I really do my best to, as the French say, m’occuper de mes oignons. Every week is a good week to stay hydrated and mind my own business.
But then the algorithms shove these AITA posts with clickbaity titles at me and I can’t help checking them out.
AITA stands for Am I the Asshole? On social media, people ask AITA when sharing personal disputes in which they are unsure whether they’ve acted they like an asshole—that is, been mean, selfish, or wrong in some way. Other people then offer their opinion on that person’s behavior. AITA was popularized by and is widely used in reference to r/AmITheAsshole, a Reddit forum dedicated to this activity.
If only they were book-themed AITAs… (All events depicted aren’t canon, just funsies! Horde funsies! It’s not canon until it’s in a book or House Andrews say so.)
AITA for letting my boss lose sleep and money over me?
My boss (Male/ Kinsman/ 35ish/ Bionet Fire Beast) doesn’t know I (Female/ Psycher/ 30/ Bionet Silver Shark) was the one he met during an attack on the Security Forces Database.
I had to hack it to pay back a life debt I owed someone, but I want to make it clear I at no point posed a threat to any of the governmental, financial or any other type of valuable data. I was just getting a child out of deportation/possible fatal danger over an insignificant school incident.
AITA for letting my boss spend a sleepless week and a fortune on reinforcing spiral cell protections instead of revealing the Grade A battle-trained psycher he’s looking for is right outside his office? I’m afraid he’ll find out it’s me and then kill me. Or want to marry me. Did I mention he’s super-hot and I’m totally emotionally compromised around him?
AITA for wanting to abandon my girlfriend in the forest?
I (Male/ Otrokar / 27/ Gutripper/ Blood Drencher/ Bone Crusher) have bought my girlfriend’s (Female/Human genetics of some sort?/Unknown age) freedom from a bunch of homicidal trees.
We were both competitors in this Intergalactic Spouse competition, long story (good story). I got swept up by excitement and did this heroic gesture to save her from her delegation just as they were about to “consume her to recoup resources” because she stopped being useful to them.
I brought her home to Harra and things were great for a while, because I am a mighty hero and totally rescued her. But now she’s taken control of the Tribe of the Gar behind my (admittedly physically impressive muscular) back.
AITA if I try to return her to the trees on the sly? I tried to check with them and all they said was “KNOCK HISS HISS creeeeeak hisss hisss creeeeak Unessa knock”. I mean, that sounds harmless, right?
Right?
AITA for letting a pretty lady reach the wrong conclusion and not bothering to correct her?
I (Male/29/ Weird noble) am on a secret mission in this lawless place called the Edge to get a world-destroying device back from my evil uncle.
I’m camped on this gorgeous woman’s (Female/ 22/ Edger) lawn and she somehow got the impression I’m here to propose marriage. Your guess is as good as mine. She’s has these 2 adorable young brothers and I don’t want her to worry about me or the danger they’re all in, because she seems seriously overwhelmed. I will protect everyone anyway, that’s why I’m here.
I sort of played into her assumptions though, and now I’ve made an oath to fulfill 3 tasks and get her hand in marriage. AITA for not telling her why I’m really here?
Edit: It’s not a “lie”, no matter what you want to call it in the comments. Thanks everyone, I’m *actually* courting her now and taking everyone home to the Weird with me. Still haven’t technically told her everything yet, like the fact that the Duke and Duchess of the Southern Provinces are my parents. What’s life without surprises? My mom’s going to love her!
I am also a sucker for AITA. I was pretty much cured when the last one I read was about being late for a birthday dinner celebration. The comments were concerned about the fact that the (younger than me) hosts would might have to stay late being old and all that. 20 somethings. For the record someone in their 50s, otherwise healthy, can manage to stay up after dark now and then with no serious ripper cushions.
Anyway I’m hooked again #3 absolutely TA but we love you anyway.
LOL! So hilarious, Mod R! Thank you!
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Omg, those are funny! Thanks so much for the giggles!
I’d never encountered the AITA stuff before. What FUN! Keep up the good work and I hope everyone at House Andrews feels better.
Thank you Mod R for this wonderfully creative post. My cheeks ache from smiling at the deliciousness of the AITA’s and ensuing comments. 😆
AITA was new to me.
I suppose that Unessa has found her niche — just be in a group where everyone else is as well informed as she is. 😆
And yes, mod R, this is now canon, unless House Andrews explicitly refutes it. It is too good to not be canon.
George and Jack, adorable.
Snort.
Giggle! You should have done an AITA for accidentally turning an innocent girl’s pencils and shoelaces into snakes without explaining to her how to protect herself before I turned her hair into a viper? And I didn’t even apologize!
Mod R, your brilliance in keeping the BDH entertained and fluffy is very impressive and makes my day each and every time!
My brain is still stuck on “…. His Sexiness the Black Volhv” from the previous post and has not been able to process anything else since ….
Like the old technicolor TV messages used to say…. normal service will resume again soon (or likely when I get my hands on the new Sanctuary novel by House IA)
Until then, thank you Mod R for keeping us royally entertained while House IA gets their much needed rest.
omg i love this, i listen to rslash everyday. The crossover I didnt knew i needed but must re-read till my eyes fall out. hapinessss achieved
Now I have to go re-read Silver Shark again. Thanks a lot. 😉
OMG! The Edge and Kinsman! I love these two storylines!! Please, please add to either, both, more, more!
I am so addicted to AITA!…
ModR, this is GOLD!!! Love it!!
I just re-read Cassie Alexander’s fantasy/sci-fi book AITA:A Modern Fairy Tale and it starts with a Reddit style post. Very clever.
