#i was diagnosed shortly before christmas :P

[severus-snaps]

so i just saw a post from an autism/adhd tumblr about adult thumb sucking as stimming but as someone who's never really done it the only thing i knew about it was a girl at secondary school who was made to stop because she'd had braces and it would make her teeth wonky again

so now i hc that snape has crooked teeth because he sucked his thumb well into adulthood to self-soothe in private bc obviously never did so in public since childhood because he was teased enough already

[mvriin-blog]

━━━  BLAKE LIVELY. TWENTY NINE. CISFEMALE. SHE/HER. ↷ do you hear palm dreams, by hayley kiyoko? that must be marin beaufort. she has been living in san francisco as a lifeguard for seven years. during that time they have earned the reputation of the heliophilic. it makes sense you know, they can be headstrong and devil-may-care but let’s not forget they’re pretty effervescent and sagacious.

hi lovelies! the name’s caro (she/her), i’m 20 and i live in the boring old est timezone — it has been the longest 48 hours of my life, since my family’s moving and we’ve had a time and a half getting things set up. but, i’ve been itching to get back into roleplaying for awhile now and i figured this group was too beautiful to pass up! i haven’t had time to set up any of her pages yet (we literally just got internet 4 hours ago, lmao) so that’ll be a task for later on in the week, but for the time being, there’s a bit about marin beneath the cut that should do the trick! i love plots so please feel free to hmu in the ims xx

marin (pronounced muh-RINN) was born and raised on the east coast, just her and her father. her father was a fisherman off the coast of rhode island, and she spent quite a great deal of time on the waters. could swim before she could walk. wanted to be a mermaid when she grew up. her most prized possession is a shark tooth necklace her father’s brother gave her for christmas one year after a trip to hawaii, and still to this day she never takes it off.

the two of them lived in a small coast-town, and marin’s father didn’t want for her to get pigeonholed there like he had. rhode island was meant to be a stepping stone for them, but he’d wound up getting stuck there after her mother abandoned them when marin was four months old. everyone knew everyone in town, so marin was something like a big fish in a small pond, and was rather content with that. her father wanted so badly for her to utilize her potential and get out when the time for college came - he pushed her hard academically so she’d be able to go somewhere outside of RI on scholarship, and marin wound up graduating valedictorian of her class. she decided on cal state long beach for college, majoring in marine biology - can take the girl away from one ocean, can’t take the ocean away from the girl. 

marin felt much more at ease in long beach despite missing her father terribly  - he was her partner in crime, the best friend she’d ever had - as she’d always been an independent spirit and able to function in a place where she knew nobody (something her father claimed she got from her mother). marin thrived in california. she made plenty of friends, partied a fair bit, learned how to surf, and really felt like she’d found her place in the world. beneath it all she had a plan, and was determined to stick to it: she’d get her masters, maybe even a phd, find a job where she’d make enough money that her father could retire and move out west with her.

her senior year of college was a disaster, to put it shortly. before fall semester started, marin’s father revealed that he had been diagnosed with lymphoma. she’d been adamant about taking the semester off to stay home and take care of him, but he’d been just as stubborn about her going off to school and finishing her degree. she’d gone (nearly kicking and screaming) and had an awful semester, barely staying afloat in her classes, grateful when it was time to come back home for winter break. he’d declined rapidly to her horror, and she was insistent she not go back for the spring. it wasn’t what he wanted though, and she inherited his stubbornness - he wanted her to go. she went begrudgingly, making plans to come home at any potential break in the semester she could find. it crushed the both of them when he wasn’t able to come out for her graduation, just like they’d planned. she came back home that summer to spend time with her father, and he wound up passing away that july.

after her father’s passing, someone on marin’s mother’s side of the family reached out. she was informed that she had a younger sister, and marin’s struggled with that revelation ever since. she was given her contact information, and it sits at the back of a drawer in her bedroom while she still continues deliberating on whether or not she should reach out. it’s been y e a r s, lmao, but marin has a lot of mixed feelings on it and doesn’t know if she even wants to let that into her life. her father’s passing was incredibly hard on her, and she got good at being the only family she needed, picking any other family she felt she wanted from the people she met after moving to san francisco. ( for the time being, i’ll write this as a npc until someone picks up the wc ! )

san francisco was where her father ultimately wanted to move out to, and marin decided she’d move there after the funeral to feel a little closer to his spirit. she’s been there for the last seven years.

