#of course if u follow my tumblr u would not be surprised by that prob and be suprised at the not easily ruffled girlboss thing đ
the dissonance between how my irl friends see me vs what is actually going on here is insane like they think im some girl boss shit slides off of me super confident extroverted type person but im over here crying in the west 4th station bc I was actually able to leave my apartment and go to a new place just bc I wanted to without being afraid of whatever so. ough lol
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wrong send ⢠bang chan (I)
pair: bang chan x reader
genre: college au, friends to lovers, fake dating, fluff, suggestive no smut tho uwu, a little angst, bullet point scenario
warnings: suggestive itâs just making out sjabdka
âIn which Y/n was supposed to send her best friend, Lee Minho, a porn link for scientific purposes but accidentally sent it to her neighbor, Bang Chan.â
masterlist   (a/n: sike ya bitch Iâm too excited to wait for 6 pm so here you go hnng gotta cut it halfway bc tumblr canât handle this masterpiece hnnghgn anyway sorry this took too long ive been procrastinating and i still had irremediable and unforeseen to deal with hhnghgn but pls donât be afraid to request huehuehue and im sorry if my style of writing in bullet point format is similar to some writers hgnfhgng iâve read some of these types of writing and it stuck with me so im very sorry :((( )
taglist: @cahtastrophie @anxietyishell
PART II
you and minho were close
you grew up together
learned to walk together
bath together when you were babies of course :))
bully and judge people together
basically everything
you studied in the same school and were inseparable since birth
it was like two puzzle together
when you need help with love minho is there to watch over you he scares all of them but u dont need to know that oof
when minhoâs in trouble youâre there for him even if itâs bailing him out of jail dont ask why
you even watch porn together ( ͥ° ÍĘ ÍĄÂ°)Â
but thatâs all platonic!!!
the two of you tried dating and were each otherâs first kiss
but it didnât really work out for the both of you
it was too awkward
so you decided that you were better off as friends
but that didnât stop the two of you to be close huehuehue
yâall still cuddle like kids and personal space never existed between the two of you
that stayed until college
everyone legit thought the two of you were dating butâ
âme and minho??â, âme and y/n??â
and youâd both send each other a playful glare
âew noâ
so when minho asked you to send him some link to a gay porn website
you didnât even bat an eye
so here you are
about to send some porn link for minhoâs entertainment and prob for his minho junior ;)))
âhereâs the link you bitchâ
and there you go
but what weirded u out tho is when minho didnât reply immediately
heâs always fast when it comes to your texts or calls
but then you thought maybe he couldnât wait anymore and is busy fucking or whatever
so imagine your shock when u received a text with multiple question marksÂ
â?????????â
âhello to you too but what is this for?â
it was bang chan
bang motherfucking chan
The Bang Chanâ˘
the one with grades higher than your height
the athlete who joins a lot of sports but eats like he hasnât for weeks
the one who sits in front of you and asks for pencils every now and then
and has more girls than you have friends
âis this porn?â
âoh waitâ
âit is pornâ
you threw your phone away from you, burying your face on the pillow to sulk in embarrassment
out of all people it just had to be him ŕšÂˇÂ°(৚ËĚľďšË̾৚)°¡ŕš
your phone rang with the ring tone minho had set for himself letâs all assume itâs a sexy song
âhoe whereâs the linkâ
âi think i did something terribleâ
âwouldnât be your first time lmao but what is it??â
âi accidentally sent it to someone elseâŚ.â
ââŚ..â
ââŚ.â
ââŚâ
â..â
âhow and who the hell did u sent it to?â
âbang chanâŚâ
âwhomst-hAHAHAHHNGDBJ ISNâT THAT YOUR NEIGHBOR??â
âDONâT LAUGH A ME U BITCH ;â((("
âI CANâT NOT HUHAHAHAâ
you whine while he wheezes at your misery
âjust tell him itâs not for him and apologize u big babyâ
âbut thatâs just embarrassingâ o(âĽďšâĽ)o
âdo you really want him to think that itâs for him and youâre trying to make him hard and seduce him?? what makes it worse is that itâs gay pornâ
ânOâ
âtHEN DO SOMETHINGâ
so thatâs how you find yourself standing in front of the door of the apartment across yours
with shaky hands you knock on the door
it opens to reveal bang chan himself in his shirtless glory-Â ÎŁ(ăăă;)
âŚ..
(âŹâ˝â˝ â° âžâž Đ â˝â˝ â° âžâž) !!!!!!!
sHiRtLEsS?????
suddenly, you donât know how to breathe donât we all tho
hngkdb mfucking bitch has defined abs how can you function normally
how is this man comfortable with showing his abs to random people???
it doesnât help that he still has little droplets of water on his bodyÂ
âhi?â
you yelp, literally, and that caused a small chuckle from chan at your cute reaction but!!!
