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rockrevoltmagazine · 11 months

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THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR Release Official Music Video for Their Cover of DEPECHE MODE'S "It's No Good"!

‘It’s No Good’ Earns Top honors at Radio!” The era of the vertical video is here and Las Vegas Rockers, THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR, are living in the future with their new music video for “It’s No Good”. THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR is stepping up as one of the first bands in the world to film a music video vertically. The 9:16 format used by THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR signifies the rise of vertical video on social…

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fullaccessdetroit · 11 months

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THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR Release Official Music Video for Their Cover of DEPECHE MODE'S "It's No Good"!

Catch THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR on SMILE EMPTY SOUL 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR! ‘It’s No Good’ Earns Top honors at Radio!” The era of the vertical video is here and Las Vegas Rockers, THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR, are living in the future with their new music video for “It’s No Good”. THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR is stepping up as one of the first bands in the world to film a music video vertically. The 9:16 format used…

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styxms · 1 year

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the morphosis when its meta idk i never read it

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#franz kafka #the metamorphosis #gregor samsa #stimboard #stim #stimblr #styx stims #grey #brown #black #hands #paint #slime #plushies #white #soft #animated #ask to tag #i made the black beetle gif :]

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crowsource · 3 months

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🐦‍⬛ 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 — quotes taken from ava reid's novel. some edits have been made to allow for rp purposes. feel free to adjust for pronouns/names/etc.

❝ It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous. ❞

❝ The ephemerality of things is what gives them meaning. ❞

❝ They were both creatures of rage and salt and foam. Both could strip me to the bone. ❞

❝ I wanted nothing more than to tempt their wrath, because if I were brave enough, I might earn their love instead. ❞

❝ I was a treacherous, wrathful, wanting thing, just like he was. Just as he had always wanted me. ❞

❝ Although the tide pools had not shown me my face, I had been revealed. ❞

❝ It was fae-like trickery. There was no answer that wouldn’t damn me. ❞

❝ You’re so pretty. You really are. You’re the most gorgeous girl I’ve ever seen. Do you know that? ❞

❝ We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a meta-morphosis, or a homecoming? ❞

❝ I wanted to say I don’t believe you. ❞

❝ I wanted to say thank you. ❞

❝ I wanted to say tell me more about who I am because I don’t know anymore. ❞

❝ I could tell the whole story as if it had happened to someone else, and it would be completely painless. ❞

❝ The weight of a memory is one thing. You get very used to swimming with it dragging you down. Once it's loosed, you hardly know what to do with your body. You don't understand its lightness. ❞

❝ You don't have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too. ❞

❝ In the end I learned that the water was in me. It was a ghost that could not be exorcised. But a guest, even uninvited, must be attended to. ❞

❝ If you can learn to love that which despises you, you can dance on the shore and play in the waves again, like you did when you were young. ❞

❝ Anything can be taken from you, at any moment. Even the past isn't guaranteed. You can lose that too, slowly, like water eating away at stone. ❞

❝ It saved me in more ways than I can count. Because I knew no matter how afraid I felt, I wasn't truly alone. ❞

❝ Are there any ships on the horizon? Will they signal back to me? I never got the chance to know. ❞

❝ But stories were devious things, things with agendas. They could cheat and steal and lie to your face. They could crumble away under your feet. ❞

❝ I wish I had fought. ❞

❝ I know I beat him in the end, but for so many years all I could do was run and hide. I just sat there and let the water pour in around me. ❞

❝ I didn’t know that I could fight back. I didn’t know how to do anything but wait to drown. ❞

❝ Every wanting man has the same wound he can use to slip in. ❞

❝ I wanted you, too. For so long. It was terrible. ❞

❝ Sometimes I could barely eat—sorry, I know that sounds like the strangest thing. But for days I didn't feel hungry at all. I was... occupied. ❞

❝ You took away all the other wanting from me. ❞

❝ It was a beautiful house, but not a clever one. It was a house with no imagination. ❞

❝ Fear could make a believer of anybody. ❞

❝ Didn't all drownings begin with a harmless dribble of water? ❞

❝ There's very little worse than when our heroes fail us, is there? ❞

❝ Men just say whatever they want and everyone believes them. ❞

❝ Love transcends petty theological squabbles. ❞

❝ But if fairies and monsters were real, so were the women who defeated them. ❞

❝ It doesn't matter. I'm not afraid to care about you. ❞

❝ It's very hard to believe something when it feels like the whole world is trying to convince you otherwise. ❞

❝ You're not just one thing. Survival is something you do, not something you are. ❞

❝ You're brave and brilliant. You're the most real, full person I've ever met. ❞

❝ The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous. ❞

❝ You don't see yourself very clearly. ❞

❝ Challenging me isn't pestering. I'm not always right. Sometimes I deserve to be challenged. And changing your mind isn't foolish. It just means you've learned something new. ❞

