I'm sure you are all well aware of the current drama going down at the moment. Here is what I have to say.

Months ago, Tiffany visited my place in Philadelphia for the SCG Open and stayed the night in my guest room. She expressed interest in living in Philadelphia because of a new job opportunity, and I told her I would get her a spot in the house, as my parents are the landlords.

She accepts the job and is set to move in, and when her father cancels on helping her move last minute. I offer to drive approx 2hrs from Philly to NY to help her move, but i confirm with her beforehand that I would most likely need to be compensated for my time as it would be about 2 tanks of gas + wages lost + tolls.We agree on the proposal, and the move goes swell. During the drive home she says she can't pay me up front, but would like for me to sell cards for her at SCG Cleveland. I propose that I just sell the cards for her and just take 100$ out of the profits. We agree on this and the exchange on payal goes fine. I made 220$ in SCG Credit, and then bought the credit myself at 75% (as is a common practice). So I had 150$ and sent her 50$ because she owed me 100$.

Weeks later I get a message from a friend saying Tiff wanted to talk money problems. We talk about it and I lay out what I just wrote here, and made sure that there weren't any misconceptions on my part. To be honest, it did get slightly convoluted and I thought i genuinely skipped over something and owed her money. We found it to not be the case, and she said the problem was that she needed physical cash on hand because paypal took a cut from the transfer. She told me quote "I needed money for groceries, I had to eat cereal for 3 days." I apologized for this and moved on.

I learned after the fact from my roommate that this was not true, and she made a cover story to avoid the conversation. I did not appreciate her lying about me behind my back to my friends, but i was willing to let it go because I did not want to cause any animosity within the household.

Fast forward to this weekend, I am just being told that a former friend of mine who had been invited to a 4th of July party on my block showed up and proclaimed "Where's the magic whore" (this person is not associated with the scene at all and doesn't play magic) Tiffany took great offense to this (as she should), and immediately attributed this to my doing. In the past I had attempted to explain to my former friend the "wizardcycling" mechanic as a lighthearted dagger toward Tiffany, which was then telephoned into what she blurted out at the party.

I was told that she was greatly incensed about this, and said she wanted to quote "cancel me on twitter" to my roommates. To which they told her to bring it up with me, and to even have them as mediators if she felt uncomfortable. She continued to talk negatively about me behind my back without attempting to bring it up to my attention. And to be clear again, I didn't even know this interaction took place until tonight at dinner.

Today driving home from the event, a friend of Tiffany's who has been staying at our house over the weekend asked "why are you and tiffany not on the best terms" which sparked the conversation, and Galen (my roommate) told me she told him she was going to "cancel me". My immediate reaction was to first inform my friends in the group chat about what was going down, and second was to have a talk with her when she got home, because despite all of this I specifically do not want her to feel uncomfortable in her own house. I was ready to attempt to talk about this amicably because though i felt most of the controversy was artificial, apologizing for my comments about her was necessary and the least I could do for her.

It was at this point that the friend of hers who had stayed the weekend (who was at dinner with us) told us she just sent him a text saying "why did you rat me out." in relation to this scenario. Upon telling her that it was Galen who told me specifically, she said "im talking to his dad (her landlord) now to fix this."

She came home drunk (celebrating a friends 21st birthday, not faulting her for wanting to celebrate just painting the picture) and immediately started a shouting match with me. I attempted to calm the situation down and have a rational discussion, covering from the start of this post, but she did not want to have a civil discourse at all. She claimed I called her a "magic whore" and then claimed my roommate Galen called her a "magic whore" as well which are both untrue. When I attempted to try and get everything straight, she said her mom advised her to "call the cops" and the posted the screenshots of my group chat to twitter and then said "good luck with that, I am moving out".

The person who sent her the screenshots had this to say to me, i will be omitting their name and will not disclose who it is.

"Look I'll be 100% honest with you. I didn't think when I did it. I had no clue that it would effect everyone, and that she would put it on Twitter. She was just talking about it and it happened chat was as well. So I impulsively sent them to her without thinking. I just sent them because obviously I'm blinded by the situation I'm in. I understand my apology doesn't mean much but I am sincerely sorry about this. If you don't want to talk to me for now on I guess I'll understand, it's my fault."

Regarding the group chat, I was plainly stating my understanding of the situation and was venting my frustration. What Josh said was wholly unacceptable and what did not get pictured was me reaming him out for using that language. He is passionate and is quick to defend his friends, and assumed he was in a safe space to express his frustration. Regardless, none of us condone his comments and we hope he will understand the consequences of his actions.

At the end of the day, it is anything but my intention to put her in an uncomfortable situation. I extended all of the resources I could to make sure she could move out of a difficult situation at home so she could pursue her career. On the drive back from NY to Philly months ago, I wanted to make it clear to her that I understood where she was coming from. Being a girl in a male dominated field, and quite frankly a male dominated society at large, is not easy, and in my experience, she tends to lets misunderstandings fester so she can use them to her advantage. I told her the day she moved in, that if she ever felt I had wronged her for whatever reason, to please feel free to bring it up with me, because I would rather admit fault over something before it bubbles into animosity that is unneeded.

To sum things up,

I called Tiffany a Vendalken Aethermage, a creature with "wizardcycling". That comment was insensitive, and I was wrong to say it. Regarding everything else, as I had stated earlier she has let misunderstandings and confusion fester in order to slander my name, for whatever reason she had.

Despite all of this, I am willing to still extend the olive branch and talk amicably, because at the same time I feel like I should be able to reconcile after what I said, she should be able to reconcile with me after all the controversy this has caused me and everyone in the situation. We are people, and we not perfect.

Tiffany, I am sorry, and I hope we can work together on fixing this.