#soooo far above me from my view at the very bottom

[skunkes]

who's david 👁

david my friend david

[storyteller-aprendiz]

Hierarchy of Covens

How well respected & powerful are they considered, from top-to-bottom.

(Only the main nine because else I will give up)

Emperor’s Coven (this is obvious)

Abomination Coven (Because Willow was in the abomination track because her parents thought it would better her chances, same with Amity, and Blight’s Abomitons make them have a big standing on society).

Potions Coven (Because Lilith and Eda were both in the potions track and have hopes to get into the emperor’s coven. Also the ability to make potions seems to be highly valued on the isles and very lucrative)

Plant Coven* (This one is tricky because of Terra. Because on the one side she seems to be in the good graces of the emperor, but in the other side he treats her like a lackey- sending her to IFWOT (though this was in the past) and dealing with Kikimora seem to be far above her pay grade.

Construction Coven (Speculation! I just think with Belos being a white dude that he would value the ability of making big buildings and castles and other symbols of powers. Before something like *healing*)

Healing Coven (Speculation! Because healing is important everywhere, and as an ableist society (how they treat eda ‘cause of the curse or the “half-a-witch” insult) they would value an idea of *health* though in the same icky way we do. And since there’s a concept of money in the isles /and was made by usamericans/ it must be highly lucrative).

Beast Keeping Coven (I just don’t see Belos having great respect for animals, like his whole stick is erradicating a different sentient & cognitive being, soooo yeah he is anti-animal rights, so I won’t think he would care more about beasts. Though he would admire the ability to “tame” them)

Oracle Coven (Is one of the most witchy of witchy types of magic in my opinion so I think that Belos wouldn’t like it that much because of it. But also because is one of the most witchy of witchy it would be valued in a society that values magical ability. Does that make sense?)

Illusionist Coven* (The entirety of “Through the looking glass ruins” and the flashbacks in “Laberynth runners”. Also I won’t think that Belos (and the BI societies at large) would value something that isn’t real / tangible) *Edited because I don’t think Odalia would let their children be in the lowest of covens.

Bard Coven (The entirety of “Them’s the Break Kid” and how Raine is referred to as “powerful for a bard” or how people don’t think bard magic is “cool”. Also is arts and we know how puritans saw that and how totalitaristic societies too fear the arts.)

Also this may come without saying, this doesn’t mean which coven is more powerful, each one has powerful witches on their own right and magic is fluid and weird it can’t be divided -literally the tesis of the show-. This just means how they are *view* and what is their place within the heirarchy that is the coven system.

Which brings me to the brilliance of the coven system! It could have been so easy to stay at the Coven/Wild power  dynamic, where Coven has the upper hand, but the Owl House crew when further, and gave us power dynamics within power dynamics, like yk the real world!

[xjoonchildx]

Hi Ana, it’s 🦷!! I’m back and I really pushed myself to work super hard on writing about gum disease this weekend so I could enjoy the newest chapter of Greedy and I loved it!! I absolutely adored seeing our favorite smiley duo kick some serious butt together! As promised, here’s Mr. Min’s smile analysis (congratulations to him on being promoted to co-bias 🥰):

Face shape and profile 🧑🏻: so I would say compared to Hoseok, Yoongi definitely has a rounder facial profile. If you look at his face divided into 1/3rds, his middle 1/3 is slightly larger than his top and bottom 1/3, which is probably to make room for those adorable dumpling cheeks!! Make no mistake, while Yoongi may be cute and round from the front, his profile is deadly!! Perfectly convex and that jawline could cut glass 🤯 (I’m picturing silver haired Yoongi in his mic drop bandana in full profile view 🥵)

Nose, lips, and chin👃🏽👄🗣: Yoongi’s nasolabial angle (angle between the base of the nose and top lip) is more acute than Hoseok’s, and he also has a less defined philtrum (the little columnar grooves that sit above your upper lip). Never fear, this is probably the reason why he has an adorable gummy smile, as his muscles want to lift his upper lip nice and high to show off those gums! His lips seem nice and competent, indicating good muscular support! Unlike Hoseok, I think Yoongi in profile view has a very defined chin, probably due to his defined labiomental groove (the groove lying underneath the lower lip and above the chin)! (We can make labiomental groove Yoongi’s sexy facial feature of choice) 😉

