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| Gift Exchange | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Black Is Beautiful |
| Abbreviation: | blackisbeautifulex |
| Date(s): | Jan - March 2021 |
| Runs: | February |
| Moderator(s): | moddington |
| Founder: | moddington |
| Type: | "OR" matching; fanfiction; fanvids; fanart; or podfic |
| Scope: | Black characters |
| Fandom: | Multifandom |
| URL: | blackisbeautifulex on dreamwidth Black Is Beautiful collection on Archive of Our Own |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
The Black Is Beautiful Exchange is a multifandom, multi-medium exchange focused around Black characters. It ran in February of 2021, to coincide with Black History Month as celebrated in Canada and the U.S.A. The exchange also allowed participants to request/create original works.[1] Black Is Beautiful was primarily promoted on Dreamwidth and fanworks were hosted on an AO3 collection.
Schedule & Rules
The minimum length for fic is 1000 words. Other mediums followed a comparable requirement, with 60 seconds min for vids, podfic must be 10 mins minimum, and art must be at least one completed line art on an unlined background.The exchange required recipients to opt-in to any depictions of slavery, hate crimes, and/or racekink.[1]
The Schedule (2021)
Nominations: January 8 to January 19
Sign-up Opens: January 21
Sign-up Closes: January 29
Assignments Out: January 31 or earlier
Assignments Due: February 21
Works Revealed: February 28
Creators Revealed: March 7[2]
Works Created
Out of publicly viewable works on AO3, the Black Is Beautiful exchange produced 61 fanworks for 52 fandoms.[3] Some creators chose to only reveal their works to registered AO3 users.
Index of Works
| Title | Fandom | Medium | By Character | By Ship | By Gender Category | Creator | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Noon Train to Glass City | The Old Guard | Fanfiction | Nile Freeman | Nile/Booker | Het | Griselda_Gimpel | AO3 |
| smoother than a storm | The Old Guard | Fanfiction | Nile Freeman | Andy/Nile Freeman | Femslash | Highsmith | AO3 |
| The Cretan Prisoner | Fullmetal Alchemist | Fanfiction | Paninya | Paninya/Winry Rockbell | Femslash | Griselda_Gimpel | AO3 |
| A Post Post-Apocalyptic Romance | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts | Fanfiction | Benson | Benson/Troy | Slash | Redrikki | AO3 |
| Come To SFIT [art] | Big Hero 6, MCU | Fanart | Wasabi-No Ginger | Wasabi-No Ginger & Peter Parker | Gen | plastics | AO3 |
| Love Endures All Things | Historical RPF | Fanfiction | Harriet Tubman | Gen, Het | lirin | AO3 | |
| Off the Clock | DC Comics | Fanfiction | Tam Fox | N/A | Gen | GothamGumshoe (CypressSunn) | AO3 |
| In the Southern Hall Display the Kente Cloth | Piranesi | Fanfiction | Piranesi | Piranesi/Sarah Raphael | 16/James Ritter | Poly, Het, Slash | Griselda_Gimpel | AO3 |
| A Sea of Foliage Girds our Garden Round | Unfit to Print | Fanfiction | Gil Lawless | Gil Lawless/Vikram Pandey | Slash | Chestnut_filly | AO3 |
| Balancing the Drift | Pacific Rim | Fanfiction | Jake Pentecost | Nate Lambert/Jake Pentecost/Jules Reyes | Poly, Het, Slash | Griselda_Gimpel | AO3 |
| Blue-Blooded Bestie | Detroit: Become Human | Fanfiction | Chris Miller | Chris Miller & Damian Miller | Gen | Lunarium | AO3 |
| Our Misfit Ways | The Old Guard | Fanfiction | Nile Freeman | Andy/Nile Freeman | Femslash | wonderluck | AO3 |
| No Les Das La Espalda | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Fanart, Fancomic | Miles Morales | Aaron Davis & Miles Morales | Gen | MoonGoddex | AO3 |
| Save the Cat-tain! | Voltron: Legendary Defender | Fanfiction | Ryan Kinkade | James Griffin/Ryan Kinkade/Ina Leifsdottir/Nadia Rizavi | Poly | Lunarium | AO3 |
