explain please

You mean the Jessica Jones comment?

I’ll recap the show a bit and add some context. Nothing too spoilery! Nothing you wouldn’t figure out in the first episode at least. Jessica Jones takes place in the Marvel universe, and the central antagonist is a man named Kilgrave who can control people’s minds. I’ve finally gotten around to watching it, and I’m just struck by how, with a few tweaks, something very much like this show could have very easily popped out of my keyboard. The mind control, the sexual abuse, the humiliation. I mean, of course the show is geared to skew against the abuse (as any sane show would, and props to it, for taking on the nature of abuse, how it feels to be in an abusive and emotionally manipulative relationship with someone. Having been through that myself, to a lesser extent, it’s…terrifyingly accurate). 

I mean, make Kilgrave a slobby bear (Nick Frost or someone similar, you know the type) and give him some slightly twinky, slightly muscleish guy to take down, throw in a lot of strange abuse, humiliation, and gay sex, and it’s something I would have written, or at least not too far off the mark. 

Of course, Jessica Jones isn’t porn, nor should it be enjoyed like porn. I mean, as I’ve commented before, these stories are designed as fantasy–they can’t, and shouldn’t, be enacted in real life. But I do, on occasion, get the odd bit of hate mail from someone, who stumbled across a story of mine, and felt compelled to assail me about how disgusting my stories and I must be to write something like that. And that’s because reading my stuff, to them, is like watching an episode of Jessica Jones. 

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