HiS cHuCKle sOuNdED !!!!
you pinch your wrist to wake yourself up and maybe stop yourself from staring at his torso
now is not the time y/n!! â(ďžŕ˛Ľç಼ďźďž
âum- Iâm- hiâŚ.â
âhi thereâ he smiles his dimpled smile and â*inhales*
your heart went !!!!
it took you a lot to compose yourself before you squish his cheeks in your hands
nO Y/N !!!
cOnTRol YOuRSeLf !!!
âsooooâ
âhuh?â
âcome inside for a bitâ he grins at your confused look and opened his door wider
what
wHaT?
reluctantly, you follow him inside his apartment. you werenât surprised when u saw the mess inside, it was a small space but it wasnât too small
what surprised you tho
there were pieces of female clothes on the floor and bed
ÎŁ(âââââ)
you were confused for a moment before you finally undersstood the situation and that those clothes where female clothing
fEMALEÂ
nOT HIS
âchannie who was that?â
your head whip to the bathroom door to stare at the girl is your neck ok y/n?
her eyes were wide
like
wIDe
like this O - O
and she looks scared :00
âa-are you chanâs s/o?â she gulps before scurrying to gather her things and run pass you muttering apologies and out the door she went
s/O????
you didnât even have time to explain that you werenât !!!
she just ran pass you !!!!
and wasnât that mina?!?!
like The Mina⢠who gets all boys huehue
âIâm sorry about herâ
you hear chan sigh, now wearing a shirt
which was great bc if he stayed shirtless you might not be able to speak normally bold of u to assume that you can speak even if heâs fully clothed hhghghng
âshe really think that these hook ups we have has a meaningâ
hookups?
you shook your head, mumbling about how it doesnât really mind you which is a big fucking lie
wHAT IF MINA GOSSIPS TO HER FRIENDS THAT YOU WERE CHANâS S/O???
if anything she may already have broadcasted it to the whole campus
âsooo why did you came here??â
chan settled on his bed with a cute curious look on his face
just then did you remembered
yOU SEND HIM A GAY PORN LINK
suddenly youâre back to phase one
you keep opening and shutting your mouth from nervousness lIKE HELLO??? HOW??? ARE YOU??? SUPPOSED TO BE CALM???
aND ITâS CHAN SO???
DONâT!!! BLAME!!! Y/N!!!
âi-tâs about t-the⌠link-â
chan chuckles and nods his head âyeah i saw itâ
sAW IT?!?!
aS iN hE wATcHeD tHe vIdEO!?!?!
!!!!
chan mustâve noticed the look on your face and laughed his beautiful laugh and you felt your heart is being crushed !!!!
âno not like that! i meant that i received it yesâ
oh
oHh
stupid you
why would chan even watch it if he knows that itâs porn hhnghg maybe he did watched it ;)))
you played with the hem of your shirt. eyes casted down from embarrassment smh how many times are you going to embarrass yourself y/n hhhnghn
âp-please forget about the linkâ
âoh??â chan tilted his head in confusion still with his mfuckin smile
âi-it wasnât supposed to be sent for you!!! iâm really sorry for calling you bitch tooâŚâ
chan was shookt when you bowed 360 degrees and repeatedly apologizing
so being the kind person he is he took a hold of your shoulders with a cute smile
cHAN STOP MAKING CUTE FACES !!! Y/N IS DEAD !!!
AND HEâS TOO CLOSE FOR COMFOT HHNGHNY/N ARE YOU STILL ALIVE???
HANG IN THERE SWEETY
âitâs alright, i donât mind butâŚâ
but???
âdoes your boyfriend know???â
?????
âboyfriend?? iâm sorry but i donât-â
âisnât minho your boyfriend? yâknow the dance major? iâm pretty sure the link is for him, right?â
o-O!!?
he thought you and minho??? are??? dating???
âum n-no weâre not! i mean weâre close but thatâs it!â
chan released a relieved sigh and his smile came back
bUT?? HEâS STILL TOO CLOSE?? AND HIS BREATHING HITS YOUR BURNING CHEEKS??
âthatâs good, I really thought I was going to have to face himâ
he lets out a breathy laugh before letting go you secretly miss his touch and heading for his kitchen
âdo you want to eat before going ahead? i mean youâre literally just across my front door so??â
well who are you to say no to that :â))Â
even if itâs possible that he can murder you rn but chan?? hurt someone??
yeah keep telling that to yourself :â))
what you didnât expect tho was for the two of you to hit it off ( ´ â˝ ` )ďž
the two of you have so many things to talk about and it was never awkward and chan was literally listening to whatever bs you were rambling about
and he has such a soft look on his face when he listens to you uwu ɞââżâÉš
but it wasnât long before you have to get going bc itâs a school day tomorrow
BUT THATâS OK !!!
