trans
Facing It (Maisie Gets Facial Feminisation Surgery)
A long-form account of my experiences getting facial surgery with Facial Team.
Maisie Bell
mental health
My bullet journal isn't a mental health cure. But...
This year, I decided it would be a good chance to try and pick up bullet journalling again. I've tried this before so it would be my second attempt. Way back in, uh, let me see... In 2018. Yeesh. Seven years on, and I'd thought I&
this week
This week in maisieccino. 2025-07-27
This week: I get a new piece of smart tech, listen to some bleeps and bloops, and start getting serious about my health.
tech
RIP: The bottom of the webpage
I was spending some time over the weekend doing what most other millennial/zoomer crossover freaks usually do: scrolling web pages on one of the many rectangles I own. It struck me. Something had been missing from my browsing experience, and I don’t really know when it disappeared? Website
mental health
Severance and Dissociation
I just finished the 7th episode of season two of Severance. Oh my gosh I have so many thoughts I need to get out into text form. This is going to contain a lot of spoilers for the show. If you haven’t watched, you should close this browser tab.
climbing
The Road to V5
Aaaaaaaa. I started 2024 just about being able to climb V3 graded routes at a few gyms around London but I wanted to do better and get to climbing V4s consistently. Actually, let me correct myself there. I started 2024 with a sprained ankle and a lot of sitting around
lgbtq+
A leap of faith.
The hardest thing about transition is trusting yourself that you’re making the best decisions possible. None of us really know for sure what the future holds and what will happen next. We’re always taking a leap of faith. Yeah, uh, this is a post about my upcoming Facial
The simple joy of climbing
I first went bouldering at a north London climbing centre in summer 2022, in order to try and impress someone I was dating at the time. We joined a friendly group of people who visited weekly and climbed together, and I initially suffered through it because they were very lovely
mental health
Whoops! Let’s try this again.
Having finally seen a psychiatrist this week to look into my serious mental health symptoms, I’ve finally been given a diagnosis and treatment plan—I have Complex PTSD, which is honestly what I began to realise I had already. But it’s definitely a big jump from thinking you
safe mode
Safe mode is a feature in Windows where your computer boots up in a basic state, with most features and abilities disabled. It’s intended as a way to safely rule out bad settings and rogue hardware drivers that can be causing issues, and give you a more stable place
mental health
The existential fear of rejection
I signed up for my second round of therapy with the goal of managing and breaking out of a depressive spiral. In the first appointment, my therapist predicted that my depression is powered by anxiety alone, and by tackling that, it would lead to much better management of my depression.
mental health
Surviving
Content warning for strong depression themes, mentions of suicide It wasn’t until the last couple of weeks, that I was fully able to comprehend that just getting through life makes you a survivor. I’ve been struggling with depression and anxiety for years and years, and it came to