Round 7

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So Shelli left, which wasn't surprising. Me, Kelsey and Corey were voting Zach and Arlie did too surprisingly? I have no idea why since I thought he was close to Zach. But he bought himself some time for me and got some respect. Which maybe that's why he did it, I don't know. The other possible vote was Erika, which I didn't really believe, but apparently she asked Nicole to extend the deadline and sounded like she felt bad afterwards? And didnt jump because Ika wouldn't?

Idk, I dont totally believe her but I DO believe her more than Ika. Ika randomly told me this morning she wanted to keep Shelli but didn't know if the votes were there. And when I asked why she was keeping Shelli, she didn't really have a good answer. She is noncommittal all day and then right before the deadline, Erika says she wants to get Ika on board. But surprise! Ika is driving! And can't answer any messages! Apparently she's driving cross country, because she hasn't been online all night!

I don't trust Ika at all. She was talking to me like "Oh I don't like how you were left out of the loop" but I don't buy it at all. She's also told me how she wants to get the boys out. And that she keeps it real. And none of them are true? Week 4, she keeps David over Jen. Week 5, she keeps Corey over Becky. Week 6, she keeps Zach over Shelli.

If I won HOH, I would put Ika up. Butttt not as my target. That honor goes to Jun who is the shadiest snake in the house. Everybody is complaining about Shelli being allied with lots of people (even though she isn't really). But Jun is allied with fucking everybody and nobody even cares. She was the one who leaked the Zach/Natalie/Becky/Jun alliance and got off completely clean for it. The blame fell on Shelli for not being loyal to her f2 with Jun (wtf?) and Jun has been able to keep her amazing position.

She's told me she wants to rebuild trust, but she hasn't actually done that? The one thing she did tell me was that I'm not on her radar if she won but nothing about what she actually would do. Like okay great, you would go after Zach or Kelsey before me, but you don't seem interested in working with me at all.

I called it week one that Jun wasn't going to be trustworthy, and I said I wasn't going to put her up unless I wanted her gone. And now I want her gone. She's the best player in the game and I'm obviously not in her longterm plans so she can gtfo.

My one regret, if I do win this HOH, is that it happened one week too late. I would love to send her home on her third week 6 in a row. But sadly, that's not going to happen  


OKAY WELL THERE IS AN UPDATE.

Apparently Jun was copy pasting a conversation with Erika and she accidentally included an icon for a chat she was in. And after Erika and Jackie (verrry interesting that the first person Erika told was Jackie) studied the picture, they concluded that the alliance was Jun, Ika, Howard and Natalie.

I'm not surprised at all that there's an alliance to ride out the middle of this game. There HAD to be something else. Zach's alliance is dead, the middle of the game is surprisingly organized and numerous and it just makes sense.

Jun, duh, of course she's involved. She's involved in everything. Howard, well, I knew he was in the middle. That's where he was during the boxes HOH. I THOUGHT he was on my side especially since it sounded like we were on the same page about Jen staying, Becky going, and not trusting the same people. But during this vote he wasn't even considering the idea of keeping Shelli because "he liked Zach more" which seemed like a silly thing to vote based off of in week 6 in an all stars game. I assumed he just had a deal with Zach but no, he's fully trying to play the middle.

Ika tells me how she "keeps it real" and how she "isn't in any alliances" but I've been trusting her less and less, and it's good to have it confirmed that I can't trust her at all.

Natalie is very interesting. Me and Kelsey had a truce with her and Zach but Zach mentioned something about how Ika found out somehow. And if Natalie's allied with her then that explains it. So does Natalie even care to work with me? I don't think so. When I talked to her about targets, she mentioned the only two people who are in the middle who aren't in her alliance (and arent Jackie): David and Erika.

Even though the alliance is the big news of the evening, I need to pay attention to the people on the other side, the exposers, and how they dealt with me. Erika figures it out and immediately shares it with Jackie. Those two have to be a pair, right? During the Becky vote, Jackie was also talking about how she could "get" Erika's vote. After the alliance was figured out, Kelsey immediately messages me, Cody messages me a little bit later, Jackie finally tells Kelsey that she can tell me but that I should pretend I know nothing (wtf), and Erika says nothing at all. Then, way later, David messages me saying he wants to talk about the alliance and where I stand with Jun. Did David message me as soon as he was online, or did he wait an hour or two before deciding oh yeah, I should talk to Porsche? Well I have no idea, because David has been on invisible for the entire day!

