Baby Regression Moodboard (｡◕‿◕｡)

Its always, "ohh you shouldn't drive you have a concussion," or "hey don't lift that, you have a concussion," never "hey did you have fun spinning around?"

Having an MtF Little Means…

*MtF is Male to Female, someone who was not born genetically female but identifies or is transitioning to such*

Taking them shopping and helping them pick out pretty clothes or dresses

Telling them that they are beautiful

Reminding them not to tuck for more than 8 hours, and to take one day off a week from tucking

Being understanding when you have to cancel plans because they are too dysphoric

Telling them what a cute tiny baby they are

Understanding that they may not want to be touched sometimes because of dysphoria 

Reminding them that their toy preferences is not an indication of gender (Trucks and toy tools are for girls too!)

Helping them with E shots if they’re afraid of needles

Understanding that tantrums may be caused by dysphoria and not punishing them for it

Helping them find cute feminine baby clothes that they like

Reminding them that they will get the surgeries that they want someday (and that they are still valid even if they don’t want surgery)

Helping care for them during surgery recovery

Asking if they are okay with you correcting others when they get misgendered

Reminding them that it is perfectly okay if they do not want to tuck

Understanding that they may not be out to friends or family, and asking them how they would like you to refer to them when around others

Learning what phrases or actions can trigger dysphoria and avoiding them

Unless they say otherwise, don’t talk about how they “used to look”

Helping them through dysphoric episodes

Reminding them that toys, clothes, cartoons, and other baby things don’t have genders

Using pet names such as “Baby Girl” “Little Girl” “Princess” etc.

Reminding them that when they take a break from tucking they are not less of a woman

Not over-correcting yourself if you slip up. It happens, sometimes a “Prince” or a “he” will slip out. They get it. The best thing you can do is just say sorry and then say the correct name/pronoun. Please do not go on and on and on about how you’re sorry and explaining why you slipped up and how they need to give you more time. This goes for any trans person, regressor or not. It’s making a mountain out of a molehill and it can make them feel worse than the actual slip up.

office pride? in the gay people podcast?? impossible

imagine what would happen if Wayne and Shallan met

i wanna buy a bottle! but i still live with my parents and i don't want them to say anything about it ☹

Fuck yeah!!

My babies that I don’t draw much but I still love <3

Oh my goodness yes this is something I’ve seen so often in media representation of autism, like no we we aren’t these cold fact debating robots

Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.

Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.

Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.

The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top

You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.

Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up

You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.

Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog

Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.

If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.

You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"

Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.

Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.

We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.

Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.

Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.

Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it

You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.

Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.

Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit

You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.

Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.

Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.

If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal

Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension

In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.

You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!

Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs

Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

Idk this still seems like something that could become ukraines Chernobyl