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Who's yuri?

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MY VERY VERY VEEERY GOOD FRIEND JUST GOT ME A SPENCER GREETING AND ITS EVERYTHING I COULD HAVE ASKED FOR. Here's a preview for all of you where Spencer says what his favorite thing about Logan is for all us fellow Logancer heads :)

FULL VIDEO UP HERE WHERE HE JAMS TO CAPTIVATED ^^ CHECK IT OUT

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MY LOGAN GREETING ARRIVED AAA here's some mathlete crumbs for you all in these trying times :)

^ full greeting if you guys are interested ;)

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Now Playing: Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode

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Wow! I'm so happy they're still very close! I sure hope nothing will come and go ruin their joy and whimsy!

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this is logancer, if you squint

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benji's confused but he has the spirit

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Alec and Fiore father daughter bonding moment

My god this took me an unholy amount of time to finish

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This ain't a fuckin' stick.

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logancer/mathlete truthers, it is a big day for us.

I am still freaking out. They're gonna be endgame, I am so confident.

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THESE MEN ARE EVERYTHING TO ME

FEEDING MY COMMUNITY

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Missing Spencer like a mf rn

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👆I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE 🏳️‍🌈

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:3

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Y tenemos beso!!!

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I did say I would have talked about some stuff from the new episode, and I think it's pretty obvious what I want to talk about.

I've seen so many people discussing about that kiss and what it implies for both the Diencer and Mathlete side of things, so I want to give my own two cents.

I don't want to do a "which is better" or "which should be canon" kind of post, mind you, I've already said I'm fine with both as long as it makes sense (hell, I'm even fine with Spencer ending up alone if it's the path they decide to take). Nor I want to make any kind of prediction because I suck at those.

I just want to do a small analysis about what happened, and how it happened, also taking into consideration the Diencer almost-kiss from episode 5 to make a comparison.

So let's start I guess (god this is long, what is my problem-).

First of, I want to compare Diego and Logan, their similarities and their differences. They're both physically strong, kind-hearted, nice guys, who mostly follow their emotions and are willing to vote out their own allies to keep in their friends - if he'd got the chance, Diego would have voted out the Vibe Tribe to keep Hannah, and Logan did vote for Richard and Lynda to keep in Anastasia.

Diego is more subdued and quiet, trying to avoid any kind of conflict, so much so that his dare in the train challenge was to fight an animal. Meanwhile Logan is more hyper and energetic, thriving in friendly competition, as shown multiple times with Anastasia, being a competitive athlete himself. Also, based on what I've gathered, Diego's only experience with love seems to come from the telenovelas he watches with his mother, having no real life experience whatsoever, while we know for certain that Logan had at least one girlfriend before getting in the show.

Now let's start talking about the scenes themselves. Ironically enough, The Deed(tm) starts in a similar way in both cases.

By holding hands. And in both cases Spencer is quickly aware of it, though with very different expressions. With Diego it feels like a "Oh, it's gonna happen [flustered]" while with Logan it's a "Oh, it's gonna happen [scared]", because it's the second time, and the first one didn't go well at all.

Now what really differenciates the moments in my opinion.

Logan grabs Spencer, making sure he doesn't get the chance to run away. Diego never moved his hands away from the previous hold, so Spencer had the chance to pull away in any moment.

Here's what I think: if Diego had grabbed Spencer, the result would have been exactly like the kiss with Logan. But as mentioned before, Diego is more subdued and with less experience than Logan, and Spencer is a slippery little weasel who always runs away from his feelings unless forced to face them.

There's also to take into consideration the locations. With Diego, they were out in the open, where anyone could stumble upon them, while with Logan they're in an enclosed room, just them, nobody else there to see.

In both cases Diego and Logan realize they fucked up, and in both cases Spencer is left questioning himself if he actually wanted it to happen.

But because Spencer is a weasel and Logan didn't let him run away, here comes another difference: since with Diego he did run away, Spencer had the chance to lie more openly especially to himself, trying to avoid any confrontation and pretending it was just a mistake. With Logan he couldn't do it because the kiss did happen, and he did kiss back, so Spencer's forced to confront him and his own thought. But, the challenge doesn't give them the chance, so we don't actually know what he was going to say.

Diego takes the first chance he gets to confess and explain his own feelings, exhorted by Hannah earlier during the challenge. And maybe that's also one of the reasons Spencer didn't let Logan talk (besides needing to go save himself from elimination) - so that he could face him on his own terms this time, plus the fact that Logan didn't actually know what to say in that moment.

In both cases, Spencer went and threw out either Diego's and Logan's names for elimination, which is why I think that even if the kiss with Diego had happened, nothing would have changed in the outcome.

Diego's, he did out of sheer panic. He didn't want to deal with it, and since he had time to openly lie to himself, he tried to convince himself that he was doing it for the game and to get rid of a distraction, but he later admits to Logan that he didn't do it for the game at all, he was simply scared and couldn't think logically, and he knows that Diego's elimination was what screwed his entire game from then on.

As for Logan, he put his name on the platter together with Richard's, this time seemingly and effectively for gameplay reasons to save himself, but we don't know if he did it being aware that Anastasia was more willing to take out Richard than Logan or if he once again wanted to get rid of him because of a relapse. Also, I wonder if this will come up later on, that he proposed him for elimination twice to Anastasia or if it will just be left as it is.

Lastly, I wanted to mention these two confrontations.

Diego seemed to know exactly what he liked about Spencer, but we know how little does he actually know about real life love, and so what he said felt really vague and maybe a bit stereotypical, because it's what he was used to see in telenovelas.

Meanwhile, Logan doesn't know how he feels at all. He knows that he's at least physically attracted to him because he felt the same way about girls, and he liked that new aspect of himself. But he doesn't know what he feels about Spencer as a person. There certainly is something, but what that something is, he still needs to find out.

On Twitter there's a super cool thread about how Spencer and Logan's kiss had a sexual nature, and not a romantic one, making a comparison with all the other kisses of the series and pointing out how the focus of the scene wasn't their expressions, but rather their hands and touches to underline the lack of actual feelings.

And I've seen so many people say that they felt like they were watching something intimate that they shouldn't have seen and. Yeah. That's why I mentioned the locations earlier. They're in a isolated room, enclosed in a literal satanic circle, and it feels like the viewer has stepped in at the wrong moment. Compare it to the Anarissa kiss and all of Zaivy's, which all happened out in the public for the other contestants to see.

So yeah, this scene has entered in my top 5 of the season, for everything that it implies and what's to come from it, especially if Diego's about to come back in the next episode, bringing a whole lot of chaos with him.

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WELL BOYS. WE WON. WE FUCKING DID IT!!! WE GOT THE CONFIRMED KISS AAAAAAAAAAAA