Forgive more self-indulgent essay topics but I did this and thought it would be fun to share! I made an All Stars with 2021 queens from all series, who I thought deserved a second shot at the crown.

 

CAST:

Anita Wigl'it (DRDU, 8th)

Bimini Bon Boulash (DRUK2, runner-up)

Charity Kase (DRUK3, 8th)

Choriza May (DRUK3, 6th/7th)

Denali (S13, 8th)

Gia Metric (Canada, TBA)

Gottmik (S13, runner-up)

Keta Minaj (DRH2, 4th)

Pythia (Canada, TBA)* I feel like Icesis will win so putting her here as a runner-up

Sagittaria (DRES, runner-up)

Tayce (DRUK, runner-up)

Utica (S13, 6th)

 

EPISODE 1: Talent Show

 

Top 2: Anita, Tayce Tayce wins

High Bimini, Denali

Low Utica

Bottom 2: Choriza, SagittariaSagittaria eliminated

 

The queens enter the workroom one by one, based on the season they competed in. First up is the lone Down Under rep, Anita Wig’lit. She notes she felt she didn’t have enough time on her season and is back to prove herself. Pythia enters, promising to bring the kooky genderf*** vibes, followed by her CDR2 sister Gia. Utica enters and Pythia jokes she isn’t the only quirky queen this time, and she is followed by Denali and runner-up Gottmik, her Season 13 sisters. Bimini crashes the workroom, followed by Tayce serving face. Sagittaria enters as the only Spanish queen, followed by Keta Minaj from Holland 2 who’s entrance references the furore of her shock elimination. Charity and Choriza are the last to enter the workroom.

 

In the talent show, Anita starts strong with some stand-up comedy, in which she is self depreciating and roasts some of her Down Under sisters. Pythia performs a lipsync mix, which is solid but low energy, whilst Gia performs a high energy dance number. Utica serves performance art, Denali performs the house down and Gottmik walks the runway to her own mix. Bimini performs a striking and unique social justice spoken word piece, whilst Tayce steals the show with a high energy lipsync and dance performance. Sagittaria wants to redeem her DRE roast by doing some comedy, which is awkward and does not receive the right laughs. Charity gives a Dragula floorshow esque performance whilst Choriza performs her song My Pussy Is Like A Peach.

 

The tops are singled out as Tayce, Denali, Bimini and Anita, whilst the bottoms are singled out as Choriza, Utica and Sagittaria, with the other queens marked safe. Tayce is highly praised for her lipsync, with the judges noting that she brought what they already loved and improved it, and Denali gets similar comments. Bimini is praised for using her platform whilst not letting the performance suffer, and Anita is lauded for her comedy chops that kept the judges laughing throughout. On the other hand, Choriza’s performance is given mixed reviews with the song not being liked by the judges, and Utica is told her concept was good but the performance as a whole was boring. Sagittaria receives the worst critiques, as she hardly landed any jokes in her set.

 

Anita and Tayce are named as the top 2, and they lipsync to S.O.S. (Let The Music Play) by Jordin Sparks. Tayce sets the stage alight, easily winning the week. Afterwards, it’s a Spanish battle as Sagittaria and Choriza face off to Disco Love by The Saturdays, with Choriza pipping Sagittaria to the post and surviving the first lipsync.

EPISODE 2: Snatch Game

 

Top 2 Anita, Bimini Bimini wins

High Keta, Gottmik

Low Pythia

Bottom 2: Charity, Utica Charity eliminated

 

The first elimination weighs heavy on the queen’s minds as the pressure sets in and they remember how high the stakes are when competing. The mini challenge occurs and is the reading challenge, which is won by Gottmik. The queens are all excited to learn that the second maxi challenge is Snatch Game, and many of these queens get a second chance whilst Charity is keen to get a first shot, although she is nervous as it is not her wheelhouse, but it's something as an All Star, she needs to get used to.

