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

The Race Chaser ‘very important message’ that just went up is worth a listen.

Monet repeating her crossing/splits-fakeout thing was very disappointing

SOOOOOO otm and I felt the same way when I watched it, like "oh shit is this going to be the entire season"?

y'all, is the scripting/producer manipulation actually getting more obvious/less believable (e.g. Gia Gunn being such a bitch abt Farrah and then being like "wow she slayed me") or am I just getting more cynical and less invested?

OMG at the Race Chaser announcement! That was ... out of the blue!

i was worried for a moment, i’m so gullible lol

With apologies to Latrice: GGGGGIAR (good god Gia Gunn give it a rest). I didn't notice her being extra shady the first episode but she just morphed into Messy Drama Jesus.

Which naturally overshadows Valentina who definitely slayed the main challenge and lipsync and definitely is starring in her own one-woman telenovela.

Monique clearly the right choice to stay but if she had more self-awareness she'd be incredible.

And the whole show is so metatextual now, I guess this is what a long-running successful reality show is bound to be in 2018.

OK, I underestimated Manila's capacity for tele-genic (and not just messy, self-serving) drama.

Top 3 are going to be Trinity, Valentina and Manila, and it kills me to see Latrice fading into the background so consistently thus far.

Last week's episode showed the real danger of consistently going to 90 minutes because that dragged, in the bad way. Thankfully this worked better this week.

Manila rules and always has. Latrice does seem to be more...relaxed.

Top 3 are going to be Trinity, Valentina and Manila

Meaning all the black queens go? (I mean...I could see that at this point, given season 10.)

Exactly. Unless ru’s producers are getting wise to the criticisms.

Everyone has much better teeth all of a sudden.

Ha, I was thinking that too...

I seriously lol'd that Gia called out Trinity's fucked up nose.

I think (hope?) that Naomi is getting a stealth edit, especially considering that she's done well in the last two challenges.

Not sure that's going to be the most popular thing that [THIS WEEK'S WINNER] will have ever done, but I hate to say it, she made the very right decision. I wish [THIS WEEK'S SASHAY-ER] had at one point really stepped her puss up.

Yeah I don’t disagree

But then again I don’t look at Monet & think
~she’s such an all star~
I mean, she’ll go home too in a couple of episodes imo

Definitely going to shift into major crunch time here -- but the tease about the big rule change next time has me wondering.

Anyway Manila Luzon posted her original Curves and Swerves look: pic.twitter.com/KbAN1K6H1z

— Zeba Blay (@zblay) January 7, 2019

so good

I was about to say, that goddamn rules. And Ru was complaining about bad taste?

With visibility comes great responsitrannity.

Apparently the original name of the runway was Padded for the Gods but they changed it last minute because of this. It explains why Valentina's look seemed a bit off for the theme.

ohhhhhh that makes sense now!

Shenanigans.

Well this is unexpected: https://github.com/stympy/faker/blob/master/doc/v1.9.1/rupaul.md

(So that's a Ruby on Rails library for coming up with test data.)

Oh and interesting thing I heard from Monet's Youtube series is that when Manila wanted to wear her period piece, Rupaul actually said she'd be eliminated if she tried.

(FINALLY a Github project I'm qualified to submit to!)

Naomi v Gia was a lipsync for the ages

I honestly didn't think Naomi had it in her but it was amazing
Latrice vs. Monique was REALLY the show-stopper though, my fist banged the table four times

They were a bit messier for me, but I loved how hard they were both fighting for it! Wigs left & right lol

Ru hasn't talked this much since she laid into the Vixen atthe reunion.

John Polley mentioned something on his youtube show like maybe Ru drank too much coffee again
It was funny tho

Season 11 promo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyiDn9YXe3g

Miss Vanjie's back!

vaaaaaaanjie

It's such a gimme, but at the same time I kinda want to see her body through the entire competition, send everyone home crying, physically take the crown from somebody at the end of the day and just leave and establish an actual monarchy somewhere.

https://youtu.be/f1yWooQIVD8

She really is the Gilbert Gottfried of drag.

https://youtu.be/gQTLaqvCjXs
@ 4:21 Monet ours herself as an Avatar: the Last Airbender fan!

How did I completely miss that Valentina was Angel in Rent???

GAG.

This season has definitely picked up in the last couple weeks, and it was great to see this week's winner step up, especially since I knew, based on her original season, she had more to show than we've seen. And the high camp of her lipsync!

I did not expect to Monet in the top though...

Maybe the most baskstabby elimination since shangela sent thorgy home?

GOOPED, YOU GUYS

https://media.giphy.com/media/iBaYzmz4mnPPSaJz7F/giphy.gif

1) how the fuck did Monet get a top vote
2) how did Trinity not get a top vote
3) monique & latrice’s workroom chats w Ru = 😭
4) G O O P E D

Book me on CNN because I am Sanjay GOOPEDTA.

lol

Hahaha. Yeah that was a scene.

1) how the fuck did Monet get a top vote
2) how did Trinity not get a top vote

Or even Monique. Did not get the Money love at all. Maybe she did good at the Judy number, but we can never really tell who does well in these.

and why would that figure higher in the judging than you two judy looks & runway? monet’s judy makeover of Patty was kinda horrifying imo, his face was clown- white with hardly any contour of color anything!! compared to Trinity’s judy looks for ex

Maybe they wanted a sacrificial lamb on the altar of Naomi's lipsync?

Frances Bean didn't bring much to the table as a judge but, you know, being the age I am and remembering her arriving in the world in real time and all that...just a little strange. (And I do remember that bunch of photos with Kurt and Ru and etc.)

I think she was super-duper nervous