Agreeable People

Deep within me there has always been a disagreeable person, one that could have stood up to the adults that put me in a box as a child, the bad boss-bitches that made sure I never got ahead, the toxic family members that feared my voice and that hidden will within me that had always known the truth of their toxicity.

I donโ€™t mention my own experiences for pity, or because I have some need to talk endlessly about myself. I say it because I know damned well that there are others out there that share my story.

For anyone hearing this that can relate. Just in case no one has ever given you permission, I am. You deserve to be heard, to be loved, to just be. Itโ€™s enough.  


She always came so easily, so perfectly responsive to his touch, his voice, his will even.  Although she hated thinking of it like that. She was stubborn and would remind him vehemently that he was a man from another time, that he needed to remember she had the vote, or in other words, he had no right to impose any will on her in any way, shape, or form.

What she didnโ€™t know, was that the master was always the slave. Yes, he would be her man. Heโ€™d bend her body and her heart, her pride to his. And he did. Subtly. But all the while she was his goddess; Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love.

He belonged to her.

Because what good was a man with nothing to worship but himself? 

11 responses to “Agreeable People”

  1. We who are agreeable can be monsters when we decide to be disagreeable. The key difference is that we know define monsters as being unlike us, because we would never ever never ever want to be a monster.

    Yet there are times we need to tap into it for our own survival, and I think… I don’t know, I’m not sure I’ve done it right myself – I think that we know that we have the capacity to be what we don’t like separates us from the actual monsters.

    That we do not enjoy it. That we do not feel good about it, and maybe there’s at least a twinge of guilt when we decide to tilt the table.

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    Darcy Branwyn

    Very nicely put, Taran. We become disagreeable when we sincerely believe that we have to, not blindly and with no awareness of ourselves.

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  3. Well, that was more poignant.

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    Darcy Branwyn

    I was being more poignant? Well, I do write novels.

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  5. Yeah, I’m doing good at not getting a sci fi one done right now.

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    Darcy Branwyn

    Oh cool, you write sci-fi. Is it your first novel?

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  7. Well, first one I’m hoping to publish. I’ve completed one, but when I looked back on it I decided it was a good exercise and may dust it off again in a while.

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    Darcy Branwyn

    Yeah, the first one is usually practice. Mine was too. Good luck with your book. It’s a hard road but a rewarding one.

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  9. Thank you for writing something that I didn’t think I needed to hear, but did.

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    Darcy Branwyn

    You’re welcome!

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  11. ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ

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