time travel texting.

[hapertas]

THE BIG FAT TIME TRAVEL TEXTING MEME.

How does it work?
- You post your top-level as usual.
- People reply, but the catch is, magical shenanigans intervene and poof! You're getting a text from someone you know, but it's 3 years too early or 10 years too late! What spoilers will you learn? Will you accidentally reveal some of your own?
- You can use this to explore forward-dated scenarios or have characters interact before they "met," or at least before one of them knows they met.
- When you reply, notate in the header when your character's tagging from.

Comments

[incendiaring]

i... i call you babe, all the time

wait.

tell me one thing: have we had sex?

[squelch]

i'm missing out on so much! wow!

oh yeah, we did. it was sooo good. you're amazing. i should've told you that then.

[incendiaring]

i somehow doubt you are. i feel like maybe, we're just not quite synced, time wise.

because that makes me think the way our relationship is going, for you, is leading to where we are at, for me, right now. because we did thinks a little backwards and started with the sex and then went on dates.

[squelch]

oooh, that's weird. so if i asked you about my future, you could tell me?

i want to go on dates with you. a lot of dates. i've never gone on a real date, i don't think, but i think i'd like to experience that with you. i like lots of people, but i think the way i like you is different. i'm still trying to figure it out.

[incendiaring]

i could, but should i?

oh, darling. you really are the most precious, i swear. i don't know that i'm allowed to tell you much, but one thing i'll say is that you do figure it out. we figure it out together, you and i.

[squelch]

i guess not, huh? i'll figure it out when i get there!

oh. i'm really glad, kwang! thanks for being patient with me. i'm guessing you'll have to do that a lot. then probably a lot more after that. i'm excited to figure things out with you.

[incendiaring]

it'll be an interesting journey, that i can promise you.

patient? oh, no. you don't require me to be patient with you. you're perfect, if anything, you're the one that's perfect with me as i hit roadblocks.

[squelch]

i like journeys. i like going new places.

i can't imagine that. you're always so kind and so gentle. it's like your heart is made of light. i can't imagine ever needing to exercise patience with you even a little bit.

[incendiaring]

just you saying that shows that you're the one that's so full of light

also stop, you're going to make me emotional, because you're saying that, but to you, we haven't even started dating. that you think that of me already is

god, you're so good. i wish i could be like you, so we could relive all these firsts we've had together, all over again.

[squelch]

i may light up, but not like you. i think if you found the very center of yourself, there'd be light there. i'm not sure it's true for me.

for one reason or another.

i care about you. there's lots of words in my head to say it, but i don't think i should say them to you now. you want to hear them for the first time, right?

and i think you will, here. i'm excited to tell you more things now.

[incendiaring]

i think it's true for you. you're so good. you're so, so good, and you just want everyone around you to be happy. how could that not be part of you, through and through?

i have heard these words, and probably many more you're not thinking of just yet. you've told me them, and i've told you many words like these, too. we're on the same page.

[squelch]

i always worried my light didn't go too deep. it's nice to be able to see it right away, but i wondered if i wasn't keeping too many secrets for it to be the thing at the heart of me.

i hoped so though.

right, of course. but the you that's here with me. he hasn't heard them, right? i'm going to save them for the you that lives in the present with me. and i promise there'll be a lot.

[incendiaring]

your secrets don't change who you are, deep down. especially yours. if anything, what you carry with you makes you even stronger, even brighter.

he hasn't heard them yet, no. but he'll enjoy hearing them a lot.

[squelch]

it's amazing to hear that. a little weird, since i don't remember tell you my secrets yet, but i guess i have, huh?

maybe i should get on that! and soon! there's an awful lot to say, so i'm guessing it's probably going to take awhile to say it.

[incendiaring]

yeah, you have. you've told me a lot of things, and i'm grateful to have your trust in such a way.

hey, it's okay. we have all the time in the world, darling.

[squelch]

i should say the same, right? i'm really glad i'm someone you can be comfortable with.

do we? that sounds so nice. that makes me happy, you know? so happy. you're someone i want to have a lot of time with.

[incendiaring]

it's important, for both of us. it's good. you and i... we're good together. very good.

[squelch]

how good? stay together for years and years good? [ Getting ahead of himself?

Pshaw, Ten never does that! ]

[incendiaring]

i firmly hope so. we're getting close to a year, and we've already talked about a lot of long-term commitments together. I want these things with you. I want years and years with you.

[squelch]

that's amazing! i'm happy for us. is that weird to say? that i'm happy for my future self?

he sounds like he's doing well.

[incendiaring]

were i in your shoes, i think i'd be happy, too.

he is. we have our ups and downs, you know? like everyone. we can't be happy all the time. but we're happy most of the time. especially when we're together.

[squelch]

i'm a lucky person. very, very lucky. i've known that for awhile, but it's gotten even more obvious lately!

someone i knew used to say you can be happy even when you're sad, because you can be happy about having someone you love by your side.

[incendiaring]

so am i. i'm very very lucky.

it gives us strength, the fact that we've got each other. it really does.

[squelch]

i must be superhumanly strong by now then! here, i'm not quite there yet. i think i still have some level ups to go, sounds like.

but i'll be okay, because someone's helping me a lot.

[incendiaring]

oh, i don't know. i think you were very strong from the get-go, truly.

if you're talking about me, you're sweet. i don't think i've done that much, though.