Smile and tooth analysis 🦷: probably my fave feature of his!! So I would say Yoongi’s smile line follows what we call a reverse smile or gull-wing arc, meaning it is the inverse shape of his lower lip!! While gull-wings may be considered less aesthetic, I find it fitting how this amazingly lyrical man has a smile shaped like the wings of bird 😊 The technical term for a gummy smile is known as excessive gingival display!! Yoongi’s gums being on display could be considered unattractive by orthodontists and plastic surgeons, but as the proud owner if a gummy smile myself, he rocks it and manages to make it look soooo good! A couple of his teeth are in crossbite in the back and there is some negative space when he smiles, but I’m going to chalk it up to the fact that when this man smiles, he smiles wide enough to wrap around Earth 4528 times (not an accurate measurement, just a scientific 😅approximation). The negative space and the teeth coming together the way they do makes his smile so wide and warm and full of joy, and I appreciate that about him (again, biased because my smile is kind of the same)! My final comment would just be that I think Yoongi has seriously pretty teeth. Like they’re actually gorgeous (to echo Tae’s thoughts on his Suga hyung). Typically males will have very square teeth with sharp lines, but Yoongi has really feminine teeth. They’re soft and rounded around the edges, which gives his smile a really youthful looking appearance. His teeth are so delicate, much like his other facial features that lend to his face just being Angelic 😇 When I’ve talked to my patients who’ve lost all their teeth and are looking into choosing teeth for a denture, a majority of them go with Yoongi’s tooth shape, regardless of their gender identity!

TL;DR: Min Yoongi has a face which defies the laws of science!! A lot of his features vary from the norm, but he still manages to put them all together and make them look hot while simultaneously melting our hearts with his gorgeous smile 😍 He’s living proof that there’s beauty to be found in imperfections because when all paired together, they can still create a perfectly amazing human being

I hope you liked this analysis as much as Hobi’s and I can’t wait for the next chapter of Greedy (even though I’m sad to see the story end 🥺)!!

Here’s to hoping you have many reasons to smile today,

🦷 anon

my sweet, beautiful, brainy 🦷 anon!

you covered so much ground in this ask and i love learning from you.  let me take it step by step.

congratulations to him on being promoted to co-bias 🥰

girl, i had to stop fighting nature. i gave up and gave in 🤣

Make no mistake, while Yoongi may be cute and round from the front, his profile is deadly!! Perfectly convex and that jawline could cut glass 🤯

oh i love that you pointed this out because we get two different kinds of serves from yoongi. i love the sweet roundness of his face that we see sometimes but then we get that serious, angular side profile and oooooooof

We can make labiomental groove Yoongi’s sexy facial feature of choice) 😉

today’s sexy phrase i learned from you is “labiomental groove” and YES i will throw this into casual conversation at dinner parties as soon as people start having dinner parties again

I find it fitting how this amazingly lyrical man has a smile shaped like the wings of bird 😊

help, i’m misty

My final comment would just be that I think Yoongi has seriously pretty teeth. Like they’re actually gorgeous (to echo Tae’s thoughts on his Suga hyung). Typically males will have very square teeth with sharp lines, but Yoongi has really feminine teeth. They’re soft and rounded around the edges, which gives his smile a really youthful looking appearance. His teeth are so delicate, much like his other facial features that lend to his face just being Angelic 😇

yes! all of this! hard agree 🦷 anon.  

and i seriously love that you showed this to your professor like honestly how cute. and your professor liked it? gah that’s so cute, too.

keep killing those tests and essays, babe. 

you are going to very very far in this field!

[fanficshiddles]

Eyes on me, One shot

Slight delay in the posting schedule for this... 

Soooo I had another dream and just HAD to write it out. Hehe. So here’s a one shot where the OC gets fucked by Loki’s sceptre.

Dominant Loki, penetration with the sceptre, choking

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‘Look at you, pet. Quivering in excitement while you kneel so prettily for me.’

Loki’s voice swam through her, making her trembling worsen. She was struggling to keep her eyes down, but she knew she would be in trouble if she looked up at him without permission.

His leather boots came into her view as he towered over her, eyeing her up closely.

Then his sceptre came into view. The blue stone hummed to life as he used the tip to hook under her chin, the sharp point was pressing into her skin but not enough to pierce her, raising her head up so she was to look up at him in all of his glory, he always looked powerful but even more so with his Asgardian armour on fully.

‘Such a pretty little thing you are.’ He purred, his eyes darkening.

Loki trailed the tip of the sceptre down from her chin, down her neck and then used it to easily slice her dress down the middle, making her gasp.

‘Ah, ah, ah. Keep those hands behind you.’ He demanded, noticing her about to move them.

She swallowed hard, but kept her hands behind her like he’d told her. Her chest was heaving as he continued to cut away at her dress with the sceptre. Once her dress was pooled around her knees, he took a step back, grinning at her now naked form. His rule of no underwear definitely came in handy at times like these.

‘Beautiful.’ He purred. ‘Now, crawl to the bed and get on. You know the position I want you in.’ He stepped back and watched in utter delight as she crawled over to the bed and scrambled up onto it.

She lay down on her back and spread her limbs out towards each corner of the bed. He clicked his fingers and four leather cuffs from either corner came slithering like snakes from underneath the bed and over towards her wrists and ankles.

While Loki crossed the room, to stand at the bottom of the bed, the cuffs slipped around her wrists and ankles and locked in place. Then her wrists were slowly pulled up and apart, until they were tight enough to keep from moving too much. The restraints around her ankles drew tighter too, pulling her legs wide apart until she was completely spread eagle on his bed.

He laughed wickedly as he stood at the bottom of the bed, his gaze caressing over her naked and bound form. He so enjoyed seeing her like that, completely vulnerable and at his mercy.

