#cdr1

[eyeslikewatercoolers]

Our Song (Lemyanka)

The first part of my Swiftie Writing Project is here!! I've only written this ship once before in a drabble, but I've been wanting to write more of them. Enjoy some cute fluff!

Read on ao3

I was ridin' shotgun with my hair undone

In the front seat of her car

She's got a one-hand feel on the steering wheel

The other on my heart

Lemon could feel every slight bump in the road as she sat in the passenger seat. Priyanka’s hand-me-down used car was older than both of them combined. The air conditioning was broken and the battery was on the fritz, but it didn’t stop them from impromptu weekend road trips. 

The teenagers were just returning from the movie theater, two towns over. The little Ontario town they lived in was more of a glorified village, so they had to travel to do anything fun. 

Lemon listened to the radio as they passed the other cars. The windows were down and she felt the summer sun on her hair, making it appear blonder. 

She let go of Priyanka’s hand to reach over to the radio dial, slowly turning it to the left. The music went quieter, causing her girlfriend to notice. Priyanka glanced at her for a moment, her head slightly turned. 

“Baby, is something wrong?” she asked. 

When Priyanka asked her, Lemon realized how stupid she was about to sound. But she was already too deep, so she might as well go for it. 

“It’s nothing, I just kinda realized that we don’t have a song,” she said sheepishly. 

Priyanka tilted her head in confusion as she changed lanes, “What do you mean? Do we have to have a song?” she pointed out. Her girlfriend had a point, it wasn’t something they needed to have to be in a relationship. 

Lemon shrugged and turned the radio volume back up. Some music could maybe give her some inspiration.

Our song is the slamming screen door

Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window

When we're on the phone, and you talk real slow

'Cause it's late, and your mama don't know

Later that night, Lemon couldn’t sleep. She tossed and turned in her bed, but sleep wouldn’t come. The blonde gave up on trying to fight for sleep and peeked out her bedroom blinds to the neighbor’s house. 

The only window that had a light on was the one at the end of the hallway. She grinned as she soon found her hoodie and Converse shoes in the dark.

Several minutes later, Lemon crossed the quiet street while looking out for any stray cars. Most of everyone in town was back home at this late hour. 

She snuck through the rose bushes in front of Priyanka’s window, being careful of the thorns. Priyanka’s house was one of the nicest yards in the neighborhood, and Lemon did not want to ruin that. 

Lemon got to the window and reached to carefully tap on the glass. She couldn’t be too loud and wake up the entire house. Piryanka’s parents were serious about getting enough sleep at night.

A pair of eyes peeked through the blinds before they were pulled up. Priyanka recognized Lemon in the light from her bedroom and opened the window. 

“What are you doing here?” she asked in a low voice. 

“I couldn’t sleep, can you let me in?” the blonde asked.

Priyanka looked towards her bedroom door, and then back to her girlfriend, “Fine, just keep your voice down.” 

Lemon would cringe as she would accidentally cause the back screen door to slam early the next morning, but sneaking back into her house was always worth more time with Priyanka.

I've heard every album, listened to the radio

Waited for something to come along

That was as good as our song

Lemon spent all day after getting home from school the next week listening to every playlist she had. All through the driving playlist, the homework playlist, and everything that Spotify recommended to her. 

No song that felt like it was meant to be their song. 

Priyanka wasn’t the one who was into finding what their song was, but that just made Lemon more determined. All their friends had found songs that fit their relationships, but Lemon felt that their song was still out there.

By the end of the week, Lemon was feeling like she was nearly giving up on finding a song. She reached the point of listening to her parent’s old CDs, but that wasn’t helping her search either. 

She and Priyanka were going on another small road trip to the only mall in the area, that was over an hour away. She needed her sleep, even if that meant her search was over for the night. 

Lemon shut her old laptop without bothering to shut it off. Putting it on the ottoman at the foot of her bed, she drifted off to a dreamless, uninspiring sleep. 

I was ridin' shotgun with my hair undone

In the front seat of his car

I grabbed a pen and an old napkin

And I wrote down our song

“When is this road work going to be over?” Priyanka sighed as they pulled up to the long line of cars in front of them. The traffic reached a standstill as they were nearing the exit to get off the freeway. 

