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esperterra
Mar 24, 2010

SHINee's back




Magikarpal Tunnel posted:

I still like PhiPhi I don't care what anyone says. :colbert:

This. And tbh her messiness is a big part of why I love her so much. Beyond being such a bitch she's talented, too. That 365 days of drag was incredible.

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Nihonniboku
Aug 11, 2004

YOU CAN FLY!!!

Pellisworth posted:

e: Pearl is loving gorgeous in and out of drag, would totally smoke a joint and hang/bang her.

Well, yeah. Have you seen his dick pics?

A God Damn Ghost
Nov 25, 2007

booyah!

Nihonniboku posted:

The more straight people there, the less and less of a gay space it becomes. A lot of gay people are going to see a large group of straight girls, or several large group of straight girls, and feel resentful, or even unwelcome in one of, if not the only, safe spaces they have in their lives.

All your post, but especially this, I get. I'm going to keep going to see the performers I like, but yeah. Oh, and now one of my straight male co-workers is having a birthday party at a gay bar next week. I don't see that too often.

I enjoy the confusing messiness of the RPDR subreddit. :colbert:

ALFbrot
Apr 17, 2002
The only shows I've gone to have been in other venues (House of Blues and the like), I feel like an intruder going to a gay bar, even though 100% of my gay friends say it would be fine

I think it's likely that even having that feeling means I'm one of "the good ones" and would probably be welcomed (or at least unobtrusive), but alas

Fresh Like Zafo
May 31, 2012



WHAT THE gently caress, VALENTINA?!?

twistedbutterfly
Jan 20, 2007
Valentina...girl...ugh. That was painful.

Pinwiz11
Jan 26, 2009

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



:stare::gonk:NOOOOOOOOOO

Hug in a Can
Aug 1, 2010

NICE FLAMINGO
kind heart
fierce mind
brave spirit

:h: be good and try hard! :h:

About the elimination:
:qq: how heartbreaking...
I hope that they put her on AS3... Wow. I can't wait for Untucked tomorrow.

it's the season of the lip-sync disappointments, I guess. I was taken so aback when they stopped the performance omg... I love to be moved by this show :') But I'm still sad about Dear Valentina!

About the winners:
I LOVED the winning team. Their conceit was hilarious, they performed beautifully, and they wrote a funny script. :3: They killed it!

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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What in the gently caress?!?!

the escape goat
Apr 16, 2008

I have to work tonight; can I get a summary from someone? was the mask rumor legit?!

Hug in a Can
Aug 1, 2010

NICE FLAMINGO
kind heart
fierce mind
brave spirit

:h: be good and try hard! :h:

the escape goat posted:

I have to work tonight; can I get a summary from someone? was the mask rumor legit?!

It was legit.

Mouse Dresser
Sep 4, 2002

This isn't Middle Earth, Quentin. There aren't enough noble quests to go around.

the escape goat posted:

I have to work tonight; can I get a summary from someone? was the mask rumor legit?!

Queens had to make their own TV shows in teams (2 teams of 2, 1 of 3). Shea and Sasha make a funny spy action show, Nina and Valentina make some hookers go to jail then become Drag Race winners (?) pile of garbage, and Peppermint, Trinity and Alexis make a sitcom about Alexis and Peppermint having gay sons and they seek guidance from Sister Mary Kunt (Trinity). Sasha and Shea win a bunch of hair care products ( :laugh: ).

Alexis throws her team under the bus and :nyd: on the runway to the judges about the challenge.

Runway look is Club Kid Couture. Trinity is nervous because she's never done club kid couture before, but slays the look.

Nina and Valentina have to LSFYL. Valentina is wearing a small face mask as part of her look. Judges are like "Is she gonna take the mask off?"" once the lip-syncing starts. RuPaul actually stops the LSFYL to ask Valentina to remove the mask. "This is a lip-sync and we need to see your lips." Valentina is all "I'd rather keep the mask on." Reluctantly removes the mask to give the most lack-luster lip-sync since Penny Tration's "Party in the USA." Nina dances and lip-syncs the song very well.

Valentina goes home, much to everyone- Ru, Michelle, Carson and the other judges'- surprise.



Troposphere
Jul 11, 2005


psycho killer
qu'est-ce que c'est?
well we now know who's gonna get miss congeniality ha

the escape goat
Apr 16, 2008

:stare:

uh. thanks for filling me in, also CHRIST.

Aphra Bane
Oct 3, 2013

:cry:
I'm glad I got wind of the rumours early so I had time to be at peace with this horrible turn of events. Still, what an iconic way to go out.

Peppermint is my next in line fave, although she seems more like a lock-in for miss congeniality than winner at this point. Loved her look tonight.

Noise Machine
Dec 3, 2005

Today is a good day to save.


JFC, that might have been even more pathetic than Charlie Hides' lip sync...

warez
Mar 13, 2003

HOLA FANTA DONT CHA WANNA?
gently caress THIS GAY EARTH.

Pinwiz11
Jan 26, 2009

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



Tonight was my first time watching Drag Race in a bar and OMG the emotion during that LSYFL. We'll see if I get a pic of me all :ohdear: when it went down.

Pellisworth
Jun 20, 2005
what the gently caress

I'm disappointed

Pan Dulce
Jan 4, 2011

Beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world, too pure



gently caress. FUUUUUUUUUCK. There's almost nothing to say. I knew right as they were putting the groups together Valentina was going to get shafted and have to lip sync. I was hoping, based on the video y'all posted here, that she'd be good enough to put on a show. But wow. WOW. That sucked beyond the telling of it.

:smith: She was my favorite this season. Hopefully Shea or Sasha takes it.


...and to have her lose to loving NINA, the drag queen whose personality checked out 2 episodes ago? REALLY?!

