#predatory behavior tw

 Since the gala, Zaina had been harboring a lot of anger towards Matthew.  The audacity to leave her the moment the two started engaging in conversation, request her to save him a dance and ultimately end up ditching her for the evening did not settle well with the vampire.  A smart woman would have just been over the drama when it came to a man.  Yet, there was something about the Baudelaire that kept Zaina coming back for more.

In torn jeans, old band t-shirt, sporting her chucks with a plaid button up wrapped around her waist and of course her dangling earrings and necklace with a charm of a dagger, she walked around the corner feeling confident in her appearance ready to dazzle the man when she overheard his voice and a woman’s.  Instantly, she stepped back behind the corner and peaked her head around it to see the woman she loathed standing there with her man.  Anger surged through her veins as her dark eyes narrowed towards them.  If they kissed, Zaina could hardly be held accountable for what would happen.  But even watching them wrap their arms together in a friendly hug nearly had the vampire in a frenzy.

I think she wouldn't have believed it, and would have acted the same. After all, she's worked for Oliver Branch for a long time.

hi, trace. it took me a while to respond to your ask because I wasn’t completely sure if I wanted to have a conversation with you. i decided it was best to take a day off to think about it before getting back to you. however, when i checked back today, it had appeared you changed your blog url, icon and removed your name from your description. unsure if it was intentional but the timing is suspicious given that you unliked my post about aly and the admin of sux just had a conversation yesterday with sara about being on the receiving end of your toxicity. not only that, it’s incredibly unsettling sara has removed the initial tags she made when she reblogged my post. to view the tags click here, but if you click here, you can see she removed it. she claims she’s taking responsibility, but that proved otherwise and it was extremely performative. just like the admin, i have also been on the receiving end of your toxic behaviour while i was in sux and it’s incredibly baffling that you had the audacity to message me out of sympathy for what we ( minors at the time ) went through. honestly, i can’t even be surprised if you weren’t even aware of your own behaviours, but it’s clear neither of you have changed since you choose to hide in plain sight instead.

and no, i’m not going to give you the courtesy of replying to this privately since you probably thought i didn’t receive this message therefore you changed your url and icon. just because you and aly are no longer friends does not mean you weren’t just as bad as her. you and sara literally backed the admin into a corner, forcing her to give you permission to create stonagate which was an entire rip off of sux. i guess it didn’t even matter to you two, since you guys acted as if you ran sux anyway. you two made the rp so unenjoyable for so many people, but you two were too selfish to realize that. instead you both complained about how nothing goes your way well in fact everything always went your way. by not revealing yours or sara’s name, we gave you guys the chance to take accountability and apologize to the admin - assuming you two were still roleplaying or on tumblr. and we thought sara did, but of course, that was proven wrong earlier in the post. people need to know the truth and i’m not going to let you get away with this.

sara @sararpsthings is the adult the admin was referring to my post here. specifically this section:

from the admin of sux. “i was put in a similar position with an adult ( in sux ) when i was around 16 who wanted to smut with my character and i thought it’d be rude of me to say no so i went along with it and ended up dropping that character shortly after like…. even as the literal creator of the rp i still felt like ? beneath ? the adults sometimes bc they were so much older than me so it seemed like they had authority even tho they were in MY group if that makes sense”

trace was another adult in sux. they’re both around the same age as aly. and as you can tell, a lot of us do not have fond memories of either of them. we found this post reblogged two months ago saying how she misses sux and stonegate. of course she misses a time where she reigned supreme, of course she misses a time where she contributed to creating an unsafe environment for minors.

I think one of the reasons I felt so upset about all this is that it's an LGBTQ group and even though he is cis and straight, this predator is in that group and most likely using that space to prey on vulnerable teens. He's positioning himself as an lgbtq ally to get close to vulnerable youth, just like 10 years ago he was pretending to be a youth pastor to get close to vulnerable youth, and 20 years ago he was running rpg groups to get close to vulnerable youth. He's smart and disgusting and I hate him.

i won’t be because those aren’t my stories to tell. if those on the receiving end of predatory behaviour from that rp would like to use me as their voice and platform i’d be more than happy to, but if they also choose not to ever speak about it, that’s okay too. people cope and move on in different ways.