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[artificialgrinder]

Hey, Hi, Hello! I just wanted to pop by here for a bit. So, I don't know if everyone has seen yet, but Adore just came out as transgender so I'll be going back through old chapters of Drag or Die, and in chapters in which she's out of drag and I use he/him pronouns, I will be changing these tonight!

I know she won't ever see this, but I just want to say that I am so proud of her and it's so lovely to see her this happy. She deserves the absolute world.

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Sack it! Let's do something we don't talk about often! Let's highlight why we love our *own* writing, because if you can't love yourself, then how the helllllllllll you gone love somebody else?

Talk about whatever you want!

When it comes to my writing, I love how I've come a long way in terms of commitment. I've started many fics but disowned them 'cause I lost interest. But recently, I've been pushing myself to commit. Because as much as I'm writing my stories for myself, I want others to enjoy them too. I wanna write that fic that doesn't exist, that I think people would be interested in!

And another thing I commend myself for is not posting while writing because I'm so bad at continuity (and that's okay). I just know myself that all I do is re-edit until it is perfect.

So yeah! Let's bring an end to the silence for a bit and boost ourselves up because we deserve it!

Great idea bunny!!! XO

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🌴 pls 👉👈

“y aunque no nos quede nada aparte de nuestra discordia, se quedarán con las ganas de acabar con nuestra historia" Thelma & Louise - Travis Birds

[artificialgrinder]

Okay so I've had a think about it.

And YES I KNOW I DIDN'T UPDATE THIS WEEK BUT I WILL THIS WEEK, I PROMISE.

So I tried to think about the last time I went through this writers block, just the time I vented to my friend about it. She asked me, "Well what inspires you to write? Not like lighting candles and all that jazz. When specifically does the creative juices come flowing?" And I was like, "whenever I reread the story from beginning to the current point?" And she said, "well, get reading then."

So yeah I guess I'm going to reread the entire fic. Wish me luck

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Drag or Die: Part Four

After getting Alyssa and co out of their safe space and to the prison, Katya is back in the game. She's got a mission to tend to - avenge Trixie. But Adore just has to cause trouble, doesn't she?

Chapters

[1] // [2] // [3] // [4] // [5] // [6] // [7] // [8]

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Drag or Die: Part Six

Trixie is alive but just about holding on. Only the company of Katya can keep her fighting for her life. But far from Trixie's location, Katya is with the prison queens, preparing to take the next step in their mission -- venturing out into the big bad world.

Chapters:

[ 1 ] // [ 2 ] // [ 3 ] // [ 4 ] // [ 5 ] // [ 6 ] // [ 7 ] // [ 8 ] // [ 9 ]

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Drag or Die: Part Seven

Trixie is safe in the presence of Katya and the army. The two queens try to rekindle their relationship as the weeks pass, whilst Adore and Bianca are trying to figure out how to mend their own. As the queens plan to move on in their recruitment plan, the commander fights to keep the peace. But how can she trust Bianca again?

[ 1 ] // [ 2 ] // [ 3 ] // [ 4 ] // [ 5 ] // [ 6 ] // [ 7 ] // [ 8 ]

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Drag or Die: Part Five

With one queen kidnapped, the prison work together to break Alaska out of Saint Raphael's Rehabilitation Centre before she meets an untimely fate…That is if Katya and Adore can settle their differences.

Chapters:

[1] // [2] // [3] // [4] // [5] // [6] // [7] // [8]

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Drag or Die: Part Three

Trixie is gone, and Katya doesn't know what to do with herself. Especially when she wakes up in an unknown house in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by more queens.

Adore embraces her notoriety more, bringing the start of a new era.

Chapters:

[1] // [2] // [3] // [4] // [5] // [6] // [7] // [8]

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Based on this comment a fan of Drag or Die wrote 😁

[artificialgrinder]

This song really captures the end of DODIII chapter 8, particularly when Katya burns the house down. I swear when this song came out, I listened on repeat over and over, just invisioning the scene.

It's practically Katya's theme song in the Drag or Die universe, and I'll always have a special place in my heart for that

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Read Drag or Die on AO3 for dystopian universe biadore and trixya, cheers

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I was going to post Drag or Die 5 next week but I'll be in London so expect the next part of the saga this week 😘

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Drag or Die: Trivia and fun facts, Part 4

Book 1

Adore and Co:

Bianca's backstore was too much at one stage. Like the two were actually expecting a baby. So when Bianca left her marriage, it hit 10 times more. So after the little boy was born and grew up, she started passing by his school almost everyday just to see his son because when else could he see him? (This is stalkery behaviour though and I don't indorse it.) And then I thought to make it even worse by making the kid blind so that, as much as Bianca would see him, the kid would never see her. But then it was just too much, in poor taste and cringy. So I decided to take the boy out of the equation completely.

