absurd drama, crying... great performances, lough out loud dramatic twist... so many ridiculous reaction shots
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 March 2018 09:10 (six years ago) link
Ru not knowing how to act was the cherry on top. So much of her persona rests on being true to yourself and living out your inner stardom, and that’s exactly what Ben did, but at the total expense of the competition that’s become Ru’s star vehicle.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
The one 'yeah but' element in terms of actual surprise -- given the clip at the end showing Bendela painting her name on the little bar, it's not like the crew didn't know. (Of course, exactly when that's filmed is another question...)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
I really thought the eliminated queens' song was better than the top-five queens' song, even though the performances might not have been as good.
― trishyb, Friday, 2 March 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
Aja was so damn good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
aaahahahaha @ milk “why did you allow me to act this way???”
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:08 (six years ago) link
I really would love to know how she reacted watching herself on tv this season
milk irlhttps://media1.tenor.com/images/318a6b4d560639ddcc5c8b5f83d77940/tenor.gif?itemid=5447404
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
Various Bendela interviews out there now, I liked this one:
http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-3-bendelacreme-interview.html
And to my question above:
I worked very, very quickly. I fully hid that. I scribbled out the name on the lipstick with a Sharpie and then I wrote in mine with the Wite-Out. I totally, secretly snuck those into my bra when I knew there were no cameras on me. I was like, If I’m going to do this, it just has to happen fast. So I just pulled that Sharpie out, scrawled my name on there with that Wite-Out as fast as I could, and shoved it in my bra. The only people in the room with you are the director and the cameraman — there are some secret producers somewhere else — but they just both were staring at me, slack-jawed. So I was like, Oh great, nobody’s going to stop me because they’re all dumbfounded.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
Also says here and elsewhere about how Ru keeps very private where Michelle is the more outgoing/in contact with competitors one, which makes total sense.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
OMFG.
SHANGELA IS THE SAME AGE AS BEBE AND KENNEDY!!!!!!!
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
that isnt v shocking imo, Shangy’s been around forevah
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
I was about to say, it's almost ten years on from when she first appeared on the show and everything.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
and like Bebe ahe didn’t seem THAT young when she first appeared
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
I assumed that Bebe was already in her 30s during season 1, mostly because of her refined bearing; so putting her in the same room as Shangela, I put their ages on radically different trajectories. It's mostly how I perceived their maturity (lol Shaaange).
BTW, was Beeb's leopard catsuit the same one she wore in her first season?
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
That's amazing. So you weren't the one that gave her the white out then?
No. Thorgy gave her the white out. Thorgy painted her nails with white out because she's a homeless, dumpster person. And then, Ben was like, "Can I use that white out?" That's literally what happened.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8227761/trixie-mattel-adam-lambert-bendelacreme
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Her whole encounter with Adam Lambert was awkward city bcz he just did not get her at all and she didn’t really know how else to be got or something
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that made me feel embarrassed for both sides.
Meanwhile, this is hilar, and Ginger has moments of genius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKYA6iKMEw&t=1127s
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
Ru’s newest Guardian profile has generated some twitter discussionhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/03/rupaul-drag-race-big-f-you-to-male-dominated-culture?CMP=share_btn_tw
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Willam as always, on point:https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf61vPCneG1/willam: Guess who said it? Winner gets a spot on Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 11 (but if you’re trans, you’re gonna need to hide it until it’s broachable for the story producers).
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
for some reason i can’t post links to tweets but this is a good thread by @shonfaye Again - I am not anti-Drag Race or drag itself but RuPaul frequently advances a vision of drag to the mainstream which he believes is more anarchic or revolutionary than it is. For example, this discussion of women's bodies is just the same old same old
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/969921568439783424?s=20
arg i give up
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
Yeah, when people raise objections to Drag Race based on its politics of womanhood, I can't really argue with them. (Related: I notice the queens don't talk about fishiness so much in the later seasons, and I don't think that's an accident). Like, you're amazing and to be copied, but you're also kind of gross? It's a side of the whole scene I have never been super comfortable with. And it's interesting now to see people taking RuPaul to task for his (and drag's, I guess?) attitude to trans women.
My guess is that eventually he'll do whatever proves to be good for business, or he'll gracefully retire.
