#we stan shangela

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*Crutchie, emerging from the Refuge wagon*

“Halleloo, ladies!”

[tampire]

[dncingthrghlife]

Shangela made a guest appearance in Lovecraft Country!!!

2020 may be sh*t but, between this and We’re Here, at least Shangela has got HBO wrapped up TIGHT!

[dontfuckingfollowifurafetishblog]

[saintkimora]

In this house we hate Ben delacreme

[roxy206]

Episodes 7 & 8

Okay but crying over Nancy Pelosi visiting the workroom talking about voting

Oh I love Trixie as the Erin Brockovich character though

BIG MISTAKE! HUGE!

We love a Julia Roberts stan!!

“I’m not super social so a lot of times I’m saving it for the audience” yes this would be me

You’re a dirty cop & I’m a whistleblower 😂

So proud of Trixie 🥺

Oh hell yes cannot wait for a Trixie & Shangela lip sync

“Would you like to sit on a sofa & possibly cry?” lmaooo

BITCH!!!

“I’m not Phi Phi I’ll hug everyone”

NOT BEBE ASKING TRIXIE WHO SHE WOULD HAVE PICKED

Trixie getting pair with the dancer she thinks is hot - love

Having to compare to Read U Wrote U can you imagine

This dork

Okay listen. Kitty Girl. Very good, very cute. I’ll leave it at that

Shangela’s dress is GORGEOUS

Oh fuck though Trixie’s look!

This situation with the eliminated queens picking the top two is bizarre

They so all knew they were going to put Trixie in the top two the way they’re asking her who else they should put in the top, who they shouldn’t

Oh wow I really thought Shangela would be the other queen in the top two

Trixie is so shook omg

I’m sobbing watching Trixie lip sync Wrecking Ball this is fine

STOP SHE DID A REVEAL

🥺🥺🥺

I have to think about how Katya told Trixie that she hates this shirt so that I can stop crying lol

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Looking T some Glee discussions on my timeline (how are we still mad it’s been 84 years?) explains I am being so picky about the B*S fandom because AR*Y is intense. Luckily i have irl friends that are fans and we have a fandom group chat. I don’t read RPF so i just read harmless headcanons. I have found the black fans, which is awesome in a way i can’t communicate. And I won’t engage stan twitter. I just wanna dance to some bops (don’t act like you haven’t heard Butter or My Universe, them joints slap) and giggle at how cute they all are. I’m too old for fandom stress. Lol.

I’m already in too deep with drag race. Shangela and Mayhem recognize me in public.

[fabulesque]

https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/9kiss7/shangela_walked_the_red_carpet_with_her_mom_and/

She also brought her mom to the red carpet too!

shangela at the UK premiere of “a star is born” (with lady gaga and bradley cooper) 

[corpusdiem-seizethedead]

Spot: *accusing Jack of taking the money from Pulitzer* Just ‘cause you got a sugar daddy who pays for everything for you-

Jack: Time out, hold up. Hold up, sweetheart. Let's get it together before you wanna read. I don't have a sugar daddy, sweetheart. Everything that I've had, I've worked for, and I worked for to get and I've built myself. So you need to know that 100%. I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy. If I wanted a sugar daddy, yes, I probably can go out and get one, because I AM WHAT? SICKENING. You could never have a sugar daddy because you are NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL. Baby, everything I've had I worked for, and I've gotten myself. I built myself from the ground up, BITCH

[miifighter]

Season 11 Top 4

#TeamBrookeLynn: first-time viewers, pragmatist viewers who believe the queen with most challenge wins should win, branjie shippers, people who believe Trinity should have been the sole winner of AS4

#TeamAkeria: Asia o'Hara stans, Kennedy stans, people who believe Monet should have been the sole winner of AS4

#TeamYvie: people who expected Milk to do good on AS3, Shangela stans, Raja stans, fashion gays who got LIVID after watching people fumble this year's met gala, people still pining for Evah Destruction to show up on drag race

#TeamSilky: Eureka stans, people who agree we need a big girl winner but haven't actually watched the season, people who defended Latrice Royale's wardrobe choices on AS4, Kalorie Karbdashian Williams

[nevermindthewind]

start your engines

since we know that jake and amy canonically watch drag race, ofc i had to write up some headcanons on the subject. mild spoilers for drag race. 

