Machu Picchu

On this day 1 year ago, 24 castaways set foot in Peru to compete in one of Tumblr Survivor’s hardest seasons to date. With many obstacles, only Candace reigned victorious and became tumblr survivor’s next sole survivor. But lets check in to some accomplishments of our other castaways after 365 days!!

“Umm ya: I don’t have any regrets and i’m glad it was an exciting first council! I’m rooting for Ethan Brandon and Sara! It was a fun game and I’m glad i got the opportunity to play!!”

Jenny is known as probably the most robbed first boot in history by being rocked out in her first tribal council ever. She returned for Tumblr Survivor: Egypt where she placed 16th respectfully.

“i had fun, i think i played a good game and i’m not mad. It sucks to go out this early but I’m bassically the brad culpepper of my tribe. I was going to go eventually. I hope to play again in a different season and if on one of those seasons i see my old tribe mates they will be the first to go :) thats all”

If there’s one word to describe Jordan Pines, it’s special. From creating a majority alliance hour 1, to accidentally posting to vote someone out in the main chat, to sealing his fate by asking his tribe to throw a challenge for him, Jordan surely didn’t disappoint on the entertainment factor. He has returned for Tumblr Survivor: Marshall Islands and Tumblr Survivor: Heroes vs Villains 2 where he placed 10th and 16th respectfully.

Stephen was in a good position on the original Ekkeko, only to be screwed over when he was put into minority at swap. He returned for Tumblr Survivor: Sri Lanka where he placed 8th respectfully.

Tony was a complete powerhouse in the game. Dominating every immunity challenge for his tribe, Tony quickly became a physical threat. With an idol and a double vote, nothing seemed to be able to bring Tony down except a fatal mistake of not playing his idol, sending him out the door. He returned for Tumblr Survivor: Ancient Greece where he placed 21st respectfully.

“One more 256 and I would’ve still been all up in this bitch fighting like heckie to #flop a little bit further. Man i disappointed myself so hard. I’m sorry for not maintaining the proper relationships i should’ve, i’m sorry for dropping the ball - i’m sorry to the allies i left in a bad spot without me, and i’m sorry for not saying that i didn’t feel comfortable splitting votes. I’m mostly just sorry to myself, because I know I can do better than this pathetic embarrassment of 12th place…. but i came here to be challenged and have fun, and jesus Christ this season delivered to me on both of those things. I didn’t last long but what did i do? I joined an immediate first second alliance and immediately made plans to turn it on its head - which I did!!!!! I swapped into an 8-1 tribe of favorites… and for the first time this season, a favorite went home over a fan. I made real friends, there were some crazy moments and some intense votes, and i just had a fuck ton of fun. I wish I could’ve won. I wish i didn’t play so disgustingly poorly. But I had fun while being a loser, and if you’re still in the game and you haven’t, i’m genuinely sorry for you. Be nice. Play fair. Fuck all of you.”

Mitchell had an interesting run in Machu Picchu. Despite being the only Chaska member on a swap tribe full of favorites, Mitchell dominated and became a huge force come merge. Mitchell had everything laid out for him until people he was with flipped the game in a ginormous power shift, resulting in the biggest blindside of the season. Mitchell returned for Tumblr Survivor Malaysia: Fans vs Favorites III where he placed 5th respectfully.

“I had an amazing experience this season, and I’m proud of the game I played. In the end, I found it too difficult to separate who I was as a player with who I was as a person, and couldn’t play the part needed to further myself in the game. I’m glad I went when I did; I would rather go out honestly, with integrity, than go to the end turning on people I cared about. I genuinely love everyone I became friends with and hope we can continue our friendships!”

Bridget had it easy once she made the tribe swap. She and her ally from a side season, Dom, always seemed to have a grasp of what was going on in the game. However, this bond with Dom is what eventually led to her being seen as untrustworthy, and after the blindside of her long time ally, Mitchell, she was doomed. She returned for Tumblr Survivor: Riau Islands where she placed 13th and Tumblr Survivor: Heroes vs Villains II where she placed 10th respectfully.

“I knew the F9 would be make or break for me and unfortunately the carpet was pulled out from underneath me. Sure there were signs I should have picked up on and tricks up my sleeve but I had blast (and improved on my F10 finish in Galapagos!) I made the most of my time in the game by playing big and throwing my weight around, plus I met some of the greatest people ever! Good luck to everyone left in the game, and don’t be bitter because I sure as hell ain’t!”

Dan had his back against the wall the minute he was in minority at tribe swap. Dan fought as hard as he could in every aspect to get himself ahead, including working with future winner Candace and Marko to pull off a huge power shift, Mitchell’s blindside. He is currently on Tumblr Survivor: Rebels and Rogues.

“This game was wild. I learned a lot about my gameplay and what i was lacking to become a real competitor. My game was weak this season, and i feel like i have disappointed people as a “favorite” coming in and flopping so bad. I hope i get considered for another game in the future, so i can really show people what I’m made of. Dom Out!”

Dom came into the game wanting to prove how strong of a competitor he was after being one of the last newbies standing in Matsu Islands. However, once he merged onto Muzco, the fire Dom had fizzled out, resulting in his inevitable boot. He returned for Tumblr Survivor: Heroes vs Villains II where he placed 13th respectfully.

“damn fuck, apparently 24 person seasons just aren’t my thing! i thought i was going to win this, and then i thought i was going to die mid-game, and then somehow i made it all the way to final six before tragically flaming out. in my opinion, that’s still pretty impressive, especially with all i had to go through to get to this point. there are a lot of things that i could have done better, but ultimately i’m proud of the game i played and i’m glad that i was able to meet some really amazing new people and become closer with others. and i’m so thankful for all of the amazing encouragement and support and love i received throughout this journey. it’s been real, and i look forward to (fli[p) flopping again soon :~)”

Amelia went from having all things in their favor to having their whole world crash down. Known as the biggest underdog of the season, Amelia struggled constantly to save themself and after an idol play to save themself the round before, Amelia was taken down. Amelia returned for Tumblr Survivor: Heroes vs Villains II where they placed 5th and Tumblr Survivor: Uncharted Isles under the alias Riley Peters, where they placed 5th respectfully.

Sara was immediately the fan everyone adored when she said in her intro video that she “just wanted to blindside someone”. Pulled onto Supay by friend Brandon, she always seemed to get along with everyone, which resulted in her being the last member of her alliance remaining and her being voted out, because she had a great chance at winning. She returned for Tumblr Survivor Malaysia: Fans vs Favorites III where she placed 3rd respectfully.

*Gifs not made by Grace. All gifs were found on MJ’s blog. Grace just put text over them

And last but not least, your hosts!!

Matt has returned for Tumblr Survivor: Heroes vs Villains II where he placed 3rd respectfully. He also hosted Tumblr Survivor: Bhutan.

“Hi guys! It's crazy to think that a year ago we started this crazy season. Being it our first time hosting, we all certainly have some regrets (most notably the tribe colors...what were we thinking?) but having you all as a cast made it so easy to adapt to our mistakes and to really get into the action right away. Everyone was there to play hard from day 1, and allegiances changed at the drop of a hat so we never knew what was going to happen. Every single person made their impact on the game and I was so happy to see all of you become unique and rootable characters throughout the season. All the way from our iconic first boot to our strategically, socially and physically dominant winner, I'm so proud and impressed by the passion you all showed to a game we worked so hard to produce. Thank you all so much, and happy anniversary!” ~Matt

Scott returned for Tumblr Survivor: Ancient Greece where he placed 4th respectfully. He also hosted Tumblr Survivor Malaysia: Fans vs Favorites III.

“Unfortunately, I was unable to get in touch with Scott in order for him to say anything therefore, on behalf of Matt and I, we would like to personally thank Scott for everything he has done. He was originally an intern host but very quickly made the season his own and Machu Picchu would not have been the same without him. Whether it be posting, or just being emotional support, Scott was always there when he was needed, and always went the extra mile. I’m extremely thankful to have him as a cohost as well as a friend, even though we are not on speaking terms as of this moment” ~Grace

Grace has done absolutely nothing since Machu Picchu, but is hosting Tumblr Survivor: Aeolian Islands, starting May 13th!!

“Machu Picchu was quite the experience. As a first time host, I had no idea what to expect. There was many bumps along the way (Like Matt and I trying to kill each other randomly one day), but at the end of the day, we produced an amazing season that we worked extremely hard on. We couldn’t have done that without the amazing cast. You always made it interesting, with a thousand tie votes, idol plays and idol fails, hell, you even went to rocks on the first tribal. Who does that? I feel extremely blessed to have had hosted each and every one of you and I can’t wait to see what you have accomplished by our 2 year anniversary. Also I know these gifs aren’t too great but at least they move this year. ~ Grace”

With that, I conclude this post. I hope everyone is doing well Much Love <3

Sara: Welp.

They’re gone.

Been two and a half hours and I’m still meh.

Now this game… is dicey. Oh, side note, that Hunter rumor was fake.

My timing and such of future moves depends ENTIRELY on Candace’s immunity performance.

In the meantime… I’m missing a friend.

I got my revenge for Brandon though, however weak.

Sara: I’m the last Supay standing.

Damn.

And, except for Abel - who, if we were on an actual island, would have made his camp somewhere else totally separated from the rest of us cuz he’s always invisible on Skype and never talks to anyone - I’m also the last fan standing. Tbh I feel like I have a lot to be proud of in this game. Just call me Natalie Bolton!

But it all comes down to this: finding a way to get Candace out.

Busted my butt in reward (AND ACTUALLY WON I’M STILL IN DISBELIEF) and now am busting my butt at this immunity challenge. Ideally, Candace would actually go next round, but I can’t risk her winning immunity then.

I just have to wait around and see the results. And then possibly make my biggest move yet. If she has an idol, I could be totally screwed… but there’s no way to know that. She’d never tell me. Gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

So… having an idol for insurance wouldn’t hurt!

Sara: dAMMIT

CANDACE

IS SUCH A BEAST

Whelp, let’s just hope this tribal actually works out like we plan this time. I’m really hoping I’m not perceived as a threat for the relationships I’ve made with the jury.

I’m the most worried I’ve ever been, cuz if Candace was smart she would get me out.

Candace: As much as I should feel happy and relived I have one vote left to go at this point, I just feel tired and over this experience. I now hold the record for most immunity wins in a season, 0 votes still cast against me, and a ¼ shot at winning this fucking game. So why am I not thrilled? Lying every week to people you’ve come to know and like is honestly getting the best of me. I mean I couldn’t rely on anyone this game, and I had to lie my way to the top to get out the threats in my way. I know Dan/Dom/Amelia/Marko probably hate my guts but what else should I have done? Let them steamroll me with their likability, challenge wins, idols, and majority alliances? And through all of those advantages they had I managed to strategically get rid of them and place myself in the best position possible. I DID IT. Like I hope people realize that, but it might just look like I am a manipulative bitch. I was never offered a LEGIT final three deal. Not until like Final 10. How was I supposed to rely on anyone other than myself? It’s just so frustrating. I’ve played such a good game but at the same time it doesn’t feel like it. I know people may think I’m a cold, bitter bitch but I have feelings TOO. Fucks sake this game is just so annoying, why do I care so much? I don’t know. If I put myself through this torture for 2 months for nothing to come out of this and have my tribe mates hate me on top of it, it would have just been all for nothing. So yeah I am low key happy I made it this far and only need to survive one more vote, but everything else is so upsetting. Nour, is probably going this week. I have bonded with her so much but I don’t see any scenario where someone as likable as her can not win against someone as unlikable as me. It hurts that I have to probably tell her to her face that I’m voting with her, then have to put her name down. I’m so sorry Nour. You’re genuinely so sweet and I have loved getting to know you through this process.

Sara, oh my goodness. Although she hasn’t been as active as everyone else she’s been an integral part of getting votes through. Had Sara not went back on every single decision I’ve tried to include her in, and spilled the beans on many occasions, I would sincerely want her to go to the end with me. But alas she has betrayed my trust and is also more threatening than Hunter. I want Sara to know how much I LOVE her. I have been by her side since our first swap. Although it’s been bumpy, me and her have been on the same page numerous times. 

Hunter, I started off not liking you. Come merge you became a very close ally of mine. We flipped on Marko and Dan together, like in a row. And from that point we agreed me/you/Abel final 3. Now listen up when I say this. If you had not been a waste of a jury vote, there’d be NO WAY in HELL I’d be going with you to F3. Ever since you came into your faux power trip you’ve been nothing but a pain in my ass. Every time someone who got screwed over made a comment out of frustration you went on a tirade about how salty they were (Dom/Amelia). But EVERY fucking time I do well in immunity you throw a cry baby ass FIT. Honestly I feel scared to win immunity just because I know you will GROAN and moan like a bitch. Not to mention you tried to target me and unfortunately couldn’t because you couldn’t scrape up a big enough score to beat me. ALSO you take 20 minutes to respond when I had needed you for strategizing the most. Thanks for keeping me around when you should have been on my radar from the day I stepped foot in this season. You’re welcome for dragging you this far. 

Abel, I honestly didn’t think there would be a way we would be able to work together. I thought my allies would be too big of a priority to keep you safe, or that you’d completely flop. I’m very proud of our time together. Although you frustrate me A LOT, you were always there for me. I trust you completely even though at times you make me nervous, I’m so glad we got to play together and become close. And if one of us win I will take my copy of BEYONCE out of the trash can and give it a few spins. I know I still have another week to go, but I honestly wanted to get this off my chest because I have been feeling BLUE. I trust that Abel and I will vote as a block at F4 and I fully believe we can make Final 3 together. xo

Sara: I didn’t find ANYTHING at Machu Picchu daaaaaaaaammmmmmmmittttttttttt

One of two things will happen:

1. Candace will stay loyal to our F3. She did say she was threatened by Nour… so she may actually vote that way and keep me until F4.

or

2. Candace thinks that, now that Amelia is gone, I am the biggest threat to her game, and votes me out with Hunter and Nour tonight. Which wouldn’t really be wrong. Looking at the jury, I think that if I can get there, I GOT this.

Her best move is to vote me out now while she has Nour and Hunter to vote me, then vote Nour out and go with Abel and Hunter. Main con with that, thinking from her perspective, is that I will be bitter for her betraying me before she needed to, and that would be a jury vote lost for her.

So yeah… my odds of surviving this tribal council are about 50/50, fully depending on Candace.

And even if I DO survive this tribal, there’s no freaking way I’ll survive the next one without winning that immunity challenge.

….!!! AND LITERALLY AS I TYPE THIS

Hunter… is saying that he will vote Nour tonight. Which is a surprise, I guess I just assumed they were a block… and he seems sincere.

These might be famous last words, but we’ll see!!

Final 4

Sara: Alright

MIRACULOUSLY

I am still here

MIRACULOUSLY

A few things:

1. Rites of Passage right now is brutal. The ONLY reason I am still here is that I told Candace that I would get Bridget’s and Amelia’s votes at FTC, and ONLY theirs. Which was a lie, as I actually, looking over the jury, think I have quite a few eggs in my proverbial basket. So like!!! How am I supposed to be honest with this when I’m trying to play the goat and be all “everyone either hates me or I haven’t talked to them”? I can’t be like “MITCHELL! DOM! DAN! I loved you all! *inside joke*” Like, truly honoring these fantastic players is contrary to my strategy right now, and it’s tragic.

Mitchell, Dom, Dan, Wes, and even Marko even though I voted for you constantly: it was truly an honor to play with all of you. I loved every single conversation with you all: Mitchell, my hibiscus king; Dom, who I WILL see on Survivor one day; Dan, who, despite the mess, I like to think I formed a legitimate friendship with; Wes, who was so sweet despite being the constant underdog; and Marko, who is pretty chill and an unbelievable player.

And

2. I’ve figured out how the rest of this game will go, and it is FULLY dependent on who wins this next immunity challenge. These are based on how I think the jury will vote in these scenarios obviously, but I’m pretty sure about who would bring who.

If I win it, I’ll take Hunter and Abel and I’ll win this game.

If Hunter wins it, he’ll take me and Abel and I’ll win this game.

If Abel wins it, he’ll take me and Candace and Candace will win, with me being in second. Tbh I’d be happy with that compared to the last and, based on previous challenges, most likely outcome:

If Candace wins it, she’ll take Abel and Hunter and Candace will win AND I’LL GET FOURTH PLACE WHICH IS GROSS

It all comes down to this. The challenge to end all challenges!

Watch it be like

Bejeweled

or

How many followers you have right now

or

Whoever’s name is closest to “Pandace” wins

Candace: 

NOW that I have officially made the Final 3 I’d like to get a LOT more off my chest. Shout out to the people who ruined my chance the first time, thought I was some shit “tengaged” player, and constantly berate me when I haven’t done a thing to anyone outside of my seasons. I came from such a negative reputation to having : - Tumblr Survivor record with 6 individual immunity wins - 0 votes cast against me this season - NEVER voted off in the 2 seasons I played. - Social threat this whole game. - Managed to blindside Amelia/Don/Dam. - Did it while remaining CLASSY and not blowing up once. Yes I lied to everyone in this game, and if the jury will be too bitter to realize I played an excellent and well rounded game then so be it. But it’s apparent that I have many reasons to be proud of myself, win or not, and I am not bothered by other’s opinions. I played the best game to my ability and it should show. Such an improvement to the scared and lost badgal from Matsu who went off at any given opportunity. Shouts to Hunter and Sara for trying to conspire against me. Who knows how many times I’ve been targeted since I am THE biggest threat, too bad I am just too challenge savvy to let them get me. 0 freaking votes. It just feels so good to stop stressing. From this point on I need to work on my jury speech and prepare myself for any backlash that may occur from bitter Betties.

And lastly shout out to the jury. They made this so extremely hard for me at every step but I love them all. It was such an improvement to play with genuine people that it made it extremely difficult to lie to their faces at times. Whether I win or lose I hope I can be accepted by my tribe mates I’ve voted off as a friend and they won’t be too spiteful. There’s still a little stretch ahead until the final decision, but I am extremely relieved the game is over for me. Besos.

Sara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLUoO5pHCM

Since filming this, I’ve tried my darnedest. Abel isn’t budging, I had a heart to heart with Candace and obviously can understand her decision though I all but begged her not to vote for me, and Hunter just got online, so I’ll see what I can do there. Which is nothing, I really think, but I’ll try my best!

So, it’s been real. I’ll write more after the deed is done.

Sara: Duh, Abel threw the challenge.

Amelia: goodbye i am gone

except

oh wait!!! no i’m not!!!!

:) :) :) :) :)

honestly i just……..that was almost such a good blindside i honestly have to applaud them for that like that shit was fuckin wild. telling hunter to go on a panicked rampage an hour before the votes? pretending everyone was concerned about it being all quiet? fuckin art right there bruh. that being said, i want them all dead on the jury.

i don’t even know where to go from here though honestly like what are my options? we lost wes, which sucks, and now me and sara have been thrown off the navy’s ship and hunter and nour are just sharks who will use us and abuse us as soon as we give them the chance. all i can think about right now is winning immunity, winning three more immunities in a row and getting back to the maze too and doing as much as i can to keep my head above this freezing cold water. it feels kind of futile right now but i don’t just give up, and playing that idol gave me so much adrenaline and so much will to keep going forward. if anything, because i can’t disappoint anyone right now. i can’t let dom and wes down, i can’t let down all my adoring fans (that’s a joke), and i can’t admit failure to myself even if it’s staring me in the face.

anyway.

i’ve still gotta try to talk to people, hopefully i can convince them that candace is more of a threat than me and hopefully they’re not too far up [redacted] to see that she’s gonna win if she gets to the end and she’s not holding back for anyone. i can’t wait to see what abel has to say for himself, since he told me on day 18 or something that he would “never, ever, ever go along with a plan to vote me out” (yes, i’m not 12, i realize that promises don’t mean shit in this game, but i do want to see him feel bad a lil bit).

(i just wanted an excuse to use this gif i would never call anyone a dumbass even if they just tried to vote my ass out ok i love you all even when i hate u)

i just have to survive three more votes. i can do that, right? just three more votes.

also why does hunter hate me so much though like honestly calm down a little bit drink some water take deep breaths please

Sara: Welp.

There goes my second goat.

This is kind of like battle of the gods right now. Candace v. Amelia. And I’ve made F2 promises with both of them. They’re definitely running the game, and I’m just waiting for one to get the other out so I can pull a “hey everyone left! There’s NO way you can win against x, so let’s get ‘em out!”

Candace is talking about getting the ol’ gang back together and voting with Amelia again. Which. Makes me nervous. GAWD is this what cheating on your boyfriend is like?? And when your boyfriend and side-boy meet you just DIE????????? That’s what Amelia and Candace reconciling is like for me.

I just hope the battle of the gods ends soon. The longer it lasts, the fewer people I can recruit to get the other out.

This sounds so conniving! I will actually be really sad to vote them out.

But I’m not stupid. There is absolutely no way for anyone left to win against Amelia or Candace. They’re both too amazing. I think I could win against Hunter and Nour? Maybe? Maybe not?? Well, they’re my best bet at this point.

I miss Bridget. And Dan.

Sara: oh GAWD

It’s so hard

to just

LET THE QUEENS KILL EACH OTHER

Like I want Candace out SO BAD. She’s the biggest threat and I know the right time for a move is coming soon. But not yet… not yet.