| Warmth | His Dark Materials | Fanfiction | Pantalaimon | Lyra Belacqua/Will Parry | Het | textbookchoices | AO3 |
| Salaam or Something Like It | MCU | Fanfiction | Sam Wilson | Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson | Slash | seinmit | AO3 |
| Chrysalis | MCU, Captain Marvel (film) | Fanfiction | Maria Rambeau | Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau | Femslash | AO3 | |
| Bedtime | Voltron: Legendary Defender | Fanfiction | Alfor | Alfor & Allura & Allura's Mother (Voltron) | Gen | Pegasus143 | AO3 |
| Family | The Walking Dead | Fanfiction | Michonne | Rick Grimes/Michonne | Het | CorinaLannister | AO3 |
| Wayne's Visit | Hockey RPF | Fanfiction | Zayde Wisdom | Wayne Simmonds & Zayde Wisdom | Gen | eafay70 | AO3 |
| The Secrets of the Nine Worlds | MCU, Thor Movieverse | Fanfiction | Heimdall | Heimdall & Loki & Thor (Marvel) | Gen | roguefaerie | AO3 |
| [ART] Red Line | MCU, Black Panther (2018) | Fanart | Erik Killmonger | N/A | Gen | AO3 | |
| [Podfic] A Third of What He Was Missing | When Washington Was In Vogue | Podfic | Davy Carr, Caroline Rhodes | Davy Carr/Tommie Dawson/Bob Fletcher/Caroline Rhodes | Poly, Multi | seinmit | AO3 |
| [art] days we shall not soon forget | Bridgerton | Fanart | Simon Basset | Simon Basset/Anthony Bridgerton | Slash | lostphysics (afterism) | AO3 |
| Take Heart | Arkham Horror | Fanfiction | Calvin Wright, Stella Clark | Calvin Wright/João, Calvin Wright & Stella Clark | Gen, Slash | Delphi | AO3 |
| Vacation Planning | Discworld, The Magicians | Fanfiction (with a graphic) | Persephone (The Magicians) | N/A | Gen | mific | AO3 |
| Plausible Deniability | Bridgerton | Fanart | Simon Basset | Simon Basset/Anthony Bridgerton | Slash | mific | AO3 |
| I can't let you, I can't let you go | gen:LOCK | Fanart | Julian Chase | Julian Chase/Miguel "Migas" Garza | Slash | Koraki | AO3 |
| [fanvid] king of wakanda | MCU, Black Panther (2018) | Fanvid | T'Challa, Erik Killmonger | N/A | Gen | seinmit | AO3 |
| Le Joli Petit Café de Sucre (Fanart) | The Queen's Gambit | Fanart | Jolene | Beth Harmon/Jolene | Femslash | kowaiyoukai | AO3 |
| On Your Knees | MCU, Captain America Movieverse | Fanart | Sam Wilson | Sam/Bucky | Slash | mific | AO3 |
| Let the Numbness Fade Away | The Queen's Gambit | Fanfiction | Jolene | Jolene & Beth Harmon | Gen | Curtashiism | AO3 |
| Falling Free, Landing Hard | Top Gun | Fanfiction | Marcus "Sundown" Williams | Marcus "Sundown" Williams/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell | Slash | boasamishipper | AO3 |
| [podfic] You Can't Judge A Book | Hogan's Heroes | Podfic | James Kinchloe | N/A | Gen | flowersforgraves | AO3 |
| open your heart knowing | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Fanfiction | Geordi La Forge | Data/Geordi | Slash | Beatrice_Otter | AO3 |
| Hold Me As I Land | Dragon Age | Fanfiction | Isabella, Female Hawke | Female Hawke/Isabela | Femslash | butterpanic | AO3 |
| Explorer | Star Trek: Discovery | Fanart | Joann Owosekun | N/A | Gen | RainbowLily | AO3 |
| To Honor and Serve | Star Trek: Discovery | Fanfiction | Joann Owosekun | Mirror Philippa Georgiou/Mirror Joann Owosekun | Femslash | hannelore | AO3 |
| Strongest Weakness | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | Fanfiction | Netossa, Spinnerella | Netossa/Spinnerella | Femslash | punch_kicker15 | AO3 |
| Share | Star Trek: Discovery | Fanfiction | Cleveland "Book" Booker, Michael Burnham | Cleveland "Book" Booker/Michael Burnham/Mirror Philippa Georgiou | Poly, Femslash, Het | pauraque | AO3 |
| You see, in our century, we've learned not to fear words. | All Rise, Star Trek | Fanfiction | Lola Carmichael, Nyota Uhura | Lola Carmichael & Nyota Uhura | Gen | Pixie (magnetgirl) | AO3 |