❝ Everyone changes their mind sometimes, as they should, or else they're just, I don't know, stubborn and ignorant. ❞

❝ Moving water is healthy; stagnant water is sickly. Tainted. ❞

❝ If you want to see what you are, look into the tide pools at dusk. Look into the sea. ❞

❝ I will love you to ruination. ❞

❝ You can die as easily of thirst as you can of drowning. ❞

❝ Love is a fire that cannot burn alone. ❞

❝ The better you know someone, the more terribly you could hurt them. ❞

❝ You don't have to love something in order to devote yourself to it. ❞

❝ A romance is a belief in the impossible: that anything ends happily. ❞

❝ If a story repeated itself so many times over, building itself up brick by brick, did it eventually become the truth? A house with no doors and no windows, offering no escape. ❞

❝ How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you. ❞

❝ That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving. ❞

❝ I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me. ❞

❝ I believe you. ❞

❝ Things are only beautiful because they don't last. Full moons, flowers at bloom. You. ❞

#crowsource #rp meme #rp memes #rp prompt #rp prompts #sentence starters #rp sentence starters #roleplay prompt #rp starters #roleplay memes

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yakzas · 1 year

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♡ — ANNOUNCEMENT !!

I KNOW THIS SUCKS. but momo is undergoing a bit of a meta(whore)morphosis and i need to have some time to work out her personality. any drafts that i currently owe (not including asks!) will be dropped for the time being!! if you want to keep a thread with me, pls let me know so i can make adjustments! thank u all for being so accepting and patient ...

#im kind of forming her into what i pictured in my head and im almost there.....almost #ill be repkying to asks i owe once i finish!#♡ — ooc.

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seeminglysosim · 1 year

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i don't know if you answer WCIFs, so apologies if you don't, and thank you so much if you do! I love the style of your sims, especially the Meta Morphosis and Amyiah ones, and was wondering what presets you use to get the cartoon/anime-esque proportions!

Hi, thank you so much, I am so glad you like them 😊

Before I wright anything, my apologies in advance, for any typos, my native language is not English so if I make any mistake, it’s not on purpose.

So, because you didn’t specify if you need the face or body proportions, I will put the info for both so you can choose what you need 😊

Before any presets my golden rule for cartoonish / anime look is - small shoulders long lean body with long legs and tiny waist and BIG head (and I mean big, so you go to the max with the slider) with round face and eider high big cheekbones or chubby cheeks – that is your call (I dot use presets for the head shape or the cheeks, I just experiment with the sliders in game until I like the shape) and most of the times I make small pointy chin.

And I always make the face wide but short. (Again, no preset just playing with in game sliders) That’s how you will draw the attention on the eyes. And you can see in all anime, Disney, Pixar cartoons they all have huge eyes so for the eyes, I learned that is best to find any eye preset that you like the shape of and then, just use the slider for bigger eyes. But when I first started to experiment, I mostly used only StretchSkeleton’s presets because they already had the shape, I wanted plus they are already big.

The mouth you can make it, as you want. If you want more anime style, make it smaller, If you want more Disney/Pixar style then you can do what ever you like. All you need any preset you like and AGAIN slider 😊

Also, the width of the bridge of the nose is very important. To get that cartoony look the upper part of the nose needs to be wider meaning, it should be as wide as the nostrils. You can put any nose presets you like and shape them. I personally use the noses from the game and have only two types of presets. All the links are below:

Simbience chin preset

miiko chin slider

miiko pouty mouth slider

TEANMOON mouth scale slider

StretchSkeleton (Blackberry) and (Cherry) eye presets

Marso expanded eye scale slider

Sqeamishsims temple slider

All Obscurus sliders I could find

Simbience nose presets

All Obscurus nose presets I could find

OK now for the body part:

I use any body preset I like for the body shape but for the cartoonish proportion, I use AGAIN sliders until I get the results I want. For cartoonish sims I mostly use dumbaby’s or Miiko’s and QIANQIU body presets or if I really need small waist my go to is redheadsims body preset.

All the links are below:

I have shoulder wight slider but I am so sorry, I tried to find the name of the slider or the creator's name but I had no luck. All I have is the number 26 as the name of the package.

Hi-land Shoulder slider

Bloodmooncc tights and calf slider

Luumia height, neck and hip sliders

Dumbaby Leg length or hips height slider

Dumbaby body presets

Miiko body presets

QIANQIU body presets

Redheadsims body preset

I hope you can find what you need, and yes I am ok with WCIFs so feel free to ask anything 😊

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time-machine-salon · 8 months

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Dive into the world where digital meets authenticity! Shine Janarthanan’s Meta-morphosis hair transformation boasts bold red shades, redefining the future! Is it sparking your imagination for your IHA look?