And now….. I JUST brought up the idea of the F3 with me Candace and Abel to Abel. TRYING to get his thoughts on things, and he thinks it’s a great idea.

Getting people to realize how idiotic a F3 with Candace in it may be harder than I thought.

But it’s JUST TOO EARLY to say anything to Abel. I literally have never talked game with him before. Maybe we can go on a call on the next tribal day to talk about it….. or maybe this is the only chance I’ll get for him to be online……

Sara: nottherighttimenottherighttimenottherighttime!

UGH

KILLING ME

But if Candace got wind that I wasn’t loyal, I’d be next. Have to wait for Amelia to go… and even then, at F5, it’s hella risky. But I can’t let her get the end, that’s just strategic suicide. I’d rather get voted out trying to get her out than stand back and lose at FTC, period.

Amelia: liveblog of the maverickbird experience (tm)

8:16pm - i have never, in my life, been more dismayed. 8:27 - this is going to be okay i can do this i have to do this! 8:54 - there’s literally no way i can do this! 9:04 - started thinking about my goodbye messages to everyone. candace’s will be the most fun. 9:07 - have to go to the bathroom. this may jeopardize my progress?? nonetheless, i must. 9:21 - got new high score!!! the world is a brighter place :) 9:24 - discovered a regina spektor song whose beats are exactly in time with the bird’s jumps. i am pleased. 9:27 - forced to listen to the trish cackling for 3 minutes. i am not pleased. 9:36 - asked wes for maverickbird advice. he said to ask sam. sam said “become one with the bird”. i am the bird and i am in pain. everything is futile. 9:42 - would it really be so bad to fail? there’s a strange sort of comfort in that thought, in being voted out - sort of like dying. everything would be okay. i wouldn’t have to struggle anymore 9:45 - almost started writing my jury burn for candace, but decided against that, as it may distract me too much. putting some ideas in a mental drawer, though. 9:54 - how does one ever go on? what is life, really? 10:07 - thought i saw a new skype notification. definitely hallucinating. this does not bode well. 10:15 - the game froze for a solid 3 seconds, and my heart froze with it, my life flashing before my eyes as i stared at the poor “bird”. i just want to set it free… 10:16 - the bird is a metaphor. will get back to this later. 10:21 - SO IT’S GONNA BE FOREVER OR IT’S GONNA GO DOWN IN FLAMES 10:37 - the problem with getting new best scores on this is it flashes all white and distracts u so u cant continue. FCK 10:42 - !!!! I AM FINALLY GETTING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS 10:49 - I AM SCREAMING 79 POINTS WHO AM I 12:12am - i must end this. i have been here for four hours and i literally cannot look at this for another minute. jesus take the wheel i have done what i can i hope it is enough Amelia: me when the only straightforward post-merge vote is gonna be my elimination….

ugh i just. UGH. i’m just. so defeated. i spent 7 entire hours of my life on this challenge and it was all for nothing. also, ironically, my last challenge in this game is the same one that was my very first in galapagos. that’s kind of beautiful, really.

i know i have to keep trying and i have to keep it together for another day and i know there’s always hope or whatever but let’s be real, there’s not really any way i can get out of this alive. the only thing i can think of is to talk to abel and nour and see if there’s any possibility of convincing them to vote with me and sara. the four that are not me and sara (the axis of evil? sure) are probably going to split the vote since we might have an idol, so i guess that’s good because if we can just get one of those two to stick with us it might work. and like, if they don’t do that, there’s no way i’m voting for either of them to win because they’ve got to see that candace is the biggest jury and challenge threat right now - literally she’s tied the immunity record and there are still 2 more challenges left bye - and it’s obvious at this point that i’m the only one who can maybe beat candace in challenges, so for them it would be really stupid to get rid of me right now. ALSO the fact that one of them has to be at the bottom of the axis of evil, and going from number 4 to number 3 is like an obvious good choice, so???

but whatever. i won’t be surprised if i’m gone. disappointed but not surprised.

deep breaths…….. Sara: Battle of the gods continues.

Amelia is trying to bargain to get people to split votes between me and them (WHICH BTW NOT APPRECIATED NO ONE IS TARGETING ME RIGHT NOW ANYWAYS). They used… they used reason with other people as to why they should stay. But Candace told me they heavily implied idol usage. I… really don’t think they have one. Tbh they’re relying on me kind of to find one. They made great logical points, and if it was anyone but the biggest social threat saying them, they’d work.

Got a lot to think about.Amelia has made bargains with Candace and Abel. Neither knows about the other. Candace is not fooled, and the plan is for everyone to vote for them and to tell Amelia to vote for someone else (Nour) as a backup.

Abel… may be fooled. Which would not change Amelia going home, but would stir things up with Candace. “Who did they get to flip????” and I’d have to once again somehow prove it wasn’t me GOT DAMMIT I will never be free of this power couple in her eyes!! Which is fair because we probably are a power couple!!!!

The only way is to tell Candace about Abel’s deal ahead of time. But that… may?? Put me in bad with Amelia.

Yikes tHIS GAME

Well I can’t tell her tonight. I already said goodnight and it would look just a little bit sketchy that I came back online just to tell her this information. I’ll tell her tomorrow.

Honestly, unless I find an idol, Amelia’s going home. And even then… I don’t know. I could use it on them… to…??? Keep them and get Nour out?? But Nour is going next anyway (provided Candace wins again as predicted), as Candace really believes in this F3. I see no point in using it on them, since I can’t bring them to the final. I’ll probably (and this is in the case of a miracle of me finding it, and a second miracle of Candace losing immunity) use it at F5, when I rally the goats to get Queendace out - in case someone tattles and she rages against me.

Whatever, as long as it’s me, Hunter, Abel.

Candace has got to lose sometime… right?

Honestly if she makes an immunity run and I ACTUALLY have to take her to the end… BYE. I’ll be crying in that second place chair like freaking Russell in the Samoa reunion. Amelia: all right. time to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.

i’m trying to get the axis of evil (god, i should have come up with a better name for that. i was in a dark place.) to split the vote between me and sara, and then get either abel or candace to work with us. i told abel that candace was a huge threat and that he should keep me around to help defeat her, to which he was a little skeptical ngl and was like “but then what if nobody can beat you and you’re a huge jury threat too” and so i was just like “i’m way more beatable than candace and i’ve made a lot of mistakes that would be reasons against me winning and i only have like two friends on the jury so that doesnt even mean anything” and he said he would think about it or something so we’ll see. and then i told candace that after they vote me out people are going to start targeting her and if she keeps me around i can be a shield for that for a few more days (basically the spencer vs tony effect) and i had to explain how splitting votes works but she seemed to consider it at least a bit and said she’d get back to me. so basically i’m just waiting to hear back from both of them and see if either seem legit about it, and then me and sara will vote for whomever they want out instead. i’m trying really hard to make sara and i just seem like two free votes right now rather than lobbying to get a specific person out, but if that approach doesn’t work i’m going to honestly forge some fake receipts of h*nter saying he wants to vote candace out next and that should get her attention a little bit more.

i don’t know. it’s obviously possible that they could talk to each other about this and decide that amelia needs to go right hecking now but like, it’s not as if that weren’t already the case so i am just going to go hard af until i can’t go anymore. got no other option. also going to pray that sara somehow miraculously finds a real idol and that she would play it for me :’)

god i hope she gets to the end if i’m not here to do it with her

sigh okay i need to go to sleep this has stressed me out way too much and i can’t stop thinking about seeing doom and dan and bridget at ponderosa which is not a good frame of mind bc i need to focus on staying alive, even if it seems futile. yeah. i’m gonna sleep. hopefully i’ll wake up tomorrow and find that candace’s immunity score was just a bad, bad dream…… Amelia:  my last confessional: https://youtu.be/2l8u9OJkexk

Sara: I have been literally sick about this vote.

I knew it was coming.

I knew it had to happen.

But this hurts. It really does. I can’t even eat which is like my favorite thing to do.

I have never even seen this person’s faCE but I still cannot bear for them to leave. I’m sad that they’re upset. SO sad. But they did ask me to tell them if they were going, so I did.

I voted Nour. They asked me to, last wishes, whatever. I told Candace Abel might be swung so that’s my insurance I guess.

But in the midst of this HONESTLY CRUSHING experience… a light!

[9:01:02 PM] Candace: Hunter was approaching Amelia to vote me off [9:01:04 PM] Candace: SMH

WELL THEN!!!!

That makes the next move much easier. Candace is queen around these parts, and is only vulnerable if she (… ever) loses immunity. But should that happen AND ONLY THEN will this game finally turn in my favor. And with Hunter thinking the same way, we might be okay.

BUT GOT DAMMIT HUNTER. VOTE!!!!! THIS IS SO EXCRUCIATING WAITING AROUND FOR THE LAST VOTE. LITERALLY the sooner this tribal is over, the sooner I can get back to my LIFE.

And my DINNER.

Sara: WELL THEN

FORGET EVERYTHING

BECAUSE AS USUAL NO ONE IS DOING WHAT THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO

FUCK

SO NOW

I GUESS

IT’S GONNA BE A THREE WAY TIE WITH ME AMELIA AND NOUR

YEAH THIS POST IS GONNA BE ALL CAPS GOT DAMN

AND THEN ABEL HUNTER AND CANDACE WILL VOTE AND I’LL BE BARELY SAFE

WHEN ABEL GETS ONLINE SO LIKE TOMORROW

FK

UNNECESSARILY MESSY. BYE.

Sara: me from 8pm to 10:22pm

Amelia: ……….

i actually literally wish i could just go to ponderosa right now

Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOi9lSFhoo i hope the sound on this is ok my computer speakers stopped working so idfk Candace: We blindsided Dominic. My Matsu buddy who I planned on going to the end with from Day 1. Oh gosh, where did the love go? I mean as time went on you just notice Dom is close with Amelia, Dom is close with Wes, he is lovable and is a challenge beast and has a potential idol. How do you keep that in the game? There’s no way I could have. I’m so sorry Dom, I really would have gone to the end with you but the only way I can win is if you aren’t here. Take it as a compliment because you played a great game and people love you! I guess this one is for Daniel and Cody who Dom tragically blindsided by voting them out in Matsu Islands. The aftermath is brutal. Amelia is FUMING. And I want to calm them down of course, the first thing Amelia does after I apologize, explain my case and provide good valid points as to why Dom was too shady and wanting to vote off Abel and Sara who are our supposed allies, is tell Hunter a blatant lie. Amelia tells Hunter that I WAS THE ONE who wanted to get him out. NO NO NO that shit WILL not fly. I clipped the wings off that lie and stomped it into the damn ground. And of course when I confront Amelia as calmly and quietly as possible, they immediately apologize and backtrack because they knew they can’t get through Hunter. I’ve covered all my bases sweetie. Sara will know I had her back when I get to show her that Dom wanted her out. Hunter and Nour are on my side because Amelia is targetting them. Abel is clearly my ride or die. Wes is just there pasting Eurovision links in tribe chat, so what can he do? If Amelia can clean up their act and stop tossing me under the imaginary bus that I don’t belong under, maybe I’ll vote Wes. If not, Abel/Hunter/Nour still want Amelia gone. Who knows what will happen? It’s final 7 and assuming there are 4 votes left there is still a lot of work. I need to play my cards right. I know Amelia will probably be gunning for me, I want this next immunity BAD. That way I am completely safe and I can do what’s best for my game. 

Sara: At this point, nothing surprises me.

Two things I did learn from this, though:

1. Candace will do anything to keep me and Abel… I guess we are perfect goats BECAUSE

2. Candace is playing this game WAY harder than I thought. She got that vote doubler from Dan… DAFUQ.

So… Damn. I can’t take her to f2 either.

Ideal f2 is Abel and Wes. So I have to ride BOTH the Amelia and Candace trains until it’s only goats left (tbh most of us are goats in comparison. Candace and Amelia are rocking this), and then the goats will take over. That’s gonna be the easy part - it won’t be hard to make them realize they need to go.

Well, whatever. Queen Sandra’s strategy of being a vote for sale seems to be working for me so far!!

Side note: Dom only suggested voting for me and Abel as a cover to get Candace out. That backfired. But damn I feel protected. Kinda just gonna let them duke it out.

Amelia: okay im gonna try to get one of these done before i go #roadtripping for like 24 hours (honestly…on one of the most important votes……rip)

i made a ten step plan for surviving this round, which i have entitled “dominick’s revenge”

1. tell sara about the fake idol on machu picchu (completed). 2. go to machu picchu (completed) and get the fake idol (failed). 3. approach nour and suggest the idea of the two of us working with sara and wesley. if possible from step 2, give her fake idol in order to establish trust (partially completed). 4. tell candace about this four person alliance and say that it is a fake thing designed to ensure that wesley - her intended target for this round - does not feel like he’s in danger and try super hard to win immunity (completed). 5. above all else, make sure that candace does not win immunity (in progress but not looking good). 6. get sara to talk to nour while i’m gone and figure out if she is with us or not. 7. get sara and wes to agree to vote out candace, then a) suggest this to nour if she is on our side for real or b) don’t tell her anything if she’s proven untrustworthy. 8. tell candace we are good with voting out wes. 9. if nour is not with us, tell sara i have an idol. 10. either vote out candace with nour or vote her out by playing idol for wesley.

the main problems with this or things that need to be watched are a) making sure candace does not find out that i am trying to vote her out and b) having someone else win immunity. if candace wins, then it really sucks for me because i will probably have to vote out wesley and lose a number and then for real play my idol next time to get her out. also, c) i have to make sure sara doesn’t feel too overwhelmed with all of this and do something unsafe with it, like we saw with the dan vote. i trust her completely because i have no other choice at this point and i believe that she also trusts me completely, but i know she also sometimes gets scared or doesn’t want to make big moves and i’m not entirely sure how close she feels to navy still. i’m totally over that whole thing, but i need to make sure i’m not the only one. so i’m trying my best to let sara know that if she doesn’t want to do this right now, she can tell me that and i will respect it, so that she doesn’t feel like she has to go tell candace and get me voted out.

ugh i just really wish i didnt have to be without internet right now because this has to all be done very carefully and it’s so important that i read everyone correctly.

Amelia: shit shit shit

so obviously candace won immunity, which rekt dominick’s revenge, so i gotta wait till next time for that. but like now i’m really paranoid for some reason and i have to talk myself down from it because i don’t want to do anything that i will regret

but also like, it’s final 7 and i’ve been gone for 24 hours and so i have this creeping feeling that something is going to go wrong

supposedly mostly everyone is voting for hunter tonight, at sara’s request (hell yeah u go sara! saving wesley!), and it seems like a straightforward vote but we haven’t had a single one of those yet so i am a little dubious. and it’s also been reeeeally quiet on skype, like suspiciously so, and i would take that as an unmistakable sign if hunter and candace hadn’t both also expressed some concern over people being gone as well. but even so. [shrek voice] it’s too quiet, and i don’t love it because if there were to be a “big move” made right now it would almost certainly be voting me out.

so why don’t i play my idol? why, amelia? welllll, because even though nobody is talking to me and now would be the time for something to happen, i don’t have any solid proof beyond that that anything is wrong. like, i don’t want to get scared and waste my idol just because it’s final seven, and that could end up getting me in more trouble in the immediate future because a) i’d have no solid way to get candace out and b) it’d cause people to distrust me more. and while i don’t like anyone here except sara, i do believe that people have trust in me right now. that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t blindside me, but i feel like there hasn’t been anything to catalyze a move like that at this point. i was very careful to not throw candace’s name around before the challenge at all, and i told her about the alliance idea of me, sara, and wes, so i wouldn’t think that any of that would be used against me.

idk man. there’s a lot of possibilities that i could be going home but that idol is also a really nice thing to have in my pocket and i don’t want to use it if it’s not to get candace out. because right now, that’s my primary purpose in this game: to avenge dom, and to cut the head off the dragon. and if i can’t do that, what’s the point of even being here? if i can’t do that, she’s going to win anyway, so why bother?

(that’s not true. there’s always more than enough reasons to stay in the game. i’m just being selfish right now. ugh.)

deep breaths amelia everything will be okay

Sara: Well, I told him. But. He didn’t have an idol.

I… I felt like… I had just made things way worse. Like a cow going to slaughter unknowingly, but I just spooked it the whole way there and made it so so so much worse.

I… hated that. More than words. It just wasn’t the right time so I thought it was worth a shot, but I really just mucked it all up by making him paranoid and of course he told everyone what I said - so now everyone doubts meee.

And now Wes is chatting me so ecstatic that he stayed and I just feel vile. Freaking vile. Like… I don’t know when this game got personal, but Dan leaving… was personal for me. I felt like we really had a bond.

And to make it worse, Amelia and I really bonded over our mutual sadness. I just. Because they’re the next big threat. But… Amelia’s just so awesome. I know that when they do get voted out they’ll be cool about it, and we can still be friends. I would love that so much.

And like

Wes is like “omg now we have 4 with you me amelia and dom and we can go to rocks” like what

In what universe

Well now that the navy is gone who the hell knows, this whole game is so confusing now. Literally 6 hours ago I thought Candace and I had this game on LOCK.

I’m just… mourning. And emotionally defeated. I haven’t been this upset since Brandon left.

This is like the damn Game of Goats. The GOT DAMN SELF VOTES. FK. Like!!!!!

Okay let’s do this. Let’s actually do this:

Candace: heart. Strategy twins and I do like her, but we actually oddly don’t talk much except for strategy

Amelia: heart. Eternally. Always. Heart.

Abel: where is he ever. like EVER

Hunter: chatty and nice but also never does anything - two self votes damn

Nour: to be fair we have nothing to talk about, nothing mean, just no similar interests. But I also still don’t know how she’s here or who she’s allied with

Wes: oblivious and always wanting to go to rocks like HOW ABOUT TALKING TO PEOPLE like damn it’s not hopeless. Well it is/WAS for you because of the navy (RIPPP), but you could at least pretend to try lol

Dom: pretty cool but I have never had any inkling of game talk from him except when we told him who to vote

I just like… at this point Amelia is my JT. Because in Tocantins people literally WANTED to do whatever THEY could so HE could win. Insane!!! But at this very low point in my tumblr survivor experience, that doesn’t seem so insane.

Amelia: that honestly…..sucked……..so much.

i didn’t even want to vote out dan this vote and i tried pushing really hard to do it next time because that’s when he was going to try to vote out dom and i couldn’t have that but it just felt unjustified to do it right now….which i know is awful and im sorry for being so weak but like.

obviously me and dan haven’t been the most dynamic duo on this season

but he is one of my closest friends in this community and i love him so much and have so much respect and gratitude for him as a person and he’s just been so important to me and i know i have to separate that from the game but i just felt like, there are certain things i can’t do because of that real life relationship and writing his name down tonight was one of them

it’s all well and good to be plotting against him and even, yes, helping to plan his blindside but the way in which it happened was so wrong and gross and i feel really awful about it because he didn’t deserve that

anyway i have to pull myself together now and gather up these pieces because i’m still in it and i don’t know if he thinks i voted for him or if he’s pissed at me but i can’t do anything about that until i get to the end or to ponderosa so i have to keep my head in the game now. gotta look forward. the good news about this vote is that wesley doesnt even suspect that i voted for him because he thinks me and him and dom are on the outs together which is honestly so funny (he literally messaged me like ‘IT’S FINAL 8 WE CAN FORCE A TIE NOW’ and i was like k sure jan), and this also solidified my relationship with candace which is good to have until i can safely vote her out. and obviously me and dom are hella close, and sara and i are also very close and i think me and abel are in a pretty good place too, so that gives me 5 people that i can work with as long as i need to. i’d like to get rid of hunter or nour next (probs hunter because i still dont care about him) but it;s probably gonna be wesley because apparently abel really wants him out and i want to solidify trust with him via that maybe. also then i got a jury vote probably unless he likes dom more than me (i don’t know if i’m taking dom to the end if i get that far but that’s my current plan).

so everything is okay i think. i’m just heartbroken. also i wish dan had given me his advantages before he left but u know

Sara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQd7_HqR900 This is pretty much how I feel right now. Rip Dan. Candace: I’m having one of those nights where I just lay in bed and think and rethink every little thing and strategize and make scenarios in my mind. Honestly I’ve put in so much hard work and the end is too close for me to not want it this bad. I can do this.

Marko went. Lied to Nour but regained her trust by telling her that Dan wanted her gone at F7. Told Dom/Amelia that Dan wanted them gone soon as well. Dan was my biggest ally all season but he was way too powerful and he played a hell of a game. It would be too risky having him where he could easily make it to the end. So I unfortunately in the hardest tribal yet had to backstab someone who was there for me all game and I’ll regret that so much. He also gave me his vote doubler and nullifier before he got voted off which made it 10x worse. I’m keeping this between Nour/Abel/I.

So while I got everyone on board for Dan, which should have been Dom since he wanted him gone so badly, I managed to solidify a foursome of Abel/Nour/Hunter/I who is likely my alliance until the end. We just need to pick off the threats left over. I also have Amelia/Dom who I’ve said I wanted a F3 with and tell them as much as I can so it looks really legit. On top of that I have a really good relationship with Sara. Speaking of Sara, did you know she fucking told Dan to “play an idol if he had one” after I went out of the way to include her in the vote and do deep strategizing with her. She basically fucked us over for the last hour before tribal and had us scrambling. You choose now to make a game move sweetie? But god bless her soul she voted him anyways then expected us not to change our votes after she warned him because she didn’t want him to stay in with her vote on him. Pure mess. I ended up voting Wes in minority as a throwaway vote because

1) I didn’t want my majority every single vote record to scare people

2) Not have Dan out me and tell everyone before he left that I had his advantages after he left.

