Status Updates From Medusa

from the author — I hope her story helps inspire others to find their own voices and reminds us all to take the time to listen.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well done, rosie.

‘I have found a small corner of history and claimed it as my own, not as a monster or a victim, but as a survivor, a protector.’

✨🫶🏻✨🥹

“I have been waiting to meet you for a very long time.” 🥹

‘Our fragile patriarchy could hardly accept a female monster who can kill men and think for herself.’

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

“Medusa, I’m sorry. ”
“I know.”

😢😔

‘You might find this extreme, but some friendships are just like that – you can find the bond of a lifetime in just a matter of days. I hope you will all be lucky enough to experience a friendship like that one day.’ 🥹🫶🏻 i have.

‘I had never seen a man cry like that before and it was beautiful to see such unapologetic vulnerability.’

‘I paused, drawing in an uneven breath as I let my words burn between us. “You will never know what it feels like to have the whole world against you, to be forced into a narrative you never wanted to be part of… So do not sit there and make assumptions about me, because you know nothing of what I have been through.”

“Tell me then.”

this is all it takes to bridge a gap sometimes. 🫶🏻

‘Hope is a dangerous thing.’

‘After all, violence only ever breeds more violence.’

this is the most important thing that is so forgotten by everyone to ever live… 😔

‘Time takes a lot from you – beauty, memories, youth. But it can also give you many gifts as well, one of which is a sense of perspective.’ 🙌🏻

“Medusa, you will become as repulsive as your actions. Never again will you use your temptress ways, for you will be so hideous that no man will ever be able to look at you again.” — athena in her own temple where medusa had JUST been r@ped by poseidon

“you know how it is… So many lives to meddle with, so little time.” — fucking hermes 😡