 

The workroom walkthrough reveals the characters: Gia is Anna Faris, Gottmik chooses to portray her collaborator and friend NikkieTutorials, Anita selects actress Toni Collette, Bimini is a niche British comedy icon with Julia Davis (Jill Tyrell), Keta is Pamela Anderson, Tayce chooses Jade Thirlwall, Charity is Mystic Meg, Utica is Bill Nye The Science Guy, Choriza goes for Carmen Miranda, Denali picks Nicole Scherzinger and Pythia is Bjork.

 

Anita pulls from Toni’s characters in Muriel’s Wedding and Hereditary without it being too repetitive or reductive, whilst Bimini takes an already darkly ridiculous character and ramps the cringe-comedy up even more. Keta and Gottmik shine by nailing mannerisms, whilst Denali pokes fun at Nicole's diva reputation and domineering presence in a group. Tayce, Gia and Choriza pull off solid turns, while Pythia struggles after a strong start. Charity and Utica bomb, with Utica's Bill Nye bearing a striking resemblance to the car crash of her turn as Bob Ross.

 

Anita, Bimini, Keta and Gottmik are called as the tops, whilst Pythia, Utica and Charity find themselves in the bottom. Anita is lauded for her performance, particularly her quick wit and bouncing off of the other queens, and Bimini is praised for selling a character Ru was not aware of. Keta and Gottmik also receive good critiques, for their mannerisms and embodying the characters without sacrificing the jokes. Pythia is told she had the foundations of a good Snatch Game, but lost her way and got drowned out, whilst Charity and Utica receive negative comments as neither landed many jokes. The judges are put out that Utica made the same mistakes again!

 

Anita and Bimini lipsync for the win to Wannabe by Spice Girls, and it’s a close call but Bimini pips Anita to the post, with the Kiwi queen losing a second lipsync. Charity and Utica have to lipsync to Don’t Cry For Me Argentina by Madonna and Utica wins handily with her kooky dramatics, sending home Charity.

Love this!

EPISODE 3: Design

 

Top 2 Utica and Gottmik Utica wins

High Bimini, Pythia

Low Anita

Bottom 2: Tayce, Choriza Choriza eliminated

 

Back in the workroom following Charity’s elimination, Utica is put out that the judges are not feeling her drag yet again, but she remains firm in a resolve that she will be herself. It's a delight for Utica as the next challenge is revealed to be a design challenge!

 

Each queen is assigned a queen they competed with on Drag Race, and they must design a look that embodies both that queen and their own drag. Anita receives Kita Mean, Denali gets Rosé, Gottmik gets Symone, Utica gets Tina Burner, Choriza has River Medway, Gia has Kendall Gender, Pythia receives Icesis Couture, Tayce receives A’Whora (wink nudge), Bimini gets Lawrence Chaney, and Keta is given My Little Puny. There is some commotion that certain queens get someone they know very well, wwith heat particularly coming to Anita as Kita is her drag partner, business partner and best friend. Anita is worried as despite knowing Kita’s style and it fitting her own drag, design is not her strong suit.

 

Utica, Gottmik, Pythia and Bimini all do the best in the challenge, whilst Anita, Tayce and Choriza struggle. Utica is praised for somehow managing to make Tina’s aesthetic into a couture fashion-ready end product, Gottmik is lauded for blending her and Symone’s eye for fashion into one great product, Bimini receives good critiques for embodying Lawrence, and Pythia is praised for poking fun at her light rivalry with Icesis during CDR’s look based challenges. Anita is acknowledged as melding her and Kita’s styles well, but the construction of her outfit is sloppy. The judges are disappointed with Choriza’s basic look, and they don’t get A’whora from Tayce’s look. Utica and Gottmik are called as the top 2, harking back to both their S13 premiere lipsync and mini-rivalry in their season’s Ball, whilst Choriza and Tayce are named as the bottom 2, with Anita, Pythia and Bimini being called safe.

