#I AM 5 FEET TALL

[mirensiart]

So I'm at the airport cause I have a wedding tomorrow out of state and I took 3 days off work to make it

And like, I went to ask for a taxi (cause ubers are not allowed to pick up/leave people in the airport, at least here) and the taxi people where like "your driver is waiting outside :)" and when I was walking away I heard them talk via walkie talkie to the driver describing me so she could meet me

And I shit you not they described me as "the extremely short girl in pink" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[inkskinned]

these days, the summer fan is on, and there is a little cricket in you. your mother would say you don't have ambition, but that's not quite true. you just had different priorities: for most of your life, the pain swallowed so much of your energy that picturing a future was almost impossible. it took so much just to render yourself here without evaporating - making goals always felt shallow, far-off.

at 17, maybe you would have wanted to be famous. maybe you would have wanted to kiss every woman and come home late at night and call the dawn to heel like a dog. to meet taylor swift and ask her to collaborate on poems and french-kiss in the rain. to wiggle your fingers at jealous ex-lovers while you lifted the hem of your ballgown and got out of limousines. a life of rooftops, spinning and glittering.

these days, it isn't that you're tired, but that you have learned the weight of carrying things. you have had the good times. you have laughed at the bottom of a pool. you have had your hands on the paring knife. you know the cost of it, like a carcinogen. these days, you want a life like a stone fruit. these days, you want a life that lays gently on your skin, rather than piercing through.

you are going to get a little condo with your friend. the two of you fantasize about basic things: how it will feel to cook in a friendly kitchen. the serenity of picking out wall paint colors. putting plants in the sunlit corner. you want a place that never rings in anger. where the only echo is jazz music. you want a peace like holding your head under the water.

ah. maybe your younger self would be devastated - you got boring?

she doesn't know yet. she has lived her entire life terrified, running. she has grown so accustomed to the threat that she has fallen in love with the scythe. she thinks passionate and violent are synonyms, that anything lovely has to come with a bad side. she thinks life has to break like a wave - that you need to swallow the ocean in order to stay above the foam. she doesn't know about the boat yet. she doesn't know about spending hours at home, quiet, your hands folded, finding peace. she doesn't know about weightlessness. she thinks everything good is everything sharp. that the pain is what makes something satisfying.

one day she will make cookies from scratch. one day when she breaks a plate, she will be the only one around, and nobody will start shouting. one day she will slip her fingers under the sand, and it will make sense to her. the life assembling in little shards: oh. i've been afraid of a quiet life at home because i've never had a quiet home to come to before.

the gentle world inside her, singing behind a door.

[solargeist]

hi. Did yuo know that birds are classified as living dinosaurs

i believe you

[armenelols]

By the way. Buying jeans in stores is impossible if you are shorter than average and they are gonna drag behind you like a veil. Have fun tripping on them (It's me. I am short)

[pallanophblargh]

I have so many things I need to catch up on and respond to (I have severely neglected my email which is NOT good) so I apologize. I will get around to it this week I hope! 

Old followers will know that this is the norm for me this time of year as I once again rally the strength to try and make the most of my severely neglected little urban hellscape of a yard. I mean, how do you recover from the knowledge that ALL of the native milkweed species you planted over the last 4 years has died, never to return? (I can’t stop being sad about this you have no clue, I had 5+ species native to the state!) All that remains is the common milkweed volunteers that have come up wherever they feel like it, and I’m obligated to let them do as they wish. Feels bad, man. I would have killed to see that purple milkweed flower.

Have spent the last 2+ weeks getting my veggie garden and containers up and running (still need to sow beans and more kale) and I’ve got more natives/ornamentals to go into my nearly cleared side yard. I’m really really REALLY hoping my new virginia bluebells don’t die with this heat/likely drought, but I’m pretty confident everyone else will come through okay. I mean, if the cardinal flower can come back for the 3rd year like a champ, what’s their excuse? (Dear self: be thankful, the cardinal flower likes you and you know it shouldn’t and that’s rad. Also the prairie smoke plant is starting to spread and that’s really cool. So is the hepatica. And your ferns are getting big and beautiful! So remember what’s working out, ok?)

I just want my little plot to be the hopping hot spot for all the local wildlife. It’s nice to see so many critters anywhere I look but I know I can do better and that requires A LOT of work. I’ll never be anything akin to a master gardener, but I like to think I’m learning a lot every day and working WITH nature instead of against it. Battling invasives is one hell of task. (Rot in hell, creeping bellflower!)

Now if only it would rain, and I can find a way to get a rain barrel setup! (No gutters in my back yard to access for rain is a major L...)

[elegy-if]

ROs heights?

FELIX: 5’11”

EDEN: 5’4”

SABLE: 6’2”

ERIS: 6’0”

???: 5’6”

[imwritesometimes]

currently wrestling with 'this looks too childish, having all these little hello kitty figurines all over my pc case and putting any more stuff in my car would be tasteless' and 'WHIMSY BITCH! WHIMSY! IT'S STILL ALL SMALL! IT'S CUTE! WHIMSY!'

[eternalstateofoctober]

GIGANTIC NEWS EVERYONE. HUGE. MONUMENTAL.

[all-too-unwell-13]

i love how i got a 100% on a history test right. and yet. i kid you not, the ONLY thing my teacher had to say about this was that i "yapped a lot in my answers, but it was good yapping so it's okay." are you joking me rn. babes if the question says to write 3-4 sentences, i'm going to write 3-4 sentences hello?????

[i3utterflyeffect]

It would be so funny if victim knew we were calling them short

good thing they don💥

[shackld]

i have officially adopted the habits of a teenage boy aka needing to reach up and tap the top of the doorframe before entering any new room

[nbmudkip]

chronic illness stuff

im back down to 107lbs. GIRL can we get over this already it’s not cute

[mothwiingz]

“That way! Over there!”

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struggled with embers mouth so hard bc his fang disappears on the light background but if i put a dark red part around it it sticks out too much in this very soft looking drawing so i had to just try and ignore the disappearing fang lol

[skadream]

wow i almost never post selfies on here so all of my prev photos on here im like. thats butch thats androgynous butchfag boygirl etc but this one is. oh thats Man. who is that Man.

[omgafhsfanin2024]

Thinking about my bonnonnie lobbo AU again... I love them..... They'd be so silly

[orbitfalls]

thank you @lilysrosier and @sugarsnappeases for the tags<33 catch me rambling in the tags as ever<3

i’m over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child

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