What the F*ck is Sweden/Confessionals

Day 1
"shiva"

- Welp, here I am. Time to put on a fake smile and pretend to like these people :* Hopefully I won't flop though lmao. My social game is less than stellar. ;D

"brahma"

- I'm so excited to play this game, I'm the first Chilean to play it! So I'm proud of that, I am going to play as hard as I can. Maybe that will make me the third sole survivor named Miguel!

"vishnu"

- So I'm trying to go into this with an open mind but being offered a mispelled orgy in the first thirty seconds of the game isn't exactly what I was expecting. Also saying 'what the fuck is sweden' to someone you've likely never even met just rubs me the wrong way. I'm hoping this is just pregame nerves and not a long lasting air of arrogance.

"shiva"

- Oh btw, I was told that if I got on this season then I have to do this so, I'm sorry in advance. YAS HI QUEENIES LIAM, LINUS AND MALIK (idk if you're in the VL). YOU'RE MY QUEENS AND I'LL WIN BC LINUS SAID SO. ;*

"brahma"

- I really like my tribe, I think we will slay in the challenges, they are actually really good people so I'm happy with the tribe I end up with.

"brahma"

- The game started last night and I'm so hyped! I pulled all all-nighter just to be there at the start and talk to people because first impressions count and it was great only now I'm exhausted because it's been a while since I actually slept properly (thanks MvGX finale and timezones)

Usually I don't like that thing people do where they go down the cast list and talk about everyone, but considering there's only 5 other people, I've actually talked to them all & I'm not a complete mess of confusion this time - here's the tribe, in a very particular order:

Rob - Rob! I love Rob so far! He's great, easy to talk to & not overly experienced at this (or so he says, haha, I am so fucking concerned for catfish this time around). I'm sort of cautious because he seems smart and he's super likeable but I guess that's good if he's more smart and more likeable than me! Anyway yeah I love Rob and at this point I'm happy to take him to the end and let him win in an 8-0 vote just because he's great.

Chile - Miguel, I've been calling him Chile in my head for some weird reason, whoops. Um, he seems nice. It's kinda hard to talk to him, but he's super nice and friendly. We had a bit of a chat & he proposed an alliance of me, him, Rob & the 'went to bed' guy within the first hour of the game starting & told me to make it. That was cute. Unfortunately also REALLY FUCKING STUPID so I was all 'ha ha let's just chill for a second here, you can make it tomorrow after we talk to everyone' and I think he's gonna do that. Hopefully. Either way, he's just nice & I'd be happy to work with him (but he looks vaguely familiar? I'm not sure where I've seen him before but I sort of recognise him).

'R' Guy - Ronel. Ronel. Ronel. I'm struggling with his name. I keep wanting to call him Rohan or Ronald or literally anything but Ronel. Anyway, this is the hungover one. I love him. We had a totally nonsenical conversation about kangaroo movies at 5am, what more is there to say?

The Aussie - Markos? I think that's his name. He's Australian. That's all. At least I know he's there & he's not another damn American, but that's about it.

'went to bed' guy - Well, he went to bed. Can't remember his name or anything about him other than that he was sick and went to bed. Hopefully we can talk later because M̶a̶n̶u̶e̶l̶ Miguel seemed to like him.

I think that's everyone & to be honest I'm feeling okay about the tribe! Hopefully we can get that alliance sorted somehow (I don't really care who's in it as long as it's solid) & win this lovely 2am live challenge!

"vishnu"

- I think I need to try pull Jonathan and/or Catherine in with Felicia and I. On a tribe of six its really important to get a pair so that you can pivot between options together, and I think Felicia and I both think the same way, we both have the same mentality to the game, and I really think we could run this game.

"vishnu"

- It's all currently about making common interests with people. Chandler has a cat in his profile pic, so I initiate a conversation about cats. Ryan is still in bed because he doesn't want to get up? Well I'll also happen to be in bed and not want to get up. Jonathan is cutting down trees (wtf), then I'll talk about trees and stuff. The first part of establishing a connection to someone is by finding a door that you can use to get in to their passions or hobbies, and if they think you're similar then they're far more likely to open up to you. It's the exact reason cliques happen back in High School. The sporty kids collectively like sport, so they hang out, nerdy kids like nerdy things, so they hang out. It's all a pack mentality and I'm going to use that to my advantage.