· Rosa’s been watching drag race since season one. She loves her some good reality tv and when you combine that with fierce talent?? Obviously our girls into it.

· However, since this is rosa we’re talking about, no one at the nine nine knows about her new favorite show.

· That is, until jake invites her to drinks one night in 2012 and she responds without thinking.

 “Sorry dude, can’t. Drag race is on tonight and I need to see if my girl sharon needles finally sends that bitch phi phi packing.”

Jake is shocked, natch. What is this show and, more importantly, who in their right mind would name their child sharon needles?! He tries to ask but rosa shoots him her signature Death Glare and he drops it.

· A couple years later he sees rosa and gina discussing something in the break room and he sees rosa get more animated and excited than he’s ever seen her. When he goes in to investigate he discovers it’s an argument...of sorts.

“Rosa, rosa, rosa. There is no way in hell dela deserved to go home over darienne. I mean, did you see darienne’s gown for the ball?! if you can even call it a gown. More like a flesh colored stretched out condom with a couple rhinestones attached.”

“No way. Dela showed the judges the same boring outfit we’ve seen every runway. I never got to know her. America’s next drag superstar can’t hide behind a character.”

“You would never see Floorgasm in an outfit like that, let alone the winner of drag race. Shudder.”

· Jake finally gets into the show the following season. When he’s in the midst of his amy funk and amy’s dating teddy rosa takes pity on the guy and invites him over for the season seven premiere. Rosa gives him a basic rundown of the show and tells him that he better ask his questions now because as soon as the episode starts all of her attention will be on the queen’s entrance looks.

· As soon as he watches the first lip sync for your life jake is hooked.

“You mean they do all those dance moves and splits in HEELS?”

“Yeah, dude. And i read that each runway takes hours and they’re on their feet the entire time. those queens are stronger than even terry.”

“I won’t tell him you said that.”

“Tell him if you want. I stand by it.”

· By episode 4 Jake’s got all the lingo down.

“TRIXIE got sent home?! No shade but her look was sickening compared to pearls. I am outraged rosa. Outraged.”

He’s subsequently gagged when trixie comes back.

· Jake’s obsessed with ginger minj and spends half of every episode telling rosa how they’d make the best of friends. Rosa has a crush on violet in and out of drag.

· When Jake and Amy start dating Jake (with Rosa’s permission, ofc) invites Amy to join drag race night.

· Amy doesn’t quite know what to make of it at first but she can appreciate the art form and all the work that goes into drag.

“Like, half the time I can’t even be bothered to put on lipstick, and yet here these guys -- girls? -- are spending hours on one look! And those dance moves. I mean...the way they just fall on the ground! But like, in a dancey way-- ”

“You mean death drops, babe?”

“Yeah those! AMAZING.”

· All three of them tear up during the chi chi and thorgy lip sync in season 8. And they absolutely LOSE IT when the beads fall to the ground.

· Amy yells “go OFF chi chi!” and that’s how rosa and jake know they have a drag race convert on their hands.

· thanks to bob jake starts entering the bull pen with his badge out in front of him saying “walk into the room badge first.”

· When Jake and Amy move in together they buy seasons 1-7 on Amazon prime so they can catch up and spend almost every day after work watching at least one episode.

Amy falls in love with shangela, raja, dida ritz, sharon needles, ivy winters, and bianca del rio and adore delano. Jake loves Bianca and adore and his other faves are manila luzon, raja, raven, willam, and courtney act. (Truth be told he just thinks Courtney is gorgeous in and out of drag. THOSE EYES. THOSE LEGS.)

· They both love latrice royale, le duh.

· Rosa loves alaska, and alyssa edwards. Gina is both a roxxy andrews and raven stan. among others, obvs.

· Oh god why do I feel like Gina would also love gia and laganja?

· drag race nights continue into seasons nine and ten.

· one night jake comments how of the three of them he’s carson, amy is ross Matthews, and rosa is michelle visage and now they can’t UNSEE IT.