Adore falling into the shark tank and being saved Bianca wasn't going to be in the fic. My friend actually helped me come up with that idea. But originally, the baddies in town would find their way into the aquarium and apprehend both Adore and Bianca. But Raja and the rest of the queens would come in and rescue them.

There was then this bonus scene in which the aquarium troop grieve their hideout and Ginger in a forest, and Adore goes off to find Bianca who is taking it the hardest. They bond over their emotions. But then along comes this fucking bear that tries to kill them. But Dela comes along and shoots the bear. ..... So random, I know. I think it's cause I was in love with the movie Annihilation at the time and that bear scene scared the shite out of me but I wanted to have scary shit happen in the fic too. So that's where that came from I guess.

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Drag or Die: Trivia and fun facts, Part 3

Book 1 & 2

The Red Lights:

April and Kandy were both infamous throughout the country for killing men and stealing their shit.

They weren’t dragged to the club (which was never called the Red Lights) but came across it themselves. Infiltrating the place, they’re then captured by the owners who are Smoke and his guys. Smoke got his name cause I couldn’t think of anything at first but at the time I was playing GTA SA, and I liked the name ‘Big Smoke’, so I stole it and changed it to Papa Smoke. That makes him sound cool though, and smoke ain’t cool.

There was no Vince or Jude at first. Nor was there the $10 cannibalism story either.

At first, it was Smoke who was the creep, not Jude, and his target was Miz Cracker. Then I was like nah, Cracker would kick his ass. So then we chose Aquaria instead. By we, I mean me and my other personality. I do remember in the escape plan, Cracker still went to take the keys, but not by sneaking into Smoke’s office. But because he was obsessed with Aquaria, she’d try to seduce Smoke, like, “Hey, you can’t get the one you want but I look like her so at least it’s something.” She’s reach into his pocket while he’s making out with her, try to take his keys, but he would catch her.

There were also many more S10 queens in this group such as Mayhem, Monique, Asia Kalorie, Yuhua and I think that was it. But it was too many to write. Most of them died in the end too which left the remaining Red Lights queens we saw now.

Also there were no performances. But I thought, hey this is a fic about drag queens. Where’s the lip syncing?

PS. There was also a very early version in which there was Craquaria. I still have the smut scene. I wrote them back when I barely knew about those two. Don’t even think I was really watching S10 too. I just knew it was a popular ship at the time and wanted the views babyyyyyy! Ugh, fuck that. That makes me uncomfy.

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Snippet Game 🌻♡

Thanks for tagging me, @artificialortega you’re a real one! So I gotta go through my WIPs and search for parts that have the words I’ve been nominated. Then, post those snippets.  ⚠️ ⚠️SPOILERS AHEAD  ⚠️ ⚠️

Now, I don’t have any WIP’s available right now, so I guess I’ll try and post from the next few entries of Drag or Die! Anyway; my words are left, phone, annoy(ed) and why

Here we go

Left -  "Protecting your friend no matter what she’s done. Sign of a lovely person." Shangela noted, carrying a pile of books to sit with the others. "Not me, though. I would've just left it for everyone to see. Maybe then they'd take it up with her. I know she’s your friend, but I think that's just what she needs right now, honey."

Phone -  “They are very powerful, girl. Trust me. They're also all controlled. We detonate it through Brooke’s phone.” Tyra answered.

Annoyed -  Katya took an equal amount of time to check up on the different training groups, keeping track of their progress. Not that they needed much improvement. The only need for the training was to keep them focused and their skills sharp. She had the help of the other council members, each one passing her with a nod of the head and a simple “commander.” Those bitches. They knew it annoyed her. The first few times, it made her laugh. After a few more, it was okay. She’d smile.

Why -  “Well, why even bother with all the cheese? Maybe she could just approach her, have an honest conversation and then see where it goes from there.” God, Courtney was always the voice of reason. Where would they be without her? 

“Fuck that. You see, that is also cheese. In fact, that is even bigger cheese. Why don’t you have Adore sing a song too like we’re in some Disney Channel movie.” Willam protested, being the polar opposite to Courtney.

Okay! That was fun. I really hope yall avoided the spoilers. As for who should continue this train, I nominate @artificialcandycane @veronicasanders @thecollectionsof @artificiallita @madangel19 There’s other people I wanna tag but can’t for the life of me find their Tumblrs lol

Okay, waines. I asked a generator. Your words are remain, embrace, scream and childish

Have fun!  ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