Today is Black Femme Character Dependency's 3rd Year!!!
A History: Funny enough, it began for friends. I was one of the oldest people in the Henry Danger fandom and had a lot of Black friends there who, when the show ended felt like the Black female character hadn't really gotten what they wanted out of the finale, but I was more concerned about if we'd still gather and stuff if we didn't have any common fandom to unite through.
After a few conversations about Black female characters in general (and us not having too many fandoms all in common), I decided that I'd make this space as a gift to my friends where they would be able to have Black female and feminine characters collected in one safe space to reblog or discuss without having to worry much about fandom racism or "colorblindness."
So frequently, some of the things I reblog are not of fandoms I'm a part of because its stuff that friends asked for, and I do the drudging through tags to find rebloggable content for them.
Then so many other people began to follow, which is pretty dope, though at the end of the day, it's still a place where me and my homies can have things that pertain to these types of characters that are often widely overlooked or underappreciated within their fandom spaces.
I copy and pasted my response from messages between myself and a follower. I thought today could be the perfect day to answer this question for anybody who wishes to know.
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I wanted to wait until it was done but here's a snippet of The Circle Of Protection (between Lucas and Emily) because i'm obsessed with them
“Nobody in this house likes electricity.” He said as she stood up, walking over to the curtains and opening them, letting the sunlight in. On his windowsill were a variety of things, newspapers, books, pictures of his Mother. Emily looked at one such photo of her, Nathaniel, and three other people he never met. He joined her by the window, looking out over the back of his house in Briar Green, at the garden that seemed to stretch for ages. All the photos on his window were sun-bleached now.
“Is this your Mother?” Emily asked, looking at the picture, “I didn’t realise she knew Mr Trapp.”
“They worked together, once. She sacrificed herself to save him.” Emily bit back a smile, and didn’t say what she was thinking. Lucas didn’t push it, but he knew she was thinking it. He had been to Emily’s house before, been in her room. She didn’t have as many photos of her family in there, she hardly had any photos at all. There was one of their circle, and one of her when she had been younger, 7 years ago, in a gold mask and gold dress.
“You look just like her.” She said, and he knew she meant it. “I wish I could have met her.” Lucas hummed. He had yet to tell his circle about his Mother being stuck in The Fourth Pharos, because he didn’t know how they would react. Still, wishing she could have met her…
“Emily, there’s something I have to tell you.” He started. She was quite a lot taller than he was, so he had to look up by a good head to look at her eyes. In the window, they seemed different, almost brighter. One was slightly bluer than the other. The door to his room opened and Auntie Bea walked in, hand on her hip.
FOR REFERENCE:
The Circle of Protection:
(Soldier) Lucas Suarez- 24(1902) (You know him)
(Occultist) Mina Clearson- 19 (1907) (You know her)
(Journalist) Emily Amicus- 25 (1901) (Leo's Niece)
(Detective) Charlotte Black- 17(1909) (Arlo and Auggie's Daughter).
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