Baby Doe's Prose

OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.

MYTHOLOGY MEME -  CHINESE GODDESS → Meng-Po

I have decided to accept my own nature and to make the best of it – that is, I cannot ever look hard-boiled, so I must stick to my Hindu softness and abide by it and suffer the consequences. But I will accept it. I will try to amuse myself with the shocks and surprises I give people.

Half my days I cannot bare not to touch you. The rest of the time I feel it doesn’t matter if I ever see you again.

[…] poetry, surely, is a crisis, perhaps the only actionable one we can call our own.

…you’ll wake up in a different world, you will eat again, you will grow up into a poet!

The more you keep your feelings unspoken the heavier they became.

God! what a struggle it is for life to keep going, as though it were a swollen river passing through the eye of a needle.

Pinky promise I’ll still love your garden even with no flowers.

She wasn’t happy, but then she wasn’t unhappy. She wasn’t anything. But I don’t believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing.

Kilgrave isn’t just a rapist. He’s every abusive ex-boyfriend. The way he gaslights Jessica by saying everything he’s doing is her fault is a classic abuser manipulation. His insistence that she look a certain way for him. The way he blames her for his outbursts. The stalking. Forcing her to take photos of herself. Even his return is every survivor’s nightmare: finally gathering up the courage to leave, only to be hunted down. But the fact that Kilgrave can’t change who Jessica is, even if he can take over her life, is a powerful message. Jessica Jones is a brilliant look at what it’s like to live with trauma. Everyone’s essential character is tempered by their pain, but their different personalities explain the vast range of reactions they have to their experiences. Some blame the wrong people, and are consumed by misguided revenge. Jessica uses it motivate her heroics. Hope grasps at the few things in her life that she still has control over. Trish gets smarter and stronger. Malcolm becomes more caring. Robyn stays mean but becomes sympathetic. Jessica Jones delves into a complicated area too often glossed over by other media: what it means to survive, who does it, and how.