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I know you asked them but I love this shit so I'll answer too! I've only been reading since 2012 so my recommendations are all newer books.

I think with the main Avengers book, the best one I'd recommend would be Hickman's Avengers starting with Vol. 1 Avengers World however this series is pretty continuity heavy and may not be too great for new readers. The pay off is worth it but it may be a bit daunting. The current Avengers run by Mark Waid that has been running for the last year or two is pretty mediocre. I'd avoid it tbh. I'm not much of an Avengers man so I don't know many older series unfortunately.

If you liked Ant-Man he's only had one ongoing by Nick Spencer but it was fantastic. I'd highly recommend this! Start with Vol. 1 Second Chance Man

I don't really read Iron Man, but I've heard good things about Matt Fractions run. It start with Vol. 1 Five Nightmares. I don't read much Captain America, or Doctor Strange either so I can't really recommend anything there. Hulk's best years are behind him, if you're ok with older art styles though Peter David's Hulk is the way to go.

If you like Thor Jason Aaron has been telling his epic that started with Thor Odinson, has transitioned into Jane Foster and is getting ready to go back to Odinson. You can start with Thor God of Thunder vol. 1

Black Panther is coming out soon and the defining run is Christopher Priest's masterpiece. You can start with Black Panther The Client. This book is phenomenal.

If you want Spider-Man Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man is a different continuity but reads brilliantly as a standalone and helped define the character for a generation. It's addicting reading and just amazing. If you like Spider-Man even a little bit read this. Starts with Vol. 1 Power and Responsibility.

Hawkeye by Matt Fraction is very new reader friendly and very cool. It starts with Vol. 1 My Life As a Weapon Now. Black Widow has had a few great runs recently, you can start with either Vol. 1 Finely Woven Thread which is the Edmondson/Noto run, the art is phenomenal or the more recent Vol. 1 Sheilds Most Wanted which feels a lot more cinematic in scope. It was 12 issues and pretty solid.

Captain Marvel will be Marvel's first female driven movie. DeConnick's run has the best characterization and starts with Vol. 1 In Pursuit of Flight. I'm personally more partial to Brian Reed's run with the character when she was Ms. Marvel which starts with Vol. 1 Best of the Best.

If you're interested in X-Men or the Netflix Marvel characters there is a lot of great stuff there too!

Oooooh, child, there is a lot of great stuff out there for you. Don't worry about not finding material.

• First of... "class just started"?? ew, are you doing a Maymester?! I will pray to the Drag goddesses for you.
  
  
• Second. How do you see the structure of the paper panning out? How are you using the documentaries? Because it seems like you could do a paper on depictions of drag (as fashion elements) in film alone and that already might make for an interesting paper. And that way you could also look at non-documentary works... Priscilla Queen of the Desert, La Cage aux folles, John Waters' early movies, Ma Vie en Rose, Hedwig, and Bad Education are all wonderful films. And plenty have been studied academically and have that kind of ~intellectual~ prestige that teachers love.
  
  
• I think "Notes on Camp" is good, but Sontag's text is pretty introductory, and a lot of scholars have built up (and taken down sometimes) on what she's said. I wrote a paper last semester on Pierre et Gilles for a class on contemporary art, and my most useful book was Camp, Queer Aesthetics, and the Performing Subject: A Reader. It's sort of this big encyclopedic book on past and contemporary scholarship on camp theory. There's a lot of great stuff on there, and I'm sure you could mine their bibliographies and expand your research that way.
  
• The other ~canonical~ text on drag is probably Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
  
• My other favorite (contemporary) book on drag is Jose Esteban Muñoz' Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
  He looks at drag from a cultural/ethnic perspective. Great read. Not all chapters would be applicable to your paper, as his scope is much larger than drag (as is Butler's), but he does devote a significant portion of his writing to Vaginal Davis.
  
  Let me know if you have any questions! I love this stuff. Good luck on your paper!
  
  

Eyebrow Cover - Elmer's Glue, Pros-aide Cream. Raven talking about Bianca recommending it to her.

Powder - Coty Airspun is the best on the market for the cost. You can literally get it at Walmart, and for Translucent Powder the only thing that matters is the texture. Ben Nye Luxury Powder is the other standard, but it's pricier. The "girl, look how orange you fucking look, girl" powder is Topaz. A ton of queens of color use the Banana powder, and even cis women use it now because Kim K's makeup artist uses it on her. Ben Nye also makes a Super White powder that gets used over their Clown White foundation for very stark highlights, like under the brow. I believe Super White is the powder Sharon Needles uses to look ghostly. Raven's preferred pressed white powder is Mac Studio Fix in Shivering White.

Foundations - Kryolan TV Paintstick has been the industry standard for about a decade now. It used to be MaxFactor Panstik, but they discontinued it in the US. Jackie Beat bought all of it that she could in bulk when that happened, but then I think eventually switched to Kryolan. Dermablend was originally formulated to cover burns, so it also gets used. I believe Katya used it on Drag Race, if she doesn't still use it. Ben Nye Clown White is the product that Nina accused everyone of stealing from her, and is an incredibly versatile product. Manila Luzon used it in her makeup tutorial to cover her black brows.

Eyeshadows - Sugarpill Pro Palette is pretty ubiquitous at this point, but they were founded in like 2010 so there are still old-school queens who are holdouts. Bulletproof and Tako are just about the best black and white eyeshadows on the market. Trixie and Farrah both use Dollypop constantly. On the other hand, they mostly concentrate on crayola colors and less on browns. La Femme and Mac are basically responsible for Raven's beige face. Miss Fame uses a lot of Cozzette Infinite Eyeshadow.