BC THE SECOND U OPENED YOUR DOOR TO HEAD TO COLLEGE HE OPENED HIS WITH A CUTE MORNING SMILE
yâall walk to college together with small talks and he walk you to your first class uwu (â°ËvËâ°)
when lunch arrived you and minho sat at the same table like usual
âsoooo how did it went with chan??â minho asked with his mouth stuffed with pasta
âhuh??â
minho deadpanned and threw one of his garlic bread at you
sTOP WASTING FOOD U HOE (ภâ˘Ěăâ˘Ě)ŕ¸
âi was asking about chan u dumboâ
from the grin on your face minho knew he was going to hear some good tea and drama although he insulted you for being a coward at first
âheâs hooking up with mina :000âł
âis that the only thing you heard from what i just said :â<â
he was about to say something else when your junior best friend jisung came running to your table
âwhy didnât you tell me!?!? i thought we were friends!?!?â (â°Ë︚Ëâ°)
âtell you what??â
you can tell jisung was clearly offended but you didnât know why thoÂ
âthat you and chan are dating you traitor!"Â
ÎŁ(ęŞČęŞ)
you and minho shared a look
"i was expecting thatâ
âWHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW???â
jisung look confused so you ended up explaining what happened yesterday with chan
âhow did you managed to send him the porn link thoâ jisung to a sad y/n,Â
âand what the hell did you need the porn link for?â jisung to a flustered minho
âthatâs not the point!!â (âoâ§Đ´âŚ)
you slump on your seat with a defeated look and just then did u noticed the look that people are sending you
automatically you hid yourself by snuggling into minho uwu u cute y/n
âoi, you canât just snuggle into me when everyone thinks you have a boyfriendâ â âbut i donâtâ
ây/n?âÂ
u look up from minhoâs shoulder to see chan
"chan!!!"Â ÎŁ(ăăă;)
"can we talk for a moment??â
minho nudge you on the elbow, nodding as if to tell you to go ahead so you stood up and followed chan outside the cafeteria
when youâre outside chan faces you with a bothered look
âIâm so sorry for what people are saying about us Iâm pretty sure it was mina she usually gossips a lot to her friends but I didnât expect her to tell them that weâre dating just bc you came yesterday-â
chan was now rambling his apologies just like you did last night he looked cute like that btw
âitâs ok chan!! Iâm sure you didnât mean for that to happenâ
chan was relieved when he heard that but he looked like he was still bothered by something
so being the sweetheart you are you asked him what it is ^~^
âcan I ask you a favor??â he look uncertain so normally you were concerned
so you nod because !!!!
chan is worried !!!!
so it has to be something big !!!!
âi know this is probably going to be weird bc we just met last night and weâre not that close but-â chan look at your eyes to see if you still want him to continue so you nod at him
âc-can we please date?? but like fake dating and all?? i thought about it and it would really help me avoid those girls who wanted me in their bed and donât worry iâll pay you back! i swear-â
(ăďžĐ´ďžă)!!!Â
"d-date!?!?!?âÂ
you yelped, cheeks burning bright from chanâs offer
HOW CAN YOU NOT??
CHAN LITERALLY ASKED YOU TO DATE HIM !!! IT MAY BE FAKE AND ALL BUT STILL !!! HE ASKED YOU !!! YOU !!! TO DATE !!! OUT OF ALL PEOPLE !!!
and it didnât help that he said please insert sad uwu :((
AS IF YOUâD SAY NO :((
"i-itâs ok if you donât want to though!! I wonât force you!!â
WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD SAY NO TO BANG CHAN?? DEFINITELY NOT YOU BC!!! ITâS!!! BANG CHAN!!!
âi-im fine with it but why me tho??â bc youâre cute and awesome y/n (ďžăŽďž)
your cheeks became even more red than possible when chan gave you cute smile
"well, I really want to get to know you since last night and you werenât like any girl to be honestâ
aaAAHHÂ
BANG CHAN U BITCHÂ
Y/N???Â
ARE YOU STILL ALIVE???
you can feel your heart fluttering from his confession definitely not because he was looking at you with a fond smile and soft caring eyes hnghn
âso, are you in?"Â
with your trembling weak heart you nodded, knees weakening when he beamed at you and his mother fucking cute dimples showed
youâre doomed :â))
"great! Iâll see you later thenâ
later?? o-O??
âum what for??â
he chuckled at your confused lil face and patted your head
aaAAHH YOUR HEART JUST SKIPPED THOUSANDS OF BEATS
âfor our first date dummyâ
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Nooo honey, don't you say that. You're an awesome writer, underrated as hell. I was gonna request a bunch of things but I didn't really know what I wanted. I'll probably drop some in later today or tomorrow, if I still can. Also planning on being part of the MARVEL Endgame celebration, I'm just afraid to open my requests because I'm a horrible procrastinator and I'm always afraid I'll disappoint people.
