Yesssssss that hat is an iconic piece of Survivor fashion!
1. RIP Brandon...bless up to God's favourite son. He really was quite a strange player...preferring to post in public over private messages, revealing his song of the day to absolute silence from the rest of the tribe, and of course channelling that beautiful Christian spirit that
should have gotten him through this game. I wasn't surprised in the slightest that he got the boot and apparently he was clogging up the tribe chat during the challenge lmao?
Bless.
I can't say his departure will affect my game too majorly though. We never really connected and I'd probably have preferred to see him leave over Erik in that first vote. I just could not see him being a super solid ally so he would have just left anyway. The only thing that I
do need to be careful of is if too many fans start leaving then the um...not-favourites(?) might band together against us. I do think there's a few dynamics within that group so that they won't necessarily do that, but I'm definitely curious to see if they boot another fan next should they lose again. We might need lose too so we can cut down one of their numbers but I'll reassess after tonight's vote.
2. I've gotten to know my partner reasonably well! Granted, a lot of our bonding has been about getting that idol which yesssssss go us!
Super happy to officially have that and I think that only strengthens our relationship. With that being said, we haven't really got to know each other much on a personal level. I don't really know much about her at all since we've been focusing on that idol and then just both surviving so we can get that immunity for being the last partnership standing.
It's going to be tricky because I don't think our strategic goals will always line up here. As long as we're separated, we're going to making different friends, forming different alliances and working in different circles. When we do hopefully come together we might not be completely on the same page which is tricky. I think that might be the case for a lot of the partners though because people might have to choose between what their partner whats and what their regular friends and alliances want. I will TRY to make an effort for our goals to align though, and I mean, we both definitely want to be the last pair standing. I just need to make sure I'm not just doing everything SHE wants to do. It's not going to be much good if we're the last pair standing but then the rest of the people in the game are mainly her allies and not mine. Sherri's gotta look out for herself!
3. Oh hey lurker babies! Blow Mama Sherri a kiss!
I've definitely been thinking about some longer term plans...though also not trying to overplan because this game could throw anything at us! Now I've been saying this every confessional but Matt and I are attached to the hip. He's the only one I share anything with and I don't want to ever vote him out. I need him as my sounding board and I think we're both helping each other to give each other intel about certain things. My favourite Matt intel is how exhausting and painful it is to be partnered up with Missy lmao. He makes it sound almost torturous, with her pushing him for information and him just being like I don't know!
We've both decided we just gotta play things a bit dumb for a lot of people, make sure they underestimate us even though we're just feeding each other everything we hear.
I think Reynold is someone else I would love to take far because he seems the type to keep loyal and not do too much to rock the boat. Those are the kind of people I want around, not anyone who decides Sherri has to go for whatever reason. I think Michael would be loyal too and maybe Shamar? Alexis I've already said is someone I don't trust fully and I don't think I want her around endgame. I think we both need each other for our games for now but they'll come a time where I need to cut her loose. Liz might be in a similar category even though I absolutely love her, I do think she's a super smart player and just so charming and likeable. I really need to watch out for her.
As for who I need out ASAP...well the next person I want to boot is definitely not going to be a fan. Hannah seems to be the person that the OG Puka people have connected with the least so she's been our target the last couple rounds. It ALSO sounds like she seems pretty integrated into the Te Poto group so I'd rather cut someone well liked her. Apparently Tai and maybe Aurora were not as connected to people? So I'd rather we keep them around and take the shot at Hannah. The only awkward thing right now is people worrying that Hannah or someone has an idol when I know that I actually have it hidden in my boobs.
I feel bad about not telling all of them but like this shit spreads quick and don't want to give people a reason to target me. I also don't want to jeopardize my partner's game so that's why I've only told Matt.
But like they're all talking about spreading a different target like saying we're voting Tai and then we actually vote Hannah and it's like....ugh I GET IT and it's my fault for not saying anything about the idols, but I do want to try and form some relationships in this swap so if we just lie to them like that, we're not going to get their full trust. Like I want to tell people like Stephannie what we're actually doing but I don't want the others to get annoyed with that. Or even like Tai....Tai told Matt that the others wanted to get the five former TePoto people + 1 fan to come together but Tai wouldn't go for it. The fact that Tai told Matt that is clearly a good sign and maybe we can trust Tai with this information too....it really is tricky, but we'll see what today brings.
Bye folks, enjoy my novel!
