#cw: reddit

[cleolinda]

AITA for banning my husband and father in law from the delivery room due to their intensely stressful/creepy behavior during my pregnancy?

There’s a famous Reddit post from 2020 where a pregnant woman wrote that her husband and father-in-law were a little too comfortable with their certainty that she was absolutely going to die in childbirth just like her husband’s late mother. It was to the point where her FIL was insisting that she go ahead and put all her clothes into storage, because she was obviously going to die in the hospital and it would save them the grief of packing up her things afterwards. Like. It was WILD.

When I tell my husband [that she feels suspicious of her FIL], he calls me paranoid, but I feel like my FIL WANTS me to die; his whole life identity for the past 35 years has been “amazing single dad” (never dated or had close friends or even hobbies really), and it seems like he’s looking forward to being able to guide my husband through what he went through. At this point, I’d honestly be happy to never see my FIL again, and I certainly don’t want him in the delivery room, especially since he told me he was “putting [his] foot down” about me not being “allowed” to have an epidural…. My husband, in addition to backing his dad on everything, acts like my due date is my death date, and has completely pulled away from me.

The commenters (and me, honestly) were convinced that the husband and FIL were either going to kill her outright to fulfill this expectation, or just make decisions about her care that might conveniently let her die.

And then she never posted again.

Over the last four years, people have frequently mentioned that post, always leading to a thread of people saying, “Oh god, I still worry about that woman.” I did too. It became one of those famous unresolved posts that people always wondered about.

Until yesterday, when someone on r/BestOfRedditorUpdates dug up a 2022 update she had posted on a different account:

TLDR; I had a beautiful and healthy baby girl, and I divorced my ex-husband. I lived, obviously.

She writes that she put her foot down about having her own mother in the delivery room rather than her FIL (!), and she WOULD be getting an epidural. Her husband lost his shit. And in his outburst, he let slip--

I admittedly lost my temper, and told him that I wasn’t going to die- it wasn’t my fault his father’s trauma wormed it’s way into his head, and that he needed to fix it without taking it out on me. He yelled at me that he didn’t need therapy. That caught me a little off guard; I asked him why he went to his therapist and was given advice about my death if he felt he didn’t need it. His expression gave it away, and he caved not long after. It turns out there was no therapist. It was just his dad. During the times he was supposed to be at therapy, he was with his dad. I’m still fuming.

And that was when she got the fuck out.

I’ll wrap this up- I’ve got an adorable little toddler tugging at my leg atm. I’m alive, I’m happy, and I’ve got my baby in my arms. Life is good.

I truly never thought we'd see a resolution to this, and I feel like there's probably a good number of people who remember it, so I thought you might want to know.

ETA: Brilliantly, I put the link in at the top; here it is again for convenience.

[clowngirlhairball]

i hate being active on reddit so much, like i put one comment comparing the spanish flag without the symbol to the face of a person without eyebrows and like half an hour later i look at it and it's filled with notifications that are like "congratulations!!!! your comment has earned you ten billion trillion loser points™" like is this supposed to encourage me???? at least on here i can see who it is so i can go "oh it's you hello!!!! :DDDD", go to their blog, and spam them with reblogs

[natandacat]

Bonus:

Bonus 2:

[theangryman]

One person was banned almost immediately.

The other person was not banned until they made another post revealing that they were posting videos of their partner.

One person was harassed and bullied and told that they were lying.

One person was given advice, told about how they could improve their situation.

This is why kink is not safe. There is more compassion and kindness for someone who admits to wanting to kick their partner in the face than there is for someone who has received that treatment.

[surelysilly]

something something i like wearing my mother's shoes

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Just a compilation of my favourite moments from Courtney’s crash out in the most recent Reddit stories (+ occasional commentary)

[minsu-the-cowardly-human]

15+ or so? It mentions sex but nothing explicit

Anyways decided to do another edit thingy

[gomzdrawfr]

cw: MPREG, male pregnancy

Commander and his weird cravings

[kingtheghast]

woah crazy story

(text version below)

AITA for killing my boss even though he asked (before anyone comes for me he’s fine now)

so i (33M, green) got hired by this guy (45M, green now red) running an enchanting business because i accidentally used his things when i saw his stuff laying around as he was still working on his shop. i was just in it to sort of repay the service i used but then we became friends. thing is he also had these really sketchy guys from the desert that wanted to undercut him hard by taking over the business and all his enchants, and they would keep perstering him about it, breaking and entering, etc etc (my boss wasn't the type of guy to stick up for himself very much so it kind of happened a lot).

but the big thing was when they planted a bomb at the entrance to the building where the shop was. this pissed my boss off a lot because they made him go from green to yellow, and he said he had a plan, but he wouldn't tell me what it was.

and then one day he comes out with a really nice axe that he gifts me (i thought it was cool) but then it turns out he'd basically built a sacrificial altar in the patio outside the shop (not cool). then he turns to me, and asks me to kill him. i didn't want to do it because i'm green and he's yellow but he's also my boss and im supposed to listen, and then he's also my friend so i decided to trust him on this and so i just went along and cut off his head.

and now EVERY friend of my boss is blowing up my messages asking why i did that. i tried to say that i had no choice because he literally told me to do it and he's just on red now, not permadead, but nobody wants to believe me and i think there's someone already coming over. they're my boss' friends but also if they try to get at me i will fight back. but also it would make my boss upset and he trusts me a lot. i feel bad for killing my boss but he told me to do it so i don't think it's wrong?

aita?

[kari-izumi]

Oh wow, like clockwork ☠️

I got three sentences in before I just noped outta that

(not safe for brain)

"Big bear man" was absolutely A Choice™ to use about a Native American character, just wow

Interesting how with all of the Star Trek ships, both fanon and canon, with various levels of actual romance versus terrible writing, the pairings that I by far most often see people say "Get away from her! Stop being creepy!" are j/c and gwyndal. Wonder what those ships have in common. Surely it's not just that they're played by men of color and white women

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

Illness

I decided to draw one of my favorite bits of text in the game: this oddly eerie airs text <3

[queenoftheimps]

Reactions to the two brothers on The White Lotus:

Twitter: eww wtf is happening Jesus Christ

Professional media recaps: we’re just gonna skim past this real fast because we don’t want to get screwed by the algorithm

Reddit: here is why the incest is not actually about incest and also 18 year olds should not legally be allowed to have sex anyway

Tumblr: KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS

[theangryman]

Remember, the most important thing when seeking help for your sexual assault is that people can’t *like* the way you were sexually assaulted.

[cartoonscientist]

this is about keto but it reads like someone giving advice to an obligate carnivore ghoul who is married to a human

[aibapostingzone]

Drawing a cursed Aiba everyday until AI:NS comes out.

Day 31: Snooba

31/64