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haitiinfos1804 · 1 year

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hkpeng · 1 year

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Iva Tratnik: Ana and Meta Morphosis 3 – 24 March 2023 Opening: Thursday, 3 March, at 7 pm Exhibition curator: Mojca Grmek Iva Tratnik works with various media within the field of the visual arts, such as painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, photography, video and installation. In this exhibition, she presents a selection of her latest paintings. These works are typically populated by various objects, plants and animals, as well as their fragments and remains, all of which are quite ordinary and recognisable on their own, but together form an imaginary, fantastic whole. The artist creates this tension by selecting motifs from completely different, even contradictory environments (natural-artificial, organic-industrial, present-past) and arranging them in her paintings in such a way that they defy all physical laws – either so that the spatial relations between them are (grotesquely) disproportionate, or in such a way that they float weightlessly in an undefined "space" that is a cross-section of more or less fantastic landscapes, or else in front of a flat background that is monochrome or covered with various patterns, which are in most cases reminiscent of interior decoration. In this way, the painter creates fantastic worlds that captivate and enthral the viewer. Not only because he feels small and lost due to the large format of the medium and the gigantic scale of the depicted motifs, but also because he cannot identify with anything. Significantly, nowhere in these works does the human figure appear as a being that would structure this fantastic world and give it meaning. Rather, the human being is only indirectly present in it, through his remains – parts of the skeleton or objects he once made and used – as a thing among things. This leads to the assumption that the fantastic world depicted in the paintings is in fact a kind of posthuman community in which all the individual entities – beings, objects and human remains – are the same in their essence. They are so interwoven and intertwined that it is impossible to say where one ends and the other begins, and they form a kind of mixture, a new "primordial soup" from which a new world will eventually emerge. That the female principle will play the main role in this process, leading it towards a more inclusive direction away from anthropocentrism, is underlined by the title of the exhibition and is also evident in certain motifs, such as the moth with its complex symbolism involving both transformation and the search for enlightenment, as well as the archetype of female knowledge (in Slovenian the term moth is used for an old woman or a witch and today has a negative connotation, whereas originally it referred to a woman who knows about nature and its pervasive powers) or the female body as a form that conceals one kind of life or another, and ultimately the entire universe. ──────────── Iva Tratnik (1980) completed her master's degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2012, specialising in Painting. Within the field of the visual arts, she works in the media of painting, sculpture and installation. She regularly exhibits her work in solo and group shows in Slovenia and abroad. In addition, she also works in performance, either alone or in temporary collectives. She lives and works in Celje and Ljubljana.

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estela-arellano · 1 year

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Zaha Hadid- Morphosis-Future Systems

Zaha Hadid-DUBAI HOTEL-DUBAI

El trabajo de Zaha Hadid tiene cierto estilo, guiandose sobre un eje futurista, dejando en claro que la arquitecturabse debe percibir y deconstruir completamente, desde todos los puntos posibles.A pesar de que no es mi estilo favorito tiene muchos puntos a favor, lineas organicas, fromas complejas, complejidad al construir y al observar, solo que la materialidad no ayuda mucho.

Zaha Hadid-CHANEL 2012- PARIS

Uno de mi ejemplos favoritos es el desfile primavera invierno de Zaha ya que usa esos mismo principios y juega con la percepcion y la relación con la estación de tren uniendo lo viejo y lo nueva naturaleza y lo industrial.

creó piezas escultóricas que hacen juego con el ambiente en general.

Podemos decir que su trabajo representa de alguna u otra manera, la sensación de flujo, continuación, como si la obra en si no terminara. Que es algo que se ve en los trabajos de los diferentes arquitectos que trabajan en esta rama High.tec, decontructivista.

Morphosis-PEROT MUSEUM - TEXAS

Parecido al trabajo de zaha en el que cada vista es una nueva version de la arquitectura donde el uso de formas orgánicas ayuda a la complejidad misma de el museo creando espacios impactantes desde cada ángulo.

El giro que le dio es que debido al contexto en el que está, utilizaron concreto para simular la piedra del sitio. donde vemos claramente la idea de flujo en todo el espacio. Que es similar a la utlización del contexto como lo hace Zaha.

También podemos decir que la idea de trabajar este tipo del nivel macro, con proyectos grandes, para crear estas curvas y angulos complejos. creo que un claro ejemplo de esto es el edificio de Selfridges en Birmingham hecho por Future Systems. Lo que me lleva a pensar es que estos tres despachos funcionan o su meta es trabajar a lo grande para imponer modernidad y contratse en los sitios en los que llegan a trabajar. Además de trabajar en proyectos similares.

