Ivy and Oak

Changes I like from T: • Increased body hair. I wasn't sure how I would feel about it before I started, but it's honestly great. My belly has hair on it now and it's cute. I already had a lot of body hair, but the new additions that make it more noticeable are nice. My moustache is coming in just a little bit stronger, it almost almost looks recognizable. I like stroking my chin and feeling the tiny hairs there.  • My voice getting deeper. This was the thing I was most dreading just because I was worried about losing my singing voice and I was worried I'd somehow lose my deep voice-trained voice and get the high effete voice so many transmascs online have (Not that there's anything wrong with that! It's just not what I've ever sounded like!). So far nothing bad has happened, my voice has just gotten gradually deeper, with my throat hurting a little bit here and there, but usually it passes after a few days. It's gotten less and less breaky. My singing vo...

I joined Tumblr 12 years ago, back in 2013. At the time it had just been bought out by Yahoo so there was a lot of excitement around the platform. It was "the future" of blogging. I was just about 17. I had a Livejournal and a Blogger blog, but the only social media I had was Facebook, and mainly just to play Pet Society (does anyone even remember Pet Society?). I had interacted with Tumblr before in order to view Phineas and Ferb fanart, but found it's structure a little confusing. Still, I decided to give it a shot. I almost instantly became hooked. I was a lonely akward teenager, and getting a few notes on a post was the closest thing I had to "social interaction with my peers". I spent the two paltry hours I had free after homework on Tumblr, sometimes staying up too late for a little extra time. I don't need to explain to you what Tumblr culture was like in it's heyday, there are tons of videos romanticizing those "simpler times". Dashcon...