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

Mimi deserved a drink in her face, iirc. And Raja was at the very least smart about her MG persona. I was sad for Stacy Lane like everyone else, but Raja describing her pants/cape as the kind of outfit an uptight housewife would wear as her "fun, Christmas party cocktail outfit when she's feeling frisky" was perfect.

wait when did she say that?? was that in the first 2 eps or is that later in the season?

Also I did not think Mimi deserved a drink in the face!! They were being waaaaay unnecessarily vicious and she did a p good job defending herself and then kinda dropped a really minor jab and then drinks were thrown, idgi

I admit I wish the drink had come from just about anyone other than Shangela at that point. She was clearly flailing to make some kind of statement, any statement.

But Mimi was the worst kind of annoying theater queen. Even still, I just can't even. Congrats to her for knowing Leigh Bowery. Now ditch the beard and play proper.

(Raja's comment came during an Untucked episode.)

(About halfway through the season, as the Heathers were solidifying.)

tbh I have seen her perform in real life and apart from a really amazing lip sync to "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" atop a wood coffin that Sharon Needles wound up popping out of, she is a really selfish and horrible human being and was doing really fucked up and invasive shit to audience members

Boo, just because you have a sugar daddy...

"NOT TODAY, SATAN! NOT TODAY!"

At least we know what the twist is with this one, I HAD wondered. Good changeup.

"Nobody's safe. Get your perishables."

Fuck Bianca and her dimples. Love that bitch. She had me worried there, though

darienne & courtney palling up in the untucked lounge was making me hella queasy

darienne & bianca need their own show, they were killing me in untucked

anyway who's ready for finale?

hashtag partay

Man, both Team Bianca and Team Adore are top ten trending on Twitter right now! Works for me.

Also we are not appreciating Ru doing butch as much as we should. Especially Aussie butch.

that

was

amazing

It was, of course, completely accurate, yes?

100%

Melbourne in the 70s must have been weirder than I realized.

Meantime -- Jinkx's album debut is live:

http://smarturl.it/TheInevitableAlbumiT

As is a song from it -- with Fred Schneider!

http://bit.ly/BaconShake

Monsoon tells us that Schneider "wrote the song based on the idea of Jinkx having once been prim and proper; but after her first wild party, she quickly turned into a 'lady hurricane' who's ready to shake her goods for every boy at the bar." Well, that's certainly some inspiration for a good time!

Plus a full interview:

http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2014/05/06/10-qs-jinkx-monsoon-b-52s-his-new-album-end-his-reign-americas

re last night's episode, did Courtney's speech rub anyone else the wrong way? It kind of annoyed me, like she was basically saying 'I'm already famous so with this I can just continue being famous'?

This is probably why I'm seeing more chatter about the other two.

Thus the title of this piece

http://blog.chron.com/tubular/2014/05/rupauls-drag-race-team-anyone-but-courtney-act/

I did like this from a Bianca-supporting piece:

Still, the more screen time she got — the more her personality was afforded more than a stray sound-byte — the clearer it’s been that she’s not Triumph the Insult Queen, she’s just salty. No nonsense. The kind of gal who picks a dress type that works for her and sticks with it, because fuck you. Whom you can count on to dispense unsolicited but necessary advice. Who’s long since mastered opening a beer with a lighter — and if everyone’s misplaced their lighters, she uses her teeth. My new fantasy afternoon consists of sitting roadside with her at some sidewalk café, sipping Bloody Marys in wide-brimmed sunhats and relentlessly mocking passing pedestrians. Because it’s not all piss and vinegar with Bianca — see: her helpful tips to fellow queens and her adorable letter from home (“Roy-Lady”!), proof that there is some real well-meaning personhood behind those ubiquitous statement lashes. But, in the mean time, it’s vinegar all around, and deliciously so.

lola + bianca (from Bianca's instagram)

http://origincache-prn.fbcdn.net/1172788_1403538683260497_1141758956_n.jpg

http://origincache-frc.fbcdn.net/10245916_246180598902827_328269935_n.jpg

http://distilleryimage6.s3.amazonaws.com/9820af60ce2911e3af140002c95597a6_8.jpg

<3 <3 <3 <3

Aw! And love the bow tie.

Just to piss in the pot, I'm pulling for Courntey.

*gasface*

not even my patriotism could get me to pull for that shady queen

I don't think she's shady! (Nor Darienne, as a matter of fact.) And I say that, remember, as a Joslyn fan.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/03/8e43626c9a3c47e0844c9370d230121819d2ce16_r/3089cb189.gif

the biggest trick courtney act ever pulled was convincing the world that she's not shady

lol talking like she's a Satan.

NOT TODAY

xpost um she wore horns iirc

:)

Touche!

And let's not forget how she was possessed.

get it gurl #electroshockfraggle

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

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?

Stepford queen is pretty accurate for Miss Act.

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.

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

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.)

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

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?

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.

Maybe it's an Australian thing? VG said as much earlier.

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.

lol "Madison."

I like Darienne! What's wrong with me/you all?

Or whatever her name was! The one with the beak!