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Poor Joy and Austin. That's just so awful. Can't imagine their grief. I fear that probably the ultrasound was being filmed because who else takes that photo? (I can't imagine it being something you ASKED to have done in the spur of the moment by someone there with a camera phone but...hell, I don't get most of this curated Instagram life thing that is so much of the world today, so maybe you do now?) I think Lauren may have deleted her comment - I can't seem to find it while I can still see the comments from other friends and family. Would have loved to have read the comments on that one. What a dramatic little viper.

Ivy reminds me more of Henry, not sure why. But the ever-present bows/head wraps are driving me crazy. I have plenty of friends with infant girls right now and none of them are doing this. Is it because they (we) are ebul non-fundie types? Or just not trendy?

I just really really hope that this means Nurie gets to eat more regularly and without guilt.

What? No balloon?

Oxnard? I JUST found out my brother and his family are moving there - if that's where the Duggalos are ending up, I'm SO going to be keeping my eyeballs peeled when I go visit them there. 😉

I went into this episode fully ready to NOT enjoy it because I can't even with Miley Cyrus...she's exhausting and pervasive and I need a break from her the way I needed a break from Paris Hilton in the 'aughts. But I actually really enjoyed this one! And hey, her tongue stayed in her mouth ALMOST THE WHOLE EPISODE so I'm gonna chalk that up as a win on general principle.

I assumed she was holding onto the VR disc thingy - perhaps at his request - all year and he got access to it once a year for his birthday. No reason to keep the packaging it came in, so maybe she just kept it in a matchbox.

Okay, so the whole talking-to-someone-just-off-camera sitting there in a black turtleneck - that was SO Tom Cruise in the crazy $cientology video. That HAD to be deliberate. I could NOT not see it the whole time, so much so that it was distracting. I feel like Keifer just tweaked TC hard. LOL

So Jill, you loved your grandma and miss her and I fully respect that and feel sorry for your loss. But, pssst - your grandma was also the epitome of a God Botherer and if she'd come up to me with that shit, she'd have gotten an earful. Because there's believing in your God and going around demanding everyone else is going to hell if they don't believe in your God. And you can "believe" in your heart of hearts that it's because the only way to truth faith is to try to convert everyone to your version of believing, but you'd be the first ones in line bitching if someone who wasn't the "right" kind of Christian or - GASP!!! - not a Christian at all coming up to you and asking if you believe in THEIR God (and I guaran-damn-tee you they can cite the parts of THEIR holy book that insists they need to convert you as earnestly as you think you need to convert them in order to get into your/their version of the afterlife.)

Even with TLC makeup, Jessa looks more pale than usual to my eyes. Makes me feel the hemorrhaging scenario is likely. We KNOW Ivy was at the hospital after her birth, but not attached to the clearly visible IV, which means it was almost certainly Jessa (allowing for the possibility that Ivy had it and the pic was post-removal). We know labor was quick - purple baby is still bruised, sweet little thing - and she has a previous history of hemorrhaging. Maybe since the ambulance at the house gave away Spurgeon's "perfect home birth" scenario, they just tossed her into the car and drove there to keep it on the DL and control the narrative.

I think the whole bump cradle came from the celebrity photo culture. I feel like I first noticed it with Hollywood celebs doing the red carpet thing, and definitely doing it as they knew they would be photographed and didn't want the dress they were wearing to look like a tent. (aka "I'm not FAT, I'M PREGNANT! HONEST!!" and also because Hollywood pregnancy got super trendy as a gossip topic). I think it really trickled down from there and now everyone seems to have just subconsciously absorbed it - have a baby, cradle the bump.

Yeah, I think Tyrion's speech to Jaime was pretty clear that he wasn't about saving Cersei, he was about saving the city. And that he also knew that his actions would be likely to sign his own death warrant.

I agree that Dany hasn't had much of a support system - and most of what she had is dead - but Jon didn't betray her. She asked him to swear not tell his family about his origins. He said he couldn't swear that. He was upfront about that. I like both Dany and Jon (despite this episode trying its best to massacre both of them) but Jon's actions are not responsible for Dany's actions and he definitely didn't betray her since he told her all along - while continuing to swear his allegiance to her - that he couldn't keep a secret from his family.

