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Old 16-08-2018, 04:42 PM #151
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89th Place: Sahara Davenport (Season 2) - finished 7th

It's hard placing Sahara anywhere in this list given her passing. Season two was a genuine gem of reality television and whilst Sahara wasn't as dramatic a part of it, she was truly a radiant and impassioned performer and gave her all to the three lipsyncs she was involved with. I guess she's also the first ever queen to give us a jump split on the show, and well, that's a legacy that carries on.

As I've said, she wasn't quite involved with all the fights that season (Raven vs. Tati, Morgan vs. Mystique, everyone vs. Tyra) and so it seemed inevitable that she would be sent home sooner or later for not delivering on the "good TV" front, but Sahara managed to win a challenge (the poledancing / Cherry Pie! one) and left the season with a pretty strong sisterhood. If Miss Congeniality actually meant something, she would've won.

Sahara is also remembered for being the ex-partner of Manila Luzon, and of course sharing a house dynasty with Kennedy. The Davenports - just by these two showings - are a name to be reckoned with and they deliver some of the best dancers the show's ever seen.


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Best Moment(s): The little scream of "YAY!" before she realised she'd sent her friend Shangela home <3
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Farrah was done dirty I'm sure there's worse than her still to come

Sahara was always a bit invisible for me so.. on her placing
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88th Place: Jade Jolie (Season 5) - finished 8th

As "meh" as her impersonation of Taylor Swift during the S5 Snatch Game was, in a way it was a perfect choice for Jade Jolie: because despite a heavy "holier than thou" sugary, innocent exterior, there is a rotted nasty beast in Taylor Swift and I think Jade went extra method in capturing that throughout season 5.

Now, I don't hate Jade, and actually think she was great reality TV and contributed a hell of a lot of drama that wasn't just the same old "Alyssa vs. Coco" tedium that season 5 would later become. But she is definitely on the meaner side of the Drag Race spectrum and would not let miss Alyssa Edwards live she definitely chose the wrong ally in Coco.

Jade's time on the show was pretty lacklustre: she gave okay performances in Snatch Game and the ballet, but never came close to shining and was pretty obviously a filler queen. Then, if she lasted longer, perhaps the knowledge that she has starred in gay porn themed around Nazis would be a little more common. Which we don't want, really, and is why I won't mention it now.

She read the hell out of Serena though, and for that, I love her.


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"Serena said she went to art school. She might want her money back."
"Girl you ain't that pretty. Covergirl not coverboy, baby."
"Girl if I was gonna judge anyone, I'd judge you on that body where the shoulders should match them hips, but they don't, so... girl you had rolls, all over the back! It was disgusting!"
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Best Moment(s): I still get life whenever she does these weird knee-kicks and flicks during the lipsync vs. Coco, with her random af strands of hair flailing around her body
Alternatively, failing to notice the giant water tank behind her in the week 1 photoshoot
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the knowledge that she has starred in gay porn themed around Nazis would be a little more common

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87th Place: Laila McQueen (Season 8) - finished joint-last

I guess it doesn't make a huge amount of sense to put this big a gap in my rankings between Dax and Laila when they both pretty much ****ed up the "I Will Survive" lipsync equally, but hey... I guess I like Laila.

Laila's pretty popular among the other queens and immediately strikes me as probably the most polished "first eliminee" queen - Vanjie included. It certainly seems inevitable that she'll be asked back to compete in a future series, whether that's Allstars or something else, because she managed to accrue a large number of fans for... very little performance.

OK so a huge part of my defence of Laila is that she 100%, no doubt in my mind did not deserve to be in the bottom two in the first episode. Her take on the Rupocalypse runway might not have been a complete head-to-toe look, but it was far more creative and well-constructed than Naomi's cheap gold dress and ugly-ass boat, Robbie's poodle monstrosity, and I would argue even Cynthia's Detox knock-off and Derrick's mistletoe pubes. There's still a strong chance she'd have been edited out in episode two anyway for failing to be a huge personality, but she didn't deserve to be a queen who lipsynced in every episode she featured in.

