#advanced scribes

[advancedscribes]

Hey Scribes - today, we have a writing tip for you: read it out loud.

If you can’t read a sentence without running out of breath, chances are, it needs editing. Another thing to consider is if it sounds correct when you read it out loud. It may sound right in your head, but are you certain your grammar was correct? Try to also listen for overuse of jargon such and trite phrases such as “at the end of the day”. 

We hope this tip is helpful! Happy writing scribers!

[ethrenisnotthehero]

@hogwartsmystory is a predator (final)

If you haven’t read the other parts of this callout, I encourage you to start here. As in both previous posts, the normal tags are not included in order to allow this to reach as many people as possible. Potential triggers are listed below, and the main content is hidden to keep sensitive individuals from being unintentionally exposed.

TW: Pedophilia, Abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual Assault, Self Harm, Suicide, NSFW Topics, Faked Illness, Faked Mental Illness, Faked Death, Victim Blaming

Originally, I intended to craft this final part to you, the reader, as an emotional appeal. To be wholly honest, there’s only so much evidence that can be utilized without either forcing Jill to relive unnecessary trauma or exposing deeply intimate or personal parts of her life. Until now, everything I’ve told you and everything I’ve shown you is what was enough to convince me when Jill first reached out to me. If you, the reader, don’t believe the factual information that’s been presented so far, then I don’t think that you will. If you, the reader, believe Jill and her story, then no further evidence is going to magically make her story more true.

However, I don’t have to. Instead, I can let the friends-- the family--that Ren created on his website speak for themselves, and show you with their own testimony just the kind of person he was. Jill wasn’t the only person that Ren hurt. Jill wasn’t even the only person Ren preyed on as a sexual predator. Many people on staff, and many people outside of it, knew Ren and grew to have what they thought was a close relationship with him. People regarded him as someone to look up to, to find comfort in, to aspire after, to lean on; people thought of him as a friend and a hero in his community.

On April 12, 2021, at 9:57 AM Greenwhich Mean Time, the current administrators of Advanced Scribes issued a statement addressing Ren’s actions and his faked death. An additional announcement was made the following day. While the announcements themselves and the replies (including moderator statements) are publicly available, I have saved a print-to-PDF versions on Google for you to browse at your leisure. 

I intentionally waited until the initial panic and outrage died out a little to let the most important statements come to light. Included in the PDF are sentiments that I personally thought were the most important sentiments; edits have been made and pages have been deleted, so you can see the current state of the conversations by visiting them directly. You can find the first discussion at https://advanced-scribes.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=42100#p1454263 and the second discussion at https://advanced-scribes.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=42107#p1454361.

Before you continue reading, please look over the statements and replies. The words of former staff former friends say more than I can ever hope to about Ren and the kind of reality that he stood for. Additionally, Jill herself has added to the conversation (username Rakuen), so you can read a bit from her perspective by looking into these announcements. After you’ve taken a look, continue below and I will sum up my final thoughts on this predator and his legacy.

Advanced Scribes • Our Statement (PDF)

Advanced Scribes • Change (PDF)

The Act of Grooming, Part 3: Entrapment

One of the reasons that predators get away with their crimes for so long is because they trap their victims. When they gain access to and successfully lure in their prey, they then engage in entrapment behavior to separate victims from other people and build reliance. The reason why kids are so prone to predation is because of how vulnerable they are. Young people just want to belong. They just want to have community, security, and affection. When they can’t get those things in their lives, they seek it out and take it where they can get it even when the situation is obviously bad. Kids can’t be held accountable for being smart because they’re kids. Jill was vulnerable. She wanted belonging and support. She fell into Ren’s lures, and he trapped her. He used his affection as a tool to solicit sexual favors and pictures from her, but never shared his face with her. She was always chasing his love, and all the while he was simultaneously preying on other individuals in the community. For God’s sake, this man had a selfie thread where underage girls would send pictures of themselves publicly on the site for him to look at, and he even intentionally disabled the website’s COPPA features.

Before Jill, there was Buttercup. Buttercup was also an admin, and she was also 13 when she met Ren. While Ren was a minor during he and Buttercup’s relationship, his behavior with her was just as predatory and Buttercup attempted to warn Jill via PM before she ended her relationship with him.

The picture he sent Buttercup wasn’t even him.

The entire time that Ren was convincing Jill that Buttercup was evil, and jealous, and a spiteful, hateful person, he was manipulating her the same way he was manipulating Jill. Ren is a predator who knows what he’s doing; he always has. He draws in his victims and makes everyone hate them so that he’s the only person they have. He makes them so desperate for his approval that they let him screw them over time and time again, and for what? Just to see his face. Think about what you read. He didn’t just do this to Jill and Buttercup. He did this to every person he cheated with or got close enough to get a grip on. Even if he didn’t sexually exploit someone, he emotionally did. An entire community of people suffered through this over and over and over again. Read the statements again. If you only read the live version, read the PDF. 