Moving onto the bed and kneeling between her legs, he placed the sceptre down beside her. The blue glow constantly in the corner of her eye while Loki leaned over her, his eyes full of mischief. He moved down and kissed the side of her lips softly as his hands squeezed her hips, then slid upwards and he massaged her breasts.

She let out a moan and closed her eyes, arching herself up as much as she could into his touch. He hummed in approval and brushed his thumbs over her hard nipples.

‘Who do you belong to, pet?’ He growled, moving down he captured her left nipple between his teeth, nibbling for a moment until she replied.

‘You… You, Master. I belong to you.’ She whispered.

‘Good girl.’ He moved further down and with his fingers he spread her cunt wide open, taking a good look. Making her feel a little embarrassed, as it almost felt like an inspection.

He trailed a finger up and down her cunt, making her whimper at his firm touch. He smirked at her reaction, the way she bucked in her bonds when he rubbed over her clit.

‘Who does this pussy belong to?’ He asked, giving it a swift slap that made her yelp in surprise.

‘You… Master.’

‘Speak properly.’ Loki commanded.

‘My pussy belongs to you, Master.’ She said quickly, biting her lower lip.

‘Good girl… And she certainly knows who her Master is, she’s positively soaking wet.’ He thrust two fingers into her cunt, making her gasp.

‘Does my slut want to cum?’ He sat up straighter and looked directly into her eyes.

‘Please, Master. Please make me cum.’ She whimpered as he fingered her slowly, then slipped them out.

‘You do beg so prettily for me.’ He winked at her.

Her eyes widened when she saw him pick up the sceptre once more. He studied it closely, with a smirk. Then looked back at his pet.

‘You know, there are many ways I can bring you to heel with this sceptre of mine.’

She trembled at his words, slightly nervous about what he was going to do with it…

But she soon found out. He trailed the tip along her body, down between her breasts and back up and around her nipples. The sharp tip trailed along her skin lightly, making her breathing go haywire. She knew if she moved in the wrong way, not that she could move much anyway, but if she did, it could pierce into her badly.

Loki breathed in deeply, enjoying the clear smell of her arousal mixed with some fear.

‘Are you scared, pet?’ He asked, his voice dark.

She swallowed before answering. ‘A… a little… Master.’ She whispered.

Loki chuckled darkly and leaned down to suck just below her belly button. ‘Good.’ He then moved along and nibbled on her hip as he trailed the sceptre down to tease over her thighs.

Her fear ramped up a bit more when he drew the sceptre towards her cunt. The sharp tip was dragged along her outer lips, making her shake. She was worried he was going to cut her…

‘Relax, pet. I’m about to fuck you with this sceptre, so you best keep veryyy still.’ He said in warning, repositioning himself at the side of her so he could keep a close eye on her body.

Instead of relaxing though, she tensed up more. Surely he was joking? It would cut her insides.

Without her seeing, Loki used his Seidr and turned the sceptre’s sharp point into a small rounded blunt point instead. But she was so worked up in fear and arousal, that she didn’t notice until he started pushing it into her and she cried out.

‘Shhhh. Easy.’ Loki hummed, pushing the sceptre further into her as he stroked her breasts. ‘Eyes on me, pet.’

She turned her head to the side and looked at him, he was staring right back at her so intently she shuddered and felt her clit throb.

‘Mmmm, I don’t know why I’ve not done this before. Seeing my sceptre inside of you is a rather erotic sight.’ He grinned, showing off his pearly white teeth.

He fucked her slowly with the sceptre, twisting and turning it with every thrust. It was cold inside of her, the metal. But she could also feel the buzzing, an almost vibrating feeling, from the power of the stone as it hummed with life. It was making her toes curl in utter delight.

‘Eyes!’ Loki barked when she closed them momentarily, enjoying the pleasure.

Her eyes shot open again, especially as Loki then wrapped his free hand around her neck, putting on some pressure. He leaned over her more, so his face was hovering above her while he kept moving the sceptre within her.

‘Keep them on me.’

She started gasping, craving for air. The pleasure from the sceptre was taking her oxygen away even quicker, tears of desperation came to her eyes that made Loki extremely pleased.

‘Look at you, such a horny little slut. Getting off on my sceptre while I own your breath. I own everything about you.’ He gave the sceptre an extra thrust and pushed it further in. Causing the second, lower down point to just touch her clit. The sharpness and precision of it made her wail, losing the last of her breath as she came hard.

Loki squeezed her neck harder, then quickly released her. She gulped down air, worried he was going to take it away from her again. But he didn’t. He pulled the sceptre out of her, it was covered in her juices as the main point took its normal sharp shape again.

‘My my, pet. You’ve made quite the mess of my sceptre.’ He brought it up to her face, dangerously close to her lips. ‘Clean it.’

She was so dazed from her orgasm, but she managed to stick her tongue out. Loki pressed the sceptre against her tongue, careful not to slice it clean off, which it could do if he wanted. He enjoyed watching her lick the metal clean, he could tell by her eyes that she was so far gone into submissive space, she would do absolutely anything he told her to.