I could maybe - MAYBE...probably not but MAYBE - come to grips with Dany's utter destruction of KL and the many economically enslaved and chained out of sheer fury despite this being against the character despite her rage and sorrow. But I CANNOT and WILL NOT EVER be okay with Cersei getting off with a roof falling on her. There's a whole line of people who deserved to end that evil monster and that not one of them got to do it directly pisses me off. The last scene between Tyrion and Jamie had me in tears.

And I totally SHOULD have been thinking about the Night King but while she was saying it, she was staring very wide-eyed and pointedly at Arya and I noticed her eyes were blue too and that made me just wonder "Why will Arya kill Mel?" and never even thought about the NK. So I was ALL excited when she appeared behind the NK!

Turning off the room lights worked perfectly for me. I could see every gorgeous second.without making any adjustments to my TV beforehand. That first 10 minutes of quiet, high-tension, beautifully shot episode? Some of the most perfect TV I've ever seen. I wanted to VOMIT I was so tense. Did Ghost die? Someone mentioned it but I don't remember seeing him after the initial line up.

Well if you read stuff in a library, you might actually be exposed to ideas different from your own, and we know THAT'S not okay in Duggar World.

Ah, I think you're right. Belt. He's so sloppy with the shirt I would never have thought it was belt based on where it was placed.

But wait though - what does Joe have stuffed down his pants? (No, not like THAT. Ew. There's some brownish flat thing tucked in his waistband that I can't figure out. His Bible? That doesn't seem like a particularly godly place to put it.)

Jill must be so proud - Izzy's becoming a snitch as a way to earn mommy and daddy's "love" just like she did back in the day.

This one hurt. Yeah, some randos I hadn't really gotten to know yet died but also characters who've been around a while and that hurt. Plus just the display of it...Alpha really needs a whole bunch of comeuppance. I think the pacing this season has been much improved from last season (plus, they seem to have finally learned less-is-SO-MUCH-MORE with Negan.) Until we saw the King actually at the movie late in the pike reveal, I was SURE he was the last one we were going to see on a pike. He went off with Alpha and then wasn't at the movie start. I was SURE they were going to go there and I was dreading it.

I realize it's cosmetology school, but does that mean you have to set the makeup brush to SPRAY GUN on your graduation day?

I have no issue with parents going out rather than celebrate a 1-year-old's birthday on the day. It's not like the child remotely understands the concept or what day it - hell, you could probably get away with them being completely ignorant to what day is the actual DAY until they are what, 4, 5? Later? When do they actually know how to read a calendar? Just tell them that day is their day. 😉 But that conference agenda makes me want to cry.

Jill called the TTH "the big house" - which is, of course, slang for prison. Even a dim Jill is right twice a day. (Of course, I have no doubt that her use of it was unintentional. It just makes me laugh.)

Okay, so I think Jessa's photo was UTTERLY tone deaf and put all the focus on HER and is yet more proof of how her parents raised them all to be about putting the attention on themselves even when they were preaching J-O-Y. Having said that, what Jessa WROTE - though I suspect it was at least partially ghost written - was actually quite lovely to me (and if I'm being kind I think she at least PARTIALLY meant the sentiment her ghost writer wrote) because yeah, if you want to have a baby and you know you have a baby in you and then you don't have a baby in you, that shit is HARD and it doesn't matter if you were 2 days late with the period or 4 months into your pregnancy. That's just a HARD thing and her acknowledging that (through her ghost writer - prove me wrong 😉 her vocabulary has improved tenfold in not ten years 😉 ) is not awful to me. Wanting to be a mom and then having evidence you will be a mom and then losing that? That's just AWFUL for those who experience it and I won't sit here and say that it isn't because Lauren had only 2 days or 2 weeks or 2 months to imagine what her life might be like because she learned she had embryonic cells growing inside of her and was EXCITED about that. But posting that with an extra pouty lipped selfie of herself with her baby bump? That is some full on Duggar attention whore shit right there and I make no excuses for that. Jessa learned from her mama.