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Lita
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author. baker. photographer. 📚
will discuss the Magnusverse at any moment. 👁️
free Palestine. 🍉
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My mom surprised me with this memorial necklace, which arrived the evening that marked exactly four weeks since I said goodbye to my baby boy. She said it's so "he can be by [my] heart all the time." I, of course, sobbed upon opening it and again when I read that message from her.
Photo of a gold necklace in Lita's palm. The gold chain has a small gold paw-shaped pendant hanging from it. "Crawford" is engraved in tiny letters across the base of the paw.
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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For anyone else apparently playing Pokemon with emotional trauma (gotta catch 'em all!) while listening to #MidnightBurger, I made us a treat.

(Disclaimer: loyalty card is unaffiliated with @midnightburger.bsky.social and/or Business Goose Media and does not entitle holder to free food/coffee. 😂)
Fake loyalty punch card that reads: "Midnight Burger Loyalty Card. Collect 9 Emotional Trauma stamps and get a free monte cristo and a small coffee." There's an illustration of coffee beans on the left edge and nine burger outlines in a grid on the right side of the card where they can be stamped or punched.
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I got the paperwork to sign for my settlement today and the wording where I need to sign has been amusing me all day.
Screenshot of text that reads, "WITNESS MY HAND (in all capital letters) this (blank) day of (blank), 2025."
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Very tempted to add "Libuza pondering her Orb" to my list of incredibly niche cosplay ideas. #MidnightBurger
Meme of an illustrated wizard sitting at a table with a blue, glowing orb on it. White text says "Libuza" under the wizard's face and says "weird Krok orb" under the blue orb.
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I miss Crawford so badly I keep feeling like I'm going to throw up. I'm so thankful for the friend who came with us to his appointment for taking a few photos while I said goodbye before, during, and after he went to sleep. 😭 The apartment is cold and empty without him here. I keep looking for him.
Photo inside a vet's office showing Lita in a big sweater and Crawford, a fluffy black and white cat, resting in a cat bed on an exam table. Lita is leaning in to kiss his forehead with tears visible on her cheeks.
November 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I had to say goodbye to my soul cat this afternoon after a mystery illness took away his quality of life faster than we knew. I've been crying for nearly 24 hours and have just been playing the @midnightburger.bsky.social bloopers on repeat to get through it all. Not a joke, that's how I'm coping.
A photo of a fluffy black and white cat lying on his side on a bed. He wears a decorative collar of Halloween ribbons around his neck, with orange and black-and-white polka dotted ribbons sticking out everywhere. Photo of a fluffy black and white cat lying in a pet bed that sits on an orange blanket. He is leaning towards the camera with one foot extended like he's about to take a step. Photo of a fluffy black and white cat lying on his side in a pet bed. Orange medical tape holds a catheter in place on his front leg and he is curled up against Lita's chest as her arm stretches along his chest and stomach.
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I got my first call back from an oncologist for Crawford and was told the initial consultation alone would cost $230. The vet advised that they would likely also need to perform a CT scan and a biopsy in order to diagnose, to say nothing of treatment costs. gofund.me/1aaed1508 Please share! 💞
Photo of a fluffy black and white cat with his cheek resting in Lita's palm. He is lying on his side and looking into the camera with green eyes and his front paws extending out the bottom of the frame.
October 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Crawford is literally a perfect cat. Despite waking me up far too early every single day. And randomly deciding he hates his favourite wet food right after I've stocked up. And having not one, but TWO chronic health conditions. I love him more than anything in the universe.
Photo of a long-haired black and white cat lying in bed cuddled up with Lita, a white woman. Her arm is around his torso and his front paws extend towards the camera.
October 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Crawford has never met someone he didn't love. The maintenance men adored him and he would follow them around any time they were in my apartment. Vets have struggled to hear his heart because he won't stop purring. He loves watching the birds and pretending he could catch one if he wanted to.
A photo of a long-haired black and white cat lying on its side on a pink blanket. He's mid-stretch, with all four legs stretched out straight and his back toes spread.
October 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Crawford is literally the best thing I've ever had in my life and the only time I've been away from him in the last 6 years was a couple days of family vacation. I keep checking his favourite nap places while he's at the vet and the anticipatory grief is overwhelming.
Photo of a long-haired black and white cat sitting in a loaf shape on a pink bed pillow. He's looking towards the camera and his tail is curled over the edge of the pillow.
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Crawford went into the vet this morning because his appetite disappeared a few days ago. His blood work showed he's anemic but without a cause. They're currently doing imaging to check for internal bleeds but it could be cancer. If you want to pitch in towards the $700 bill, Venmo @LitaMedinger 💕
A photo of a long-haired black and white cat asleep as the little spoon against someone's torso. Their arm and thigh are visible against the pink sheets on either side of the cat.
October 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Never let people tell you audiodramas aren't educational when I literally recognized a phrase in a book about Agrippina of ancient Rome (by Dr. Emma Southon, highly recommend) thanks to its use by Even Older Leif in @midnightburger.bsky.social 🍔
Photo of a Kindle e-reader with a phrase highlighted: "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" Above the highlighted phrase is a note box that reads, "I know what this means thanks to Midnight Burger."
September 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Actual picture of me having just finished listening to #TheMagnusProtocol episode 50:
Emoji showing a saluting face that's crying massive tears.
September 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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btw, happy There It Goes day.

🎶 I'm doing better,
I made it to September.
I can finally breathe. 🎶
Screenshot of Spotify lyrics from There It Goes by Maisie Peters. Lyrics read: "I'm doing better, I made it to September"
September 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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This is the reward I get every now and again in exchange for my work getting people hooked on #TheMagnusArchives. I love it.
