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Kat Nic Everdeen 💛📚✨
@katniceverdeen.bsky.social
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They/she. M.Div., Ed.S. Higher Education Disability Professional. Partner 🏳️‍🌈. In my engaged era 💍👰‍♀️👰. Chronically ill & disabled 🦓. Non-binary. Preteen & 🐈‍⬛ mom. Reader. 📚💙 ‘25 Reading: 35/100. Also ❤️ skincare, cooking, travel, stationary, Disney, nostalgia.
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It’s my birthday eve eve eve and I’m making the debut of my new mobility aid, Rory the Rollator! Thanks for all the mobility aid advice! As you can tell by the last picture, I put it together this weekend and it was quickly co-opted by one of my cats, Barnes.
A selfie of a red headed person with glasses frames of dinosaurs with balloons, seated on a rollator with one handle visible in the frame, wearing an olive green t shirt that has a picture of a rollercoaster on it and says BIRTHDAY RIDES AND GOOD VIBES. A picture of the back of the seat of a rollator with a sticker on it that says CERTIFIED MEMBER INVISIBLE ILLNESS CLUB with a picture of a ghost on it The backrest of a red rollator with a sticker that has a picture of a rollator on it and reads I’M JUST WHEELY COOL A white cat with brown spots seated on a red and black rollator
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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April Read #10/11: HoverGirls by Geneva Bowers. @gdbee.bsky.social ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Loved the art and the relationship between the two main characters, as well as their back stories and the clever defeat of the villains.
Cover of HoverGirls by Geneva Bowers.
May 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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April read #9: Rules for Ghosting by @shellyjayshore.bsky.social. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. By far the best book I read this year so far. Trans protagonist, complex Jewish family, tons of humor and heart - plus ghosts!! The characters, prose, and relationships are top notch; I wanted to stay in this book forever.
The cover of the book Rules for Ghosting: A Novel by Shelly Jay Shore. Features a large home at the top and several symbols around including two sets of two candlesticks, two open caskets, leaves, two sets of butterflies, and two hands holding at the pinky in front of a tombstone with a Star of David on it.
May 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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April feels like it passed in the blink of an eye, but along with a great mini-vacation, I got a lot of reading done this month: 11 books read total! Book #8: A Holiday Homicide by @elliealexander.bsky.social. ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 loved the gingerbread competition & characters; end felt abrupt. Still 💕 the series
The cover of Holiday Homicide: A Secret Bookcase Mystery, featuring a small town at Christmastime. There is a tabby cat in the left corner of the book cover, next to a chalkboard that reads “A Recipe for Murder”
May 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Her freedom dance 😭 and her smile!! What a beautiful girl. I hope she has the amazing life she deserves in America. My cats were all once abused street cats but you’d never know it now 😂 although they’d argue only getting wet food once a day (+endless dry) is aboose 😂
A spoiled, beautiful black cat in a cat tower in front of a book case. She is sleek, plump, and happy and has seemingly forgotten all about the streets and the litter of kittens she had before 1 year old.
May 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Was able to take 3 days off work and have been on a delightful mini-cation with my daughter over the last 3 & next 2 days! Children’s museum & bakery for gluten free Easter treats; Easter weekend w/ my parents & partner; butterfly garden today & indoor waterpark tomorrow! Never been to the latter.
An Easter painting of a sunflower garden with various other flowers, a “cat sun” and a bird my 11 year old daughter painted at the children’s museum, featuring “Happy Easter” in navy cursive. Two Easter Eggs I hid for our hunt outside at my parent’s house on Sunday - a light blue one in a clump of grass, and a red one by a old faded Beagle statue which is up against a corrugated metal gray barn. A news station photo of Butterflies in Bloom at Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, MI - features two little girls in pretend butterfly wings with two women, looking at butterflies in the greenery. One woman is pointing at the butterflies. All faces are away from the camera towards the butterflies. A wide angle photo of Kalahari indoor waterpark in Sandusky, Ohio.
April 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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April Read #7: The Out Side, a comic anthology featuring all trans and non-binary artists including @sagecoffey.bsky.social, @aikosmith.com & @danacorn.bsky.social. One of my favorite reads of the year so far - full of honesty, hope & trans life affirmation; loved the various art styles. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The cover to The Out Side: Trans and Nonbinary Comics anthology. Features three cartoon drawn people under a rainbow with the colors of the trans flag; each of the people is one of the colors of the trans flag (light pink, light blue, and white). They flare on a path under a rainbow. There are butterflies with the colors of various flags including the rainbow flag & the non-binary white, black, purple and yellow flag, as well as a pink, white & blue trans caterpillar on a leaf and several tropical-looking flowers.
April 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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April read #6: Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston. So wish this series was around when I was a middle schooler! Amari is a delightful protagonist and I love her magical school and world and the supporting characters, especially her “unturned dragon” roommate, and her love of family. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25
The cover of Anari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston; cover illustration by Brittany Jackson. Features a young Black girl, Amari, with natural hair in tight curls ending at about her shoulders, touching some sort of floating glass ball that appears to be shattering, pieces of glass going everywhere on the cover. The girl is wearing a blue collared shirt over a white undershirt, tight cuffed blue jeans, and converse style tennis shoes.
