Katie McDermott

@katiemcd.bsky.social

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Reading, writing, etc. https://katiemcdermott.com/ She/her 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

A pair of glasses, broken in half on the bridge of the nose (there is a bit of tape around the bridge but it only lasted a few minutes before they fell apart again)
In the foreground: a hand holding knitting needles and a striped jumper - blue, red, turquoise, orange, pink In the background: lovely sunny garden, table and chairs, and bonus blurry dog cameo
4 book covers: 'there is no anti mimetics division' by qntm 'meander spiral explode' by Jane Alison 'the fifty minute mermaid' by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill 'All systems red' by Martha wells
4 book covers: 'A parade of horribles' by Matt Dinniman 'butter' by Asako Yuzuki 'we are legion (we are Bob)' by Dennis E. Taylor 'idol' by Louise O'Neill
Two book covers, 'whatever happened to Madeleine stone?'by Louise o' Neil, and 'project hail Mary' by Andy Weir
Four book covers: 'this inevitable ruin ' by Matt Dinniman, 'yellowface' by RF Kuang's, 'operation bounce house' by Matt Dinniman and 'the eye of the bedlam bride' also by Dinniman
Three book covers, 'The Butcher's Masquerade' by Matt Dinniman, 'the devils' by Joe Abercrombie, and 'the gate of the feral gods' by Dinniman
An image looking at the edge of a hardback book, the whole book is curved like a banana
4 book covers, all by Matt Dinniman: the dungeon anarchist's cookbook, carols Doomsday scenario, dungeon crawler carl and this inevitable ruin
The covers of the books 'ordinary saints' by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin, and 'adult children of emotionally immature parents' by Lindsay c. Gibson
View of green fields and blue sky with Newgrange monument on a hill in the distance
4 book covers, 'the murder of Roger Ackroyd' by Agatha Christie, 'absolution ' by Jeff Vandermeer, 'vanishing world' by Sayaka Murata, 'sociopath' by Patric Gagne
A laptop open on Scrivener, set to dark mode, with a half eaten scone and jam on a plate in front of it
3 crochet dolls of the characters Luigi, Princess Peach and Mario from the super Mario Brothers games
Two book covers, 'a pocketful of happiness' by Richard E. Grant and the penguin classics edition of 'Night Watch' by Terry Pratchett
A square white plate with bacon, scrambled eggs and toasted home made brown bread. On the table behind them is a laptop and an earphone case.
The covers of 4 books: 'falling animals' by Sheila Armstrong, 'small things like these' by Claire Keegan, 'iron widow' by xiran jay Zhao, and 'a prayer for the crown-shy' by Becky Chambers
Meath county council arts office logo
4 animorphs book covers side be side. Each shows a teenager slowly turning into a different animal
A pair of loop ear plugs in their case
Image shows 4 book covers, 'A Psalm for the wild built' by Becky Chambers, 'everything is tuberculosis' by John Green, 'no one of talking about this' by Patricia Lockwood and 'the library at Mount char' by Scott Hawkins
A little yellow rubber duck, sitting on a notebook on my desk which is filled with messy handwriting. In the background is some green paper with other scrawled notes.
A woman (me), taking a selfie in a bathroom mirror. White tiles and walls behind me. I'm wearing a knitted jumper. It's burgundy and baggy with a small white geometric design around the hem and a much larger white design around the yoke (neck and shoulders). This one is a repeating design of raven skulls and some geometric elements.
4 book covers, 'before the coffee gets cold' by Toshikazi Kawaguchi, 'acceptance' by Jeff Vanderneer, 'The orange' by Wendy Cope, and 'The age of magical Overthinking' by Amanda Montell
This is a video of the band Zeal & Ardour singing the chorus of their song 'row row'. It is taken live at a show, from very close to the stage, slightly to the left. In the frame are the lead singer and two vocalists standing at microphones and wearing black. There are lots of red and white spotlights on the performers that start to flash more and more as the song gets heavier.
A close up of two floppy discs on a wooden dining table. The one on the left is orange with a very scratched and faded label that says 'Katie McDermott novel' in terrible handwriting. The one on the right is red, the label isn't faded and it says 'Katie McDermott Novel' in the same terrible handwriting.
Book covers for 'Martyr!' by Kaveh Akbar, 'half arse human' by Leena Norms, 'Drive your plow over the bones of the dead' by Olga Tokarczuk Also pictured is 'termush' by Sven Holmes but it is crossed out
A photo of a field and sky. The field takes up the bottom quarter of the photo, with a line of trees and hedges and another field behind it. The rest of the photo is a deep blue sky with some large white clouds
The cover of the novel 'The Wardrobe department' by Elaine Garvey. The cover is done in the style of an oil painting with a blue background and the head and shoulders of a young woman taking up the right hand side of it. The woman is white has dark hair in a bob cut with a fringe and us wearing a back jumper. Her eyes are looking too the left at something out of frame.
A picture with a hedge in the foreground, a large green field behind it. The top half is a lovely blue sky with lots of small clouds. There are trees and hedges snaking across the field.
A square cake covered in pink icing and an entire packet of haribo star mix sweets, some sprinkles, assorted other sweets and candles shaped like balloons. The cake is barely visible under all the 'decorations'
Dear x, I am writing to you to express my disappointment that a commitment to WPATH trans healthcare has been removed from the program for government. I fully support this evidence based mode of healthcare and bodily autonomy for trans people. I hope that as my TD you take the concerns of your constituents on board, Yours sincerely,
Book covers for 'Termush' by Sven Holmes, 'the Android's dream' by John Scalzi, 'Sea of tranquillity' by Emily Saint John Mendel and 'i want to die but I still want to eat tteokbokki' by Baek Sehee