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Tournament: ATRL's Drag Race - A New Superstar! (Pg. 393)
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Will any of the finalist make a single after this.
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Chanel and I are releasing our "I Run the Runway" after the coronation. I'm the Fame to his Violet, the Latrice to his Manila, the Chad to his Shannel.
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my lashes are coming off hurry up
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I legit started hyperventilating omg
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Episode 14
The Last Lip Sync
Carrie Messiah. Chanel DiAngelo. This is is your last chance to impress me, and prove that you are ATRL's Next Drag Superstar.
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It's hard for me to tell you more than I've already told you and everyone else. I've been through IT with this competition, and even after every blow and every doubt or insecurity, I've continued through because this competition has felt like my last chance at finding some kind of meaning for myself. While things in my life may have not gone the best ways in recent years, this game has reflected exactly that. This game came at a time when I really needed it, when I was doubting myself, my existence, my reason for being and living, and while it may just be an online game, it's so much more than that to me. It's a symbol of hope, a beacon of life and happiness and success, and something I really, really need at this point in my life. I've been struggling with who I am, what I want, what I'm going to be and what I'm going to do, and all through that, I've stuck with this game because it's felt like a symbol of validation and a sign that I truly can get my life together just like I got myself together in this game.
I know I've had my rough spots in this game as well. We all have. But those bad times in this competition, whether it be a simple failure of a task like what I did in the Roast, or an argument over petty, obnoxious **** that could've been avoided, I made mistakes in this game that I made in real life that I'm still trying to fix. This game has mirrored my life in ways I didn't think it could. But what truly shocked me was how eye-opening it was. I saw myself in ways, both positive and negative, that I never saw myself in before. This game showed me, and not just the others, who I am, and what I do right and what I do wrong, and that's helped me to become a bigger, better person than ever before. And I'm so thankful for it.
This game has been a wild journey, and it's going to be a wild end. And I know, sure, at the end of the day, this is just a title, a collection of words, on the world's gayest pop forum, but as I've already said and will continue to say for anyone to hear, it's so much more than that. It's a sign of redemption, of peace, meaning and happiness, and for me to win, after all that I've been through, thick and thin, peace or fight, bottom two or win (or four), would mean the absolute world to me right now because this game is exactly that. This game is the most inspiring, meaningful thing in my life at this moment, and winning it would bring me the validation I've been craving for years. It would bring me the happiness I've needed for the longest of times. And it would be a part of me that I would never, ever forget.
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Well CitRu, we've mentioned how I never got the chance to lip sync in the competition, so it seems only fitting that I have this opportunity now. We're at the very end of the road now, and all we can do is look back. So let me take you waaay back.
I was 10 years old the first time someone called me gay, and while I wasn't shocked by their words (I knew I was since I was like 3), they still stung. It might have been in that moment that Carrie Messiah was born. Because although I knew they were labeling me in order to mark me as an outsider, I remember, so distinctly, how my being marked as different wasn't just a bad thing. We were taught in school that being different was cool, that being unique was something to cherish. And let's be honest: for little gay children that's a hard thing to actually believe. But it was the moment where my 'gayness' was first pointed out directly, and is the moment I began to accept that part of myself. I was a shy, unassuming boy as a child, but once I grew into my skin, I became the confident, humorous person I am today, a Carrie Messiah in the making.
Being a drag queen doesn't mean any one specific thing. Having a great aesthetic, or being funny, or being eloquent isn't enough to make a sickening queen. But if there's one single thing that I think goes into a great queen, and into a fitting winner of ATRL's Drag Race, it's a very simple thing: celebration.
And by that, I mean celebrating who you are, celebrating your strengths (with confidence and vivacity), celebrating your weaknesses (with humility and the ability to use them to your advantage), and celebrating the other queens around you (with words of encouragement and respect). More than any other contestant in this game, I feel I have embodied this important facet of dragdom. I've tackled each challenge with a desire to prove why I deserve to be here. I've taken my insecurities and used them for humor, making the judges and contestants laugh along the way. And I've been a team player, doing a lot of the work in team challenges and never putting down any other queens. I've celebrated what it means to be Carrie and what it means to be just one talented queen among many. Winning the crown now would be an affirmation of these feelings and a fitting end for the boy who turned to his inner drag queen for strength long before he knew what a drag queen even was.
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Carrie Messiah
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Stay tuned ladies. In less than 5 minutes, a superstar will be crowned.
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Chanel, I'm so glad to be here with you boo. Good luck to us both!
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I basically missed the whole reunion because no one pm-ed to remind me
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you're hungry for those 400 pages
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Chanel, I'm so glad to be here with you boo. Good luck to us both!
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You know, after all this, after the shade, fights, indifference and everything (even though we never really had it out), I'm glad to have shared this with you, and I wish you luck.
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Good luck, Chanel and Carrie! I enjoyed both of your lip syncs and you'd both make great winners!
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Rooting for Fefe
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Me too.
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Stay tuned ladies. In less than 5 minutes, a superstar will be crowned.
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Are we FourFiveSeconds away from the album Rihanna
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Maybe CitRu wants a new page I'm crine tho.
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Originally posted by feelslikeadream
Maybe CitRu wants a new page I'm crine tho.
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I just thought this
But also same. I've been shaking all night and now
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the title
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