I also want you to bear in mind that everyone on staff was equally a victim as they were an enabler. It doesn’t erase their responsibility, but their roles in this story or more nuanced than “moderator bad, burn the witch!” Some of Ren’s supporters were as young or younger than Jill when they met him. The two people most notorious for standing at his side right now were both “rewarded” with a relationship with him in the fallout of his faked death.  

At some point, this man looked at his behavior and not only decided that he didn’t need to take responsibility, but that his victims daring to try and claim some kind of ownership over their own story was a personal affront to him. 

Ren is a monster of his own creation. He chose to be that monster again, and again, and again.

What makes his enablers equally to blame is when they became adults and made a conscious choice to ignore what was happening, which brings us to the next topic.

Finally... How Old Was Jill?

Despite everything I’ve said and shared so far, I still get this question in my inbox.

How old was Jill? Did she lie about her age? Is she free of guilt because she was a kid? Did he know how old she was? Was she legal in her country?

I gave you all everything I had. There were some things I just couldn’t confirm because there was no proof either way. However, all of that changed when the announcements were released. I now know exactly how old Jill was when they began dating, exactly how old she was when people knew about their relationship, and even that Ren was public with all of this information. I also know that staff knew everything, and chose to do nothing.

As you can see in the screenshots above of Buttercup’s message, it was sent on Jun 17, 2015. At that time, Jill was 14 years old. By Buttercup’s estimation, they had been dating for around a few months, which is how I was able to discern the previous exact age of 14 years old at the time they began dating.

However, Ren himself refutes that fact in a Valentine’s post for Jill. As pointed out in the “Our Statement” thread, the post that user amnesia. references includes very sexual and disgustingly graphic descriptions of Ren’s activity with her. It also says this:

As per the timestamp of this particular post (as seen below), Jill was 16 at the time. Ren, a man claiming to be twenty-five years old at the time, was proud to admit that he had been with Jill since she was 13.

You can view the full PDF of this post to see what else he said here, but please be warned that his descriptions are NSFW and absolutely disgusting. 

Warm Fuzzies Post (PDF)

No adult should talk about a kid like that. In the statements, several staff members admit that they knew that the two were dating when she was 16, and that it grossed them out. But none of them did anything. To amnesia.’s credit, they claim they tried to pursue legal action but found no viable routes. 

From the discussions and statements, we can discern five things:

1. Jill was 13 when she started dating Ren. 2. She did not lie about her age. 3. Ren did not lie about her age. 4. Ren knew how old she was. 5. Staff knew how old she was.

Jill’s feelings and her opinions on staff and their behavior are separate from my own. She does not share my beliefs here, and I need to make it very clear that what I’m saying next is entirely my own opinion.

To everyone who was staff at that time: shame on you. It’s one thing to be a victim yourself and to not understand how or when to stand up for what’s right, especially when you’re young; it’s another to become an adult and to have let something like this permeate your legacy and your community for all this time. From what I understand, none of you are completely innocent in this. Ren wasn’t secret, he was loud and proud and he didn’t give a shit what anyone thought. Everyone who was an adult then and is an adult now shares some responsibility for that. Those of you who mean your apologies, thank you, but those of you who are using this event as a stepping stone to make that website into your own personal playground know who you are. Stop. There’s an entire generation of kids between AS and CS who have lost years of their childhoods to this shit and the only right thing at this point would be to turn the site over to the police so that Ren can answer for his crimes the right way.

To everyone else: protect the people around you. People like Ren don’t think about how other people think or feel. They don’t care who gets hurt or who they trample under their feet. Look around at your community, and ask yourself if those who interact with you know that you are safe. Inevitably, someone is going to get hurt. Are you the kind of person that they can come to when it happens, or are you the kind of person who will turn your head away? 

Be the person that everyone knows they can come to, because, eventually, someone’s going to need you.

[hiraeth-nostalgic]

Okay, so I roleplay on a lot of different places because I get different things from different ones.

Like advanced if I want a serious, well thought out roleplay of like 1k words or more.

Cherp for literally anything super nsfwe.

HOWEVER, I’ve been role playing a long ass time, and I’ve never been saltier. I always try to at least befriend the people I roleplay with, because I’m a nice person and I’m pretty fucking funny. I reached out to someone on Advanced Scribes. They fucking disregarded all conversation attempts which is fine, no one has to be my friend, but then I fucking messaged them first, came up with the ideas, made the forum, posted my character form first, and then want me to start the roleplay, like,,,, do you need me to spoon feed you too? What the fuck.

It’s like common sense AND common courtesy that whoever doesn’t make the thread makes the first post. And I just??? Sometimes people try this on cherp. I’ve just automatically assumed I’m going to start because on cherp if you even mention them starting they ghost you or get rude. Like, okay Karen your three paragraphs with the max 6 lines isn’t going to impress me, I just wanna roleplay out some smut. So, send something.

I don’t mind starting, but like there’s a way to go about it and after doing all the work, maybe just maybe, I am not going to do it. Congratulations you played yourself.

[wandering-heart]

LOOKING FOR LOST INTERNET FRIENDS, PLEASE HELP

Hey guys!

