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Monday DE: Daily Entertaintment
Morning everybody! Hope your Monday morning goes/has gone better than mine did. -_-
At any rate, welcome to the very first DE of Pride Month! May your June be fabulous, glitter-filled and proud as hell. <3
Keeping to the theme, your daily entertaintment - should you choose to accept it - is as follows...
What would your character's drag queen/king name be? And what kind of drag king/queen would they decide to be? For those who have not spent too much time watching Drag Race, major categories of drag include:
- Pageant: focused on looks/fashion; usually try to look as much like they were AFAB/AMAB - assigned female/male at birth - as possible. Highly polished and highly competitive.
- Weird: Drag as political or just as a reason to look as outrageous as possible; playing with gender and fashion to create strange and fantastical looks. May produce deliberately androgynous looks or deliberately look more like their true gender, or just generally use fashion and makeup to create their own performance art.
- Goth: What it says on the tin. Everything from 'Morticia Addams' to extremely weird and monstrous looks. Fake blood a bonus!
- Comedy: Again, does what it says on the tin. A comedy queen is outrageous because of what they say as much as how they look - they're loud, brutally honest and hilarious. Often veers into political drag, or at least gets political about LGBTQ issues. Their drag aesthetic is often based on clownlike styles and values of exaggeration, satire, bawdiness etc.
- Music/Performance: Specialises in acting, dancing or singing (especially common outside of the US, as non-US drag queens are usually expected to be able to sing). Often spends almost as much focus on looking like a 'real' man/woman as a Pageant King/Queen.
- Club: They're in it for the art and the culture. One of the oldest types of drag queens, inspired by the club scene of the 1980s. Incredibly, highly-designed and often out-there looks are their thing, and they aim to outdo everyone else in the room to ensure all eyes are on them. Club Queens gave us 'Voguing' (see: Madonna).
- High Drag: Over-the-top, charicatured portrayal - not just of a woman/man, but of drag queens. Huge boobs, lips, hair, etc.
- Impersonators: Drag Kings/Queens whose act is an impersonation of a chosen star such as Cher, Prince, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Tina Turner, etc.
- Fluid: A King/Queen who doesn't stick to one type of drag, drawing from a variety of techniques and styles to create their own individual look.
At any rate, welcome to the very first DE of Pride Month! May your June be fabulous, glitter-filled and proud as hell. <3
Keeping to the theme, your daily entertaintment - should you choose to accept it - is as follows...
What would your character's drag queen/king name be? And what kind of drag king/queen would they decide to be? For those who have not spent too much time watching Drag Race, major categories of drag include:
- Pageant: focused on looks/fashion; usually try to look as much like they were AFAB/AMAB - assigned female/male at birth - as possible. Highly polished and highly competitive.
- Weird: Drag as political or just as a reason to look as outrageous as possible; playing with gender and fashion to create strange and fantastical looks. May produce deliberately androgynous looks or deliberately look more like their true gender, or just generally use fashion and makeup to create their own performance art.
- Goth: What it says on the tin. Everything from 'Morticia Addams' to extremely weird and monstrous looks. Fake blood a bonus!
- Comedy: Again, does what it says on the tin. A comedy queen is outrageous because of what they say as much as how they look - they're loud, brutally honest and hilarious. Often veers into political drag, or at least gets political about LGBTQ issues. Their drag aesthetic is often based on clownlike styles and values of exaggeration, satire, bawdiness etc.
- Music/Performance: Specialises in acting, dancing or singing (especially common outside of the US, as non-US drag queens are usually expected to be able to sing). Often spends almost as much focus on looking like a 'real' man/woman as a Pageant King/Queen.
- Club: They're in it for the art and the culture. One of the oldest types of drag queens, inspired by the club scene of the 1980s. Incredibly, highly-designed and often out-there looks are their thing, and they aim to outdo everyone else in the room to ensure all eyes are on them. Club Queens gave us 'Voguing' (see: Madonna).
- High Drag: Over-the-top, charicatured portrayal - not just of a woman/man, but of drag queens. Huge boobs, lips, hair, etc.
- Impersonators: Drag Kings/Queens whose act is an impersonation of a chosen star such as Cher, Prince, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Tina Turner, etc.
- Fluid: A King/Queen who doesn't stick to one type of drag, drawing from a variety of techniques and styles to create their own individual look.
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Thurlow is mostly Weird type, dabbling in Goth, and has both drag king and queen personas; they have the cultural interest that drives Club type, but not the drive to polish their drag look until it outshines everyone else's. Outrageous performance art is definitely something that appeals to them.
This isn't really in Wilson's wheelhouse but I can most easily see him as a Goth type mad-scientist-themed drag queen.
I have a general idea of what drag queen/king names are like - often ribald, often punny, as exaggeratedly gendered as the persona they describe - but not a good enough grasp of it to come up with decent character-themed ones. Alas.