Medea Palatina

classics enthusiast and writer. @veirs_tallis_classics on TikTok. nonfiction writing published in @workclassicists and fiction on On the Run and @rameyepress

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Im at the roman tomb
Im at the zara store
Im at the combination roman tomb and zara store

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Gutted I never got to bid on this

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Gutted no one did a Minoan tribute for the Garden of Time theme this year

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Athena and Arachne

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@McnamaraLuna

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“I can’t believe I have to work a normal
Job, I was meant to be a high priestess” as if being a temple worker wasn’t just a barista with a better hat.

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@CartoonsHateHer Gayle erasure

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“So was she in love with Joe Alwyn, as Lover purports, or secretly in love with Maty Healy for six years? These inconsistencies are troubling at best.”

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The presence of r/TaylorSwift and the equally passionate and growing r/SwiftlyNeutral implies we’re witnessing a pop fandom Protestant schism in real time.

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We would pick a decade. We wished we could live in instead of this. I'd say the 1750s but without all the low quality copper ingots.

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@ISASaxonists

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They couldn’t have picked a better accompanying photo to go with this headline.

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Yooooooo #hades2

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Saying you’re the personality hire at a tech company is like telling people you have a face for radio

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@CartoonsHateHer I could see myself employing the services of a moody seventh son of a minor ruler to teach my children.

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The amount of aspiring fantasy writers on Twitter blaming themselves when the truth is that it’s just a dogshit market for SFF now. Babes, you’re trying to sell peaches in apple season!!

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No way a matriarchy would have signed off on that hat

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The Minoan power seems to have had a dual character: a caste of male aristocrats - merchants - warriors held control of Crete, legitimizing their rule through a theocratic ideology whose religious narrative had mainly matriarchal origins. #Minoans

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@GeorginaF_Homer What about her twelve hour nursing shift?

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You can tell a lot about someone by asking them to explain why they think Frodo went into the West at the end of Return of the King.

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New Out of Office message

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself “looped in” to a Slack discussion where he was expected to answer a problem he’d never heard of before.