This is REALLY crazy, but I would love any help I could get in this. I used to be super active on this site called Chickensmoothie.com. I roleplayed with the SAME PEOPLE for YEARS. They were my first internet friends--the first people outside of faces I saw every day that I thought cared abuot me.Their memories are so important to me. I’m talking, like, it’s been probably six years or more since I last heard from them. We were kids then! We’re all grown up now, and I would love to check in with them. Just to see how they’re doing. I miss them. I wanted to kind of send out a thing into the space of tumblr to see if maybe they see this--or someone else who used to be on chickensmoothie or advanced scribes (formerly awesome sauce) sees this and used to know them/currently knows them. The most updated usernames I can give are:

Wolfsabre -- founded advanced scribes, but it was awesome sauce when it first started.

solo -- you had a character named Shadow in all of our Max Ride Rps. 

Pandora Maryam-- I MISS YOU. Your name used to just be pandora. You had a character named Kat. You were in the EIGHTH GRADE the last time we talked. The EIGHTH GRADE!!!! You would be like 22 now. Isn’t that INSANE???

Zara Pendragon -- The one who started it all! You were the one that began the Max Ride RP that brought us all together. We have lots of pms with the message calling each other twin and I can’t remember why! Omg. 

Miken -- I think you are a Max Ride A1 as well-- I think your name has changed a lot though also. 

hdmwolf

My current username is MissRose, even though I haven’t posted since like 2012 or something lol. I think I maybe used to be Erin2341? Anyway, if literally anyone from CS sees this and remembers that we roleplayed together, even if your name isn’t on the list above or I forgot a Max Ride A1, please send me a message. But if anyone from the above list is on here, and sees this, seriously, MESSAGE ME. (If you feel comfortable. It has been a long time.) Anyway. I MISS YOU. 

[ethrenisnotthehero]

Who is Ethren?

@hogwartsmystory is a self-insert fanfiction penned by a pedophile who tried to fake his own death in order to dodge responsibility. 

This blog is dedicated to exposing him for what he (and therefore Ethren Whitecross) truly is: a grown predator using the internet to harass someone he abused and exploited in order to validate his ego.

Callout

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Believing Survivors

Abusing Your Status

Justice for Survivors

Art Theft

What is Free Use?

Art Theft is Theft

FAQ

q: who is ethren? a: ethren is the self-insert version of a man named ren, who engaged in a relationship with a minor starting when she was 13.

q: how old was ren when he started dating the survivor? a: ren was 18; he claimed to be 21/22.

q: did he know how old she was? a: ren knew how old she was while they were dating. it’s unclear if he knew beforehand, but he continued the relationship despite knowing she was under the age of consent.

q: did the survivor lie about how old she was? a: she never lied to ren about her age. advanced scribes staff knew about her age and expressed disgust over their relationship, but never did anything to intervene or warn users.

q: how long did they date? a: from some time in 2013 to the end of 2017. they possibly dated until the first or second quarter of 2018, when ren admitted to his behavior and faking his death. jill was 17 when their relationship officially ended.

q: did ren know what he was doing? a: absolutely. he, in his own words, acknowledged that he “could get in a lot of trouble if people found out.” later, when staff expressed disgust and concern he blew them off by saying it “didn’t matter, because she’s the age of consent.” he claims to have worked with young children at the time. he even created a website to get around rules on mature content while recruiting users from sites made for children. COPPA was intentionally turned off on his website.

q: how many victims did he have? a: at least four survivors were sexually exploited, and potentially many more. an entire community was preyed upon emotionally. q: what is his fanfiction about? a: his fanfiction is based on his character from the game “harry potter: hogwarts mystery.” he uses this fanfiction to write his relationship with the survivor in a way that validates his actions, and based his version of the character merula snyde to keep her in his stories. q: who are you? a: just a dude being a pal. just a pal being a guy. helping my friend where i can. note: only genuine, good faith asks and support for the victim will be published. this isn’t an impartial blog and i have zero responsibility to entertain pedophile apologists. i couldn’t care less about what you have to say if you don’t believe survivors.

[ethrenisnotthehero]

Ask: Hopefully what's left of Ren and his supporters take advantage of the fact that you're not going to call him out anymore. I'm assuming you mean you hope they don't take advantage. No... I don't think they'll be able to show their faces period pretty soon here. And, there won't be anything for them to take advantage of. Ren is (hopefully) never going to live a day in peace from here on out. Like I said, this isn't a witch hunt, it's something that we're handling legally behind the scenes, too. I'm not going away any time soon. I hope that you find a better community in the next one.

[ethrenisnotthehero]

last post for today. patrick is everyone who still supports ren at this point.

also if you see this, please hydrate yourself. give yourself some love and hang tight. you deserve happiness and i hope you have a good night despite all the vileness of the world. do what makes you happy.

[ethrenisnotthehero]

also, as a follow up.

 to ren’s friends who are passive aggressively saying bullshit like “there’s two sides to every story” and “people believe everything without hearing anything else” and “but he told me [thing]”

motherfucker i’m not stupid! i just wrote a three part thesis on this pedophile’s crimes. do you really think i wouldn’t notice you didn’t read any of it???? don’t be in my dms pretending like you read any of my evidence. 

your ignorance precedes you.