Ron Does Stuff

I know, I know this is several days late but in my defense, I am not getting paid to this and I had a busy past few days doing things that actually get me money. So now that I have a little free time before I go do another paying gig, I am squeezing this in.

The queens are pretty emotional about Margarey Y Ya’s departure, Lady Kero especially. But that takes a back seat to the queens declaring that this is it. They are fired up. After all, there’s only five of them left. I wish they had been fired up for the lip syncs right from the beginning but oh well!

The next day the queens have calmed down and they’re saying that they shouldn’t be so high strung about the experience and to try to at least enjoy their time on the show and okay that’s fair. But any further talk about enjoying their experience is cute short when Lolita Banana appears on the RuMail screen to give a clue as to what the challenge is for this week. It’s very vague and quite frankly I can’t figure out what’s it going to be.

The mini challenge is much easier to figure out, given that there are luchador masks being wheeled in by the Pit Crew. The queens have to drag them up, which in my mind isn’t as easy as it may seem because those masks already are very draggy! After the five minutes they were given to drag up the masks, they’re then told to dress up as luchadores since they’re going to be photographed in the masks they’ve yassified.

The photoshoot also involves the Pit Crew as the opposing luchador and this really gives me America’s Next Top Model wrestling photoshoot vibes! Except with more ass licking thanks to Regina Voce!

In the end, it’s Lady Kero who wins the mini challenge despite me thinking it would totally be Regina. She licked the Pit Crew’s ass! Regina thought she’d win too but she’s fine with Lady Kero taking the P18,000.

Valentine and Lolita then tell the girls that the Maxi challenge is a denim eleganza extravaganze sponsored by Levi’s. Come on, big name corporate sponsorship on your first season! Lady Kero gets a five-second head start but the real fun part of the picking of materials is when Cristian Peralta and Regina Voce fight over a rug.

They start getting down to business on their outfits and as Matraka points out in the confessionals, none of them really know how to sew. This is going to be a shit show. At least the show is giving them two days to make their outfits, or at least that’s what it seemed like from the editing.

On the second day of outfit creation, Regina starts a conversation about the word maricon, which is basically the Spanish equivalent of the f-slur. I learned about this way, way, way back in college during Spanish class. Our professor was an ornery guy who not only taught us how to ask where the restroom is, but also what to call homosexuals. Fun!

Cristian once again talks about his wife and how she is a big inspiration and I really am fascinated with how Cristian identifies. I can’t recall if he said he’s gay or bisexual or straight, but he does remind me of the sort of fluidity that certain queer communities have here in my home country. He and his family dynamics could be a WowPresentsPlus series all on its own!

Lady Kero then talks about the women in his life, about how his female classmates stood up for him when he was being bullied, and how he drew strength and inspiration from his mother and sisters. But the death of his grandfather resulted in him being sent to his grandmother at 10 years old to take care of her, and sometime during that period he was sexually abused. And anyone who knows me knows that child sexual abuse is a topic that is very distressing for me. I don’t know if it’s the subtitles but it’s unclear to me if it’s his grandmother or somebody else who abused him. What’s the statute of limitations in Mexico? Does Lady Kero still have a case?

On the day of the Maxi challenge, the girls come out in looks that are actually okay! Especially when you consider that none of the girls can actually sew. The judges see it too and the girls actually receive mostly positive critiques, which makes it harder for me to pinpoint who’s going to be in the bottom two.

And for once I am actually on tenterhooks because it seems like everybody is safe? Gala Varo and Matraka can’t be the bottom two? Lolita tells the two that they’re going to lip sync for the win. Gala, like me, is immediately suspicious. Does the losing queen go home? We shall see!

They lip sync to Bizochito and this is only the second time I’ve seen Matraka perform and she is really good so it’s no surprise that she wins this week. No one’s eliminated, so does that mean two queens get sent home next week?