omg r u actually talking to me?!?! im sorry im like love your writing, youâre talked in our household. like my sister said that she loves the way this red little person on tumblr writes and she showed me you and im like omg i love her writing as well! so its surprising like you would even know about my blog (of course u prob would with me tagging u in almost everything cringily idek if thats a word prob not) anyways hi, thank you for the lovely things you say it means a lot to me since i really like your writing.Â
I always see my writing as like meh, its okay, its not quite how I want it. Some stories are better than others for me. And Iâm always open to learning. To growing especially in something I love so much. Iâve always enjoyed writing since I was a child and reading (ugh i love reading so much like ill prob die with a book lol) The thing is I donât so much need all the followers, because I know that will never happen. I have learned to be humble about things like that. And to let you in on a little secret I donât think (idk if this even is a secret) my writing is that good that it deserves all followers or like even like a thousand tbh when I first started this I thought I was gonna have 10 and thats it. And 10 was so much for me because Iâm like thinking in my head 10 frickin ppl actually like what Iâm posting i mean i know some of them are like porn bots and stuff but still!Â
I just like to engage with my followers, with the ppl, with my peeps because I want to make them happy. There are days when I feel high (yeah man jk) when I feel happy and encouraged and there are days when I feel discouraged about my writing but I think of course thats normal with writing and whatever youâre writing. I just had high expectations that it was gonna be a celebration and that people would request all the time. I was ready and kinda felt stupid waiting here by my computer like the whole day awaiting a request, just one. I already wrote one of my own to get the ball rolling so maybe I will be the one to do all the stories. Who knows? That would make me a little sad because like I said I wanted a celebration.Â
Also its hurts my feelings because I have a life. I have a big family I have to tend to. I have personal things in my life that I have to get to. I also have not been feeling good at all these past couple of days yet I sit here wanting to write for not just them but just wanting to write and write their request because then ppl get mad or inpatient. I just want ppl to be happy on my blog, thats it! if ppl arenât happy then I feel like kinda like a monster. so if i dont get requests again today i will just go thru it, its not like i havent. i mean what more could i do?Â
lol you donât need to request if you donât want to. I donât want you to feel now obliged to do it cause I was sulking lol. But you should totally do a marvel thing as well you would be amazing at it and I would totally participate in whatever you were to do. I did @ardentmuse quiz and let me say that was the best quiz ever it was amazing!!!! so to see all types of writers doing things for marvel first off makes me wanna cry lol and its so much fun cause thats like my fav fandom. But I get what you mean about procrastinating. I kinda do that too lol. Thats my thing too tho! See you get me! Iâm afraid Iâll disappoint ppl. Thats me to a T! Thats my fear, and I feel like I sometimes do. Idk my feelings are just all over the place. I usually donât speak about my feelings on tumblr because I donât want ppl to think oh she wants to play the victim or look she wants attention. I donât want any of that. literally u guys should see me writing this im like wrapped up in my blanket wanting to like die in a hole. i feel my feelings are so cringy and like MS. WRITER NOBODY CARESSSSSS!!!! lol but i donât want like attention at all thats not what im going for at. all. i just want if someone who is also writing has the same feelings as me and they stumble on this blog and read this post and it encourages them or uplifts them in any way.Â
just know writers that are famous on here and writers that are starting out, or just writers on here. You matter! You are doing something so difficult and something tedious and awesome. I feel us writers make imagination real. People give us a request and we make it happen for them. Thats hard in itself yet we all have that power to do it. Thank you writers, and you know what if they ask for payment to their writing DONâT JUDGE THEM! DONT HATE! just like you would pay for art well this is art and if they ask for you to pay just pay. Again thank you writers, and thank you darlings that do uplift me and that do read my stuff and that do request I SEE YA!Â
and thank you to my big sis cuz she reads my stuff, I love you to infinity and beyond. u r the best sister ever!Â
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goodbyes & hellos
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im so so so late but hey this is for first day of prompt week for @thinkoutsidethelovesquareâ!!!! day one: wrong number
this was a lot of fun tbh and ive been dying to write this ship. alyas texts are italicized, adriens are underlined on ao3, just bold here bc tumblrs a butt. shoutout to @reyxaâ for the title <3
enjoy!
Alya narrows her eyes at the new message that lights up her phone. Itâs an unknown number that she doesnât recognize â not that sheâs given her number to anyone recently â and itâs also seven in the morning . Anyone how knows her at all should know that she doesnât wake up before at least nine on the weekends. (And that has nothing to do with the fact that she doesnât sleep during the week and tends to go to bed after two in the morning.)
She groans as another message shows up on the screen. She squints and lets the messages flow in, figuring she can tell the person theyâve got the wrong number after theyâve finished whatever they have to say. Or she can decide that itâs unimportant and ignore it and go back to sleep.
She likes her second plan the best.
unknown number: Hi!
unknown number: Just wanted to let you know the start time for today has been moved from 10 to 9:15
unknown number: My father has a meeting at 1300 so he wants to get it all done as soon as possible
unknown number: And I know you mentioned wanting to have him on set yesterday
unknown number: I hope itâs not too much of an inconvenience! Your agent should be calling you soon, but I thought Iâd give you a heads up
Alya squints at the screen. She doesnât want to care but sheâs curious. And curiousity killed the cat and all that but sheâs used to letting her nosiness get the best of her.
unknown number: agents???
unknown number: 1st of all srry u have the wrong number
unknown number: 2nd of all were u talking to a movie star or smth???????
unknown number: book writer??
unknown number: what kinda person needs an agent
unknown number: Oh Iâm sorry! I mustâve gotten the wrong number from someone
unknown number: Iâm really sorry if I was bothering you
Alya rolls her eyes.
unknown number: u woke me up but its chill cause now im curious
unknown number: Curious? About what?
unknown number: way 2 keep avoiding the question
unknown number: ???
unknown number: u said the person u meant to text has an agent
unknown number: how fancy r they
unknown number: Oh! Sheâs a model!
