 1st - June 13th*

*If you send me anything after the 13th, I am going to delete it! Pay attention!

Y'all been asking about this one forever, and I admit that I had to really think about how to make something like this possible without dying due to overwork 😅 but I think I got it!

The rules for this one are long and specific, under The Submissions, The Critics, and Things to Expect from Ice. So I'm putting them under a read more.

PLEASE READ THE RULES! Y'all were not reading the rules during the character polls and it drove me nuts 🙏🏾

The Submissions

In order to be accepted, your submissions REQUIRE:

The Title and Genre

The premise of your story- this can be a description, a blurb, a summary, anything that allows us as the reader to understand the set up of what's going on here.

A description of your character- this doesn't have to be their entire life story. We just wanna know their name, what they look like, background, powers- RELEVANT things! Ideally, this should tie in smoothly to the premise!

Think of it as the summary that's on the back of books when you go to read them, plus a little extra. It should pull your reader in!

Rules for Submission:

Character has to be Black. This includes Black biracials, yes! If it's a side character, fine. But don't tell me all about your nonblack MC's life saga just to go "and then here's Black Buddy". Keep that. We want to hear something tailored to the Black character!!

PDF converted into an image. That way we can click it and read the whole thing without it taking up a huge amount of space in the ask. If you can include an image description for accessibility, that would be kind of you.

One Page! 12 Point! Legible Font! You can write your magnum opus if you want, but I won't post it 🤣 twelve point font MINIMUM, one page MAX! Calibri is the font I find easiest to read, but be reasonable.

You don't have to fill the whole page! If you think you've got it in two paragraphs.... Great! Don't use no damn AI though.

Only do this challenge if you're willing to accept constructive criticism. This is a major one! People are going to judge your work. You have to accept that! You're ASKING them to! I will not accept submissions with apologies and clarifications and "this might sound racist now but-" Let the viewers make their own calls, unbiased! It'll reveal to you things you may not have even considered, which will guide your writing. Maybe you'll drop an idea, maybe you'll take on an extra challenge, it's fine!

The Critics

Be constructive, not destructive. These are people looking for genuine feedback. Put on your Mrs. CBC hat and give that to them. You are well within your rights to say when something makes you uncomfortable, or if it's not something you would read due to that discomfort. Use your words to explain WHY. But if you feel yourself about to blow up with how much you hate an idea or a person... Keep it in your head or take it to your own page. We didn't ask for that.

Keep feedback to a reasonable length. I don't mind one or two comments with feedback, but if you got a LOT and you really wanna have this conversation with the poster (which is great!) you can always take it to the OPs inbox! I know it's selfish, but I'm gonna get a lot of notifications from this and if it's a back and forth, that is something that can be held between the two of you!

Understand that the premise is not the entire story. As always, you cannot determine if something is a problem based off of a page worth of context. So when you offer feedback, recognize that you can only approach it from a "consider this idea, because it may be a problem" perspective. Not a "this is inherently bad!!" We've talked about this! It's not on the idea, it's on the writer!

Things to Expect From Ice

For real, I won't be saying much! This is everyone's chance to play as CBC for two weeks lmao. But I will pop in as desired. I do know there's gonna be some little things I'll be checking for in every submission.

I'll be turning notifications off after a point for each one, so I don't get overwhelmed. If something feels wrong, if boundaries are being pushed and it comes to my attention, I may turn off reblogs.

I am not pre-checking submissions! Do not ask me in advance how I feel- that defeats the point of the project.

Okay! If you read this far, good job and thank you 👍🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

You get THREE SUBMISSIONS.

[hikiclawd]

is Lyndsay a natural blonde when you draw her ? 🩵🩵 please say yes 🩵🩵

sorry to disappoint naurrr 😞 she's a bottle blonde whenever I draw her, she's been dyeing her hair since she was liek 17. I think her natural color is a very pretty brown/warm hued-black ! (some doodles of it below I've done in passing ↓)

[rajieeeee]

[asieybarbie]

mutha semiu grier

[yagamimi-string]

New character, Siti

She's Chabindra and Toya's older cousin (21)

That's all I got lol

Main Blog | Sonic Blog

[the-return-of-yagamimi]

mmm since this deleted post is going around, im gonna take the opportunity to post the current version again. She was removed from that project and now she's just a random oc that I have lying around, with parts of her design reverting back to a previous iteration since she's not existing in the context of Apron Strings anymore

(this version of her is afro-asian, Apron Strings version was not)

[parsley-draws-art]

My OC as a fish for mermay :>

I went with her because I figured she could make the sort of girly frilly stuff she normally likes to where of of dyed sea plants maybe

@creatingblackcharacters

[creatingblackcharacters]

I didn't have time to make any new pieces, so I pulled out the older ones I made when Apollo's design dropped and I was deeply disappointed.

