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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Please, @midnightburger.bsky.social , for my mental health. I need it. (Yes, this is basically how I spent my day off.)

Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

What an eventful day considering it's still early in the afternoon. I saw the Hadestown pro-shot (cried four times, it's perfect), got an adorable gift from a friend ("Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism"), and refilled my parrot's healthy treat mix jar (dried veggies, herbs, fruit, and oats).

Photo of a hand holding a large glass jar. The jar is filled with a mixture of dried vegetables, fruits, herbs, and oat groats.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This weekend I got to meet up with @midnightburger.bsky.social folks for the first time in person, the stitches in my mouth fell out today (don't worry, they're supposed to), and tomorrow I'm hosting an all-day podcast marathon before a season finale. Life is good, y'all.

Photo of three people standing next to each other. On the left is Lita, a white woman with short brown hair, a gray shirt, and a smile. In the middle is a man with shoulder-length curly brown hair and a beard, his hands on his hips and a smile on his face. On the right is a white woman with a large smile and a long ponytail, wearing a graphic t-shirt with an alien on it.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"Vapus Vella. Vapus Lives." For my 36th birthday, I got my dedication to survive at all costs as a permanent reminder. Tattoo by Kerri at All Saints Tattoo in Austin, TX. Inspired by @midnightburger.bsky.social by @joehasanidea.bsky.social and voiced by @catblackard.bsky.social Music by ZapSplat

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I am very Normal and also Fine and getting ready for silly @midnightburger.bsky.social fan... art-ish? video for my birthday tomorrow. 👀 (If you know me and you know these episodes, you should be able to guess the theme.) #MidnightBurger

Photo of a laptop keyboard and screen. The screen has Audacity, an audio recording and editing software, running with multiple audio tracks currently open.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

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. 😂)

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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."

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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."

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Actual picture of me having just finished listening to #TheMagnusProtocol episode 50:

Emoji showing a saluting face that's crying massive tears.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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"

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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?"

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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!"

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This is really all you need for most Magus Protocol episodes, really.

Screenshot from a transcript that reads: SAM (awkward)

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

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.”

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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)

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

😵‍💫 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?”

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

35. 🎂 Six years of doing self-portraits on my birthday.

Portrait photo of Lita. She is washed in red and orange sunset-like lighting in front of a blank wall. Her brown hair is cut short, just above her shoulders, and she's looking into the camera with a slight smile.

A photo of Lita's hand pointing up with fingers relaxed. White mesh is draped over the hand and arm and the entire photo is washed in yellow sunset-like light against a blank wall.

Portrait photo of Lita. She is washed in red and orange sunset-like lighting in front of a blank wall. She wears a gold circle halo tucked into her hair and she's looking into the camera with a slight smile.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Big things happening in the Hyper-Niche Cosplay world once I learn how to, uh, do anything crafty. #TheMagnusProtocol

Photo of a sketch done on pink lined paper. It shows a rough sketch of a computer monitor with "Property of the OIAR" written on the side and the vague shape of a neck and shoulders extending from the bottom of it.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

There's gotta be at least one other person who's both a #MaisiePeters AND #MagnusProtocol fan out there, right? Someone else who can enjoy the way I spent my morning? Please?

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

If I could change one thing about the Magnus Archives fandom, it would be for people to understand that not EVERY vase is THE vase. We literally have a description of THE vase. And it doesn't match that random vase you saw at a thrift store. Come on. Get it together. #MagnusArchives

Screenshot from a script. The text reads: "...was something… off about the actual design. Instead of the pictures or scenes common to the ceramics of the period, the blue glaze was painted on in crisp, thin geometric lines. They repeated perfectly and seemed to get smaller and more intricate the closer I looked, but the shapes they formed never lost any of the precision, seeming to continue on however closely I looked. The effect was..." before being cut off.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Nobody look too closely at my minutes listened because this is actually 40,000 less than a couple years ago. 🫣

Image from Spotify Wrapped showing a photo of Maisie Peters, a young white woman with blonde hair, sitting on the ground. Text below the photo lists "Top Artists: 1. Maisie Peters 2. Hozier 3. Marianas Trench 4. Emma Blackery 5. Paris Paloma" and "Top Songs: 1. The Killing Kind 2. Villains, Pt. 1, 3. Watcher's Crown 4. Too Sweet 5. hunter" At the bottom it says, "Minutes Listened: 141,876"

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The best gift you can give your Magnus-obsessed friend (me) is enthusiastic permission to send a bunch of voice notes recapping what happened in 10 episodes that you've kinda forgotten.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A friend who I got into The Magnus Archives is FINALLY catching up on Magnus Protocol and this was a very funny text to receive today. 😂

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A video to really show off the effects of the folding. 🤤

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I made a new bread recipe today (and yesterday, since the dough rested for about 16 hours) that included Trader Joe's soffritto blend and grated Parmesan folded in right before it went into the Dutch oven. I'm very excited to share this with coworkers soon.

Photo of a hand holding a slice of artisan bread. The bread has many airy holes and in the center of the slice, there is a band of melted cheese mixed with red and orange spices.

Photo of a hand holding a slice of artisan bread. The bread has many airy holes and across the top of the slice, there is a narrow band of melted cheese mixed with red and orange spices.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Converted a friend to the Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later side and I couldn't be more thrilled. Thanks, @rustyquill.bsky.social, @davidkbarnes.bsky.social, and Amani Zardoe! (And cast and the rest of the crew, of course, but I can't tag EVERYONE.)

Screenshot of a Discord message that reads: No exaggeration, Cry Havoc might be my new favourite thing ever

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

btw, happy anniversary to the Eyepocalypse.

Screenshot of Magnus Archives episode 160 - The Eye Opens, with the release date of October 31, 2019 shown below.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I might not have a costume this year, but Crawford always gets into the Halloween spirit. 🎃

Photo of a black and white cat sitting on a white table outside. He is wearing a decorative collar made up of orange ribbons and black ribbons with white polka dots. He is looking up at the camera.

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I've always been the friend who no one takes pictures of, so when I turned 30, I decided to take self-portraits each year for my birthday. Here's me at 31, 32, 33, and 34, in order. I have so much fun doing these, especially since I do the concept, the makeup, the photography, the editing, etc.

A black and white photo of Lita, a white woman with short dark hair. She is wearing a light-colored dress and heart-shaped glasses with trees in the background. She looks down at the ground with one hand touching her temple.

A photo of Lita, a white woman with long brown hair. She is wearing red lipstick and has silver, glittery tears running down from her eyes. She looks directly into the camera with her lips parted. The photo is warm and slightly hazy.

A portrait photo of Lita, a white woman with medium-length dark hair. She wears a fluffy dress with a pink and green floral pattern and pink eye shadow and lipstick. A gold halo encircles her head. She looks directly into the camera with dark green trees in the background.

A portrait photo of Lita, a white woman with brown hair with a streak of gray hair from her temple. She is turned mostly to the side but looks into the camera. Small white beads in alternating circles and heart shapes are glued to her cheek. They have black letters that spell out "thirty four."

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Lita @backonpointe.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

The cold front here means Crawford has decided to nap on the balcony chair instead of directly on the concrete floor. A change he makes very rarely, honestly.

Photo of a black and white cat curled up on a cushioned deck chair. He's looking towards the camera but with both eyes closed sleepily. The stem and leaf of a monstera cuts through the photo.

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