the biggest trick courtney act ever pulled was convincing the world that she's not shady
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
lol talking like she's a Satan.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
NOT TODAY
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
xpost um she wore horns iirc
:)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
Touche!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:33 (ten years ago) link
And let's not forget how she was possessed.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:50 (ten years ago) link
get it gurl #electroshockfraggle
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link
When Courney says it comes from the heart I'm inclined to think that she's being real and that she's just so vapid and empty that it comes off as robotic because that's all she knows how to do
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
I'm surprised Courtney made it to the top 3, honestly. Adore too (though she's been one of my favorites the whole season). It seems 75% certain that Bianca will win though, right?
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Stepford queen is pretty accurate for Miss Act.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
I'm not surprised she made it to the top 3 though. This whole season I was betting on Bianca-Courtney-Ben as the top 3 with Adore a potential spoiler.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link
Meantime the reunion special was taped last night -- a friend was there and said this on Twitter just now:
@joebetance Attended the finale of Ru Paul's Drag Race. The opening was sickening. The 4 hour taping was sickening but in a bad way. #TeamBianca
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
And yeah I have to think Bianca edges Adore but it's closer for me than I EVER would have thought from the premiere episodes. I knew I liked Bianca straight off the bat but Adore just kept at it. I would still be happy with either of them winning for sure.
Also at this point I have to agree with upthread comments that Joslyn's probably got Miss Congeniality in the bag, barring a surprise from Ben (which I'd be good with too!). (Courtney would be out anyway as a finalist I guess and she's long since NOT been so nice, so.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
I love Bianca and I would love to see her win, but now that we're at the finale I don't feel like she's a lock. I dunno why. Something about Adore makes me think she could get it.
Either way, I mean, party. lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
I really need to go back and rewatch the whole season after the coronation, I always like seeing how the winner starts to emerge/what the turning point is. Bianca's would be more of a Raja-like royal procession with a win from the get-go and more along the way, Adore's turning point...I'm not sure. Maybe the hip-hop challenge?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Maybe I'm blinded by pretty, but I really don't get this Bad Penny vibe from Courtney, at all! Nor her vapidity, really, I think her confessionals and how she deports herself on Untucked show a very grounded individual with a fair amount of self-awareness, who throws the amount of shade requisite to being a drag queen.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Maybe it's an Australian thing? VG said as much earlier.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
And don't get me wrong, I don't HATE Courtney. I mean if the final three were Laganja, Madison and Darienne then you'd see me complaining a bit.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
lol "Madison."
I like Darienne! What's wrong with me/you all?
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Or whatever her name was! The one with the beak!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Darienne got back on my good side with not having an Untucked cow last week after being read for filth by Ru etc., unlike others one could name. Even so...I dunno. Still, hearing about how her mom treated her was pretty damn rough for sure. (I'm actually intrigued by the fact that I think Bianca's NEVER directly referenced her family much.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
Ahh, Milk!
Darienne never really got on my bad side; if I hadda guess, her brand of humor has a snarky streak, which is easily manipulated into seeming like a b-word. But to me, she was always funny, the smoother Swiss to Bianca's sharp Jack.
I have a lot of ~ideas~ about the emotion pr0n on this show.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
No not Milk, I was good with Milk -- the one with the contoured-to-hell nose, went out in one premiere episode.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
I mean I know I could look upthread BUT THAT WOULD BE EASY.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
I'm pretty certain you mean Milk!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
(Magnolia Crawford, if you're dying to know, as I'm sure you are.)
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Thank you that was it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
I don't see Courtney's vapidity as airheadedness, I see it more as just playing on a certain level of cultural unawareness and a teeeeeeeeeny bit of elitism. Like that innocent wide-eyed 'oh REALLY? that's how you do that/that's what you're going to wear//you said that?' is a form of judgement akin to 'we don't do things like that back home'
and that's where 90% of her shade comes from. everyone else is gauche and emotional and laying it all on the table - she got to be a 'drag superstar' in her home country without having to do that and she's not about to start here.
like if you really think she meant what she said in untucked about Darienne being on top this week, then you have fallen for Courtney's Act :) hook line and sinker
she never gave two shits for anything Darienne did and still doesn't, but since she knows Darienne's going home she's going to play emotional good samaritan and send her a way with a good feeling in her heart about sweet little courtney act. It's COMPLETELY two faced.
Maybe I'm overanalysing but I really think that courtney's accent and her look does 90% of the work for her of creating this kind of, idk, 'glamor' in the magicking terminology that she can hide behind. she can get away with all the shady bullshit of the other queens without ever being called on it because no-one actually HEARS what she's saying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
but I'll leave the last word to Alaska
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLGif8ZAkVY
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
xp Well when you put it like THAT.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Courtney is completely two faced! I LOVE ADORE
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
I love all the shit she can do with her eyes, like she can go from 0 to fierce in .01 seconds
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
I'm not going to judge her sincerity/lack thereof, but the backhanded elitism bit is spot on, probably because I'm pretty much the same: That is a very good analysis, for a girl!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/983d5051ee4a369d807c150d796f3f57/tumblr_n3s9c0mnz41t1rvzco1_500.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I can't stand how they film all three people "winning" and then reveal the winner by editing the episode, and so you're not actually watching the queen win, you're watching her pretend to win, and it comes off as totally flat and totally performative and inorganic and it is just the WORST.
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/7604db5031f1eb6bdb7fd175eb088828/tumblr_n57p4ir9rX1r3jqyco6_250.gif
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
xpost yeah I've always been disappointed by that, it's kind of a bargain-basement way to end it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
I'm the last person to jump off the Laganja train, so don't mind me or anything! :D
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
I have a problem with it too, but given the entire show is very near a satire of reality TV conventions, I'm not sure a truly genuine reaction is appropriate for the moment in the first place.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
true
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
It was either that or the old way, which was a genuine coronation in a eerily empty room.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Yeah for me the real coronation moment now is when you see the three watching the actual broadcast. Last year's was intense!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah here it is:
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/906532/rupauls-drag-race-winner-reaction.jhtml
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
oh god Eric otm...the old way was hella weird
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure why they couldn't do a combination of both the pre-taped special and then split-screen the last segment with something like that video, Ned -- the queens watching the pre-taped live but allowing the audience to experience both simultaneously.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Courtney is completely two faced! I LOVE ADORE― homosexual II, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:06 AM
― homosexual II, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:06 AM
Quoting this because this reminds me that h II correctly pointed out on Facebook this important fact -- Adore quoted Phoebe Cates in Lace!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
Doubtless true! But also they don't have to worry about FCC violations or whatever in the moment doing it the way they do, so.
that video was cool, ned
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
apropos of nothing, am I the last person to find out that Sharon & Alaska split?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link