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

[gunflowers]

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.

[strewn]

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?

[gunflowers]

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.

[strewn]

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.

[gunflowers]

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.

[strewn]

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.

[gunflowers]

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.

[strewn]

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.

[gunflowers]

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.

[strewn]

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.

[gunflowers]

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

[strewn]

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."

[gunflowers]

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?

[strewn]

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.

[gunflowers]

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.

[strewn]

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.

[gunflowers]

it'll all be okay. we'll both be okay. we'll both be very good, even. i know it. i've lived it. just try to enjoy every moment.

i guess i can't stop anyone from worrying about me, considering how much i worry about other people.

[strewn]

I always trust you, but I guess there's an added element to that right now, isn't there? You really know what you're talking about.

I've heard worrying gives you grey hair. In our case, it's a different color, right?

[gunflowers]

i mean, it's possible that things could go differently for you. maybe there's multiple timelines. at this point, who can say?

i'd rather your hair was never ever grey. ever.

[strewn]

There's definitely a lot of strange things that happen around this house. I guess I couldn't say it'd be surprising.

Never? Not for any reason?

[gunflowers]

weirder things have happened

never. grey is not a color i ever want your hair to be when you're using my power.

[strewn]

And I'm sure weirder things will continue happening, won't they?

What does it mean?

[gunflowers]

most probably

Grey would mean you’re feeling depressed.

[strewn]

I guess we'll get used to it.

Oh, right. I hope neither of us gets grey hair then.

[gunflowers]

it's okay if i get grey hair these days. i rarely ever have my power, i don't feel like it belongs to me anymore. in a good way. it suits you better anyway.