Future Systems-MASERATTI MUSEUM-ITALIA

Aquí tenemos el uso de materiales, plásticos, metálicos, colores fuertes y contratsantes, ademas de la combinación de formas como las curvas que usan en las rampas para simular caminos, que además de funcionar como elemento unificador del espacio, también es una pieza statement por así decirlo, que jega con la retícula que imponen en el plafón y en la colocación de los automoviles.

Creo que es un claro ejemplo como la modernidad el aerodinamismo que representan estos carros en si a lo largo del tiempo, es algo que este tipo de arquitectura también intenta de asemejar.

Future Systems-ENZO FERRARI MUSEUM-ITALIA

Más bien no asemeja, van de la mano los dos ya que esta arquitectura en si es algo que representa. Otro ejemplo que se me hizo interesante de Future Systems es el museo de Ferrari, donde tomando en cuenta todos los elementos del ferrari y lo que representa y lo icónico que ha sido en cuanto al mundo y la representación que tiene en todos los medios posible, crearon este espacio, parecido a masserati, viendo una vez más, elementos que hemos analizado en otros ejemplos, el uso de flujo y continuidad en el espacio, elementos que también se pueden ver en la fabrica de BMW hecha por Zaha Hadid.

Es importante mencionar que estos despachos a pesar de ser diferentes y trabajar en distintos proyectos, tienen similitudes que ya mencione algunos pero creo que me falta hablar del uso de la iluminación artificial, de manera religiosa practicamente no estoy diciendo que no usen iluminación natural, pero en su mayoría es artificial.

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rockrevoltmagazine · 11 months

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THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR Releases New Single / Cover of DEPECHE MODE'S "It's No Good"!

Alternative heavy rock band THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR has released their newest single, a dark re-imagining of the 1997 DEPECHE MODE hit single, “It’s No Good.” Produced by JOHN MOYER (DISTURBED), the band’s crushing and melancholic musical style is an ode to darker alternative music torchbearers like Type O Negative, HIM, David Bowie, Gary Numan, and Nine Inch Nails. They capture a uniquely haunting…

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fullaccessdetroit · 11 months

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THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR Releases New Single / Cover of DEPECHE MODE'S "It's No Good"!

Catch THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR on SMILE EMPTY SOUL 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR! Alternative heavy rock band THE NOCTURNAL AFFAIR has released their newest single, a dark re-imagining of the 1997 DEPECHE MODE hit single, “It’s No Good.” Produced by JOHN MOYER (DISTURBED), the band’s crushing and melancholic musical style is an ode to darker alternative music torchbearers like Type O Negative, HIM, David…

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Daya Betty Gets Personal + "She's A Super Tease" Recap (Issue #4)

The RuPaul's Drag Race Official Newsletter

In this week’s newsletter, we recap episode four, “She’s A Super Tease,” highlight the maxi challenge’s funniest moments, and share an exclusive interview with Daya Betty. Don’t forget to subscribe so you can stay tuned for all of the latest Drag Race updates!

Drag Race has never been above poking fun at itself, and “She’s A Super Tease” took the meta to the max with a comedy/acting challenge that had the queens crafting their own ridiculous season promos. But even with all the goofiness, there was still plenty of time for glamour thanks to a runway tribute to Jennifer Lopez. My name’s Cameron Scheetz and I’m here to help you tease out all the details from episode four—so, in the eternal words of J.Lo: Let’s get loud!

In the previous week’s Untucked, a narrative emerged around Jasmine Kennedy’s chatterbox tendencies, which rubbed a few of her sisters the wrong way. This week, the show took that thread and ran with it, giving much of its early air time to the New York queen’s stream-of-consciousness musings. Kornbread couldn’t help herself, yawning and eye-rolling at the camera and eventually stepping in to remind Jasmine there’s “a difference between talking and having a conversation.”

The tension was diffused—only momentarily—when RuPaul entered the Werk Room to offer up the week’s Maxi Challenge: In two competing teams, the queens were tasked with producing their own comedic Super Teases, a.k.a. “those things you see before the season comes out where you’re like, *gasp* ‘I’ve got to watch that!’” (thanks for the helpful explainer, Willow Pill). As the respective belle of the ball and the LSFYL survivor, Willow and Maddy Morphosis were given the opportunity to pick their teams, schoolyard style. This left Jasmine as the odd girl out, but she was allowed to choose for herself, opting for Willow’s team… with Kornbread… a bold choice!!

