I feel like Kate Butch isn’t getting nearly enough praise in this thread or online in general and I can’t help think that’s just because people are tired of UK winners or maybe because she doesn’t serve glamour? But she’s been fantastic this time around, aside from a lacklustre and overthought Snatch Game but now she’s hit her stride, she could’ve won the last 3 weeks. She was in her element this week and I loved the clever reveal on the runway and how the look was still just a little bit ugly because… yes, that’s her style of drag. bast*rd drag is under appreciated on Drag Race which is why I’m glad Bailey J Mills has no interest in doing it.

I’m kinda getting tired of Gawdland but I do sympathise with her having to a challenge like this in a second language. It feels like she’s just stuck on screaming in EVERY challenge and usually people right now would’ve had the critique of being one note but she’s not getting that and nobody seems to care but me 😂

Still obsessed with Fontana though and her being a desperate drama queen at every possible turn.

Fontana makes me scream, her being so pressed that Naomy offhand said she’s not arsed about being in the finale because she’s probably just happy to have this opportunity, I live for her bringing the drama. This season is elite TV and largely it’s because of her being a desperate diva drama queen!!

I do love Kate but I’m just so invested in Gawdland winning, but I am telling myself obviously it’s not Kate’s fault other UK queens have won both other seasons. She has been brilliant now she’s hit her stride, and she would be something different for the winner’s circle, I mean this as a compliment but she’s very much the drag you’d see out a local bar any given Saturday, on that Drag Race level. She knows 100% who she is, for better or worse, I think a lot of queens with an aesthetic or brand that is a little off kilter for Drag Race lose it in trying to assimilate to the challenges but she has learned to use it to her advantage instead. I think it’s her sense of humour too, it’s very bast*rd drag but it’s got that stupid bizarre edge that fits Drag Race well, but it’s also just the fact she knows her brand and is so so confident in it. There’s surprisingly few queens I think have that skill nailed down. I didn’t think she quite had it at the start of the season but the second half has shown she has. Snatch Game I think is just weirdly a weaknesses for her where she is too conceptual or overthinks it, which I suppose is a downside to having such a sense of branding to her drag.

In saying that Gawdland is something different too, I don’t care that she’s always loud, for me she just knows her personality and uses that “weakness” as a strength, she knows she is such a spark of charisma she can basically weather any challenge and tackles every challenge 100%. She could give up or whinge about challenges she feels she can’t do. It’s also insane she’s been doing drag for 3 years, and in her second language she’s a front runner on one of the biggest arms of the franchise. I will always be an advocate for Khia series queens slaying but she’s eaten up the competition even more than I expected.

They’ve both had kind of the same run but opposite (Kate starting slow and getting it together and Gawdland slowing down a bit after being in the top for the entire start) so I think it’s neck and neck which is exciting for a finale!! I love that it’s becoming more common in Drag Race where it’s not clear who will win, finales got to be so boring when it was obvious.

Mariah getting upset with Naomy for having conflicting feelings as well as blaming Gawdland for something she never even voiced prior to this was quite shitty. I don’t understand how she won that lip sync.

That episode

Last week should have been a double shantay so this could be a double sashay x