He knew that if he told her to fuck herself on the sceptre again but without him changing the tip, that she would still do it for him in an instant.

‘That’s it, my good little slut.’ He praised, making her cheeks go even redder.

Once he was happy with his sceptre being cleaned up enough, he put it down to the side again and lay himself across her body. He stroked her hair for a moment, then her cheek with the back of his hand.

‘Hmm. I am very lucky that I don’t need to use it to control your mind. Because you would do whatever I say without hesitation, wouldn’t you, pet?’

‘Ye… Yes… Master.’ She whimpered.

‘Because who do you belong to?’

‘You… Master… I belong to… you.’ Her eyes were fluttering. She was so tired, but she knew better than to fall asleep before Loki gave her permission to.

‘That’s right, pet. You’re my slut, and always will be.’ He growled and pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead. ‘Now… you may sleep.’

She closed her eyes and it didn’t take long at all for her to fall under, even while still restrained. She never even felt Loki press the broad head of his cock against her cunt. Her body and mind was so exhausted.

‘That’s my good girl.’ Loki whispered as he then sank into her wet warmth.

[scribbuluswrites]

Yule be Sorry

Thank you soooo much for requesting @1-800-imagines! I am on a major Harry Potter kick so this was a blast to write. Also, forgive my super pun lame title. 😂

Life in the castle had been busier than usual. The halls were bustling with Hogwarts students, but now, there were also the visiting students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang wandering about the castle. Finding places to sit in the great hall at meal times had become much more difficult. 

As a result, you had started eating lunch later than the rest of your usual group, opting for peace rather than the newly raised noise levels. There were less students with a free period at 2 p.m., so you took advantage of it. 

It had been very quiet and a great time to catch up on school work while enjoying a leisurely lunch. At least, it was until he showed up. Once that started, you found yourself becoming less and less productive, and spending more and more time just staring. 

Draco Malfoy had always been a fascination for you. He was beautiful to look at, but you were drawn in by the complications behind his blue eyes. Over the years you had been together at school, he had finally started to mature, slowly beginning to question his family’s racist views. 

One Thursday you finally had the courage to approach him. There were less students than usual, and it felt like the best time to risk talking to the Slytherin. If he rejected you, or shooed you away for your crimson robes, there wouldn’t be very many witnesses. 

“Hi,” you said quietly, forcing yourself to speak up when he didn’t pause his reading. “Draco.” Slowly, he looked at you, his finger rested in the middle of the page to mark where he had left off. 

“Can I help you?” he asked, the corner of his mouth pulled up in a sneer. His words might have been polite, but his intention certainly wasn’t. 

“Nevermind,” you murmured, shaking your head. This had been a stupid idea. Of course Draco would never want to spend time with a Gryffindor.

“Wait.” Your feet paused, your thoughts still busy berating you for being foolish enough to come over here. “This charms essay,” he said by way of an excuse for his rudeness. 

“That’s what I was coming to ask about. I forgot my book, and I was wondering if I could borrow yours,” you lied, glad you had decided to leave it in your common room. You had finished the essay yesterday, but this was a good way to at least start a conversation. 

“Only if I can ask a few questions. I might be better in every other subject, but you’re definitely the one with a knack for charms.” You felt your hackles start to rise before catching the faint smile on his face. Draco was teasing you. 

That was how it started. From that one study session, you two had started sitting together every day. Initially, it had all been about homework, but slowly, you had begun talking about things outside the classroom. 

Draco had told you things about his home life, looking very surprised the words had even left his mouth. His eyes were worried, but he relaxed when your expression didn’t change. His family had very dark expectations for him, and he wasn’t sure that was the future he wanted. 

Seeing behind the pureblood mask he wore for everyone else was breathtaking. Draco was calm under school pressure, but there was a part of him that was very insecure. He was always concerned with image. 

With you, though, he had started to fully relax. He didn’t constantly fidget to make sure his hair was perfect or his robes fell just so. Draco was witty and unafraid to make the silliest jokes, encouraged by the way you laughed or rolled your eyes at every joke. 

It was around week four that you realised, you were completely gone for him. From the way he smiled back, you were beginning to suspect he felt a similar way towards you. 

Once the Yule Ball was announced, you spent almost every lunch hoping and wishing he would ask you. There had been a few moments where you were certain it would be his next words, but Draco would look around the hall, as though he was afraid of being overheard. 

Finally, you’d had enough. “Draco, do you have a date to the ball?” You’d wanted it to feel casual, but you knew your voice sounded much more high pitched than intended. 

“I don’t want to talk about the dance,” he replied curtly, his tone flat. 

“Are you not going?” you asked, brows furrowed as you watched him tense up. “We could go as friends,” you shrugged, hoping it looked nonchalant. Draco looked at you as though you’d just suggested you attend a lecture on Nargles by Luna’s father. 

“Us? We can’t go together,” he scoffed, the derision clear in his expression. You recoiled, suddenly realising why Draco always looked so worried about being seen with you. “Like a Malfoy could be seen at a ministry function with a Gryffindor.” 

