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[valeisaslut]

to everyone who wished me a happy birthday—thank you from the bottom of my heart🩷

i don’t even know how to explain what your messages meant to me. i’ve never felt so loved, so seen, so fulfilled. you all made my day feel like magic. every little wish, every sweet word, every ���happy birthday” made my heart grow like ten sizes. i feel like the luckiest person ever to be surrounded by such kindness and warmth🩷🩷

thank you for making me feel so special—i’m carrying this love with me into the rest of the year, i promise.

i love you all endlessly. truly. thank you thank you thank you💞💓💕💓💕💓

with all the love in the world,

val💜

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STOPPP MIA YOU’RE GONNA MAKE ME CRYYYY!! You’re literally one of the kindest, most talented, most hilarious people I’ve ever had the joy of talking to—your writing is SO GOOD it makes me want to both scream and hug you??

And the Rachel sketch??? Actually healed something in me. Like how are you real. I’m so lucky to have your support and just… YOU!! 😩😭😩

I love you sm thank you for making my birthday so special, truly. You’re a gem and I hope you never stop creating because the world needs what you do🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

@valeisaslut HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEAUTIFUL!! 💗💗🫶🫶 you’re literally the sweetest human ever, so creative and so fun to talk to! I HOPE YOUR EXAMS GO WELL! have the best birthday ever, and i hope you enjoy this well overdo rachel sketch LMAOO 💋💋💗💗💗🫶🫶🫶

an original character from val’s series collide. wish her a happy birthday!

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i really thought i was gonna be a nonchalant mysterious writer who posted and vanished like ooo who is she… but no. i’m here responding in full caps like “THANK U BBY I LOVE U MORE” and writing paragraphs longer than the original ask. like girl. calm down.

i genuinely take one or two hours a day just to scream in someone’s dms and personally thank everyone who’s ever said anything nice to me.

i’m not mysterious. i’m embarrassingly grateful.

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hi hi hi hi its me again, i just saw u speaking portuguese and im brazilian 😭😭 it was literally the cutest ugh happy birthday againnn💕💕

That makes me so happy to hear, obrigadaaaa amorrrr!! I tried my best with the little Portuguese I know LMAOO but I’m so glad it made you smile!! You’re the sweetest ever, thank you again for the birthday love, it means the world to me!! Te adoro demais 💕💕💕

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCESSSSS I HOPE U HAVE A GOOD DAY THANK U SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHINGGG, you are literally the sweetest im so so happy to send u this!! 💗💗 already getting older omg 😞😞

STOPPP this is the cutest ever omg!!! Thank you sooo much, you just made my whole day already. I’m literally smiling like an idiot rn. Already getting older is crazyyyy like pls someone slow it down!! Love u sm, thank you for being here!! 💗💗💗

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VAL!!!🩷🩷🩷 (sorry if im late, its still 11am here

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! you aren’t late in in argentina it’s 12 am!! Should i say obrigado? tô te mandando um beijo enorme!! 💗💗💗 ILYYYY

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY VAL!! HOPE YOU HAVE AN AMAZING DAY BEAUTIFUL!! 🎉🎉

THANK YOUUU SM ALEXXX!!! THIS IS SO SWEET I’M ACTUALLY GONNA SOB… thank you for making my day feel even more special!!! LOVE UUU 💗💗💗

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THIS TALENTED GORGEOUS WRITER I LOVE U VAL 💗💗🥳🥳 U'RE THE BEST FOR REAL,GO AND EAT THOSE EXAMS LIKE YOU DEVOUR EVERY TIME YOU POST SOMETHING!!💋💋

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH BABY!!! 💗💗 THIS MADE ME SMILE SO BIG YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW!!! I’M GONNA THINK OF THIS MESSAGE WHEN I’M STARING AT MY TESTS LIKE “WWVD” (WHAT WOULD VAL DO) AND THE ANSWER IS SLAY. LOVE U TONS ALI, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE!!! 💋💋💋

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OMG HAPPY BITTHDAY AM I LATE??????!!!!!

