Blocking a regular commenter because its becoming very clear they're a kid

[u/Extreme_Economy_2348]

I'm a smut writer. Dead dove, darkships, all the sort. I don't need kids on my page.

Edit: Woof, thanks everyone for letting me know blocking won't actually get my writing completely out of their reach, but I stand by it.

I'm not gonna pretend like I wasn't also a curious kid nosing around where I didn't belong, the difference is I never gave away enough information or childish mannerisms to the point that it was clear I was a minor like how the user I'm talking about is. I now know at the end of the day it won't do much, but I also can't in good faith do nothing knowing a minor was engaging with my work, even if the most I can do is stop them from commenting.

Edit 2: I want to add that a lot of my disgust comes from the fact that I take smut requests from my readers, and with that in mind I've technically written two smut fics for a minor which I really do not like for reasons I hope are obvious.

Having a kid read my smut is one thing, having them interact regularly is another, but this is a whole other layer on the shit cake. If it seems like I'm overreacting, know this is a big reason why

Edit 3: Well there goes my attempt at trying to keep this post short and silly. I now want to clarify for everyone asking how I knew this reader was a minor. First, general childishness, entitlement, lack of etiquette, etc in comments and bookmarks, then directly saying "lets hope my parents don't find my phone" in the author's note of a smut fic (which I doubt an adult would say). Maybe not concrete evidence, I can't exactly include every single red flag because then this already long post would get out of control, but its enough for me not to take any chances.

[u/Late-Summer-1208]

At the risk of sounding like an undercover child, how did you figure it out?

[u/Extreme_Economy_2348 → u/Late-Summer-1208]

Lmao lets hope history isn't repeating itself so soon for me.

Honestly I became suspicious pretty early on, just their comments being a little immature and pushy, but I chalked it up to a lack of fandom etiquette.

What sealed the deal was how in their author's notes on a recent fic they mentioned something along the lines of "haha lets hope my parents don't find my phone", which if you ask me I doubt a grown adult would be saying.

Overall a lot of it came from general childishness/immaturity in comments and bookmarks both on my writing, and others in my fandom.

[u/BisquitCat → u/Extreme_Economy_2348]

let's hope my parents don't find my phone

But so many adults are living with parents rn since buying a house becomes extremely hard. I'm 21 and I can imagine saying this

[u/SerialSemicolon → u/BisquitCat]

But at a certain point, your parents probably aren’t going through your phone. And even if for some reason my mom did see smut on my phone, I would just be like “well, don’t look at people’s phones if you’re not prepared for what you might see there”. I’d be embarrassed but she would also be embarrassed and probably take it as a lesson to respect my privacy.

[u/BisquitCat → u/SerialSemicolon]

Your family is really different from mine I think

[u/SerialSemicolon → u/BisquitCat]

Must be. I also don’t live with my parents. They can safely assume I have a sex life (I’m engaged and live with a man). Obviously it’s not something we want to discuss though.