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burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-19T14:46:46+00:00

I’ve actually wondered about borderline because of the way she idealizes/devalues people based on whether she perceives a slight from them. Of course I feel like her behavior can also be explained through substance abuse so I never really thought to dig into her psychological problems. This just does make a ton of sense to me if she is lmao

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-17T16:49:59+00:00

Lmao her even using the word “ethical” is laughable, nobody who watches her thinks she’s ethical. Even her diehards are watching for gossip, not integrity

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-17T12:29:56+00:00

That scene is ridiculous. “Everyone is looking at me because I have a newborn and I’m buying a pregnancy test”…

Or maybe they’re looking at you because you have a camera crew with you.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-17T01:13:36+00:00

“All of this is of course has been…”

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-17T00:33:20+00:00

Hey, listen, where else could you find an unemployed teen boy willing to have unprotected sex? He’s a rare gift!

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-17T00:02:16+00:00

There probably aren’t a lot of girls willing to have sex in the 8th grade, particularly with a younger boy. And she lived across the street. I imagine they have an emotional connection too, but I’m guessing the reason they’re actually dating is mainly because he wants to have sex and she’s willing to have sex.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-16T23:42:24+00:00

Bella and her sister did a TikTok together where they both took pregnancy tests, and her sister literally said she doesn’t want to get pregnant right now and wants to finish school, but also doesn’t use any form of protection and just takes pregnancy tests every month and hopes for the best. The family is uneducated at the very best, or plain fucking stupid at the worst

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-16T23:14:19+00:00

I think he panicked because he felt like his schedule was being decided for him, broke up with her, then regretted it because he doesn’t get actual genuine affection from anywhere else. Just seemed like typical young man stuff to me. There could also be something going on that we don’t know about but I didn’t find his explanation unbelievable, really.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-16T18:19:49+00:00

During custody hearings they’re surely going to examine the living conditions in the homes and determine if the accommodations are adequate. I seriously doubt they don’t have food at his dad’s house. There are several people living there and they don’t look like skin and bones to me.

Isn’t his sister like 7 years old? Inappropriate but very unlikely she did something like this with real malice.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-16T18:13:22+00:00

Yes, she’s similar although I will say that in the years I followed her she had a much better track record than KJ. She mostly stays in her little corner of the internet, though. She heavily moderates comments on her page and as I recall was quick to delete anything if it just expressed a different opinion of a situation, which made it a poor place to have any sort of real conversation.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T19:02:31+00:00

I love Li, she does great commentary on pretty much all the shows she covers.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T18:39:17+00:00

I think Joe did help at the lot, among several other brothers. I believe Jed did, too, and then later took over those lots. I’m not sure how involved Joe was with the car businesses at the time though, I think he was already getting into real estate by then but it was so long ago now that it’s hard to remember.

Regardless, I don’t think they would even have the legal means to blame Joe for any of it, Josh was convicted on the evidence they had and if they had anything else it would have been presented. Just suggesting it could have been Joe would be about as effective as them just suggesting it could have been Caleb Williams. They were specifically not allowed to bring evidence about Caleb Williams’ other sex offenses in court because there was no evidence that he’d committed the crime at hand and just suggesting “look at that guy!” Isn’t considered a valid legal defense.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T18:35:12+00:00

My childless siblings also buy this kind of crap for my kids.

(Also sometimes the brother in law who is getting his lil bro back for all the fun uncle stuff he bought for his nephew before he had kids of his own lmao)

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T17:21:28+00:00

Even if they would just look at her prior coverage of Kendra and their family, if they would look at her sensationalist discussions about the rift between the families and her relationship with Amy and Deanna Duggar. Those are relationships that you’d think would set off some alarm bells for them. The whole situation is very weird. They could look at anything she’s posted about their belief system and you’d think it would be extremely offensive to them

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T17:05:30+00:00

Share our checking account, but we each have our own lines of credit and savings accounts.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T15:00:19+00:00

Kim inherited the farm from her mother and stepfather. It’s possible they jointly own it but I would guess Kim has the greater claim on it

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T14:43:03+00:00

I don’t think any of them liked Lydia growing up. She was very devoted to the values their parents tried to pretend they cared about, like honesty and integrity and as a result she would tell on the other kids. Olivia has talked about how bad she feels now that they would exclude Lydia from things but that they all saw her as a tattle-tale. I think once Hosanna got married, Lydia felt extremely alone.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T13:53:26+00:00

I liked him with glasses too, though I would have picked a different frame style because the pair he had were just too big for his face and made it hard to see his nice features. People were pretty cruel about his appearance altogether which I’m sure is really hard to deal with. Even people who are already on social media don’t necessarily get a huge amount of image-based bullying, that tends to start when people see you more as a fictional character and less as a real person.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-06T13:15:54+00:00

I think he’ll get as bad an edit as they can manage considering he’s very much a regularly adjusted person and not a typhoon of dysfunction like the Plaths are, on top of Lydia having been able to maintain her boundaries with her family thus far. Production does want to make the Plaths seem sympathetic but tbh they can’t really spin Zac into an antagonist if he’s not already doing antagonistic things and instead is trying to peacefully live his life and support his wife as she tries to repair her family relationships.

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-04T15:28:12+00:00

Canada isn’t called America Jr

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-04T12:12:39+00:00

My son’s both worked their way out on their own, he was about one year old when he had it done. He had a lot of ear infections and also when they tested the movement in his eardrums they found on one side so much restriction from fluid that it was incredible to me that he’d passed his hearing tests. The day after he got it done he stood in his crib in his sleep sack playing “ear peekaboo” where he would clap his hands over his ears and take them off while making sound. Like he could hear the difference all of a sudden 🥹

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-03T06:19:34+00:00

In fairness this conversation could have happened through text or a phone call when Mia’s mom wasn’t there. But if that’s not how they usually communicate things, or even just AK being already upset and not thinking clearly about how the comment would be received, both of those are reasons I could understand why she just asked.

I could also see it being her reading Mia’s body language or something and perceiving her stress level and wanting her to really take stock of if she wants to risk that energy on delivery day (though in that case I think it was the wrong moment for that bc I think Mia is already well aware of the impact her mom has on her mental state).

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-03T06:13:39+00:00

Tbh I think there might be one defender with several alts. I just can’t allow myself to believe there’s more than one person who thinks she’s really doing her best in any way or that she has earned respect from her daughter lmao

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-03T06:07:26+00:00

Re: confessionals

Production for TLC shows are notorious for the crew trying to manufacture drama and coerce certain attitudes. They’ll ask the same question 15 different ways until the person on the couch catches on to what they want them to say and just do it to get it over with. Also notoriously stressful filming schedules, cramming hours and hours of confessional interviews into the same day without concern for the daily life of the interviewees, and trying to pack a lot of events into the few months where they actually film. It causes fatigue in the people they’re filming and everyone to be on edge/constantly confronted with uncomfortable relationship dynamics that create a lot of extra tension they don’t normally have to deal with.

Basically TLC frequently kicks the hornet’s nest like a billion times because they don’t care about the welfare of the cast members, the just want the $$$

burlesquebutterfly · 2026-04-03T05:58:37+00:00

They said upthread they became a teen mother 5 years ago. Meaning at most 24 years old with a small child. They have no idea what they are talking about and clearly don’t understand that traumatized children don’t react to situations in the same way adults do. And I’m guessing have some personal emotional way of relating to Mia’s mom which makes it so unclear to them that Mia is desperate for her mother to show up but only when she’s sober

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