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Maks 🏳️‍⚧️
@finalmaks.bsky.social
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Costumer, writer (sometimes), but mostly just a nerd

Professional costuming instagram: @maks._.costumes
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Finished my first tapestry crochet project!!!
Design by me.
Obviously there's issues (not sure what happened to the heart), but I'm soo proud of how it turned out!
🧶
A tapestry crochet project showing a bookshelf with four books of differing height, width and spine design in between two bookends, a picture frame with a heart on it, and a cat keychain hung from the top of the space. It's dusty pink on a pink so light it looks white.
May 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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THE AGENCY FOR SCANDAL - Laura Wood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 7/10
If I had been sixteen when I found this book, it would have been a 10/10 no questions asked. Honestly, the only real problem with it is that I'm not 16 anymore. There's some issues with a couple historical facts, but it's a good book!
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The book cover for The Agency for Scandal by Laura Wood
May 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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DYING IN THE WOOL - Frances Brody

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 7/10
This book was a lot. I struggled through the first half, despite being hooked, but the second half was good. I have beef with some choices (Arthur Conan Doyle??? What??) but honestly, I quite liked it. It could have used another draft tho
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The book cover for Dying in the Wool by Frances Brody
May 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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THE EARL MEETS HIS MATCH - TJ Alexander

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 9/10
I loved how different the two protagonists were, and how they approached similar stuff in very different ways. Some bits were a bit too fast, and it annoyed me how Kit was just an idiot in figuring out the plot twist. But I loved it
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The book cover for The Earl Meets His Match by TJ Alexander
May 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I SHALL NEVER FALL IN LOVE - Hari Conner

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 8/10
This was a fun read, and I read it all in one sitting, but I don't think it was the read for me. I don't think the heightened reality and comedy of graphic novels are for me. If I was that kind of person I think this would have been a 10/10
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The book cover for I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
May 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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This section says the word name so often, this isn't even the full thing. But here's the detectives being detectives even before their first case

WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #transwriter #historicalmystery
The journal was a simple listing of everyone who was at church each day and where they sat. Reading through it — all the volumes of it, and there were several already — it told the story of Havewend, of who came and left the schools, of how religious each family was, of who were friends with whom, and who avoided whom. You could tell when September came by, because all the names of students from St Martian were back, one or two pews behind when they were the year before, the first ones occupied by new names completely. You could tell christenings, for a woman would not show for two or three weeks, settling after having the baby and then her name and a new one would show up in the journal. You could tell deaths, for one day one of the students from St Martian stopped being recorded, and I still remember when I realised that everyone was saying it was a mystery how he’d fallen into the river to deign his tomb of a cross. You can tell a lot if you keep track of things.
April 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I am extremely very proud of today's fit
Also a close up on the pin I'm using as a tie pin, it's a robin!
A mirror selfie. Maks is wearing gray trousers, a white shirt, a yellow waistcoat and a yellow toned patterned ascot. He is also wearing a pocket watch, a brooch in the shape of a Christmas wreath on his chest, and a robin shaped pin on the ascot. Close up on the ascot, showing the robin shaped pin better.
December 16, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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Just finished making the hopefully final design for our stretch project in school. Look at it
A design for a bodysuit. At the top of the page is a quote by Daniel Mallory Ortberg that reads "as my friend Julian puts it. Only half jokingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason Gab made weath but not bread, and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation". The bodysuit is white with very close together gray lines. Over the legs, one of which is cut off, is a pair of weath stalks. At the center back is a loaf of bread scored to make a cross. Over the hips and shoulders are bunches of grapes. From the center of the chest wine droplets drop to a cup on the crotch. All of this is drawn in a linocut style. Over the right half of the chest is God's hand from the Creation of Adam, but in high contrast black and white. On the left side is a photo of some white paper being ripped to show black paper with the words "God blessed me by making me transsexual" written hastily in white. Both of these end under a photo of a pair of stone angel wings that are on the back. The sleeves are patterned with a repetition of a photo of ripped up and crunched pieces of paper that have lines from the original quote hastily written on them.
December 7, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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This is the most unsurprising wrapped ever
A Spotify wrapped graphic. The top artists are 1. Saint Motel 2. Olivia Rodrigo 3. Conan Gray 4. YUNGBLUD 5. AJR The top songs are 1. Happy Accidents 2. Family Line 3. Balsa Wood Bones 4. Matilda 5. Winner The minutes listened are 21,075.
December 4, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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We have the inciting incident for today...
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #transwriter #historicalmystery
White text on a black background. It reads: Wilhelmine, called by everyone Willa, who was sitting in front of Edyth, barely contained a gasp and got up.  She held a letter so tight her hand must have hurt, and the bones leading to her knuckles were visible on her wrist.   The room fell silent, in a way that never truly happened. Chatter and small sounds are what humanity feeds on, and large groups, especially of children, were never found starving of it. In that moment, however, we all felt like even just the sound of our exhales would make the already coming tidal wave a life-destroying disaster.  The word tight is highlighted.
December 3, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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Oooh plotty bit here. A reaction to finding out the victim is dead.
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #transwriter #historicalmystery
White text on a black background. It reads: And then from the pews, Stephen James shouted "OH FUCK YOU!" and got up. He walked to where the constables were standing so fast, then grabbed Constable Silas by his lapels and instead of lifting him up, shoved him down. With the quickness they gave in, I wasn't too sure the constable's knees hadn't broken. He hadn't screamed, but he was crying profusely. "What happened? What happened, eh?" Stephen was shouting directly in the constable's ear. Then he turned and pointed vaguely at us. "It was that bitch, was it not? IT'S YOUR FAULT." The word lift is highlighted.
December 2, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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I knew what this one would be immediately. We're in church today
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #transwriter #historicalmystery
White text on a black background. It reads: When you live a life as scheduled as ours was, free time is more valuable than money.   Calling it free time might be exaggerating a little, except for certain rare nights of rule-breaking, but that was what it felt like. We didn't have any that morning.  We entered church that the priest had already read the collect, which I had half-hoped in my mind, for otherwise, Miss Badley would have made sure we all blessed ourselves with the holy water, and there was nothing I hated touching more. I had no idea why blessing it made the water so viscous, but I tried to avoid that step most days. Many of our first lessons over the years had started with me behind the board for not doing my religious duty.  The word collect is highlighted
December 2, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#MOODMON #writingcommunity #writesky #transwriter
A grid with nine images. The first is a couple in 1850s clothing posing for a photo. The second is a girl in 1850s clothing sitting and reading, her skirt bounced up at the knees, exposing her stockings. The third is of a boy draped halfway out a window shirtless in an old-looking house. The fourth is a pile of letters. The fifth and central image is of two arms wearing a shirt, covered in blood. The sixth is of a girl in historical clothing looking through a window from the outside. The seventh is of three boys posing menacingly for a photo, dressed in historical clothing. The eight is of two girls in 1850s clothing jokingly bickering while sitting on a picnic blanket. The last one is a couple in 1850s clothing, the man is kissing the woman's hand and she looks unamused.
December 2, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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I used the synonym hatred because I didn't have spite. We've got some backstory here. (Not so) fun fact: this is inspired by my actual grandma's childhood. We're such a healthy family.
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #transwriter #historicalmystery
White text on a black background. It reads: "What dress do you dislike the most?"  "The yellow one, it’s from George." That explained why I never saw her wear it. She'd probably look very nice in yellow, especially given her complexion.   George McCutchen had been, once, Lia's uncle, although he couldn't be much older than my father. He'd married Lia's Aunt Fiammetta when Lia was six, and immediately Lia and Ester's upbringing changed extremely. After something like a year, he'd decided he wasn't satisfied with the way the girls followed his new rules, and sent them to school.  When Aunt Fiammetta died, she had left him everything she owned, and nothing to the two girls she'd raised like hers.  Without him, Lia and I would have never met, but I know she would have been so much happier if she had lived those couple years more with her Aunt. So I hated him the same as Lia did.  I could see her hatred of him in the way she wore the dress, which was otherwise completely fine, if a bit plain, but that was how Lia liked them anyway.
November 30, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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It was hard to find something, but here's some gratitude, and also Ness's opinions on certain clothes.
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #transwriter #historicalmystery