Still: that first one to 'Applause' was a pretty stellar one, so there's that at least. And I think across all seasons, Laila is comfortably the queen I am most attracted to out of drag. So well done Laila!


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86th Place: Dusty Ray Bottoms (Season 10) - finished 11th

My pre-season favourite based almost entirely on what he looked like out of drag, Dusty's presence in Season 10 was pretty much unnoticeable. Judging the queens from the later seasons seems quite hard and harsh to do now because it's pretty rare for a queen to deliver a performance in a challenge that is anywhere near as bad as, say, Milan's Tuckahoe acting, Milan's Diana Ross, or even Milan's Glamazon advert*. Pretty much all of the queens who get eliminated in the first half of the season now are capable of delivering at least one good performance; whereas back in season 5 and earlier, these slots were reserved for filler like Honey Mahogany, India Ferrah or Nicole Paige Brooks.

Dusty certainly had two highlights that I can recall: her performance in the Dating App challenge was the best of a pretty horrible team (thanks a LOT, Monique, for landing Our Mayhem in the bottom two with piss-poor management!), and the episode before that saw her turn what could've been a winning performance in the PharmaRusical - had she been on the winning team. Because you cannot argue that the Vixen did a better job in that, or indeed her best drag, than Dusty

Unfortunately once Dusty had spilled her devastating personal story of how she'd been forced into conversion therapy, she was inevitably left on the pile of "queens we don't know what to do with because they aren't fighting" and ended up tanking the global warming Ball on 2/3 looks. Bless her cotton socks for thinking that a glow-up wig would be visible for her Miami Summer look though

As I said, I really liked Dusty and she was a sweetheart, but she was totally not giving C-U-N-T on season 10, so has to go.


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Best Runway(s): Definitely her 'Best Drag' runway
Best Moment(s): Preparing a monologue read for every single queen in the reunion when they were only asked to give two each


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85th Place: Jade (Season 1) - finished 6th

There isn't quite a lot I remember about Jade, but I do still hold the strong sense that: if ever a drag queen was robbed on this show, it was Jade. Jade might not have stole the show in her first three episodes but the level of polish and preparation far surpassed the likes of Rebecca Glasscock - the queen who would send her home. And the GIF above is taken from episode four; the episode she was eliminated on. I'm still not sure how she even winded up in the bottom two: her ad campaign was a pretty sick look and she certainly didn't fluff her lines as much as Shannel or Bebe.

Her most controversial moment came when she lipsynced against Rebecca, a video I've already shared in my Glasscock writeup but that was truly the most clear-cut robbery in lipsync history. Even Trixie/Pearl, I at least enjoyed Pearl's ANGRY-FLAILING take on 'Dreaming' a little more than Trixie's forgettable cuteness. This was a straight-up riggery and Jade was justifiably pissed off at the reunion. Another Drag Race classic, that episode and not just for Tammie coming for Ru.

Jade recently popped up at the S10 finale as "only season 1 girl who actually looked excited to perform" and delivered the best medley performance along with Monique Heart:
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Otherwise sadly all I remember about Jade is her being interviewed on national news media in response to the Pulse tragedy - something she lost her cousin in - but I am pretty firm in my belief that I'd be more than happy to see more of Jade should Allstars ever come calling

Oh, also: obvious Jade/Trade pun here: http://i.imgur.com/G7b8HTr.jpg


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Best Moment(s): Thinking that putting blackface on was the requirement of the "channel your inner Oprah" task <3
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84th Place: Laganja Estranja (Season 6) - finished 8th

If you'd asked me to do this list just after season six ended, I would probably have jumped straight to put Laganja in the bottom five. With hindsight, of course season six is hands down the best that has ever aired, so the idea of a queen from it being at the rock bottom is a little farfetched, but I cannot stress just how tiresome and draining I felt watching Laganja at the time. There has not been, and hopefully never will be a queen who was/is more dramatic, insecure, false and intense - and the Untucked episodes further amplified Laganja's problems and probably made her the first queen I actually hated (but then that's because S6 is the first I watched live). Whilst it was fun to root against her, and see queens like Adore, Bianca and Joslyn suss her to be full of it, it has to be said that it was deeply uncomfortable and borderline exploitative to watch her neuroses play out so violently publicly.