― trishyb, Monday, 5 March 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
Strikes me as a Bad Take:
You can take performance enhancing drugs and still be an athlete, just not in the Olympics. pic.twitter.com/HkJjzXzUGm— RuPaul (@RuPaul) March 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
yikes
― clouds, Monday, 5 March 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
My drag was born in a community full of trans women, trans men, and gender non-conforming folks doing drag. That’s the real world of drag, like it or not. I thinks it’s fabulous and I will fight my entire life to protect and uplift it.— Sasha Velour (@sasha_velour) March 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
Double kissoff:
My partner of almost three years is trans, and #bendelachrist help anyone who tries to tell him what he can and can’t do. Just sayin’.— bendelacreme (@bendelacreme) March 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Annnd walkback.
Each morning I pray to set aside everything I THINK I know, so I may have an open mind and a new experience. I understand and regret the hurt I have caused. The trans community are heroes of our shared LGBTQ movement. You are my teachers. pic.twitter.com/80Qi2halN2— RuPaul (@RuPaul) March 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
I mean, anyone who's listened to a few episodes of Ru's podcast knows that he is essentially fighting the same battle as Lady Bunny (albeit in a minor key, taciturn) against identity politics.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
AgreedRu still adheres to his own version of “how things are” and no matter what lipservice he pays to embracing change, you know that he resents being called out and privately will just keep right on thinking and saying a whole bunch of outdated shit that he still thinks is “edgy” bcz he stopped absorbing opinions in like 1998 I like him as a personality but the real truth is that deep down he is kind of a narcissistic wackadoodle and ppl should maybe stop seeking his opinion
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
I mean Alex in Montreal and I were saying on Twitter yesterday per his initial posts that in a perverse way Ru -- or WoW or whatever exact combination -- got what they wanted, an amazing high profile collection of American/American-based queens, performers, voices that combined with social media/technology providing ever more outlets for them at low cost. A legacy was established, but it never meant that they were going to be drones -- how could they!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
I've still never seen an episode of this show but omg this is so amazing
http://www.newnownext.com/sasha-velour-slays-all-of-brooklyn-with-le-tigre-deceptacon-lip-sync/03/2018/?xrs=synd_facebook_rpdr
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
It is and she looks stunning.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Yes!!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I was in NYC last week and went to see the episode at the bar in Brooklyn where Acid Betty hosts! It was so much fun. The place went nuts at Ben's anouncement. I chatted with Betty a bit after the show and she was really friendly and funny. She looked great too.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
Le Tigre is perhaps the most famous band to come out of the late-’90s Riot Grrl scene.
>=(
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
I mean is that wrong though??
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
SK are surely better known than Le Tigre! (Unless you want to dispute that SK are riot grrrl.)
Anyway, it kind of baffles me that Ru is opposed to identity politics, since his brand of gender semiotics/structuralism can only exist by acknowledging identity politics.
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
hm true, I guess I think of them as being in diff realms but you're prob right
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
Anyway, looking ahead:
Season 10 #DragRace guest judges, in addition to @Xtina, include:• @ShaniaTwain • @abbijacobson & @ilazer • @billyeichner • @kumailn • @Courtney • @NicoTortorella • @AudraEqualityMc • @ashanti • @lizzo pic.twitter.com/cWWd5TDWeU— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) March 8, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Oh and Halsey too.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
Fuller list from Billboard:
In addition to Aguilera, this season’s guest judges will include Shania Twain, Courtney Love, Halsey, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Kate Upton, Billy Eichner, Audra McDonald, Andrew Rannells, Ashanti, Todrick Hall, Lizzo, Lena Dunham, Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, Padma Lakshmi, Nico Tortorella (Younger), Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why), Logan Browning (Dear White People), Carrie Preston (The Good Wife) and Tisha Campbell-Martin (My Wife and Kids). Additionally, Stephen Colbert, Andy Cohen and Cheyenne Jackson will stop by for special guest appearances.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
A timely story
https://jezebel.com/as-drag-becomes-more-popular-than-ever-drag-kings-refu-1823500621
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
Kumail & Emily judging? YAY
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Okay that was a guest appearance on the show last night I didn't expect in a million years.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
billy eichner, lena dunham, andy cohen: baaaarf
― clouds, Friday, 9 March 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
Conversely ... Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Padma Lakshmi, Nico Tortorella, Logan Browning, Audra McDonald: yayyyy
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link