Status Updates From Cleopatra

Arsinoe’s lips twitched ever so slightly.
I should have known. I should have seen it. But I have always been blinded by love.
That was one thing your histories got right.

this is incredible

Words written some three hundred and fifty years prior by Herodotus, known only to the foolish among you as “the father of history.” History is not fathered, it is cultivated, ever-growing, ever-changing, and most importantly it is pruned and trimmed by those who uncover it from the shade.

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“Want mijn verhaal zou hetzelfde zijn. Ik zou altijd Medusa blijven. Een monster, geen persoon. Hoe had de wereld anders een vrouw kunnen bedenken met zoveel macht?”