Moving forward from this I have two advantages and different options of alliances. I just need to keep my relationships good and weed out the threats and people who aren’t with me. I want Wes gone bad but if my new majority wants out Dom I should just appease them so I can gain their trust. Dom is a threat anyways. I’m just nervous that I’ll start to look threatening once Amelia & Dom are gone. I need other side to be scared of Hunter/Abel/Nour. That way no one will ever want to vote little ole me. Amelia: *eats cornflakes and cries about dan*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xUQNZiMyo

so the thing is there’s potential for me to work with pretty much everyone left

which is cool and all but also sucks bc everyone wants a different thing to happen and i lose possibilities with each vote

i talked to sara and she’s like 100% with me and said she would love a final 3 with me and dom which is :) so beautiful :) i’d have to see if i could actually go with that depending on whether i could win against them but tbh that would be my ideal f3 right there. alternately, i’ve been thinking about keeping hunter around because the lightbulb finally went off and i realized that he’d be a great goat to take to the end, and as candace showed me, dan was planning to make a f3 with her and hunter so like if dan thought hunter would be good to take to the end i probably should note that and possibly try to follow in his footsteps a little bit

this is the point in the game where my social game has to really be on point and i have to make myself talk to everyone every day and i need to be able to have a good measure of control over the votes without making it obvious that i do

ideal boot order right now: nour, candace, wesley, hunter, abel

more realistic goal: wesley or hunter, candace, nour, hunter or wes, abel

(because dom wants to keep nour around sigh) Sara: “is there a challenge due today”

Honestly Abel geT YOUR SHIT TOGETHER and read the blog!! Or literally JUST LIKE FOUR COMMENTS ABOVE YOURS in the group chat.

how he is still here IS SO BEYOND ME but not really cuz he is literally the perfect goat. He didn’t come here to make friends, especially on that jury.

… DAMN, though. DAMN.

Amelia: nuances, nuances……….

everyone (except them obvi) agrees that it’s between wesley, nour, and hunter at this point, but all the details are what we don’t agree on

i’d rather vote nour because she doesn’t talk to me and is the most likeable out of the three of them, which could mean trouble in the future. i want to keep wesley because he’s harmless and a free vote, and hunter bc me and dom talked about taking him to the end with us as a possible goat (i mean literally, it’s hilarious. he messages me “hey amelia!” and i’m like “hey what’s up?” and he just stops responding right there. that’s it. that’s the conversation. thanks so much for the input, hunter)

sara agrees with me and wants to vote out nour because she’s the most threatening at this point and the other two are basically nonentities

dom would rather vote wes out because he says he has nour with him 100% and because of the us + hunter final 3 thing

abel wanted to vote wesley and possibly has connections with the other two, and also just has this weird grudge against wesley for some reason, but he seems to have conceded the point and said in navy he’d be okay with voting either of the other two

candace wants to vote hunter, i’m not sure why but i suspect it’s because she’s close to nour too and doesnt see wesley as a threat [shrugs]

it just occurred to me that maybe dom/candace/nour is a secret alliance……..interesting………i’ll have to look into that

anyway this is lowkey frustrating because i’m trying to get everyone’s ideas to line up (preferably with mine) but i also have to be careful not to push anyone too hard or make myself seem like a leader in any way because i suspect that people are beginning to become more wary of me and i’ve gotta watch my back always

i wish i hadn’t hurt myself at machu picchu so i could win the next immunity and guarantee myself final 6 at least (bc of my idol). that’d be nice. just gotta go back to machu next time!! and get that fake idol oh my god can u imagine whew Hunter: HAI omg it is the final 8! This season is going so much better than my last. Now do not label me cocky since I have heard things.

Now to the contestants lately

Nour-I feel for some reason she feels closer to me, but I guess she has a hatred for the other side since they have tried so hard to target her alliances, so she is in desperate need of new ones, away from that side.

Amelia-I love them dearly but of course they won the popularity immunity, everyone loves Amelia. She says she randomized her list and I ended up on the bottom and Dom at the top. Ha, it says so much! I’ve heard rumors that them and Sara have been campaigning so hard to get me out. Also Dom is like their one true pair or something. So I installed guilt in saying I want to have a tribe call for minecraft tomorrow either before or after the vote, but preferably after it. lol I am also portraying my friendship to them. I mean they are so nice and I hope I stay their friend.

Dom-He just saved me in another game, so let us see how that goes her. He is who I am targeting right now for being such a comp beast and overall winner threat. That saving could just be sympathy though for planning on ridding me in this game. I hope he sees the light though that Amelia is popular and will win if they makes it to the end.

Sara-Poor Sara, she has hardly done anything this game except follow others rules. Like she is following Amelia in trying to vote me out, because I am a supposed threat? She really needs to step up her game because voting me out right now isn’t smart. I will most likely now vote for her on the jury. She is one of my true people I want to take to the end. (Explain later)

Abel-Same as Sara, he has hardly done anything. What is nice is that he follows me more than almost everyone. I am not sure about him and Candace though. I am not saying I do much either but he is one person in this game that likes to listen to the moves I come up with and he said one time that he appreciates I kept trying to talk to him. I dont know whether to take him to the end to use him as a goat or let him on jury where he has a high chance of voting me.

Wesley-He is quite humorous to be honest and I will miss him if he goes. Right now he is our fake target which I am fine with if he goes as well. He needs to realize he is being dragged along with Amelia and Dom and will lose against them. Also what is nice is that there is rumor that Amelia kinda wants him gone. I will try to use that to my advantage.

Candace-I trust Candace so much but I know so well that she is just dragging me to the end to be her goat. UM NO. I will use her trust to make it the final four, then one of us other three needs to win immunity and vote her out. She has become such a social threat and she needs slayed. What scares me is the connections she has. Before Dan left he gave her his advantages, which to be honest could be used to help me this tribal. I just need to give her the illusion I will go along with her, but BYE! I would rather have Abel and Sara at the end because I feel I have such a high chance of winning.

End Jury Votes

Erin-She will for sure vote Nour at the end but if she doesn’t make it I feel I could maybe garner her winning vote.

Mitchell-I do want to bring those two fans to the end in which he will probably vote for one of them to win which is my loss but oh well. He would probably vote for Wesley to win before anyone.

Bridget-She was so threatening in game, she put me as FAKE in touchy subjects and mentioned my name at the vote. I have to be careful because she will probably vote to keep Amelia and Dom first and then go to the fans.

Marko-I feel he would vote for me first over the other four jury members so far. I gave him such a freebie when I went back to his side in final 12. I feel he would also understand that he had to go since he was a threat. He would definitely vote Nour though, hardcore. She was so loyal to him.

Dan- He is such a wildcard, even though Candace kind of targeted him, he still believes she is his alliance to the end. He probably will not vote me since I self voted at his tribal, in which he got so overly pissy about. UM I do want to stay in the game, um duh. Computer problem just suck. Candace will win if she makes it, she has too many connections.

The rest of the game, my way:

Dom goes now

I win a challenge at some point

Then Wesley goes

Then Amelia

Then Nour or Candace for the next two.

That leaves me Abel and Sara at the end. If only though.

Sara: Marko is gone!!

Finally!!!

I feel like I’m gonna write his name down accidentally this next time because I forgot how to write down anyone else’s name!!

Navy is in the majority which is a little terrifying. It’s like. We have to start thinking about final 5 and after, but is anyone going to use people outside of the navy to get majority? And Dan/Candace going against the navy got huuuuuge backlash, so I feel like even mentioning going against them is so taboo that it could get me out.

I want Candace and Abel next to me at the end, if possible. The best way to do that is…????

I think within the navy… the biggest threats… are Dan and Amelia. And I think we could easily get Amelia to vote for Dan, so, there.

Provided no one else goes outside the navy for numbers, it’s easy: straight to 5, then Dan, then Amelia (Candace and Abel have GOT to see that they can’t win against either of them??)

I may be handing the win to Candace. But, it’s the only way, I think! Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: The balancing act continues~ im trying to keep my alliances hidden while playing both sides as much as I can, which has been my style of play this whole time. Amelia/Dom/Sara/Wesley have become the Goodies to our Baddies and it’s time for them to go because they pose such a jury threat.

I’ve been targeted as a threat since day 1 of the merge so winning reward and coming second in immunity this round probably didn’t help that… If people were going to make a move - now would have to be the time to do it. I have an extra vote and a vote nullifier from the auction if I need to defend myself but hopefully they can be saved for a rainy day.

If I survive tonight I think I have a great shot at making it to the end if I play my cards right.. Thankfully the Navy alliance (me, amelia, sara, abel, candace) is still in tact and undiscovered - but I think now it’s pretty much just a facade. The hardest part of the game is just around the corner because it means taking out my close friends. Amelia, Sara and Dom are the three biggest threats to my game left. They’re lovely, smart, nice and they haven’t made the jury angry at all. Plus, they all came from Supay - a crazy twist that meant they had to survive rocks at the first vote… As much as I  adore and respect them, they can’t make it to FTC because they’ll win hands down.

Me, Candace, Hunter and Abel have voted the same way the whole way through so if we can make F4 that’d be ideal - we have blood on our hands and similar stories. My only concern with that is the Candace/Abel duo. I think of them as Missy/Baylor so if I can channel my inner Natalie and find a way to get Abel out then I’ll have weakened Candace’s game and hopefully proven myself to the jury.

As for rn, it should be Wesley’s time to go because he gives Dom and Amelia too much power to change the game. Okay so f9. We have Nour who I have never spoken to. We have Wes who lives halfway across the world and the timezones make things hard for me to talk to him so I choose to ignore him. Seems like a nice kid though. We have Dom who seems nice I should start talking to him soon. We have Sara who's so adorable. We have Hunter who is pretty amazing. we have Amelia who I talk to everyday and I want her to win more than myself and we have Candace my closest ally. I've been speaking to Hunter about f3 for a bit and Candace is an obvious f3 choice for me. Ideally we would vote Wes next because he does reasonably well in challenges and is not aligned with me in any way and he's close to Dom/Amelia (I assume). Then Dan would be an easy vote because literally everyone wants him gone. And then I'm sure Nour would side with me Candace and Hunter to take out Amelia/Dom.Then Nour and Sara fall easily#spoileralert

Sara: yeah

honestly

can we just have oNE TRIBAL

THAT DOESN’T FILL MY PM’S LIKE 6 HOURS BEFORE IT’S DUE

WITH “sara we need to talk about tribal”

LIKE

STICK TO THE PLAN Sara: So now…

Do I tell Dan that it’s him tonight? If he has an idol, he can stay in.

Wesley: NO NOT BRIDGET :C

My number one ally got idoled. The person I was the closest too. This is just shit. Two of my closest allies got voted out back to back. Fans numbers are going down too fast…. IM JUST SO MAD. The Faves are definetely winning this game. RIGHT NOW WE ARE DOWN TO TWO AND A HALF FAN BECAUSE WHO KNOWS WHERE ABEL’S HEAD IS AT :C Amelia: well. so after the initial “holy shit fuck everything” moment, it turns out things aren’t actually as bad as i expected. not great, definitely not great, but not the worst they could be. i’m hella pissed that bridget went home, super mad about that and especially about the fact that hunter didnt fuckin stick to the plan even though i had a feeling that he wasn’t going to and i probably should have voted for bridget (or dom since thats what marko told me to do). however. i think it’s still salvageable at this point. the fact that marko played an idol actually was kind of a positive thing in that a) it distracted from the awful botched attempt to get him out, i.e. dan hasn’t gotten around to saying “hey wait a minute why were there five votes for marko”, and b) it wasted an idol :~) so i’m not too mad about that part. as for relationships, i thought that people were gonna be pissed at me whichever way it went, and i was pleasantly surprised by that not being the case. i’m pretty sure marko knows that i voted for him, but he’s been really friendly and was like “it’s okay i understand" (which, granted, is a lot easier when youre on the right side of the numbers or feel like you are). and dan and candace aren’t mad, and wesley is just super upset right now at them which makes me feel good about trusting him in the future, and dom is obviously pissed and i'm so glad it’s not at me whew!

i’m trying to figure out why i’m not that upset right now and i think it’s because i had already kind of resigned myself to the loss of bridget (i took a long shower and thought about it and cried a little this afternoon) before the last-ditch effort to save her happened, and i'm just really happy that a lot of my relationships survived this (and were even maybe strengthened by this). sara voting with us for marko confirmed my faith in her, i believe we’re with each other 98% and it’s so good to see that she was willing to break away from what dandace wanted. i still feel good about abel, although there’s some shadiness regarding him implicating bridget and snitching a little bit, but i’m gonna deal with that later. dan and candace i think feel bad about putting me in "a hard position” this time as well as (i would hope) lying to me last time, so i can definitely use that to my advantage for a couple votes at least, and candace has shown some signs of being willing to vote not with dan next time in order to save dom. wesley i have total faith in now, we cursed together as the vote unfolded and it was a real bonding experience and he thinks me and dom are totally with him. dom is number one and we're tight as hell now and nothing’s gonna tear us apart. hunter i’m totally done with right now and i don’t care anymore…i just don’t. idk where i stand with marko but i think he feels like he’s got the upper hand so i can maybe still try to exploit that relationship a little bit. and nour…sigh, i need to talk to nour more. i feel really bad about not talking to her this round, even though there’s zero trust there. social game not on point.

anyway. i think i’m tentatively in kind of a better place right now because some people owe me

and some people got betrayed with me and i might (might) be less of a threat now that i’ve

been taken down a notch. one can hope. i’m really just excited for this auction and hoping i

get something cool.

peace out Hunter: There is no, in god’s way, I’d get the immunity one. Someone probably bid $500 right away.

I know the things I picked can be lame but if it plays out right, they could help me the most.

Okay last vote was kind of freaky. I continued to vote with Marko, Nour, Candace and Dan. Me and Abel were in between, my spectated final 2. I never directly said I would vote Marko with Amelia and Dom but they were pissed. Uhg Dom was just upset he didn’t have something go his way again. He is getting way too cocky and Bridget had to go, the slippery socialist she is. I wish I could’ve worked with Dom this season because Laura was great to work with in Olympics, but Dom has different game ideas than me.

Bridget is gone!!! She was such a threat and threw my name out there a little bit. She also guessed on the touchy subjects I was fake.  I have spend a couple weeks implanting into everyone’s brains that she had to go! It paid off! Yes!!!

Now I was somewhat close to Dom and Amelia so I don’t think they would target me right away but they might not want my unpredictability anymore. I swear if Amelia votes me without saying, I’ll be done because I told them I would tell them if they were a target. I love Amelia so much, they are such a sweet human being and I hope to talk to them after the game a bit. Who knows, this is a sweet & sour world!

Also I am sort of thinking of having a final 3 with Abel and Candace. I would have to beware of Candace since she is a social threat. The only way they would vote for Abel would be because they were surprised he even made it this far. I have to continue to be social myself and make speeches that prove I was more of a strategist. Plus winning something would help me immensely! I probably seem like a weak floater to the viewers. A stupid little balloon that just needs a POP!

Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zy431SeoC0 remember when i said i was at my lowest moment and would ascend from it? i think the road is heading uphill starting now Candace: Bridget is dead and gone. I remember when I first needed her on the swap and she helped us get rid of Tony. I kinda miss her, although she was very leader like she played a good game and she was a breath of fresh air. I just couldn’t trust her in any longer and I’m sorry we had to part ways Bridget. Dom was very upset. Everyone knew but him, because we told Amelia/Sara that Bridget had to go. Well I let Dan do it so he seems controlling. They didn’t vote Bridget anyways to save face.

So here’s where things get interesting, I told Dom that before the vote was Bridget that Dan was trying to get him out. Which is true! And I let Dom know although I lied to get Bridget out, I did it because Bridget was targetting me. Which was half true. Not really true honestly. But it gave me a motive to vote Bridget other than saying I wanted to weaken those numbers. So NOW Dom is pissed at Dan, and since he’s been wanting to blindside him for awhile it’s more than likely happening soon. And Dan still wants to blindside Dom. Of course I’m sitting in between feeding both sides information while they trust me both? What I want to do though is have both of them eventually target each other. Dan going first maybe. But this week Dan was on board to protect our original alliance and vote off Marko. I think it’s a good idea, so I can appease Dom/Amelia and lessen the other side. And then when Nour asks me why I lied I will say I had no choice and that Dan rallied the numbers to the other side and I couldn’t do anything. Then by then Dom will hopefully make a move to take Dan out so I can protect Nour and she will think I saved her. I had a really good chat with Hunter today as well and he agrees that we’re in the same boat. We need to let both sides battle it out and we float through the middle. We need all the threats gone. And then me/Hunter/Abel will continue to do so and make it to finals unscathed. I’m literally always thinking ahead, I can’t be stuck in one week periods it just doesn’t seem likely.

The auction went OK. I’m pissed I didn’t spend 20$ on the loved one video. All I got out of it was some information that there is a fake idol on Machu. I assume there will be a real one too, so I won’t even know if it’s fucking real or not. I told Amelia/Dom who both think I only told them. I told Dan who thinks I only told him. I also told Abel who knows I told everyone else. So they will all think I’m sharing secret info with them, but really I told a bunch of people who will hopefully trust me more. Dan got a vote doubler and a vote nullifier which is scary as fuck. I think next round Dom will have to make his move. Dan will feel very secure after the Marko vote, and also I will put continue to play up how close I am with him. Then vote his ass off with everything in his hands. Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: Even though it was the hardest personal vote to date, taking Bridget down was the smartest strategic decision I could make. I’ve removed the primary seed-planter and crippled the pillar of the opposing side of the game. Flushing Marko’s idol was PERFECT too because now that it’s his time to go, he can’t defend himself.

Now that the end of the game is in sight (even if it is only F10) I need to start playing a game that is well-rounded and that stands out. Candace and I have done the same thing and our decisions have been made together most of the time but just now I’m seeing a shift in the way she talks to me - as if she has control? I’ve been pretty dominant in our duo but I think the fact that she somehow has less blood on her hands means that she could easily beat me at the end if there’s a bitter jury. If I betray her, though, I would lose any hope of winning - which is why her minion Abel will need to be taken out without her knowing.

After the auction I have a vote nullifier and an extra vote so I’m feeling pretty good about my chances if I can survive this round. F10 is where I went out last time and this round has been pretty quiet so there could easily be a plan to take me out in the works. If I can get through this round, no one’s gonna stop me getting what I want

Candace:YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Oh my gosh that went perfectly. Bye bye Mitchell! Hopefully Bridget and Wes will be joining you soon. I think I’m a control freak. Take away my control and I go nuts and make hasty decisions. Sorry you were on the receiving end of that one Team Fans. Bridget: I. Am. Livid. Like what the fuck. Dan feels like Mitchell is a threat to his game, so he goes and works with other people? That does not work for me. I love Dan, I would have loved to work with him further, but he is proving to have too much fucking influence on this game. First, Dan says we all vote Wesley because it’s an “easy” vote and no one will see an alliance forming like blah blah blah whatever, SURE DAN.

But THEN. Marko comes to me and others trying to vote Dan out and we rallied everyone together real quick because that wasn’t about to happen.

Now, because Dan feels like Mitchell is too close to the rest of us and not to him, he flips to other people to work with them? How do you think that fucking looks, Dan. And now I feel like I’m on the bottom, and he can’t do anything but “reassure me.” Like FUCK OFF. Spare me the bullshit, DAN. I’m dating a guy named Dan right now, and I just feel totally turned off by the name now. Ugh. How am I supposed to work in the morning? I feel like I just got cheated on and am now going through a bad break up lol

To end things, I’ll quote Amelia:

[6/8/15, 11:12:46 PM] Amelia: okay well, as far as long term goes they’re all dead to me i’m with you and dom 2kforever

Sara: That… SUCKED.

Like…!!!!!!!

Mitchell was cool and all but I didn’t have any game-alliance or whatever with him (not a real one anyway). But I am SO. HURT. That my alliance did not let me in on this plan to get him out. Tbh I feel really naive now that I trusted them so much. But I have felt comfortable since before the second tribe swap, tbh. The moment I started seriously working with Candace, I felt comfortable because we could so seamlessly strategize and honestly we numerically owned the game from that point on. But now I feel like she and Dan have kicked me out, kind of. I don’t really know what’s going on and I just wish that I was let in on the plan.

Candace and Dan have both personally apologized to me, but it’s gonna take a bit. I really need some good reasoning.

I’ll be honest here. I’ve been thinking about the final tribal, and I had decided to take Candace and Dan if I were in a position to choose because I sincerely enjoy them, they deserve to be there, and there’s just no way I could win against Bridget or Amelia. But DAMN. If they keep pulling moves like this A. I won’t be able to trust them at ALL and B. I won’t be able to beat them either!!

I just really hope we can patch this up.

I’m gonna make some hibiscus tea in memory of Mitchell and hopefully that will help my strategic wounds.

Marko: I could not be happier that Mitchell has left. It makes me happy knowing that when people don’t listen to my very simple instructions, they leave. The best part about it, too, is that literally nobody is mad at me. Not one person has had choice words for me yet. Bridget is so quick to shove everything towards Dan because she knows it couldn’t have been my plan.