Pellisworth
Jun 20, 2005

Soundboz posted:

gently caress THIS GAY EARTH.

im down

Sarcopenia
May 14, 2014
Lmao, you just knew the top and bottom as soon as the teams were picked.

big dyke energy
Jul 29, 2006

Football? Yaaaay
I have to say, RuPaul thanking Michelle for laughing at her joke had me rolling.

And again, Alexis is blaming other people and being utterly unremarkable on the runway. I really love Trinity admitting that she's not comfortable with the club kid thing, but totally embracing it. She looked amazing.

But. GODDAMNIT VALENTINA I thought you were top three. I thought she'd go all the way, too, RuPaul. I guess there's always AS3.

I do have to say that Nina lip syncing with her crazy skull face was pretty great though.

Jay O
Oct 9, 2012

being a zombie's not so bad
once you get used to it
I'm straight-up shook. WTF. One thing I haven't seen pointed out much is that it wasn't just the lipsync, Valentina seemed very "not present" through the whole episode. Was something just up that week? Did she check out completely for some reason? Whatever the case, It's a drat waste. My already "meh" enthusiasm for this season just flatlined. (Not that there aren't great queens still remaining, but Valentina brought a spice of personality to the group that even cream of the crop Shea and Sasha don't really have, and the challenges have been kinda awful about 3/4 of the time, so that personality was sorely needed.)

I'M SAD, Drag Race should not make me feel such sad feelings. :smith:

Pellisworth
Jun 20, 2005
I'm gonna be kind of upset if Alexis or Nina make it to the top three because both have had a terrible, toxic, blame-everyone-else attitude for several episodes and have also bombed a few challenges.

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


seriously Alexis should have been bottom 2 in that one along with Nina. first time Vals been anything other than great or safe, and her runway look was absolutely stronger than Alexis' mash. Val deserved to go home after that lipsynch but damnit she shouldnt have been there in the first place. HO WELL

great ep, cant wait for untucked.

tote up a bags
Jun 8, 2006

die stoats die

I feel like we're on lock for Sasha/Shea and one of Trinity or Peppermint for top three now. Alexis and Nina are just way too flawed and carrying way too much baggage from a storytelling perspective at this point.

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


tote up a bags posted:

I feel like we're on lock for Sasha/Shea and one of Trinity or Peppermint for top three now. Alexis and Nina are just way too flawed and carrying way too much baggage from a storytelling perspective at this point.

i can buy Nina MAYBE making final four if she pulls it together but at this point it seems unlikely

big dyke energy
Jul 29, 2006

Football? Yaaaay
At least Nina is interesting and has some story. Alexis isn't anything we haven't seen before.

Aphra Bane
Oct 3, 2013

Valentina's Untucked exit is making me tear up but at the same time I'm loving the OTT emotional drama of it all. Feels appropriate. See you on All-stars 3, girl.

not practicing more for the lipsync is pretty :psyduck: though. AV club had a good point that her falling apart like this is the first time we've seen her drag inexperience really show

Dear Prudence
Sep 3, 2012

I'm so upset.

caligulamprey
Jan 23, 2007

It never stops.

Magikarpal Tunnel posted:

I have to say, RuPaul thanking Michelle for laughing at her joke had me rolling.
I think at least half the episodes this season have featured a moment when Rupaul doesn't land a joke during the runway and I love it.

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

What in the gently caress?!?!
I KNOW. A LEGIT FUNNY SKETCH?!

The cliffhanger bit loving killed me dead.

EDIT: Ru's send-off line to Valentina was a stone cold knife in the chest. Brutal.

caligulamprey fucked around with this message at 10:13 on May 20, 2017

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
this season sucks

Nihonniboku
Aug 11, 2004

YOU CAN FLY!!!
I think she let the cult of Valentina get to her own head. She's been slaying week after week, she has a killer personality, so when she was presented with a challenge that she wasn't comfortable with, she thought she would just coast by this week.

But. Gurl. There's 3 episodes left before the finale. This is the time to BRING IT. You don't just take a week off.

Not learning the words is one thing. Hiding your face behind a mask is criminal. But then having the audacity to still try and cover your mouth with your arms after you've specifically been told that we needed to see your mouth during a lip sync.

She had to go.

Nihonniboku
Aug 11, 2004

YOU CAN FLY!!!
God drat it, Valentina.

In Untucked, Trinity, Alexis and Peppermint go to listen to the song for the lip sync. Valentina just sits there.

Edit: Ok. She eventually goes to listen to it. She complains that she is getting into her own head.

Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 14:31 on May 20, 2017

angerbot
Mar 23, 2004

plob
Valentina was always trash, she was just cute.

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
People melting down over this is cringe and messy as hell.

Valentina was overrated and I'm glad she's gone.

resting mitch face
Apr 9, 2005

5) I hear you.
"Take that thing off of your mouth."

"I'd like to keep it on, please."

"It's a lip sync, what part of that do you not understand?"



loving Christ :stonk:

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
":qq: Ru was so unfair!!!1 :qq:"

:jerkbag:

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Jay O
Oct 9, 2012

being a zombie's not so bad
once you get used to it
^ I mean, that's not really the narrative I'm seeing? The narrative I'm seeing even from Valentina diehards is "that was fair, but like...what happened?"

With Untucked for context now, it seems like Valentina just ran out of gas this week. After killing it week after week up to this point, it seems like her brain just stopped and she didn't have it in her to participate, she was mentally somewhere else but didn't ask for help or anything to push through the funk. It makes sense, it's just really disappointing. Definitely a limitation enhanced by being so inexperienced. I kinda just wanna skip to the final four now though, just give Alexis and Nina the boot already, I'm getting season seven flashbacks in terms of bad challenges and cast imbalance.

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