Alyaâs eyes widen. The most famous person she knows is that thirteen year old that was in her school who has ten thousand subscribers on YouTube because she makes lyric videos. The second is a boy who has a few thousand instagram followers because he has nice abs and lots of white boy clothing and muscle shirts.
unknown number: u kno a model????????
unknown number: Uhh
unknown number: Iâm not sure how much personal information I should be giving to a stranger
Alya sighs. So close.
unknown number: its fine dude (dude? u good w that? lmk if u arent) i getchu
unknown number: u can just stop responding if u dont wanna talk
She locks her phone and slides it back under her pillow. She stares at the ceiling for a few more minutes, wondering if sheâll be able to fall back asleep. As much as sheâd like to take the train back to dreamville, she canât. Because now sheâs awake and now sheâs wondering. And once she stops wondering, she doesnât stop.
Sheâll probably stop thinking about this random wrong number in a few days and in a few months, sheâll forget about them entirely butâŚ
Ugh.
Sleep definitely isnât an option anymore.
Leaving her phone in her bed, she pads to the kitchen, twisting her hair up into a messy bun as she does so. No one is up yet â of course they arenât, itâs seven on a Saturday and everyone is taking advantage of every precious minute of sleep they can get â so she has the run of the house to herself.
So she makes herself some coffee and a bowl of cereal and turns to television on. Her initial plan is to just leave it on whatever channel thatâs playing when she first turns it on, and luckily the twins were the last ones to use it. Saturday morning cartoons. Score.
Alya stirs sugar in her coffee as Cyber Chase plays in the background. Itâs not much more than background noise, itâs the middle of an episode and she doesnât really know whatâs happening, but she does snort at a few of the bad jokes.
âYouâre up early,â her mom says before dropping a kiss on the top of Alyaâs head.
Alya hums. âGot a few text messages and they woke me up.â She notes how her mom purposefully avoids eye contact as she opens a cabinet. Alya rolls her eyes and eats a spoonful of cereal.
âSchool friends?â her mom asks carefully.
âYes,â Alya lies. Better than her mom asking more questions. The biggest one being why were you talking to a complete stranger?
âAre you going to see them before we leave?â
Alya glues her eyes to the TV. âIf theyâre around.â
Her mom makes an unimpressed sound and Alya resists the urge to roll her eyes. She texted a few of her friends the other week, but the conversation was awkward and stilted. They all had the same sort of idea about cutting ties. Â
Alya sighs and puts down her spoon, twisting around in her seat to face her mom. âI promise Iâm talking to them.â
Her mom gives her that lookâ the one where her lips purse and a crease between her eyebrows thatâs becoming more and more permanent; the one that says she wants to push for more details, but wonât unless theyâre volunteered first. Which Alya is not doing, thank you very much. âIf you say so, honey,â her mom says, turning her attention to the breakfast sheâs making.
Alya stares down into her cereal bowl.
Time to evacuate to her bedroom.
She finishes her cereal as quickly as she can without choking and dumps her bowl and spoon in the sink as she passes it, taking her coffee with her to her room. New plan: curl up in bed with her laptop and hope her mom just leaves her alone until they move.
Alyaâs almost forgotten about her phone by the time she flops onto her bed. It vibrates almost as soon as she opens her laptop. She frowns as she pulls it out from under her pillow.
unknown number: Dude is fine for me
unknown number: He/him pronouns please
unknown number: Thanks for asking I really appreciate it, actually
unknown number: People donât always ask
Plan trashed. This is a better plan.
unknown number: she/her for me
unknown number: and no prob man
unknown number: i wasnt gonna assume ur gender
unknown number: ok that mightve sounded bad but i didnt mean it in a bad way like the âlol dont assume my genderâ way jerks do sometime i meant it in like a genuine
unknown number: if u have smth u wanna say u should say it because i am very tired and i can go on for a while
Whoops.
Alya canât say sheâs known for her stellar first impressions but she usually doesnât ramble her way into an awkward corner. She mindlessly flips through apps as she waits for a response.
unknown number: Donât worry about it! I didnât take it the wrong way or anything
Alya smiles to herself as she responds. He keeps leaving her openings which is nice. Based off his initial reaction, she thought heâd shut this down as fast as possible.
