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CHiRAL
Mar 29, 2010

Anus.
Look who's over for mother's day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahhz1evnecw

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Combed Thunderclap
Jan 4, 2011



Watching the episode right now and oh my god it's so close this year :ohdear:

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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QUADRUPAUL LIP SYNC YESSSSS MY PRAYERS ANSWERED.

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider
YES GAWD FINALLY

Deathlove
Feb 20, 2003

Pillbug
praise Jesus, The Lord is mighty.

Combed Thunderclap
Jan 4, 2011



"It's like the Wizard of Oz, you kill a witch, or a few, and at the end you get nothing."

Aw, Darienne. :sigh: You were the trashbaggiest queen of them all, but you werqed them trash bags good. Farewell.

Nihonniboku
Aug 11, 2004

YOU CAN FLY!!!
I cannot express enough how nice it is that the top queens seem to really enjoy each other. The negativity is really draining normally.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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Nihonniboku posted:

I cannot express enough how nice it is that the top queens seem to really enjoy each other. The negativity is really draining normally.

Yeah, it's really refreshing to have a group where one of them hasn't been constantly spouting stupid negative poo poo and isn't making an rear end of herself before the finale like we've had for the last two seasons. I really like all of these girls a lot, and this is probably the closest it's ever been going into the finale. I honestly have no idea who's gonna take it.

Freeze_Dried_Chives
Jul 22, 2007

I will not go down the hole again good sir.
Judging by all the stuff I have seen people talking about on social media, I think out of these three Bianca is well ahead of the other two in terms of popularity and will probably get the most votes.

Though, I have a feeling Ru will pick Adore.

the truth
Dec 16, 2007

Bianca's win seems inevitable, but Adore has been my favorite.

Combed Thunderclap
Jan 4, 2011



QuickbreathFinisher posted:

I honestly have no idea who's gonna take it.

I'm keeping my bet on Bianca — she's been the favorite for a reason. But while she might have been working this whole season like her life depended on it, after that last episode, I feel like Adore or Courtney now at least have a chance of snatching the crown. (Sadly, after bumping off Dela, Darienne never had a chance of winning that popularity contest.)

Deathlove
Feb 20, 2003

Pillbug
Pretty much, yeah. Bianca's the most polished since Chad, but Adore, man. Party.

spite house
Apr 28, 2009

I think Adore's got that crown. Bianca's off-the-show act is too raw and out-there. Not good for the brand, as some jamoke said on the mainstage.

Adore is really likable and a fantastic little performer. I just wish she had five more years on her.

the truth
Dec 16, 2007

Bianca has about 80% of the votes I saw after a cursory glance at facebook. I've only seen one person vote for Courtney.

curiousTerminal
Sep 2, 2011

what a humorous anecdote.
I'd honestly be fine with any of them winning, unlike Seasons 4 and 5 where I was "Team Not PhiPhi" and "Team Not Roxxxy." With the professional teams that come with the crown Adore would be fantastic in a really short time, Bianca is already there, and Courtney is amazing outside of Drag Race. She got really boring edits, but from everything I've seen that isn't in Drag Race, she's pretty great. The backhanded semi-compliments got real old real fast, I'll admit.
If I had to pick though, I would say Adore, if only because of how drat little Bianca needs anything from the crown at this point.

sethsez
Jul 14, 2006

He's soooo dreamy...

spite house posted:

Bianca's off-the-show act is too raw and out-there. Not good for the brand, as some jamoke said on the mainstage.

It was only a couple years ago that they went with Sharon Needles.

Adore's only problem is with her outfits, and that's mostly because her style doesn't fully translate to what Drag Race is looking for (when I saw her in Tampa she was wearing a Pizza Slut t-shirt and fishnet stockings, and it worked perfectly for the set). In every other respect she's already right where she needs to be... she's funny, charming, knows how to work a crowd, always has great makeup, has a fully realized character she can stick to, and can sing, lip sync, dance and act at least as well as anyone else there. Her mediocre runways have a lot of people online saying she's "just not there yet" and "relying on charm" and that's never felt reasonable to me, given how drat good she is at pretty much everything else.

Combed Thunderclap
Jan 4, 2011



Young Adore actually strongly reminds me of Young RuPaul, who was no perfectly polished queen either, but was most definitely a drag superstar. And Adore is definitely conceptually TV ready, if you've watched any of her YouTube videos (or, you know, the show).

