Receipts for Ryan @padawanryan and @textsfrombandom
Trigger warning: underage NSFW art, suggestive images, suggestive comments about a child, predatory behaviour, guilt-tripping, gaslighting, ableism
Intro:
This doc relates to Ryan, @padawanryan on all social media and also the owner of the @textsfrombandom Tumblr. For over a year he was a member of Kit @cherrythebomb’s Halloween Cult Discord server, where the vast majority of members are minors. Ryan is 29. He is also an ex-social worker. He progressed to being a server mod, where he had the power to enforce the server rules. Ryan was manipulative, using his mental health to gaslight other members and frequently being very intimidating and aggressive. All screenshots here are from the Discord unless otherwise stated, and the vast majority of the people he is interacting with are minors over a decade younger than him.
Ryan was kicked from the server after an argument with Kit. In October last year, a member of the server and a good friend to Kit and many other members, Scott @galavantist, took his own life. At the start of October this year, Kit posted in general chat saying that if anyone needed support, they were there for them, and that they understood that everyone was struggling. Their message was non-graphic and marked with a trigger warning. Ryan came into their DMs attacking them for posting about Scott in general chat, and called them deranged when they disagreed with him. Considering how Ryan has used his status as a former social worker to get control over minors before, he knows full well not to use this kind of language towards a grieving teenager.
After Ryan was kicked, another member of the server uncovered incest RPF and NSFW art of underage characters on his social media. This led to a member going over his previously-sent messages and finding suggestive photos and other messages- sent to a group of mostly minors- that are very uncomfortable knowing the other underage content he has posted. This combined with the events above should be enough for anyone to see that Ryan is dangerous and predatory, and not someone deserving of the large follower base of minors that he currently has.
Background:
Proof that Ryan was a social worker
Proof that Ryan has (adult) students
Sexual stuff:
Has been writing inc*st RPF since 2009, latest work in June 2019 (when he was in the server) (strong TW for the link)
Boasted about his inc*st RPF on his Tumblr very recently
Has posted NSFW drawings of underage characters. In this example the characters are anywhere from 10-12, in this one they are 14 and 15, in this one they are 16.
Suggestive images posted on the Discord to an audience of mostly minors (there were adult channels he could have put these in)
Ryan bringing up slash RPF unprompted and in general chat
Ryan making an inappropriate comment about Gerard Way’s 9-year-old daughter
Ryan discussing with minors how normal it is to have crushes on people significantly older than you (he also mentions his age specifically further up)
Manipulation/aggression:
There are many examples of Ryan using veiled threats about his own mental health to scare other server members into backing down. These are just “highlights” of a much larger set of receipts.
Ryan calling Kit deranged after attacking them for vaguely mentioning the death of their friend- with a TW- in general chat. It wasn’t a vent or graphic, it was an offer of support to others. Ryan’s public reply was to post a link to his TikTok, before sending these abusive and ableist messages to a grieving teenager.
Ryan using his mental health to guilt-trip server members
Other:
Ryan talking about grieving for his father and being kind a couple of months before being ableist and insensitive to grieving children
Ryan’s answer to a survey about the server- email addresses were not collected but based on the way it was written and the answers, it’s him. Clearly he wants to be able to stay in the server beyond his upcoming 30th birthday and be in a position of power over children as young as possible. He uses his social work degree as leverage here.