Day 2
"vishnu"

- I think I'm in a great spot even if we lose immunity. I've made a specific point of being useful to the tribe by helping compile all the names needed for the challenge, and on top of that have further extended my prior plan of creating common interests with everybody on the tribe. No matter what the alliances end up dividing like, I think it's safe to say I'll be within it. I could be delusional, but I don't think I am... even though not thinking you are is the main criteria of being deluded...

"shiva"

- Well Chris is kinda inac atm and I was kinda hoping to boot him first so ye keep being inac Chris God I'm a bitch

"brahma"

- Ok, after almost 3 hours, we have just posted something like 50 names, Ronel, Rob and me have worked so quickly, the problem is Markos, we post in 3 seconds 3 names, but Markos post every 7 minutes, if this continues i am going to kill somebody xDDD jk. But yeah, the situation is not looking good at all.

"brahma"

- I LOVE THIS TRIBE!

They're all so nice, I love them, if we had to go to tribal I would have been so sad because they're all so amazing & there was not one person who didn't help out with the challenge, which we just WON (hopefully) by sneaking up from absolutely nowhere in the middle of the night! I'm so happy! I love everything! The world is made of fairy floss, rainbows, & dancing unicorns!

"brahma"

- The start of the game, the biggest thing to do is gain majority. The best thing to do is just make sure that I talk to people, get connected, and see where everyone else lies. Do I need to like them? No. Do they need to know that half of them annoy me? No. But as long as I am someone they trust, I can go as far as I can go. Starting in minority at the start is the easiest way to be put behind the 8 ball right away. Come merge, people can go for majorities but always being open to flipping helps fix that. Rob is the one I trust the most. Ronel annoys me, Miguel annoys me, but they don't need to know that. They need to trust me. I gotta keep Rob and Isabel. They I actually enjoy, but I'm always open to work with anyone. Numbers are numbers. I just gotta keep my head in the majority. I just need to keep my hope up, and do what I can do to win. Hopefully I keep it going.

"shiva"

- I'm really really sad that we lost. I love everyone on the tribe. I really don't want to be the first person voted off because I want to show myself I really can win this thing. One thing I plan on doing differently is making sure I have more than enough votes in case someone flips. And I definitely will not be using my emotions in the game. I'm sorry if I vote someone off and they're like my best friend but at the same time like it's a game. Nothing personal.

"shiva"

- ok so im pissed yo. fuckin time zones fuck you lol. I stayed up till 3am waiting on the americans BUT NO ONE WAS ON and then we loose and then the same americans decide HEY IMMA TAKE THE LEAD WHILE YOU SLEEP ILL VOTE (DANI and aidan)

DANI WHY THE FUCK DID YOU VOTE SO EARLY?! WTF aidan wants to vote jo out BASED ON META! THATS BS! and you don't just deicde on a fukin vote while im asleep and vote before waiting for my input?! they left no room for arguments!

i fukin love jo right now im not gonna say goodbye to my man! we made our litle two man allaince TEAM ROCKET

and fukin hell he sings well he serenaded me! my heart is sold!

anyways blake and chris are on board they want t vote dani out. dani wasnt my idealvote i wanted aidan but this is fine too. even though i connected a bit with dani but i dont like her attitude this tribal at all.

at first i wanted chris out just cause he was the one with less presence and i connected with the least but its fine i dont mind

i keep on forgetting about this confessional lol i keep on getting distratced i started this confessoinal like 3 horus ago LOL.

Day 3
"shiva"

- So Danielle just came to me and was like "four of us are voting Chris already so" and part of me is like yasss because I wanted Chris gone anyway and the other part is like "Bitch how dare you decide for me!" anyway Chris should be going

"brahma"

- I love watching Shiva talking about how timezones influenced the challenge, the best part is Aidan saying "Brahma might have similar timezones" Ronel is from Philippines, Isabel is in Englang, Dean and Rob are from the USA and I am chilean, i think our tribe can't have more different timezones! Some of us did not sleep doing this challenge, so yeah, this is hilarious.

"shiva"

- Alright

Dani has got to be one of the stupidest people I've met. Seriously. I wake up to a message from her saying ""all us 4 want Chris, so..."" then not an hour later, ""nvm we're voting Jo."" I check with her about everyone being on board, and she says they all are. I check with Aviv... first message, ""Okay, so what's happening?"" Aviv had absolutely no clue.

