xenonym | time travel texting.

time travel texting.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I'm glad it's rare. I can't imagine what could make me that upset.

Does that make me an idealist? I wouldn't have guessed.

My hair turns pink when, oh. I get it.

you're not really prone to anger anyway. it's one of these emotions you never really got a grasp of. that, and jealousy. but then i've never given you a reason to be jealous, so maybe that's why.

a bit, yeah. a bit of a dreamer.

do you like when i make you blush?

Why would I feel jealous?

That sounds kind of nice. I like the idea of having dreams. There are things I want to do, after all.

I do, I like it a lot. It usually makes me want to kiss you, unless we already are. Then it makes me want to kiss you more.

if someone flirts with me, in front of you? would that not annoy you?

are they still dreams if you make them come true, though?

good. i pretty much always want to kiss you, you know? it was so hard when we were taking things slow. not at the beginning, but when i left and came back. and then like, around the wedding, too, you really wanted to play along with the traditions

I think so. I'd wonder why they would do that, since you're dating someone else. Is that how you felt when Geun did it to me?

I didn't think of it that way. Do you think I make a lot of my dreams come true?

Do you wish it had been different? At any point? I want you to be happy, you know.

yeah. it eats at me whenever anyone looks or talks to you in a way that shows they're interested in you, in a romantic way. you don't often see it, but i do, and it makes me feel so jealous and possessive, and then i feel bad, because you're your own person. you don't belong to me.

I think you do. A number of them. But you always get new ones.

not at the beginning. it was hard, when i came back, because i didn't know what i could do, and it felt like we were... disconnected, in a way. i was really scared, then.

It can't happen that often. Can it? I guess I really don't notice. I don't mind if you feel something like that. Maybe not possessive, but it's okay if you want me to look at you only, because I only want to look at you.

That's good. It makes me happy to hear that. I don't want to stop growing and learning more.

I'm a little scared now. It's better, but I still worry I'm not doing everything I could be.

it happens regularly, you just don't notice it. and it's not you, it's - other people. i'm not worried about you making a move on someone else, i know you would, at the very least, break up with me first. but i don't like when other people look at you like they want to eat you up. that's my privilege.

what do you think you should be doing? honestly, i'm the one who fucked up. i'm the one who has to get back into your good graces, whether you realize it or not, at this point. and we'll get there.

I don't want other people to look at me like that. I wonder why I only notice if it's you. Maybe because that's all I want to see? I wish it didn't have to cause you any pain.

You're wrong about me though. I wouldn't break up with you because I'm not going to fall for anyone else.

It's hurting you that I'm not ready for things again though, isn't it? I'm hurting you.

it doesn't really cause me pain. it annoys me when it happens, but at the end of the day, i'm the one you look at, and you're the one i look at. that's the part that matters, to me.

i feel like you shouldn't say things like that. you never know what could happen in the future, you know? you took me by surprise. someone else could take you by surprise. which isn't to say i want it to happen, because i obviously don't!!!!

it's... confusing, for me. that time was a confusing one. it was hard to know what to do, to really express what i wanted to express.

Okay. As long as that's true, then the other people don't matter, right?

I just don't want to think of an alternative. You make me happy. I don't want to worry about the future until it gets here.

What could I have done to make it easier?

yeah. i just can't help it, it's a gut reaction. sorry, babe.

that's a fair way of doing things. i'm just thinking in a 'never say never' kinda way, is all. but i also will continue working on keeping you happy.

are you asking for yourself, right now? i can't tell you, dal.

You don't have to apologize for it. I wish you didn't have to feel that way, but it does make me feel good on some level.

Maybe it's because I'm so young in some ways, but that concept makes no sense to me. I like to think it's a good thing.

And you always make me happy.

I'm asking for you. I want to know.

does it make you feel wanted?

the only thing is that i... at that point, i felt like i was trying everything i could to make you want me again, because it didn't feel like you did anymore. i'd lost your trust, even though you kept on saying, over and over, that i had your trust, and that you still loved me. i think i had to win you over again, even if you seemed to not realize it. but it took me a while to get that, myself.