Screenshot of a text exchange. The message from the other person reads, "I finished TMA" with a crying emoji after it. The second, from Lita, begins with an emoji of two people hugging and says, "How are you feeling?"
August 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Yesterday marked two years since I got my #TheMagnusArchives tattoo and I still love it with every ounce of my being.
Photo of a black and white tattoo on Lita's calf. The tattoo shows a panopticon in cutaway view. There are three surreal eyes on the central tower and text beneath it reads "I-- open-- the door!"
July 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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What's the point of writing fanfiction if you can't use characters' toxic traits against themselves and others? #TheMagnusProtocol
Screenshot of a manuscript that reads: She found Ink5oul somewhere in the depths of the former asylum and somehow, Gwen didn’t even blink at the dead body slumped against the wall like a broken doll. “How do you even find these people?” she asked as the tattoo artist prepared their work space. “The same way you find me, little canvas. On instinct.” Gwen scoffed. “Instinct. Sure.” “How would you explain it, then? Someone from your office tag my ear? Did you stick me with a tracker while you were writhing and screaming under my needle?” Gwen found her mouth too dry to respond, so she didn’t try. Besides, she didn’t have an answer. There was no logical reason she kept finding herself standing in a room alone with them. Well, them and a corpse, most of the time. She’d gotten the address from Lena the first time, and they’d scheduled a meeting for her tattoo, but since then… “That’s not important,” Gwen said, though she wasn’t sure if it was to herself or to Ink5oul. “I went through some paperwork now that I’m the manager–” “Oh, I bet you’re loving saying that,” Ink5oul interrupted.
May 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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This is really all you need for most Magus Protocol episodes, really.
Screenshot from a transcript that reads: SAM (awkward)
April 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Feeling very normal about the fanfiction chapter I'm gonna upload after work tonight. 🫣 #TheMagnusProtocol
Screenshot of a text document that reads: “Still alive over there, little canvas? If not, I'm breaking out the ink again. I've got a couple ideas I think would look stunning on you.” She refused to take that as a compliment. Christ, they were talking about her dead body, not about her. “Still alive,” she forced out. Pressing herself to her hands and knees took more effort than she remembered. She felt… tired, like a flannel that had been wrung out and left in a heap to dry. “You weren't lying about the pain.” “I'd never lie about pain.” At Gwen's doubtful expression— or at least what she intended to be a doubtful expression— they added, “Well, no reason to lie when you're practically begging for it. The pain, that is.”
March 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Sometimes days are good because you get to drop 30+ sandwiches and 10 servings of pasta salad at the community fridge, then go get a chaotic brunch with your best friend before visiting the library's bookstore.
Photo showing the inside of a fridge. The top three shelves hold paper lunch bags with handwritten notes on them listing the sandwiches and snacks inside. The bottom shelf holds plastic containers of pasta salad and more sandwiches in apple-printed bags. Top-down photo showing cups on a table covered in multicolored patterns. A man's hand holds a metal cup of hot water. The other cups include two water glasses, a cup of apple juice, a cup of grapefruit juice, and a mug with a tea bag in it. Photo of two plates on a multicolored tabletop. The bottom plate holds French toast with way too much butter. The top plate has a stack of pancakes cut into a mess of small pieces.
March 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Sneak peek for anybody reading my GwendolInk fic on AO3. 🥰 #TheMagnusProtocol
Screenshot of a text document that reads: "I’m not having a drink with you.” “Come on, little canvas. You hate your job and you’ve got no friends. What better time to get plastered?” “Absolutely none of that is true,” Gwen argued. “Why aren’t you at your little supervillain squad night shift, then?” “Because I hate my boss, not because I hate my job.” “Of course. And why aren’t you with your friends?” Gwen didn't have a good answer for that. In all honesty, she didn't have any answer for that. When was the last time she'd gone out with friends? Before starting at the OIAR? The overnight hours made it hard to see people during the day even on her days off, her sleep schedule so warped by the years. Ink5oul clearly took her silence for the answer it was.
March 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Now kiss.
Screenshot from a Magnus Protocol transcript that reads "GWEN approaches from behind then waits to be noticed. ALICE doesn't notice. Why would she?"
March 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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He's an old man instead of a kitten, but here's my grumpy-faced cat pretending he doesn't love being the little spoon.
Photo of a fluffy black and white cat laying on his side. Lita is barely visible behind him, with one hand between his front legs as the cat's head rests on her other elbow.
February 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Comments like this keep me going, honestly.
Screenshot of a comment from AO3 that reads: (ps I LOVE this fic I'm literally rattling the bars of my cage)
February 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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😵‍💫 You wanna listen to all of The Magnus Archives and then all of The Magnus Protocol so bad. 😵‍💫 You wanna see Sam and Celia flirting more even if solely because Sam is so rubbish at it. 😵‍💫 You wanna read the canon-compliant fic I've been writing of them. 😵‍💫 (Is this working?)
Screenshot of a document that reads: Unfortunately for Sam’s backlog, Celia had been assigned the computer next to his. Every now and then she leaned over to borrow his pen when hers acted up and he caught the faintest scent of… He wasn’t sure if it was perfume, shampoo, or if she naturally smelled like sandalwood. “You know, we probably have more pens in the supply closet,” he said the third time she held her hand out with a pleading expression, though he still set his pen into her proffered palm. “The supply closet directly next to Lena’s office?” Celia asked with amusement. “Are you trying to have me fired already? I’ll go have a look once she steps out for… She probably won’t be stepping out for lunch considering it’s nearly three in the morning, will she? Maybe I can convince Alice to pull the fire alarm and then sneak some pens in the chaos?”
February 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM