Chris, thanks for the tip on Miss Fame's boy account! CG, I don't have any Florida queens on my radar, weirdly (or if I do, I haven't realized they're Florida queens--hometown isn't one of my spreadsheet columns). Florida has felt wildly over-represented lately, though--maybe they're getting a break this year? Jasmine, I've had April Carrion on my list for a while now; she's in the category of "Wasn't active enough on social media before to tell if she's missing now." I'm definitely keeping an eye on her. ;-) Thanks for the tip on Queen Bee Ho'!

Imma post my own thoughts/reactions as a comment, since as I said, I'm no qualified arbiter of fashion, drag or otherwise. :-) Sara, I agree: Alyssa keeps to a very narrow color palette. With the exception of Pink Week, it's all blacks and dark, dark jewel tones, always with brunette hair. How many different wigs have we actually seen from her, I wonder? Coco's looks are ...almost ...campy. Am I wrong? For as much as she crows about being a glam queen, and how the camp queens don't bring it the way she does, look at all those over-the-top whackadoodle outfits together, and tell me you wouldn't mistake her for a camp queen if you didn't know her personality and background. Detox brings the editorial looks. Every week, I hadn't been sure if I liked her look, but now that I'm seeing them all together, I'm suddenly really understanding and appreciating her aesthetic. I like her more each episode, and with Ivy gone, she's now in my personal favorite top three. And you're spot-on, Sara: aside from her lip color, Roxxxy paints almost exactly the same way each week. It borders on uncanny. Has she determined that her technique is flawless exactly the way she executes it, or does she just never experiment?

I agree, Sara--for me, the fighting runs a narrow gamut between irritating and stressful. I couldn't even *deal* with Untucked this week, which is why I skipped it in the recap entirely. Ugh. (That said: I re-watched that Untucked with a friend who is a mental health counselor. As she watched Coco and Jinkx go at it, she observed, "That's sleep-deprivation-fighting. Those two just need sleep, a lot more sleep than they're getting." It gives me a starting point for sympathy for Coco--people who aren't sleeping aren't themselves. STILL, THOUGH.) Lisa, I knew exactly what you meant, and I did exactly the same thing. By halfway through the LSFYL, I was gritting my teeth and whisper-screaming at the television, "Come on, Ivy, you are fiercer than that." Because she is! JiveHonkey, I'm not sure about Alaska crafting a persona/narrative per se, so much as simply crafting a strategy for not getting immediately labeled a stunt-casting, compared unfavorably to Sharon, and sent home. A less-savvvy queen in Alaska's position would have borne that fate. I haven't written an essay about her yet or anything, but I've been thinking a lot about Detox the last few weeks. She spent last season watching one of her best friends cakewalk through the competition (after all, before the DQ, Willam had the second-best record after Sharon), and must have figured, "I can do that too." But this is a really, really competitive year, and where Detox might have cleaned up on another season, this season has a couple untouchable queens in almost every drag discipline. Detox is almost too well-rounded: funny, but not the funniest; polished, but not always the most-polished; a fierce runway walker, but not the only glamazon stomping the stage. If she's frustrated, it's justified: this season's competition is stiff. (Okay, I guess now I've written an essay about Detox. I hope she gets more screen time in the next couple episodes--she's really become one of the kindest, coolest personalities this season.)

I am starting to think that RuPaul was talking completely out his ass when he said "Two queens fall in love." We've seen three or four of them nursing crushes, but unless the end of production is about to get intense, they only have, what? Four episodes, so maybe two weeks of filming left, tops? Probably less? And the internet has collectively determined that none of the queens are dating now, or if they are, they're being very DL about it. So, I'm not sure if RuPaul was intending to refer to these two, or Detox and Roxxxy, or somebody else entirely, but I think that regardless, "two queens fall in love" was an exaggeration. Unless they're ALL pulling one over on us, and if that's the case, condragulations to them--I'm being successfully tricked into thinking there's not gonna be a couple this season after all. ;-)