My favorite part about all this is how it got confirmed. Kelsey asked Howard if he was in an alliance, and he said yes. That's it. I know Kelsey is great at fishing for info, but come on Howard. That was straight up pathetic dude. Even Steve, STEVE, of all people lasted longer under Kelsey's interrogation than you did.

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Kat if it makes you feel any better, this doesn't change anything for me. I was coming after jun and I'm still coming after jun. I was very concerned about the middle and all this is is a confirmation of what I already suspected.

Howard and ika I wasn't too surprised by either. The last week made me lose a lot of trust in them. The one person who this made me change my opinion of is Natalie. With jun starting to catch heat, she might have been in the best position of the game before this leaked.

[porsche]

In other news, I was trying to think about this twist. My first thought was that it was a blackout week, Someone would win HOH, nominate people and so on and nobody would know what was going on. But after thinking about it, it doesn't really make sense how we don't know what the competition is. And that makes me think, maybe there isn't one?

[porsche]

fuck

When will we ever get Jun out?

[porsche]

I was really upset when Jun won the veto, and even more upset when Ika used the veto she got from the button. I really thought this was going to be the week to finally get Jun out of the game. I am so terrified of her getting a foothold. Last time she exposed, she reestablished her position stronger than ever. She’s been pretty quiet lately, acting understanding of all the people who nominated her, and letting Ika blow up and make herself a bigger target. She’s already survived one week after her game blew up (again) and if she survives another it might be a very long time before I get another shot at her.

But even though I was upset when it first happened, now that the nominees are David and Natalie, I’m really happy with it. Jun and Ika are (probably) coming after Jackie and Erika, and vice versa, and I see David and Natalie as much bigger threats in terms of position. For one of them to be guaranteed to go home without me having to do anything is really good.

Natalie has been hard at work distancing herself from Ika and Jun. And while she’s sounded very convincing, do I really buy it? Before the alliance was public knowledge, she was telling me she wanted to go after the people in the middle. And who were those people? David and Erika! Aka, two of the main people in the middle who she wasn’t allied with. But now she keeps going on about how she never trusted Jun and Ika. I’ve also noticed how her alliances keep getting exposed and she’s never the one who gets the heat for it. If it wasn’t for circumstances putting her on the block over Jun and Ika, I don’t see her being the one to take the fall for this alliance either.

If it was David and Natalie on the block in any other week, I would have tried hard to win the HOH to keep David safe. But I’ve been losing a LOT of trust in David lately. The way he handled the Shelli vote really pissed me off. He hid on invisible all day, and was short and kind of dismissive when I tried to talk with him. He said he heard Shelli had lots of alliances and that made him question the one Shelli made with him. That’s something that’s really bothered me. Everybody keeps talking about these alliances Shelli was in but nobody ever says what exactly they were.

I asked David what these supposed alliances were and he says that “three people” told him they were allied with Shelli. As soon as he said that, and it was obvious he wasn’t going to say who those three people were, that made me really take a step back and say, Okay, maybe I’m not as close to David as I thought. He eventually told me it was Jackie, Erika, and some third person (Ika?) but still.

The round before that made me lose trust in David too. He says he wants to vote for Corey, I talk to him and he agrees to vote for Becky. And then apparently he changes his mind again and almost votes for Becky without telling me! Becky’s campaign strategy was to call me out for having an “alliance” and I would have been in trouble if she won HOH. Thanks a lot David!

It also wouldn’t surprise me if there was an Erika/Jackie/David alliance. Erika and Jackie are obviously tight, David says that Erika flirts with him and I’m sure they’ve got a connection, and Kelsey brought up that Jackie always brings up David as someone she likes.

So where I’m at right now is that I want to throw this HOH. Natalie and David are two people I have good relationships with and could probably work with in the future, but I don’t totally trust either of them and I don’t care too much which one goes. The next HOH is going to be much more important anyway.

If I somehow accidentally won this HOH, I’m probably leaning towards evicting Natalie? I like her a lot more but she also really worries me, and I just can’t ignore her role in that alliance. She’s distancing herself from Jun and maybe there’s some truth in what she’s saying. Jun didn’t support Natalie’s HOH and voted Becky out over Corey. But it’s also a little convenient how she suddenly doesn’t trust Jun at all.

I find it hilarious how everybody is immediately distancing themselves from Jun. Natalie? She’s going on about how she never trusted Jun and Ika, Howard? He nominated Jun. And Ika? Well, Ika missed the memo and is going on and on about how much she loves Jun. Guys, it’s a little late to be jumping off the ship. The only reason people know about this alliance is because of a complete fluke. If Natalie and Howard felt this uncomfortable about their alliance they could have, you know, exposed it.