Speaking of Bridget, she, on my list of “people that Marko needs to get rid of,” has fluctuated the most dramatically over the past few days. If I want to make Dan feel comfortable, he may have it out for Bridget and make that emotional decision himself. However, if Dan and Bridget are willingly unable to work together, it’d make the most strategic sense to keep both of those two around. And get this: Bridget and I talked after the vote and she said she was slightly upset that I didn’t tell her to vote Mitchell because she’s “always been honest and upfront” with me. Oh is that so, Bridget? Because the minute you told me that the first time was around the same time you wrote Erin’s name down.

I only trust Nour fully at this point because we each have a copy of our shared map of the Machu Picchu maze.

Although Dan helped me out on this vote, I don’t feel at all like I owe him anything. I still need to keep in the back of my mind what he’s been saying about me, i.e. everything relative to the double vote mania that I had to deflect while I was on Ekkeko. I need to make sure not to get blinded by all the compliments he’s throwing out at me, and I need to have Nour and Hunter on their toes about him creating some assemblage of power before it’s too late, because right now I think myself, Nour, and Hunter would be my ideal final three situation. Amelia: whew thanks sole for making this decision so much easier for me :’) i thought it was gonna be really hard to decide between working primarily with dan and candace or with dom and bridget but now it’s so much more obvious :) that really worked out well!!!!

i got home and i was going to eat dinner first but i was like “eh i’ll just check and make sure the revote is still nour” and then the first thing i see is

[7:25:11 PM] Dan/Sole: (heart)

[7:57:35 PM] Dan/Sole: Just want you to know that you’re still my closest ally I understand if you don’t feel the same way anymore

and i’m like shit, what happened? so i went to bridget and was like what the fuck just happened i don’t want to read the tribe chat i feel sick and she was like “dan didnt feel like he was being heard so he and candace got together with marko, nour, and wesley” and i’m like shit shit shit dom is gone fuck this always happens to me and dan did it to me AGAIN and then she’s like “they took out mitchell” and WHEW okay at least it wasnt dom but what the fuck dan why didnt you tell me this

idk i’m just mad because nobody deigned to even mention mitchell as a possibility for the vote to me or told me any of what was going on and now candace and dan are all like “we’re still with you, final three, sorry about this but we are still solid please love us” and i’m like, again? fucking again? goddamn fucking deja vu with people blindsiding me and then expecting me to get right back on board with them like hell no. i’m gonna suck it up and be nice and play along for a couple votes but you told me with this vote that i’m not your #1 so you’re not gonna be mine anymore either.

and yeah, i get the logic behind it, i get that they thought that it’d be hard for me to vote mitchell because of my relationship with bridget and dom or whatever but i would have appreciated it if hey had at least TOLD me that they were gonna do it because does it look like i would have fought to keep mitchell around? is mitchell in our alliance? no and no. i guess i’m just not trustworthy enough to handle it, which is bullshit. i’m just upset and i can’t eat dinner now and basically everything sux for the next couple hours

but you know what??? you don’t fuck with me. and now that i’m past final 12, i’m unstoppable. this is a low moment for me, but in the words of chicken marsellus, every winner strong player has a low moment and then they rise above the bullshit and become a better, purer, more terrifying being of fire and darkness ((ASCEND))

Hunter: Okay I encompass the definition of a floater in this game!!!!

So at the first tribal I had to go to on Chaska I aligned with Marko Nour Erin Mitchell Ethan and Casey. We are against Dylan Dom and Amelia. Dylan goes.

There is a tribe switch. I then work with Dan and Candace to get Casey out. She goes.

Merge. I flip on Erin Marko and Nour to go work with everyone else because heck that was a trio to be reckoned with. Erin goes.

I flip back to Marko and Nour with a few others to put the fans out of their cocky zones. Mitchell goes.

Floater R US! I haven’t won any individual challenges, nor do I expect to since we have dominant challenge competitors like Marko, Dan and Dom. What I do have is the social aspect, everyone likes me so much and wants to work with me. I have seriously had three people come up to me at different points in the game and tell me they hope I end up voting with them the next round. Wtf wouldn’t they want to target me since I didn’t go with their game. I am the wall that is in the middle of the road but it has some sort of historical aspect to they keep painting me pretty! I’m not getting too cocky, I just know I have such a great social aspect to me, plus some strategic since I had to slowly plant seeds in people’s minds for the last two merge votes. Plant seeds to show the power trio. Plant seeds for them to see fan plus Dom and Amelia domination. Then plant seeds that we need to do a split votes, because IDOLS ARE EVERYWHERE! lol I think there might only be two in game right now. *cough* Dom Dan Marko Nour and maybe Amelia and Wesley *cough*.

Just continuing to sit pretty. That doesn’t mean the seat’s comfortable though

Amelia: okay okay everything is fine i’ve gotten over it tbh

this might actually be better in the long run because now me and dom and bridget are hella close and dom is maybe setting up a final 5 thing with us, candace, and dan (although personally i think dan should be taken out at f6 but we can deal with that later) and this has definitely further solidified my bond with sara who is 110% bae and i had a really good talk with abel who was unfairly taken advantage of with this plan and he literally said “i won’t ever ever ever go along with a plan to vote you out” so <3 <3 <3 those two are literally sacred beings i love them so much

it’s gonna be okay i’m still lowkey mad but i’ll suck it up and deal with it for now Amelia: lol just kidding i’m crying a little bit cause dan came online and apparently this was all my fault because what changed his mind was me saying “so to clarify: fans for nour, faves for marko?” because apparently it was the opposite way before and apparently he couldnt just say “i think it was the other way around” and i ??? what a mess i was just trying to see if that was right i didnt mean to change it or whatever i thought that’s what we had decided but apparently this is all my fault apparently my best friend here doesn’t trust me enough to pm me i’m upset ugh

i dont know why i even care so much about this vote it’s not like it was that bad goodbye

Sara: DAMMIT

MARKO

STOP

WINNING

EVERYTHING Amelia: first of all, i cannot believe marko took dan on reward like … i can believe it but i also CAN"T BELIEVE HE TOOK DAN smh

second of all, dan keeps being like “yeah i’ll try to find the idol but i really don’t want it, it’ll put an even bigger target on my back” and i’m just like “okay but…………….whether or not you find it changes literally nothing about how big of a threat you are unless you go around telling everyone about it…….if you go on the reward people are going to assume you might have it regardless of whether you actually do………”

it’s not like the immunity idol comes with a huge flashing sign that says IDOL HERE like thats the whole point of a hidden immunity idol it's hidden you are not legally required to tell anyone about it and this isn’t even the real show so you don’t even have to worry about bulges in your pockets chill out a little bit

okay i’m sorry i need to stop being mean to dan ilysm dan but i’m just so

Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: Ayyyyyyy I pulled off a tasty #blindside last round

Mitchell is out of the game and I can move on with my true allies :~)

I wanted to do it for a few reasons: 1- Mitchell was shady af with me and Bridget was talking about him like he was her firstborn child??? and 2- (it sounds crazy but…) I actually needed some blood on my hands! I need people to be mad at me so they would forget that I have connections to people, am in a lot of alliances and can win immunity if I try really hard.

And boy did it work…. Bridget is PISSED and I’m seriously considering taking her out next. I have my tried-and-tested misfits alliance of people who should never have been working together (marko, nour, hunter, candace, abel and me) so I can use them if I want. Sara and Amelia have forgiven me, though, so the Navy (me, candace, abel, sara and amelia) is an option for the future too.. Until I make up my mind though:

also im not looking forward to this G*SHD*RN TOUCHY SUBJECTS FML

Bridget: I. Hate. Everyone. And I hate this game (kidding). But seriously, why can’t people be as honest and trusting and upfront as me? Things would be so much easier. Okay, fine, whatever, I guess that wouldn’t make for a fun game. *rolls eyes*

If this is Dom’s (or Amelia’s or my) last night, then fuck you all, and especially fuck you, Dan. Marko: So, the touchy subjects challenge just happened and I was way more apparent on that board than I had first thought. To preface this confessional, no, I’m not sad I got the negative ones, no, I’m not in a good position in this tribe, and no, I’m certainly not making some bullshit ten-minute video complaining about the answers in my bedroom.

Right now, I have a couple of miniature operations running at the same time, but it’s hard to get all of them to click smoothly the way I want them to. Firstly (and I think this one is the funniest), I have a Vermeer. I shared a map of the Machu Picchu maze with Dan to secure some trust with him. The thing is, though, I erased a good chunk of the map so it looked like I hit two dead ends on my first try, but I actually retrieved the idol and covered my tracks. So now, Dan is scouring the entire maze cluelessly, and all he’s doing is making the map bigger for Nour to think she has a chance at finding the idol. It’s beautiful. I’m working both of them. I have an artist who’s painting the picture, and I have an ally who’s buying the picture, and I’m profiting.

The next thing I’m doing is freaking the fuck out about my idol because I’m not sure whether I want to play it or not. I want to save it for the next vote in order to blindside a member of my immediate alliance, but I am really on the hot seat right now and I would hate to pull an Andrea Boehlke.

Amelia: i was gonna drag dan a lil bit more but tbh he doesn’t deserve that - i’ve dragged him enough and it’s been rough for him this round so i will be nice. the only thing i will say is that i wish he wouldn’t keep saying things like “i’m trusting you in saying this” or “i hope i can trust you to not tell bridget this” when, um, he’s the one who lied to me last round OKAY I"M DONE SORRY DAN I LOVE YOU

okay first of all, touchy subjects was fun :) i got some good ones so i’m pretty happy with that :) even though it might be a problem in the future if people start to see me as a jury threat. [sigh] not so happy about dan getting “most likely to be blindsided” or about marko getting “who’s getting voted out” or whatever it was, because that caused a huge mess. people just…..need……to calm the f*ck down for five seconds here alright

i get home and suddenly everyone is running around like chickens with their heads cut off (basically that gif of the pizza man walking into a burning room);  bridget is freaking out about dan and not trusting him and how maybe he’s gonna vote out dom, and dan is all “everyone is being so suss i don’t know where i can turn”, and i’m just like whoa there let’s be reasonable and talk this through. of course i find out marko’s behind all of this chaos. of course. honestly why do we keep letting him stay here? i thought he was going to be a nice, quiet, desperate shield, but apparently not so much. he needs to GO.

(of course, now that i say that, he’s probably going to pull off some last minute wizardry and vote me out……rip in pieces)

anyway so i think things are kind of under control now, dan has said that he’ll go with the majority decision to vote out marko and we’re hoping to not split it this time bc where did that get us last time smh. it seems like marko is planning to band together the same six he used last time, so the plan as i understand it is for them (dan, hunter, abel, candace) to do some undercover agent shit to make him feel like they’re all going to vote dom - supposedly because people (marko) are saying he has an idol from premerge although a. i know that’s not true and b. idk why they would all of a sudden bring that up after all this time. anyway, the one thing i’m concerned about is dom and bridget and their trust in this, because bridget’s been really mad and “shouting” at dan about thinking he’s with marko, and dom was pissed after the vote last time, so what i’m hoping is that i can mist marko into letting me into his alliance so that i can let dom and bridget know that i’m in on it and reassure them that we’re not actually going to vote dom out.

sigh. what a night. everyone needs to chill.

Candace: Coming to you live is Tumblr Survivor Machu Picchu’s FAKEST contestant. Oh gosh Touchy Subjects is so fun. And me being PERCEPTIVE as I am, I got 17 correct and won! My first individual immunity win. Apparently I’m due for a blindside by Wesley (good fucking luck when your only ally is Bridget who is most likely getting tossed away like yesterday’s paper) and Sara has me pegged as the winner. Thanks Sara, I do too!

So the continual meltdown of Bridget continues. After the results, of course new majority (Abel/Dan/Marko/Nour/Hunter/Me) struggled to get a vote going. Abel didn’t want to vote Bridget, and they were trying to get the vote rallied for Dom. No way, I was not going to vote off Dom and I had to fight for his life and get it on Bridget, which I successfully managed. Not only do I still consider Dom an ally, but I also will need him to eventually get Dan out who I can’t keep around until the end. He’s just going to win and he’s sneaky as fuck. I don’t think he’ll ever see me coming for him either. I let Abel know this as well, but no one else but Dom and Abel will know that Dan has to go eventually. But for now I need him. Bridget is really stupid… She attacked Dan today, LOL! Like good for her though, let people know Dan is the one to watch out for while I hide in the rose bushes. She thinks they’re going to vote Dom, LET PEOPLE KNOW! The more she runs her mouth the easier she makes it. Especially since I am convinced the idol is in the hands of Dom at this point, even though he won’t admit it. So if they think Dom is a possible target, the easier it’ll be to cut Bridget off. Amelia/Sara are so naive and I feel so bad. But I think maybe last minute I’ll let them know, so it isn’t a complete shocker. Although I will still probably lose their trust, but I can just blame it all on Dan. I mean with the way Bridget has been behaving, why wouldn’t we want to vote her off? She has questioned our trust, so if she doesn’t trust us why would we willingly work with her. That’s the perspective I’m taking of my lying and voting off Bridget I’m sticking with anyways, hopefully they buy it.

So here’s how I want the rest of the votes to go

Bridget > Wes > Dan (blindside) > Marko > Nour > Amelia (blindside) > Dom (blindside) > Sara

Then I can sit pretty next to Abel and Hunter in final three and collect my CHECK! I have so much planning, lying, and sneakiness to do and I hope this “boot list” goes as planned.

Amelia: [7:51:00 AM] Dan/Sole: Ayyy

[7:51:10 AM] Dan/Sole: aYYYYY

[7:51:14 AM] Dan/Sole: AyYyYyY

[7:51:19 AM] Dan/Sole: aYyYyYyY

[7:51:39 AM] Dan/Sole: ayyy ayyy !! ayy

me as hell rn

this morning i woke at like 6:30 or something fuckin crazy like that and i messaged marko like “hey!” because we had said we would “touch base” last night (after he was like people have been talking about dom bUT IT’S NOT MY IDEA I’M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT I HEARD) and then i waited like an hour and then literally as i was just about to try to go to sleep again my phone goes off and it’s marko (of course). so i took off my sleeping mask and i started into this charade about how i was thinking about what he said last night and “i know that people expect me to vote with dom but that’s why i thought it was worth exploring different options” and “if he’s being seen as a threat now it may not benefit me to be connected to that”. which i think is p reasonable because marko knows i’m not dumb and that ultimately i’m playing an individual game, which could come back to hurt me if he weren’t getting voted out tonight ((hopefully)) ((fingers crossed)).

he said he’d talk to dan about it and i don’t know if he bought what i was selling but if he did that’s frickin amazing, strategical game on point congrats @myself, if he didn’t then i guess maybe he’d decide to vote for me instead but that might actually be even better because i know dan and candace and abel aren’t about to vote me out, and in any case dan can tell me what’s happening with that. and you know what, i pressured marko into eating a bagel so i’m satisfied with my work today. the only thing i have to decide now is if i’m gonna talk to nour about this if i get accepted into the elite inner circle or if it’s better at this point to just not do that. i guess we’ll see if i get that acceptance first.

(also delayed touchy subjects paranoia setting in, i’m terrified that i’m gonna get blindsided in a couple votes ugh bye)

Amelia: aaaaand just like that we’re back to ZERO CHILL WHATSOEVER

dan comes into the navy chat and is like “we should vote out bridget now” because she and dom are apparently bigger threats than marko even tho he’s the one who was supposed to be gone 3 votes ago and yet has still wriggled his way to this point??? like??? also the fact that dom and bridget both have a lot of other stuff going on rn so they’re not giving it 100% and also just….no…..dan is worried about “connections” but let’s be totally real here he has more connections than they do and so does marko. so me and sara are like “no we really shouldn’t do that we promise we’ll vote bridget next time” (which i’m not gonna do but w/e) and then dan is like “that was a total set up” and “i feel so attacked” to sara in pm like um first of all it’s called an alliance and we’re supposed to talk out the decisions together second of all why do you have to be in charge and have final say on every vote that’s really not helping you out bud third of all you!! just!!! flipped on us last time and you literally said “it’s marko next time i promise” and now you’re gonna flip it onto bridget??? whoooaaa there. whoa. i don’t think so.

me and sara both privately agreed that he has too much influence right now and that we’re not voting bridget no matter what, and if dan decides to go and do it anyway and lie to us again we just can’t work with him anymore, that’s just how it’s gonna be. i love dan so much, but if he goes and does this right now, i gotta leave and he’s gotta go home. especially because that would fuck me over with marko and nour even more.

i’m just so over this dan-is-the-leader thing and he seriously needs to listen to his alliance members or he’s not gonna have an alliance much longer

and this is EXACTLY WHY MARKO NEEDS TO GO he is too good at creating paranoia and messing things up and is so strategically on point he can’t be allowed to stay and dan needs to stop drinking the tea

Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyWQZx20j7o Marko: I’m considering naming this the Brick Wall Alliance, because speaking to Abel is just the most frustrating experience ever. It’s not that he doesn’t want to strategize, I just think it’s because he doesn’t know what the hell is going on 95% of the time.

I know I’m getting five votes tonight, so I’m highly considering playing my idol. Abel could decide to flip and make things interesting, and I’m not about to let the most passive person ruin my game just because he was bored. Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: Panic! At the Muzco. Bridget should be going home and that makes me sad… she is SUCH a lovely person and an amazing player. She has been the target so much this game, and she has survived so many tribals and still hasn’t been voted out. So far, this is the hardest vote of the game because I legitimately do really love Bridget - she’s so smart and really engaging in conversation and she’s going places in life i think haha

But at the end of the day I have to do what’s best for my game. Our relationship didn’t recover from the Mitchell vote and she started planting seeds about my control over the game. The fact that she’s been really hard to get out means she had an impressive set of connections in the game and that’s even more threatening.

Sara: Dan is thanking me profusely, I guess for keeping him on…

I feel like that’s not really a big deal and that I had a pretty small part in that but idk he seems to think I’m majorly responsible.

Aaaaand I’m not going to correct him. #JuryPhase Marko: Since when did “take out the biggest threats” become “let’s let this very vocal final three deal skate more than one vote past the merge?” Everybody who has played this season, raise your hand. Now lower your hand if you name is Dom, Amelia, or Dan. Also lower your hand if you voted with myself, Nour, and Erin for this vote. Everybody who still has their hand raised, use that hand to go to WebMD and figure out what the fuck is wrong with you. WHY is anybody letting Dan, Amelia, and Dom skate through undetected?

These fans are honestly dumber than I thought. I sent them *quoted messages* of Dan saying that the fans were nothing more than my “sheep,” and that they were then next to go, and guess how many fans voted against Dan. Precisely zero. That’s right; these people are so dense that they’d rather vote with somebody who willingly wants them gone over sticking with somebody just because they were given an unattractive label.

So I’m feeling that I’m just going to win every single challenge from here on out until I figure some sort of plan out. I’ll just keep sending screenshots and faking quotes of people and seeing if they turn on each other. Marko: I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that people still aren’t realizing I’m better than them at challenges, or how superficial I have to act every time I do win a challenge. I was of utmost confidence that when I turned in my score I would win. As long as the next few challenges are a flash game of some sort, these clowns will have no clue what they’re doing. If anything, it’s beneficial now to include me in their plans because they’ll have to bank on the odds that I’m going to lose one of the next eight immunity challenges.

As of now, the only person I trust is Nour (for obvious reasons). And on exile, we are going to embody that Asian kid from The Maze Runner as much as we can and find that freaking idol so we have some level of security in this tribe which has been very vocal about wanting my head on a platter. Bridget: So obviously our plan to vote out Erin worked, but I went to Marko after and was like, “Sorry I didn’t vote with you and blah blah.” He asked why, and I told him it was because I knew I’d be on the bottom of that alliance if I sided with him. You know, I kept it open-ended, though, making it seem like I wasn’t really aligned with anyone. Not sure if he bought it or not. But he has to be a fucking idiot. Just look at this shit:

[6/6/15, 8:18:43 PM] Marko Saric (Zebrafish): I’m assuming you’ve talked to mitchell about the decision

[6/6/15, 8:19:33 PM] Bridget Ann: Yeah, I’m sorry, we both just thought you were super tight with Erin/Nour/Hunter

[6/6/15, 8:19:55 PM] Bridget Ann: Two or three against four aren’t good odds, if that was the case

[6/6/15, 8:21:32 PM] Marko Saric (Zebrafish): yeah i get what you’re saying and i think thats a really good reason as to why you didn’t approach me since you didn’t want me to be upset with you. so now that we’ve cleared that i’m not as tight with them as you thought, i guess what i want to ask of you is to be a bit more open next time because i’m definitely not this overbearing leader that dan makes me out to be

[6/6/15, 8:24:51 PM] Bridget Ann: Yeah yeah of course, I’m definitely open to the possibility of us still working together

And then. He took fucking Nour to Machu Picchu. Like, even if I were to humor the possibility of us working together, how am I supposed to feel you taking Nour, your not-so-close ally, to the maze with you? I mean, come on. You expect me to trust that? Get it together, Marko!

