Just a dreamer who dreams.

I'm not proud of how I conducted myself in that conversation, but the accused wound up implicating themself by saying things like:

"they (the minors they allegedly victimized) were into that kind of thing"

"they never told me they didn't like it"

"I've seen many minors do all sorts of NSFW stuff"

"I haven't done this ever since. I've learned from my mistakes."

"I was drawn into it and I know I should have acted better."

As an adult, you don't EVER have sexual interactions with a minor nor show them smut. If a minor comes onto you, it's YOUR responsibility as the adult to shut that down fast. As the adult in the situation, it's on YOU to establish and enforce boundaries as a kid doesn't yet have the capacity to do so. It doesn't matter if the kid is into smut. It doesn't matter if they draw and post it. It doesn't matter what they say or do. If the kid is acting inappropriately towards you or in your space, DON'T enable it.

I kicked the accused party from my trolls group, made a post in said group explaining why with screenshots of the confrontation and links to the resurfaced post and a doc I compiled of testimonies that should have been front and center, and informed another mutual (who was ALSO associated with the accused) about it in case they missed it.

I've been thinking about making a public post about the situation because while the post linked in the post that resurfaced has the testimonies of the most egregious things the accused allegedly did, the order they were presented in is not very great. I've had to scroll and pick through reblogs to find them, and not everyone has the time or patience to do that.

But at the same time, I don't wanna post about it because the mutuals I alerted about the situation are/were already stressed from learning about it and I don't wanna add to that stress, plus I'm exhausted from the situation.