[Susie Smith]

You won the challenge again, another member of the Kallpa tribe went home, and you made it past the first week! Congratulations! Please share your thoughts with your fans.

1.    In the wild world of Stranded, emotions can run high. How have your emotions influenced your strategic moves in the game this week?

2.    The HetDensa challenge scrambled more than just letters and tested your teamwork. Did each of your tribe members contribute equally? Any major gaffes? How well did your tribe perform as a unit?

3.    Surviving week one in Stranded requires social finesse, strategic prowess, and strong competition skills. Which of these skills was your strongest this week? How did you wield it to protect your spot in the game? Which area is your weakest? What will you do to overcome it?

4.    Please share an update (visually or in words) on your alliance situation or lack thereof.

Several of you have been making some pretty fantastic confessional videos. If you haven’t already, we welcome you to record at least one (reasonably brief) video on YouTube, mark it as 'unlisted,' and share the link here as your confessional response. You can express your thoughts about the game, share insights from your personal life, and discuss your answers to these confessional questions.

[Mike H]

In the spirit of your Ke$ha dollar sign tattoo - if each of your tribe mates had an unexpected tattoo that celebrated an early 2010's pop star, what tattoo would each of them have?

Also - explain the Ke$ha tattoo please.

[Mike H]

Not me coming back later to say where the tattoo is on the body is important for both answers.

[Xander]

1)This has been a freaking emotional past few days. I've been playing my social game and tried to have a strategic moment where I get Sara to spearhead the witch hunt for Heather. But when Evvie told me that Abe was talking with Shan about us, I felt totally betrayed. Abe has been my main guy that I felt comfortable throwing out ideas to without the worry of blowback. I had thought that was reciprocated… So when Evvie told me that, I went to Abe and told him about it half fishing/half confronting. He started breaking down and getting paranoid and I got caught up in it myself. Then he completely redirected Sara onto Evvie. Then I had to really show Evvie that I was sorry.
I will take responsibility for sharing what Evvie told me with Abe, which had lit the fuse for his explosion. But I had shared similar information with them about my closeness with Sara and how she thought I was F3 with her. So I thought this info would have been welcomed. 

I now feel like everyone sees me as going between people and sharing their game. I am totally afraid of the blowback. I really hope it fades into the background over the break.



2) I totally did not contribute at all to that challenge . I'm dyslexic and Word scrambles fry my brain. I 100 percent did nothing. I couldn't figure out how I should organize my desktop and where to put the words. It was just a total mess. Thankfully I dont think i was the only one who failed.  It didn't seem Heather contributed either. That's 2 challenges you've bombed Heather! I'm right behind you at 1!!!!  I really hope I can contribute more to the next one cause I felt totally useless. But Frosti's freakout was priceless. Like how fragile is your ego dude, we basically Gave you the answers and you still fucked it up. We didn't check our work well enough but it doesn't seem like y'all did at all!!!! 



3) initially I would have said my social finesse but it ended up kinda exploding by the end of the week. I leaned into my Strategic prowess but it remains to be seen if will succeed. I really hope it does. I wanna take it a bit easy for the next few days and avoid game talk unless it comes to me. I tried to keep the focus on Sara and Heather as the next boots. id say I kept that up until Tuesday when everything exploded. Now I worry that Deshawn will break away. I did well in the first challenge, but I bombed the last one. So at this point I need to work on those challenge skills before I have to eat my crow.





 

[Xander]

4) I am supposed to be in an alliance with Evvie and Abe but after the fiasco I'm worried it may be falling apart. I'm just not quite there with Deshawn yet. 

[Dean Kowalski]

4) I am supposed to be in an alliance with Evvie and Abe but after the fiasco I'm worried it may be falling apart. I'm just not quite there with Deshawn yet. 

I'm not sure if it's just my computer/internet, but that image is not loading

[Xander]

I love these questions, Otter. It's so much fun to write. First my Kesha tattoo story. Its nothing crazy or anything, but I was 18 and had this gorgeous boyfriend who I partied with and he had a tattoo gun. He would say he wanted to be a tattoo artist, but in reality he was a spoiled listless rich boy who wanted to be cool. But I was just head over heels for the guy, so I let him practice tattooing on me. I didnt wanna get massive tatts cause I didn't trust him THAT much. So we settled on a bunch of small ones, one of those being the Kesha dollar sign which is on my bicep. Kesha felt like this reaction to “take themselves so seriously” hipsters. It was not “cool” to like Kesha so I was like fuck it lets do it, Thinking i was so naughty and counter cultural. 

Early 2000-2010s Pop star tattoos



Abe: Fall Out Boy song lyrics on his chest: Warped tour changed his life. 



Deshawn: Fergalicious wrapped around an anchor on his arm: It's his regular karaoke song. Can do the rap part in one breath. 
Evvie: Brandi Carlile’s “Bramily” on neck : Has her septum pierced and loves Bo Burnham

 

Shan: A mustache tattoo on her finger: She doesn't listen to pop music. But she loves Animal Collective And Passion Pit.  

 

Heather: “I Am Beautiful” off center on her back. Thinks she can hit Christina Aguilera's notes when she sings Lady Marmalade in her Subaru.
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Sara: a G6 tramp stamp: Loves going to Coachella and has a raver name. Knows how to score Xanax

[Dean Kowalski]

This whole thing sent me into orbit, oh my god. These are great. I'm here for the Ke$ha tattoo lore.

[Mike H]

The Heather response had me howling. Good stuff. Abe with the Fall Out Boy right out the gate was a fucking banger too.

Also loving the Ke$ha tattoo story.

You folks keep having interesting histories and cool hobbies, I'll keep bringing the weird ass questions.

[Xander]

I'll have to show it off when I make a confessional video

[Xander]

The Heather response had me howling. Good stuff. Abe with the Fall Out Boy right out the gate was a fucking banger too.

Also loving the Ke$ha tattoo story.

You folks keep having interesting histories and cool hobbies, I'll keep bringing the weird ass questions.

Just gotta get me to that tribe swap and I'll keep em coming!

I had so much fun writing that

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