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I love Heidi... I really do stan her. Despite the fact that she can't 'eloguently elocute' what the hell she was yelling about in untucked, it's that need to stand up for the underdog... that show of empathy that really cements her in my mind's Miss Congeniality. Also, stolen from Paul over at the Vulture recaps... can you imagine if Sh***y Pie had been chosen to help cast the main challenge? -insert record scratch - But instead we got what you saw... Nicky Doll and Gigi Goode are put in charge of casting (Allison Mossey was not available). I think that Heidi's runway could have been a passable butterfly if it had the wing shapes... it would have read as thoughtful, not as the last minute add-on that it did read as. I wish Nikki would have shown more fire in her lipsync. I already have my prediction for 3 of the top four... one of course was spoiled by this whole controversy thing... and the other two would have to be GiGi and Jackie. I wonder who's sliding into fourth?

!!!Conspiracy theory alert!!! (no actual spoilers, just tinfoil hat theorizing) <begin transmission> The fix is in squirrel-friends. Aiden Zahne has been identified as the queen that inexplicably makes it to the top despite being way out of her depth. Sources cite "Mamma" Ru's penchant for the underdog will keep Aiden out of the bottom for the majority of the season.

in before the show again with first impression on the name... "They have the balls to do a ball this early?"

So ... I know it's an unpopular view, but I think that maybe WOW needs to not re-edit the show to delete Sh***y Pie. (please read those asterisks as the letters -itt-, as intended) if only because it would keep the wins from looking like total arbitrary choices from out in left field. When she won this epi, all of us on my virtual watch party were in a state of total "WTF??" - virtual watch party... everyone watching at their own home and reacting in a group text... it was fun, not the real thing, but fun nonetheless.

impresssion before the show: So. World's Worst. Starring Sh***y Pie. How appropriate.

last tattoo comment... because this isn't RuPaul's Best Tattoo Race .... with the right makeup, you can cover up even the darkest, blackest tattoos with amazing results.

SO... I mean... Most untattooed women don't have chest tattoos. But literally every single heavily tattooed woman I know has their chest tattooed and it's usually a massive piece. I realize that i maybe have different access as I hang around with tattoo artists.... but yeah. Biological Females, Feminine women who have tattoos also have large chest tattoos.

Jan's full name is JanSport ... she had to lose the last bit because of trademark infrigement. Same For Brita Filter. While we're at it, they also shortened Detox iCunt ... and Trinity Kardashian Bonet became Trinitiy K Bonet

Also, shout out to Mayhem Miller and Kimora Blac as the Kim and Kanye look-a-likes in the fashion show.

Y'all I'm so happy this is back. The entrance looks were all really well done, I really appreciated that the producers split this into two groups as intros, so that we actually got time to know the girls and put a face to a name. Of note: Leprosy Print. Civil Rights Hair "oh you mean hum-mussss' /basic white girl accent/ Freddy Kreuger drag!!!! Everything about Jackie And Gigi Goode (the e is silent) surprised the heck out of me, and I loved it all. Everything. Every look, every bon mot, and her performance on the main stage. While I agree that Widow's main stage performance was pulling out all the stops, can we just be big girls and keep our effin' shoes on for the lipsynchs? Instead of flopping around like a flat-footed webbed toe creature from the gross dragoon?

Congratulations to our newly crowned queen [Placeholder for edit]YVIE or BROOKE[/placeholder]!

That was at Roscoe's in Chicago... same place that Soju had her drunken breakdown in... last week?

There was so much riggamorris happening last night... like the good basic white girl I am, I. JUST. COULDN'T. EVEN.... How the hell are they going to give you professionally done pads at this stage in the game, coincidentally right after reading some bish for her crappy padding? How the hell are you not going to declare Evyie the clear winner of that challenge? How the hell are you going to pull out the "Suprise, we wanted you to be messier, you perfect queen you." as a move to get Brooke to lipsync against her burgeoning love interest? ugh.. i just cant. #teamYvie

Auuuuugh. That's really all I can say. RuPaul has done pulled the Lucy to my heart's Charlie Brown. I thought for sure that we were going to get that Silky / evyie Showdown that they've been telegraphing since day one, but no. Instead we got that mess. Silky even slipped on her damn costume that was falling apart, couldn't find a beat IN THAT SONG to appropriately cooter slam to, and wore that highly suspicious threadbare long pony, you know, the one that even TS Madison called suspicious, yet again, for a wig reveal that wasn't timed for shit. it should have been a double elim if anything. I won't say that Nina did an amazing job in that lipsync... but there's no way that the mess that Silky did was worth a chante.