· jake and Amy can often be found listening to rupaul songs or what’s the tea on their drives to work

· They talk along with ru all the time

 “Good luck and don’t. fuck it up.”

“Gentlemen, start your engines. And may the best woman *arm up* WIN.”

“100,000 doll-ahs!!!!”

· AMY LOVES BLAIR ST CLAIR.

· every makeover episode jake spends the entire ep talking about how he’d be perfect for a drag makeover

“I mean I’d look sickening, ames!”

“You already do, babe.”

“d’awwww. But seriously, they should do a cop makeover so I can be on the show. I want my mug to be beat to FILTH.”

· One night after drag race they’re all drunk off the Absolut Drinks (#branddeals) they made for the show and rosa and Amy somehow convince Jake to let them give him a makeover (think jenna and julien)

Rosa contours his face for the gods while Amy gives him a perfect smokey eye.

In the words of miz cracker, “he’s a WOMAN.”

· Oh also Jake has a massive crush on Valentina, again in and out of drag (he’s got a thing for latinas, what did you expect?)

· FACTS ARE FACTS, AMERICA.

[dontfuckingfollowifurafetishblog]

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[more4gemini]

Hey! 😉❤ since the lack of R&R on fpr is killing me, can you pick one of your favorite fpr episodes and comment it with us (like your favorite moments ect)? also in general what are your favorite episodes ever and why?

Ahh I love this idea! Since I’ve been thinking about their eventual reunion so much, I’ll comment on one of their recent reunions during All Stars 3! 

Right off the bat I loved how excited Raven was to have Raja back with her. I swear I’ve never seen her smile so big!

I always love their little banter at the beginning of the episodes, and I’ve been missing it so much in these newer fpr’s without Raven. Their conversation just flows so naturally. But I especially love it when they talk about missing each other after some time apart, and in this case its of course Raven making fun of Raja smelling like weed, wine, and of course poop lol. Such children.

LOOK HOW HAPPY! 😍😍

And of course I miss their stupid dancing together...

Another moment I loved is the two of them talking about how their outfits were reminiscent of the spice girls. Raven saying she was a mix of baby spice and posh which honestly is so her, and then Raja saying she was a mix of the other 3, sporty, scary and ginger. Imagine them actually planning this shit out together, adorable. And then of course Raven calling her Old Spice, and Raja living for her clever reads, god i miss their reading so much. Its so easy between them

So many other great moments this episode, I loved how obviously pissed Raja was that Morgan went home first, and Raven telling that story about how she told Morgan there was no way she’d go home first and then she did 😂I swear they are all such fantastic friends, I just want to sit and listen to their conversations.

Also this moment with Trixie’s outfit...

LMAO Raja is such an idiot I stan.

And then of course the whole moment with shangela’s outfit and Raven intentionally bringing up her outfit from the studio 54 challenge just so Raja could read it. I swear Raven lives for shady Raja and so do I. This is why we need her energy back on fpr.

Look at her face! She’s such a shit stirrer. And then her little comment she obviously remembered from s3, “so you think she belongs here and not on All Stars season 6 or 7?” 😂fuck Raven is seriously the best.

And then the trend alert just reading everyone for being basic and obvious 😂but of course they can’t stay serious together for a moment, so they start making stupid “duh” and “doiiii” noises, I swear when these 2 are together they are like 10 year old boys saying the dumbest stuff but they always have so much fun and their laughter is contagious. This just made me miss Raven so much more, I love these 2 happy idiots when they are together. Raja has so much more energy with Raven than she does with almost anyone else. COME BACK!

[huffpost]

We Built This: D.J. ‘Shangela’ Pierce Is Showing What True Freedom Looks Like Through Drag

D.J. Pierce is larger than life, and anyone who dares to attempt to shrink him will fail miserably.

Best known as Shangela, Pierce is an entertainer, an actor and a three-time contestant on “Ru Paul’s Drag Race.” Most recently, he was hand-selected by Lady Gaga to audition for the Oscar-nominated “A Star Is Born.” And though he didn’t have a main role, that title is fitting for Pierce’s story.

