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I’m confused. I’m re-reading House of Sky and Breath, and when Bryce says >!I love you!< to Hunt for the first time, the book says explicitly that she has never said that to a male before. But at the end of book one, I thought she said >!I love you when Hunt was dying, and then later he called her a coward and told her to come say it to his face.!< Did I miss something? Could such a big continuity error be possible?

I have fallen into Crescent City these last two weeks and I’m obsessed. I’ve been trying to get my husband to read. He was like, “Those books you read, with Hump Athalar.”

Hump Athalar.

That is all.

Sometimes the damage from my n-parents and insane family is so painful that I wish I could forget it all and begin again. I got married and had my kids five years ago…I just want to keep that and leave the rest behind.

I want to run away. I am still in contact with my n-mom because I pity her, but sometimes she is so cruel to me that I want to lay down and cease to exist.

I want to be the person I might have been if she hadn’t gaslit me for my entire life and made me doubt everything about my own personality and values. I don’t know who I am because the awful person she accuses me of being is so different from who I actually am. Still, the doubt remains.

Today’s blow up where she psych

He complains, he’s never satisfied, he uses weak arguments to support his whims. He’s a self-centered guy who begs to get his way. I could go on.

My mother has always been jealous of my good relationship with my in-laws, even though she hates Christmas and won’t make real plans. She ruins every holiday with her piss poor attitude and verbal abuse. I am very proud of my baking and it brings me joy—-I made two cheesecakes, one for our family, and one for my in-laws. Mom doesn’t come by to help watch kids, make memories, etc. She did stop by long enough to stick her thumb in the cheesecake that I’m supposed to take to my in-law’s tomorrow. She then made fun of me when it made me cry. This is part of a long list of just absolute cruelty I’ve been subjected to this month. (And most of my life, honestly.)

Just need someone else to see this and commiserate with me.

1.) My little brother died unexpectedly. My student knew this. 2.) All grades are current. 3.) We’ve been doing presentations for two weeks, with lots and lots of help. Plus recordings of me giving instructions, tips, etc.

The Email:

“are you going to grade anything? and we needed you on zoom to help with the presentation you gave us a 0 on with no help”

If I didn’t need the money and health insurance, I’d resign. I’m sick of working in a profession where the admin, parents, and students dehumanize me daily.

Clearly, this show is designed to brainwash children into viewing Russia as a gorgeous, peaceful country filled with abundant food, lush forests, and hopeful, rosy-cheeked toddlers. (With the ultimate goal of converting free children to Communism, of course.)

(Can’t take credit for this one, my mother actually said this after babysitting.)

Got long email from the mom of a student who plagiarized their entire research paper. The sections that aren’t exact copy/paste matches from easily Google-able sites are fully AI generated. I have checked on three different plagiarism detectors. The parent is arguing that their student is just so talented at writing that the system only thinks it was done by AI. And the paragraphs that are exact copies from websites? “I would hate to tell my child to have to dumb down their writing style so that they aren’t accused of plagiarism.”

Lady, seek professional help, but not from me.

My 3.5 quart signature sauteuse arrives today! What should I cook in it? I'd like something decadent and special for Valentine's Day!

At the beginning of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, we see him say the magic words, Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse to make the Clubhouse materialize from the earth. His so-called “friends”—-Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Pluto, Goofy, Pete, etc. are already in the Clubhouse waiting for him to speak the Clubhouse into existence. Once he starts to play, Mickey is obviously the center of their lives. He’s the ringleader and hero of almost every plot, the savior in nearly every story—the stories that he creates himself.

When he’s done and his drooling sycophants sing the Hot Dog Song, he puts the Clubhouse back into the earth.

All those characters only exist at Mickey’s whim. What happens when the clubhouse is

I won’t bore ya’ll with the gory details, but long story short, my sibling and my narc mom did and said horrible things in front of my children on Thanksgiving. My spouse and I had to leave to get our kids to a safe, calm space. My mom followed us to my uncle’s house where she proceeded to scream at me in the driveway. For days afterwards, both of them sent me egregious, abusive texts. I’ve dealt with the narcissistic abuse for years, but now that I have kids, I am setting boundaries and standing up for myself. I refuse to let my children think that my family’s behavior is normal or okay.

So anyway, after a few weeks of their awful texts (I never responded apart from the phrase: Apologies

AITA for wanting to leave my family to go to law school? I’ve been helping my dad care for our family since I was a kid—total parentification. I even stayed close to home for college so I could keep supporting them financially. But now I’m exhausted. I got into law school in Chicago and want to start fresh, but my dad says he "needs me" to help him move into this run-down house he says he inherited. I just want to live my own life for once, but he’s acting like I’m the world’s biggest jerk for leaving. AITA?

Update: I told him that I would help them move, but then I'm done. He's got to respect my boundaries.

Update: The new house was in a cursed town and now no one can leave, even after t

I am searching for my aunt, who is German. I know very little about her, I don't even have a name. Long story short, I don't speak to my father's side of the family because they are terrible people. However, my paternal grandfather was stationed in Germany with the American military in the 1960s and had an affair, resulting in a child. I can't go to them for any help in finding her, and I'm not even sure if she'd be interested in talking to her long-lost niece, but I have always been curious. How would I even begin to search for such a needle in a haystack? I don't know if his name is on her birth certificate, or how to search for such documents in Germany.

If know a woman whose father was