First rule of voting: if you want me to believe everyone is on board, anticipate that I will double check it, AND MAKE SURE YOU'VE ALSO TALKED TO EVERYONE ELSE. Dani and Aidan are clearly at works with something here, and it turns out that Aviv and Chris don't trust Dani either. They're voting Jo, so he'll vote my way... making 4-2, so we can either split 2-2-2 or go all 4 on someone.

So yes, Dani, I am on board... with blindsiding your ass! Bye Felicia.

"brahma"

- OK, so the challenge just finished and my tribe ended up winning after basically marathoning 6 hours of posting in the dead of night to win. So, I'm glad that I'm not going to be first boot!

In other matters, I got offered two final deals by Dean and Miguel and I accepted both. Socially, I was able to connect with everyone on my tribe really well with the exception of Markos who was just never online and never replied. I don't think that he's taking exception to me or hates me, it's just that he doesn't reply to anyone. I talked with Issy, Miguel, and Ronel and all 3 of them said that Markos wasn't really responding to him. In the challenge, he didn't communicate with us and he was going really slowly which was really starting to get on some people's nerves, myself included. I expect Markos to go home first if we ever lose an immunity challenge.

Miguel made a final 4 alliance with him, me, Issy, and dean but no chat has been created yet because neither Miguel or I wanted to create the chat and then be blamed for creating the alliance if it blew up in our face. Issy seemed down for the alliance but she also wanted to talk with dean more before jumping in. Dean has been afk a lot so far and he hasn't been really talking much.

During and after the challenge, Miguel really alienated some people by perhaps taking on too large of a leadership role. During the challenge, he was telling everyone what name to post, which I actually liked, but turned off some other people. Dean told me privately that he felt that Miguel was bossy to him even in PMs. He also asserted himself by volunteering to go to the temple and Ronel said that he felt it was very aggressive. I think he also was talking about votes with some people which may further increase his image as a tryhard. This probably helps me as it keeps the attention off me.

My personal connections with the other people in the tribe are really interesting. I really think that Miguel trusts me the most out of anyone on the tribe. When we were talking about who to send to the Temple afterwards, he said Him, Me, or Issy. I don't think he has any true connections with Ronel or Markos and Dean has just been to afk for him and Dean to be that close. But anyways, he told me to pick a number from 1-3 (for Miguel, Me, and Issy), I picked 3, and he showed me an image on Random.org where it picked Issy to go. However, afterwards, he began to show some doubt and was like ""but will she tell us about an idol clue if she goes?"" He ended up deciding to go himself which shows that he does not fully trust Issy. Moreover, he also told me what he found at the Temple and when I asked him whether he wanted to tell the alliance, he said no, just me. I think that right now I can trust Miguel a lot.

Issy told me that she trusted me the most out of anybody on the tribe, but I don't know if I can take that at face value just yet. I know that Issy just doesn't have any real connections with Dean, Ronel, or Markos and I think she trusts me more than Miguel as she wanted either me or her to go to the Temple and through my conversations with both Issy and Miguel, I was able to tell that they weren't really talking that much together. So by POE, I should be Issy's closest ally. However, I'm a bit weary of her just bc it hasn't been tested yet.

Ronel is actually hilarious and I think we also really got along well. He told me that he was definitely turned off by Miguel's aggressiveness and has not talked enough with Dean or Markos because they're essentially afk. I don't THINK he and Issy have that close of a connection which probably means that I'm also his closest ally.

I know Dean from EpicMafia and we know each other fairly well. I really don't think he's going to fuck me over, but my read may be wrong because I don't have any physical evidence to prove it yet. He just hasn't talked much with other people and I think that he didn't really get along with Miguel or Markos

Overall, to summarize, I think that I'm in a really strong position. I'm letting Miguel who is a very aggressive person assume the leadership position but in reality, I think I'm the one who is in control of the tribe right now. I don't see Markos surviving the first tribal and I think afterwards, the tribe will either go after Ronel because he's not in the 4-person alliance, Dean because he is afk, or Miguel because he is being too aggressive. I should be set on this tribe for a long time even if we go to tribal. I don't think I'm going to be targetted, I really really really like everyone on my tribe. I honestly don't see why people are getting annoyed already with each other as I really enjoy everyone here.