April 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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So behind! 😂 April read #5: Death at the Dinner Party, Secret Bookcase #3 by @elliealexander.bsky.social. Another fun one! Love getting to see Priya take more center stage in this one; she’s a fave supporting character and love her sapphic relationship, as well as more of the town’s history! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The cover of Death at the Dinner Party by Ellie Alexander - shows a fancy table set up for an elegant dinner party. There are sunflowers in the middle with a skull and a vial of poison beside it. There are six place settings; 5 have uneaten bowls of soup and full wine glasses; the sixth’s wineglass is spilled on the table, resulting in spilled red wine on the dark table cloth. A orange tabby cat with a purple collar sits on the sixth chair. A chalkboard sign propped up by an adjacent chair says “A MENU TO DIE FOR!”
April 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Catching up on this! April read 4: The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman. My favorite Thursday Murder Club yet: suspenseful & interesting plot, lots of humor, interspersed with a surprising amount of bittersweet sadness and wisdom about aging and the mind. An easy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
The cover of The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery (#4) by Richard Osman.
April 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I loved the fact that artists took an AI “trend” back and made their own awesome art out of it! I am anti-AI but not an artist - BUT I live with an artist, my 11 year old daughter! This is her first ever commission, which she’d tell you proudly - I paid her $10 & will cherish it forever 💕
A me as a doll drawing my 11 year old daughter did of me. It’s titled “mom Kat & scar” and has both of us as dolls with accessories of cat and cat toys, tea, flower and donut; and electronics (kindle, phone, charger), and my journal and pencil. Me in the irl Svaha brand mushroom dress she based it off of.
April 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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@elliealexander.bsky.social You - and specifically your protagonist Annie - have corrupted me: I haven’t watched a show with a plot since December & have only been watching home & food stuff, but I’m reading A Holiday Homicide and Annie hasn’t just gotten Liam hooked on BritBox, I’m watching
Photo of Kat watching the BritBox show Death in Paradise on their TV with their ereader on their lap along with their grey cat Noble and black cat Athena Kat holding their ereader which shows the cover of A Holiday Homicide, book 4 in the Secret Bookcase Mystery series, by Ellie Alexander.
April 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Perfect Sunday afternoon after going to church & potluck, running errands & starting tackling the biggest doom piles in preparation for impending move - tucked in bed, jammied up, cuddling with all 3 kitties & my ereader! Now we just have to decide what to watch & what to read! 📚🌎📚💙
Person with chin-length red hair wearing floral pajamas with pink piping; wearing rainbow-rimmed glasses & smiling, leaning against a pillow tucked into bed. Two cats on either side of the poster’s feet which are underneath the blankets (a rainbow striped blanket and a turquoise throw with multicolor Christmas trees - yes the poster realizes it’s April but their bunny blanket is at work) - one grey cat (Noble) to the left and one black cat (Athena) to the right. A white cat with a grey & black raccoon-like striped tail and a brown head and brown patch on his nose, laying on the bed asleep, next to the poster’s ereader which is in a floral case, and their journal, a yellow-spined boom that says NOTEBOOK down the spine. There is a cow stuffed animal barely in view behind the cat, and you can see a bit of the poster’s arm and floral nightgown sleeve.
April 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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April read #3: Witchlight by @hugbox.bsky.social. This was another fast paced fantasy graphic novel that I really enjoyed; loved the main characters and all the people they met along the way, and the charming art! Loved the ending - there were some shocking high stakes but they resolved cozily. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The cover to WitchLight by Jessi Zabarsky; a graphic novel cover featuring the two main characters, a light skinned female warrior with a sword and a dark skinned witch with a candle floating above her head. Mushrooms, plants and greenery outlines decorate the rest of the cover.
April 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Back into my reads for this month so far: #2: Squire by @saraalfageeh.bsky.social & @nadiashammas.bsky.social. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5. Beautiful art; fast paced realistic fantasy with great characters & a compelling plot. Not what I normally read with the war/dynasty plot but it was gripping and I ended up ❤️ing it!
The cover of the graphic novel Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas. Features a young warrior with dark shoulder length hair sitting on the lowest of five pillars above what appears to be a brick fortress; the pillars are ascending into the clouds. The warrior holds a yellow flag. Features a quote from author of The Girl from the Sea Molly Knox Ostertag: “instantly compelling. I want to live in this story forever.”
April 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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made an easy read because it’s told in comic form, narrated by snails!
The cover of the book A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G. and J.R. Zuckerberg; on the cover, which is illustrated in a colorful and charming cartoon style, are multiple gender signs for both male & female & male & female together in one sign; a field of mushrooms with flowers behind them; and three snails on the ground, staring up at a fourth snail, with a starred shell and a backwards baseball cap, excitedly with wide snail mouths. The fourth snail is on top of the largest mushroom & is seemingly smiling while talking to them. 🍄 🐌
April 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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2 murder mystery books in a fun cozy series by Ellie Alexander @elliealexander.bsky.social - The Body in the Bookstore (4 stars) & A Murder at the Movies (4.25 stars); and the futuristic urban YA fantasy Blood Like Magic (4 stars) by Liselle Sambury @lisellesambury.bsky.social.