She realizes this is probably a little weird. But itâs the most exciting thing to happen to her since school let out soâŚ
unknown number: so whats up stranger??
unknown number: b4 u ask im just sitting in my room doing nothing but text u so thats my morning
unknown number: I actually have work soon, so thatâs fun
Alya raises her eyebrows. She forgot age was something else she didnât know yet.
unknown number: oo work that sounds fun
unknown number: what do u do???
unknown number: I work for my dad, it isnât anything special
unknown number: But it gives me something to do with my time so I donât mind that much
unknown number: If I randomly stop responding without warning, thatâs why
unknown number: good 2 kno
unknown number: can i ask what u do 4 ur dad or is that 2 personal
unknown number: I uh⌠I just do whatever he needs me to do
unknown number: I donât get paid or anything but
unknown number: ay it still works as a resume builder
unknown number: Yeah exactly!
unknown number: thats cool that ur dad can get u a job!! my mom and dad could never w their jobs so i just suffer
unknown number: not that thats any different from what i would do anyway as a teenager
Alright, perfect. Sheâs brought up the age question in a really clunky and awkward way. Better than nothing.
unknown number: Oh how old are you?
unknown number: Iâm 15
Alya lets out a sigh of relief.
unknown number: ayy same!
unknown number: just ur fav teenage superhero blogger
unknown number: doing nothing with her life
unknown number: You like superheroes?
unknown number: yeah!! i love comic books. you??
unknown number: I donât have time to read many but yeah! Iâve always loved Spiderman
unknown number: wonder woman is my g i r l
unknown number: superheroes are just so cool
She waits a few minutes before she decides that he must have gone off to work. Bonding over superheroes, thatâs good. A shared interest. She scrolls through their conversation, rereading some of the earlier messages before she creates a contact for him. She makes the name âstrangerâ and leaves it at that.
Itâs not like theyâre meeting up or anything. Even if he is an ax murderer, canât kill her if she never sends him her location.
Alya spends the next couple of hours avoiding her mom as much as possible. She takes her sisters to the park and then goes to the library after she brings them home.
She doesnât want to talk about it.
Sheâs clicking through a webcomic that she missed a few weeks worth of updates when her phone buzzes. She glances down, expecting it to be a text from her mom asking if she has any plans or to do chores or something, but is pleasantly surprised to see a message from her stranger.
stranger: Sorry about that, work ran long
stranger: Admittedly, I donât know very much about Wonder Woman, but she looks very awesome
unknown number: !!!!
unknown number: when ive got more time remind me to tell u all abou t her
unknown number: and to rec some comic books even if u dont have time
stranger: Is she your favorite?
Alya sits back in her chair. This conversation is going to be a long one.
Alya finds herself randomly texting her stranger for the next few days. He doesnât always respond quickly, but he responds eventually, no matter how weird her original message.
Thatâs more than she can say for most of her friends.
She texts him as sheâs sitting on the counter in her kitchen, stirring a pot.
unknown number: hey stranger whats up
stranger: Just reading, you?
unknown number: making box mac n cheese
stranger: Sounds fun
unknown number: yeah im gonna eat it straight from the pot
The three dots bounce on the screen as the stranger takes his time with the next message. Alya snorts and turns off the stove, straining the pasta and moving to the fridge to find butter and cheese. Heâs found his words by the time sheâs letting the butter melt in the pot.
stranger: Straight from the pot? Why?
unknown number: because i live life on the edge
unknown number: and also because im too lazy to clean the dish later
stranger: You know what? Thatâs fair
Sometimes, Alya thinks that she probably shouldnât think about someone who she doesnât even know the name of as often as she does, let alone text him as much as she does. But sometimes sheâll see something, and sheâll immediately think of him. Or sheâll just be randomly upset and feel the strong urge to pick up the phone and see if heâs available to vent to.
She knows itâs kind of weird, but she canât help herself.
One night, at around two in the morning, she finds herself messaging him.
unknown number: hey did i ever mention i was moving
Sheâs almost asleep, slightly more okay than she was before she sent the text, when he responds.
stranger: You havenât but we also donât talk about where we live
Alya stares at the screen for a long moment, the bright light in the darkness making everything on the screen blur into nothing. She just feels kind of numb.
unknown number: yeah
unknown number: like 8 hours away from where i live now
stranger: Wow thatâs a big move
unknown number: yeah
stranger: Iâm guessing you donât want to go?
unknown number: not really
unknown number: did u know ur my only friend right now
stranger: I am?
unknown number: me and my other friends sort of cut ties
stranger: The internet exists
stranger: Phones exist
stranger: FaceTime and Skype both kind of suck, but they exist
unknown number: yeah i guess
unknown number: i guess its just too hard for any of us to try
stranger: I have no idea how far apart we live
stranger: Weâre doing just fine
unknown number: yeah
unknown number: yeah ur right
One of Alyaâs small comforts that comes to mind whenever she thinks about moving is the fact that sheâll have her phone on her and a portable charger. Her stranger will be with her every step of the way.
Heâd managed to get her to talk to some of her friends. She doesnât really think itâll last once sheâs in Paris, but the attempt is nice. And it gives her other people to talk to for the rest of the summer.
Itâs too early in the morning when they leave for the last time for her to get really emotional about moving. All she has the energy to do is to take a picture of her old apartment, caption it âone last goodbye to marseilleâ, and save it before sending it to her friends over Snapchat. Before she falls asleep against the car window, she texts it to her stranger.
She wakes up to a new text among the goodbyes from her friends.
stranger: Have a nice car ride! Iâll let you know when I get back from work <3
Alya hides her smile from her sisters and screenshots the text for later.