Needless to say, things continued to sizzle when the teams started brainstorming, with Kornbread comparing Jasmine to an oatmeal raisin cookie (hot take: oatmeal raisin cookies are good). To her credit, Jasmine took it all in stride and tried her best to be a team player, Advertising & Marketing Communications degree be damned. Elsewhere, Jorgeous’ Inner-Saboteur momentarily took control as she expressed some nerves over getting in character, while Alyssa Hunter struggled to convince Team Maddy to include her ideas. But, when it came time to film with directors Michelle Visage and Carson Kressley, everyone seemed to get along without a hitch—yes, even Kornbread and Jasmine found some common ground, having a blast over-acting opposite one another.

The next day, Werk Room bird-watching was interrupted by none other than Jennifer Lopez, teleconferencing in from Planet Glamazon to share some words of encouragement and plug her new movie (if you didn’t catch it on screen, that’s: Marry Me, in theaters February 11th). Even through the TV, the presence of Jenny From The Block got the girls fired up and set the stage for the week’s runway category: Night Of 1,000 J.Lo’s. I’m a little disappointed no one went with an homage to The Cell, but honestly, every queen looked out of sight (Angeria, Lady Camden, and Alyssa delivering my personal favorites). Of course, Kerri Colby was the real show-stopper—I certainly anticipated someone would wear a nod to the iconic green Versace dress, but I didn’t expect to see the actual iconic green Versace dress. Vogue, listen to the woman and re-post her, damnit!

After the runway, it was time for the Super Teases! These were snappy, high energy, and a total blast, so, in the spirit of recapping, let’s run down the five funniest moments from each team…

Super Tease Best Moments

Team Willow

Blink and you may have missed one of the night’s funniest visual gags: Willow’s half-hearted ribbon routine, complete with those notorious chunky beach flip-fops she wore with her entrance look. This queen knows how to give comedy, even without any dialogue.

Though she didn’t anchor any big scenes, Lady Camden deserves credit for her stellar character work throughout, nodding to her fascination with Angeria’s accent and delivering a loopy “country bumpkin” performance. Best supporting actress, I say!

And props to Bosco, who also came into the challenge with a self-assured character, scoring laughs every time she let that vocal fry fly.

This team really killed it in the reaction shot department, particularly during the Untucked tease when a number of the queens tongues were left wiggling around as they struggled to get their straws in their mouths.

Willow’s bit about the Drag Race / The Bitchelor mix-up felt like the true centerpiece of the first Super Tease. It was a concept just stupid enough to be brilliant, and she really sold it as she tossed herself across the Werk Room calling out for Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman. And, honestly, the line of the whole night? “I was promised a chance at love and a daily meal voucher!”

Team Maddy

In a goofy sailor look and some garish makeup, Maddy’s flop of a cartwheel was a great bit of physical comedy, but she really sold it for me with her unaffected delivery of the entrance line, “The dancing queen is here.”

The judges would later critique Alyssa for a one-note performance, but that one note was perfectly in tune with the scene where she sings off-key for the talent show. You’ve got to applaud this polished queen for letting loose and going full clown in that moment.

Angeria claimed her second win of the competition thanks to her effortlessly hysterical character work throughout the Super Tease. “Let me tell you something, you ug-uh-ly bitch!” was a standout line of the challenge—not since Symone’s utterance of “flag fac-tree” has an intentional mispronunciation been this funny.

A brief glimpse of Maddy and DeJa’s cow-lassoing bit will likely haunt my dreams for years to come, but they deserve major credit for leaning into the absurd and leaning hard.

Speaking of DeJa, she received high notes for her actorly instincts, most notably during the “most insincere confession in Drag Race herstory” moment where she tearfully recalls “being born at a very young age.” It was a brilliant moment of self-awareness. Bonus points for the thumbs up she gave Daya after she “came out.”

The great Loni Love (supportive, funny, and offering up constructive feedback, as always) returned to the Judge’s Panel where, between some rapid-fire gorge/George puns, the queens were narrowed down to the tops and bottoms of the week. Though she tackled the challenge with confidence, Kornbread scored low, with Ru saying, “I think it’s time for you to show some of the things you may be afraid to show.” It’s clear the queen has built up her defenses over the years, acknowledging how rarely she allows herself to feel emotional. Ultimately deemed safe, Kornbread knows there’s still healing to be done as the competition rolls on.

That left Kerri Colby and Alyssa Hunter in the bottom two, critiqued for not showing off enough vulnerability and versatility, respectively. In the Lip Sync For Your Life to Jennifer Lopez’s “Play” (a top tier J.Lo track, in my opinion), Kerri looked stunning as she cautiously sauntered around the stage, mindful of the pricey insurance policy likely attached to the Versace gown. And while Alyssa really brought it with the J.Lo choreo, she was undone by the faulty money gun. With no gold bar from the Drag Gods to save her, the queen was asked to sashay away, leaving with a bow: “From Puerto Rico and now from the world!”

