[catie-does-things]

if you want your female characters to both have agency in the story and be complex human individuals then sometimes bad things have to be their fault

[princesssarisa]

Reblogging for ever critic who bashes movie and TV heroines for being “bad role models” if they make mistakes that would be easily forgiven in male heroes, or who evaluates whether or not a classic literary heroine is a “good heroine” based on how virtuous she is rather than on how compelling she is as a character.

[quasi-normalcy]

Also: flaws. They need to have flaws.

[hotpocket-fucker]

Also, don’t confuse being strong with abusive