She texts him from the floor of her new bedroom while her dad starts moving boxes. Theyâve been in the process of moving for a while now, shipping most of their things to Paris beforehand. Now all that remains is the actual unpacking.
Alya doesnât have the energy for that. She just lays on the floor and stares at the ceiling for a while. Then she picks up her phone and sends him a text.
Itâs been about an hour since they last talked. Sheâd talked to him for a good majority of the car ride, only stopping when he was busy and ending the conversation when they arrived so she could get her things out of the car and help her sisters with theirs. Sheâd sent him a picture of her empty bedroom and said âlet the unpacking begin :Pâ. Heâd responded with a âGood luck!!â and âIâll let you get to work!â
Alyaâs thumb hovers over the send button for a few seconds. Sheâs never really pushed him for any sort of personal information before.
New city, new Alya. Or something.
unknown number: hey just wondering
unknown number: what do u have me in ur phone as??
unknown number: i have u in here as stranger
stranger: Your contact name?
stranger: Uh awkward but you donât?
stranger: Youâre the only one I just have the number for, so I know who you are that way
Alya reads his texts a few times before she responds. She doesnât know what she expects in return, but she figures she has nothing to lose.
unknown number: im alya
unknown number: in case u were wondering
stranger: Hi Alya
stranger: Iâm Adrien
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MTG Weekly Tumblr Recap - Volume 1, Issue 1
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Welcome to the very first issue of the MTG Weekly Tumblr Recap of the new year! For those unfamiliar with what we do, the MTG Weekly Tumblr Recap is a gathering of some of the most notable posts and trends from within the MTG Tumblr community for a given week. For this issue, we will be covering the week of January 8, 2017 through January 14, 2017. If you are interested in joining our writing team, please PM any of our writers and we will add you to our Discord group chat.
1. Banned & Restricted Update Discussion
Original image posted by @sarkhan-volkswagen
Wizards of the Coast announced bannings this past week, and I canât say Iâm surprised. Emrakul, the Promised End, Smugglerâs Copter, and Reflector Mage were banned in Standard, while Modern bans were simply Gitaxian Probe and Golgari Grave-Troll. There have been mixed feelings about these bans: many people were annoyed and upset that their favourite cards were banned, while others were quite relieved.
Emrakul, the Promised End, the final titan to be released, and the first to be banned. According to WotC, Emrakul was âcreated to be scarily powerful,â and âdelivered on that promise too well.â @ugin guessed that âif an Emrakul hit the field, I would guess that approximately 90% of the time that person would win.â Scarily powerful indeed, and this was made even more scary with cards like Aetherworks Marvel. As a counterpoint, @life-is-short-for-us said that it isnât unbeatable, but didnât suggest how to actually beat it. Instead, he simply said that for Standard, it isnât about âbanning cards that are too good, but banning cards that are so good they are damn near impossible to beat and your only hope is playing the mirror match and they are like 70% of the field.â
This brings us to our second card banned, Smugglerâs Copter. While I donât play much Standard, this one annoyed the hell out of me, and now that itâs banned, Iâm kinda relieved. For this one, Wizards says that it was in too many of the top decks and was restricting creativity. I agree, as does @queen-marchesa: âThe one that is least surprising is the Copter. It really was too omnipresent in Standard to allow for exploration or creativity.â I have always thought that the Looter Scooter was too powerful for a turn-two artifact, which helped turn the format stale.
Our final Standard banning was Reflector Mage. Thereâs not much to say about this one, really, and I think it was one of the odder bannings. Wizards says that, âOur data showed the White-Blue Flash deck was too powerful against the field,and Reflector Mage has been on players' lists of most-disliked cards, since the days of Collected Company.â I suppose when you take down decks with Emrakul and Copter, W/U Flash would be the one to dominate. Tumblr users agreed, with one stating, âThe card ended up being very effective in this format.â Others thought it was a surprising ban, but seeing that itâs stuck around for so long, âmakes sense.â
As for the Modern bans, letâs start with Gitaxian Probe. This one is one of the least surprising to me, as it takes some skill out of the game. According to @jurou-tenshi, âGit probe has had it coming for a long time. It enabled too many degenerate strategies.â @avatar-of-woah states, âProbeâs actually a real issue in infect because it takes play skill out of the equation. Instead of trying to read your opponent and what they could have that would beat you, you just pay two life,â and proceed from there. According to @urzas-raven-armour, âWith the probe ban, storm is even less playable now.â I would assume that this ban also hits Delver decks, but I donât know enough about them.
The final ban released this week was Golgari Grave-Troll, and from what I have found, people are glad to see it go. One user said that âDredge is a silly silly deck that has proven to be too powerful for Modern,â and with the Delve mechanic brought back in Khans of Tarkir, I agree. Golgari Grave-Troll is a creature with Dredge 6, and it enters the battlefield with counters equal to the number of creatures in the graveyard. You can also pay one generic mana and remove a counter to regenerate it. Now, that seems extremely powerful to me, especially in the late game, where youâll most likely have a lot of creatures in your graveyard, but it is definitely the Dredge 6 that puts it over the top, enabling way too many graveyard shenanigans.