You grabbed his glass of pumpkin juice, tossing it right in his face. Draco was still spluttering as you stormed off. What you missed, though, was the faintest look of panic as he watched you walk away. 

Draco gave you space for a few days before trying to approach you in the Great Hall. You were still eating lunch at the same time but making a clear point to sit as far away from him as possible. 

“Mind if I join you?” he asked, ducking his head to try and catch your eye. 

“Like a Gryffindor could ever sit with a Malfoy,” you snapped, parroting his words back to him. Draco sighed, ramping up for what you expected would be a poor excuse for his reasoning. “I’m not hungry anyway.” With that, you slammed your book shut and marched off. 

You looked in the mirror one last time, making sure there wasn’t a hair out of place. To be honest, the dance seemed a lot less fun than you had hoped. Something about having to go with a friend instead of Draco just wasn’t as exciting. 

George was waiting for you at the entrance to the common room. He was a lot of fun and absolutely understood just going as friends. His romantic intentions towards you went about as far as yours did in return, absolutely nowhere. 

Draco caught sight of you several steps before you noticed him. His eyes pored over you, wishing he was the one your arm was threaded around. You were gorgeous, and he had been a fool. 

He waited until George wandered off, deep in conversation with his twin. It was a struggle, but Draco managed to hold off his judgement, knowing that wouldn’t help him regain your favour. 

“Hello, Draco,” you greeted coolly, wondering what little jab he would have. 

“You… you look lovely,” he breathed, cringing a little as the words escaped. He hadn’t intended to start the conversation that way. 

“Shocking, isn’t it?” you retorted, frowning at him. “Who knew a Gryffindor could…” 

“I panicked!” he interrupted, his voice almost a shout. Draco forced himself to take a deep breath, clearly annoyed that you just wouldn’t let it go. “I panicked,” he repeated, much quieter this time. “I wanted to ask you, but I started thinking about how everyone else would look at it.” The faux-disdain had dropped from your expression as you watched him struggle with what to say next. “I like spending time with you. You make me feel good enough,” he explained, taking your hand in his. “Can I try again?” 

You pulled your bottom lip between your teeth, unsure just what to say. If you said yes, would Draco do something like that again? If you said no… There was no way you’d say no, so you nodded slowly. 

“Can I have the next dance?” 

“People might see,” you replied. There was a soft sound of bells just overhead, and you both looked up to see mistletoe right above your heads. It was hung with bright red ribbon and bells, appearing out of nowhere. 

“Let them eat their hearts out,” he grinned, pulling you in tighter. 

From across the room, Ron made a disgusted sound in the back of his throat. 

“Ew, Hermione’s with the enemy, now your date is snogging Malfoy,” he whined, looking over at George. George shrugged and grinned, his eyes full of mischief. 

“Now she’ll stop moping around,” he said, tucking his wand back into his robes. 

[thegolfvisor]

Blindsided

Soooo… that didn’t *quite* play out the way it was supposed to! Apparently folks have LOTS of questions on this vote so rather than trying respond to questions individually, I thought I’d put together a quick summary of what I was thinking last night. It goes without saying that this is a spoiler-free complement to what you’ve seen on the show! (Note - this is of course all strictly my perspective on events. Others' perspectives may of course differ)

"Why am I suddenly leading the vote having sat back until now?"

Good question. There are several importance pieces of context here from my perspective. Firstly, and this can be easy to forget, this was the literally only the 2nd time anyone from the Contenders tribe had been to Tribal Council! We had been once before for the relatively straightforward Laura vote. Contrast this with Dave and Luke who had each been to five at this point, not to mention the dozen or so that Luke had been to in his first season! The difference in experience was vast. I knew this was a huge risk and I tried to mitigate it by (obviously unsuccessfully!) attempting to manage the vote.

Secondly, while the tribe swap was phenomenal from a pure numbers standpoint (as you heard me say in the episode); in terms of specific tribe makeup, we saw that it was not ideal for me. As you may recall from my rundown of the Contender tribe pecking order from a few episodes ago, of the seven former Contenders now on Champions beach, I had placed Daisy and John in a group at the top (along with Shaun and Matty); Sammy in the middle with me; and Hannah, Sarah (and at that point in time) Baden in a group at the bottom. The point here is that (again from my perspective at the time), this was not a particularly cohesive group. The different blocs in the group of seven had not really voted together before. And in fact I remember thinking that there were people within the seven who were barely on speaking terms.  This was far from ideal, and correctly or incorrectly, I felt that I had little choice but to try to manage the different blocs into a cohesive voting strategy.

"Why vote for Dave/Luke?”

I think this is relatively straightforward, but it’s probably worth including for completeness. As I said at Tribal Council - Luke and Dave are both extremely strong players - particularly in the social game. Even before the tribe swap happened, I had been on record in confessionals about the fact that I viewed Luke as by far the biggest threat in the game. I knew about his compelling family backstory; I had seen the quality of his social game in his first season; I had seen him make it to day 50 or so despite very limited game knowledge going in; I knew his style was unpredictable; and I’d heard interviews with his former tribemates who had said he would likely have won the jury vote. All in all, a terrifying combination.

