'...and DON'T *bleep* IT UP!' -- the RuPaul's Drag Race thread

Ha ha ha, awesome.

this gif for posterity

(it's vaginal deodorant spray looool)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/d859d875acf5ab32bfc301a943814863/tumblr_mllcprdE4r1rosb88o8_250.gif

she also eats elmers glue on camera and doesn't even flinch lol

Finished Season 3

Raja definitely was the shit. But man, that was one bitchy season. Not like normal bitchy, but like, embarrassing high school bitchy with all that heathers/boogers bullshit. That whole thing was pretty facepalm. I am NO fan of Shangela, she's annoying as hell...and yes Stacy Lane Matthews was 90% of the time not rising to the challenges at all, but still. That was some really junior-level stuff going on behind the scenes. I had kinda liked Delta Work's steez but the way she embraced the heathers thing, and the bitchiness from her was really offputting. Raja too.

But at the end of the day, one thing is clear. Mimi Imfurst is batshit fucking crazy.

Heathers vs. Boogers was an essential conflict, imo.

it was good for added drama, I def agree with that. I think it's more that I still have ptsd from all the stupidly-named cliques from high school

I only know Mimi Imfust from a local drag revue she hosts but her personality strikes me as deeply unpleasant. I remember one time she asked for a bunch of volunteers to come on stage and then made them totally on-the-spot take their shirts and pants off and stand their in their underwear (or look like spoilsports if they didn't want to or felt uncomfortable) and started fucking *grabbing their dicks* and I'm just like wtf is wrong with you? No one is consenting to this (except but passively to save face I guess)! What if this, I don't know, makes the participants deeply uncomfortable? Then they had to run around and people shoved money in their undies for "charity" or her tab or I don't even fucking know but it was p disgusting.

Also it was in front of like hundreds and hundreds of people.

That's fucked up. Bitch be crazy

She later did a fucking incredible performance of "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" perched atop a wooden coffin that Sharon Needles was hiding in but I still think she's p rotten. I've only seen the first ep of S3 and don't wanna watch the rest til I can reliably track down all the Untuckeds.

so sad: Willam's Beatdown on indefinite hiatus. The Stylish channel wasn't renewed by youtube, apparently? ;_;

Logo just posted all of season 4 for Memorial Day, if anyone needs to catch up.

Someone gave me an itunes card so I ended up buying season 4 + untucked. :D

Meanwhile, Raja's got a new thing going:

http://www.newnownext.com/raja-web-show-makeup-tutorial-sutans-everything/05/2013/

AND a new single coming out tomorrow

i love watching raja do makeup.

i finished Season 4. Jesus Christ Phi-Phi was fucking CRAZY in that last untucked, I thought she was going to start pulling her hair out in clumps and hyperventilating. I mean, I felt awful that her household was so combative and horrible,that stuff about being put in the hospital was just sad as hell....but I don't think she realized that she was just spewing all that she had learned in that house all over sharon and willam.

the Dad Makeover episode I was kinda, well that was cool ...but the untucked was sooooo much better. Hearing those guys talk to each other about what they had learned, and how supportive they were of their queens was really moving.

AND I finally got my hands on Season 1

I wanna see a Bebe/Raja runway walk off holy cow Bebe was/is FIERCE. She didn't really register with me for the first episode or two, but when she came out in that leopard catsuit with the mega-wig it was over. Everything about her is just on point.

Love Nina Flowers, and Ongina too. Shannel is like her own season of Drag Race, man that girl has the ego of 10 drag queens jesus christ. I didn't really understand why Rebecca went as far as she did, she didn't seem THAT stunning to me.

Tammie! oh lord Tammie. I loved her aesthetic but you guys, I have never seen a more terrifying drag queen in my life. She looked like a possessed puppet. And how insane was it when Rupaul let her have it in the reunion? Omg. I was kinda surprised she didn't edit that out...so I guess I kind of love Ru more for leaving it in. That was some real shit.

so now I know all my herstory and I have only one thing to say

YOU CALL ME A LOSER? I DON'T SEE YOU OUT WALKING CHILDREN IN NATURE

:-D

I gotta say, I loved crazy Tammie. Wish there was more of her! Never saw the s1 reunion :(

she was in allstars iirc

Yeah, it was nice to see her there but she went home really early there too. Fly me to Mars! America's not ready. She had a song or two on YouTube that were just TERRIBLE.