The top one was me experimenting with his hair. An afro really does it for me, but even straight hair or some freeform locs woulda been cool. With the shape they had, freeform locs fits the most!

The second one is from my Hades!AU for my OC (she's ten, and he's in his looming God height). I put some sparkles in his pupils and hair, just because I felt like his presence ought to be glittering. Plus, gold LOVES melanin. I remember staring at my own hand trying to draw this lmao.

[feliville]

Commission for @authormicahflowers, of their characters Jaivyn and Plexi from their upcoming novelette "Now Shake It, Baby!" 💜

"Now Shake It, Baby!" is a short and sweet romance with a little bit of heat about two Black lesbians in their thirties finding love and adventure.

If you'd like to read the novelette, you can support its launch in Kickstarter here!! [link] 💜

[levlingstrs]

take a look chat... its rouge... afro latina awesomeness rn!!!!!!

ok i actually dont know who to make gijinka of next,, send me asks or reqs im lonly......ooo....

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[thoughtsroamguy]

Meet Nyuw, a Bling that has a serious problem! Someone broke off some of her gems! Help her track down who did it in Tears of Xivo.

[ssiggss]

Hornet Silksong for the new DTYIS challenge by @creatingblackcharacters!! :^D

I loved doing this one I had so much fun!! I wanted to do the lovely bug lady justice, I hope y'all like it! I don't know too much about Hollow Knight, but I think it's very cute!!

To start, I had a few styles in mind, but I settled on two large braids styled like the horn shaping of her mask, with silver clips at the ends, and her hair is also white like her mask!

I gave her a deep and vibrant brown skintone and I like to think it shimmers like hornets and bees do!

I kept her outfit relatively the same, but I gave her some really cool knee-high matching boots!! I also tried to give her heels the needle-like shape her feet have in canon, idk how well it worked lol

Her eyes a midnight brown, and if you look closer at them, there is a bit of pattern I put there to resembles a hornets eyes!

I gave her freckles I love freckles and I think she looks so adorable with them 💛 :^DD

I give all my own bug ocs sharp teeth, so I did the same here, and also added a cute set of silver grills and also some earrings!

Gave her some lip gloss and while you can only tell by one visible nail! Her nails are painted 😌🫶

[seasonofhorror]

SAW

2004, James Wan

[droodlebug]

actually i drew Lucas

[creatingblackcharacters]

Just wanted to let you know that a new Black magical girl pilot just dropped on Warner Bros TV YouTube account as a part of their Cartoon Cartoons shorts program! ^w^

It’s called I Love You Jocelyn by Tracey Elle and it’s about a Haitian girl who lives on cursed Caribbean island who protects her family and friends with her magical powers from a evil lil frog guy!! :3

Here's the link to it!!! 🤎🇭🇹🌼🏝️🥭🐸 https://youtu.be/RyFlefn92N8

Oh that looks precious!

[places-across-time]

miss babygirl

[uptownlowdown]

are there any hairstyles you associate with each period in yvette's life? I saw u drew her with a bob but I'm curious if being on the surface gave her more resources to try other styles

hi !! it’s actually the opposite—she tends to wear her hair pulled back in a bun or low braided pigtails in her post-institute settler life. the institute provided things that aren’t accessible in the wasteland like curling irons and blow dryers.

because of that, yvette tried out different styles moreso when she was in the institute. for that period of years she had a few iconic looks that coincided with big life events.

january 2279; yvette and her father hudson move to the institute, to live presumably for the rest of their lives. her technical know how as a former scribe places her in robotics.

june 2281; yvette finishes her internship in robotics and recieves her doctorate in engineering the following year! the Bob years of 2283-2285

may 2285; dr. yvette carmichael becomes dr. yvette carmichael-holdren! she has this hairstyle most of her engagement and married life up until she cuts her hair fairly recent, about a month before wilma gets to the institute.

october 2287; yvette is feeling bold and secure in her job and very happy in her personal life so she gets a jazzy look—a bouffant!

yvette has type 3B/C hair that she prefers to wear in a stretched state when possible. she stretches her hair before a style the night before with plaits or sock curls (which come in handy in the wasteland) and it is never chemically straightened, only with tension or heat like a dryer. then she curls or does whatever!

i am sooo sorry for getting to this ask so late (months late… aughh) but i hope this was interesting if you read it!