| There's still a song inside the halls in the dark | Pacific Rim | Fanfiction | Jake Pentecost | Nate Lambert/Jake Pentecost | Gen or Pre-Slash | smaragdbird | AO3 |
| If You Were Home | IT | Fanfiction | Bill Denbrough, Mike Hanlon | Bill Denbrough/Mike Hanlon | Slash | Val_Creative | AO3 |
| Work Do | Doctor Who | Fanfiction | Martha Jones, Bill Potts | Martha Jones/Bill PottsNavigation and Actions | Femslash | TheseusInTheMaze | AO3 |
| Oh no, you caught me ;) | Dragon Age | Fanart | Isabela | Fenris/Isabela | Het | sqbr | AO3 |
| [Art] A Raised Eyebrow | Elementary | Fanart | Marcus Bell | N/A | Gen | angelandfaith (nowrunalong) | AO3 |
| The Most Beautiful Thing I Have Ever Seen | Original Work | Art, Fanart | Original Non-Binary Characters | Astronomer/Alien | Other | sqbr | AO3 |
| Devil's Face | Nova Twins (Band) | Fanart | Amy Love, Georgia South | Amy Love & Georgia South | Gen | facethestrange | AO3 |
| Holding Pattern | Top Gun | Fanfiction | Marcus "Sundown" Williams | Pete "Maverick" Mitchell & Marcus "Sundown" Williams | Gen | simplecoffee | AO3 |
| all the good we did not do | Dark Matter | Fanfiction | Griffin Jones | Griffin Jones/Marcus Boone | Slash | Damkianna | AO3 |
| Future Knowledge And All That | Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks | Fanfiction | Beckett Mariner, Michael Burnham | Michael Burnham/Beckett Mariner | Femslash | kira_katrine | AO3 |
| Love Blossoms Here | Riverdale | Fanfiction | Toni Topaz | Cheryl Blossom/Toni Topaz | Femslash | webofdreams89 | AO3 |
| Shared Histories | Star Trek: Alternate Original Series, Star Trek: Discovery | Fanfiction | Michael Burnham, Nyota Uhura | Spock/Uhura | Gen, Het | Miri Cleo (miri_cleo) | AO3 |
| Waiting | Stargate Atlantis | Fanart | Aiden Ford, Ronon Dex | Aiden Ford & Ronon Dex | Gen | mific | AO3 |
| the rashomon redux job | Leverage | Fanart | Alec Hardison | N/A | Gen | ideare | AO3 |
| Teal'c's Big Skiing Adventure | Stargate SG-1 | Fanart | Teal'c | N/A | Gen | mific | AO3 |
| A Wing and a Prayer | Doctor Who | Fanfiction | Bill Potts, Martha Jones | Bill Potts/Martha Jones | Femslash | SegaBarrett | AO3 |
| Fading Colors | Voltron: Legendary Defender | Fanfiction | Allura | Allura & Allura's Mother, Alfor & Allura | Gen | HandmaidenOfHorror | AO3 |
| Finding What Was Lost | Star Wars | Fanfiction | Lando Calrissian | Lando Calrissian/Luke Skywalker | Slash | Cat2000 | AO3 |
| Fighting for Onderon | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Fanart | Steela Gerrera | N/A | Gen | whalebone | AO3 |
| [ART] Partners | POKEMON Detective Pikachu | Fanart | Tim Goodman | Tim Goodman & Pikachu | Gen | seinmit | AO3 |
Fan Comments
"I've been through the art (and was jazzed to see so much of it!) and now have a few stories that look RTMI open for reading tonight. It was a nice turnout, and I hope it runs again next year."[4]
"The 2020 Black Is Beautiful Exchange collection opened a couple of days ago, and while I'm still working my way through the incredible variety of works (fic! art! vids! podfic!), I really need to draw special attention to the gift I received: I can't let you, I can't let you go by an as-yet-undisclosed artist (gen:LOCK, Julian Chase/Miguel "Migas" Garza, digital art, rated G)"[5]
References
- ^ a b Moddington. Schedule and Rules, Dec 27, 2020. Archived from the original on March 7, 2021.
- ^ Direct quote from Moddington. Schedule and Rules, Dec 27, 2020. Archived from the original on March 7, 2021.
- ^ Black Is Beautiful 2021. AO3 collection. Accessed and archived on March 7, 2021.
- ^ Anonymous. Comment on Fail_Fandomanon, March 2, 2021. Archived from the original on March 7, 2021.
- ^ delphi on Dreamwidth. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL EXCHANGE, March 3, 2021. Archived from the original on March 25, 2021.