leftyaoi:

also i think that a lot of people misinterpret the term “strong female character”

strong doesn’t mean independent or anything like that. it means a character of significance who operates autonomously in a story rather than being a cog in a plot or subplot wheel

it means strong in terms of literary merit, not in terms of personality or anything like that

… and I remember people in lit classes saying “None of this will matter after this semester” :)

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