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Smidge outside idk..supposed to be a lineless practice but i went crazy

The crew having a schedule of who watches Tiny at any given time on any given day. (It is extensive and color coded and Branch had a great time making it.)

Everyone explanding tiny diamonds repertoire of skills before he can even comprehend his own existence. Like.

Suki who holds a one year old Tiny on her lap while she works on mixes.

Cooper and D who switch off holding Tiny in one of those chest carrier things while they play DDR.

Poppy who will give Tiny a bag of scrap paper and tell him to make a picture inside it. (She doesn’t want to let him actually touch the paper, lest he ingest it.)

Branch who puts on science kids shows like Wild Kratts and Sid the Science Kid on the background while he and Poppy have Tiny so that he kid can start learning fun science stuff early.

Sati and Chenille who started by dressing up Tiny in their studio, but ended up just letting him use his creative guidance on them. (They hold him above a pile of fabric and whichever two he picks they have to make work as a garment.)

Biggie who has “tea parties” with Tiny and Dinkles (his cat) and is always trying to teach the baby proper table manners, it’s futile, for Tiny is a menace.

Smidge who teaches the baby to “work out”. (She actually owns a bunch of grip training baby toys that she hands him while she lifts weights.)

Barb who insists she doesn’t like babies but will happily take Tiny in for a night when needed, making little purée dinners for him and spoiling him rotten for the evening.

Legsly, who encourages Tiny to dance with her in her living room, gripping his hands and holding him up so they can “dance”.

Fuzzbert who is canonically mute and uses sign language to communicate in this universe, who loves to bring Tiny out to the park to experience nature with him, always mesmerized by the baby’s wonder at the clouds and the leaves. (Listen, I just like to imagine that Fuzzbert as someone who often finds themself unable to make themselves heard, quite enjoys the satisfaction of such a small child finding joy in the same things he does.)

Tiny who is very monkey-see monkey-do, and actually is a very well rounded kid after being raised by so many well rounded people who care about a love him.

When they’re together as a group, usually at game nights, they’ll make Tiny little “mocktails” aka, like, mango juice, so that he doesn’t feel left out while they all drink their drinks of choice.

Tiny is the most spoiled kid on earth because he has so many aunts and uncles willing to pitch in and get him whatever he wants.

Brozone and Viva also loving Tiny when they meet him one day while Branch and Poppy are in charge of him. Poppy has a little stroller with a sunshade, and Branch is happily carrying the baby bag so the stroller isn’t too heavy to push. At first, everyone’s mortified cause they thing that their baby siblings have gone off and had a whole baby without telling them, but they quickly notice the “Tiny Diamond” printed across the baby bag and realize it’s in fact their siblings’ close friend’s baby that they’ve heard so much about.

Viva making the kid candy necklaces only to be quickly shut down by Clay who explains that they’re a choking hazard, and they should not be given to a baby.

Bruce who has kids of his own and will invite Guy Diamond to drop Tiny off at his place when he and the rest of the snack pack want a night out.

JD who is terrified of children after how much he feels like he screwed up with Branch, but is still infatuated by the little boy and basically gives him anything he wants.

Floyd who mostly stays out of the way while the baby’s around but is the first to volunteer to put him down for a nap so that he can sing him a lullaby and rock him to sleep.

Branch and Poppy being very blush when old women tell them they have a “beautiful family” when they’re out and about, because while they do consider Tiny and all of their friends family, they know the older women mean something different.

LETS TALK ABOUT CRUSHIN’ IT

Okay listen,, I will go OFF about this scene and this whole episode and how fucking important it was to me 

Like, first off, Branch & Poppy were both supportive of her trying to woo someone. Second, They weren’t even like ‘change who you are’, they were just like ‘hey, a little less loud and a little less break-your-bones, okay?’ Which was like solid advice tbh 

Okay, you’re probably like, whatever Max, you’re just saying things we already know, so why is this important?

IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED! LET ME TELL YOU, MY LITTLE FUDGE MUFFINS!

I love this episode because as someone who is trans, this episode made me see myself. 

What? How? Smidge is not trans is she? 

You are asking very good questions that I will happily educate you on, without a worry!

1) There is no canonical proof that smidge is indeed trans, unless you take into consideration her voice, but anyone can have a low voice. 

2) I say myself, a trans boy, being represented on screen in how Smidge reacted to the advice her friends gave her.

3) Let me tell you how.

So, in this episode, Branch and Poppy try to help Smidge become a bit more ‘gentle’ as to well, not hurt her potential date. Smidge though takes this a bit too far, and while you could say that’s just how trolls are (which like fair), this does not to be so with Smidge. We see her multiple times take things too far, I mean, it's like a defining point of her personality sometimes, except for one detail. Not once does she go overboard for herself, it is always because of what other trolls think/need. 

Yet, here, it seems that she goes overboard for her own personal gains, well. She doesn’t, at least not in my mind. As far as Smidge can tell, she is not as feminine as Branch and Poppy think she should be---She is not passing.  

And instead of just changing a few things, she goes so overboard, to the point where she changes every single thing about herself. She changes the way she talks, to sound more feminine, she changes her clothes to be overly feminine, she even changes what she likes to be feminine. No longer is she herself, instead, she is this Lady.  

Which alright, you’re probably like Hey wait a second wasn’t this supposed to tell me how Smidge is trans? All you're doing is saying she is forcing herself to be female, which would be the opposite of trans, wouldn’t it?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That is where you are wrong my friends! Indeed, that may be how it seems. But often times, trans kids will go to the extremes to prove that they are the gender they are inside, not out. This is where gender dysphoria comes in. 

Oh no Max don’t bring in that word

Yeah, well, I just did.

a distressed state arising from a conflict between a person's gender identity and the sex the person has or was identified as having at birth

According to the Oxford dictionary, that’s the official definition. Now, not every single trans person has body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), but every single one does have gender dysphoria (I mean, that’s kinda what being trans is lol). 

Now, back to Trolls, you’re here for trolls, I’m here for trolls, not for science and shit like that. 

So, Smidge is showing heavy heavy ideas of gender dysphoria during this episode. She does not believe she is as feminine as she should be and therefore, tries to correct it. This is something a lot of trans people I know have gone through, myself included.

Changing your personality to match the binary created by the society we live in so that you can pass easier in this world. So that way when people look at you, they see the gender you see; not what the doctors did at birth. 

This episode shows Smidge trying not to be herself, but instead be what others would classify as a girl, even though she knows she is one, and so do her friends. She’s afraid that if she does not pass then she won’t be liked, and it will not be possible for her to get a date. This episode is so important because it shows that this is not how to express yourself, trans or not, but also because it normalizes something trans kids go through on a daily basis.