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I (40m) have two wives, “Harriet” (35f) and “Priscilla” (30f). (This is legal in my country.) Priscilla and I have ten kids together (12m, 10f, 10m, 9m, 7m, 7m, 4f, 4m, 4m, 2f), but Harriet is infertile. Every year we all go on a trip to visit my hometown for the holidays, and I always go out and get this one special meal. I portion it out to the family when I get home.

This year, I gave Harriet her portion and then handed a much bigger bag to Priscilla. I could see Harriet starting to get upset, and she asked me why Priscilla got so much more food than she did. I calmly explained that Priscilla got all the kids’ food, too, so she could prepare plates for them, and Harriet complained this w

THINK ABOUT IT:

• virtually every time a child is born, one of their parents dies
• everyone has an enormous house with tons of empty rooms that their in-laws want to live in
• [firstborn male] children inherit houses and fortunes, passing over their mothers entirely
• MIL comes in and out of the house whenever she pleases
• lots of perfectly-written zingers and monologues
• sneaky gay hitting on straight people
• Golden child vs plucky unloved daughter
• Wow That Adoption Scheme Sounds Illegal (except in 1924)
• Wow Those Work Hours Sound Ridiculous (except in 1924)
• Wow That’s Not How A Police Investigation/Trial works (except… no this one’s still bad)
• single parents with jobs still

I would be really interested in reading any books set in the Regency(ish) era that feature Irish characters or discussion of the Irish home rule movement. I haven’t come across any except for the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman series by Pamela Aidan (which has a distinctly anti-Irish bent, not entirely surprising given that Darcy has strong Tory vibes…).

I’ve read all of Jane Austen’s books and a fair number of spin-offs and adaptations and cheesy Regency romances, and that’s the general vibe I’m especially looking for—balls and rich snobs and drawing room gossip, but also some characters are secretly plotting revolution or writing incendiary pamphlets and maybe the pistols come out at the bo

I (27F) have on five different occasions found myself commenting about something posted on "AO3" (the fanfiction website, for those of you who don't know) when I really mean "AITA" (the popular subreddit). For a little background info, I often accidentally swap words that begin with the same letter, going back to my childhood, and based on this reason a number of TikTok videos have diagnosed me with ADHD. I think the fact that AITA and AO3 contain roughly the same amount of fanfiction also contributes to my repeated typo.

Full disclosure, I don't think I'm the asshole, nothing anyone says will ever make me think I'm the asshole, and no one has actually called me the asshole, but I do brac

I've been knitting for over a decade now, and for the last ~two years I've picked up sewing and embroidery in part because I'm trying to reduce waste by repairing clothes. And as part of that, I've felt too guilty to throw away the little bits of odds and ends I have finishing a project! I've been saving small scraps of yarn, thread, and fabric for over a year now and my original container is starting to get full, so I figure it was time to either use my orts or at least have a plan.

I've seen a lot of people online using their orts in art projects (frames, ornaments) or as stuffing for pincushins and stuffed animals, but the former isn't really my style, and I don't think I'm skilled en

There was a book I read as a child in the early 00s that was full of fairy tales, but I remember it had some unusual ones I hadn't read before, aside from the usual Disney fodder--Puss in Boots (before Shrek!) and the Twelve Dancing Princesses and a bunch more. It was a large hardcover book, and the cover was mostly blue with a sort of faux-filigree border. I believe the cover featured the emperor from the Emperor's New Clothes strutting down the street (actually naked except for the crown), but I could be misremembering and that might just be the first story in the collection, rather than the cover illustration. There were a lot of illustrations throughout, in a more realistic (not-cartoo

One of the things I always dread about decluttering is the fact that I'm an inconsistent crafter, so I have a lot of knitting and embroidery projects that I really do intend to finish some day, but in the meantime they do give me a bit of guilt. But I've noticed one category that's easier for me in that respect, and that's clothes that need to be mended!

For New Year's 2020, my goal was to learn how to do some basic sewing to repair my own clothes, and to go on a yearlong "fast fashion fast"--I didn't buy any new clothing, just a few secondhand items. I had done some half-hearted decluttering of my things around that time, but I just restarted a few days ago, and found that in general clo

There was one song from one artist that my best friend and I listened to all the time in the mid/late aughts, and I can't remember how it goes but I remember the music video--it was like a sepia-toned video of a packed house party. The lead singer had BIG Sonic-the-Hedgehog-esque hair, even for an emo band in the 00s, with blonde highlights. The language was either Japanese or German (I know, weird ones to get mixed up--if it was German, the title might have been Nacht or something simialr?), might have been screamo, and I know there was also an English version of the video, performed by the band, but we both agreed the non-English one was way better.

I know it's not much to go on but I'm o

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This is a children's book I read in elementary school in the early 00s. I was telling a friend about it and she wanted to read it, but the subject matter makes it so difficult to plug into an internet search!

It's a nonfiction picture book about illustrating as a career. There were two main characters---iirc a Black man and a blonde white woman--who are both illustrating books about Jack and the Beanstalk. One is just an illustrator, the other is also the author. One of them decides to retell it as "Jill and the Beanstalk."

The book has a lot of panels showing how they make the initial sketches and then refine them, and at the end, the two characters meet--I think it turns out th

Solved! Thanks u/TinyFeisty1!

This was a picture book I read as a kid, published before 2000. My memory of the plot is a bit fuzzy, but I think it's about the farmer waking up late and having to rush through feeding all of the animals, and it ends with him sitting down to his own breakfast.

The detail I remember most clearly is that a couple of times his wife calls him, and his name is Albert--that was my grandfather's name, so it stuck with me better!

I (23M) recently went out to a bar with a group of friends (this is permitted in my area so no one is allowed to criticize me!), one of whom (24F) has always been kind of overweight. By which I mean the table we were sitting at could barely support her, and she also has trouble with dating like all pathetic fat people, you know? I’ve always kind of suspected she had a crush on me and this conversation we had confirmed it.

Her: Would you ever date a fat woman? Me: I don’t date women, so not really. (Edit for clarification: yes, I’m gay! Sorry, didn’t think it was relevant to mention) Her: But if you met a girl who looked like me and was nice and funny and smart like me, do you think you woul

I had a picture book when I was a kid that I absolutely adored, and I remember so many details about it but OF COURSE not the title:

• the illustrations were all Marc Chagall-inspired and it was set in an unnamed village in Eastern Europe
• there was a recurring phrase that went something like "words once spoken are like little dybbuks--they run around, causing all kinds of mischief"
• it was about a girl whose father bragged about how good she was at sewing, cooking, and making silver goods, and he was in debt to a rich man who kept cheating so she couldn't erase the debt. (things like telling her to cook a full meal but giving her only a piece of cheese, a cup of milk, and no firewood.) b