Bianca's act being too harsh isn't going to knock the crown off her head. From a conceptual standpoint, actually, I think her well-intentioned "Everybody Say Hate" kind of performance is incredibly complemented to the RuPaul brand, while evoking some old-school bite that RuPaul sometimes lacked.

spite house
Apr 28, 2009

sethsez posted:

It was only a couple years ago that they went with Sharon Needles.
Yeah, but Sharon didn't start with the Nazi poo poo until after she'd won. She's lost a lot of goodwill and I can see Ru being gunshy about risking that again. And Bianca's standup is really scandalous. It's not hateful, but she goes there.

Tin Miss
Apr 8, 2009

Meow
I really love Adore, but I hate her ombre wigs. I think she'd look a lot better in some big Alaska backcombed wigs instead. Can we get Alaska to style her? Actually I'd just love to see Adore and Alaska together, they'd be so fun.

It's funny how I hated Adore in the first episode and now she's my favourite. She's just really genuine and like she said, relatable. My first impression of her was "sassy little bitch", but she seems actually very sweet. I especially liked her comment about not saying anything mean about Laganja's bad ideas and she really tugged on the ol' heartstrings when she had her breakdown in the sewing challenge. She apologized for crying "all the time", but I think she's done just enough crying. It shows she's a real person and not just a perfect robot, like some other Courtney contestants.

I really do like Bianca, but I'm gonna have to go with Team Adore.

Pinwiz11
Jan 26, 2009

I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.



Bianca's Drag Race with Bianca Del Rio starring RuPaul. :colbert:

BingeHooligan
Dec 24, 2010

spite house posted:

Yeah, but Sharon didn't start with the Nazi poo poo until after she'd won. She's lost a lot of goodwill and I can see Ru being gunshy about risking that again. And Bianca's standup is really scandalous. It's not hateful, but she goes there.

Manila literally did a race-y caricature and WON the challenge because of it. I think that Bianca's stand up really isn't much different to be honest.

Propaganda Machine
Jan 2, 2005

Truthiness!

BingeHooligan posted:

Manila literally did a race-y caricature and WON the challenge because of it. I think that Bianca's stand up really isn't much different to be honest.

Manila's Filipino heritage, plus her drag name, kind of put her in the clear for that. Besides, Imelda Marcos was a legitimately wacky figure.

CHiRAL
Mar 29, 2010

Anus.

spite house posted:

Yeah, but Sharon didn't start with the Nazi poo poo until after she'd won. She's lost a lot of goodwill and I can see Ru being gunshy about risking that again. And Bianca's standup is really scandalous. It's not hateful, but she goes there.

Nazi poo poo? what?

Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

I'm wondering whether I should drop the $25 to see the top 4 on for Pride weekend in DC. It's a bit steep, and it's going to be a madhouse, but if other people wanted to go I'd consider it.

BingeHooligan
Dec 24, 2010

Propaganda Machine posted:

Manila's Filipino heritage, plus her drag name, kind of put her in the clear for that. Besides, Imelda Marcos was a legitimately wacky figure.

I mean the news episode with her asian conglomerate interviewer. Like, I loved it, but to say Bianca does much different is stretching I think.

CHiRAL posted:

Nazi poo poo? what?

Miss Needles likes to use Nazi imagery and uniforms, along with confederate flags. Additionally, she's been known to call black queens certain nasty things when blackout drunk. There's a lot of controversy with her if you look into it.

Bremma
Sep 7, 2007

She was a terrible creature and did not deserve our love

Maera Sior posted:

I'm wondering whether I should drop the $25 to see the top 4 on for Pride weekend in DC. It's a bit steep, and it's going to be a madhouse, but if other people wanted to go I'd consider it.

I would probably be down for that if I'm free. When exactly is pride weekend and where's the performance at?

caligulamprey
Jan 23, 2007

It never stops.

Bianca Del Rio is in Portland for Pride and doing a an evening cruise show.

It might be worth the $35 ticket based on the concept alone.

Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

Bremma posted:

I would probably be down for that if I'm free. When exactly is pride weekend and where's the performance at?
June 7 at Town. Apparently they'll be doing a second show at 1am.

caligulamprey posted:

Bianca Del Rio is in Portland for Pride and doing a an evening cruise show.

It might be worth the $35 ticket based on the concept alone.
I would easily drop that for an evening with Bianca.

G-Mawwwwwww
Jan 31, 2003

My LPth are Hot Garbage
Biscuit Hider
I paid $50 for Hot Mess Drag Revue in NYC.