 

Gottmik and Utica lipsync to Into The Nightlife by Cyndi Lauper, and Utica gets her revenge on Gottmik by snatching the win with ease. Choriza and Tayce battle it out to Obsessed by Mariah Carey, with Tayce serving the attitude and sending another girl home.

I would LOVE a Gottmik vs Utica rehash!

EPISODE 4: Girl groups

 

Top 2: Tayce, Denali double win

High: Gia, Bimini

Low: Gottmik

Bottom 2: Keta, Pythia Pythia eliminated

 

Tayce re-enters the workroom with confidence, knowing that she can be the lipsync assassin for another season and reminding them nobody can send her home. The girls note it will be remarkably quieter without Choriza, and ponder what the next challenge may be. It is revealed to be girl groups, and Tayce, Bimini, Denali and Gia are excited given they previously won the same, or similar in Denali’s case, challenge.

 

The groups are Keta/Utica/Denali, Tayce/Anita/Gia and Bimini/Pythia/Gottmik. Bimini feels she may be at a disadvantage with two queens not known for their performance. The girls all perform within their groups in the same song, House Down Boots, and must write their own verse to the song and choreograph a routine as a group.

 

Keta’s group is mixed, with Keta struggling to sell her verse, Utica’s kookiness working overtime to mask her struggles with character and Denali killing it. Tayce’s group is the strongest. Bimini kills her verse, but Gottmik and Pythia notably struggle with the choreo and cannot keep up with Bimini.

 

Tayce, Denali, Gia and Bimini all receive good critiques, with the judges noting that Tayce somehow greatly improved on her already iconic UK Hun verse from her first Drag Race stint, whilst Gottmik, Pythia and Keta receive mixed or negative critiques. Gottmik’s actual verse is praised but she is told she should have upped the performance to keep up with Bimini, and Pythia receives similar comments. Keta is told she was in her head, and it showed with a completely lost performance.

 

Tayce and Denali are called as the top 2, while Pythia and Keta are the bottom 2. Tayce and Denali lipsync to No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer, and the high energy queens absolutely murder the song, resulting in a double win. Pythia and Keta lipsync to He Wasn’t Man Enough by Toni Braxton, and Keta sends Pythia home.

EPISODE 5: Acting

 

Top 2: Keta, Gia Keta wins

High Gottmik, Anita

Low Bimini

Bottom 2: Tayce, Denali double shantay

 

Keta returns deflated that she didn’t do well last week, as she really wanted to prove her performance skills. The others note it is a very close competition and strong competitors could go at any point.

 

This week’s challenge is a Desperate Housewives inspired acting challenge, in which the queens must overact as suburban women who harbour some salacious secrets. Between them, the girls work out their own roles, with some more vocal than others to fight for the parts they want. Tayce is Nina, a hardworking single mother who is always looking for Mr Right, Denali is Wendi, a firey Latina who is secretly having affairs with multiple of her friends’ husbands, Keta is Sally, an uptight conservative who is secretly running a foot fetish OnlyFans, Anita is Ethel, a seemingly kindly neighbour who is secretly kiling people off by poisoning baked goods, Gottmik is Ana, a compulsive liar, Gia is Mina, the daughter of Sally who must hide her lesbian identity, Utica is the strict and mean businesswoman Sadie, and Bimini is Helena, a helicopter parent with a prescription drug habit.

 

Keta, Anita, Gottmik and Gia are called as the tops of the weeks, while Tayce, Denali and Bimini find themselves in the bottom. Keta is told that she ran with the part and hit a home run, owning every moment she was on screen, as well as playing well against Gia. Gia is praised for the ups and downs of her performance, for not going the obvious route with the character but still playing the characteristics for laughs, and Gottmik’s improv skills are praised as she thought of many of Ana’s lies on the fly to add to the character. Anita is told that whilst her portrayal of the character was the obvious way, she was among the funniest of the week. On the other hand, the judges felt that Bimini went too serious, Tayce didn’t work hard to stand out, and Denali is told she was one note by playing into the character’s man-hungry tendencies far too much.

 

 

Keta and Gia are named as the top 2, and they must lipsync to I’m Outta Love by Anastacia, with Keta grabbing a first win! With Denali narrowly escaping, Denali and Tayce face off to Super Bass by Nicki Minaj, and this results in a truly deserved double shantay as the lipsync assassins equally match each other for a second week, albeit in the opposite type of lipsync!

EPISODE 6: Ball

 

Top 2: Gottmik, Gia Gia wins

High Utica, Bimini

Low Tayce

Bottom 2: Denali, Anita Denali eliminated

 

It’s another look challenge as the queens are put to the test in a Fall Ball! The first category is Pumpkin Spice Girls, in which the queens must serve their best basic bitch realness. The second category is Scarves for days, in which the queens must make neckwear the primary focal point of the outfit. The final category is Show Me Your Colours, in which the queens must design a look that incorporates autumnal colours.

 

Gottmik, Bimini, Gia and Utica are called as the tops, with Denali, Tayce and Anita singled out as the worst of the week. Gottmik is praised for her versatility in all three looks, with particular glory given to her constructed look that the judges note was editorial, exciting and unique. Gia is praised for adding humour to her looks but keeping it fashion and detail orientated, whilst Bimini is lauded for her fashion forward looks and Utica is praised for her unique eye, approaching couture in a way nobody else could. Denali and Anita are told they had some merits to their looks, but did not go far enough with any of the concepts, and Tayce is told her designed look was a disaster and cannot be overlooked, but her other two were good.

 

Gottmik and Gia lipsync for the win to Love Myself by Hailee Steinfeld, with Gia earning her first win in an electrifying lipsync. Anita and Denali fight to survive by performing Fabulous Life by Mya, and Anita’s campy turn narrowly wins her the lipsync, leaving Denali to sashay away.

can't believe you didnt give utica her ball win AGAIN!

can't believe you didnt give utica her ball win AGAIN!

 

Ru and Michelle need to go — Utica knitted an entire felted scarf gown in a day... with a reveal!

She got the design win revenge over Gottmik!! Tbh I didn't even think about what judges I'd have here but Ru and Michelle would indeed be robbing Utica again :lol:

EPISODE 7: Roast

 

Top 2: Anita, Gottmik Anita wins

High Tayce

Low Bimini

Bottom 2: Utica, Gia Utica eliminated

 

Having avoided being a shock elimination again, Anita is triumphant and her good mood carries on when it transpires that this week’s challenge is a roast, where the queens must hone their comedy chops as they read the guests of honour - the eliminated queens! Utica is scared but headstrong, as she faces up to the challenge that ended in disaster for her during Season 13, and hopes to learn from her mistakes.

 

Having won last week, Gia decides the order of the show and she Bimini to open, followed by Utica, herself, Gottmik, Tayce, and Keta, with Anita closing proceedings. Gia assumes that coming after Utica will make her set look better, but she swears her choices weren't shady!

 

Bimini’s opening is somewhat shaky, as she stumbles unexpectedly in a challenge she was sure she would nail. Utica’s head overtakes and her roast is cringe central. Gia does better than her first attempt at a roast, but this time verges on boring rather than awkwardly funny. Gottmik knocks it out of the park with a zinger for every queen, whilst Tayce struggles in rehearsal but manages to deliver a very funny set, and Keta puts on a solid show. Anita closes perfectly, with the judges laughing through her whole set.

 

Gottmik and Anita are the tops of the week, whilst Bimini, Utica and Gia find themselves in the bottom, with Bimini being called safe. Gottmik and Anita lipsync for the win to It’s My Life to No Doubt, and Anita finally snatches the win. Utica and Gia fight to stay with a lipsync to Just Fine by Mary J Blige, which is won by Gia, with Utica again going home following a bomb of a roast.

