Full Question: Are you open to just about everyone to become a mutual/friend if they wished to or not? Overall curious if you're fine with random people requesting to be your friend depending on how they act/are.

I'm going to take a leap here and assume you mean online. Yeah, pretty much. I can't always be there to form deep connections. There have been people that I've talked to online and after a while they fall to the bottom of my notifications etc and I sort of forget to talk. I do have friends though. WhiteRed is probably my closest online friend. I talk to him the most.

My of my online friendships have been me helping other writers and just talking about stuff. I'm not sure if they're ok with me name dropping so I'll leave it with that.

(Prepare for a small rant. I normally wouldn't do this but I think people need to know.)

I do take into account people's behaviour though. There is one person I have recently... disagreed with. They came up to me asking for a request and I accepted. I was happy to write it and had no issues with the guy. Sure, he was slightly pressuring with daily check-ups to see how the writing is going but I was willing to tolerate it with no complaints.

I was then talking about this request I have gotten with WhiteRed and he said he got the exact same request from this guy. He said he wasn't comfortable writing this request because of the angst and meaningless major character death. This is a completely understandable and reasonable excuse. He respectfully told the man this and what did he do? He told my friend to "go **** himself", that his stories sucked and then blocked him. If a grown ass twenty-seven year old man reacts so childishly to having being told 'no' was ludicrous.

Unsurprisingly, I was shocked and annoyed. I trust WhiteRed and I know he wouldn't lie to me. So, I broke it off with this guy as soon as I could. I told him why I couldn't write for him anymore, I told him he should learn to treat people with more respect and grow up because it is shameful when a teenage girl has more decency and respect then a man almost in his thirties. Because I was extra upset, at the end I added a snarky "so I will put this in terms you understand: go **** yourself." Was it wrong? Yes. Do I regret it? Nope.

I think that was the first time I said something like that on the internet because I am not putting up with that stuff. Might be weird to you guys because I've called myself nice but I don't put up with that ****.

I blocked him on ff.net and muted him on Wattpad. He went around to all my ff.net stories and posted hate comments saying "your writing skills suck you lying, scamming *****" "you and your fanfics will suck you scamming and cheating *****" etc (with an emoji that stuck up a certain finger). I deleted the ones he did with guest accounts and reported the rest. I'm not sure if he has said anything on Wattpad because I can't see any of it. He went around to my ao3 account and posted the same thing there. I didn't remove it (you'll know why soon...) and instead reminded him I didn't write for him because of this behavior. He posted a second comment the next day saying the same thing but someone got to it first and stood up for me. I didn't know this person. The ao3 community is so nice and don't stand for stuff like that. He hasn't said anything since then.

I have warned other PIB writers about this person to avoid being pulled into that toxic wasteland. Please be kind on the internet. There is no point being an asshole. Everyone deserves respect. I am not saying I was in the complete right here. I evoked a response from him with my snarky comment when I should have shut my mouth. I am not going to paint myself as being an angel. You deserve to know the truth even if it "taints" my image.