A pie chart of fiction vs nonfiction, showing 83 percent (5 books) fiction and 17 percent (1 book) nonfiction. Screenshots of two books read and their information. Coming Back by Jessi Zabarsky: 248 pages, hardcover, 2021. 4.5 stars. Fiction, fantasy graphic novel. LGBTQIA+; young adult. Adventurous, emotional, and medium-paced. Finished on March 23, 2025. Read. A Murder at the Movies by Ellie Alexander, 266 pages, digital, 2024. 4.25 stars. Fiction, mystery, lighthearted. Mysterious, medium-paced. Shows screens of two books read this month and their information. Returning Home to Our Bodies by Abigail Rose Clarke. 288 pages, paperback, 2024. 5 stars. Nonfiction, health, science. Hopeful, inspiring, reflective. Medium paced. Girl on Fire by Andre Weiner and Alicia Keys. 244 pages, hardcover, 2022. 4 stars. Fiction, fantasy, graphic novel. Science fiction, young adult. Adventurous, hopeful, fast paced. A Body in the Bookstore by Ellie Alexander. 280 pages, digital, 2024. 4 stars. Fiction, mystery. Lighthearted, mysterious, medium-paced. Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury. 484 pages, hardcover, 2021. 4 stars. Fiction, fantasy, lgbtqia+. Young adult, adventurous, dark, emotional, medium paced.
April 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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March reading! Despite being in a reading slump most of the month, I was able to read 6 books and stay pretty on pace toward my year goal of 100! I thoroughly enjoyed all 6 books. The one 5 star book & my favorite was Returning Home to Our Bodies by Abigail Clarke @abigailroseclarke.bsky.social
A picture of the cover of Returning Home to Our Bodies by Abigail Rose Clarke A screenshot from StoryGraph showing 6 books read in March & a total of 1,790 pages; with an average time to finish of 12 days (because I read so many at once 😅) A screenshot of the moods of the books: the largest piece, representing 3 books is adventurous; second largest pieces, representing 2 books each, are lighthearted, hopeful, emotional, and mysterious. Representing 1 book each are reflective, inspiring and dark. Each book has multiple moods. A graphic pie chart of the paces of the 6 books: 83 percent (5 books) were medium paced, while 17 percent, 1 book, is fast paced.
April 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Turns out Chococat & Tuxedo Sam are my almost birthday twins too - CC the day before I was born & TS the day after! Taurus Crew! ♉️

Made by wingmadewlove on the former bird site; couldn’t find them here 😞
A drawing of chococat with a heart denoting the demisexual flag; watermark for the artist wingmadewithlove. A drawing of tuxedo sam wearing a white and pink spring hat with a heart denoting the genderfluid flag; watermark for the artist wingmadewithlove.
March 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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He does have a bowl cut specifically for the Superman movie.
Nathan Fillion with a blonde bowl cut, extending his fist which is wearing a green ring, in a “first look” picture from the upcoming Superman movie.
March 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Just did my grocery order for the week…really hope this is based on the picture and not the title of the item, because oven roasted chunky knit baskets do not sound very delicious 😂 😭
A screenshot of a picture of asparagus to purchase on Instacart at Aldi, which I was trying to buy. It is listed as a “1 lb. Bunch” for $2.49; I have selected a quantity of 2. However, instead of the title of the item being “asparagus”, it is listed as “Chunky Knit Basket, White”
March 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Relatively chill weekend to myself ahead; 3 books behind my goal. Finished Friday fully caught up at work so hopefully this weekend will be my time to catch up on reading despite a slump. Armed with a lavender latte, lavender lemonade, & cute cats; hope to get some house stuff done too. #Caturday 📚💙
A white cat with a brown nose and brown head smirks. He is very glad that his mama is staying home for most of the weekend. His name is Barnes, and his sisters, not pictured, are Noble and Athena. He had just licked his mother before this picture was taken and is very proud.
March 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Bonus; my favorite cat at the cat cafe, Hot Dog; and my daughter’s favorite cat, the new resident Mister
A tabby cat with some white on its chin and front named Hot Dog A little white cat with a grey head named Mister
March 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Was a good weekend with my daughter! Finally finished a book & am only 2 behind from my goal progress; cooked 2 delicious meals; visited the cat cafe; went to a chili cook off; and caught up on some housework! Fun fluffy mystery by @elliealexander.bsky.social; reading book 2 now!
3 Pulled pork fajita tacos with tomatoes, guacamole, pinto beans, sour cream, cilantro & green onion on corn tortillas Cajun salmon with roasted sweet potatoes, asparagus, spiced sour cream & a lemon wedge The cover of the book The Body in the Bookstore by Ellie Alexander Kat with a tabby cat named Burger Queen walking across her lap at the cat cafe
March 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Is there something on my head
Selfie of poster in glasses and plaid pajamas in bed with gray cat perched above their shoulders on the top of their pillow
March 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM