Final Three - results

[Big Linda]

Now we are down to the final three: BSam, Bun, and Charlie. In 48 hours one of you will be eliminated. In the meantime, however, I want you to reflect on the tasks of the last 2 months. What were your favorite moments? Least favorite? Also think about the evicted housemates and write about them. The person with the best task essay will receive a save vote from one of the Big Brothers and the best housemate essay will get the other Big Brother's save vote.

[violetbunfortunate]

Do we need to write two separate essays, or just one and you decide on the best parts of it? Also are we meant to cast a vote to save one of the other housemates, or are the Big Brothers the only ones who vote? Sorry for the questions; just want to make sure I understand.

[bsam]

Also, essays here or in diary rooms?

[Big Linda]

Essays here. Either one or two, doesn't matter. Everyone is allowed to vote, and if you are final three you are allowed to vote for yourself.

[bsam]

At a risk of appearing egotistical, most of my favourite and a couple of my least favourite moments from this years big brother are to do with being two competitors this year.

These include guessing all of the ersatz accounts correctly but then not being able to claim it twice as to avoid suspicion, being two of the three housemates up for nomination, both of my accounts being alone for seven minutes and then being placed together yet still alone, and suggesting the survivor alliance so I wouldn't have to do each part of the task twice by myself.

I wasn't a big fan of the skate challenge, having to come up with four routines instead of just two, almost didn't complete the last one due to effort and apathy.

Peak task for me this year was the film scene task, not only was I on both teams, but everyone made an effort and I honestly could not tell who would win seeing both teams creative efforts. I loved making the song and apparently helping produce with both my co finalists, Charlie and Bun, they might have beat us but our whole production team made it to the finals. On the other hand I was also on the winning team and made some brilliant and inspired casting choices(even tho not all were posted to the task thread, but that's fine). Renu did a wonderful job as producer for his team and that is likely what tipped the scales that way. Everyone who contributed to that task did an amazing job and I would gladly watch both teams scenes made for real.

I will write later about my ex fellow housemates as I am on my phone on a train right now, so for now I will just say you all rock, as do all the big brothers for putting up with me for so long and not kicking me out yet.

[violetbunfortunate]

Task Essay

Participating in 667’s Big Brother has been enormously fun and weird (perhaps in equal measure). As I write this and consider the past two months, so many enjoyable, hilarious, and bizarre moments spring to mind that I have to confess to finding it difficult to pick an absolute favourite. Perhaps the best way to approach this, therefore, is in a methodical and chronological manner.

I loved the first week’s challenge at the time, and it as remained one of my favourite challenges ever since then. Dressing Albus Dumbledore up in drag was not something I ever pictured myself doing, but I’m very glad I had the opportunity to do so. It was also a very fun time just in general, as everyone was introducing themselves and having fun in the house.

I suppose the second week was my least favourite simply because I wasn’t here to participate, and also catching up with everything once I got back took a while – a week is a long time in the Big Brother house, it seems!

The third week’s task was probably my low point, performance wise. I enjoyed it, certainly, but I was sadly deluded as to my impersonation skills: I thought I pulled off a passable fake-BSam (or at least a passable attempt at not being me) but when everyone made their guesses at the end of the task, I discovered that I was apparently much more obviously-me than I had realised. As Renuoquidvis sweetly put it: ‘ "BSam" is actually violet Because her speech pattern is very distinct even though you can tell she is trying ’ So, upon reflection, this task was not my finest hour, and so even though it was fun, I can’t rate it very highly in my overall task rankings.

For the fourth week’s task we were all back to being ourselves, which I found a relief. However, we couldn’t be entirely ourselves, because we had to be mean to each other. I found this great fun (although I did feel quite awful for being mean), and quickly developed a tactic of ‘revenge roasting’, as it were – that is, I would only roast someone after they had already roasted me, whereupon I would swoop in with a (hopefully) cutting remark. Such fun.

The fifth week was fun because we got to work together for a change, and I really appreciated Renuoquidvis’ drawing. The Big Brother house felt like a great community that week. And then of course that illusion was shattered as we still had to vote to evict people at the end of it, but still, for a brief, shining moment, all was well with the world.

I really loved week six! I arrived online a bit later than most people, so I was worried that I wouldn’t be allowed to join the alliance, but in the end I think I posted more than most other people that week so it was all fine. I also made friends with a musical cow that week, and as a result of showing concern and care for Renuoquidvis’s koi fish during this task I inherited them when he was evicted (they’re all still thriving, Quisby).

Week seven was even more fun! I really like figure skating (watching it, not doing it. I mean, I enjoy skating, but I’m not exactly skilled at it.) so I enjoyed finding all the gifs of different skaters and I took particular pleasure in listening to the songs I picked while watching the gifs I had chosen for each line. The only bad part of this week was that the link to my second song expired between me posting it and the Big Brothers marking it.

At first I really enjoyed week eight’s scavenger hunt, but it took so long my computer screen began to hurt my eyes and, worse still, after I’d completed the third hunt, the site crashed, I was logged out and none of my post was saved, so I had to do it all over again.

So, in conclusion, my favourite tasks were the first, sixth and seventh weeks – the drag challenge, the survival challenge, and the figure skating challenge. Other than this, there have been a few moments I particularly enjoyed, including but not limited to: the funeral for misterm’s 503 eyebrow hairs, the moment BSam and him (aka BSam and BSam) had to spend seven minutes in heaven together and Charlie decided that they would make out, prompting BSam to say ‘I’m not sure how I feel about this’ which still makes me laugh now we all know the truth. Also the general pond/mysterious humming noise shenanigans entertained me, and I enjoyed sharing my love of Columbo with others.

My least favourite tasks/moments would be the second week when I was absent and the third week when I was hopeless. Ultimately, the scavenger hunt in week eight was also rather wearing, though that’s more the fault of my computer than anything else. Also, choosing who to evict is never pleasant (if only everyone could win! Although that would kind of defeat the purpose of the game.).


I'll post my housemate essay soon! 

[bsam]

Luna, I don't know if there is an awful lot to say about you, perhaps if you posted, if you participated at all you might be here with us today. But there's no use dealing with ifs and mights, and your non-participation was almost a blessing to everyone else involved guaranteeing us all to make it to week 2. Thank you for that.

Quotester, you were an interesting gimmick, but still just a gimmick. It can be hard to participate fully while staying committed to a character, I enjoyed seeing your posts, but again, you helped those participating make it through another week, for your sacrifice we thank you.

Mona, thank you for joining up, even if it took two of us bugging you. You and Sophie both left in the same week which was sad because you are two of my favourite 667ers and I missed you both from then on, world without end.

Anka I'm sorry if you were no longer having fun in the house, a couple years back I withdrew and it's not always the easiest decision to make, I hope you had fun while you were playing at least.

Zort and Trip, I must thank you both for playing when you were housemates and not revealing my secret. I'm tempted to try to suck up to you both here, but this is about those no longer with us. I'm glad you're both still here with Linda, ruling over us all.

Mister M you played well, up until you spent most of your time complaining. These are meant to be fun, next time just chill mate.

Tryina, you lasted a long time congrats. I had fun pretending to be Him pretending to be you. Hope I did a good job and I liked all your arts and stuff you did, especially the costumes for our weirdly casted asoue scene.

Him, I have to say nice work. You made it very far for an anonymous account. If I ever work out who you really are I will buy you a drink.

Willy and Renuoquidvis I'm flattered that I was the target of your alliance, but you know what they say

Nah kidding, well done for being final 5, and it's been a lot of fun. Especially you Renoquisby, the only person I really didn't know from 667 before the game.

I'm unsure if I should write a little bit here about Charlie and Bun, I suppose they aren't ex-housemates.

Not yet anyway.

[Charlie]

Task essay:
I hated most of the tasks except for the Drag Queen one which I didn't participate in, the Directing one (and only because everyone made such cool contributions), and the scavenger hunt which is the most fun I've had all big brother. I would also count having an alliance / betraying an alliance as a task, that was a loooot of fun too. I really really really found the skating challenge hard and painful, and I'm rly empathetic to sam for having to do it twice, oml.

Um, in conclusion, tasks were good, I'd love some more interactive tasks next year tho guys.

Housemate essay/ Goodbye speech if I die:
This year was interesting in that half of the housemates were basically completely inactive. Idk if that's normally how it is, but wowzers. Special mentions to Luna for literally not turning up, you do you Luna, and Misterm for flagrantly disobeying any rule he could and still surviving aaaages. The final five were a great group of people, and I'm glad out of everyone I got to come here with you guys. For some reason I can't do a heart symbol here, but just imagine this is punctuated with hearts instead of all the other punctuation. I'm glad on a few levels Him got eliminated, because it meant I got to experience the rest of this time with more actual real people, and also that Sam didn't have to do as much. I love Renu for taking me up on the alliance offer in my sig, and acting with such vehemence. I also love Willy for initially choosing me to join his escaping-death-alliance, what a sweet guy. Bun, it was so fun being you for like a weakish, I couldn't get your crazy cool style of speech right, so I just tried to stay as quiet as possible so I didn't fall short . Last, but most, Sam, I'm in awe of how hard you've worked this year on 667BB and if I can't make it to the end, I think you deserve it. Having said that, Bun has done fantastically well, and I'm always keen for a new kid to win he crown so...

PS. I know you big brothers aren't housemates, but you've lived in the house with us, and two out of three of you were indeed housemates soooooo, luvya guys, thanks for making this such a great experience.

[violetbunfortunate]

Housemate Essay

As with my other essay, I think the best way to tackle this is to consider each housemate in turn, from the first to be evicted to the last. 

Luna was of course the first to go, and sadly I never had the chance to make her acquaintance. It would be all to easy to cast the blame her way and claim that her total absence spoiled any real sense of tension or drama in the first week, but I think that would be shortsighted: Luna fulfilled an important function. She was the first of the housemates to be evicted based on their total lack of participation. Through her silence, she has borne this burden remarkably well, and through her sacrifice, she gave us all another week in the game. 

Quotester was next to go, and although this was fairly predictable, given that he didn't participate much more than Luna, it was also a shame; if he had been able to last longer, I think it would have been very interesting to see him quote his way through later tasks, such as the figure skating challenge. However, if I am being honest with myself I must admit that I don't believe his tactic could ever have lasted very long; it simply wasn't sustainable to put in so much effort for so little reward.  

Mona and Sophie left hand in hand (I mean this figuratively, of course -- I have no way of knowing if they really held hands as they were evicted, but it would be quite surprising if I stumbled upon the truth like that) in the third week. My clearest memory of Sophie was that she used three alien faces in her name which I didn't know how to write, and even when I was told I couldn't remember it, so for me at least it was a blessing that I didn't have to keep trying for another month and a bit, though I feel the absence of both Mona and Sophie's characters was a great loss to all of us. After Mona was evicted, I enjoyed reading about the Big Brothers' jam and Winnie-the-Pooh character preferences in Mona's diary room, so thank you for that gift from beyond the grave, Mona. 


I was sad that Anka was next to go -- in the time that she spent in the house I enjoyed her posts and her fun personality. If she started not to enjoy her time here, then I am truly sorry and I only hope that she's had a much more enjoyable month and a bit outside the house than she would have done inside. 

The switch around with Zort and Trip took me by surprise when it happened, but was all very fun until, of course, Zort ended up being evicted. I was sorry to see him go, especially as it was he who first suggested I join the Big Brother house. I would like to offer my thanks, Zort, for all the fun and larks which you introduced me to. Your time as a housemate was too brief by a long shot. However, there is always some light in the darkness, and in the sad shadow of Zort's departure we must remember the light that is Trip's presence in the house as  Big Brother. Before she became a Big Brother, I enjoyed her posts and her humour and was glad to find an ally in my love of Columbo. After she became a Big Brother, I still enjoyed all of those things. 

Mister M was next to leave us, which was a shame because I tended to enjoy his complaints about practically everything, mostly because they were so unreasonable (such as the time I posted before him in both of the weekend five threads and he complained, in both threads, that I had stolen his ideas. His ideas which he didn't post until after I did. Logic.). I enjoyed his contribution to the superheroes week. RIP all of his eyebrow hairs. 


Although I never really got to know Tryina/Tryinem particularly well (and for that I am sorry), I always enjoyed her presence in the house and it was a great shame to see her go.

The loss of Him was quite tragic. If only he were still, somehow, here among us. 


Losing Willy was particularly sad for me as in his death I discovered how loyal he had been to me -- it was a good and honest alliance. He traveled far from his first day in the Big Brother house, when people made lighthearted fun of his name. He created a very nice robot for the superheroes week and complimented me on my short program for the figure skating challenge, which was kind. Willy, you are missed. 

From the beginning Renuoquidvis was a strong contender. I thought for a long time he would make it into the final three or two, but alas, it was not to be. He made it a long way, though, and for that I commend him. His contributions have been consistently above-par, and I particularly appreciated the drawings he made for superheroes week. Thank you for leaving me your koi fish in your will, Renuoquidvis, and thank you for everything you have contributed to the game. 

Now, of course, there are only three of us left. I'm not sure I'm meant to reflect upon Charlie or BSam because they're both still current housemates, but I would like to say that you have both been great housemates and the house wouldn't have been half so much fun without you (also thank you to Charlie for stepping in whilst I was away, and congratulations to BSam for keeping up two accounts for so long). 

Last, but by no means least, Big Linda and Big Trip, although you are not housemates (well, Trip was, but still) you have always been here in the house with us, watching, judging, and entertaining us. There's no Big Brother without you -- thanks for such a great couple of months! 

[Big Linda]

Our two essay winners have been chosen, however we will not vote in the poll or announce them until the poll is closed. Keep voting!

[Big Linda]

As you can see, the poll ended in a three-way tie. However, trip and I were having trouble deciding on the best essay for each category - both of them were a tie between BSam and Bun. We decided to split the difference and give each of you one vote. Therefore, Charlie ends up with the least amount of saves. Sorry, Charlie. Congratulations on third place!

[violetbunfortunate]

Thank you, Big Brothers! Charlie, I'm sorry to see you go. You've been a great housemate and I'm so grateful that you filled in for me while I was away. Congratulations on making it to the final three!!