Lemon glanced at the radio that was playing her usual driving playlist. She already listened to these songs all week as she was on a listless search for her and Priyanka’s songs. The blonde was growing bored of these songs that she’d listened to so many times.

With a swoop of her hand, Lemon took her phone off the aux cord. The car turned to sudden silence, with only the sound of the engine keeping them company. 

Priyanka looked at her in surprise, “What was that for?” she asked with a raised eyebrow. She glanced between Lemon and the phone that was still in her hand.

Lemon looked at the radio again, “Why don’t we find a radio station to listen to? I’ve been listening to these songs literally all week, it's not even funny.”

“Are you still trying to find our song?” Priyanka asked as she pressed the power button on the radio dial. All they heard was an angry white noise until Priyanka found the search button to find a station. 

As the traffic pulled up, Lemon searched through the different stations. She found the top 40, gospel, folk songs, and classic rock. At the higher end of the FM stations, she found a station playing popular songs from the 90’s and 2000’s. 

During the rest of the car ride, Lemon sang her heart out with Priyanka by her side. Backstreet Boys, Destiny’s Child, and then to Spice Girls filled the car as they made their way to the mall. As Priyanka found a good parking spot during the middle of a Britney Spears classic, an idea suddenly hit Lemon. 

She pulled open the glovebox, searching through the insurance cards and owner’s manual. At the bottom of the papers, she found an old napkin with a Taco Bell logo on it. She found a pen that originally came from a nearby bank off the floor, and clicked it. 

“Are you writing a list?” Priyanka asked as she shut off the car. 

“No, I’m gonna write our song,” Lemon said as she tested the pen on her hand.

Priyanka rolled her eyes playfully, “Can you write it after we go to the sale at Zara?” 

Lemon laughed as she put the napkin and pen on the dusty dashboard. “C’mon, you dork,” she said before they both left the car, holding hands as they walked inside.

[rpdrstims]

Lemon getting ready to lipsync!

[pathetiic-fallacy]

Juice Boxx - It's Just Drag

The Commodore Ballroom

01/27/23

[boats-drag-race]

Unrelated but like... Its so weird to me that NO ONE seemed to ship Rita/Scarlett in s1... I might need to rewatch it to like, make a compelling case but damn, I was suprised to see that it wasn't a big ship in the CDR fandom lol

[missjanjie]

genuinely asking, was plane’s chapell makeup supposed to be ugly asf or is that just on her?

[thecollectionsof]

today i love lemon and priyanka so much

[alittlebitgoofy]

I know Im biased but canada remains the best franchise icl they do it WELL

[lady-assnali]

Just some cute pastel girlies getting into mischief, it’s a WIP on a Tuesday! It might get expanded, it might stay this way, who knows! bc there’s no rules in my life rn, just vibes.

(Jan and Marcia are sisters, Lemon’s their cousin, the vibe is affluent New York natives and their Canadian cousin who are besties living their lives.)

💜 💛 🧡

“You can’t do that!” Marcia hisses, her head whipping around to see if anybody is watching. They’re not; the party is in full swing upstairs, and the only people around are the caterers, who are far too concerned with preparing desserts and figuring out how to cut the massive cake Jan and Marcia’s mom had ordered to notice the three teenagers huddled around their extra fridge. Jan’s shuffling things around in her backpack, making room to wrap washcloths around a bottle of top shelf rosé.

“Who says that I can’t?”

“If mom finds out we’re dead.”

“She’s not going to find out” Lemon rolls her eyes, brushing her perfect blonde to yellow ombré from her eyes. “She’s too busy talking with my mom about how nice it is that we’re all staying in the same city for school. Really, Marshie, take a breath.”

“I am breathing!”

“You’re not.” Jan pats her head lightly, adding a second bottle of pink whine to her backpack. “Besides, technically the only person who’s doing anything is me. I’m taking the alcohol, nobody will know it’s gone. You’re barely even an accomplice. You’re the graduate! And you’re the princess. Nobody’s going to tell you a single thing.”

“Yeah. You seem to forget that in my country, we’d be able to go and get our own stuff instead of drinking what your mom likes.” Lemon stacks a couple of seltzers in the font pocket of her own little bag, protected by some dish towels she’d managed to snag. The two older girls are a well-oiled machine, and Marcia continues to look around as they finish up their work. Finally, Jan zips up her backpack with a practiced ease.

