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Post by Monica Padilla on Oct 21, 2015 22:52:39 GMT
~ Episode Seven ~ Oh look, the merge. Again. Wheee. I'd be making less of a bitchface if I didn't have some kind of physical breakdown and sleep for 14 hours last night. Apparently bodies don't like it when you repeatedly deprive them of sleep while they're trying to fight off massive infections. Who knew? Among the many many things that I didn't get to do today because I was too busy doing that having dreams that my little sister was mad at me for breaking her red wagon (even though I totally didn't, it was a continuity error in the dream and I TOLD HER THAT BUT SHE WOULDN'T LISTEN) and I wanted to fix it but she insisted on doing it herself so I sat in front of the door eating rainbow-colored Cheerios and refusing to let her pass so I could fix the wagon myself was to write a confessional detailing all the everything that's happened since the merge. There has been a lot of it, including: - Kelly and I discuss Henry VIII's dick - Ashley does bitchy things - Jeremiah is boring - Caleb says things - I make alliances And so much more! Expect an update... sometime! |
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Post by Rodney on Oct 22, 2015 1:29:03 GMT
The disgust for everyone around you is beginning to sound eerily similar
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Post by Monica Padilla on Oct 22, 2015 1:40:19 GMT
Nah, you're misunderstanding me. These people are much much better than season two. I'm just also feeling apprehensive because I was forced to bomb the challenge and don't wanna go home early again.
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Post by thenavneet on Oct 22, 2015 1:49:14 GMT
Nah, you're misunderstanding me. These people are much much better than season two. I'm just also feeling apprehensive because I was forced to bomb the challenge and don't wanna go home early again. But season 1 people are still da best right?  |
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Post by Rodney on Oct 22, 2015 1:52:04 GMT
Nah, you're misunderstanding me. These people are much much better than season two. I'm just also feeling apprehensive because I was forced to bomb the challenge and don't wanna go home early again. Much better than season twoOh. I see. |
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Post by Monica Padilla on Oct 22, 2015 5:54:23 GMT
*looks at Ami's TC question*
I myself would like to know whether "cross tribal lines" still exist, mostly because I have no idea what the heck they actually are.
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Post by Monica Padilla on Oct 22, 2015 5:56:48 GMT
Nah, you're misunderstanding me. These people are much much better than season two. I'm just also feeling apprehensive because I was forced to bomb the challenge and don't wanna go home early again. But season 1 people are still da best right? In the same way that Patricia Jackson is objectively hotter than Sonja Christopher, sure. |
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Post by Monica Padilla on Oct 22, 2015 21:49:33 GMT
Okay, actual confessional time!
I'm cautiously optimistic going into the merge, because for some odd reason, it seems like the other side is targeting Ashley. They think she's running things, and that she's the biggest challenge threat. Is that... is that an idol dodge of some kind? Is that just them blatantly lying? I'm seriously so confused right now. I mean, I'm grateful, I'm over the moon that it's not me under the gun, but what is everybody smoking? I guess I shouldn't be conducting any dental inspections on this particular gift horse, but it seems kind of odd that they're completely disregarding my earlier performances. I guess if anything, I'm just... confused. I feel suspicious, and I'm not going to stop feeling that way until the parchments come up and I see that someone who isn't me went home.
This merge has been really interesting, because I actually am finding that I like the other side more than I like my own.
On Akha, we have the following character dynamics in play:
Ami has this bizarre habit of telling every single person she has no idea what's going on. What will happen here is that Ami comes to me, says "I have no idea what's going on!" and I go "We're voting for Jeremiah tonight." Then Ami goes to Rudy, tells him she has no idea what's going on, which is a lie on account of me having told her what's going on six seconds ago. Rudy tells her Jeremiah. Ami then goes to Caleb, and tells him she has no idea what's going on. I think she has no idea that we talk to each other, and that pretending that she has no idea what is happening only makes us realize how hard she's holding her cards to her vest. It's silly, but on the whole, it's not all that bad.
Ashley lives in Australia, and that makes it hard to get ahold of her. So everybody else feels like they don't connect to Ashley and they can't really meld with her on a strategic level. That's totally okay with me, because I'm a night owl, and I can talk to her all the time. It's fine with me if she has no other strategic options, because she's been telling people that me/Joaq/Caleb were tight and running things on Akha. I'm quite okay if she can't turn that around on me.
Caleb is a scumbag, working with everybody and playing all the angles. I can't really trust him long term, because I know that he's been making side deals and cutting me out. So right now I want him in a position of fear so that I can control him and get him trapped in a way that prevents him from being able to turn things around on me.
Joaquin is also a scumbag, but, like Caleb, his scumbaggery is pretty apparent to everybody else. He owes me his ass for throwing that last challenge to him, and I don't think that he's quite capable of the depths of villainy that it'd take to screw me over without cause unless he has no other option.
Kelly Wiglesworth... cripes. Kelly is a goshdarn trainwreck. I actually really want to believe that Kelly is pregaming with the other tribe, because it's the only reasonable explanation for how someone can be that ridiculously bad at this game. We have massive numbers here, we flipped Rudy and Tyson, and we can pick off any of the Hmongs that we want. What's Wiglesworth's master move here? She decides that for some reason, she is going to flip. I've seen conversations where she tries to justify this move, and they make no sense. Her reasons for wanting Jeremiah to stay? She thinks she can absolutely trust him. That's an interesting position to take for someone you've never been on a tribe with until now. She also points out that he's good in challenges. I don't know what drugs you gotta be smoking to think that "good at challenges" is a valuable trait in a post-merge situation, especially for someone who is, for all intents and purposes, your enemy. She's straight up telling Joaquin she's planning to vote for Ashley. Honestly, if she isn't pregaming, she's one of the worst players I've ever seen. I can't wait to send her home the first chance I get.
The other tribe, though, they're good conversationalists. They're smart people. They're interesting. But I really don't see myself working with them long term. I've heard about the way they treated Caleb and Joaq when they were on the outs, and I get the sense that the friendly nice personas I'm seeing won't last much longer once the pressure's on and things start heating up. People who are unkind when they're in power aren't going to be terribly kind when they're out of power. That actually also works to my favor. People don't like to flip to underdogs who are jerks (NOT LIKE I WOULD KNOW THAT FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OR ANYTHING) so it'll be a lot easier to maintain a power position.
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Post by Monica Padilla on Oct 22, 2015 22:49:27 GMT
After having just now watched last night's Survivor episode, I can think of another reason why Kelly might be so darn awful at every facet of this game: she's secretly being played by Kimmi "WHAT? YOU WANT TO MAKE AN ALLIANCE TO HELP BOTH OF US LATER ON DOWN THE ROAD!? FUCK YOOOOU!!!" Kappenberg.
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Post by Monica Padilla on Oct 22, 2015 23:55:37 GMT
How DARE you dislike that confessional post, Rodney? Consider our Applebees date CANCELED.
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Post by Rodney on Oct 23, 2015 0:26:19 GMT
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