Mitchell: I’m honestly such a Mitchell stan like…. he rips my weaves out a l l t h e t i m e. he’s too iconic for this game even… like hunty he fought hard to win immunity but he lost and he’s still not even going home!! god the true winner of this game aka mitchell kalabang. what a good fucking pup!! i am such a stan. may the lord bless me to catch all the shade he is throwing!!!!!!!!!! slay my LIFE Host Note: We found this confessional so funny that we’ve provided a prntscr as proof we did not make this up. http://prntscr.com/7estx5 Bridget: Christ. The paranoia is starting, folks! Now there’s this paranoia that there will be a “fan resurgence.” We don’t even have a group chat! I’m totally with my Lasagna alliance…… until it’s not beneficial anymore. Because, let’s be honest, could I beat any of them in the FTC? Eh, it’d be a toss up. I have a decent social game, but that only gets you so far and people often don’t think that’s enough to win the entire game. Whatever. So how ideal would it be to sit next to Abel and Wesley, who don’t do shit? Wait. That’s so lame of me. This shit isn’t even for money - not even a $15 dollar gift card (c'mon, hosts). Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: I won immunity todaay :~) 2048 was once part of my soul so I’m glad it payed off! But as soon as people started talking about the vote… an opportunity presented itself.

And imma take it.

So since being targeted last round and winning immunity I’m now the biggest threat in the game after Marko. As if I wasn’t worried enough already, but Amelia tells me that there is a SEVEN PERSON ALLIANCE of the fans plus dom/amelia and then a FINAL FOUR of mitchell, bridget, amelia and dom…… Bridget has been shady af with defending mitchell and wesley like her firstborn children and honestly I was fine with it until about 10 minutes ago. I’m here like

arE YOU KIDDING ME. Not on my watch will i be told about an alliance I’m not a part of and do nothing about it???

Me, Candace, Hunter and Abel are going to scoop up Marko and Nour from the bottom of the pile and throat-punch Mitchell right out of the game. Bridget, Wesley and Dom I don’t care about tbqh but Amelia and Sara I do. I really hope they forgive me for going behind their back - but I’ve said the whole time that I want the Navy to succeed and if that means cutting off their other options to make it happen then so be it.

The votes should be 6 for Mitchell, 4 for Nour and 2 for Marko :~)

The first major #blindside of the season get keen

Candace: This day has really tested me. This is the closest I’ve had to a meltdown this game.

So last week went as planned, Nour/Marko got lied to and blindsided by people they trusted to vote Dan with them. Surprisingly Wes even voted with us which was clearly not a part of our plans.. So our raising suspicion of Mitchell/Bridget/Wes being together has reached it’s peak. So we obviously go to Marko and say look you lied, but look who lied to you. Mitchell. Marko’s smart, he knows he would benefit from working with Dan/Me/Him/Nour. And we throw his suspicion towards the people we’re scared of. Immunity is revealed, Dan wins and we have to think of a vote.

Get this, Bridget won’t let anyone get a fucking WORD in. Of course she doesn’t have to because to her she thinks she has everyone under her control. EVERYONE wants Wes GONE! We’d rather Mitchell, but we all know he’s too close with Bridget to suggest so. But she does not budge and is adamant the votes will go Marko/Nour with Nour going by telling Marko to vote off Nour to save himself. Like strong holding and black mailing was EVER a good strategy in fucking Survivor where you want to appease everyone. So on the low I was like Dan, are you ready to flip? And for the longest time he wouldn’t after all our planning with Marko. He said let’s just do it one more time, go with Bridget. Amelia flipping was out of the question. Hunter and I were so ready to flip to Marko, but we needed Dan. Why would you continue to do something against your wishes and give dictator Bridget exactly what she wants? It makes ZERO sense. NONE! But Amelia said something that made it incredibly stupid NOT to flip and I don’t think they realize it, because from what they showed Dan we have since made plans that would involve lying to them, which I really don’t want to since I love them. :(

On 8/06/2015, at 2:31 pm, amelia (lasagna) wrote:

> oh also so we might have to figure out stuff w/ mitchell becase apparently (i literally have no memory of this omfg) hes under the impression that theres a voting block of me, him, sara, abel, dom, bridget, and wesley and he wants the vote to be split 6-4 to marko

Dan finally agreed that it’s EVIDENT that Bridget has another alliance. It’s basically been confirmed that Hunter/Marko/Nour/Myself/Dan are excluded from crossing the Bridget Bridge. So we’re lying to anyone who isn’t in our plans. They think the vote will be split even between Nour/Marko. Fans vote Nour, Faves vote Marko. Which by the way, was suddenly switched by Bridget herself when we all agreed it would go the other way. I think they’re trying to pull a fast one. They are telling us Nour is out, but Mitchell also told Amelia it’s 6-4 Marko going. So let them think they are somehow getting Marko out when in reality neither of them are going. Marko/Nour/Myself/Dan/Abel/Hunter will have our 6 votes on Mitchell. So I don’t give a rat’s ass how any of those losers vote. Sorry Amelia, Dom, Sara. But it’s something I need to do for MY game. We will have a new majority anyways so if you’re mad, then you can follow them out the door. Updates if anything changes. Fingers fucking crossed I don’t wake up and a new plan is in motion.

Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0TOUlf0Rq4

Amelia: uuuuuuuuuuuGHH GOD DAMN IT DOM I’M GOING TO FIGHT U AFTER THIS VOTE

right when i’m like everything is fine this vote is under control i’m feeling good about this

[2:49:46 PM] Dom (rin): Hey guys so I voted and am about to go back to work but I have a bad bad feeling about tonight and I think it’s just paranoia but I’m pretty sure I’m getting blindsided tonight if that’s the case know I’m rooting for you guys!!!! You two are the best : >

[2:49:56 PM] amelia (lasagna): omg dom

[2:49:56 PM] amelia (lasagna): no

[2:50:00 PM] amelia (lasagna): dont say this

[2:50:06 PM] Bridget Ann: No, if it’s anyone, I feel like it would be me, to be honest

[2:50:08 PM] Bridget Ann: Or Mitchell

[2:50:12 PM] Dom (rin): Sorry this tribal has just been too quiet

[2:50:15 PM] Bridget Ann: You know, because of the “fan resurgence"

[2:50:17 PM] amelia (lasagna): guys omg

[2:50:20 PM] Dom (rin): When people don’t talk to me at all

[2:50:25 PM] Dom (rin): I know what’s going on lol

[2:50:58 PM] Dom (rin): Either way I’m p sure Dan is up to something I’m not gonna lie

[2:51:04 PM] Bridget Ann: You think so?

[2:51:14 PM] Dom (rin): I seriously can’t trust the guy idk

[2:51:35 PM] Dom (rin): But I already sent in my vote but I have faith in you guys and our alliance

[2:51:37 PM] Bridget Ann: Well Marko came to me saying he talked to Dan a lot yesterday and Dan wants to rekindle something and involve me and Mitchell

[2:51:46 PM] Dom (rin): Really hmmm

[2:51:49 PM] amelia (lasagna): i think this vote is gonna be fine honestly

[2:51:53 PM] amelia (lasagna): let’s not panic

I  SWEAR TO GOD CAN WE NOT JUST CALM DOWN FOR ONE SINGLE VOTE

ALSO CAN I HAVE ONE TIME WHERE THE TWO PEOPLE I TRUST MOST AREN’T SECRETLY OUT TO GET EACH OTHER HONESTL Y

now im all paranoid too but friiiick theres nothing that can (or should) be done it’s gonna be FINE ughhhhh DOMINICK WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS BURY ME Sara: Time to flush some idols!

Yep, everyone’s voting for Marko and Nour. They’re scary idol-wise. But I’ve made it clear to Marko that I’d be willing to vote with him if he got numbers together. A blatant lie, but I’m finding that Queen Sandra’s strategy of being a vote up for grabs has a lot of merit, even when it’s only used superficially. Of course, you have to be more careful that way, which I think I’m being. Unnecessarily though, because they’ll both be gone soon probably.

I just… am… a little… hesitant.

I don’t know about Nour because tbh we don’t talk often. But Marko is playing HARD. Meanwhile, Abel doesn’t even know that challenges have occurred long after they’ve finished! Or that Nour is female! He started talking to Erin LITERALLY AFTER she got voted out - the second we heard “first member of the jury.” He’s really cool to talk to, but if this were the real island he’d probably be sitting in the ocean all day. Totally checked out of this game, but he’s going to stay longer than Marko. I hate the goat concept for that reason.

Shit.

Mitchell: #RIP CASEY OMG YOU WERE IN MY ENDGAME PLANS WHERE DID YOU GO

but um more importantly we merged……… so…… :~)

Marko: I always envisioned the merge to be a spectacular event, topped with a glorious feast and perhaps a fireworks display to round out the evening. Instead, the thirty-five seconds of fun was immediately pushed aside by the fact that I’m a sitting duck and the number one target in the eyes of like…five people. Woohoo!

So let’s do a bit of a rewind and talk about Dan. Just to preface this (this would have sounded a lot more credible in my first confessional and not my fifteenth), everything I say about anybody in a confessional is a joke. It may seem like I’m super serious in all my confessionals but honestly I’m not taking this game seriously in the slightest. They’re just jokes; I don’t know you. I don’t see how you can get offended by these. Like, I devoted an entire paragraph to how annoying I thought Mitchell was before I met Mitchell, and I love Mitchell.

Alright. Dan. According to Candace (my #1 trusted source for spilling the tea), Dan was mad at myself, Mitchell, and Ethan for the way we “rubbed him the wrong way” during the Jeopardy challenge. Let me repeat that in case the people in the back didn’t hear me. Dan was mad at myself, Mitchell, and Ethan for cheering on our tribe within a Jeopardy simulation within a Survivor simulation. Hopefully the next reward challenge is for the world’s smallest violin. Nobody cares, dude! Candace was all serious like “yeah you’re on the bottom,” but to me it was pure comedy. Dan was mad at me for secondly “rallying” an alliance to vote out Dylan and now I’m swapping to the fans and this and that. Dan…you need people to vote with you. Those are called “voting blocks.” That’s how this game works. Just because you vote with somebody doesn’t mean you’re in this inescapable bond forever. And thirdly, people are mad at me because apparently Tony did a bad job of relaying information from Machu Picchu back to his tribe and now I’m guilty by association because I’m the only Bonin Islands representative left. It’s all a big hoopla and all of a sudden, everyone is piling their dirty laundry on me, and I’m running the fuck out of my Tide Detergent and Fabric Care products so I can’t take care of all of this on my own.

So I’ve got a lot of damage control to do and I really hope I can take some of the heat off me before our first tribal.

Bridget: Tribe swap. Fucking finally. Can someone count how many times I’ve been to tribal? Me and Wesley (I think?) have survived the most tribal councils out of everyone in this game so far. While it was hectic at the time, it’s been really advantageous. Coming into merge, I’m connected with nearly everyone and have worked with almost every single person. At this point, I could probably align myself with anyone I so please. Who’s it going to be? You’ll just have to watch to find out! Amelia:

honestly…..me right now

when MA T T FUCKING SUMMERS asked me when i thought we were gonna merge and i was like “12” and he was like “interesting” ,,,,,,,,,,, ,,, ,,,,,,.,,,..i thought that meant it was gonna be like ; 10 or some shit i sURE AS HEC K DID NOT THINK THAT MEANT MERGE AT 1 3 dear jesus help me

ok im real mad that i cant make a video right now but my fam is here and i gotta maintain rodney’s 3 c’s at the moment sO. WHEW. i am loving this and i am also scared as heck honestly i have no clue what’s gonna happen next but thats kinda the best feeling

damn someone better make a cake cause the heat in here has just been turned up like 450 degrees

(I KNOW THAT WAS BAD LET ME LIVE I’M    SWEATING)

alright alright alright alright alright what am i doing im literally such a mess right now my brain cant handle this alrigh t first of all 13 people is fucking terrifying second of all im not entirely convinced that y'all didnt make this happen just so i could get first merge boot *and* get 13th like ??? let me livE okay im done i love you

right now it looks like my five alliance from chaska is gonna hook up with bridget and dom as long as sara and abel are on board with that, and then maybe mitchell is in there too?? idk i’ve gotten good reviews from bridget/dom about him and he came to me straight away and was like “i know we werent on the same side before but i’m hoping things can work out better now” so thats a good sign. he’s smart tho and he’s familiar with my gameplay so i gotta be careful w/ that one wew

my social game sux rn so i have to repair that asap and i guess i have to make a bunch of alliances now???? i’m just so excited to be here????? and also SCARED AF l o l i’m gonna die bury me i love this. You know what i’m gonna do!!! i’m gonna make a chart and some lists to help me sort through this i fucking love charts and lists Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: So that merge totally caught me off guard?? Since when are there 13 people in one tribe…

Casey was unanimously voted off last round which was cool because it didn’t divide us like I was afraid it would - Nour, Hunter and Erin just went with it but I’m sure they think they were pushed into it and they probably think they don’t have much power (which is true)

but YAY I MADE THE MERGE

So far idk I think I’ve played a pretty reasonable game - I’ve manipulated the vote here and there and I’m in a good position but nothing too crazy because I planned on going deep in this game right from the start. I think everyone here has survived on their own merit so there are SO MANY smart players I really want to outwit :~~)

13 players in a single tribe is INSANE like where do I start

I trust Abel/Candace/Sara/Amelia and Bridget/Dom so hopefully that’s 7 right off the bat. Markolepsy has claimed people like Mitchell, Wesley, Erin and obv Marko and thankfully Hunter knows it so those people have to go pretty soon. Hunter and Nour are kinda in the middle and I don’t want to upset them but I also have no idea what their plans are…

ALSO I HEARD SOMEONE SAY THAT GIRLS ARE BETTER AT TUMBLR SURVIVOR THAN GUYS BUT NO THANK YOU MA'AM I’M NOT HERE TO COME SECOND. This fuckboy’s coming in 1st place in about a month’s time so they’ll have to do some seriously hard work to take me down.. *breathes deeply*

Speaking of which i’ve been thinking a little bit about how to win this game and I think the best way for me to do that is to think backwards from the FTC - like who do I want in the end and how can I make sure the people who can make that happen are around at the right time. I think I want Candace and Hunter with me? idk.. Candace because I trust her almost the most of anyone (but a concern there is I’ll have to take out Abel closer to FTC like Natalie did to Baylor.. it’d like undermine Candace’s strategy enough to weaken her whole plan) and also I think I was Hunter there because he trusts me and he’s has some SERIOUS gameplay flaws - like half the time i want to poke him the eye but w/e… Also I love Amelia to absolute death but she’s just way too likeable to make it to FTC and Bridget and Dom are the same like hell no..

excuse the length of this but yeah im here to win and i’m thinking long and hard about the best way to do that.. #gameonmole Erin: I caaaaant belieeeeve i actually made merge. I can’t believe I actually didn’t get voted out even though I’ve barely had any alliances. I really didn’t want Casey to leave, I would have loved to work with her because I know she didn’t have a lot of allies, but I wasn’t willing to take the risk telling everyone to vote out Abel or someone else instead. I’m thrilled to be able to talk to everyone again and now be competing for individual immunity. It gives me so many more options of people to vote and people to align with.

As of now it seems like Marko and I are still going to work together. I can’t be sure that he does’t have closer allies or an alliance from being on another tribe for a little while, so I should be more cautious than I am right now but I need him to really believe I trust him completely. I feel comfortable with Nour, she was practically the only one to clue me in on the vote from last night. I think we both pretty much reciprocate the idea that we should stick together, and I feel that she would be more trustworthy than Marko. Dan also introduced the idea of working together, and he said he’s close with Candace so that’s a possible alliance that may develop.

I’m trying to keep in mind that nearly half the cast has been to reward at this point and there is so much possibility of idols being held by people i’m not close with. I’m debating how i’m going to work between Nour, Marko, and Dan at this point. Of course it probably won’t go as easily as i’m thinking but it’s pretty important that I have some sources for the info that’s lingering around the tribe.

I also forgot Mitchell, who’s hilarious. And I know people like him and he probably has a great social game as of now, so I’ll see if we end up talking and what comes of that. He’s def a potential threat for upcoming weeks.

I think this is the most info i’ve been able to spit out in the fastest time thus far in my tumblr survivor career. It’s just that i’ve been awake for 18 hours and I feel thirty flirty and thriving. And that’s all I have to say cause no one cares to read a dozen paragraphs about my dumb theories and relationships with people from this game.

Hunter: Wooo omg I made merge! I feel a bit out of the loop but I am getting back there after going camping for about 3 days. At the beginning of the game we never lost so true alliances were never formed.

Once at the first switch I aligned with Marko Nour and Erin because I felt I could work best with them and we targeted the Supay of Dylan, Dom and Amelia and got Dylan out. In which Casey flipped to us to get him out. Once switched again Marko left to the other tribes along with Mitchell his fan follower and Dom the Supay. Then two new fans along with favorites Dan and Candace came to us.

What happened next was I started to get along with Amelia very well so I decide I want to work with her. Plus on my first tribes I sort of made an alliance with Dan. What scares me though is that the duo of Dan and Candace is close. We then went and got Casey out using the fans. Meaning I didnt vote with Erin and Nour. My game keeps changing.

What scares me is that I don’t have my number two. I look around and there are duos built everywhere. Or hierarchies. There is:

Dan and Candace

Amelia and Dom

Marko and his brigade of Erin Nour and Mitchell

Erin and Nour

Abel and Sara

Bridgette and Wesley

I’m so concerned because I feel I am a swing vote for everyone. That terrifies me.

I feel I can get Amelia to work with me well. Also I need to talk more with others I haven’t seen in a while to see where their heads are at.

One person I want out fairly soon is Marko. He has many followers and since Tony left, he is a fairly strong competitor. I will have to be wary of Erin and Nour at this point about this. I will also have to see where the fans heads are at. In all honesty I do not feel like I will ever win a challenge, so I need to be very social and make many alliances, but still try challenges anyway. I just passed all the levels for today’s immunity but heck so did others most likely and I died a lot. Update you soon!

Amelia: K SO i kickstarted the strategy talk a lil early today because im gonna be at graduation for a lot of tomorrow. i started talking with bridget and dom first to see who they wanted out, and bridget was like “i’d want it to be nour, hunter, or erin” and i was like, hmmm, i have kind of a relationship with nour and i know dan does as well, and hunter’s really been acting like he wants to keep working with candace and dan and i, so i said i had been thinking erin - which i was - because she hasn’t really talked that much with people and she has a connection to marko and nobody really knows what she’s doing which is always something to be cautious about. also, for me personally, erin’s one of the only people i have zero relationship with and who i think it’s too late to connect with, which is not someone i want to keep in the game because i need as many options as possible. so getting erin out would be a nice way to lock in the seven alliance of the navy plus bridget and dom, and (hopefully) would mean erin wouldn’t be on jury and couldn’t burn me for not talking to her should i make it to the finals. SO after i talked to bridget and dom and they seemed on board with the erin idea, i went to the “WHO IS HUNTER” chat (me, candace, dan) and mentioned it and candace was like “yeah that seems good” so i was like “okay werk”

HOWEVER. when dan arose from the dead he was pretty opposed to this and wanted to get wesley out instead. hhhhhhhhhhhh. his reasoning for this, as far as i understand it, is that we have the seven of us + hunter on one side, mitchell and wesley and marko on the other, and nour and erin in the middle, and if we take out someone on marko’s side then nour and erin are less likely to work with marko. my problem with this is i don’t think marko’s “side” is as strong as he thinks - i think people have realized marko is a threat and they don’t want to be connected to him, so right now he’s not as much of a problem. buuuut dan is convinced that we should keep erin. (which makes me pause a little bit - because i’m wondering there’s another reason? does he have something going on with erin and nour that i don’t know about? hmmmm) i told bridget and dom this and bridget told me that she has a (implied fake) final 3 with mitchell and wesley and that taking out wesley might jeopardize her relationship with mitchell. soooo now we have this alliance chat with bridget/dom, candace/dan, and myself (SIDENOTE LET ME JUST POINT OUT this alliance is named “lasagna” in my honor and dot dot dot hmmm that says a lot about why it exists :~])and we gotta figure shit out. basically it’s between dan and bridget and whomever can argue their point better i guess, i’ve been sitting back a little and letting them talk through it so a) i can learn more and b) i don’t come off as a strategic threat just yet. so we’ll see. i’m personally still inclined towards voting erin, mostly because if we don’t i gotta suck it up and go try to make a connection with her and i dont know where to start with that. sigh.

what else? there are so fuckin many alliance permutations that im in right now it’s destroying me oh god okay let me just write them out:

amelia, dan, candace (chat name: “WHO IS HUNTER”)

amelia, dan, candace, sara, abel (chat name: “Navy”)

amelia, dan, candace, hunter (unnamed)

amelia, dan, candace, bridget, dom (chat name: “Lasagna”)

amelia, bridget, dom (chat name: “marquesas whom”)

amelia, dan, rhea (chat name: “dole fan club RHEA COME BACK”) (just kidding this isnt an alliance but i wish it were)

probably some kind of inner alliance with erin and nour if we dont vote erin out

i also have p good connections on the side with sara and abel, which i think is good for keeping Navy together and also just for me in the future

ALSO nour is a tricky one i’m onto u nour

[6:39:00 AM] amelia (lasagna): morning what i miss

[6:39:08 AM] Dan/Sole: nothing again :D

[6:39:19 AM] Dan/Sole: although i gave Nour a v brief run down of the maze

[6:39:27 AM] Dan/Sole: and it sounded like no one had told her anything at all

[6:39:31 AM] Dan/Sole: she was like ‘no one went north?’

