Darcy Branwyn

After Robin had insulted her, she’d refused to have anything to do with the man. Acting as if he didn’t exist was her way of pretending she hadn’t experienced his rejection in the first place. She wondered if ignoring her problem might not have been the best solution… (From A Worthy Opponent)

😒I have a true story for you guys. I have to leave some things out because the people involved might see this, but I’ll say what I can. 😒

It happened to me again.

It’s not something I talk about, because I’m not allowed to talk about it. That is, our culture sees it as wrong for me to mention it.

I was cruelly erased. And I think it might have been due to jealousy.

As if to add insult to injury, I had the audacity to tell someone I should be able to trust, only to have them invalidate my experience.

I was erased, invalidated, and made to feel invisible, not by one person, but by a whole group of them, while the group cheered for the one who personally harmed me.

Sigh.

But you know what happened next?

I was working through a final edit of my book.

My heroine, Alana, was made to feel invisible, and I realized I’d become her.

I could shrink to better fit the world’s comfort level, or I could throw off the trappings, as Alana did her gowns, to don her leather jerkin and her sword, to save herself.

I think I’d rather be Alana, than to conform to a world that invalidates at every turn.

What’s up with people these days, anyway?

Anyone out there resonate with this?

Maybe you’d like Alana. She knows this feeling well, and overcomes it to find her happy ever after.

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