White text on a black background. It reads: Winnie shrieking my name reminded me the world around me was happening, whether Lia acted correctly or not. "Ness! Tell the others I wasn't being cruel!" She had laughter in her voice, because thankfully, Winnie was acting like she always did. "The cut's quite fashionable," I said, and I wasn't lying, although if I were to ask for a Zouave jacket I would end up with a very different piece of clothing. "It is mannish, but I've hardly seen a fashion plate not showing off a similar jacket in the past year. So nothing like bloomers." I sneered at the concept of one of us wearing those terrible trousers. If the only way women's suffrage was possible was by dressing like that, I was more than fine with things staying the way they were. "Thank you," Hettie said.
November 30, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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A better photo of it from me and my partner seeing Wicked
Maks and his partner in a cinema. Maks is wearing a pink waistcoat, beige trousers, a white shirt and a pink neck bow. His partner is wearing a 50s dress in green gingham and a black cape.
November 27, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Is this the first snippet of them actually investigating so far?
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #transwriter #historicalmystery
White text on a black background. It reads: "Did you get injured?" I asked. "No." He looked down. "Well, yes. I dropped the razor while shaving. I've shaved at least every day for years, and I'm still bad at it." He tried forcing a chuckle through. "I can fix the bandages for you," Lia proposed, and despite knowing it was to get more information, it still took me completely by surprise. "You can?" I exclaimed. "Yes. Now, Chaz, pass me your hand." "No!" his reply was fast and worried, to the point that the boy sitting in front of us stopped talking with his neighbour and turned to check what was going on. "It is far from necessary, and much further from appropriate." "She just wanted to be nice," I lied. "Since you're grieving. And all your friends will be gone for some time." The word neighbour is highlighted.
November 26, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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I kept talking about my crush to them, and that November 23rd they asked me who it was. It took a lot of courage, but I told them. And lo-and-behold we're together
We moved in together this June. It was two years on Saturday. I'm proposing on Feb 1st
So, thank you, Robin, for the love of my life
Two square shelves full of books, all part of the Murder Most Unladylike series. The left shelf contains a handbook copy of Ministry of Unladylike Activities, the 5th Anniversary edition of MMU, personalised hand bound copies of the first four books, the American versions of the first three books, the Italian version of Body in the Blitz, and a book nook. The right shelf contains a copy of all the books in the series, in order.
November 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Because @redbreastedbird.bsky.social is on here I will do a very long explanation of the story that led to this purchase of mine here last night.
Because it's thanks to her
An email going over the details of an order of an engagement ring. The ring is made of two rings, one with a central moss agate stone and the other mimicking vines going up and down the main stone.
November 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Had to go with a synonym, but I'm glad I get to show off so much of Fletcher and Booker's appearances in the book.
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writesky #writingcommunity #transwriter
White text on a black background. It reads: "I have the gossip today," Fletcher said once he'd been a gentleman and greeted us. Booker, clearly holding the latest issue of [Penny Dreadful] looked at him and sighed. "You were at the newsagent with me!" Fletcher laughed. "Sorry! And don't act like you ain't reading them on the way here!" Lia rummaged in her pocket to find the coin to pay, but Booker stopped her. "This is for tomorrow now." "You read them?" I asked. For better or worse, I felt like, in the past few days, the true Booker had shown for the first time. "Out loud and annoyingly," Fletcher replied. "Oh, shut it!" Booker complained lightly. "They are made to be interesting!" Fletcher started laughing. Lia looked at the periodical Booker was holding and simply said, "You must be here tomorrow." I wasn't sure if she was talking to Booker or the magazine, she'd been so gripped when she reached the ending of the previous issue, and she could not be kept from the continuation. "Wouldn't have a pay otherwise," Fletcher replied. "Now please, can I give you the gossip?"
November 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Not great, but given the amount of mental breakdowns had and the time contraint, I guess it's the best possible situation
A photo of Maks wearing a pink and silver evening waistcoat while sitting at a table
November 24, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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I am a couple days behind, but I'm glad I can share this hilarious bit
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#WIPSnips #writercommunity #transwriter #murdermystery
White text on black background. It reads: Lia whispered something through the pastry she had in her mouth, and repeated herself better later, when we were going back to our rooms. “She couldn’t have done it at any other moment? I was eating.”  “I believe it’s hard to schedule emotional reactions to the post,” I joked.  “Half a Victoria, gone to the dogs.”  “Lia, What do you think happened?”  Most people, if told of what Lia and I got up to as children, would believe Lia had been the catalyst for everything. It would be easier to see her as the more rowdy of us, especially by those who do everything to paint foreigners in a bad light, but even just because she could be uncaring of other people, and her emotions could be easily missed by people who were not as close to her as I was.   However because she hardly cared about people who were not her, or me or Ester, she was not as curious as I was. She wanted to know all that was possible, obviously, but I was the one looking for secrets in other people’s lives. I guess it made me a hypocrite on some level, or maybe I was just fourteen.  “Nothing worth half a Victoria, I’ll tell you that!”  “We’ll have pastries at lunch.”  “You don’t understand my pain.” She shoved me lightly.  
November 22, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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A really funny one for this one
WIP: Meet Me By Moonlight Alone
#writingcommunity #transwriter #WIPSnips
White text on a black background. It reads: "Like you need the practice!" Miss Clemes bellowed in her matter that made it obvious she had been made for the opera in London and not for teaching in Gloucestershire. "Keep at it, good girl! Make the building sing." "I might rehearse as well, miss," I told her then. I needed to apologise to Lia but also just to talk to her. Miss Clemes laughed. "Oh, Miss Maynard, I can suggest much better ways of spending your studying time." "Holding my music sheets, for one," Lia joked. "Then I'll do that!" I said. "Please, miss?" Of all the teachers that didn't like me, Miss Clemes was the one I was most upset by. Sure, my singing talents equated to the ones of a cat being actively tortured, but there must have been something to praise me about. My clothes, if nothing else! Every instance of sing is highlighted in yellow.
November 19, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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First time taking my wheelchair to uni, and also wearing I think everything in this outfit outside of the ascot and the shoes
A mirror selfie taken by Maks inside a lift. He is the only figure in the photo and is sitting on an electric wheelchair. He is wearing off white button boots, light blue trousers, a floral black waistcoat, a shirt with a wing tip collar, black sleeve garters, a blue ascot, pink glasses, pink headphones, and a sunflower lanyard. He is smiling.
November 19, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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The second half of it is the quote from Daniel Mallory Ortberg that more than anything impacted my relationship with religiosity
A goodreads quote page. The quote is: As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation. The quote is attributed to Daniel Mallory Ortberg, from his book Something That May Shock and Discredit You
November 19, 2024 at 12:18 PM