Hook me up with that merge fam/Confessionals

Alex and Alissa. They're basically the same person rn so I don't see the need to separate them. Alex is out here acting like he's outta the loop and Alissa is like not interested in this game at all. I'm going to approach them in a minute, but they're like the bottom of my list to talk to. They may pick it up soon but I honestly don't have high hopes of them being anything but Tim's and Miguel's sheep until Miguel and Tim get sliced and diced.
Tim. He's all game, no shame. He won't chat whatsoever - if you're talking to him, you're sharing information or trying to leech some. There's no middle ground. I don't trust him, but I trust his intentions, so I don't think he'll be that hard to figure out by any means. He's going to be targeted real soon, though.
Miguel. I haven't spoken to him yet, all I know is he's real tight with Tim. We'll see what he's like when he logs on, I suppose.
Will. He seems like a great guy! I'm not sure if he remembers me from the one Skype call we were on way back when, but I'd love to get the ball rolling with him.
Grant - Not very active, let's be honest. He's just sitting there and he thinks he's doing more than he actually does but I think he's going to be a simple waste of a vote-off later or a runner-up. I don't think he's going to impact the season much, unfortunately.
Thomas - Thomas is a huge fucking mess of a player. He's erratic, unstable, and chaotic - all the tools to implode on himself. He's kind of a floater (all he has is Grant so) but it's not hard to tell he's going to come out here and try to run the show. He's going to get his soon and he'll take a huge fucking fall from whatever illusions of power he has.
Jenna - She's REAL close to Catherine. She's like a more active version of Grant to Thomas, let's be real. I think she's great but I don't really get much of a read on her for some reason. And if I can't read you, I'm a bit worried by you, since you can easily pull the wool over my blind ass eyes.
Nifty - I do trust Nifty. He's my second closest ally, just behind Nifty, and I have a great rapport with him. I really want to go far with him, especially since he's pissed off half the people in this game and I could destroy him in the Final Tribal Council like my name was Van \*winks at Brian\*.
Eddie - He's my closest ally in this game. I trust Eddie a lot; he may be spontaneous and wild sometimes but I trust his motives and I can help take him down from stuff whenever he gets crazy. He's also a meat shield because I'm expecting him to start a fight so if he does, he is SO going to be the numero uno person to take out. Our relationship is somewhat secretive, of course, we're making sure that we're on the down low unlike other noticeable pairings in this game.
Catherine - Icon tbqh. She and I aren't actually that different - she's one of the nicer people in the game, she's good at most challenges I'm good at (puzzles, trivia, stuff like that). She's also got a pretty good social/strategic game. She's probably my biggest competition but I don't want to lose her yet because she's great and I'd love to work with her for a bit into this merge.
Right now spending all my time either chitchatting or trying to force the merged tribe to be named Churff. Is that name not iconic???

### Day 17

Hell\*
five more minutes LITERALLY. I'm so mad at myself. I think I really needed this immunity to just catch a breath and work on making some relationships but now I have to scramble like I have done... All... Season... Long.
I knew Cat was a very good socially equipped player. But now she's a big challenge threat. Shoot me now just shoot me now.

### Day 18

Look, Eddie, you're too explosive for no reason. YOU'RE FUCKING TARGETING NIFTY FOR ONE FUCKING REASON AND THAT'S BECAUSE HE POINTED OUT THE EMILY OSMENT THING LIKE HONESTLY SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU ANNOYING PIECE OF SHIT RUSELL HANTZ BITCH!!1! AND YOU EVEN ADMITTED THAT PLS CHILL THE FUCK OUT AND THINK THIS THROUGH LIKE A LOGICAL PERSON INSTEAD OF DIGGING A FIFTEEN FOOT GRAVE

* deep breath\* Phew. Okay, my target this round is probably Alex or Miguel. Miguel I've barely spoken to and he's known for being a threat in other games - who knows what he can do here. Alex has a rivalry with Nifty and he's not the worst in challenges as it is. I don't want to target Alissa or Tim out of the foursome because Tim is all-game and I can still plot with him and shite, and Alissa isn't going to do much lessbereal.

I've talked to Thomas about targeting the group of four, moving onto Catherine, Will, Nifty, and Jenna. I did speak to Eddie but HE'S BEING CRAZY AS HELL and I hope he can come down off this high horse that he jumped on before he screws my game over ty bye

That moment when you just realize that the merge tribe name is an anagram of Harambe

EDDIE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE THE MOST IRRATIONAL, MORONIC DUNDERHEAD I'VE EVER HAD THE CHANCE TO PLAY WITH. WHY IS HE TRYING TO SWITCH THE VOTE AT SUCH A LATE HOUR? YOU'RE NOT THE TARGET, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING! JUST SIT PRETTY AND SURVIVE FOR A WHILE!

I think its thomas
And I also think he is going to be next one going, screw him Im not leaving this place over someone who thinks he has control over this folks cause he is not
8-

Stressed\*

I mean I guess I should've kind of seen this coming. I did say a while back that I wasn't getting a redemption arc. And if I do go now at least I have an interesting pre-merge impact. But I wanna stick around y'know? I wanna cast a jury vote for the first time in months at least, or if not that get to plead a case to the jury. It feels too soon.

My strategy up to this point was to be a boring wallflower and really not do shit and I'm probably going to continue to do that, or at least not partake in the aggressive part of the campaigning for votes. A lot of people are massive fucking messes already and I'd rather have them paint the target on their back than on mine, because right now being this quiet little sitting duck is definitely helping me out, seeing as for once I haven't entered the merge with a target on my back bigger than the location itself.
My alliance of Tim, Alissa & Miguel is still in tact and they are definitely my endgame plan, because I've been with them from the beginning and nothing is gonna change that. Thankfully we were all already able to proof, that we have each other's back, based on the Felix vote pre-merge, so I have faith, that this one could actually work out perfectly fine.
Coming into the merge, Thomas immediately started being a mess, throwing 23852 names around and telling people different things about the immunity idol, like.. really hunny? You told me on Exile Island how to find it and you are gonna tell other people that you have no idea and you didn't get it? Bitch, you had the idol clue EVERY TIME you were on Exile and all you do is solve a fucking puzzle, stop bullshitting. I am really fucking over his messy behaviour, I wanted to give him a chance, because he obviously had the 1-0 situation on his original tribe, but looking at his ways I am seriously not surprised, especially when he only blames two people for it when it were literally seven people who voted for him... what the fuck is the logic behind that? lol...
Nifty is being a ridiculous fuck too, he is randomly targetting Miguel AGAIN, for literally NO reason, like I thought we sorted our shit out pre-merge, but he continues being a completely clueless fuck, just unreasonably coming after the same person tribal after tribal after tribal and I'm seriously getting tired of it. I would've totally been on board to get rid of an OG Layan, because the tribe line is literally 6-6 right now, but his idiotic, shady snake behaviour just made it impossible to convince people.. I sort of think it's gonna be a mistake, I'd rather take out Johnny, who is closely with him and an original Layan, but people aren't listening to me and it's like.. super frustrating, but I'm going to keep doing what I am doing in order to not make myself a target and that is to just lay low and pretend like I am an almost non-existent shadow. I've tried pretty hard to look non-threatening to these people, by generally performing weaker in tribe challenges and not really trying in this one either, so hopefully I can keep this ploy for a while, until I can come out in the light and just savagely slaughter these bitches and take credits for huge ass moves.
But for now, I'm just gonna continue eating popcorn, sippin' on my tea and watch people be absolutely horrendous wrecks and sinking their own ships, it's apparently working...