"shiva"

- analysis of the palyers and my thoughts on them so far:

Dani: i was chilled with her till she started sheeping aidan and voting while i was asleep and not leaving room for arguments. not fine with that.

aidan: controlling. spreading meta around which is bs lol. everything he said was bs. he seemed nice enough at first but nah. i aint having it

blake: sweetheart lol he is a a great ally im lovin him (imma read back and smh at myself after he backstabs me wont i?)

chris: has no presence lol idk what i feel about em

jo: my HOMEBOY dis guy good singer and its fun to talk to him :) imma save him  this trbal i dont want hm going home

"vishnu"

- hayyy fam

Apologies for only just now doing my first confessional on day 3... but this bitch has been busy

I'm legitimately in love with my tribe's name Vishnu and how our color is Purple <3 Highkey perfect. Also digging the yellow + red ngl. Was lowkey bummed to see its a 3-tribe game but lykeee imma have to deal w it or leave lol

So we got me, Jonathan, Felicia, Catherine, Chandler, and AJ. Jonathan: Where did y'all find this nutjob kljdfkllk. He says some bizarre shit and i kind of love it but i'm perplexed lol. Seems like a wildcard to me. I haven't talked with him one-on-one yet

Felicia: She's is so sweet omg? She comes off as really innocent and like naive about survivor? but idk if that's the case. Her & Jonathan both live in Sweden which is interesting...

Catherine: She was one of the last to join the conversation but she turned out to be the biggest help in the immunity challenge even tho she was like moving or something lol, so bless her. She seems cool she lives in Iowa and is really into the game and I'd really like to work with ha.

Chandler: He's been really quiet I don't know much about him. He helped out in the immunity a good amount but he was lowkey a liability lmao bc he was mobile and I had to let him know each time I posted on the forum zzzz but whatever

AJ: He's great I dig his vibe a lot. He's in Australia and I kinda got the vibe that he bonded with Jonathan/Felicia a lot and since they're all outside the US I feel like they'd link up? idek am i just being xenophobic?anksdj

This is a hella random group idek what to do with it... I can't really see where alliances will form and who I'd want to move forward with..... which is v worrying lol

what 2 do what 2 do..... talk to some people I suppose huh

We seem really strong though which is hype as hell. I'm never on tribes who power through pre-merge and I would be so fucking grateful if we can pull that off..... bc I would be nervous af if we lost alksdjfalkdj which i guess means I need to make some moves and connections... we'll see!

"shiva"

- I am honestly convinced Aviv has set me up to go 3-2-1. I will not be surprised at all if I am the first out. If this is the truth then I am an absolute idiot and have no one to blame but myself.

"brahma"

- We won reward! Which was great, until we had to decide on 2 people to go on it! I was talking to Rob (who is loosely probably my #1 at this point because everyone else is a touch crazy) about wanting it to be either me or him but Miguel, the new tribe dictator, seemed to be really pushing for himself to go. He also made the executive decision to send Danielle from the other tribe with no real justification or discussion at all. Does he know her already? Does he want to confess his undying love for her? Does he think she's the one who they're gonna be voting out? I don't know, because he's told me nothing. About an hour into the decision making time he posts in the chat like 'because nobody else wants to go, I am going' and because the rest of the tribe is never there, Miguel was the only one who said anything and so I guess we just ended up running with his decision. Fun. To be honest I'm not that annoyed, at least he's being the bitchy dictator one so I don't have to be, and maybe I would be able to rally people to flip on him because as time goes on that looks more and more tempting (sorry). Anyway, the alliance situation on this tribe is fun. We've got nothing so far, afaik, so either everyone is doing nothing or I'm being left out entirely. Miguel on day 1 proposed a me-him-Rob-Dean alliance but nothing ever came of it, and Rob didn't seem too keen when I spoke to him about it yesterday so I don't know what's going on there... Rob is starting to get on my nerves, I feel like I have to have such a filter when I talk to him because he might take things out of context and I hate that, so much. Just now Ronel mentioned something about an alliance with him and lord knows who else. We haven't spoken that much before, but if he's going to give me more than Rob has to work with, I'm definitely happy to make him my ride or die because I HATE NOT BEING IN ANY ALLIANCES ON DAY 3, I AM STRESSED