--- Connor S, @solemnly-mystifying
2. This Past Weekâs Magic Story Review
Kari Zev - playing around with a doodle. | Original art by @sketchydoodlesâ
In this past weekâs new Kaladesh Story âThe Skies Over Ghirapur,â by Ari Levitch, we were introduced to the feisty teenage pirate captain, Kari Zev. In this story Kari Zev and Jace Beleren team up to assist the renegades, first by going on a heist to obtain aether, then to help the renegades take on the Skysovereign after they lost control of the Aether Hub in the story âBurn.â
The Tumblr community met this story with overwhelmingly positive reviews. The community adored the tenacity of Kari Zev and her sidekick, the monkey Ragavan. Tumblr user @zomburai claimed that the story was a delight. Others, like @abzanascendancy, were most excited about sky pirates. They also applauded Kari Zev for being 15, yet also being able to âpilot, command and crew her own ship.â Community members were even more excited about pirates then they were already, and some probably hope that a pirate-themed block will come along in the not-too-distant future.
With only three stories left in the Aether Revolt storyline, the MTGcommunity is anxiously waiting to see what happens next, with the Gatewatchâs final confrontation with Tezzeret and the Consulate, and what else that is in store for the plane of Kaladesh.
--- Chelsea W, @chelsea-beleren-vess
3. General Magic Story Discussion and Speculation
Deploy the Gatewatch | Original art by Wesley Burt
This week has been rife with Magic Story metadiscourse, from speculation for the future, to reflection on the past. Fans discussed Nissaâs shift toward tolerance in Magic Origins, and whether or not this made her a âMary Sueâ, prompting @commandtower-solring-goâs analysis of the term and its relationship to Magic [x]. On the other side, @chelsea-beleren-vess compiled potential points of civil war foreshadowing [x]
Prior to her Origins revision, Nissa, like most elves, believed that elves reigned superior over other races, and moreover her band of elves above even other elves. When her backstory was updated, these biases were no longer present. Lots of fans were upset by this. They missed their little racist, which is a little distressing, honestly. Itâs important we ask ourselves why itâs so important for her to be hateful. This led one user to ask @markrosewater why the Gatewatch was composed of âMary Sues.â By and large, âMary Sueâ is a term used to degrade a character for being all-powerful or infallible. This term really doesnât describe the Gatewatch. Take Gideon, who was too proud and got his Irregulars killed, then repeated the mistake on Zendikar. Look at Jace --- neglectful of his duty as the Guildpact, and by even his own admission, annoying and pretentious as all hell. Liliana is, well, Liliana. Chandra has consistently been short-sighted and rash; she has consistently endangered the lives of the people she cares about, including the Gatewatch (see âIn This Very Arenaâ and âBurnâ). Nissa has been altoether aloof and unable to relate to her teammates, and was made to suffer immensely over the course of the Battle for Zendikar storyline.
Wizards could be setting the stage for a civil war within the Gatewatch, ala Marvel. In this hypothetical confrontation, Gideon leads one side, while Jace rallies his allies. Who will side with whom is anyoneâs guess, but Iâm personally partial to Chandra, Nissa, Gideon, and Ajani squaring off against Jace and Lili, but this is clouded by my distaste for Lili and her relationship with Jace, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
--- Nick D, @nick-dowdle-jeskai-judicatorâ
4. Incoming WoTC President Chris Cocksâ Digital Tease
Glimpse the Future | Original art by Andrew Robinson
Last Thursday, the President of Wizards of the Coast, Chris Cocks, released a public statement regarding the future of WotCâs IP, concentrating on the following points:
Reimagining digital versions of Magic and other Wizards games.
Bringing their characters and worlds to other games and experiences.
Making peopleâs Wizards experiences more efficient, connected, and convenient.
What most Tumblrs seemed to latch onto was the idea of Magic: the Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons branded video games, and many people wanted to share their thoughts on the matter.
@simic-initiate said, âIâve no doubt irritated many friends by consistently insisting that Magic has a criminally underused mythos and cast of characters. Wizards does SO much world building each plane that just, hardly gets used again if ever.â [x]
@planeswalkerwithtardis suggests, âPersona JRPG with MtG characters as the personas, color combinations replace arcana. It would also hedge Wizardâs bets by crossing their customer base for that product with the ever hungry Persona fan base.â [x]
@youknowwhatscrewyou went a different direction: âI would love an mtg fighting game, similar to smash bros or something, so that is not too competitive and allows for some fun, crazy stuff.â [x]
@mixingmetaphorsoup also thinks MMOs are a hiding to nothing: âWhat? Throwing spells at a Planeswalker in an MMO? Surely you mean MOBA. As Iâve said before, Magic fits perfectly into a MOBA shell.â [x]
What video game genre do you think would make a good Magic game?
--- Liam W, @coincidencetheories
BONUS! âLILIANA VESS - MAGIC THE GATHERING.â Original art by @lunardays22
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