I knew less about Dave obviously, but as we saw last night, I knew he had somehow found an idol and orchestrated the swap with Shaun. I also knew from the Champions voting history (and from conversations with him in the day or two that we had been together post-swap) that he had been at least partially responsible for breaking the sports alliance. He had also told me that he and Luke were inseparable, having been “forged through fire together” at multiple Tribal Councils.

So with that context in place, we get to Shaun’s idol.

"Why tell the other Contenders about the cross-tribe idols?"

As we saw in the episode, Shaun had shared the details of the cross-tribe idols with me. As discussed above, I was already fearful of Luke and was now increasingly concerned about Dave as well. How could I get the other six Contenders onto the same page? Whilst it may seem obvious that the former Contenders would want to vote for one of the two original Champions; don’t forget, both Dave and Luke are masterful social players. They are both incredibly charming, and as we saw in the episode, experts in finding and exploiting small cracks. So Dave’s idol became the tool I used to try to galvanise the Contenders against Dave and Luke. Daisy of course (and possibly John) already knew about it, but to the remainder of the Contenders we saw that it was new and compelling information. From the episode it appeared that Daisy’s concern was that, in revealing the details of Dave’s idol, I had betrayed Shaun’s trust. This is fair. From my perspective though, the tribe swap was a new dynamic that made the information too important not to share, in that, for example, it made a split vote necessary. I was also conscious that most of Dave’s alliance members were now on the same tribe as Shaun anyway, and as such would likely be well aware that Shaun was holding the other cross-tribe idol. I also knew (as we saw on the idol paperwork) that the cross-tribe idols could only be played pre-merge, meaning that: Dave had to play his idol soon (which increased the galvanising effect on the former Contenders who were all potentially at risk of being idoled out pre-merge), and also that the value of the information relating to Shaun’s idol was lower than would be the case for a regular idol given that it had an expiry date.  

It’s probably also worth noting here that (as we saw at the Burger reward), Dave had told Shaun (and later me also when I asked him about it) that he had in fact already played his idol to save Pia. I didn’t know whether this was true or not, but I proceeded on the assumption that he was lying about this, and incorporated this into my pitch to the former Contenders.  

“Where on earth did you get a coin from?”

Absurdly, we had literally found a coin washed up on the beach either that day or the day before. (No, it didn’t come from the same place as the supposedly magic Contender beans).

“What was the point of the coin toss? Wouldn’t whoever out of Dave or Luke didn’t play the idol have just gone home anyway?”

When we initially formulated the plan to split the votes 4/3 across Dave and Luke, the obvious question was - who do we put 4 votes on? No-one had a strong point of view either way. In my view, Luke was the bigger threat but I didn’t want to be on record as having had a preference for voting out one rather than the other. I felt it would be safer in the long-term to position the vote as simply Contenders vs Champions. This was the first argument in favour of the vote being random.

Perhaps more importantly however is the following hypothetical scenario. Imagine that the Contenders agree in advance to place 4 votes on Luke and 3 votes on Dave. Assume that Dave/Luke meanwhile plan to vote together against me. Assume then that Dave/Luke convince one Contender to defect and vote with them. If this Contender defector had been nominated to be one of the 3 votes for Dave, then suddenly the vote is 4 votes Luke, 2 votes Dave and 3 votes me. Because the defector knows where the other votes are going, s/he is able to reveal that there will be 4 votes cast for Luke, allowing Dave to correctly play his idol for Luke, meaning that I go home! This demonstrates the (perhaps not immediately apparent) way in which, even in a very strong-looking 7-2 scenario like this, a single defection can actually flip the Tribal Council outcome.

So to guard against this possibility, I proposed the coin toss as a random vote generator in the voting booth for the decisive 4th vote. The elegant simplicity of this approach is that literally no-one knows the breakdown of the vote split until moments before the vote is cast. In theory this should also serve to bind the seven more tightly together, in that it reduces the incentive for any one individual to defect. Any potential defector would have incomplete information, meaning that Dave/Luke are unable to play an idol correctly with certainty. They could of course still guess, but that is a variable that can’t be eliminated entirely.

Although of course I tried... ;)

Because I knew that Dave was the person actually holding Shaun’s cross-tribe idol, I was confident that he would not play it for Luke if it meant that he was a 50% chance to go home himself. So whilst you of course saw me physically toss the coin in the voting booth; I was always in fact planning to vote for Luke. Hence the… “Sorry Lukey. Heads I win, tails you lose.”

"Why whisper to John just before the votes were cast? Was this purely theatre?"

