#am I the asshole

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for telling my friend to dump his girlfriend?

I have a friend who loves playing with me, but recently his girlfriend told him to leave me because I might be more his type that she is. She even threatened to run me over, can you believe it?

So I used my telepathic powers to tell him to leave the girl because we don't need her, and that he should come play with me instead. l might have gone a bit overboard, claiming that he needs me and his free will is an illusion, but I still don't think I'm 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.

[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?

[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

[amithedevil]

OP really buried the lede with this one

[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.

[can-i-explode-now]

WIBTA if I didn't go to my (would-be) brother-in-law's wedding?

So, my partner and his twin brother have a very complicated history. My partner (I'll call him X) was older, and he was always under pressure from their parents, while his brother (I'll call him S) wasn't. (Reasons are complicated, and I couldn't explain without revealing too much.) There was also the prophecy. Something about two twin gods and their reincarnations and there was a Bad One and a Good One, I'm not entirely sure, I don't really remember it, but I do know that one of them had to kill the other, and who killed who would determine the fate of the world or something like that.

Anyways, X found out very quickly he was The Bad One, and that led to a lot of self-worth issues, (I'm not gonna get into it or this post would be way too long,) and eventually he ran away from home. At some point not too long after that, he met me. He told me about everything abovementioned, and I decided to help him. Roughly two years after that, S killed him. The last time I saw him in person, he was saying how he didn't want to do it, and stuff like that. I do believe him, and we're (mostly) on good terms before anyone mentions that.

Now, S is getting married. The few people who are still my friends after I sided with X are saying I should go to the wedding, but I really don't want to. Seeing him just makes me think of X, since they were more or less identical, and it would feel weird going to his wedding when I have no real relationship to him besides his dead brother's partner. (I don't know his fiancé at all, I only saw him once the day X died, and never again.)

TLDR; my dead partner's twin brother is getting married and I don't want to go to the wedding because he reminds me of my partner. WIBTA if I skipped?

[solsticethesunwitch]

i need someone to draw this for me asap.

[babykinkyhotfck]

[broadwaybalogna]

[Zutara AITA post because it sounds so funny to me]

AITA for getting shot by lightning?

So I (17M) and a group of friends (13M Aang), (13F Toph), (17M Sokka), and (15F Katara) went to war against my tyrannical father in order to save the world from dictatorship. We split into three groups and Katara and I were sent to fight my somewhat tyrannical sister. She challenged me to an Agni Kai which resulted in her throwing lightning at Katara. When I noticed, without thinking, I jumped in front of it to save her. Long story short, I almost died but Katara beat my sister and healed me👍. After Aang beat my father and took away his bending for good, I guess he kind of assumed Katara would date him? Anyways, I guess I cast some sort of love spell (?) when I risked my life to save hers without thinking and she said that she liked me and not him in front of our whole friend group. So he got a little pissed and upset because she was supposed to be his “forever girl” (if someone could let me know what that means too that would be great) and then got pissed at me and said I forced her to fall for me. I was just trying to save her life. Now I feel kind of bad because I took away the romance I guess they had. I mean, I’ll admit that I like her too but I never tried to push it on her! Can someone help me understand this mess? Am I the asshole?

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for not being 100% rational at all times?

I, a female character in a stressful situation, acted irrationally and now people are saying im a horrible person for this.

AITA?

[zombiechoir]

Question, cause I wanna know if I'm the asshole.

On Ao3, if someone kinda spams your comment section with "please update the story". And ask you "can you please put this and this in your story. And can you please not put 'character' in a romantic relationship. And if you are, can you ship them with a male character and name him 'blahblah'?"

IS THAT FUCKING RUDE OR IS IT ME?

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for lying to my dog about food being 'spicy?'

A while back I taught my dog what spicy foods are (by letting her sniff them and saying "Uh oh! Spicy!") and she figured out that it means it'll smell/taste bad and she immediately loses interest. It was initially an accident but it became really handy in getting her to leave food alone if it might hurt her.

Recently though I've started saying "Uh oh! Spicy!" about any food I don't want her to eat. If she's sitting and staring at me eating a regular non-spicy snack and I don't want to share, I'll tell her it's spicy so she'll stop begging for it. She believes me 100% of the time. She does have a 'leave it' command that she obeys as well, but she always acts so sad whenever I tell her to 'leave it' and it's something she wants.

I feel a little bad because she's an older dog (10y/o) and maybe I SHOULD be sharing my snacks with her, but sometimes a man's gotta enjoy his food in peace without a little creature gazing longingly at him the entire time and crying like the world's soggiest beast.

Included is a picture of her making her very best begging face so that everyone can accurately judge how evil I am for lying to her.

What are these acronyms?

[purplepeptobismol]

Am I the asshole for k*lling myself in front of the past version of my father?

I (14M) accidentally went back in time and killed myself in front of the teenage version of my father (17M). Now, I know this sounds crazy, but there is a valid reason for why I did it. For one, I am cursed with immortality and cannot die. I also recently found out that the curse was inherited by my father (yes, he also has immortality).

I know you may be asking “Hey, why did you go back in time in the first place?” Well, I was tasked with a very important mission (which I won’t get into at the moment), but unfortunately, the Time Machine ended up sending me too far back. I’ve been trying so hard to figure out how to get back to my original timeline, I even broke into an abandoned lab to see if I could find anything useful. But nothing has worked!

The only other option I had was to get help from the very scientists who created the machine in the first place. Which is— you guessed it, MY FATHER!

Unfortunately, my father wasn’t a famous, genius scientist in this timeline, he’s actually still a teenager here! He doesn’t even know anything about advanced astrophysics for god’s sake!!! Still, I went to him and knocked on his door in hopes he would at least believe I’m his son, and could even assist me in some way (there’s gotta be something useful in that brain of his).

As it turned out, he didn’t believe me. He thought it was all a prank from one of his friends who always messed with him. Of course, I kept trying and trying, even told him things only family members would know. But still— nothing.

Then, I got struck by an idea: “My dad has the same curse of immortality as me... and even when we die, no one in the world remembers. Only us two.” So as a final attempt to convince him I’m his future son, I grabbed a sharp piece of glass and slit my throat.

Now, I know that was very extreme of me, but it was the only thing I could think of! There isn’t really a gentle way of dying. And yeah, it probably traumatized him (from what I could tell), but it doesn’t matter. I can come back to life! Good as new. But was there another way, or anything else I could’ve said or done to convince him I am his future son? Am I the asshole?

Update: the stunt worked and he now fully believes that I'm his son from the future! Everyone who downvoted me, suck my balls.

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[This prompt is inspired by the first chapter of my Bunny fic ‘I Will Make of You’ in the POV of a certain someone.]

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