“In a week it won’t matter anyway because I can buy. But I won’t buy if you’re not being safe, that’s the rule.”

“Yes mom, we get it. I’m the only one you’ll be buying for. Marshie’s too good to break the rules.”

“Leave me alone!”

“You know, your pouting’s a lot more noticeable than us walking to the fridge to get something.”

“Alright you two, lose it. We’re going to the roof and you two need to play nice until then, and if you don’t I’ll call Rosie and Goona back to share this all with me instead.” She notices Marcia’s pout and stops in her tracks, folding her hands over her chest. The caterers whir around them, stopping only once to offer them a tray of tiny, stupidly perfect strawberry shortcakes. Marcia takes two, thanks the waitress entirely too much to be subtle, and Jan grabs hold of her arm before she can say anything else.

The girls are a giggling mess as they weave through the crowd, filling their hands with desserts and waving to the crowd of people that have come to celebrate Marcia’s big day. It’s mostly adults now; her friends had come and gone, leaving for their own parties or dinner reservations while Marcia knew hers would last well into the night. It’s not as if their mother never throws parties, they’d just had a little dinner party for some charity last week. But this? This big life event, the high school graduation of her last baby? She’d really called out all of the stops for this, and although a portion of it all is certainly aimed toward showing off a little bit, Marcia truly is grateful for it all.

However, with Lemon stacking a plate high with three slices of cake and Jan stopping to chat with their incessantly chatty and passive aggressively homophobic uncle, she wants desperately to power her way through the crowd to the safety of the roof.

[senju]

i wouldn't be surprised if jimbo won as8 but god i just find her so obnoxious tbh

[bowlcutlegacy]

Fun Jimbo fact: Jimbo has previously credited Vivian Vanderpuss for helping her with her makeup skills before and after CDR season 1. Vivian also did Jimbo’s makeup for a few of her CDR1 photo shoots and for various other media projects Jimbo has done (my favorite being a remake of the “Video Killed the Radio Star” music video, which Vivian also appears in!)

In other words, I’m Team Jimbo because I love weird drag, but I’m also Team Jimbo out of obligation to my fave, Vivian.

I still want Kandy to take it all though

[sweetestberryofthebunch]

My biggest red flag is that my favourite Drag Race seasons are s7, s11 and CDR1 …

[jinkx-monswoon]

AUBREY WATCHES AS8 - EPISODE 2

SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE ASS EPISODE UNDER THE CUT

- jimbo ily but im sorry... u did NOT win that 😭 her win was rigged and for what? the jimbo vs pangina lipsync wasn't even that big of a moment 🙄

- im mad that neither jessica nor kasha have gotten high yet. they slayed both challenges and it's not fair </3

- also im so sad for naysha.. especially because jessica was so sad and that tore me up 🥺

- the challenge was soooo funny though holy shit. honestly i think jaymes or heidi shouldve won

- jessica wild of season 2 and jimbo of cdr1 was NOT the chemistry i was expecting this season but hello?? they were iconic lets gooooo

[rosenallies]

CDR3 is the best CDR season as a whole. but CDR2 made the best casting choices. and CDR1’s queens have raw talent that I love and their drama was funny as hell

I finished s3 today and I honestly agree 😭 idk why I stopped watching last year, it prob had more to do with what was going on in my life at the time and once I get too far behind I tend not to finish things blah blah blah but I really enjoyed the season! I also adored s1/2! Priyanka is still one of my fave queens of all time, ik I don’t talk about her a ton on here but she’s genuinely one of my faves, I’ve had enough m&gs by now that I don’t really get like super star struck but I kinda was when I met her 😭

[missjanjie]

Oh and also can I have your thoughts on Scarlett Bobo x Rita? I think they have a lot of ship potential but I don't really see anyone else that thinks so lmao

i really haven’t thought about any of the cdr1 ships other than lemyanka so since it doesn’t interfere im fine w it existing lol

[trendfag]

i genuinely do not remember a single thing about cdr1

[alittlebitgoofy]

Yk what, I like jimbo now bc of ✈️ how do you make me think jimbo is alright actually when I’ve disliked her since cdr1