Haha, no! I actually had a reason to do this! This was in fact an insurance policy against something that had been bugging me from the moment we left camp to go to Tribal Council. Firstly though, a bit of background is necessary here. As you may recall from my rundown of the Contender tribe pecking order from a few episodes ago; I had placed Hannah and Sarah in a group at the bottom. Again this is only from my perspective, but I was conscious that a tribe swap might have represented a great opportunity for a couple of people who had perhaps been at the bottom of their tribe to potentially change their position by aligning with new tribe members (who would of course happily promise them anything!). So with this as background, it transpired that not long before we left for Tribal Council, I saw Hannah and Sarah deep in conversation with Dave and Luke (I think this may have actually been briefly shown in the episode as part of the scramble). This was disconcerting to say the least, and my focus on this may have in fact contributed to me being less aware of what Daisy was doing with John and Baden!

As we left for Tribal Council my head was spinning with the possibilities. If Hannah and Sarah defected, what would that mean for the vote? Recall from the episode that we had formulated a plan to vote based on age. That is, the 3 youngest Contenders (Baden, Hannah and Daisy) would vote for the younger of the 2 Champions (Luke); leaving the 3 older Contenders (Daisy, John and Sarah) to vote for the older Champion (Dave). An aside here - for those who are asking why I proposed this age-based system rather than the more traditional “men vote for one person, women vote for the other”. In this instance, although we had 3 men and 4 women, which on the surface appears as if it would have worked, recall that I wanted to cast the decisive vote myself via the coin toss; which would have left 2 men and 4 women for the required 3/3 split. So the age-based approach just made more sense…

But back to Hannah and Sarah! So had they defected and voted with Dave/Luke, that theoretically would have meant 4 votes on me (or Daisy, or John, but for simplicity let’s assume it’s me). Hannah’s vote was supposed to be for Luke, and Sarah’s vote was supposed to be for Dave. So instead of a 3/3 split with me casting the decisive vote, I would suddenly be left with a 2/2 split (plus my my vote), up against 4 votes for me. Meaning I go home. In this scenario, I needed to find a way to ensure that a total of 4 votes (including my coin toss vote) were cast for Luke (remembering that, at this point, I’m betting that Dave will play his idol for himself). I know that John and Daisy are the other 2 Contenders who are supposed to be casting votes for Dave, so my only option is to ask one of them to change their vote from Dave to Luke. By doing this at the last possible moment before the votes are cast, there is theoretically no opportunity for the changed vote structure information to circulate and for Dave and Luke to change their voting strategy. John was the most accessible Contender (he was seated at the end of the row), so, as you saw on the episode, I asked him to change his vote to Luke. Had the Hannah/Sarah defection scenario played out, then we would have seen 1 vote Dave (who then burns his idol), 4 votes Luke, and 4 votes me. With me then (hopefully!) surviving the revote 3 votes to 4, and Luke going home.

Paranoid - sure!

Overthinking - probably!

Outplayed - definitely!

One final note - all of the above of course assumes no knowledge of the fact that we have seen that Luke actually has his own idol! But that’s the beauty of this game. No matter how hard you try, you likely can’t anticipate everything...

[p-redux]

Identifiable Extreme Shippers CAUGHT redhanded altering Caitriona Balfe’s Wikipedia page to suit their SamCait fantasies--Read All About It!

So, yesterday I was alerted in DM that Cait’s Wikipedia page had been locked by Wikipedia administrators. Prior to this, Cait’s page had been updated to include that, as of 2018, she is engaged to Tony McGill (with a proper and legit citation from People magazine). 

“Persistent vandalism” was the reason given for Cait’s Wiki account being locked. Persistent vandalism in Wiki terms means too many edits had been made on her page without substantiated citations or sources to back them up. 

Gee, I wonder who would want to alter Cait’s page, especially NOW that it says she is engaged to Tony McGill? *taps chin* Um, Extreme Shippers of course! Click on “Keep Reading” below to see how I PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was IDENTIFIABLE and KNOWN Extreme Shippers who messed with Caitriona’s Wikipedia page AND they BRAGGED about it. Is there nothing they will stop at to keep their faux SamCait ship afloat? Looks like the answer is a resounding and embarrassing NO. 

This is long and full of screencaps, but I think it’s worth reading to see just HOW FAR Extreme Shippers are willing to go to ALTER Reality to fit their SamCait fantasy world. Please read all the way to the end. I promise it’s worth it. :-)

If you go to Cait’s Wikipedia page, at the bottom there is a green bar that tells you who the last person to edit the page is, click on the left side of the bar and it takes you to the history of edits. On that page it tells you what time changes were made, the name of the person who made them and the section they changed etc. If the person does not have a user name on Wikipedia then it shows the person’s IP address. 

In the screencap below, you can see that stuff was deleted yesterday, July 19 (red and the minus sign means a deletion) at 21:02, 9:02 PM by an Anon user (I’ve blacked out their full IP), then what they deleted was added (green and a plus sign means an addition) by DeniedClub who seems to be a frequent user. If you search back into the history from July 18 July 19, 2018, Caitriona’s “Personal Life” section was changed back and forth, back and forth, MULTIPLE times, until the excessive activity must have alerted one of the Administrators and you can see Admin, Anna Frodesiak finally locked Cait’s account at 21:30 9:30 PM for “persistent vandalism.”