Burning Questions

Unseen Footage

Those Super Teases flew by and included plenty of material we didn’t even see the girls film (for instance: anything that happened on the runway), so it stands to reason there’s plenty left on the cutting room floor. Did all of the queens perform a fake talent? Where was the bit about Orion Story’s meaty tuck? How much more footage was there of Lady Camden doing her ridiculous American accent? It was truly a delight to watch everyone cut loose in this challenge and we want more. Hell, I could watch another hour of Willow Pill looking for Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman. Release the extended cut! Release the Super Tease (10 Minute Version) (Willow’s Version)!

Jasmine Versus

Again, Jasmine handled the feedback from Kornbread and her cast mates pretty well. At lot of people might react much more irrationally, but she never got too defensive, and actually took the girls’ words to heart. You know what that is? Growth! But, after another week deemed safe, I wonder if we’ll see that side of her make a comeback.

Next Week: PSAs for the Porkchops

The Porkchop Loading Dock opens its doors once again, this time bringing back past first-eliminated queens (Tempest DuJour, James Mansfield, and Kahmora Hall) to guide their season 14 sisters in creating public service announcements for the Save A Queen Organization. The self-referential Maxi Challenge theme continues! The Super Teases were less of a traditional acting challenge than I anticipated—relying much more of sketch and improv comedy chops—so I wonder if the presentational formality of PSAs will trip some of the girls up. The episode preview, at least, show Michelle comparing Jasmine’s performance “the Count from Sesame Street,” but will she be the only one to struggle with line readings? Plus, pop star Ava Max brings her asymmetrical hair to the Judge’s Table, the runway theme seems delightfully floral, and Kerri Colby promises “scary motherf*ckin’ Kerri.” Bring it on!

The Other Half Of The Story

You know the drill: If you’re not watching, Untucked, well, you’re missing out, babe! Let’s shout out a few of the most notable moments form this week’s episode.

As the safe queens untucked, many shared their surprise that Maddy wasn’t among the top scorers of the week. Her team’s Super Tease was undoubtedly funny, packed with great bits of absurd humor, and the girls really credited her for finding its creative vision and guiding the piece to success. There’s a comedy queen beneath that quiet country boy exterior after all!

Jasmine, bless her heart, once again found herself rambling on about the challenge. As we cut to the others politely nodding along, knowing grins flashed across their faces, barely containing themselves as they collectively thought, “Here she goes again!”

After the other queens came backstage, Kornbread spilled the tea about critiques and said she didn’t think she deserved to be in the bottom. Jasmine “The Writer/Producer/Director” Kennedie then asked a fairly standard Untucked question: “Who do you think deserves to be in the bottom instead?,” which Kornbread swiftly rebuked. No one wants to play that game, not yet at least.

The judges encouraged Kerri to let her guard down, to “get ugly,” so Kerri told her sisters she was some homework to do moving forward, hilariously adding, “I’m going to have to switch outfits with one of y’all because I don’t have anything ugly.”

As Alyssa packed up her station in the Werk Room, she waved around her stack of lovely handwritten notes from the girls, calling it “evidence of a true sisterhood.” I’m not crying, you’re crying!

The Serve-ey w/ Daya Betty

Each week, we’ll get to learn more about one of the queens of season 14 when they take our brief questionnaire, a.k.a. The Serve-ey. They’ll all get the same six questions, and then we’ll throw in one final “wildcard” question just for fun. This week: The Midwest’s pop-punk princess, Daya Betty!

1. In keeping with the season promo’s board game theme: What was your favorite game growing up and why?

My family, we did more outdoorsy stuff—we weren’t a huge game family. But let think here because I know we played games every now and then. Well, now, I love trivia games. I do love trivia games and it’s because I think I know more than I actually do. So, now when me and my friends from college get together and have a night in together, we usually just play—there’s this game on your phone that you can connect to your TV. There’s a bunch [of games] like Quiplash or something like that. I just love a good trivia game so I can try to flaunt off all my knowledge, but I usually end up losing those as well. So I’m not the best at games—I don’t know if I have the patience for them, you know?

That’s fair; I think a lot of people can relate to that. But in terms of trivia, what are your areas of expertise?

Pop culture, generally music I know some stuff about okay. Those are usually the ones that I do really well at. And then ones that I don’t do so well at are like, “What year was, uh, Gerald Ford’s”—wait, is he the one that made the Ford cars?

Oh, no, Gerald Ford was the President.

See! I don’t know that stuff [Laughs.] So, yeah, let’s just say pop culture is my go-to.

And, you know what? This game just popped into my head: Scattergories! I’m really good at Scattergories. Like, you know, where you have to use one letter and you have to fill out all the categories. I’m really good at that one, that one I actually have fun with.

