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

Miss Vanjie probably joins that list of immortal queens who didn't get much air time, but at this point I guess I wouldn't rule out Ru bringing MV back later in the season.

I wouldn't mind. It would be more fun then when she brought back Neysha Lopez.

I mean the season has long been in the can and they're definitely making a huge deal out of something really unremarkable so

Maybe they're setting up all stars 4 which will run immediately after season 10 ends so we can never get sick of the show

Ru's been tweeting about Miss Vanjie all fucking day long I'm confused

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, March 30, 2018 4:18 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

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who is it that the boy-version of The Vixen is reminding me of, visually? It's driving me crazy.

i don't know but she is making this season for me so far

yeah she is so fiery, i love her

Whose bright idea was it to put Watcha Packin on in the commercial break BEFORE the show revealed who the bottom 2 were??

I'm asking for a friend of course.

all this grade-school wailing & neediness is exhausting. Even Eureka I was like ugh bitch suck it UP jfc

I think this is a result of the showing being around so long and having become so popular. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of people (including the contestsants!) see the show as a way to build or reveal their true selves[1], and the way to reach those selves is through crying -- which all the contestants are also aware of. I wonder then that since they know about how the show uses narrative arcs, they all try to trade and engage in it, sometimes too "early" in the show or in inopportune places because they want to capitalize on the narrative platform offered by the show, nor do they want to be left with uncashed chips.

[1] I kind of feel that the bildungsroman format is most often used by shows where the body provides the content of the show or where the show serves as an extended audition or job interview (since Americans tend to tie up their identities so much in our jobs) -- and both strains are obviously present in RPDR.

i dont mind crying normally but between Eureka & Kalorie it was like watching a dam collapsing lol

with Eureka the crying & neediness is like its her factory default setting. she’s such an “interactive” personality, her moods are so dependent on the ppl around her giving approval & acknowledging her every word. she like a toddler in that way & i find it incredibly exhausting. the australian country girl in me just wants to shut it all down

the way she says asia's name in the workroom, like "ay-zhuhhhhhhhh" reminded me of a kid trying to get their mom's attention, also made me feel for her

But on the other hand it gave us Asia’s stellar eye rolls.

https://media.tenor.com/images/3635d14bc674c6cfaa33a257e3e105ed/tenor.gif

no Alyssa EYE rolls

That episode!

"...oh COURTNEY!"

Dusty's story for the emotional gut punch but there were almost throwaway moments of "Wait, hold on, jeez!" the more the whole episode went. Miz Cracker just casually mentioning her dead friend!

I do note they saved Yuhua's emotional moments for Untucked.

The Vixen is absolutely killing it in Untucked.

The mini challenge was a reference to those Calvin Klein ads from the 90s, no?

https://media1.tenor.com/images/fa44b40296ab13fdf9cde0ddc2b09f17/tenor.gif

Did RuPaul have a bad cold or something on the day of filming? She was so low energy during the whole episode. She couldn't even give Courtney Love a proper introduction.

I can’t remember the last time I felt as embarrassed watching someone lip sync as I did watching Yuhua

Yes you do, and her name is Valentina.

Asia’s Tweety was on that Raja club kid magic level that we do not get nearly enough of. That wig & the makeup, the whole thing. YES to THAT

Mayhem KU RUSHED that lipsync. She needs to unleash her fierceness 24/7.
On the other hand, please god let me never see lipsync air guitar ever again. I didnt know how *much* I didnt want it until I saw Yuhua do it.
Yeeeeeeesh.

Vixen is an Untucked godsend. Intensity in ten cities baby!

oh and Dusty’s story had me weeping. Fucking tragic.

I haven't seen such a good lip sync in such a long time! Mayhem was fricking incredible.

i had seen some Mayhem performance clips before so i knew Yuhua was gonna be toast but lordy, actually seeing it happen was an experience

Did RuPaul have a bad cold or something on the day of filming? She was so low energy during the whole episode.

Actually I had the same impression! Her voice sounds congested too.

Asia's Tweety is sooooo good, I don't think there's a runway look in recent memory that's as good (including All Stars). AND she also served the best face and lol this week.

please god let me never see lipsync air guitar ever again

Ugh I know!

Mayhem turned it and Yuhua into roadkill, and served the second best lol of the week with the "Have you ever felt so used up as this?" bit in the song.

and the feather pulling was A+

Plucked cocks tell no tales.

...

Here’s a read

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8289680/shangela-shea-coulee-aja-racism-drag-race-fandom

Yuhua also did that lip sync 101 no-no of like literally acting out all the words literally

"I'm all I wanna be" *points at self*
"Look at my face" *touches face*
"well I'm not selling cheap" *rubs fingers together*

and the feather pulling was A+

OTM. Her performance was sensational. Best lipsynch in a long time.

xpost yeah i recoiled so hard when i saw her doing that. STOP IT RIGHT NOW

Let us never speak of the air guitar on RuPaul's main stage ever again.

otm

Let's never speak of air guitar anywhere ever again.

blood pac

pact

the air guitaring was so stiff and bad

From the other day

https://themuse.jezebel.com/thats-a-lot-of-emotion-for-safe-a-brief-chat-with-aqua-1825043150

That Sharon Needles story feels like it’s 90% subtext

re: the article on race, I almost posted during AS3 that the one white queen in the final four managed to win over the three African or African-American queens. Also, how the jury queens decided that Shangela didn't need their vote because she's already established herself as a star outside of the show, but then they go and vote Trixie into the final 2...

https://i.imgur.com/YS01iab.gif

omg

I enjoyed every moment of that LSFYL. The good and the not good.

i would not have expected dusty's lip sync to be so hard to watch idk why

the monet lip sync was truly iconic tho... the fake out split into the final bass drop split goes down in history

Yeah great to have a total design episode all the way along. Seem to be bringing that back in more.

This Untucked is...tense.

This week's Ru suit is my favourite ever.

Asia really reminds me of a pretty Jordan Peele.

"That's a great skill to teach a child... to make them gay," made me laugh out loud.

The best part of the lipsync 💀 #DragRace pic.twitter.com/QkFBETbYaK

— andrew (@wigsabducted) April 13, 2018