All I Do is Twin

[liz]

Even though i jokingly named this thread after this song it's coming true lol. I am happy that i'm HOH now even though I didn't really want it at first. I did try to throw it but I still wanted a good time so I wouldn't be put up by some rando in case they were afraid i'd win botb. But now that i have the power I kind of like it. I guess i am glad i waited like a minute to submit because if i hadn't i would have beaten everyone by a ton, and that could be a bad look.

so obviously nominations were coming around and i wanted to talk to howard. we actually agreed on all 4 nominations, it was crazy! I guess maybe he didn't love the thought of me nominating James, but he's gonna have to deal. almost everyone in the house wants james up, and i'm not putting up someone who's more active yet. So anyway, we settled me on nominating james and ramsey, and him nominating sam and cass. i do actually like james and ramsey to a degree, but cass seems very vocal and i don't have to violate the deal with sam that i technically have. everyone else is more active, and has more connections to another hg or an alliance. or in the case of libra i just like them more lol.

i think that i would like for my nominees to lose battle of the block. it's not a huge deal, but i'd rather have 1 person in the house who i nominated than 2. plus that keeps sam in the house, who i think is more likely to be nominated again and again for being semi-active, rather than james who could eventually slip by. i think that if james or sam won veto, then cass or ramsey would be evicted regardless of the replacement nominee.

last night, becky told our group alliance that she, kelsey, nick, and naeha were in a 4 person alliance. i love becky for it and i think it's a nice display of loyalty. steve, on the other hand, didn't take it as well i don't think. originally, becky was supposed to be in the alliance with myself, shelli, steve, howard, and arlie. (actually originally, becky was in it and steve wasn't.) but steve has really pushed himself through and now becky is out. part of steve's reasoning is that he didn't want to reveal steve's angels (me becky shelli steve) in any capacity. but i think he was also jealous that becky was going to be in 3 alliances while he'd only be in 2. oh well, i guess that means we can't tell him about ESPN (me, shelli, kathy, kelsey)!

right now i think i'm in a good spot. i think i have built relationships, won competitions, and been invited to alliances to a point where i should be safe for this week and next. i'm not trying to think too far ahead because anything can happen, but i feel okay for now. also i should note that kelsey didn't tell me about her, becky, nick, naeha even though we're supposedly super close. i just need to keep her close and keep making her love me.

it's really crazy how many group alliances there are, i can hardly even keep track.

[liz]

there has been some drama regarding nominations!

ramsey and cass have been MIA. i don't think they've said anything to anyone? who knows if either are even going to do botb lol. i hope that they all at least do it, but it's weird because i was so sure james or sam would leave this week, and now i'm not so sure.

james and sam have really uh, developed personalities since their nominations. apparently cass and sam were super tight and sam is distraught that he is nominated with her. and then james was completely blindsided by my nomination (we haven't talked game once). he says he was never going to put me up and i was one of his closest people. i told him straight up that we haven't talked game and he said he thought it was too early to be talking game. i don't fully disagree with him regularly, but this game has been a little crazy with just how many alliances are going around. they are allll over. it's ridiculous!

i would really like james to somehow leave this week as he seems to be the most vindictive, but idk if that will happen. i think he could stay over ramsey. i am just going to play it cool for now and see who wins botb and veto. ugh hoh is stressful but it feels good i guess. i do have some confidence in comps at this point.

also the alliance between shelli, steve, howard, arlie, and myself has officially been formed. we're working on a name (no idea how it's not SLASH, but apparently people want some super hero type name. eh.)

anyway i'm sure more to report after comp results, but not a tonnnn going on right now other than james and sam scrambling like crazy.

[liz]

Sam and cass fucking suck

[liz]

Jun 17, 2016 6:11:52 GMT liz said:

Sam and cass fucking suck

well that was drunk me and not super cute lol. kinda pissed that i'm dethroned but hopefully i can just be nic enough to james and ramsey where they might not nominate me if they win HOH? I do kinda feel like I could win a comp if I were nominated between botb and veto. idk it's just stressful having 2 enemies in the game already, i feel like no one else really has any. 

definitely going to really throw this veto lol. i need to stop winning for a sec.

[liz]

i feel like it's been a while since i've confessed, but it's been kinda a slow week!

anyway i think things are going pretty well overall. sam should be leaving this week which is fine with me. i want the more active people here anyway. apparently if one of the nominees came down, howard was going to replace with naeha. honestly it would have been tempting to take out naeha here and now even though it would be a big statement :x she just seems like a big player.

buttttt since naeha is staying and is good at comps, i had to make sure i was good with her individually. i talked to her and told her i want to keep her safe after the inactive people go and she said she feels the same with me. she told me that next week, assuming she could only nominate one of james/ramsey, she'd also put up arlie. and that's fine by me! i like arlie and have an alliance with him, but i'd like people to go for him before they go for me. in response to that question, i told her i'd do one of josh/ramsey and then either cass (true) or steve (false). I wanted to kinda cover up my alliance a bit so i felt it was a good answer? i told steve right after and he seemed fine with it. it's good to know that i'm individually good with naeha because i'm covered in lots of other places.

alliance wise, i have 3 solid groups going on right now. ESPN (me, kelsey, kathy, shelli); SLASH (Steve, Liz, Arlie, Shelli, Howie); and Steve's Angels (me, steve, shelli, becky). i'm kinda operating with these for now and just hoping they propel me to jury by the people in them winning comps and having their votes and whatnot. i'm not thinking too far ahead because i think a lot of questions about who i'll be loyal to will answer themselves. so yeah for now just focusing on building relationships with people and doing that until sides become more clear cut.