2. How would you say the city you’re from helped define your drag?

I’ll just kind of focus on Springfield, Missouri because that’s where I started doing drag. But the reason why Springfield’s so important to me is Springfield was the first place I was able to kind of express and dive into my queerness. Before college—that’s the whole reason I moved to—so, before college, I was very much in a small town where I didn’t know a lot of gay people. There weren’t a lot of people that I could look up to that were similar to me. But, once I moved to Missouri State in Springfield, there were organizations with people like me, there’s specific bars for people like me, and that’s also when I found drag. Like, I had already known it was kind of a thing, but that’s when I went to my first drag show.

So, I think the fact that Springfield, MO is quite literally in the middle of the Bible Belt, but you have these people being so authentically themselves, that’s what was the most inspiring thing for me. It’s like, you know, if so-and-so can go do it on a Tuesday night and look like that, I could definitely go out and do it. And I did get a lot of like, “What the f*ck?” kind of reactions when I first started doing drag, but also that kind of fueled me. It made me want to do it even more.

3. With this season’s candy bar twist, I’m curious: If you were a piece of candy, what kind would you be?

It just kind of depends, but I feel like I would be a Sour Patch Kid because, you know, at my core, I do believe that I’m a very sweet person—I really do. But I can get feisty! I can get—I can kiki-ing and the next moment I’ll be like, “Get away from me!” So I would say a Sour Patch Kid. That’s what I’m vibing with right now,

But I also like that for you, too, because a Sour Patch Kid comes in a bag with more Sour Patch Kids—there’s a community there!

Exactly, exactly. I’m stealing that from you now. [Laughs.]

4. What can you tell us about your “confessional” interview look? How did you decide what to wear? What do you think it says about your style out of drag?

Well, people online have been reading me because it’s H&M, which I thinks hilarious. I don’t buy a lot of clothes for myself outside of drag—a lot of it’s just like throwaway clothes, t-shirts, and then I kind of accessorize with jackets and stuff. But that, for me, I decided to go that route because, one, I always wear a hat. I’ve worn a hat since I was, like, I don’t even know, 16 years old? It’s just one of my favorite thing to do. And, two, I wanted a pattern because I think just a colored, block t-shirt—just a plain, white t-shirt—is so boring. So I wanted something that was interesting, but also my favorite color, and I love yellow. I wear a lot of yellow. So [the outfit] had yellow and it was cheap. It was decently priced and not just from a thrift store, so that’s what I went with!

There’s a nice color story between it and your entrance look!

Yeah! At my core, I’ve always loved the color yellow, because I just had some things in my childhood that really made me anxious and made me very depressed, but wearing the color yellow, seeing the color yellow, it’s just fun! It makes you smile. So that’s why I chose that shirt.

5. What’s a fun fact you can share about one of your season 14 sisters that might surprise the fans?

She’s gonna kill me, but Bosco—I love my girl Bosco—as far as her banking goes, I think I’ve only seen her put money into an owl cookie jar. So, that’s where she keeps—I don’t want people to break into Bosco’s house, she’s gonna need to get a new cookie jar after this. But she keeps all her tips in an owl cookie jar. It’s really cute! But. ugh, now I’m gonna have to buy our new one.

That’s the International Bank of Bosco.

Yes! And it’s just an owl cookie jar where you take the head off. So, yeah, kind of on brand I guess.

Oh, and another one: Willow Pill has only lived in Chicago for less than a year and she’s already moved twice. So, people think I’m high maintenance, but, you know, Willow’s pretty high maintenance. [Laughs.] And I helped her [move] both times.

6. Here’s a chance to shout out another drag performer, designer, hair & makeup artist, etc… who really helped inspire you or prepare you for your journey on Drag Race.

You know, I do come from Springfield and Crystal Methyd is my drag “mother,” but I have a drag sister named Lux Kween, who I’m also just obsessed with. We started drag around the same time, so she was really that girl that I kind of went through my journey with, and we always pressured each other to be better. You know, she started sewing, like, she learned how to sew way before I did. And I remember watching her create these—what I thought at the time were—insane, beautiful garments, when in reality it was just like a body suit with a safety pin in the crotch. [Laughs.] But, you know, she definitely pushed me because, as soon as she started doing that, I’m like, “I have to learn how to sew. I have to make my own garments!” And I did. She would play with her makeup and change it up, and then I would too.

I think it’s really important—especially for people that are starting drag or have interest in it—to remember: Don’t look at your friends or other people in the community that do drag as a competition. Try to learn from them because, if you have a group of friends that aren’t afraid to tell you, “you look like shit, you need to work on this,” it’s gonna make you better. So I definitely want to shout out my sister Lux because I think she’s incredible, and that’s one person that’s really inspired me throughout my entire journey of drag that I haven’t given enough credit to.

