I just have a lot of feelings about Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok being a woman character that’s allowed to be a fucking mess at the start and still be a ‘good’ character. The ‘drunk as fuck, total mess, still good’ thing is usually reserved for dude characters.
I have this feeling about Jessica Jones, too. The fact that she’s fucked up, she drinks too much, she has sex for the wrong reasons with the wrong people, she’s got PTSD, she doesn’t want to be a hero, but she IS the hero.
HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT I WAS READY I’M NOT READY
Punisher: What it’s like to be a veteran in the US today.
Luke Cage: What it’s like to be black in the US.
Jessica Jones: What it’s like to be a woman recovering from trauma.
Daredevil: What it’s like to have a disability and work through it.
Iron Fist: I AM A SAD RICH WHITE MAN MY LIFE IS FRAGILE AND HARD.
Claire Temple + text posts (Jessica Jones)
So the comic I had pretty much resigned myself that I would never own in the format I wanted? Apparently the universe decided that I should have it after all. I mean I most definitely didn’t get it for FREE, but I was able to get it. It’s beautiful. It’s not coming out of the plastic until I’m ready to cover it, but I can wait that long.
Seriously heavy, seriously beautiful, and so glad to have this to go with my Jessica Jones blu ray.
Next to buy in the series, The Pulse, but that’s never been hard to find for a reasonable price. Alias was just ridiculously hard to get. Even the copy I found was a fluke – it came in a delivery to a comic store but wasn’t part of their order. They’d tried to get some months before, but couldn’t. Then, there it was. And there I was, in a comic book store over a hundred kilometres from where I live, a comic book store I didn’t know existed and stumbled across completely by accident less than half an hour from closing time. And they let me layby it, since I was too broke to buy it outright. And all those things had to happen for me to have this book. Amazing.
knitting in the dark 