Time has passed though, and the high has mellowed. Though the reunion proved that she would take some time before dropping the affectations and the silly voice and the 100% ON TONIGHT, DARLING attitude, she has definitely improved and shown herself not quite to be the paranoid asshole she was on her season... but at the same time she didn't really do well at any of the challenges enough for me to justify placing her any higher.

She may be one of the most iconic queens the show has shone a light on, but they're mostly for all the wrong reasons MAWMA.


Memorable quote(s): "I FEEL VERY ATTACKED."
"I can't specifically point out what you said, but I know that whatever you said, it did hurt me."
"I don't know why I expected anything different, it's just like the human race - we all are just... ****ing evil."
"Can y'all get my ****ing nail that fell off? 'Cause I'm such a disaster. SEND ME ****IN' HOME, GOD."
Best Runway(s): idk what the theme was but that one where she's in a lace peach gown, and has a butterfly fascinator?[/url]
Best Moment(s): Obviously her workroom entrance is the greatest of all time.
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83rd Place: Vivacious (Season 6) - finished 12th

It still hurts that Vivacious went home so early on season 6, but then every time I rewatch that horror movie challenge I can't help but feel frustration and, ultimately, reluctant acceptance of her sashay. Because for every terrible line of delivery, awkward pause, and look of complete confusion that she showed in that episode, she had a pocketful of charisma being showcased elsewhere.

I still don't really understand why her Game of Thrones look earned her the bottom two when she delivered the best runway walk (it saved Mystique back in season two, so...?) and Laganja looked like the Tin Man stuck in some black cobwebs / Adore looked like a diabetic child... but hey, whatever. Totally over it.

Vivacious packed a lot of memorable lines and moments (Ornacia, LIZA MINELLI LIES, the spike suit) into such a brief time that she will always have my heart, but I just couldn't place her any higher when all she could really do was walk crooked in an entertaining way.


Memorable quote(s): "Mother... has arrived."
Best Runway(s): I mean it's obviously this majestic phenomenon.
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I remember her mostly for that video on Reddit of her wielding a fan at an arsehole with enough fury and sass to bring forth Armeggedon. An underrated queen although it's purely her fault for messing up that challenge so bad.
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82nd Place: Madame LaQueer (Season 4) - finished 10th

SEVERELY underrated, and treated as something of a joke from season four (notably by her fellow competitors at the time, like Kenya Michaels, Willam and Sharon Needles), Madame LaQueer actually holds a record for being the earliest queen to sashay away with a challenge win in her purse. I say this as if it's a fact I've researched, but to my knowledge... she won episode 2, went home on episode 4. Morgan McMichaels, Lineysha Sparx and Mayhem Miller went home episode 5. Yup, just checked. My drag race intuitions were correct.

As mentioned: Madame's size saw her receive a lot of attention and jibes from the rest of the girls, and her language barrier didn't really help - especially not when adopting a fancy European accent in an acting challenge. Her fears over her physical abilities were triumphantly overcome in a Divas of Wrestling challenge, creating Meatball a monster sidekick character to Chad Michaels' villain. She also snatched a mini-challenge win with Willam for their mugshots, although one would argue this was mostly Willam's idea (with the blue dye packs from the 'money they'd robbed').

I'm a little rusty at writing these things again but I am firm in my belief that Madame LaQueer is one of many queens who would be a welcome returnee at some point in Drag Race future, as her makeup and stage presence are pretty strong enough, and she has the potential to surprise us. Unfortunately, she's stuck with not only the older-season staple of "let's make fun of the hispanic queen" but also the status of 'pointer sister', and was destroyed by Milan in a lipsync.