I think that's part of it. Does that sound right?

I wish that weren't so. I didn't mean to make you feel unwanted. I want you more than ever now, but I'm scared that if I want you too much, I don't know.

I don't think you're going to leave me again, but I don't know how to make my heart believe that was the only reason I was scared.

yeah, it sounds right. it feels good, to know you're wanted on that level. it's very.... base, i guess. but it's definitely a thing.

i know you didn't. i know that now, anyway. i think, in a way, it might be that you worry you're no one without me, and that's not true. you're way stronger than you think, and you are your own person, with or without me. i think what we had to work out, back then, is the difference between wanting to be around each other all the time, and needing each other to an unhealthy point.

it doesn't have to be the only reason you're scared. but all i'd say is - keep talking. don't stop communicating. whether it's with me, or with friends.

I feel like I need that a lot. Maybe too much and too often. I don't know how to judge whether that's true.

I think that's part of it. I got confused because so much of what I knew about myself, I'd learned with you by my side. I didn't know how to learn things without you, but then I did, and that was scary in a way, too. I'm still trying to figure it out. I hope I learn from it.

Don't worry. I'll talk to you. And my friends. They're really good people. All of them. And so are you. I feel like I need to tell you that a lot.

if you wonder if i want you, then just tell me. ask me. i'll give you an answer, i promise, and it'll be sincere. if you need to be told, i'll tell you every day.

you tend to learn from everything. and this is just a bump in our road. yeah, it's scary, and some things will be different. but we both learn from it. you'll learn to be more independent. you don't actually need me that much, but it's just nice that you want me.

they are. it's harder for me, because i've not felt like a good person in a long, long time. but you and nana, you've made me good.

Okay. I'm going to do that. I'll ask you when I'm feeling confused or when something makes me feel unsure. If that happens, I'll ask you.

I never had any bumps in my road. I never had a road. So the good and the bad are both shocking to me for now. When I think about it, I feel like it can't be that way forever. Maybe I'll do better when I know what normal feels like.

It still confuses me. I never saw anything but goodness in you. I never have, not one time. I'm sure she only sees good in you, too.

good. i can repeat over and over again how much i want you all the time, then.

yeah, i know. it's difficult to process. honestly, i still wish i never did it, that i never left, that you never had to learn that lesson. but i also know that it was important, for both of us, that it happened. it just sucked.

well, as i like to say, you're quite biased. we met and you were so instantly in love with my dimples you refused to see my flaws, as numerous as they are

You won't get tired of saying it?

It does suck. But I think you're right. If not now, then it would've been harder later, wouldn't it? That thought scares me. I don't want you to suffer.

I see who you are. It's just that I think you hold yourself accountable for everything ten times as much as everyone else ever could. And that's goodness.

And that's why I don't think I need to make a list of things about you that aren't "perfect."

i haven't in all the years we've been together.

you've got to let that go, baby. the whole thing about not asking me to stay, your guilt over it. you have to let it go. it's okay, i never wanted you to feel bad for that. it was very strong of you. i'm just needy, you know? but i really respect that you made that choice. that you tried so hard to make me happy, because i know that's all you wanted to do

is it goodness, or is it being a little stupid?

It's strange to hear that. "Years." I don't even remember a full year yet.

It's hard to let go. I just learned how to hold on. Sometimes there are too many lessons in being human at once. But I want to be a good person. I want to try. So I can be good for you. And for me.

If it's being stupid, then it's a kind of stupid I like. I love you for it, though I wish you wouldn't hurt yourself.

are you looking forward to it? to having these memories?

there are things you should hold on to. but hurt, and resentment? not them. these you should definitely let go of. it doesn't add anything to your life, i promise you.

oh, no, baby, don't worry. i feel like it's. It's part of me, you know? it makes me who i am.

I'm excited. I want to feel what you're feeling. What I'm feeling there when I'm with you.

I think I'll learn as long as you're here with me. I know the person next to me will be patient and I can take my time to understand things. That helps a lot.

Someone's always going to be worrying for you a little, Myung. But I think it's okay. It doesn't have to rule every thought.

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