When I saw the new tribes, I wasn’t pleased. Sure, I did have the benefit of being in the old Rictumsempra majority, but I lost Pomfrey. I usually do a great job surviving swaps, so being in a minority spot wouldn’t have been the end of the world. I’m just heartbroken over losing my closest friend and compatriot. She was the only person around in the mornings when I’d be, and we’d talk for hours on a daily basis. She better survive, otherwise I’m gonna yell at her.
As for my tribe, I was happy to see Ron. He’s my second favorite in the cast, and he’s been keeping my from dying of boredom. It was initially nice to see Rita, but that’s changed: we’ll get into it soon. Lily ghosted me super quickly pre-tribes, so I had no opinion, but I was going to give her a chance. Cormac I was not thrilled about, given that I literally just voted for him for no reason. Now, I don’t think he knows I did it, but I think he thinks I did it. It could’ve also been Draco, but I’m guessing that he believes it was me. That’s fine, fair enough. If he asks me about it, I’ll be honest.
After asking me for idol guesses and sharing one of hers, I guessed and shared one back with Rita. She was kind of weird about it, and didn’t respond with a guess of her own at all. She told me she was on mobile and couldn’t share it, which is bullshit, I almost only play ORGs on mobile, but I get it. That didn’t bother me. I don’t care about idols. What bothered me is I went to the trouble of doing you a favor, and then you hem and haw and put zero effort in the conversation. It just gave off some bad vibes, so I don’t think Rita and I are close at all. It’s fine, I don’t need her to be, but she better not be surprised when I vote her out later.
The challenge was no effort which was super nice, even though I didn’t talk to my partners until the last two hours. I had already put my submission in, so I’m glad Maxine and Minerva stayed honest and did the same. We all got our two points and looked good, no need to rock the boat there. Unfortunately, we ended up losing due to Cormac submitting late. I get it, mistakes happen, but typing out a single sentence can happen at any time in the 24 hours before the deadline. It just sucked that we lost because of that.
After results, I wanted the target to be on Cormac. He directly lost us a challenge, and it sets up the notion that this isn’t a tribe vs tribe game, which could help Pomfrey. Lily had still only sent one message to me during this time, so it wasn’t about saving her - it was about getting rid of Cormac. Ron and I talked, and he was 50/50 about it. I said we can talk to Rita and see, and that either way is fine with me. That wasn’t true - I would rather have Cormac gone easy, just because it ties up a loose end for me.
Lily and Cormac, both seeing themselves on the chopping block, went to work talking to me. Cormac was sharing idol information and saying that he wouldn’t make any mistakes again, while Lily was just trying to get to know me. She definitely seems charming, but she was just forcing our talk because she wants to stick around. I get it, I’ve done it before. I can just sniff out authenticity, and she’s just trying to live another day. After Cormac gave me idol information, he opened up about his lack of ambition recently and some struggles with depression, and that really spoke to me. Those are things I’ve struggled with too, and super recently. I ended up losing my job in January after I was supposed to be getting a raise, and I split with my girlfriend of 6 months, who then got the tattoo I wanted and started telling our mutual friends that I was abusive. Life was rough just one month ago, and Cormac is there right now, due to losing a really good job and finding nothing else. We had a really nice heart to heart, and I offered him some advice after listening to his issues. He’s a really sweet guy, I just wasn’t able to really see it until this. It was a complete 180, and I didn’t want to send him out the door. He killed it in the last two challenges, doing better than Rita.
As for Rita, she turned into a mess. She got really forceful and pushy, asking about petrification. I tried explaining what I knew and what I thought the rest could be, but she kept asking questions and didn’t seem to buy my version of what the twist is. It was super annoying honestly, someone asking you questions about something you don’t really know about, even after you let them know you don’t know a lot about it. Then she was starting to panic about Lily getting an idol and playing it on us, which would be a seriously ballsy move. I suggested splitting, and then she ran to Ron and told him that she thought splitting the vote on Lily or myself/Cormac would be good. Oh fuck off Rita. Ron and I were complaining about how annoying she was, and joked about blindsiding her. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t a joke. She started to calm down, and we agreed to just kill Lily, but Rita is on my shitlist now. She’s my next target, once Newt lands over here.
As of now, Lily is going home 4-1. I don’t think I’ll throw a vote onto Rita just as a fuck you, but hey, maybe I will. I trust Ron to stick with me over her, given how much he was complaining about her, so I’m contemplating another stray. We’ll see where I end up on that later.