[6:39:46 AM] amelia (lasagna): omg

[6:39:58 AM] amelia (lasagna): you told her where people had been?

[6:40:53 AM] Dan/Sole: nah just that there was a self vote gate to the west, sit out of immunity to the east and idk what to the south

[6:41:08 AM] amelia (lasagna): ah ok cool

[6:41:24 AM] Dan/Sole: yeah she didn’t see the map and i didn’t tell her any directions

[6:53:30 AM] amelia (lasagna): hey good luck in machu picchu!!

[7:31:25 AM] Nour Nader (Stingray): Thanks. Umm how does it work I’m confused I didn’t get anything yet

[9:14:45 AM] amelia (lasagna): it’s like a maze, you pick which directions you want to go and there are puzzles inside of it

[9:14:58 AM] amelia (lasagna): (sorry i just now replied oops i fell asleep)

[9:15:22 AM] Nour Nader (Stingray): It’s alright. Like does someone give me options or smth

[9:15:32 AM] Nour Nader (Stingray): Because no one talked to me so far haha

mmhmmmmmm

k i’m done here for now this is so messy god what would mj say

actually, i know exactly what he would say:

[4/30/2015 8:20:20 PM] mj ultra: why u still in the game lol EDIT: there are so many alliances and sub-alliances that im tempted to just start making them up for fun like i literally want to just take bridget and wesley and put them in a chat and be like “you like doctor who too? cool cool we’re in an alliance now this is the doctor who alliance who do you want to vote out”

Candace: We merged! And it’s nothing like I expected. My game is still the same, play the fence a bit, but I have a partner now. It’s Dan! Pretty much the one person by my side since Week freaking 1. Let me get into all the deets. I’m strategizing and writing this while listening to BBHMM it gets me so pumped.Bitch better have my MONEY!

So first off, the most important thing was letting Marko know everything that’s been going on. I told him they were targetting him, because why not? He wont spill I did and it makes it seem like I’m looking out for him and we’re still tight, which we’re not anymore I’ve decided. He just sits there while I tell him everything and doesn’t do SHIT. I’m saving your fucking ass you can at least help me out. But I’ve had it up to here with him he has to save face without me, although he isn’t as threatening as everyone made him out to be. I don’t even think we’re worried about him as much as everyone is saying we are. Dan came to me and let me know, we can’t trust Dom and Bridget as much anymore and from here on out we’re planning to overthrow them which was SHOCKING! I always thought he’d be on their side but he’s actually scared of them. Who knew? And the story he is telling me apparently is that me and him are 100% and we need to be wary of Amelia as well. Do I believe it? Not sure yet, but the fact that he’s telling me this is good. I was beginning to worry that I’d have no hope in taking them out, now Dan came to me with the ideal situation of running with our 5some (amelia/dom/bridge/dan/me) until we need to take them out. Bridget is really scary somehow, like what? She always seemed kinda there but now she’s kinda running Dom, Mitchell, Wes, maybe even Marko. But the thing is they agreed to vote off Wes, I CAN’T! If things are going like I plan that will basically RUIN them once we’re ready to boot them off the island. Because on our side I see Erin/Nour (who approached me and Dan for an alliance BEE TEE DOUBLE U), Hunter who is close with Dan, Abel/Sara. And they’ll have Marko/Mitchell/Amelia(?). I don’t know who Amelia will ally with when it comes down to Dan/Dom. I’m just glad I don’t have to work with Mitchell/Wes honestly. So my game plan as of 6/4/2015 8:09 PM is to roll with Dan and keep the people we want close, and deplete Dom/Bridget’s army until we can kick them to the curb themselves. I swear I change my allies like pairs of socks but what can ya say. I doubt I will want Dan till the end since he would probably win against me, but as long as he is doing what I want for now why not? May even give him 4th. Ta-Ta!

Mitchell: A billet-doux to these marvelous hosts~

Dear marvelous hosts,

If you give us more challenge like this one I will quit. You will lose 76% of your viewing audience and 95% of the weaves ripped out. Also, 99.9% of your shade per hour will disappear.

Things to consider.

Sincerely,

Mitchbaell Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvIXJBrclLY me when everyone wants to vote out wesley

Erin: Everyone I talk to in this game besides Nour seems pretty fake. Like obviously we’re all fake and just want to stay in the game but I wish people would make it easy for me to know who’s working with who and what the 411 is, ya know? Dan and Candace have talked to me a lot and Dan admitted what I assume is everything he knows about who’s with who and what the low down is. Him and Candace are apparently together and want to work with Nour and I, and possibly Hunter. Bridget is allegedly talking about how Marko and Mitchell and Wes wanted her to work with them, and how Amelia and Dom wanted her to work with them, so I guess that’s revealing some of the baby alliances that are present at this point in the game. I like calling them baby alliances because they’re probably not really put in place yet, since they’re apparently trying to recruit Bridget. I’ve heard people want Wesley out, which would be a decent vote out right now. Wouldn’t want to do anything too crazy, but he’s also active enough that it’s not totally useless to vote him out.

I’m sensing some sketchiness from Marko now. Maybe I was completely naive to think we could work together the whole game because now that he’s been swapped to another tribe he seems to be closer with other people. I’ve talked to him about the vote but he doesn’t give me a lot of info on what’s going on or what he thinks. Now that Dan has come to me with a lot of info I feel comfortable with him, but maybe he’s just really good at that sort of thing?

Everyone talks too much, I wish they would stop trying to bond with each other and leaving me out because it’s really hard to be charming and funny when the tribe chat is going a mile a minute. I don’t even bother keeping up with them. I just like to say something every couple hours so they know i’m totally interested in whatever they’re talking about.

Amelia: [4:09:12 AM] Bridget Ann: Mitchell says Dom wants to vote Erin instead if we can get the votes. Is that true?

[4:09:53 AM] Bridget Ann: Because he’s telling me that we could get the numbers to vote out Erin and I don’t know what to tell him

me: *backflips out the window*

mitchell is tryna pull some shit right now and get me, bridget, dom, sara, abel, and wesley to vote for erin which i wouldnt have a problem with if mitchell weren’t doing this and if i weren’t worried about giving him that power. bridget and dom are lowkey trying to make it happen and i’m like “it’s not going to work just stick with the plan” but im also having to act like i don’t trust dan as much as i do because they don’t really like what he’s doing right now (dictating the vote) and theres no way sara and abel would vote with mitchell but i dont wanna outright say that because i dont wanna #expose our connection with them so i said me and candace had a thing with them idk man idk

also fuckinG MARKO WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT WHAT GIVES YOU THE FUCKING RIGHT no way no way dan is not going home next he is going to beat his galapagos placement i am not about to let marko slither his way back into a position of power and especially not with mitchell i am NOT ABOUT THAT FUCKING FIGHT ME but i do need bridget and dom to know that there /will/ come a time when i am ready to consider voting him out but its sure as fucking hell not at final 12 bruh wyd

i know that if they realized how close i am with dan and voted him out to get me on their side it would work because thats the kind of person i am and it’s been used against me before and i also know if we ry to take out mitchell that will only alienate bridget and dom and eradicate my chances

i just

nahhhhh

Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: EVEN WHEN I LAY LOW IM A TARGET GOSH DANG IT

Marko has let it slip (to mitchell and then to bridget and to me) that he wants me gone next round and im not thrilled about it tbqhhhh… The lines are blurred more than I thought they were and it literally all stems back to Bridget and Dom. They’re the ones who are listening to mitchell and marko and they’re the ones spreading paranoia and as much as I need them now to save my a$$ i dont want them anywhere near the finale.

I figured I’d lay low for literally 6 more days until my freaking finals are over but NOPE i have to switch into overdrive and keep myself safe however I can :~) gr8

If I can just squeeze Wesley out the door this round it’ll give me a teeeeeny little bit of breathing room but who knows if that’ll happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Amelia: WHY COULDNT IT JUST BE SIMPLE WHY CAN’T IT EVER BE FUCKING SIMPLE I’M SO DONE WITH EVERYONE

WE LITERALLY SHOULD HAVE JUST GONE WITH THE ERIN THING FROM THE BEGINNING BC EVERYONE WAS FINE WITH THAT BUT NOOOOO, DAN HAD TO BE LIKE “IDK WHAT ABOUT WESLEY THO” AND IT WAS SUCH A #STRUGGLE AND NOW BRIDGET AND DOM ARE LIKE “IDK IF I WANNA VOTE WES JUST BECAUSE DAN SAYS SO” AND IM LIKE “OK I KNOW BUT JUST LET HIM HAVE THIS ONE THING STAY CALM” AND THEN FRICKING NOUR SPILLS THE TEA TO MARKO AND NOW MARKO’S TRYNA BLINDSIDE DAN AND I DO NOT!!! HAVE!!!! TIME FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!

DAN BAE I LOVE YOU BUT WHY COULDN’T YOU JUST LET BRIDGET AND DOM HAVE THEIR THING NOW INSTEAD OF CHANGING IT TO WESLEY LIKE NOW I HAVE TO CLEAN THIS UP AND SAVE YOU NOW THE TARGET ON YOUR BACK IS LIKE [mike holloway voice] ONE MILLION PERCENT BIGGER I’M GOING TO CRY

Candace:How DARE they. I’m fuming… MARKO is a bitch. A cold hearted snake BITCH. Fucking Nour the rat she couldn’t be pleased with voting with the majority for fucking one round and her dumbass thought she could pull of this master of disguise 007 grand scheme. What an idiot. Guess what bicha, your plan is SHIT cause it has more holes than a tennis racket. After we gave them an easy way out of letting Wesley go, then we could have made some power moves. They’re forcing their cards WAY TOO EARLY. They brought in Marko/Nour/Erin/Mitchell/Wes/ and Hunter who came to us right away and is deflecting their plan and Bridget who is close with Dom. They want to blindside assuming Dan or Dom/Amelia. And of course after I spill my soul to Marko he excludes me from all of his plans, fucking idiot. Now I don’t trust his dumbass, don’t trust Nour the rat, or Mitchell with all of his corny ass jokes he smothers us with in the tribe chat. So while they think they have the numbers to vote Dan, they think we will vote Wes in minority. Assuming they might play an idol or whatever we let them think that, really vote off Nour or Erin. Ya gotta go! Maybe if they were smart they’d roll with the punches and get on the winning team.

Erin or Nour - Amelia/Dan/Dom/Candace/Sara/Abel/Hunter/Bridget

Dan - Marko/Wes/Mitchell/Erin/Nour

I didn’t think I’d have to deal with anything crazy at final 13. But Nour will get what’s coming to her. Nice try bitch.

Sara: THIS TRIBE IS A SHIT SHOW. To be expected after a merge, I suppose.

But like I’m 100000% confident in my alliance, which has expanded a bit but we definitely have more than we need for majority. The only worry is that it’s gotten TOO BIG and full of people we as a core don’t necessarily trust. So like there’s more chances of people knowing who we’re voting for and playing an idol.

I’m a little annoyed because we have the numbers already. 7. Solid. Done. But now! People are including others that aren’t part of it that just aren’t necessary to get who we want out. That just introduces a lot of mistrust.

There are just sooooo many names being thrown around right now. I think tonight’s vote will be who I think it will be, and it will be because of the majority. Tonight’s vote is incredibly important for the tone of the rest of the game. I’m doing a lot of chatting for information, but hopefully no one’s getting the impression that I’m agreeing with them, and that isn’t making me a target. I’m being very careful to have a positive tone, but not actually agree. Because in THIS game, in which quotes can be used against you, straight up lying can be used to make you a within-alliance target.

SO YEAH THINGS ARE HEATING UPP

Bridget: After being in control (single-handedly, or with my alliance) of the vote for every tribal I’ve been in, this vote kind of has me on edge. Personally, I thought we should go for Hunter/Nour/Erin to weaken any ties Marko might have with them (and because I don’t know them).

But then.

Dan felt we should target Wesley for an easy vote since he has no ties (([6/5/15, 5:13:02 PM] Wesley: Im dead loyal to you)) and it will keep our Lasagna alliance (me, Dom, Amelia, Candace, Dan) hidden.

However.

Marko comes to me, Wes, and Mitchell claiming Dom, Amelia, and Dan are rallying people against the fans. Of course, I know this is not true but I tell him I’ll vote with him if Dan is really plotting against me.

Meanwhile.

I tell Candace and Amelia, and message Mitchell that it’s not a good idea (to which he already agrees). So now everyone is on board to vote Erin so we can knock Marko down a peg. Hunter is apparently with us, too, he told Amelia everything. Not sure if I buy it or not, but we’re just going to have to trust him.

And that’s the low down on what’s happened thus far for our first merged tribal. Alliance lines are starting to be drawn.

But honestly. As much as I love my Lasagna alliance, I don’t want to be sitting next to any of them in the finals. They’re all strong players, and I would rather sit next to Abel and Sara or people who haven’t had as strong of a game (sorry, friends, I love you!).

Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: i just woke up

my face is puffy as i write this

someone (m*rk*) has thrown shit at the fan

shit is everywhere

is it Wesley? Dan? Amelia? Erin? Nour? no one knows

Not even me

Why is my life in the hands of Dom?? Hunter?? rip

I think I’ll end up voting erin because she’s a marko floater

Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FVjCdbht6w Abel: Erin has the personality of wood. Nour talks so much about nothing. Hunter is so damn messy, the Ian of the survivor community Erin: It’s day 93 and i’m all alone. I’m getting vibes that everyone is kind of bored and uninterested in this game right now, or maybe they all have an alliance against me. I really don’t think we’re going to win immunity this time, because good things don’t last very long. If we do lose immunity i’d like to talk to Casey and Nour because I think they’re in similar places I am. I really don’t know about Candace or Amelia, or anyone else on our tribe right now. It’s very likely I could be targeted because I don’t have a very close bond with anyone but I would hope that would be a reason not to be threatened by me. Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: w h e w… we lost but im not that sad about it because i get to send someone home :~) thankfully this time I think it’ll be Casey because she never speaks ever and seems to think that fli/p floo]ping is a great strategy? Also i think she’s contracted Markolepsy… (((markolepsy is the disease that all the Marko worshippers have and it needs to be #eradicated from Machu Picchu or else we all die)))Speaking of which my trip to Machu Picchu was SO FRUSTRATING because you make all these turns in the maze and ur like ‘yeah i got this’ but then one wrong turn and

as for now, though, I really just want to take out some people that i definitely don’t want on the jury (like Casey) because that way I know I have a shot at winning if I make it to the end. I’ve been working pretty hard to secure the alliance of me, amelia, sara, abel and candace but also to preserve the relationships of people who aren’t in there like Nour and Hunter.. Whenever that guy speaks im just like

he’s so messy and changes his tune daily so imma use him while he’s still anti-marko but then either take him out or drag him to the end with me. I’ve been playing a kinda low-key game so far because I usually come on too strong in the early stages of the game so im hoping to tear it up at the merge. so far so gr8. Candace: Last week we won again, and Ethan was voted off the other tribe. I’m glad Dom is safe and I’m glad someone as annoying as him got the boot. And this is coming from someone who has had no interactions with him besides an immunity challenge. It looks like Dom is in a good position over there so I have confidence he will make it to merge. This week however, we lost. Suddenly Hunter really wants to work with me/Dan/Amelia. And I’m a “really cool gal”. Thanks Hunter, but you’re a bit late to the alliance making part of the game. I’m not stupid though we are obviously saying yes and it’s a lot better than Casey/Erin who are mute. He also is suddenly against Marko. He’s exposing people as “Marko supporters”. When did Marko become priority #1? This week will be tricky, but I feel I’m set until merge. We have 6 votes (me/Dan/Amelia/Sara/Abel/Hunter) on Casey. I guess Amelia tried talking with Nour, but Nour told Amelia she’d rather vote Abel. And as soon as Casey’s name was mentioned, Casey suddenly started talking to people. Maybe Nour said something? I definitely don’t think we can trust them as far as the vote is concerned. I really wanted to have Nour vote in majority but she is being incredibly stupid, unless she thinks she has numbers which is even more stupid. She may have had majority, but not anymore. People are dead set on taking out Marko’s army one by one. The sudden spread of Markolepsy has people SHOOK! Markolepsy noun 1. A disease that effects the carrier with an uncontrollable urge to sheep Marko and shine his shoes. Not making this up people. Nour and Casey are campaigning really hard for Abel to go and that’s just NOT going to happen. Vote is decided at this point, vote Casey or vote in minority. I mean Nour was supposed to be “wanting to work closely with Dan and I” but she hasn’t messaged me for this vote at all. I honestly thought eventually I would like to flip to Nour/Marko but it just doesn’t seem realistic at this point. They obviously are looking out for their 7 (hopefully down to 5 after this vote) person alliance and don’t care about Candace.  Not to mention Hunter already jumped ship. They’re slowly falling apart and I feel bad for whoever bought a ticket on that sinking “paper sailboat”.  Amelia: woah check it out, a strategic confessional that’s not all hypotheticals! tribal council can be fun.anyways, so machu picchu was cool. it was nice to see wesley and he was definitely enthused to talk to me as well, so that was nice. from what i’ve heard he’s super pro-marko, but regardless, making connections is always helpful so i tried to be as cool and fun loving as possible in the hopes that he’ll remember me fondly should we meet again. the maze thing was NOT cool, because i suck(ed) at slide puzzles and the world is a cruel place. however i used this as a Learning Opportunity and have since taught myself how to solve 4x4 slide puzzles within three minutes - i got two apps and read tutorials online and everything. so hopefully that’ll come in handy at some point.when i got back, of course, everyone was like “noooo we lost” and i was like :~~)))) and then shit started to get more intense. the five of me, dan, candace, sara, and abel is solid at this point, and we decided pretty quickly that we wanted to get rid of casey. well - they decided it, anyway. shockingly, i would have preferred to keep casey even though she murdered dylan and get rid of erin, because erin hasn’t talked to me like at all and something about her just seems shady to me, and even though me and casey haven’t really talked that much either we’ve definitely both made an effort to be friendly and she’s just a lot more approachable (and therefore better to potentially work with imo) than erin. however, casey was decided to be the better choice because she hasn’t proven herself trustworthy to anyone on this tribe and because it’d probably be easier to get the others to turn on her. idk. as long as it’s not anyone from my alliance i’m good with it tbh.so we had our solid 5 for casey, and we wanted to figure out what hunter/casey/nour/erin were doing so me and candace and dan made a chat with hunter under the pretense of working with him. as it turns out, hunter was quite happy to give us info and very quickly turned on the markoleptics, which was a bit of a surprise to me. i guess he feels like he’s been nearer to the bottom for a while and wanted to change things up. we’re not entirely sure if he’s being real, but we’re inclined to believe that he is at this moment. so we discussed the possibilities and got hunter to agree to vote out casey, and then we set out to figure out what the others were doing. nour was the one who told us that the target from the other side was abel (bc of inactivity), and that she knew that we wanted casey out (via dan apparently) and said she would be okay with voting either of them as long as we thought it through or something. hunter told us that she’s tight with the markoleptics though so we don’t trust her entirely and she may very well be voting with casey, but there’s not really anything she can do [knocks on wood] so it doesn’t matter that much. as for erin, i guess she’s voting for abel too and i honestly don’t really care. sorry erin i love you.if everything goes according to plan - which i am feeling fairly confident about - casey will be gone tonight. after that, i’m not sure what happens. there’s an anti-marko resurgence happening at the moment, and i think he’ll probably be out sooner rather than later since he’s the most prominent character (and possibly villain?) right now. which is good because i think taking out marko would break down certain groups and offer a lot more possibilities, buuuuut on the other hand it might not be great because then like, who’s the next biggest threat? if we’re going off votes, it’s dom - not good because i want to take him far. if we’re going off my perceptions of who are the most overtly threatening people, it’s sole or maybe mitchell? - not good if it’s sole because he’s protecting me right now and i need to have that shelter for a while to survive until i get my shit together in terms of smaller alliances and personal connections. so there’s definitely a part of me that doesn’t want marko to go just yet, because he’s a good shield and a good person to shift the target to and if he gets voted out next or something it makes things a little more intense.honestly? i am feeling pretty good about my chances of making it to the merge. as long as i don’t get 13th, it’ll all be okay. right now i think i could make it to about 7th or so, but if i am proactive in the next couple rounds i can definitely improve those odds. i just have to keep talking to people even though it’s not my favorite and make sure that i’m someone people want to work with rather than threatening them. oh, and another major part of my strategy? giving myself a winner’s edit to get that positive karma and self-fulfilling prophecy going! : ]]]] see you at final tribal council guys

Bridget: If Ethan would have kept his damn mouth shut, maybe he wouldn’t have gotten voted off. But that kid is a loose fucking cannon and I wouldn’t want to take him to merge anyway. Hopefully, this helped Marko see that he could trust me and won’t COMPLETELY flip on me post-merge, though.We can’t go to tribal again, we only have five people left… Sooo we better pick the right person to go to Machu Picchu. Christ. Mitchell: idk when the last time i sent a confessional in was but um let me catch y'all up to speed fuck ethan lol Mitchell: ok fine here take a legit confessionalEthan and Marko were on my list. I didn’t really care who was going when; I didn’t want Ethan to make the merge, and I don’t want Marko to reach to the merge. We ended up deciding on Marko but then later on Bridget wanted to switch it to Ethan. She feels Marko will stay loyal to us in the merge. I don’t for a second. I wanted to ensure Marko would go this round and Ethan later, but Ethan, being Ethan, fucked himself over by being a shitty ass player. If Bridget confides in you that Marko has a double vote and then you straight-up go ask him if he does??? Like you deserve to be gone for being a sloppy, inexperienced wreck. You didn’t bite the hand that feeds, you bit your own damn hand off and you only have yourself to blame for the premature grave you dug yourself into.*heather voice* anyways…. *end heather voice* Post-merge, Bridget feels we have Dom. I don’t know how close to fact that is, but it’s something we need to bank on. I have a good working relationship with him and I can’t say that about a lot of people. If we merge at 12, hopefully it’ll be Bridget, Amelia, Dom, Dan, Abel, Sara, Candace, and me. That’s a pretty big group of 8. If it were up to me, I’d pick off Marko at 12 (if he’s gone, then Hunter) and then form a smaller group of myself, Nour, Abel, and Bridget, if that’s possible. I want to work more with Casey too. Pick off Erin/Hunter, then pick off Dom, get rid of Amelia, get rid of Sara, get rid of Dan, and get rid of Candace. Getting rid of people who I can’t numerically work with, then people who I can work with but can afford to cut loose, and then the people I don’t have great relationships with.Bridget needs to go before the endgame. She will win 100%. That’s not a question. Wesley isn’t as much of a threat but he shouldn’t get near the F5 either. My ideal F5 would be myself, Nour, Casey, Abel, and well maybe Erin? Scratch that, replace Erin with Bridget/Wesley in that equation. They’d need to be cut at F5 anyways.I need to be in a position where I can pick and choose who I want to work with and for. That requires getting to the merge, that requires breaking some promises in the early stages, and that requires laying down some new deals. I need to rebuild my relationship with the favorites from the ground-up and see first whether or not they’re still receptive of me and second whether or not they’re willing to break from their ties to form new ones with me.I love Nour, I really like Casey, and Abel and I have a close bond in this game. I need all of those to still be intact for me to build them up even stronger and use them to propel myself towards a hopeful victory. I can do this. It won’t be easy, but i can do this.Mitchell: when u don’t submit for immunity but still win the challenge :~)omg they must all hate me. if we’d lost after this I would not have blamed them at all for sending my sunburned ass home but thank god for victory!! it literally could not have come at a better time thank you #mollychrist i’m going to go drink some heather teas to relax after all this #mess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FVjCdbht6w

Mitchell: when u don’t submit for immunity but still win the challenge :~)

Bridget: Success!!! Kara was voted out! She was bound to stir up trouble and I’m so glad Mitchell and Ethan were finally able to see that. Now I’ll try not to be so visible and pushy in who I want to work with… I think I pushed a little too hard this tribal and exposed a little too much. Hopefully, I can make it work, though. All I need to do is make it to merge.

