Katie McIvor

Tiny Marnie asleep in an incubator with her dada's hand on her back

Today is a bit of a milestone - we are now as far along in this pregnancy as we were the day Marnie was born! So happy that everything seems to be going more smoothly this time round 🤞 and thankful as always for NHS Scotland and their excellent medical care ❤️

2yo is learning grammar and it's so fascinating. At first she only referred to herself in 3rd person ("Marnie want some apple"), then had a long phase of weirdly using 2nd person ("Did you have fun at the playpark?"), and she's now using 1st person ("I just want some grapes")

Solidarity and congrats! the early stage nausea was so much worse second time round for me 🤢 hope you're not feeling too bad! You can do it! 💪 ❤️

Weird side effects this pregnancy that I didn't get last time:
- Low iron (feels like I'm dying unless I eat a steak)
- One toe went randomly numb for weeks
- Tiny but constant amounts of blood inside my nose
- No appetite except for very bland food
- Pelvic girdle pain arghhh 😫

Hello friends, looking for recommendations - is there like a French version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series? Complicated female friendships, marriage / children, that kind of thing, but in French?

Hello friends, looking for recommendations - is there like a French version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series? Complicated female friendships, marriage / children, that kind of thing, but in French?

Our daughter, who is 2 years and 1 month old, just hit me with "I'm not a baby any more" 😭 truly the sass begins early

haha it's such a fun age 🥰

Our 2-year-old has composed a new verse for one of her favourite songs, it goes like this:

🎵 "Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the river,
If you see a poop,
Don't forget to clean it up." 🎵

Good advice for us all I'm sure

Thank you! At the huge and uncomfortable stage now but everything is going well so far 🥰

Me with my big pregnant bump and my facemask standing in front of the cinema poster for 28 Years Later: the Bone Temple

Two 28 Years Later films in one pregnancy, what a time to be alive

Chances of me finishing this giant pile of parenting & cleaning self-help books by the time the baby arrives in March, what do we reckon 🤔

Chances of me finishing this giant pile of parenting & cleaning self-help books by the time the baby arrives in March, what do we reckon 🤔

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong, and Billy Summers by Stephen King

Things I read in December! I especially loved Liar, Dreamer, Thief by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social - it kept surprising me all the way through ❤️ I'm not sure if I'll keep tracking my 2026 reads as I'll be busy with baby number 2, but it's been fun posting book & short story recs for the past year :)

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong, and Billy Summers by Stephen King

Things I read in December! I especially loved Liar, Dreamer, Thief by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social - it kept surprising me all the way through ❤️ I'm not sure if I'll keep tracking my 2026 reads as I'll be busy with baby number 2, but it's been fun posting book & short story recs for the past year :)

Thank you for sharing! 😀🪼

PseudoPod 978: Where the Brass Band Plays The day I found seaweed on my sister’s shoes was the beginning of the end, for me as well as her. I grabbed her by the shoulders as she tried to scoot past me into the house. “Audrey…

Today's first story of the celebration is a little bit of horror from back in May: Where the Brass Band plays by @mckatie.bsky.social in @pseudopod.org

#booksky 💙📚
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Thanks Cindy! 🥰

Thank you!

Thank you! ❤️

Thank you! Hope you had a nice first christmas with your little boy 🥰

A little bit of self-promo as it's my birthday 🙂 I had 4 stories published this year: a dog food infertility story, a 🪼jellyfish🪼 story, one about fairies, and one about a hitman who badly needs a nap. If any of that sounds like your thing, please have a read and let me know what you think! 🤘 ❤️

Oh nice, we have the same birthday! :) hope you're having a great day!

Donate to Together for Marah & Mila: Surviving the War in Gaza, organized by Mariana Moyano “You are the only hope for a family that has lost everything. You… Mariana Moyano needs your support for Together for Marah & Mila: Surviving the War in Gaza

Hello friends, hope you've all had a good Christmas if celebrating! Please could you keep my friend Marah in your thoughts and continue to support her fundraiser? Her account keeps getting blocked and conditions are very bad in Gaza for her & her little daughter 🙏❤️🇵🇸

www.gofundme.com/f/together-f...

Please help! This family has been displaced for months now and they urgently need support to survive the winter 🙏 🇵🇸 ❤️

Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/together-f...

Me and handsome husband all dressed up and wearing cool face masks so we don't get sick 🤘

All dressed up for a beautiful winter wedding 💕 💍 ❄️

3LBE Magazine - The Somnambulist by Katie McIvor It was supposed to be a simple job. I fly into Edinburgh and get the gun from a contact in the Grassmarket. All smooth. I check into my hotel near the mark's flat and spend a couple hours scoping out ...

I always love a new @mckatie.bsky.social bog story and her new one, The Somnambulist, over in @3lobedmag.com does not disappoint!

And it’s about an assassin! Who don’t love an assassin story :)

www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

Omg Corey thank you so much!! Thrilled to hear you enjoyed it 🥰