Also can I please reiterate once again that the pressure to create active protagonists like this leads to some of the most irritating and bloody-minded protagonists ever; main characters with no self-preservation who create plot through sheer stupidity. It’s BORING https://twitter.com/laviecestmoi/status/1354385052679905282

One of the reasons why I likes Spinning Silver so much was because it featured two main extremely clever main characters who used creative problem solving skills to get their way out of seemingly impossible situations. I’ll take that over someone setting fire to an entire city

Anyway, I’d like to urge gatekeepers in the industry to ask “is the protagonist effective for this story?” rather than “is the protagonist active?” Don’t assume active is good. I beg of you. All of these active characters are making it impossible for me to get through my tbr pile

Just to clarify: as stated in the thread I quoted, surviving IS active. What the three act structure demands is a PROACTIVE heroine, rather than a reactive one. And the general assumption is that proactive is good because agency. And reactive bad because no agency. I don’t agree

I’d much rather a heroine who reacts with cleverness and ingenuity than one who is proactively so stupid people die