diagnosed with celiac disease at the age of eighteen, marin made it an effort to start a healthier lifestyle. even though her metabolism was already fairly high and she hadn’t shown any other signs of an unhealthy body, marin wanted to make sure that it wasn’t an option. she became a dietary vegan shortly after graduating high school and started an intense workout regimen consisting of an hour to two hour run each morning on the beach, as well as taking up pilates, and has kept up with it over the years.

despite having her degree in marine bio, marin found a job working as beach patrol when she moved to san francisco and fell in love with it. she can’t imagine herself doing anything differently anymore, even if it is a job that only works from march to november. money is not something that marin has ever been consumed with ; marin values happiness and contentment in her soul than she does financial stability. in the off seasons (and on the side) marin works as a freelance photographer.

she’s the heliophilic, which is basically someone that’s attracted or drawn to sunlight. obviously, spending as much time on the beach that she does, she loves being in the sun, but i feel like marin is an embodiment of sunlight, in a way ; she’s warm and loves being surrounded by other people, going out, making every second of her life count (a cruel lesson she learned from her father’s passing). 

marin’s very good at getting other people to let her in but she’s not very good at letting others in, tbh. she’s also super headstrong, like you can’t tell her anything once she’s made her mind up and is a lil bit on the reckless side?? she’ll do what she wants because life’s too short and sometimes that’s dangerous - it leads to her accidentally hurting people or making mistakes that have heavy repercussions, and when that happens, she has NO idea how to cope with it (or rather, she does, it’s just not a very good way to cope, lol)

i want every single connection or plot there is so please like this and i’ll pop in your ims 

and if you read this far: the reason this stupid vine is my ooc tag is bc i have an ex named kyle who is a piece of trash and that vine is a p accurate description of how i feel about him…..plus it just makes me laugh ok going now

[prayers4melissa]

Day 7: Stomach Cancer https://prayersformelissa.com/words-from-rex/ "Melissa has been diagnosed with an unusual form of stomach cancer: a rare type of gastric adenocarcinoma with Litinus Plastica....We have been informed that there is no conventional cure currently known for this condition....Please pray for Melissa, my beloved wife and mother of and along with our six children, Christina (19), Hannah (17), [Lydia] Grace (15), Tabitha (12), Priscilla (9), and Sara (6), as well as her husband, their father..." [Read the full article from my dad, Rex Espiritu using the link above.] During the week of December 8th, 2009, Momma was officially diagnosed with a rare form of stomach cancer. Shortly thereafter, following a concert in which all six of the Espiritu sisters were in attendance, she and my dad broke the news to their young daughters. I don't remember the exact moment I found out that my Momma was sick and dying. I doubt I fully understood what it meant at the time. In another life, the term, "gastric adenocarcinoma with Litinus Plastica" might mean little more to me than another thing to memorize for a spelling contest, and it might soon make its way to the recesses of my memory. But this deadly disease, this terminal form of cancer, is responsible for taking my mother away. I don't think I'll be forgetting it any time soon. What I do know is that this news was the start of a long yet short three-month journey for my whole family. A jam-packed Christmas season would be ahead even as Momma's health would decline before our eyes. An inflow of relatives and friends, many of whom were strangers to me, would begin to make their way to pray with and for their dear friend. Hospice helpers would make frequent visits. Anonymous care packages and gifts would be delivered to our door every other day. The body of Christ would be seen every step of the way, and even now, as I open up about what a certain little girl remembers about the whole ordeal, I can still feel the love of Christ's people surrounding me. May it be a healing process for all of us. God Bless, Sara Joy @sara.espiritu https://www.instagram.com/p/B54E8D_pmZ6/?igshid=1f6l23r4zsw52