[liz]

yay round 3! it's like the hump day of the week to jury. with naeha and kathy as HOH, i feel alright this week. i definitely think kathy will keep me safe no matter what, and while I have some reservations with Naeha, i think our talk at the end of last week is good enough to keep me here. plus, there are still some people who are not socially on par with everyone else (james, ramsey, nick) to the point where I think I'll be safe this week. I'm not sure who they'll nominate yet, but i'll report back when i know!

[liz]

seems like Naeha is doing James and Arlie, while Kathy is doing Ramsey and Nick. i'm all here for Kathy staying HOH and sending Nick out. hopefully that can happen! but i'm not gonna break my back doing it. just gotta play it cool still, i think i'm in a good spot and i don't want to seem desperate getting nick out when i have a lot of people that have my back still.

[liz]

very happy that arlie and james won botb! i do think that james is coming after me because i nominated him, but i don't want to risk losing arlie. right now it's important that all my alliances continue to move forward. ideally nick will go this round but i understand that may not be able to happen since ramsey is acting out. either way, if one of them goes it's fine for me. i'm hoping my challenge threat status is kind of fading, and getting rid of these less active people and leaving in bigger threats will only help with that!

[liz]

except i definitely didn't throw veto lol. i would love to win it because idk i'm pretty competitive. i fell off a few times at the start but quickly realized that I wouldn't make it very far by going fast, so i just took it slow and then got it pretty quickly, i think. if i win i doubt i would change nominations, still feels early to try and pull a backdoor or anything.

i can't remember if i've talked about libra and howard, but that's shifting into an alliance. that's a crazy number of alliances lol. that brings me to this:
steve's angels: me, shelli, steve, becky
SLASH: me, arlie, howard, shelli, steve
ESPN: me, shelli, kathy, liz
New: me, libra, howard

that leaves me not aligned with very few people: cass, james, ramsey, naeha, nick. and one of them should be leaving this week! that means I could win HOH next week and have 2 people to nominate regardless, though nominating naeha or cass could be tough. but basically very soon, i am going to start throwing HOHs and reacting to other people, hoping my alliances will go for each other. i also feel like i have shelli's full trust and she isn't going to let me go anywhere, and howard and i agreed that we need to protect each other because otherwise the other will be seen as a huge comp threat. i have started thinking ahead because i really feel safe with kathy this week, and there are still two more weeks of botb.

someone (idr who) brought up a good point that naeha and kathy put up nominations quickly, meaning they might be aligned. i mean they kinda went for easy nominations (except arlie i guess) but it's something to look out for. not sure what else to talk about, i still am trying to just take things pretty easy. keeping my relationships up is the most important, so people think i'm going to go deep with them and aren't scared by my ability to win comps.

[liz]

well i definitely didn't win veto! but it's not all bad. howard's comp threat status increases but people will probably see that i still did pretty well. with howard and kathy in charge i really wasn't worried about being backdoored or anything, i trust them both and feel i have good bonds with each of them.

in terms of this vote, i really want to evict nick. but i don't think that's going to happen. ramsey is too polarizing and has made enemies with his antics this week. i'm not going to sit here and try to control a vote between 2 people who aren't super active, but i do think nick is more likely to go and slip under the radar once the game gets going. that really scares me! plus i know he's aligned with kelsey, becky, and naeha, which scares me too. kind of stinks that i can't get nick evicted this week but maybe i'll throw a hinky vote or something for fun. part of me feels like it could come back to bite me but probably not? ramsey going is not bad for me since i nominated him, he would definitely put me up if he ever stumbled into a win, i think. or at least he easily could.

either way i feel good moving into the next week, like i don't need to win HOH. i think only James would nominate me.

[liz]

just made an alliance name with Howard! we're the targettes lol because we're gonna be early jury targets for all of our competition wins. whatever, bring it on! i really am going to be loyal to him because i think that if you have two people who can win a lot, you can go really deep together. i trust him and i think he has the same mindset. we have much better odds if we are both here than trying to do this individually. i really do trust shelli too though so hopefully i never have to choose between them, not worried about that because it's such a specific hypothetical. love howard though!

[liz]

what the fuck, shelli and becky?

i don't really know if you can even throw this kinda comp so i just put out some answers. if i win i'll handle it however i need to. i kinda don't want to win, but with 2 people winning and 4 people going up it's scary. james could definitely win! i think i'd go up for sure, but hopefully with naeha, because we could also win botb. there's really nothing i can do but chat with people until we get HOH results, and then make a plan from there. gahhh i wish shelli and becky were competing.

[liz]

5/10... are people serious? this comp takes 2 seconds. then again it's friday night and i clearly have no life but still

[liz]

Ughhhhh libra needs to sit the fuck down. Apparently she went to becky and shelli today and asked them if they'd be pawns, then said jk after. Then later she asked kathy if she was close with shelli, and then kathy told our ESPN chat. Like it's going to be hard for Howard and I to protect libra if she's being shitty to kathy, shelli, and becky.

Also cass pulled some shit today lol. She literally said "I hope you win because i know I'm safe with you." Like wtf is that lol. So much assuming!!!!

Basically I'm gonna have pressure to do a lot of shit if I win so I don't want to. I think I have set myself up well socially so I should be fine in any nom scenario besides james hoh. Praying james and I both lose but ugh the anxiety. Let's go people, do the damn comp

[liz]

okay i'm officially scared lol. james and naeha HOH. i'm scared of a backdoor and i'm scared to go up. i hope that james just puts up kathy and i, i think we would win botb. my schedule is crazy tomorrow though so idk about timing. i'm just all around very worried. time to figure shit out.