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Aw, she looks great there. Did she scratch her wee chin?

Nope, it's still on: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/conan-ghana-kimmels-halloween-prank-more-late-night-highlights-watch-1253208

Is it weird that whenever I see the name "Collingsworth" I read "Collinswood" and think about Dark Shadows? 😂

As for the spoiler, I'm not surprised the sightseer didn't note extreme makeup on the part of the girls, because I've never seen Nurie with that little makeup. The last picture doesn't even show foundation or coverup; just minimal eyeliner and some mascara.

I give Jill a pass if she has to take the car to pick Derick up for some reason, because then it would be useful to have the kids awake with her. I also might give Jill a pass, if the kids were clamoring desperately to see Derick before they went to sleep. I will not, however, give Jill a pass if she's breaking the routine because she's as desperate to see Derick as your standard emotionally underdeveloped five-year-old who can't tell time. Unfortunately, I have an overwhelming suspicion that the latter is closer to the truth.

I myself was thinking how much some of the dark Rodlets look like Aunt Not-Amy. Plus, I wouldn't put it past Jill or David to embarrass the kids with covert or overt disapproval, if someone in line around them at the pizza place is dropping F-bombs or similar. Can't you imagine them lecturing the offender? The kids are probably on high alert, lest they be required to at any moment agree that yes, it is appalling how short that girl's skirt was and how trampy the females are dressed.

I certainly understand that! I just hate to see people in general veering away from information they are on the brink of gaining; but I certainly advise you to take it at your own pace. The above sample, for ex., explains a lot about the Duggars and their passion for God-bothering; although "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was required reading for me in my (secular) high school, and thus I've always had some colorful exemplars of Puritanism in the back of my head (for the record, I thought ol' John Edwards was so vitriolic as to border upon parody; and had to restrain myself from laughing at some points during the reading, which was clearly not the idea).

The "basic knowledge about fundamentalists" category is certainly A Thing. I'm frequently surprised by things that some people don't know are unsurprising about the Duggars (no "devil's food cake" - I legit have a family member who once told another family member that she should not buy "Heluva Good" brand cheese - no gambling for coin tosses or even reference to "luck" - be in church every time the doors are open - etc., etc.); and also much of the "Christianese" that people describe as "weird" (for clarification, I'm not surprised that people in general are surprised at the definitions of the Christianese; I'm merely surprised they've never heard the phrasings before). (Aside: I've also been meaning to point out for the record, that our local LGBTQ congresscritter invited people recently to an LGBTQ meeting for "fellowship", and it was all I could do to avoid rolling on the ground when I encountered that flyer).

If/when you do read it again, I strongly suggest reading more closely through the "skimming portion", because that's probably where the meat of identification with the brainwashed Duggars comes from; so is not a waste of time in reality. It certainly I suspect cuts down on many moments of extreme WTFery that Duggar behavior occasions.

You're right - for a group of people whose motto is "Jesus, Others, You", the Duggars (and in fact most Gothardite type fundies as a whole), are shockingly unconcerned with manners. Does somebody tell them the Pilgrims dispensed with manners for "others", thinking they were stuffy things of Ye Olde England, maybe? Because I've certainly seen it before, with fundie kids who never say "please" or "thank you" for anything, and/or sit around farting silently and ripely at the dinner table, as well as the "slamming the door in your face" gesture of Josiah (that one's a golden oldie fundied favorite, in my experience. My best friend from high school married a deeply unpleasant person in many ways, who would hold doors for HER, only to let them slam in the face of myself, my mother, my BF's mother... it was really quite something to behold. Once upon a time we all barged forward underneath his arm before he could shut the door in front of us, thanking him profusely - he looked legitimately shocked and outraged).

I generally don't want to look at him long enough to figure it out, but are his teeth janky in alignment? Thinking maybe (a), he never had braces; (b), maybe the teeth grew worse over time, warping his face further into the "Duhhhh" expression?? Granted I have reasonably good teeth so don't know a lot about braces in general; but wouldn't the gap have narrowed if he had had them?

Goodness, that's horrible. I never touch anybody's newborn's bare skin. Maybe the top of a wee bare foot with the back of an index finger; and only then if baby's too young to display any interest in sticking their foot in their mouth.

I'm pretty sure that the metrics that track these things don't care. Twitter doesn't note "hate-followers" separately in the "followers" category; just the same way that Nielsen doesn't separate "hate-watchers" from real watchers. 2.4M (or whatever) followers, is 2.4M followers; so doubtless Derick looks reasonably popular by Twitter metrics.

Sweet pictures. I like how they look like they're sharing auntie/niece confidences... also Felicity's little outfits.

Well, there's really no point in my prognosticating this far ahead, but Derick has been to real school, and read/used biographies in term papers, he must know what they're like. He also must know that he's done next to nothing with his life to date that could fill material; as well as how long standard published books run. I don't see him wanting to do it as a 30-page essay or something on Patreon for a tip jar either; I think he wants big money.

Jill might be both asked and currently prepared to contribute; which would explain the estrangement. After all, I don't think it'll be much of a book if she doesn't chime in, Derick is clearly not proposing to write an autobiography of himself, as apart from the Duggars and the death of his father he doesn't really have much to talk about. A pamphlet exposing the Duggar family?

Let's not forget to credit her parents, as they made a conscious decision somewhere along the line that godliness was not the be-all and end-all of life and that we should also get along well with each other and strangers, which seems rare amongst the Gothardite parents.

Nice hi-res picture of the baby this time around! Clearly someone heard my complaint about the prior blurry family photos, lol.

That makes a lot of sense, like how horses are often named by portmanteauing parts of their parents' names into a whole.

Ain't nobody doin' JRod out of six months of wedding planning, yo.

Joy looks really good with the minimal amounts of makeup she's been sporting lately. It looks as if her skin is clearing up also.

Are Jessa and/or Bin working on composition and framing? Or was this just a happy accident? They look good, very natural. Ivy's generic lumpy baby face is resolving into that of a tasty little mite, I bet she will take after Spurgeon. Has it been discussed before, whether or not that ivy-colored onesie is intentional?

Yeah, it's kind of awful IMO; the kind of color scheme I saw some clever author once characterize as "woods and weeds". Though, I look particularly hideous in autumn colors like orange and rust; whereas maybe Jana does not. Branch out into some jewel-toned clothes though, dang.

Agreed, but it would be more convincing if the progress of the plate contents were moving. 🤔 As for the spelling debate, one of the things I heard and always thought convincing, is that spelling is a visual art more than anything else; thus you needed to study spending your life looking at good spelling. Looking at the torturously misspelled words of the "guess which word in this sentence is wrong and spell it correctly!" type of problems, is supposed to be deadly. I've always thought it made a lot of sense, having seen contenders in spelling bees clearly trying to recreate words by staring off into the distance picturing it printed on thin air; writing the words out with their index fingers in the air, etc. Forgot to mention, I think maybe this is why Derick and Jill aren't all that concerned that (if?) Izzy doesn't know how to spell his name, because they think he'll see it spelled out properly approximately eleventy billion times in the Bible before age 16.

Plus Hershey's Kisses in a purple bag; at least according to this thread in 2017, lol.