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Welp, it's a new year. And I'm still struggling to get these stories out to you.

It's just... things have been weird. And my dreams have been even weirder. And yet I can't remember the details. The only thing I can remember is the recurring letter x. That's it. Just X. I'm pretty sure it's just a side effect of all the stories I've been shuffling through.

Despite actually having these dreams, I still haven't been getting much sleep.

On the bright side, there haven't been any more blog intrusions from the mysterious K. Maybe it was all a prank. I don't know, and at the moment, I really don't care. They're gone, and that's all that matters right now.

Hopefully, I can sort through my stuff a little better, make sense of the chaos, and finally, FINALLY bring you some evidence of this Knots entity.

Wait...

This is crazy. This is absolutely crazy. No. It's just a coincidence. I...

As I'm typing this...there's something on my hand that hasn't been there before. On the back of my hand...an X...

I've gotta go and scrub this off. If I can. Where in the world...

Sleep deprivedly yours,

- C.

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He has arrived!!

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Things I Wish I Knew Earlier In Fandom

But maybe these will help somebody now.

Most of your fandom experience is shaped by who you follow. Find a good group of people and stick with them.

Support your favs and a lot of them will become your friends, or at least be friendly back to you.

Just unfollow people who bring unwanted content or negativity onto your dash.

Block people who cause you stress. It’s not worth your time to focus on parts of fandom that don’t make you happy.

Blacklisting words/tags is a tool you are allowed to use as much as you need to.

Don’t feel like you have to pretend to like things that make you uncomfortable in order to fit in. Set healthy boundaries for yourself.

Never tag your hate. Never send hate anons to someone.

Content creators love getting comments, seeing people gush in the tags on reblogs, and getting fans in their inbox. It’s the best way to motivate them to keep making awesome stuff.

If there’s certain content you want to see but it doesn’t exist yet, then make it. Draw the thing, write that fic. If you can’t, then comission an artist or writer, or send someone a prompt if they’re open to it. If you can’t do that either, then write meta or headcanons about it. Put it into the world.

Create what you love. Do it for yourself first and foremost, and if even one other person likes it too, then that’s a bonus.

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if you make an OC that you are genuinely insane over, like you are obsessed with this freak and can't stop thinking about them, then it will rub off on other people. the virus spreads

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First Mind of the New Year!!

I hope 2025 brings some good things your way.

And happy Mind Monday!

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Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Live at the Universal Amphitheatre 1978)

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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reminder that being against ai also means being against character.ai and not using character.ai and not interacting with character.ai

i've never talked to chatgpt i've never talked to character.ai i have no interest in talking to a chatbot even if it's fun or based on my comfort character. if we want companies to stop using ai we need to tell them we aren't going to interact with it - so don't.

don't talk to robots. full stop.

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Happy New Year, everyone.

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we Need more characters in media who are disabled just because their body did that. having disabled characters at all is so rare and usually they were injured in some disaster and they Should still exist but like !! as someone who slowly became disabled for no apparent reason. i want character like me, too

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Bugs wants to wish you all a Happy New Year! I hope 2025 brings you some type of happiness.

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Have a Happy New Year, everyone!

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AWWWW this is so lovely!! This makes me so happy! Thank you so much!! And I'm so glad my Minds bring you joy!

Mind Monday will resume next week. After my holiday break. Thanks for understanding.

Love you guys, and happy New Year.

- Fitz the Navigator

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

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Mind Monday will resume next week. After my holiday break. Thanks for understanding.

Love you guys, and happy New Year.

- Fitz the Navigator

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I don't know who needs to hear this but:

-"it only hurts a little" is still pain

-"I can ignore it" is still pain

-"I can cope with/manage it" is still pain

-"it's bearable" is still pain

-"I can push through it" is still pain

-"it doesn't hurt that much" is still pain

-"it doesn't stop me from doing x" is still pain

You don't need to be in agonizing pain to be in pain.

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