LETāS TALK ABOUT @DIVINELYPROTECTEDGIRL.
okay so - 2 things. 1, im so sorry for my inactivity. im almost finished with uni for summer, im just trying to lock in and get thru the final push. then ill start updating regularly again - as always, thank you for your patience.
and secondly, thereās something serious I want to address, that I have taken time to mull over and think about what/how im going to say it.
most of you on here probably knew of @/divinelyprotectedgirl, maybe you even read some of her fics.
kate aka divinelyprotectedgirl has been exposed as a predator that lurked within the 2tumblr community for months, until she was driven off the platform entirely.
I joined 2tumblr in around December of last year. truthfully at that point I knew little about tumblr itself, boyliife and hollis - i had made only a few connections with authors as I had just started putting out fanfiction and my viewership was way smaller compared to now.
kate was one of my earliest supporters. I thought she was a friend; commenting, reblogging, sending me messages of praise, even offering ideas for my upcoming fics.
all the while I was entirely oblivious to her concerning and predatory behaviour towards others on the platform - some of whom were as young as 15/16 (sheās 24/25 btw) entirely oblivious to the smaller signs she was beginning to show towards me as we built our friendship.
kate also had quite a significant impact on 2tumblr with her fics - with a loyal bunch of equally as oblivious followers including myself as I truly thought she was an excellent writer, but everyoneās adoration for her blurred out the posts with substantial evidence calling out her behaviour.
I never saw any of those posts until I found out in around February of this year.
I was invited to a group chat with kate and another mutual friend who I will not name. by February my account had gained enormous traction, and I was constantly churning out fics and being active/online 24/7.
before everything, I looked up to kate.
sheād been on 2tumblr longer than I had, and her writing inspired me - she felt like a mentor to me in some ways. so when I got invited to join this intimate group chat with these great authors, I didnāt hesitate.
at first everything was fine. we all complimented each other, proofread each others writing, gave concept suggestions - all that stuff you do when you interact with writer friends in the same fanbases as you.
roughly two weeks in to this group chat; slightly unnerving behaviour came from Kateās end - a woman shy of 7 years my senior.
sheād begin to tell me she loved me constantly - saying she missed me multiple times a day, every time Iād go offline to study during the daytime.
it almost felt like being texted by a suffocating ex or a situationship, when I hardly knew kate outside of an online friend.
I thought it was strange, but I ignored it - wanting to give her the benefit of the doubt. but this behaviour occurred almost daily after a week of conversing in an Instagram group chat; nothing more.
it was around three weeks in when sheād begin voice messaging me discussing emotional and personal matters.
kate at this time, had introduced me to her āclose friendā ket.
ket has an entire page dedicated to evidence proving Kateās predatory behaviour, which I will mention at the end of this post for anyone who wants to see.
upon meeting ket, our mutual friend and kate began to frequently deactivate and reactivate their accounts days later - and kate began to send me voice notes.
in these voice notes, she admitted that her relationship with ket was rocky, and that they both went thru phases of mistreating each other only to crawl back to each other later on.
the way kate spoke about her dynamic with ket elicited sympathy out of me - who knew nothing beyond kateās perspective that she was feeding me (i am not close with ket myself, and wouldnāt know his side of the story until much later).
I would, as a friend should, offer comfort and advice to kate. sheād send me tons of voice notes ranting and ranting about heavy topics and sharing very personal information about her and ket - then would hurriedly apologise for trauma dumping.
again, after less than a month of knowing kate and knowing little about her outside of her writing I was a little weirded out, but I chose to support her since she seemed to genuinely need the outlet.
it was only when it escalated to her saying that she could only give me the entire uncensored rundown if I blocked ket on everything that I began to distance myself from her strangeness.
so I did. kate had fed me so many lies about ket and had deliberately lacked significant context in what sheād told me as well as watering down everything so that I wouldnāt get the entire picture, just the surface level stuff.
kate, despite admitting to being in the wrong at times during her and ketās relationship (that started when he was 18 and she was 24 btw),
she also pinned a lot of shit on him, painting him out to be the reason why her mental state was deteriorating - eliciting more sympathy and support from me, whoād yet to hear ketās side of anything.
in these messages she also admitted to slut shaming our mutual friend, and making mildly concerning statements such as believing that her and 2hollis were spiritually connected in a way.
unrelated, but I think it adds perspective into how her mental state was.
kate had gaslit me into believing that she was essentially trapped in a friendship with a bipolar, twisted addict and I wanted to help her get out - as any friend would want.
