I explain my choice and agreement with Gigi above, but it’s also occurring to me that with two wins already, S- doesn’t need the help leading the pack - even with the meta-text of her disqualification looming over the proceedings. Snatch Game is one of the challenges that tends to give credit where credit is due, even…

While all things being equal I thought Katharine Hepburn should have won, Gigi definitely pulled an Aquaria. Does the storyline of “look queen who can perform” enliven the senses?

And here we are for a new set of Random ‘pinions that no one asked for:

It’s not clear to me it’s hate (at least from the audience) so much as the jarring incongruity to how she’s being presented, and how she’s presenting herself - versus the ingenue, underdog, diamond-in-the-rough framework that’s being built around her storyarc.

Most of Widow’s outfits have been meh to terrible

I’ve been reading Brita’s arc as a case of incongruity, possibly leading to delusion. Her references to her reputation in New York read like she sees herself as Peppermint. She might have polish and have a pageant nice affect that the judges seem to be eating up, despite the fact that her backstage saltiness reads…

he’s not responsible for Ru and what Ru wants for her television show

Another set of CDC-compliant, socially distant Random ‘pinions:

I’ve been thinking on this; I had the same thoughts for those exact, specific references. Over the course of 153 individual queens over twelve seasons, plus spin-offs, if anything I’m more surprised we don’t see more copypasta on the runway.

I think you’re right to point out that what’s jarring tonight is three classic…

Sorry I missed y’all last go round; back from a hectic work week. a completely unrequested set of Random ‘pinions:

Mornin’ all! It’s time for some Random ‘pinions:

I’d just hope and think the smarter choice is to maybe just refrain from monkey-adjacent or really just any comparisons of persons to an animal. Especially when still adapting and learning a cultural framework that can lend meaning (“Well, she’s no butterface, she’s a dog”), less-loaded meaning (“Well, you can’t teach…

A great mixture of fashion look/queens and performance, dancing, and comedy queens with everyone pretty strong, in fact stronger in their drag than most of the queens at the beginning of most seasons.

I’m a little worried that Nicky seems to think being French means she can make jokes like “the black person looks like a lemur!” or “this Persian person has a fat ass because hummus!” It’s like no girl please stop.

It feels like it’s been ages, hasn’t it? But we’re back, back, back again - for another set of Random ‘pinions:

So - forgive me y’all if I just can’t find the topic elsewhere through sorting the mounds and mounds of Kinja flotsam.

Dear 2019,

Trying to understand a completely alien species via analogy is even sillier.

Having spent at least a chunk of my academic career, more specifically my faculty life having jumped onto the microbiomics train (my training was as a classical immunologist, in the interest of disclosure), I might as well signal my Ask a Microbiomicist thread here.

Viruses come in all flavors, including double- or single-stranded DNA as well as double- or single-stranded RNA.