Sooooo, let’s look at what was changed and why immediately one would suspect it was Extreme Shippers who made the changes. 

What was it that the person with an IP that starts with an 8 and ends with a 5 deleted?

Why, it was the quote about Cait being engaged to Tony...quel surprise--not. You can see the IP matches. For a good laugh, below are more screencaps of the things that were changed on Cait’s Wiki page...as if changing what was written on Cait’s Wiki page would CHANGE REALITY. *facepalm*

Her “assistant” hahahaha! Let’s look at some more wishful thinking... 

I wonder how long this edit that it was Sam Heughan who was Cait’s fiance was left up before someone changed it back. Lord. 

Orphan Wiki, a confirmed user, had to delete the change someone made that said “As of 2018, she is engaged to someone who people don’t know.” Bwahahahaha. You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. 

But the Anon user above was not happy with that so they changed it to “As of 2018, she is engaged to who is still a mystery.” More Bwahahahaha! Oh my God, I’m cackling. Hysterical.

Soooo, it’s pretty obvious that NO ONE OTHER than Extreme Shippers would make those changes to Cait’s Wiki page, but in case some of you are still in doubt, the screencaps below PROVE that Jess talked about “anyone” being able to change a Wiki page, and Jammfsession CONFIRMING she had done so. 

The succession of Screencaps below SHOW that Extreme Shippers ADMITTED they were the ones that deleted Tony McGill off Cait’s Wiki page and made all those changes, that ES BRAGGED about it, and that ES EGGED each other on to continue doing so. Jammfsession even talked about going to Sam’s Wikipedia page and doing the same thing. So much for the “best fans ever.” 

As you can see from the screencap above Nighean--donn showed a screencap of the change she made to Cait’s Wiki page--deleting Tony’s name. The disrespect is astounding, and the fact that they are so gleeful about it, like it’s a game is mind boggling.

Below are MORE screencaps showing the “party” Extreme Shippers seemed to be having joyfully deleting the name of the man Cait is in love with. As if that would change reality. SMH.

Amanda 5834 calling Mackenzie “trashy.” Such a great fan--NOT

Soooo, just to leave NO room for doubt as to it being Extreme Shippers who were the ones who kept deleting Tony’s name from Cait’s Wiki page, below is a screencap showing that it was indeed Jammfsession who messed with Cait’s page. You can see what she deleted (red), what she added (green), and her name Jammfsession right at the bottom. 

Now let’s revisit which OTHER IDENTIFIABLE Extreme Shippers (there were more than TWO, but I’m focusing on just a few) also changed Cait’s Wiki page. In the screencap below, you can see that an Anon user with an IP that starts in 8 and ends in 59 made several deletions of the same 267 character paragraph over and over again...

What was it that IP ending starting in 8 and ending in 59 kept deleting after the admins kept adding it back? See below

So, I looked up the IP and guess what country it’s out of ?

IRELAND! Gee, what a coinkydink. Isn’t Jess supposedly in Ireland? I know there has always been doubt as to Jess really being in Ireland since she doesn’t use Irish syntax, and also says “Mom” instead of “Mum,” Vacation” instead of “Holiday,” “In the hospital” instead of “In hospital” and other stuff that Americans or Canadians say that Irish people don’t, but this right here gives me pause to think that the “Irish lass,” may indeed be in Ireland after all. Unless there’s some other Irish Extreme Shipper or someone purposely picking a VPN in Ireland. Who knows....BUT, let me leave you with this interesting morsel...

10 months ago someone with an IP starting in 8 and ending in 109 edited Cait’s Wiki page and changed Cait’s name from Caitriona Balfe to Jessica Caitriona Balfe. See screencap below

And guess where that IP is out of? IRELAND!  Jess is short for Jessica and Jess used to go by Jessica on her blog. The IPs from Ireland are two different IPs. but the one I’m showing you now was from 10 months ago, Jess could have gotten a new phone/tablet/laptop, or simply be using a different device. But it would have to be a coincidence of epic proportions that someone named “Jessica” from Ireland who altered Cait’s name on her Wiki page would not be THE Jessica (Jess) from Ireland. I won’t make any definitive conclusions about this...everyone can decide for themselves what they make of it, but there it is.

What I CAN say definitively thought is this: what I presented to you in this post is PROOF POSITIVE that SamCait Extreme Shippers DID mess with Cait’s Wikipedia page, did delete her ACTUAL, REAL fiance Tony McGill’s name off her OFFICIAL AND PUBLIC Wikipedia page that millions of people view, did change her fiance to Sam Heughan or to “mystery” person, did so continuously, AND BRAGGED about it, as if it were something to be applauded. This isn’t a game, this is people’s lives and careers. REAL fans don’t do crap like that, immature, petulant, spiteful non-fans do that. Extreme Shippers, once again SHOWING the fandom that they are CAPABLE OF ANYTHING...and that, my friends, is very scary for Cait, for Tony, for Sam, for Mackenzie, for ALL of us.