We’ve seen plenty enough queens create their own wardrobe - from Roxxy and Bianca to Shea and Asia, often to great effect.

It’s literally the first thing we said in my household when she came out.

Watch the next LSFYL be a twenty minute Yngwie Malmsteen guitar solo.

I’m still waiting on an air theremin.

Here’s the thing - you’re right; Monique’s runway is attractive and well-constructed, and particularly impressive for the handicap she gives herself.

It’s been occurring to me that Vixen’s confrontationalism is kind of an important representation of the difficulties of activism and woke social justice in the age of the Cheeto Tyrant.

Oh, yeah - the court order is precisely the legal run-in I’m talking about.

After AS3's spoiler-fuckery, I’m hoping WoW’s hot lid on the leak pipeline has put these squarely back in the realm of conjecture.

Only by virtue of having Untucked air immediately after, do I recall someone (Eureka, I think?) corroborating Vixen’s appraisal that Cracker and Blair got the negative critiques, whereas she didn’t.

...”hand”.

For all the many varied schools of drag the show has highlighted over 10 seasons, lipsyncing is the common denominator, the one unifying skillset that most all the queens should have under their belt, give or take a Charlie Hides.

3) Kameron’s LEWWWRRRKS have been impressing me mightily these past several episodes. It’s been occurring to me that the last several Team Look queens we’ve seen go all the way, mostly just need to keep from embarrassing themselves in these talent challenges, which Kameron manages to surpass tonight. She stays…

I’m trying to situate the taping (last summer?) against the unfolding of the growing #MeToo and related movements, with particular attention to the revelation of Kevin Spacey cementing in the movement that men can also be victims of sexual harassment and abuse.

Sorry I missed y’all last week - travel! So just a few Random ‘pinions tonight:

The whole Alaskan Summer category was a bunch of swimwear by design; it’s a limiting straightjacket of a premise to work from, but Aquaria managed to package a whole lot of fantasy, and to my mind a complete narrative in that skimpy little thing.

I find Vixen, for her faults, represents a politically-minded, confrontational edge of drag that I’ve been finding poorly represented on RPDR in recent seasons. Bob talked about his experiences in that vein during season 7, though it’s not a dimension to his drag that I think we saw too much of in the show itself,…

“While the other kids were turning looks... wait.”

So many queens have a clear drama club theatre kid vibe, expressing in some distinct ways, but having the same roots in insecurity, awkwardness, and adolescent angst. In Aquaria’s case, one can picture she tried out a Gwyneth Paltrow/Madonna British accent for two months, sophomore year of high school, and this kind…

It’s more that I can manage to keep specific people as friends by knowing they have their bullshit - and I have my mechanisms to keep that out of my life, in some cases, by carefully doling out and constraining contact and expectations.

Fast-forward spoiler: Vixen comes out as otherkin, and we all feel very ashamed and embarrassed.