#am I the asshole

[helpful-writing-tips]

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

[quasarkisses]

AITA for cutting off my dad

My (26nb) dad (62m) is a full-on Trumpie who worships the ground he walks on and after years of not being able to hold a conversation where he doesn't make some kind of political jab I finally said fuck it and cut him off.

Am I being unreasonable? Be brutally honest. My wife (27f) is a trans woman, I'm non-binary, we live in a rural red state and are active targets of the current administration. My wife strongly supports me blocking him everywhere.

My older brother supports me cutting him off for other abusive behaviors but has been critical of politics being the final straw. My younger sister is disgusted with our father but is unable to cut him off as she's currently living with him.

[tacomel420]

I have a new love and his name is Oswald Ozymandias

[gracelesstars]

why is this 100% Dean Winchester?? 😭

someone pls write a fic 🙏

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Okay. Am I the asshole if I call out my roommate's self-centered behavior? I live in a communal space, where everybody except C shares freely. C got a good job through connections and is able to spend freely on themselves, spending little on household items, groceries, etc. They say they're broke every month, but I've seen their takeout containers and amazon boxes, so maybe it's a spending problem. Worst of all, when we are low on food, C just disappears for a few hours and comes back instead of cooking with everyone.

I've told C that they're being selfish and they should start considering other people, but it goes in one ear and out the other. I offered to help budget but they don't listen! They barely spend more than $400 of their $2000 a month on groceries for the house; the rest goes to their lavish lifestyle while the rest of us suffer. I just want them to pay their fair share. AITA for asking them to be fair??

Including some more specific INFO from version 1 of this post (which wasn't postable due to being about emotions rather than actions):

What are these acronyms?

[prokopetz]

I think my favourite "am I the asshole" type discussions are the ones where, okay, yeah, what you claim you did sounds reasonable under the circumstances you've described, but those circumstances were so readily avoidable that I feel like we're not getting the full picture without knowing how it came to that in the first place. Like, in that situation I probably would have done the same thing, but what in the goddamn

[transfaguette]

aita is so funny the way people will be like “throwaway/anon cuz other person uses this website” and then just go on to describe hyper specific scenarios that would be unmistakable to the people involved.

[justsome-di]

what is going on in r/amitheasshole is this man okay

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for starting a successful business?

I found a great resource that I could use to make clothing products that everyone needs, so I did what comes naturally and started chopping down the trees and made lots of money. But this little orange guy doesn’t like me chopping down trees and becoming successful. He keeps trying to find ways to stop me because he “speaks for the trees” but that’s whackery because trees can’t consent! He’s preventing my innovation and my customers from purchasing. AITA? It’s him right. I’m just following my destiny. Capitalism wins baby! 😎 The American Dream to build factories, sell, sell, sell and expand until there’s nothing left to take from the land. I’m so rich and successful right now, ain’t no way that little orange guy should be stopping me. I mean, how bad can I possibly be?

[preposterousprophetess]

NO LITERALLY

Unironically, listening to Smosh Reads Reddit Stories has been SO helpful to understand how people rationalize their absolutely bonkers opinions, and to visualize how complex a relationship and conflict resolution can be.

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

[amithedevil]

OP really buried the lede with this one

[solsticethesunwitch]

i need someone to draw this for me asap.

[lmxpsuedonym]

AITA for trying to kill myself and killing my man’s girlfriend after my situationship didn’t pay enough attention to me?

I (M) recently drowned my situationship (also M) in a bathtub for a college assignment. After being resurrected through medical malpractice involving stolen EpiPens he suddenly had a religious episode and stopped paying attention to me. So logically, I found his girlfriend (F) who is also MY friend and convinced (read: gaslighted) her into tying me to a table and electrocuting me. This surprisingly did not go well and she died. My situationship then got mad and shot me 3 times, I think he was overreacting. AITA?

[incorrectbatfam]

So I (24F) just moved to Gotham and something kept knocking against my fire escape so I removed it entirely. Then last night I heard a yell and two minutes later Batman came knocking at the door asking if I could put it back because it's "obstructing justice" or whatever but I really don't wanna.

[eden-writes-stuff]

AITA - MARAUDERS EDITION

James: AITA for snogging my best friend's brother?

Remus: AITA for leavng my bf after he told my biggest secret to my bully?

Peter: AITA for betraying my friends?

Sirius: AITA for leaving my brother with my parents (I literally asked him to come)?

Regulus: AITA for snogging my brother's best friend? Also, AITA for joining the darkside as a spy?

Barty: AITA (ass pic)

Lily: AITA for having a boyfriend (I'm a lesbian)?

Mary: AITA for kissing Sirius and Remus while they were in a 'complicated' relationship with each other eventhough they didn't even fucking tell me they were together. Like siriously how is this my fault?

Marlene: [uses it all the time to prove she's right] AITA for being mad at my gf after she said I had no value?

Dorcas: AITA for telling my gf she has no 'nutritional value'