And did Lux or Crystal give you any particularly helpful advice before you headed off to film Drag Race?

Yeah, Crystal kind of told me, “Just don’t go in there expecting anything—kind of expect the unexpected.” Which I think is really good advice: Don’t ever try to pre-plan anything in your head. And then one thing Lux said was—well, we kind of have always believed that we’re the best, like, we’ve always believed that we’re the shit even when we’re not. [Laughs.] And she just told me go in there with that same attitude. You know, “You’ve believed it and it’s gotten you this far, so keep believing in it and see where it takes you in the future.”

7. Wildcard: There’s definitely a lot of nostalgia in your drag, so, in that spirit: What’s an example of pop culture you loved in childhood that’s really stuck with you and informed your drag?

Like I was saying, I grew up in a town that was a little bit more of a small farming community, and my parents were very much the kind of parents that wanted me to be part of organizations at school and all that jazz, but I never really felt like I belonged anywhere, specifically. So I do have a lot of memories, like, after school when my dad came home from work, he’d be in the garage working on his motorcycle and playing classic rock music. So, still, hearing those songs to this day is a very nostalgic feeling for me. Like, I can hear a certain song and remember where I was in that moment. So, you know, if I hear “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I automatically think of my dad.

So I just have a lot of little memories that I pull from. And, for me, I think it’s important not to keep yourself in a box with drag. I think the more references the better. Yes, it’s great to have a certain kind of image that you’re always categorizing yourself in, but I think playing around is the whole purpose of drag.

And another big influence is Lady Gaga. I talk about her all the time, I could go on and on. But she does what she wants, you know? And I think that’s so important. And, yes, she creates music for her fan base, but, at the end of the day, she’s creating art for herself as like a sense of therapy. And that’s really what I want people to recognize me for. She is not cultivating herself to be what the fans want, or what a network wants, or whatever—she’s doing what she wants because she is inspired by how she feels. So, in terms of specific references, I guess Gaga would be one that I’ve always really admired. Her artistry and the way she handles it as a business, I just think she’s very, very successful at that.

I totally relate to what you were saying a second ago about music—a lot of my favorite music growing up was what my parents listened to, what they grew up with.

Literally! Like “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne. And that’s the thing: I’ll hear it to this day and I’ll be like, “Oh my god!” I remember my dad working on—he had this Jeep in our garage literally from the time I was three years old up until the day he died, and he had worked on it his entire life and still never finished it. So, that’s where my mind goes: My dad working on this project that he never finished. And it’s actually still sitting in our garage—now my brother’s trying to finish it. So, yeah, there’s always that.

The Looks You Didn't See

It’s practically tradition that eliminated queens will take to social media to show off the stunning looks they didn’t use on the runway. Every week, we’ll reserve this space to shout out our favorite “unseen looks.“

June Jambalaya

@JuneJambalaya

June From The Block https://t.co/Qj1yT2GV2j

2:36 AM - 29 Jan 2022

Talk about a hustler: June Jambalaya went all out with the glamour in a nod to the Valentino gown J.Lo wore to the 2020 Golden Globes (a.k.a. the year of her awards-worthy performance in Hustlers). We love June’s attention to detail here, from the jewelry to the hair to the red carpet step-and-repeat. Also don’t miss: Maddy‘s send-up of The Cell, her original J.Lo runway plan.

Gagatrondra! It's The Tweets Of The Week

We wrap up every newsletter with a rundown of some of our favorite reaction tweets of the week, so use #DragRace and you may find yourself here!

ellie

@ellieuminati

lost my mind at maddy being swung around by daya 💀💀 #DragRace https://t.co/glHusmKCQq

8:27 AM - 29 Jan 2022

danika

@DanBekim

this week's #DragRace episode got me feeling like @DeJaSkye https://t.co/NYnetG3ew1

11:03 AM - 29 Jan 2022

wiLL

@willfulchaos

jlo texting kerri begging her to return the green dress #DragRace https://t.co/T4wNF8RLWo

9:23 PM - 28 Jan 2022

🧷💜 𝒜𝒷𝒾 💜🧷 #TEAMDAYA #TEAMWILLOW

@theabimatheny

This is Diabetica… #DragRace @daya_betty417 https://t.co/nZIxrKnPyY

9:10 PM - 28 Jan 2022

Want More?

Come on, The Pit Stop! Let’s get sickening! None other than Laganja Estranja joins Monét X Change this week for some Super Tease tea and so much more. Check out the episode below:

The Pit Stop S14 E04 | Monét X Change & Laganja Estranja Tease Us | RuPaul’s Drag Race

Our dearly departed Alyssa Hunter stops by Watcha Packin‘ with Michelle Visage and you better believe the pageant queen has some incredible looks to show off, so don’t miss this one!