As Shangela, the small-town Texan just wrapped up his first major tour, performing in nearly 200 cities worldwide. Pierce has been doing drag for just eight years, but it’s clear that he’s made quite the bang among queens and fans alike (just ask his stans who should’ve won “All Stars 3”). Aside from giving all of us life, Pierce takes seriously his responsibility to ensure those who don’t feel valuable, like he once did, find their voice and follow their truth.

For “We Built This,” Pierce spoke to HuffPost about his days as a cheerleader, living in Jenifer Lewis’ basement and the freedom that drag gives him.

Check out the interview here.

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So this just in: skinny people are now a marginalized group. Hide your wife, hide your kids, hide Mariah Carey because they're not taking any prisoners (we'll slip through the bars)

In all seriousness, there is a lot of reflection we have to do with how we as a society (but especially gay men) approach body type. Regardless, the queens on s11 brought up how big girls have done super well historically on drag race. It's true, there are so many sickening big girls, but also there's not a single big girl in the 1 million insta followers club. Now, followers aren't everything but they are an efficient shorthand to quantify fan support. Latrice Royale is the only queen that's been on three seasons and isn't in the 1m club (Shangela and Manila both proved that third time's the charm). Ginger Minj, top 3 in the season with the most followers between its queens, doesn't have half of what her other finalists do. Not even our melanated queen Eureka O'hara is in the club (but also s10 girls just generally seem to have a tepid following. Idk what they did to ruth paul but his army of trained twunks are definitely out there killing s10 stans so beware.)

Even the girls you'd have to really stretch the definition of big to include. I'm talking juicy girls like Roxxxy "Runner up and top 4" Andrews or our legendary queen from NYC Peppermint. If we're getting really fast and loose with what we consider a big girl Kim Chi is the closest we have. But also she's pretty damn proportionate to her height. Side note: the s8 top 3 were all so damn tall. Like 6'4" and above without heels. That's a lot of woman to have in our stratosphere

I got distracted so I'm done. That's that on that

Special mention to legends Victoria Porkchop Parker, Mystique Summers Madison, Stacy Layne Matthews, Jiggly Caliente, and Jaidynn Diore Fierce and Yvie Oddly's dick (allegedly)

[roxy206]

Episodes 1-4

Oh my god the production quality is ... what year is this from lol

We love a Boston queen

“I have never been blown like that in my life”

“I think Morgan is going to get on my nerves” 🙊

I am too much of a perfectionist to even consider entering a competition only 5 months into doing something — Shangela my god!

Not “don’t fuck it up” getting censored

(I cannot sew but) damn some of these dresses are absolutely horrible

Wait wait Sonique is Kylie Sonique Love??

Going from seasons 7 / 5 / 6 to season 2 is interesting to say the least

Seeing the Ru dolls makes me think of Trixie asking Ru to sign hers

Group challenges would be my nightmare honestly

Nicole is so tall

I can’t with Tyra’s attitude

“I like to be wet” - Sonique

MYSTIQUE!!!

Jujubee & the lip gloss lol

executive realness

Week 2 & Ru is already asking who should be sent home on the runway yikes

thank you

Why is there an eating challenge???

I really don’t like all of Raven’s comments about Mystique eating

The script switch is MEAN damn

Omg this season must have been before baking was a thing in mainstream makeup - I know drag queens were baking way before but to see a definition pop up on screen

Sonique’s look yesss

Tyra isn’t my favorite but I don’t like the voice critique from Santino - I don’t think there’s any need to change your voice in drag if you don’t want to

Like I think that’s absolutely a preference thing but I guess so much is preference & subjective when it comes to drag really

It really bothers me that Raven has had all these rude comments about Mystique - it’s so unnecessary

Tatianna sticking up for Mystique THANK YOU

A BlackBerry omg so was this shot in 2009?

I’m not surprised that Morgan does Pink I can see that

I love how excited Ru is for Tatianna to do Britney

I love that Tatianna doesn’t trust the intention behind Morgan lending her a wig lol

Jessica’s runway look is gorgeous

In this house we stan gymnastic drag queens