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81st Place: The Vixen (Season 10) - finished 7th

I think enough time has passed now to look back on the Vixen's tenure on Season 10 relatively objectively (probably because it feels like there has been 5 seasons since Aquaria won), so let's tackle the season's angriest queen.

I first became aware of the Vixen when she popped up in the music video (and indeed lyrics) of Shea Coulee's pretty good 'Cocky', and whilst she didn't really steal the show, she was someone many tipped to snatch the crown Shea deserved. As the host of 'Black Girl Magic' tours and gigs, she demonstrated a hugely woke and political side that Drag Race was in dire need of - too long the show had been sleeping on serious issues and allowing any and all political challenges to be yet another excuse to make dick jokes and throw boring shade at each other. By episode three of S10, though, it became pretty clear that Vixen wasn't really going to do herself any favours.

The feud with Eureka was obviously one of the main season talking points and many took her side because Eureka is annoying and overbearing (and obviously masterminded the whole thing by saying "I wanted to push her", because if there's one word that describes Eureka it's mastermind ) but like... everyone skims over the Untuckeds where she lashes out at queens like Monet, Asia and Monique for saying she wasn't delivering, was acting out of control, and coming across as too aggressive. It's not like Vixen was entirely friendless: Mayhem, Asia and Monique all tried multiple times to get her involved and at ease. She just had... a horrible temper and absolutely piss-poor people skills.



Which leads us onto the disastrous reunion showing, where she stormed offset and made Asia cry. Again, it was terribly en vogue to side with Vixen because Ru had very recently been on a run of saying terribly myopic and ignorant things (re: trans contestants, re: spirituality, re: forgetting queens' names) but if you actually look at the reunion and think she conducted herself maturely... then ok... act the fool, girl. Was she ganged up on? Sure, the whole debacle is reminiscent of a cornered animal lashing out, but let's not forget who she lashed out against and why.

The Vixen wasn't a victim: she was childish and vindictive. You can't blame the editing on her choosing to send Eureka home despite Eureka being top 2 of Snatch Game and having a great mermaid look, out of spite - you can't blame the editing on her calling everyone fake friends and bitches because they said she'd objectively performed the worst - you can't blame the editing on her trying to partner off Aquaria and Eureka and hope they'd sabotage each other whilst she fails to rehearse with Asia - and you can't blame the editing on her rolling her eyes, muttering childish comments and refusing to be professional or try to win tasks.

Long story short: the recent drama with Manila Luzon pretty much cemented my opinion of her.

She won the PharmaRusical challenge for no good goddamn reason (she didn't stand out as much as Blair, Dusty, Asia, Mayhem or Kameron, and her runway was half borrowed from Monique) and otherwise didn't really excel in any of the challenges. Her Snatch Game is an all-time low for the show, she BOMBED at the Bossy Rossy challenge (and should've lipsynced over Mayhem), she sucked at the DragCon panel challenge, and rightly got sent home for the Cher challenge (despite some unfair criticisms on her choreography). The only challenge I feel like she should've placed in the top for was her Week 1 look with the rubber tubes, but even then can you really argue she bested Cracker/Mayhem/Yuhua? It's a stretch. So yeah, I'm putting Vixen this low because she...just didn't do very well, and was a toxic personality.

I hope she grows up, though, because she's talented and dynamic. But there is just too much paranoid, ill-informed anger for me to even entertain the idea she is currently great.


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Best Runway(s): Either her peacock 'feathers' runway, or the Glitterific one she went home in
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80th Place: Tempest DuJour (Season 7) - finished last

I couldn't really justify placing a first-eliminated queen any higher, but I adore Tempest. Of course, if you go by just season 7, she is quickly forgotten and not all that, but the cameos she's enjoyed on various World of Wonder videos and interviews I've watched with Hey Qween just cement her as a really smart, generous, loving person and someone with a fun sensibility.

It wouldn't be fair to ignore her stint on Season 7, though, and she had a pretty unfortunate run. I will say that Sasha Belle should've been in the bottom over her: SHE WORE A VISIBLE BLACK BRA. FOR A NUDE ILLUSION CHALLENGE. How dare you? But yeah she didn't do great, and her comeback episode was another makeover challenge so yeah... we didn't exactly get to see a full representation of what makes Tempest a good drag queen.

The brief moments we saw on the show highlighted how she had adopted two children, was a professor at university, and had recently (prior to filming) shrunk from 400lbs - but if you ever get the time, watch her interview on Hey Qween below where she discusses cruising in a heavily religious community (she used to be a Southern Baptist, and then a Mormon missionary), conversion therapy, living in Saudi Arabia, almost dying in a car accident and more:



See also: her and Mrs. Kasha Davis' stint as the "older Trixie & Katya" in one of the UNHhhh episodes (I'll look it up now: episode 38). Her Katyaisms are on point

So yeah, if you take a queen's worth to be purely how she performs on Drag Race, then sure she underwhelmed. But Tempest is, for sure, one of my favourites and a true unique


Memorable quote(s): "How old am I? Really."
Best Runway(s): Well... oh no wait there was a mini-challenge, so this counts
Best Moment(s): Jumping around helplessly behind Jaidynn Diore Fierce? Dropping a baby out of her vadge in her entrance?
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it is quite dispiriting to have people say "bring this back!!!" when literally nobody comments between posts anyway
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VERY WELL this list is a bit redundant now that they've chucked together S11 so quickly but I wouldn't know where to start on whether I like 75% of that cast anyway


79th Place: Kandy Ho (Season 7) - finished 10th

If you had asked me to compile this list towards the tail end of season seven or eight, Kandy would probably have placed in my bottom ten because she'd sent home two of my favourite queens and delivered so little in performance on the show

With repeated rewatches though, the hate isn't quite justified, and her lipsyncs are some of the best performances the show has seen. Eventually sent packing by Jaidynn Dior Fierce, Kandy annihilated anyone she went up against and probably did to Jaidynn too if we'd seen the full edit (the way the edit cuts away to Jaidynn just before the biggest drop in Ariana Grande's 'Break Free', and Kandy clearly jump-splits because Ariana goes 'WOoOoOOoOOOOO!' whilst Jaidynn is just body-popping). It's such a small moment of a lipsync but the ending of that performance - even though she went home - where she is whipping her ponytail around to literal EDM beats and nothing else, is sf extra and gay and breathtaking that I retroactively stan Kandy Ho.

You might still be asking why I place her this high. It might be for an off-the-show reason, but I do genuinely believe that this is - if not the best - one of the best performances from a pre-season club appearance I've ever seen. You deserve to watch this, it honestly ****s on even the likes of Kennedy and Shangela.



Unfortunately Kandy had an um... rather abrasive reaction with her fellow queens and if you get off on drag queens giving hilariously awkward and embarrassing interviews in which they throw unnecessary and shallow shade at their entire season of queens (notably not knowing "what does she do?" when asked about Ginger), then check out her Hey Qween and Look at Huh! videos on YouTube. On the season, she is best remembered for insulting Tempest DuJour about her age... and her "what the ****?" soundbite that Lee Dawson has played to death in those videos I presume someone is still watching but I have abandoned because he plays fully into the racist and body-shaming fans' hands Oh and the beard contour, obviously.


Memorable quote(s): "MOTHER DOES NOT...PLAY." Ross: "...that." Kandy: "FUCK."
Best Runway(s): 100% the Bearded Runway, where she looked like some hybrid of the kung fu guy from Kill Bill, and a Dynasty character attending a funeral.

Best Moment(s): As mentioned: definitely her 'Break Free' lipsync. Did get a huge laugh out of Ginger describing her 'Geronimo' lipsync as a playground bully about to beat the crap out of you, though.
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