Bridget: After some reflection, I’m a little worried about my position in this game. I’m often way too transparent and honest and trusting to a fault. While every single person on this tribe wants to work with Mitchell and I, I think I pushed too hard for Dom to stay. But if we go to tribal again, I will vote anyone out and need to do what the people want, rather than push my own agenda. Hopefully, that will secure my position (and they don’t make a stupid decision).

I also need to come to terms with the fact that I’m going to have to vote out friends to further my position in the game. What a shame :(

As it stands right this very moment, because who the hell knows what’s going to happen, here’s how I view my current tribe:

Marko: I absolutely adore this kid. But do I trust him? No. He’s got a very strong, core alliance on the other tribe and I don’t trust that he would stick with us post merge.

Dom: Again, I love him. He’s one of my best friends in the Tumblr Survivor community and I feel like he’d be loyal to me (mainly because he has no one else to be loyal to). He said Candace said she wanted to work with him, so he could help secure Candace and Amelia post merge. He could be a VERY solid number… but he’s quick to find immunity idols. He also knows I’m a very strong social player and would probably turn on me eventually.

Mitchell: Probably my closest ally in this game, but I don’t know if I freaked him out by pushing for Dom so hard. He said he talked to Kara and realized I was right that she may not remain loyal, so it’s not like I solely convinced him. I don’t think I’d want to go up against him in the finals, though.

Wesley: Honestly, I have no idea. Because SOMEHOW everyone thought Kara/Wes/Tony were working together, but Wes said that wasn’t true and that my name never came up to be voted out. But he seemed to have been close with Kara and he could have been saving his ass. So I’m very wary of him.

Ethan: Again, a wild card. I feel like he’s loyal to me and Mitchell right now because that’s what is most beneficial to him. Aaand he was able to see that Kara was the right choice to go home. But I don’t know if he’d stick with us post merge.

So, in essence, I don’t really trust anyone and I hope you enjoyed my essay of a confessional!

Bridget: Yay, reward! That wasn’t surprising as Simon is one of my best games, I’m just hoping my connections are strong enough with my tribe mates that it’s fine that I’m away. I was kind of hoping it would be someone I’ve never met from NuChaska just so I can try to reach as many people as possible, but I’m so happy to talk to Dan again. Seeing (“seeing”) him again makes me realize I want him to be my #1 ally. And he’s been talking to Amelia about how they want to work with me and Dom!!

He also informed me that Marko has a double vote. If he makes it to merge and gets back with his cronies, they can make it majority and will pick us off one by one. I can’t assume Marko will have my back. And, even if he does, I’ll be at the bottom of that alliance and will be voted off once they don’t need me. So hopefully that information and logic will be enough to sway the others to vote Marko. He is a very charismatic, lovely person. And that’s what makes him dangerous. Ethan: You know what pisses me off even more than losing by 2 points? Being in this shitty ass position where I can’t do a god damn thing. Mitchell and Bridget are super close, Dom and Bridget are like BBF’s or something, and Wes is sorta just… there. Marko is really cool and everyone wants to keep Dom over him. I know that if Marko leaves, next time we go to tribal, the others will probably keep Wes over me. I know I’m in a really bad position on this tribe, and I tried to get something to work. Bridget told me that Marko has a double vote, so I confronted him about it and he said no. If he did… oh man this game would have changed, I would have tried to flip Wes, and the 3 of us and the double vote would send Bridget packing. Sadly this is all Fan-fiction. Now I am forced to endure another tribal with myself getting closer and closer to the bottom. I was a dumbass for not taking that double vote. Marko: Okay. Fuck this tribe. Fuck this tribe all the way up. So this immunity challenge required us to link Survivor contestants in such a way that the last letter of the last name was the first letter of the next person’s first name. And Mitchell, right as this challenge gets started, calls himself up to the tribe and says, “Hey guys, just so you know, I did this challenge once when it dealt with Pokemon and it went very well.” Two errors there right away: first, we’re not using Pokemon so your personal resumé has no business in this chat; second, the last person anybody should be taking challenge tips from is a fan. You know, those fans that managed to get five of themselves voted out consecutively at the beginning of this game? Yeah, those.

Also, this is just a side note: why are the fans blaming the favorites for us marring them at the beginning of this game? You want to maintain numbers?, don’t suck at challenges. Try that method first.

So not only do we lose the challenge by two points, Ethan has just informed me of something very interesting. According to him, Dan told Bridget that I received a vote multiplier at Machu Picchu. Hmm, that timing is real fucking suspect Ethan, considering I went to exile TWO WEEKS AGO and Bridget met Dan about four days after. I honestly cannot stand him, and if he’s telling me the truth, then I cannot begin to stand Bridget either. Even if I did have a vote multiplier, what do Bridget and Ethan care? She’s on my side.

If I could have my choice, I’d love to see Ethan go next. My plan now is to keep Mitchell blinded from this whole Ethan/Bridget double vote mishap so he’s less likely to go pledge his allegiance to other alliances without me. Ethan being the superstar liar that he is made this story with only two connections mentioned - Bridget and Dan. He’s never been on a tribe with Dan, so that means Bridget must have told Ethan about my “double vote” in complete secrecy without me. This must mean that Ethan and Bridget are more of a pair than I initially suspected.

I’d like to work with Wesley (if our time zones ever fucking coordinate), and Mitchell and Dom in order to truly oust the nature of Ethan and Bridget’s strategic agreements. Cutting Bridget might frighten Mitchell to the point of him never wanting to work with me long-term. Cutting Ethan may be like cutting off the only thing keeping me in the fans’ circulation. It is a very tough decision, but I plan on exposing Ethan’s constant need to hinder Dom’s game and that may make Dom trust me more for this vote and the other votes to come. Bridget: Welp. Ethan’s a fucking idiot. He told Marko that Dan told me that Marko had a double vote. What. The. Fuck. What the fuck! If we were truly voting out Marko, he wouldn’t have to be asked about it. All we’d need to do was make him feel safe. Either Ethan is a completely fucking idiot or he had no intentions of voting Marko out. Either way, I was right. Ethan canNOT be trusted. I mean, come on.

Amelia: okay so first of all. dan came to me yesterday evening after tribal was posted and was like “do you think it’s worth it to lose a challenge to get one of marko’s people out” and my initial response was it might be a good plan because we’re worried about dom and bridget over there and right now the numbers are like 7 vs 9 so it would be cool to get it a bit more even if we can, as long as our 5 here are solid, which i think we are. i’m still thinking about it though, because that might mean #exposing the fact that i’ve flipped and i mean it’s not that hard to figure out and won’t change that much but it is nice to have as many people as possible thinking you’re on their side, so that would be a drawback. a possible way to counter that might be to get hunter out, because i think i might be able to get some of the others (nour/casey/erin) to feel like that’s a good idea too, in which case i could gain allies and still stay partially undercover. idk though. i think i’m gonna see a) what the challenge is and b) who goes to machu picchu before i decide whether or not i’ll go as far as throwing the challenge.

speaking of machu picchu LOL i doubt i’m going to win which tbh is okay to me - i submitted a score of 30 and a picture of william and kate with a fish fillet last night because honestly i have better things to do than play that hellish game today, such as talking with my awesome new tribemates and knitting socks, and also i’m feeling less keen about that place since all the self votes and snakes have been happening. also i learned via dan (who i don’t think is lying) that tony was voted out with an idol and that also everyone who gets a self vote also gets a vote multiplier??? i’m more iffy on that part because dom never told me about any such thing, but i trust both of them so i don’t know. maybe dom forgot to tell me or maybe dan got faulty information from tony or whoever, i’m not sure. will wait for updates on that situation. if i do go to machu picchu because everyone else sucks more than me, i hope dom is there, because i need to find out if he’s in a bad position over at ekkeko and what happened with Wesley and most importantly if he and bridget are together. if so, i’m planning to tell him that me and dan want to work with the two of them and that we have more numbers over here to help achieve that. (v tricky i know, i want to set it up like we want a tight four and place very little emphasis on candace/sara/abel because it’s always more appealing to hear “tight four who can pull in a few others” than “tight five and you guys can join us” ya feel?) i’m planning to talk to dan about this a bit later today in case he ends up going to machu.

this morning candace messaged me and dan and was like “if one of us goes to machu we should tell dom/bridget/wesley that marko wants ethan out” which apparently she heard from hunter and nour ?????? i really need to figure this out. i never heard anything from marko about wanting ethan out, they seemed pretty buddy-buddy from what i saw. but maybe this goes along with what hunter has allegedly been saying about wanting a fan out? maybe hunter and marko were tight and were gonna orchestrate that. but it doesn’t make sense that they never said anything to me about in that case like ??? was i really that terrible to talk to???? wouldn’t they know from dylan’s funeral and from talking to ethan that i would be all for voting him out? it just seems weird that nobody even tried to talk to me if this was marko’s plan. (then again, when has marko actually ever directly told me the plan? oh right…..never) anyway i guess it’s also possible that nour and hunter are lying about this to make the paper sailboat alliance seem less close. i honestly don’t know, candace said she’d show the conversations later so maybe that will give me a better idea of what this is about. but like….either way, i don’t really understand the point of telling this to dom/bridget/wesley on machu because i figure if marko really does want ethan out he would tell them and use them anyway, and if he didn’t it might just mess them up by alienating ethan even further? idk man. things are strange.

i’m just focusing on making connections and building trust and making sure the people i need with me at merge know that i’m with them & that i will be an asset to them. also, not getting blindsided. that’s a thing that i’m working pretty hard on constantly. :~) Hunter: Like here I go writing a confessional. It’s really hard to write them when you never have to go to tribal and you like everyone. I’m not ashamed to admit I feel I am in a great place, I feel I can actually make jury for once. Since Marlo was my number one ally since the beginning I was glad he survived the first tribal over at new new ekkeko, but it’s time for me to create new connections. It sucks because Amelia is a very cool person and I feel I would like to go to the end with her, she is deserving but she won’t get every jury vote like Marko probably would. At the beginning of the season I wanted to work with Dan but he’s a bit dangerous with all the times he went to Machu and he’s somewhat great at challenges. Nour is a. Sweetheart and could garner a decent amount of votes, very social as well. Erin, um, she doesn’t stand out very much, she’s kinda of vanilla but she’s awesome the same. The two new fans though, do they know they are in this game? I’ve only seen them speak a few times, especially Abel. Sara is a bit more social. With Candace, I just feel if you get Dan you get Candace vice versa which concerns me. I felt that from day 1 on ekkeko. If align with Amelia but I know she has Dom for her closest alliance. Also I’ve noticed Marko constantly referring to Erin and Nour. So currently I’m making more time for challenges so I can actually win some considering I’ve only turned in one challenge, which I only played once and posted. Compared to Olympics this game is calm which I can’t complain. It makes me feel like we are in the calm before the storm. Like shit is going to go down. Sorry for completely rambling and putting no paragraphs lol. I just haven’t done many of these and thought you deserved a longer one for my standards. I swear if there is a third switch though. (Eye roll emoji) I wish I didn’t have to sit out of this reward. I want to start showing I can be winner and not a floater. Amelia:

live footage of me working on this challenge (i do like the idea of the challenge actually it’s just that i don’t know if i should be trying to throw it or not and i wanted to take a nap)

Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N3w7XYaEno I SWEAR TO GOD IF DOM GETS VOTED OUT BECAUSE OF ME i’M GOING TO CRY FOR 17 MONTHS Sara: Today is my damn birthday, as the eternal birthday boy Boston Rod once put it.

And the BEST birthday present is not having to worry about TC tonight. BUT, even if my tribe didn’t own that challenge (side note: these challenges are really close and SUPER EXCITING), I’d feel 1000% safe. I really feel like even if I don’t log onto Skype at all for the next few days, I won’t be going home until the merge at least. My alliance is solid, provided Bridget survives tonight.

But… if the merge is right after this TC, we’re in trouble. If Bridget goes, we’re in trouble. There are various scenarios where our alliance won’t be the majority going into the merge. But, if everything continues as it is now and members outside of our alliance, on either tribe, goes home consistently, I am just COASTING. We all are!

NOTE: I start school in 2 days and am just going to post the rest of the confessionals lololol

Everyone in the community voted on who they feel played the best game and had a good overall impression throughout this season as the fan favorite.

Coming in second place for this award was Amelia! And now the fan favorite award goes to...

Bridget: “Eighth Vote: Stephen. Fans vs Favorites are over.” Holy shit. YAAS! I’m in love with whoever said this (I’m assuming Dan?). Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: Stephen went home because he was dead weight.. The tables are turning and it’s a whole new game now. Fans vs Faves is on its way out with a new alliance of me, Candace, Sara, Bridget and Abel. Last round Kara was SO MESSY she was giving out info like there was no tomorrow. She said ‘I don’t trust Sara. I want Bridget out next. I’m 100% with Wesley.'

I’m here like yep yep *quote message* oh and how does that make you feel *copy paste* mhm yep tell me more *send to Bridget, Sara, Abel and Candace*

So hopefully the next vote will send Kara home but I guess you never know until the results are read. This might be my doorway to the merge so Candace and I are working hard to pull this together. Just when I thought it was game over I’m back in with an opportunity! Candace: Unfortunately I did not have enough time to save Stephen and I’m sorry for that. I definitely would have not put his name down if there was another way, but like Dan said “We had to spend some to get some”. But before hand I’ve seemingly finally made a breakthrough.  I basically spilled the beans to Bridget/Sara that majorities were made without them and that Kara literally said she wanted to vote Bridget off next and Sara would be cut before Final 6. It was a little exaggerated, but I did have quotes of Tony saying Kara wanted Bridget out and that Kara didn’t trust either of them. HAAAAAAAAAAAA why in the HELL would you say that? Clearly I’m going to use it against you and now I’ve gotten your minions to revolt. They’re so on board, I’m loving it. If everything works out fine I am officially crowning myself Queen of Swapped Tribes. Saved myself in Matsu Islands, and potentially saved myself on Machu Picchu while both being in a minority alliance. So now we have myself, Bridget, Sara, and Dan who I said I’d talk to although he was obviously already in. I told Abel if he didn’t help me out and flip we would be fucked and I let him know how close Kara/Wesley/Tony were at this point and he saw the numbers and jumped ship. So we have FIVE. Five majority votes to take out whoever we want.

Now my worries at this point is there five will want to just take Tony out first. Bridget said she thinks Tony/Wes are too good at challenges, but I’m thinking that’s good? We’re not at merge it’s not like they’re winning individual immunities… I want to write Kara’s smug ass down. She is as fake as a 3$ bill. Everytime I have to force myself to talk to her I want to punch myself in the face. They’ve established themselves as “majority” and expect everyone else to just follow suit. I cannot stress how fucking stupid Wesley is. He is literally a brick wall. I could have a better conversation talking to myself then sitting there and entertaining his nonsense. Voting them off will not only further my game, but improve my mental well being. Another concern I have is, what if they flip back? I need to let them think they are calling the shots and let them think that I MIGHT flip instead. That way they’ll want to keep me on their side. I’ll just keep telling them the other side wants me to vote with them, but I won’t. The day I vote with Kara’s grimy ass is the same day Wesley says something meaningful. But for now I’m feeling secure with a tinge of nervousness. Hoping this works out.

Tony: I DIDNT EVEN WANT TO WIN THIS ONE Candace: We lost, shocker! We have a tribe full of people who will try it once (Abel/Kara/Sara/Bridget) and then submit their best score of 600. Then there’s Tony who hops on his private jet to Machu Picchu to play fucking Shoots and Ladders while we get stuck with Kara too busy with her third prom this week to give a challenge a go more than once. Honestly at this rate, I am prepping every vote and decision as if we are planning to lose EVERY SINGLE IMMUNITY. We have to. There’s no way Abel/Bridget/Kara/Sara will try any harder than they have already. They’re complete MORONS I am so tired of this. Every week I try so hard so we don’t flop immunity, just for the rest of these boogers to fuck it up. Something has got to give or else we’re losing every single challenge until merge which would be SEVERELY BORING. Think of the viewers peeps!

So I really trust our alliance of Abel/Sara/Dan/Bridget as far as us voting together. I don’t trust who they want to vote. It’s Tony. Another favorite. I wanted to send Kara’s ass packing like the rat she is, but no Abel being the complete brainless idiot like he is fought everyone to do Tony and now everyone wants to. Of course Dan’s happy ass is on board so he can sever Marko/Tony and put himself in a great position during merge with him/Amelia/Dom set with no worries on his end. FUCK YOU DAN. This is the week I am starting to doubt him. I know your game plan bitch you’re going to act oblivious and sneaky as hell, come merge try and wipe us clean so you/Amelia/Dom can skate to the finals. Not on my watch hun! Come merge I am letting Marko know everything and I will make sure we somehow cut them loose. First chance I GET. Mark my fucking words. I’ve about had it. Just when things are getting good for me, setting myself up a fucking majority MYSELF WITH RECEIPTS I REQUIRED/PRINTED/AND SIGNATURED MYSELF NOT WITHOUT DAN I DID IT they swoop in and dictate a vote for Tony. I’m done. So done. Dooooooooooooooooooone.

Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: rip we lost again but thankfully TIAADFG is here to save me :-) me, Candace, Abel, Bridget and Sara are hopefully going to stick with our alliance until it’s down to us 5 so it’s between Kara, Wesley and Tony tonight.

Initially I wanted Kara out because she’s the SLOPPIEST player i’ve ever seen - dropping names/strategies/info all day long like ??! how can I trust that. Plus she’s in an alliance with Wesley ‘100%’ and we’re here like make out already. Also she threw out Bridget and Sara’s names lightening fast so we just went to them and pulled them in for an alliance of four and then Candace hooked Abel in so that’s our 5.

Abel then sent us a message that Ethan sent him when they were on Machu Picchu saying 'Tony 100% has a double vote blah blah’ which FREAKED ME OUT so now we’re taking Tony down. He never plays in immunity, he’s only ever active when it means he can win reward and help himself, he’s super tight with Marko (who also might have a double vote) and he’s shady af and I’ve wanted him out since literally Day 1.

That might mean that the Fans are playing really well and convincing us to take out the Favourites still but I’m seriously getting good vibes from the three of them on this. I guess it’s a risk I’m hoping pays off. Bridget: I love that both alliances I have formed on old Chaska and NuEkkeko occurred because someone was gunning to vote me out. I’m still not entirely sure why people are so scared of me, but okay. As long as more people feel they can trust me and want to work with me, I’m okay with it. So now the vote has come down to either Kara, Wes, or Tony. As annoying as Kara is, she’s harmless in terms of post merge. She’s not a strong challenge player, is a sloppy player in general, and doesn’t really have any ties on the other tribe. But she could be a good option since we may not be merging soon and still want to immunity.