EPISODE 8: Character design

 

Top 2: Bimini, Gottmik Gottmik wins

Bottom 2: Tayce, Anita Tayce eliminated

 

Anita is triumphant that she finally got a win, whilst Gia has a second wind of confidence after avoiding elimination on her first time in the bottom. It is revealed that this week's challenge is a story focused design challenge, where the queens must design a look for a character that represents a moment, person or event in their lives.

 

Gia's character focuses on being in the closet as a teenager, whilst Gottmik's character is a subversion/opposite of her own identity - a trans woman who is butch. Anita models her character after her grandmother, and Keta does similar with her mother. Bimini chooses to model her character after her younger troubled self to show how far she has come, whilst Tayce portrays her dream self as the world's most famous supermodel. Anita models her character after her grandmother who she notes helped raise her with tough love.

 

Gia is mostly praised, as the judges loved her tale of desperately trying to seem straight in a place where it felt like you weren't allowed not to be, although the judges note she let the details of the look slide a little. Gottmik is praised for poking fun at gender norms and the trans experience with her own unique eye for detail and fashion, whilst Bimini is lauded for opening up about her troubled past and showing her personal growth. Keta has a solid week, with a detailed look but the judges note her story did not tell them anything new about her. Tayce and Anita are less fortunate, as the judges read Tayce for being impersonal, and Anita's grandma character is called out as being too similar to her acting challenge character in looks and certain mannerisms.

 

 

Gottmik and Bimini lipsync for the win to F.U.R.B. by Frankee, and Gottmik’s characterisation somewhat surprisingly wins her the lipsync. Anita and Tayce face off to Rain On My Parade by Barbra Streisand, and Anita's campy antics mean that she clinches the win, vanquishing the lipsync assassin.

Anita defeating Denali and Tayce?! :o

 

I definitely think Anita should've gone further in her season but that lipsync with Karen IIRC was not great for either of them!

 

I'm enjoying this thread by the way! The detail in these fantasy storylines is brill *.*

Yeah, I’m LOVING the creativity!

 

I don’t enjoy this world where Gia bloody Metric outlasts my faves but that is realistic to most series of Drag Race :lol:

 

Team Mik!!1

See I had Gia going earlier then when I thought she was kinda robbed in the lipsync thing I pushed her up and changed it :lol:

 

Glad you're enjoying this btw guys! *.*

EPISODE 9: Improv

Top 2: Bimini, Anita Bimini wins

Bottom 2: Gia, Keta Keta eliminated

 

Anita, and the other girls, are in disbelief that Tayce lost a lipsync. Gia shadily says that the lipsync choice was riggory and of course Anita would win a campy theatre song. With the final in sight, the queens are told there is just one more challenge, and one more lipsync each, between them and the final. The challenge is improv, where the queens act as esteemed guests on Graham Norton's chat show.

 

Bimini and Anita shine, with Bimini portraying a pop diva and Anita portraying an Oscar winning actress, both bounce off of each other well and steal every opportunity to get a joke in. Gottmik has a mixed but solid enough performance as a Youtuber, Keta as a TV chef does her best but fails to shine as much as others, whilst Gia flubs it as a supermodel.

 

Bimini and Anita lipsync for the win to Cry For You by September, and Bimini snatches the final win from Anita again, although both put on a strong show worthy of the two finalists. Gia and Keta fight to stay to I Wanna Love You Forever by Jessica Simpson, with Gia bringing the drama and pipping Keta to the post to snatch the last finalist spot.

Yeah, I’m LOVING the creativity!

 

I don’t enjoy this world where Gia bloody Metric outlasts my faves but that is realistic to most series of Drag Race :lol:

 

Team Mik!!1

 

I thought you'd love Gia! She gives off the same energy and looks that a lot of others you'd like too imo? Although idk if I see her quite comparing with some of the other greats in this line up!

Gia had the same energy of a lot of queens I’ve found painfully annoying but the different with her was she actually felt genuine about it and not fake like others (cough cough Jan, Kitty)