I was on Kateās side, as her side was all I knew. then ket messaged me, calling me out for blocking him - I was studying, and quite frankly didnāt want to be tied into drama and didnāt know why he was so furious at me for taking Kateās side (I know know obviously),
so I deleted the messages and deactivated my Instagram account that was in the group chat with kate, ket, and our mutual friend to avoid getting involved.
I told kate and our mutual friend that Iād done this to focus on school and my own wellbeing, which was true.
a few days after doing this, our mutual friend sent me a message telling me that themself and kate had had an argument, and they werenāt speaking.
turns out it was to do with kateās treatment towards our mutual friend - lashing out in animosity over them and ket getting closer, and kate, a 24/25 year old grown woman, not liking that.
- essentially wanting to keep ket to herself, even telling him privately that she didnāt like me becoming friends with him either, that I was āweirdā, when she introduced me to him in the first place.
after blocking ket and deleting his confrontational messages on his tumblr account, I still was confused and didnāt know the entire picture yet.
then I came across ketās other tumblr account - the one i will mention with all of the proof - coincidentally on my tumblr suggested feed.
this was sort of when everything clicked for me - all the red flags and strange exhibits of behaviour from kate, and I felt so stupid for not catching on, for not knowing anything.
these allegations, which I wonāt go into detail to - ketās account goes into more detail as he has experienced most of these events firsthand - include kate sexting with minors, speaking provocatively to both ket and 2tumblr groupchats containing minors, and admitting to grooming ket, all the while wallowing in self-pity.
safe to say I was beyond disgusted, and logged back in to my deactivated account - greeted by a message from kate saying she will miss me and loves me - and blocked her. same to her account on tumblr.
me and our mutual friend reconnected shortly after, where they also gave me their side of the story - finally damning kate and my friendship with her.
if you take a moment to look - to search her username on tumblr, youāll find multiple posts from multiple users calling her out on her predatory behaviour.
none of which have gained enough attention in my opinion - as I didnāt know of these blogs myself - hence why I think itās important that I also speak out.
if youāve gotten this far, thank you so much for reading.
itās truly disgusting and shocking to realise and experience firsthand the evil kinds of people that lurk in plain sight amongst these fanbases preying on younger, more impressionable people, let alone finding out that one of these people was someone you thought you were friends with.
itās also hard to realise that if I hadnāt been made aware of kateās true colours when I did, she couldāve potentially preyed on myself as she did ket - despite me being an adult, she was 25. she knew, I did not.
the grooming signs were there. grooming can happen to anyone regardless of age.
I was being toyed with, and I was oblivious myself - and the betrayal is sickening, realising that you had unknowingly let someone of this nature in.
hence why this took so long to conjure up - lots of thoughts and emotions. processing. figuring out.
thereās a high chance also that kate will somehow see this and contact me -
despite being driven out by her victims, I wouldnāt be surprised if she were still here watching and reading. but spreading awareness about her overtakes my anxiety towards potentially hearing from her again, the risk is worth taking.
please be safe on the internet. you never know who youāre talking to; truly.
please, if you have a second, look into these evidence blogs.
itās important that everyone on 2tumblr knows the truth about divinelyprotectedgirl, as I know many of us admired her and her fics in the past - and she somehow managed to delete her account and remove herself from here in silence.
ok, the end. sorry itās so lengthly, but I didnāt want to miss anything out.
this is the account: @abcketamine