Tony, on the other hand, is a challenge beast, has a lot of connections on the other tribe, and most likely has an advantage. We were all torn, but it was when Abel shared something Ethan told him in Machu Picchu (that he most likely had a double vote or some advantage) that we knew we had to get him out now. Hopefully it’s not all for nothing, because if we keep losing, we’re going to have to start voting people out in our alliance.

But I’m really loving this alliance, and I hope they feel the same <3 Kara: Things are finally starting to get interesting. The line between fans and faves is dissolving in my tribe. At this point I only trust Candace Tony and Wesley because i heard Abel wants to flip on the fans. Tony and I have an alliance called KONY 2015 so we will see how that goes. Sara should be going home tonight, if not then I know who I can or can’t trust

Mitchell: Stephen was voted out…. who?

I was worried for my fans over there. If it’s still fans vs. faves for them, they had a one-person majority, but they’d need it secured… and somehow it was, and Stephen was voted out unanimously. The voting comments were that fans vs. faves is over, which I hope was from a former favorite. I need the fans over there to stick together because I’ve got ties to all of them and they’re all my numbers.

Meanwhile, Ethan told me that somebody already found the Idol at Machu Picchu. That’s scary, and I really hope it wasn’t Amelia. nejfn

Amelia: me: i should probably talk to people today me: *stares at names in tribe chat* me: *looks at the camera like i’m on the office* me: uuuuuuuggggghhhhh me: *goes back to lying on the floor*

I JUST WANT TO GET BACK TO SOLE AND TONY

literally if i had the opportunity to mutiny i fuckin would like if/when i get to merge i am flipping tf away from these kids asap pronto im so ready for a new start this tribe is going to drag me to my death i’m sORRY FOR COMPLAINING SO MUCH BUT NOBODY IS TALKING TO ME AND I HAD TO FORCE MYSELF TO APOLOGIZE TO ETHAN AND I’M JUST SO

[breathes deeply]

i gotta do this for mj. i have to make it through this. i have to win.

Amelia: okay so me and marko have exchanged 7 snapchats today we’re good i’m safe it’s gonna be fine

Marko: I have just been informed that these fake heauxs Bridget, Ethan, and Mitchell are trying to nab my title of most confessionals? Nuh uh, sweeties. If anyone’s gonna be quoted on episode titles, it’s gonna be me. Amelia: it’s amelia again sorry

honestly like?????? i used my coach wade connection to get marko a dragonslayer nickname (#TheOriginal stay true to yourself thank you very much !!!!) and he & i officially got inducted into Stealth-R-Us by phillip together (TheDefenderOfTruth and TheVoiceOfTribal respectively) so???? he pretty much owes me life in this game and if he votes me out i am going to be personally and irrevocably offended like it might just break me you don’t just betray phillip and coach like that wtf the fuck marko don’t you dare

also i’m starting to find my tribemates funny??? stockholm syndrome help i gave them my snapchat

Amelia: also im feeling a lot better because i realized i (theoretically best case scenario) only have to save myself for 4 more rounds? and like if we win approximately 2 of them that’s only 2 tribals i have to survive, and i’m thinking (optimistically) that they would take dom out before me because he’s gotten more votes before / is more threatening imo / people think he has an idol and i can exploit that if needed, and then if it’s just me left and we have another tribal i’m pretty sure i can get used by someone for numbers since i won’t be a threat and let’s be real there are a lot of scary players in this tribe who don’t necessarily want to coexist with each other much longer

that is a lot of math i know and it probably doesn’t make sense but i’m thinking i have like a 70ish percent chance of making it to merge (assuming that merge is at 12 please @ ghosts we’ve suffered ENOUGH we deserve this ONE THING) which for me is Ride or Die because thats when i reach the shining light of FLIPPING :’)))) unless something drastic changes in the way i’m treated around here, i’m planning to go to sole and never look back, be solid with him until numbers are stable, get to know everyone else, make a couple good moves, and then probably take sole out around 6 or so or whenever a good opportunity arises. because just from where i’m standing, sole is a much more calm, collected, and competent player, and once i get back into an alliance with him i’m pretty sure he will become the primary motivating force behind getting stuff done. which is great for me because i can watch him build himself up and make smooth moves until such time that i need to take control and make myself a contender.

that’s all super long term and highly conditional, of course, and it may be a bit cynical (?) to already be plotting the demise of my loved one when i don’t even have a guarantee of seeing him again, but that’s where my mind’s at and where i’m hoping that i’m headed. short term, right now my strategy is to just lie low and continue trying to ingratiate myself with individuals in this tribe so that (hopefully! my skills are all a big question mark!) i can become a) likeable, b) nonthreatening, and c) essentially a free pawn that anyone can utilize to further themself and their goals within the chaska tribe. i know - that sounds awful and the most goat-iest thing to say, but i have to face it, that’s my best bet at getting out of here alive. i don’t have a very good idea of the alliance hierarchy around me, just a vague idea of certain relationships, but i know that digging too deeply into it (and i’m not the most subtle person when it comes to those kinds of things) will probably get me branded as a liability and out of here even faster. so i’m making myself open, i’m setting myself up to be a pawn until i am in a safer place and know what’s going on and can regain my agency. i really hope that these people see that and don’t just vote me out because honestly that would be pretty stupid of them. i’m a free vote. why would you eliminate that?

oh, and i’m definitely not writing dom out of the equation. he’s still totally my number one in this game right now and i want the two of us to make it through this together more than anything. i think there’s still room for us to figure something out - possibly with hunter, or mitchell, or someone else who’s more to the edges of this clusterfuck alliance thing. maybe marko will come through and save us in order to get rid of his nemesis. does he have one of those yet? i hope so. however, we have both gotten votes and are obviously on the outs right now, and i’ve come to terms with the fact that the two of us, our dynamic duo, may not survive intact. :( and obviously, i would rather dom be slayed than have it be me. so, i’ve had to start making emergency plans to try to stay in this even if it means losing him. if it comes down to me and him and i have to throw him under the bus to stay alive, i’ll do it. it’s gonna break my heart into five hundred pieces and i’m gonna hate myself, but i’ll do it.

so gameplan: win every challenge ever, make friends, pull myself through this an inch at a time.

After tribal, Kara’s game really did catch up to her as Dan caught on to her too. “Last round Kara was SO MESSY she was giving out info like there was no tomorrow. She said ‘I don’t trust Sara. I want Bridget out next. I’m 100% with Wesley.'

I’m here like yep yep *quote message* oh and how does that make you feel *copy paste* mhm yep tell me more *send to Bridget, Sara, Abel and Candace*

Ethan: I end up on the tribe with 50 favourites, and surprisingly they boot Dylan over the sole fan Mitchell. THANK FUCKING GOD. It’s good to know that one of the people who were going to vote you out next is out of the game. However my plan of spilling everything to Bridget on Machu Picchu might not have been the best course of action since I threw Mitchell under the bus HARD. I am just going to put on a smile and pretend it never happened, and just hope that Bridget didn’t tell him anything I said. I’m honestly just glad that Jordan got taken out a couple votes ago, Hopefully Lynda is happy that in some small way I avenged her. Ethan: I’ve been talking with everyone on this newly scrambled tribe, and with the boot of Dylan still fresh in everyone’s mind, I easily noticed that Amelia and Dom are on the outs. It’s a miracle! The people I was against, and going to be voted out by are now hardly holding on. I have got to leverage this to put me in the majority with everyone else and show that I am against these two and want nothing more than to join their case in voting them out. I guess it turns out that I am not in a HORRIBLE position after all. Granted it’s still pretty shitty, but it’s manageable. Hopefully I can make it out alive. Mitchell: Well I just made history in this game!!! For the very first time in Machu Picchu, a favorite was voted out over a fan… that fan being not little miss me…….. and not little miss me also getting zero votes to go home!!! :~)

It was a pretty stressful round - who knows what Amelia and Dom were trying to do in getting rid of Casey. It didn’t work out for them. If they had stayed Supay strong and capitalized on Marko’s self-vote, it probably wouldn’t have worked out, but it still would’ve gotten them something. Now they’re the two on the bottom and on the outs.

My alliance with the Ekkeko favorites keeps me in the majority, and we’ve got Casey and Ethan as affiliates too. I survived that first round which puts me at some level of ease, and here’s hoping Amelia and Dom aren’t too pissed off at me. It was a good, but scary, vote, and I’m happy to still be here. Ethan: Machu Picchu is my home now. I think I have legitimately spent more time here than I have at camp. Sure every time I come here I am painting a bigger and bigger target on my back, I know that, but honestly my target is already huge being on this tribe of all favorites AND not being here when initial alliances were formed. I need all the advantages I can get to try and make it to the merge. While I’m here I’m trying to start a friendship with Abel. we never talked before I left for Supay, but I know from Mitchel and Bridget that he was  the fill-in person in the fans alliance, so I know that I can trust him. I am telling him that Tony has an idol or a power of some sort, basically just trying to throw him under the bus since I know that the favs on this Chaska tribe aren’t too fond of him, and it could curry me favour with them. I am playing to just survive right now because my back is against several walls at the moment, but hey, this ain’t survivor if you aren’t surviving.

Marko: The astigmatism fandom on Tumblr would be looming over this Dance Dance Revolution-themed challenge. It’s gotten to the point where I literally mute the music - the thing that the whole game depends upon - and I turn on Pandora on my phone and play to that. I’m sure DJ Meas is a great person but I can only take so many repetitions of “Clouds From The East.” I am really glad, though, that we’re back to flash games and not making lists of things because after last round, my Tumblr Survivor record on those kinds of challenges is now zero wins, three losses.

Now reverse just a bit to the recent cookie reward challenge. I ended up keeping four of my eight cookies to myself. I definitely did not expect to have the allotment of cookies I did. I ended up with thirteen, which was not only the maximum value, but far greater than the median of my tribe. The fact that from the eight others in my tribe, I received nine cookies in total, does put me a bit on edge. Either so many people individually wanted to get me to exile and thereby gave me their last cookie as some sort of throwaway, or a couple people - namely, Dom and Amelia - were so peeved with me because of the events of last Tribal Council that they wanted to stick it to me. I really do think that the latter is true, and if it is, this reward challenge was a big sign that my ability to play “damage control” is not what I think it is, and I really need to work on my positioning of my tribemates as a result.

Fast forward to right now. We received Ethan, which was great, but before I could even see where he was at in terms of his placement in the tribe, he already gets sent back to exile. If Machu Picchu was the United States Postal Service, Ethan is the package that keeps getting marked “return to sender.” It didn’t seem like he wanted to go, but the greatest part about it is that I’m not sure if Ethan is smart enough to recognize the target he’s branding himself with. What’s even greater is that Dom and Amelia probably don’t have the idol, and Ethan (apparently…hopefully) wants their heads on a silver platter. If Dom and Amelia are mad at me, but even madder at Ethan, I can join forces and “make amends” with Dom and Amelia by campaigning against Ethan, a three-time exilee who already has a self-vote against him. The vote sells itself. I really think that if I play my cards correctly, I can ring forgiveness out of Dom and Amelia (no matter how superficial it is), and channel people into seeing this false “common enemy” that I’m eager to create in Ethan. Casey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPYI6S43wLY

Erin: I can’t be bothered to brush my hair so it’s best I just do another text confessional.

Things have finally picked up in the game since this swap, now that we’ve actually gone to tribal and voted out a fav. Dylan was kind of the equivalent of an almond this whole game, he never really talked or did anything productive. I mentioned SARCASTICALLY that he “talked too much” in my confessional and he’s all “Someone thinks i’m irrelevant, another thinks I talk too much. You guys need to figure your shit out blah blah blah.” and it was almost the funniest thing ever.

I’m still pretty tight with Marko, I share more with him than anyone so that makes me feel safe that I have one person I can talk strategy with privately. We made an alliance with the old Ekkeko plus Mitchell in attempt to get someone from old Supay out but as it turned out, Dylan and Casey were already after each other so that helped us out. Unfortunately Amelia and Dom made an alliance with Marko, Hunter, and I last minute to get us to vote out Casey so now we have to do damage control so they don’t think we have an alliance against old Supay. I have no idea if we’re actually doing to be able to stick with the Ekkeko alliance or if something will change next tribal, I kind of would rather not completely rely on our Ekkeko alliance but I don’t know if working with Amelia or Dom would be a good idea. But if they don’t have anyone else it also might be interesting to work with them idk.

This flash flash deatholution game is disgusting. My brain can’t even follow these fucking arrows, It makes me feel like I have some sort of disability. I just don’t want to go to tribal again ever. It’s so depressing that there are still 16 people left. I have no chance of making it to merge but i’m trying my best I think. Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmrqBXlou3M

Candace:So we’re heading into next week, but I have a bit to say first.

This week we won the immunity challenge in our new tribe. Dan really saved our ass because he was up putting a list together while we slept, but it still needed to be finalized/corrected for a better chance at winning. Stephen and I came together with a few hours to do it, and discussed it openly in tribe chat. It was silent as a fucking mouse. Stephen eventually had to leave and I tried to get the dumb asses to help me out, but of course no one had said one word. No one even fucking checked to see if we had actually sent it. Are they throwing the challenge, or just so disturbingly oblivious? Kara got into a car wreck so she couldn’t do much, but Wesley was fucking HERE. I feel like he could honestly just be stupid since he gives a stupid vibe, but it felt throw worthy TBH. Things are NOT looking good. If we lose, we’re screwed. I need Tony to whip out an idol or something. He has a personal 5 star mansion on Machu Pichu and he still doesn’t have SOMETHING? Like come on dude! If you don’t find it I will gladly vote your ass off to save mine.

They voted off Dylan, who I didn’t know, but it gives the Fans hope which is BAD. If they think they have a chance they will try and vote us off for sure to increase their numbers and maybe throw challenges. I need to sit down Abel and have a heart to heart with him and lay all my cards on the table. I think he trusts me so if I can convince him to vote my way so we can make merge, then I’m set. I don’t trust the fans. I don’t trust Sara either, although I will eventually try and slyly make it seem like the Fans distrust her. They need to feel on the outs. We’ll see, I have a lot of work to do because I don’t think we can go loss-free till merge.

Bridget: For everyone wondering, I asked Dan/Sole which he preferred and he said Dan was more “normal.” So Dan it is!

I’m really happy Mitchell survived that tribal, though. It sounds like the tribe is pretty divided and they voted out a “mastermind.” Sometimes being a favorite and having a reputation hurts you, so yay!

Also, I really like Dan. He is definitely someone I’d want to play this game with, but it concerns me that he didn’t get along with his previous tribe. I want to work with him, but I like working with people who are likable who can also pull in other people. If he’s just a liability, it may not be strategic. But we’ll see! He could also just be numbers. I’m a bitch, I also just really like him as a human being. Which is why I want to work with him.

I’m slightly worried Dom said something about me to Tony in Machu Picchu because Candace went to Abel saying, “We need to talk about something serious.” But hasn’t responded yet. But I could just be paranoid after the whole Jordan fiasco. I mean, how could he already tell I was a strong social player? I hardly talked to him.. So I’m not sure if that will end up hurting me in the long run.

Sara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQgQIMlwWw OH MY WHAT!??!!??!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!! THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR ME

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

A. A favorite got voted out FINALLy

B. The other tribe is collapsing so tbh whether we win or lose immunity we as fans will be golden for a while

C. Dylan, in particular. He, me, and Amelia had like a suuuuper informal alliance pretty much purely so I wouldn’t be picked off next on Supay. Tbh I would still like to work with Amelia, but Dylan - I could not trust him at all after all of the plotting the first few days. It’s a shame bc we actually got along well, but yeah. Couldn’t trust him at all moving forward. SO NOWWW I don’t have to stick with/betray him later. Honestly… YES.

Bad things:

A. Amelia is probably next out, cuz they were pretty tight with Dylan I guess. Idk though, they’re pretty awesome. Probably someone else on that side will go first.

It’s crazy though because it was between Dylan and Casey?? Who were both on Supay, so some crazy flipping must have been going on! Can’t wait to read those confessionalsss.

B. I wasn’t responsible for him getting voted out in a true Arya Stark revenge style for Brandon. My Queen Natalie moment will have to wait, or may never happen :(

But, just YES. Literally like 3 days ago I thought all was lost. Brandon sacrificed himself, and I was making alliances with people I didn’t trust to honestly buy me just a few more days. Now… I’m in a majority alliance with at least one person I have trusted since day 1 (Bridget and I got along really well even on old Chaska!), the faves are mutinying, and I am free from that untrustworthy alliance.

*happy dance*

Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: Losing that challenge puts me in serious danger because I’ve put myself out there a bit and people might see me as a social threat.

All I want is for the fans to realise that their initial strategy of fans vs faves won’t last long because there are 6 challenges and only 4 vulnerable faves meaning they could enter the merge 7-5 and if they’ve shown their unwillingness to vote out their own then they’ll be Pagonged… In a perfect world, Sara would go home because she’s the weakest on the tribe and she’s a fan. That won’t happen, though, because she’s in a key position to flip on the fans (however unlikely that is…)

Candace and I have made a pact to watch each other and try and get out of this alive. Tony is shady and has a self-vote so it might be him and Stephen is literally doing nothing and the fans are like ???? because he’s not talking to them. Our plan (me and Candace) is to tie in Abel and Sara to a four-person alliance that will come into force after the first vote (which hopefully would not be a fave but i reckon it will be)

Wesley is such a rat, I was talking to him and he goes ‘just give me names’ I’m here like.. do you know how to play like ?. I want him to go home but he’s kinda solid in challenges but you never know.

Right now, the only plan is to stay alive but if I can swing something in my favour imma try to.

Candace: This mess of a damn game has me stressed out of my mind. I don’t know what to do, I’m really just at the mercy of Wesley who is dumb as a damn doorknob and Kara is the door connected to him. They basically have made it extremely apparent they are working together like they are the damn Romeo and Juliet of the tribe and are dictating the game basically. It amuses me how two idiots have managed to gain that much power just because they got dealt the right cards and the rest of the fans are blindly following because they have no mind of their own. Even TONY’s dumb ass has now flipped to him and they want to vote Stephen. Dan and I are scrambling to try and avoid this because it will obviously just be us next to go. Tony has his vote locked in so he’s no longer useful to me he’s obviously with them.

There is a shining hope. Kara has told me she doesn’t trust Sara or Bridget and wants to vote off Bridget. I’ll use everything in my power to try and sway those two to my side and maybe just maybe we can save Stephen if we have the votes. But the thing with that is people need to be ONLINE maybe to play the fucking game so I can talk strategy with you? Tell me why I’ve only spoken with Sara’s goofy ass once and it was about Survivor (the show) and neither of us have actually seen much of the show. Abel I don’t know what the fuck he is doing but he’s dumb just like his fave Beyonce so I don’t expect much. I have to beg him to vote with me if I even do manage to get Bridget and Sara with me. And this is all what ifs so far people because I actually haven’t gotten to talk with anyone but Dan/Tony/Kara. Going to need them to wake up, fluff their pillows, brush their teeth, and log their lazy asses on Skype so I can manipulate things my way. I will NOT be voting down Stephen unless I have to. I’m going to put up a fight and hopefully sway their minds and maybe we can think up a plan. We’ll see. So scenarios are I end up caving and voting Stephen tonight, I get the people I need on my side and we put the sword right through Romeo and Juliet’s heart. Or I explode tonight. Anything is possible.

Wesley: Everyone is like throwing Stephen’s name out and I am fine with that. No fan going, but fave again! :D

Sara: Candace just approached me.

Tonight’s vote is pretty locked. I don’t feel like there’s gonna be an upset tonight.

But Candace just told me that a dominant alliance is forming between Kara/Wes/Tony and that they’re going to target Bridget, me, then her (in that order) in future TCs. Why are my closest allies always targeted?????

Didn’t really believe her until receipts were provided (which is an amazing and terrible addition to the game: PROOF of what someone said). I can’t think of a reason why she would lie, except to basically do what I did in Supay and just be sure she’s not the next favorite to go. It makes sense for the faves to scheme to get fans out (eg what is now happening with voting for me and Bridget), but it doesn’t make sense for a favorite to try to circumvent that unless she’s sincerely concerned about her own future.

It’s rough doing this on Skype because you can’t see who’s getting firewood together! Like I have no idea of the relationships in this tribe other than what is told to me.

So basically, the next Ekkeko TC is going to be two alliances of three, with two swing votes. TWO SWING VOTES. I am going to be hella nervous until then.

And we may not even go to tribal for a while if pEOPLE STEP IT UP UGH

Bridget: If Kara is my demise, I swear, I’m not going to be very pleased. Essentially, she’s going around to everyone in the tribe saying she’s scared of me and doesn’t trust me. After we vote Stephen this time, she wants me next. Honestly, I don’t know why this issue of me being a “social threat” has become such a big deal. I mean, Jordan and Kara are/were the ones freaked out about it most and I hardly talked to them. So I’m not sure where they are getting that from.

But anyway. Candace came to me with the information about Kara and, while I don’t know if I can trust Candace, she gave me receipts. If Tony/Wes/Kara are truly working together, that could be dangerous. Kara is a messy player, but Tony and Wes are very strong in challenges. They think they have Abel, Dan, and Candace but Dan told Candace that he definitely didn’t want to vote me out. Abel and I seem to be on the same page, and Candace feels on the outs for whatever reason.