NO YOU ARE NOTTTT THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!💕💕💕💕

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happy birthday!!!!! hope youre having a wonderful day and taking a well deserved break 🎉🎉🎉

THANK YOU SO SO SO SO MUCH!! Im having such a good day, and studying for exams!!💕💕 ilyyyy

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SO HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYY SWEET NINETEEEEEEENNNNNNN sending u lovies and kissies and huggies,,, xxxxoxoxoxoxo

OMG THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU💞💞😭😭💞💞😭💞💞😭💞💞😭😭💞😭💞😭

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yall reader is literally my baby GIVE HER MORE SUPPORT!!!!!!!!😭😭😭😭😭

Hey val! just wanted to say collide is genuinely incredible. genuinely one of the best pieces of writing i’ve ever read, not exaggerating. I’ve been seeing you absolutely burning ellie to shreds and it made me wonder, what’s popstar!reader’s backstory? read she came from the voice but is there more to her pre-ellie life? she seems so layered and complex on her own, and i’d love to know how she got to where she is now. any lore you can share??

omg first of all—thank you so much for this, seriously. it means the world that you’re even asking about reader’s backstory. i’ve spent just as much time building her as i did ellie, and i love that she’s getting some of the spotlight too!

popstar!reader’s backstory is a little quieter than ellie’s, but it’s just as important.

she was just a normal girl, honestly. small town, two parents, one younger sibling. soft-spoken, always lost in her own little world—writing lyrics on her forearm in pen and humming melodies while unloading the dishwasher.

her parents were sweet but practical, the kind of people who clapped at school recitals and told her to make sure her dreams had health insurance. supportive in that detached, surface-level, “good for you, honey” way.

she taught herself how to sing, how to play guitar, and later piano—mostly in secret. lessons felt like too much of an ask. her family wasn’t struggling, but money was always discussed with that careful tone, like even wanting something made you selfish. so she figured it out alone. saved up for her first guitar by babysitting, bought a secondhand keyboard off Facebook Marketplace, and sang quietly into her pillow late at night so no one would hear.

she taught herself how to produce on GarageBand when she was fourteen, recording rough demos on an old laptop that overheated if she used too many vocal layers.

she'd mimic runs from old YouTube covers, learn chords from blurry tutorial videos, and practice until her fingers went numb. there were nights her voice would crack and she'd cry out of frustration, but she always came back to it. because no matter how hard it was—music made her feel like someone.

she wasn’t popular. not disliked, just… overlooked. you’d find her sitting in the back of the bus, hoodie up, scribbling verses in the margins of her homework. she barely even spoke in class, but when she sang? people shut up and listened. she just didn’t let them very often. the want was always there, but the fear was just as loud.

and then came 10th grade. her first real heartbreak. a girl from her English class—older, confident, the kind of girl who knew the effect she had on people. reader fell hard. it was messy, unrequited, and when the girl said “i’m not into girls like that” with a casual shrug? it destroyed her. she wrote ten songs that month. none of them were happy. she posted one of them on SoundCloud under a fake name. it got 43 listens. she made it her phone wallpaper.

no one thought she’d actually do anything with music. her teachers told her to “focus more on the sciences,” and her guidance counselor literally said, “sweetheart, music is a lovely hobby, but not a career.”

no one ever really believed she’d make it.

and honestly? most of the time, neither did she.

but something clicked her senior year. she was tired of being scared. tired of hiding. so she said fuck it—and auditioned for The Voice with one of her own songs without even asking her mom about it.

the rest happened fast. all four judges turned. her clip exploded online—TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, everywhere. people were calling her “the girl with the pain in her voice”. and yeah, she won. of course she did. got signed to a label before she even had time to process it.

her debut album was a glittery, razor-sharp pop masterpiece. dramatic, vulnerable, unapologetically girly. every song sounded like crying in the back of a club bathroom and screaming in your car on the way home. girls memorized the lyrics. gays dissected the bridges. critics tried to play it cool but couldn’t help calling it a cultural reset.

but through all the fame, reader stayed pretty much the same. she never really leaned into the chaos of it all. she wasn’t into parties. barely drank. never touched drugs. she didn’t care about being seen—she cared about being good. her team would throw her into red carpets and she’d sneak out early to finish demos in her penthouse. at one event, she literally left mid-party to go sit in the parking lot and hum a harmonie she couldn't get out of her head into her voice notes.

she barely dated. not because she didn’t want to—but because she didn’t have time. she never let herself have time. the industry was demanding, to say the least. she had something to prove. to everyone who doubted her. to herself.

she built herself from the ground up. no shortcuts, no handouts, no famous parents or flashy connections. just talent. obsession. the belief that maybe—maybe—her voice mattered. and a little bit of spite.

she gave everything to her career. and she became a star.

and then came ellie. and for the first time… she stopped thinking about the next song. because suddenly, someone made her want to stay in the moment. and god, that scared her.