I realize I may be spoiled by the last couple of seasons of highly polished queens. I realize these queens are rougher around the edges and not quite ready for prime time, so to speak.... but good heavens, how do you not get what the reading challenge is? How are you supposed to host an event if you can't read a bitch and get some damn laughs... this is the drag version of Toastmasters, and these poor unfortunate souls bombed so bad even Ursula would be "I can't help you... although you might be better off without that voice.. " The maxi-challenge was challenging to watch... thank goodness for Cheyenne just being so hot I had something else to focus on. I don't think that Brooke mopping those one-liners was a horrible crime, because she at least used them effectively and appropriately.

Oh that preview tho... y'all, we're gonna have to talk.

So TS Madison did a react video for our friends at WOW Productions... *sigh* I just can't. I wish Shuga would turn the dial up a few more notches... she was killing it as Charo, but she needed to really push her cuchi-cuchi into it to get above the shrieking mess that was silky. onto the positive parts, that LSFYL... for your life... for my life... for ALL our EMEFFIN' LIVES... I am not proud of how loud I yelled in my living room when the Chante's were handed out, but that was the only proper response.

So I didn't know where this was appropriate so I'm sticking it here in the forums' version but it was a super fun weekend up here in West Michigan as Penny Tration won a local bar Pageant, which was just interesting to me. Congratulations Miss Dunes Resort 2019!

Yvie, girl. I love you, I love everything about you, but sometimes you gotta know that it's just better to sit back and let the girls be delusional than to engage and give them a target for their persecution complexes. I'm gonna be over here in the couch fort with Brooke.

except Vanjie can't read worth snot. It would take an hour to get through one apopoaloptic paragraph.

I don't think Monet threw the sync. I think that she did a note perfect old school rendition of how the song would have been done. Emoted the hell out of it and even had a very Judy look on. I just think that the shady editors/production crew knew that monet would not give them the drama they wanted, but they were sure Naomi would with the lipstick choice.... also I think Latrice has a story built in that's going to keep her to the top two. Whether she deserves it or not.

This was a trainwreck. I understand the concept of the games, they were hoping to get a little more of the Queen's personas in the ruveal, instead of some lame word association (which they usually do) ... it was just... bad. It felt like Aquaria and Rippon were in two different cities, their chemistry was so poor. Also it unfortunately highlighted that many of these queens are not Rhodes Scholars... some barely Road scholars. Vangie was one of the better bits of the run, and I'm assuming that's because she's got a little more background in being camera ready.

Y'all, this was fun... it was a shlocky cash-grab, for sure, but it was campy drag fun... What isn't fun? A messy queen. Any hopes I had for Jasmine Masters and AS4 just went right out the window. https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/116291/jasmine-masters-reveals-which-queen-made-her-walk-off-drag-race-early/ Also, can I just say I LIVED for Mayem's Krampus lewk.... THOSE HOOVES!!! The Mug! That basic Beyonce body-suit....

There's a whole discussion in the media regarding that since Ru has won an Emmy, he's started to try to morph into this Drag Spiritualist... like if Oprah and the Long Island Medium had a freak teleporter accident... and that if he wasn't trying so hard to make "the ministry of drag" a thing, (it's so fetch)... that he might actually be able to focus on the problems that he, himself, is continually causing.

I don't know if there are any other TLO "Bitter Kittens" out here... but this bit on the Trailblazer awards was immense. Specifically the shrewdness of Asia and this outfit. As TLO said: "We have to admit, we are damn impressed with her sense of drama, as well as her ability to make her drag mean something. Knowing that these pictures would hit the internet after the reunion episode aired, in which she melted down and then got shut down by Ru, in a clash of ideologies and personalities for the very SOUL OF DRAG. We are only exagerrating a little bit and you should listen to our podcast for the rest of the details. Regardless, the point is, Miss Asia O’Hara is your SILENCED, FACELESS MARTYR QUEEN and you better respect the SHIT out of that kind of boldness. Ru would NEVER." https://tomandlorenzo.com/2018/06/drag-race-finalists-kameron-michaels-aquaria-eureka-ohara-and-high-drama-queen-asia-ohara-at-the-vh1-trailblazer-honors/