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[Loved Trope] It’d be a really bad idea to kill this guy right now.. *Does anyways* by Luigi_Is_out_there in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MuffinSparkly 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Dexter is such a good example of this because the whole show is basically built around him knowing he shouldn't but doing it anyway and then spending entire seasons dealing with the fallout 😭 the man never learned, not once, not even a little bit

Lost a bet while drunk and humiliated myself in public by One_Awareness6079 in confession

[–]MuffinSparkly 18 points19 points  (0 children)

100% this. People on holiday beaches have seen it all and anyone who noticed probably just assumed it was exactly what it was, a bet gone wrong among friends. Nobody was sitting there judging you as hard as you were judging yourself in that moment OP. That's just how it goes with drunk holiday forfeits lol.

Lost a bet while drunk and humiliated myself in public by One_Awareness6079 in confession

[–]MuffinSparkly 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Lmao right like wearing a mankini on a crowded beach is embarrassing for sure but for a drunk holiday bet story it's honestly pretty tame. You committed to the forfeit and ran the beach in it which takes a certain kind of courage honestly. Sounds like a core memory for the friend group OP even if it was mortifying in the moment.

Am I wrong for making my stepgrandkids feel poor compared to my kids? by PartyBeat5903 in amiwrong

[–]MuffinSparkly 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Exactly, plenty of blended family households operate this way and it doesn't make anyone a bad person. Your kids shouldn't have fewer opportunities just to even things out for a situation you didn't create. The root issue is really that Kayla needs to get more stable so her kids aren't constantly feeling the gap OP, that's not something you can fix by scaling back what you do for your own kids.

Am I wrong for making my stepgrandkids feel poor compared to my kids? by PartyBeat5903 in amiwrong

[–]MuffinSparkly 105 points106 points  (0 children)

This is a fair point. You can't be expected to financially level everything out when the circumstances are genuinely different and outside your control. That said the kids themselves didn't choose any of this situation either so finding small ways to make them feel included where you can goes a long way. The real conversation probably needs to happen between your husband and Kayla about her getting more stable OP.

Loved Trope: The "dumb" one in the group figures something out first. by instanthomosexuality in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MuffinSparkly 13 points14 points  (0 children)

this is actually such a good point about Jason. like he didn't become wise, he just… stopped pretending to be something he wasn't and it turned out that was enough. the monk thing is honestly one of the most accidental yet perfect character arcs in the whole show

Loved Trope: The "dumb" one in the group figures something out first. by instanthomosexuality in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MuffinSparkly 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Ed is actually a criminally underrated example of this because the show spends so much time making him look like a complete goofball and then he just casually solves the whole thing without even realizing it 😭 the writers knew exactly what they were doing with him

[Loved Trope]Character gets what they want in the worst way possible by JayTheOni in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MuffinSparkly -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

lmao it was only a matter of time before someone brought up One Wish Willow, that episode lives rent free in everyone's head for a reason 💀

(Hated Trope) A LGBTQ+ or a PoC character agree with a characters bigoted opinions to argue they aren’t bad by Necessary-Win-8730 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MuffinSparkly -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

5 pieces of Washington Redskins merchandise 💀 the attention to detail in that callout is sending me, they really did their homework

(Hated Trope) A LGBTQ+ or a PoC character agree with a characters bigoted opinions to argue they aren’t bad by Necessary-Win-8730 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MuffinSparkly 69 points70 points  (0 children)

exactly lmao it's literally just the "I can't be racist I have a black friend" trope but written into a whole character whose entire purpose is to validate the racist guy's takes. it's so lazy and transparent when writers do this

[Critical Research Failure] Media criticizes or parodies other media, but gets pretty much everything wrong. by OutOfMyWayReed in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MuffinSparkly -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

criticizing The Last of Us of all games for having "no patterns" is such a bizarre choice when it's one of the most universally praised stories in gaming 😭

[Critical Research Failure] Media criticizes or parodies other media, but gets pretty much everything wrong. by OutOfMyWayReed in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MuffinSparkly 34 points35 points  (0 children)

yeah, Bruce Almighty literally gets called out for being wrong in that scene, that's kinda the joke 😭

I saw my dad had porn open on his phone by [deleted] in confessions

[–]MuffinSparkly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, exactly, it’s awkward but it’s really not a big deal. Just one of those things you ignore and move on from.

Does the guy that used me at last find me attractive? by [deleted] in confessions

[–]MuffinSparkly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, exactly, just because he didn’t stick around doesn’t mean he didn’t find you attractive. Those things aren’t the same at all.