As for abandoning Unessa in the carnivorous forest, YTA. Please help her settle somewhere safe since you volunteered to take care of her.
OMG, still 😂🤣😂. That was FUNNY!
Sorry modr, you skipped the biggest “AITA”; Hugh, he has so much to offer.
Hugh needs his own subreddit 😀 . He would never ask whether he is the asshole, he would proclaim himself an asshole, and damned good at it hehe. Only, retired asshole now, he’s a gentleman of leisure.
Oh, I don’t know about being a retired one. I think he would really be one if his family was in danger. I think about the conversation between Julie and Hugh. We do not want Hugh back in Atlanta. Heaven and Nav help everyone if he ever does.
I. Love. These! More oh much, mucho, more. No proper sentences to be had, oh a happy, giggling high from AITA…Bwuhaha 🤪
Btw Mod R, there actually is a Fictional_AITA subreddit, it’s just not very active and leagues smaller than the AITA ones…
Funny post. Loved it.
I love this!! And can I put in a plug for the Innkeeper Graphic Audio series?!? I am looooovvviinnggg it so much!! I have read the books many times and the GA version is just something special!
I love it, too! I haven’t made the financial jump to the Kate books, but am listening to Innkeeper on repeat!
Make the Jump! I stumbled across the Innkeeper series, thought “Well let’s see what else she has written”, discovered/absorbed Kate, started to tell my son who then sent me the whole book list and informed me that I was seriously behind. Found the BDH & HA and now I am hooked on the graphic audio books (great to crochet by). MAKE THE JUMP !!!
Library loan?
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3) the main reason for why I never really liked The Edge series, it introduced the male lead in a way I really do not like, no matter the later behavior, it feels still wrong 😑
OMG Mod R you have combined two of my favourite guilty pleasures, r/AmITheAsshole and fanfic.
It’s right up there with Otter x Benedict Cumberpatch photos! Lol
I love the way your mind works 🙂
Love how your mind works, Moderator R! You’re the perfect companion to HA and the Horde is forever grateful…and LIAO
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Hilarious take Mod R and responders – and definitely joined the canon. None of us will ever be able to think of them again without giggling.
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I’m ROLLING!!! Fellow AITA addict/lurker, and these cracked me up! (Especially about Unessa taking over the Otrokar clan…)
Mod R, you are a brilliant woman – these are hilarious and perfect!!
I LOVE AITA posts!!! and the comments. and the drama. I delude myself that I’m learning good boundaries — because most of these scenarios involve that. Thanks for this funny post! You totally made my day!
I am not a fan of the new email subscription system, whether it’s a workaround or a new setup entirely. The prior one would email the entire blog post; this one only sends a partial blurb (evident in the last two emails). Hopefully this can be adjusted in the future somehow. I liked the simplicity of check email, read email.
Hi Ryl,
The newsletter was reset to send the entire post in the email- today’s newsletter should have showed you all 🙂 I’ll get in contact directly to check with you.
It worked fine for me; this posy showed up in its entirety. Thanks for the swift action.
That was all Ilona 🙂 ! Thank you everyone for your understanding through the newsletter settling process.
Love this so much! Now I feel like I need to reread everything AGAIN (oh, no, Brer Fox, don’t throw me in the briar patch!)
That was fun!
This was so fun! Thank you!
“Every week is a good week to stay hydrated and mind my own business” should be my new life motto. But I cannot resist the lure of AITA posts, and these were hilarious! Well done, Mod R!
1. YNTA you risked being discovered and killed. And he wasn’t in the state of mind to listen to you or think of you as nothing more that what his little mind accepted. Give him hell.
2. YTA you are no Otrokar. You are a sissy. Put on your big bad pant and control your female. Eat her yourself if you want her to be eaten. Send her to a tree to do your dirty work. Shameful.
3. YTA She didn’t think you wanted to propose. That implies agreement. She thought you wanted to buy yourself a Bride. No proposing involved.
Edit: Did you even tell her who you really are before you arrived? YTA
1. NTA. trauma sucks.
2. NTA, just an idiot.
3. NTA, but dude just pick somewhere else to camp while you save the world.
3. But pretty pretty lady! 😀
Made the mistake of reading this while waiting in the doc’s office with a scope in my nose (don’t ask). Thank you for making Friday even more awesome! Also, thank you for sharing the /rAmitheAsshole subredit rabbit hole.
🤣🤣🤣 Loved this Mod R! Also loved all the responses! Thanks for making my day!
Now I want to go back and re-read the series. ALL THE SERIESes (plural of series?) HAHAHA
Ha! Love it.
Very clever, Mod R!
Super fun! And why everyone of those were great reads!
Best post Mod R!
I always get sucked into r/AmITheAsshole. I manage to avoid it quite well these days.
This was delightful! And I LOled at the guy who wanted to return her to the trees!
hysterical! thank you!
The edge one made me cackle xD
Mod R, these are brilliant! Currently wearing my wrist brace from scrolling Reddit (AITA related subs-also, thanks algorithm.) You’ve captured them beautifully.
RE AITA BOOKS: No, yes, maybe.
AITA is my guilty pleasure read. I LOVE this, pls do more.
love this, and thank you. Do want to say if Hugh wrote one, he’d be surprised to be judged as nta….probably upset too, he claimed label himself, love him though
Omg LOVED this!! Thank you Mod R! 🥰
This makes me think:
* would I be the A* if I kidnap a girl then threaten her mother over pancakes and bacon?
* would I be the A* if I roared at my wife’s father?
I would totally be in on the sub-redit people have suggested above! 😂