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OMGG I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT ROCKSTAR ELLIE AND POPSTAR READER DOING A SONG TOGETHER LIKE HIM & I. OH.MY.GOD.

LMAOOO STOP that’s so real of you because i love that song too, it’s actually perfect. the only thing is… ellie doing a song like that would be SO canon if she didn’t do rock. like imagine her trying to make it work with her raspy guitar-heavy sound while reader is out here giving full pop girl vocals and high-gloss visuals😭

also the image of ellie attempting to rap a verse… i’m in TEARS. she’d be like “nah i got this” and then immediately cringe listening back in the studio like “okay maybe not.” but she’d still do it because she’s obsessed with reader and would literally humiliate herself for the bit. ugh. star-crossed popstar x rockstar mess. i love it here.

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the song teddy picker by arctic monkeys reminds me of collide! more specifically the lyrics that talk abt being bent over by the music industry and wanting to become famous (‘its the thousandth time that it’s even boulder, don’t be surprised when you get bent over. they told you, but you were dying for it…the kids all dreaming of making it - whatever that means.).

It makes me think of Y/N dreaming of making it in the industry meanwhile Ellie’s been in it since she was born bc of her dad and she already knows how it goes down but makes it her own!

nonnie… you just cracked something open in my brain i didn’t even know was there. i’d actually never listened to teddy picker before (i know, fake fan alert) but i just went and played it and DAMN… the lyrics??? the energy??? the borderline mocking tone about fame and image and how people will literally beg to be chewed up and spat out by the industry??? HELLO.

ellie’s been in the industry since she could walk—knew all the games, all the fake smiles, all the tricks before anyone had to warn her. and then there’s reader, coming in all starry-eyed with her little self-written songs and big dreams like “i just wanna make music and change lives!!” and the industry’s like okay babe… bend.

even the line “the kids all dreaming of making it—whatever that means” is so perfect. because that’s literally what sets ellie and reader apart at first. ellie’s already famous, already jaded, already over it, and reader’s still figuring out what “making it” even looks like. and the industry treats them so differently because of that. it’s messy and kind of tragic and so good for the drama.

so THANK YOU for sending this, like truly. you made me reframe so many dynamics i didn’t even realize i was writing?? also thank you for loving the story and being so thoughtful about the characters—i can’t tell you how much it means to see people digging into all the little layers like this. sending u the biggest hug ever💕💕💕😭 teddy picker is now canon-coded.

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quick life update + a lil collide hiatus (pls don’t hate me)

hi my angels!! just wanted to say real quick—i’m gonna be a little MIA for the next two to three weeks because i’m in the middle of college exams (kill me) and my birthday’s on friday (crazy). so there won’t be any new collide chapters until further notice, which genuinely makes me very sad to admit

writing has honestly taken over my whole life lately (in both the best and most chaotic way), and i’ve been putting it above everything else—so i’m trying to be a little responsible for once!

BUT i really hope all the inboxes i’ve been answering have been enough to keep you entertained and fed in the meantime!!

i’ll prob respond more in my pomodoro breaks lol, i’m not going on a full hiatus. tumblr is my most used app😭

i’m sorry for posting so much. and sorry if i’ve been a little annoying too LMAO. ily all sm. thank you for caring about this dumb little story that accidentally became my whole personality

i’ll be back before you know it <3333

with love, val💜

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responding to all those inboxs genuinely made me so happy—like it’s still kind of surreal to me that people are actually invested and care about this story and these characters the way i do. it’s the best feeling ever😭💕

i’ve always written for fun, mostly just for myself, so seeing people pick up on the little details, ask questions, and theorize about this story i pulled from my brain??

like wow, maybe this thing i made actually means something to someone. that’s the coolest thing in the world.

thank you for making me feel like what i’m doing is special. i really, really love yall for that💞

there is so much lore and layering to these collide characters like… guys... this was supposed to be a dumb little story at first LMAO. i didn’t mean to make them this deep and emotionally complex but i fell headfirst into my own damn AU and now i’m in too deep

but honestly? i love it here. ellie and reader’s characters won’t shut up in my head and i wouldn’t want it any other way

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there is so much lore and layering to these collide characters like… guys... this was supposed to be a dumb little story at first LMAO. i didn’t mean to make them this deep and emotionally complex but i fell headfirst into my own damn AU and now i’m in too deep

but honestly? i love it here. ellie and reader’s characters won’t shut up in my head and i wouldn’t want it any other way