He was pretty drat good. But he also seemed really, really rushed.

And Sugga Pie Koko stole the show anyway.

Bremma
Sep 7, 2007

She was a terrible creature and did not deserve our love

Maera Sior posted:

June 7 at Town. Apparently they'll be doing a second show at 1am.

I would easily drop that for an evening with Bianca.

Blah, hosting a party that night. If you go, do a trip report!

Nihonniboku
Aug 11, 2004

YOU CAN FLY!!!

Maera Sior posted:

June 7 at Town. Apparently they'll be doing a second show at 1am.

Ugh, if only it weren't Town.

Hey Girl
Sep 24, 2004
Am I the only one who was disappointed how the LSFYF was handled?

I was prepared to be blown away by Bianca rocking that out but she got maybe 20 seconds of time? There was no real way to actually compare the four based on the camera work. Ugh.

PostsYouCanDanceTo
Sep 23, 2005

Well, it took a month, but I'm finally caught up with all the episodes. Everyone this season left when they were supposed to. Except Ben and Darienne. (grr, but not really.) Oh well, c'est la vie. And to be fair, Darienne turned it around and left looking good.

I'm still fully team Bianca, but holy poo poo Adore is amazing. Courtney and Darienne have their strong points, but they can't compete with the pro and the breakout in this competition.

But my favorite part of the episode? Ru's 'Charles' look. That was amazing. Bonus points for the sims 3 music during adore's photo shoot.

Hey Girl posted:

Am I the only one who was disappointed how the LSFYF was handled?

No. It was like they were all on different stages.

bonus vids:
Jinkx monsoon interview about her and her show the vaudevillians that is really cute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrqPtwPuWEQ

Also, I don't know if this came up in the thread, but there is an uncensored Willam tucking video on, xtube, I think? I can' go looking for the link cuz I'm in a crowded library, but I've seen it. Not instructional at all but you get to watch Willam play with a chubby, so that's something.

Stroop There It Is
Mar 11, 2012

:gengar::gengar::gengar::gengar::gengar:
:stroop: :gaysper: :stroop:
:gengar::gengar::gengar::gengar::gengar:

Hey Girl posted:

Am I the only one who was disappointed how the LSFYF was handled?

I was prepared to be blown away by Bianca rocking that out but she got maybe 20 seconds of time? There was no real way to actually compare the four based on the camera work. Ugh.
I wish they'd show the whole thing at some point. It wasn't even clear from the lipsync that Darienne was in the bottom (though I'm not saying I disagree with the decision).

Also, I made myself a new avatar. :dance: Pretty obvious whose team I'm on.

angerbot
Mar 23, 2004

plob
Maybe they'll show more of it on the clipshow.

CHiRAL
Mar 29, 2010

Anus.
The latest reddit conspiracies claim that the LSFYL was shot in two parts (Adore vs. Bianca and Courtney vs. Darienne) and that the top 4 elimination was shot like the crowning with none of them knowing who got into the top 3 till the episode aired. I'm not even sure what the point of that was, maybe picking them by the viewer reactions?

PostsYouCanDanceTo posted:

bonus vids:
Jinkx monsoon interview about her and her show the vaudevillians that is really cute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrqPtwPuWEQ
Cuteness is DeLa hunting for bears. Woof.

the truth
Dec 16, 2007

They already filmed the reunion, an I would stay away from any Drag race related websites (including trying to find the above mentioned final 4 LSFYL post on reddit) if you don't want some potentially major poo poo spoiled. Should be easy enough to find if you go looking for it, and you'll know what I'm talking about when you see it. I don't want to post it here (even behind a spoiler tag) in case someone accidentally sees it.

On a less spoilery note, everyone looked great in the pics I saw. Supposedly LaGanja seemed off again - happy pothead during interviews but visibly over the top abject when not on camera.

CHiRAL
Mar 29, 2010

Anus.
Yeah, I'm kinda totally over this season so I don't care if I get spoiled anymore.
Maybe next year I'll cut off every episode after the runway, that'll save me some rage

curiousTerminal
Sep 2, 2011

what a humorous anecdote.
I found the photos of the outfits everyone was wearing at the reunion and as expected, Santino's was awful.
The man looks like he fell through a closet.

Here's the rest of them if you don't care about getting "spoiled" for them.

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Grape Juice Vampire
Aug 1, 2009
I can hear those pictures of Alyssa Edwards. Also, I actually really like LaGanja's look for that one.

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