The lipstick terrifies me

Meanwhile VG noticed this and the whole section about behind the scenes on the show is gold:

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/78888785.html

i wanna get Willam drunk and find out what REALLY happened.

he just drops bitchy breadcrumbs wherever he goes, like Hansel and Gretel

Hell, even this season when they cracked down on the contestants security after my shenanigans, one of the top 3 girls smoked out with a producer who likes to collect the queens as friends like trading cards. That producer is still employed by them despite blasting me in social media and dressing in a way that I could only say emulates the dancing Fantasia hippos complete with ratty wigs

I just binged watched this season and omg why have I waited so long to watch this now I am fixated with Jinkx's mouth.

I know that every reality program needs a villain or a center of conflict, but I think all of Roxxxy beefing with Jinkx took valuable time away from Alaska, and what could've been wall-to-wall hilariousness just devolves into typical reality tv bickering.

Gah! Must go!

https://www.facebook.com/VarsityTheater/posts/10151469237565796

ZOMG yes, you need to be our ILX Drag Race emissary

Completely.

Meantime the latest Drag Becomes Him with Jinkx was great and apparently the NY reviews have all been celebratory, so hurrah!

yay!

Also Leee's point on how more Alaska would have been even better = A+. I still like how season 3 ended after Shangela's departure more on a note of fun competition instead of angst (at least until actual sashays away).

otm

Alaska was a legit fun, good-spirited competitor who could throw out the bitchy one liners without actually trying to draw blood like Roxxy et al

I do wish there had been more Alaskatimez, she's such a treat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfpojo_xcD8

Meantime, I was in Seattle when this went down but I had no chance to go. Ah well!

http://www.newnownext.com/jinkx-monsoon-as-american-as-apple-pie-in-freedom-fantasia-show-photos/07/2013/

Finished S4: I like Sharon, but Willam 4 ever, she pretty much sustains the early parts of the season -- her horse laugh is 2 DYE 4 -- and what an exit. HERE'S ONE FOR THE ROAD. (Working my way through Willam's Beatdowns, wonder if she ever gets around to making fun of this makeup toot.)

Now here is a challop: Phi Phi is pretty run-of-the-mill reality villain, I don't get the over-the-top vitriol directed at her? I mean, yes, she tries sabotaging her competitors (and the novel thing is it works once why because stupid), but everything else (e.g. picking fights, attention-seeking) is pretty tame stuff? I'm probably immunized to this sort of hijinks, especially when it's not directed to newborn kittens like Jinkx.

Anyway, just started S2, really amazed at the lousy production values over here: the soundtracked music mixed way too low, lots of dead air, vaseline on the camera lenses, most of the queens being earnest and not playing a Reality TV Character whenever they're on camera, etc.

BTW, is S1 worth tracking down?

S1 is definitely worth it - Bebe needs to be seen to be believed.

I had a problem with PhiPhi mainly because a lot of the attacks she levels at her competitors are really personal. Like it feels like she legit HATES Sharon and Willam, and is trying to really do damage verbally. I mean, she's young so maybe that's a lot of it, but especially towards the end of that season she just lost control I think and it just seemed incredibly ugly to me

Will do!

Having started with S5 and then S4, it's eye-opening to see the amount of fishiness on display in S2. That said, IMHO I'm fishier than Jujubee.

lol I love Jujubee

Pretty sure the only queen I'm fishier than is Phoenix.

hahaha

More a side question about Drag Race along the way but a great interview with Lady Bunny

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/03/lady-bunny-take-me-up-high_n_3672603.html

An old Coco interview, which explains her "good thing I'm Dominican" remark from the first episode: http://voices.yahoo.com/coco-montrese-classy-flair-12045288.html

Also, watching first season, I keep thinking that Bebe's last name is Neuwirth.

PS Nina Flowers 4ever.

Man that's a great interview with Coco there.

I wish Ongina could be my drag mother, I'd call myself Wongina.

Big ol' new interview with her Jinkxness

http://www.towleroad.com/2013/08/towleroad-interview-jinkx-monsoon.html

Finished S1 save for the reunion -- sounds like I should watch it for the SHADE OF IT ALL?

um YES