Lip Pencils - MAC are basically the standard. Nothing else comes to mind. I've used drug store pencils, but these are the only ones I've gone out of my way for. Sharon swears by Nightmoth lip liner.

Lip Color - OCC Lip Tar used to be everywhere, but Jeffree Star seems to have put them out of business. Traditional lipsticks are easy to make, so basically any drugstore brand does the job if you can find a color you like.

Highlighters - Jeffree Star Skin Frost, Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit. These didn't used to be a thing. In Manila's 2011 makeup tutorial she used dots of MAC loose pigment in Vanilla for this purpose, and that was kind of groundbreaking because it was how her face didn't look matte after being powdered to hell.

I think it's interesting that people make snide little jokes when someone has obviously put their own mark on something, produced it by hand, and actually used a reference for their own work and not completely duplicated that reference pixel for pixel. You are absolutely on the right track here. With your illustrative style I'd check out this book, [How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way] (https://www.amazon.com/How-Draw-Comics-Marvel-Way/dp/0671530771) By Stan Lee and John Buscema. At $11.00 it's a lot of info on the cheap. I had an artist who I really admired suggest it to me when I was younger and it was a godsend. It's a really good guide to hammer down some basic perspective and anatomy as well as grow the natural lines that I can see in your work. Things like getting those eyes to look in the same place, and blocking out areas of your work to show depth. Very on point with your subject. Great job. Toot.

Yes, actually, and I ordered more! This is my favorite style of pin saver, personally: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MT7WNRO/

This is my first time ordering from this particular seller, but this style of pin keeper has always worked well for me, and doesn't require the tiny allen wrench thart the other popular style does (I've used those too and in addition to being a pain, I don't feel they work as well as this style). I've also heard these called "Military Style Pin Keepers", if you're looking for them locally.

That said. a pack of like 10 is usually $7ish at local bike shops (in my experience), so I doubt you'll beat the 50 for $10 on Amazon, which is why I ended up ordering more myself, haha. I've been addicted to buying weird enamel pins on Ali Express recently (there's a ton of $1 or less pins that are NICE), and I wouldn't want to lose my brunch themed pin collection or "Go Away" Candy Heart pin, lol.

Well, you're obviously talented, so fancy colored pencils would never be wasted on you! The Derwent Colorsoft series is nice, have you seen the Derwent Studio Metallic Pencils Set? They would be great for adding a metallic sheen to the eye shadows and lipsticks on your portraits.

Have you used Lyra pencils? I've been experimenting around with them, and I've been enjoying how blendable they are as they're formulated with oil instead of wax. There's also a good skin tones set, and the Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor perform and blend beautifully. You're absolutely right, though - art supplies are so freaking expensive. I've never been able to get into painting simply because just getting started can be so spendy.

This type of essay is more relevant if you're trying to absorb prior generations' lives and culture.

If you don't know any older gay men, you probably won't "get" why Judy Garland or other divas were part of the lGbt psyche. Or why brunch and SHOWTUNES were just something everybody who had a dollar DID on Sunday ;)

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/harris-culture.html

Or even the counterpoint to PIB (another important film/play):

http://www.amazon.com/The-Boys-Band-Kenneth-Nelson/dp/B001CQONPE

http://www.amazon.com/Boys-Band-Mart-Crowley/dp/0573640041

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVD39bDowQo

Being 16 however, does NOT excuse your laziness in just developing a shallow rant-y view of RuPaul based on the one stupid television show that you just discovered. Prolifetip: It's always GOOD to RESEARCH something/somebody before you rant. ESPECIALLY if it's about a person or their character or life achievements. You were being dismissed because you really don't know what the fuck you're talking about; regardless of your age. Let's start with RuPaul making it crystal clear that it's the OLYMPICS of drag and he's giving you an OPPORTUNITY to make something out of "what you're working with", not a handholding surrogate parent experience. Albeit some would say they got THAT, too. ;)

http://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/2mtckw/rpdr_rupaul/cm7gb7e?context=3

Take a month and read his blog or books.

http://www.rupaul.com/news/2001/11/wonderful-things-are-happening-all.shtml
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Yes in a way you're "lucky" to miss the drama from before. But in a way you're unlucky. There was an intricate tapestry of culture and the passing down of experiences and life coaching that went on, something like the Masonic fraternity that will be more and more insignificant but not REPLACED by anyone or any THING. So basically you're on your own right now. Grindr will NEVER be a substitute for real life. I encourage you to get OUT and meet people of various generations and experiences/interests even if you "think" you "hate Broadway" or whatever. So you don't end up being just another Millennial anon searching for something REAL on the fucking internet. The reality IS equality is NOT HERE YET and it's never fun being a struggling subculture with no culture. You'll notice the most fulfilled and well rounded queens are those with a well rounded social circle like Bianca, Ben, Jinx, Raja (to an extent) who have other interests and various types of friends. :)

Sure! I got mine from the Kindle store because they're pretty expensive in hard copy but:

Alaska's: http://shop.alaskathunderfuck.com/product/alaska-thunderfun-and-the-inner-space-odyssey-sickening-adventures-book-2

Sharon's: http://sharonneedles.bigcartel.com/product/new-sharon-needles-and-the-curse-of-the-devil-s-deck-sickening-adventures-book-1

If you're in/around LA, I also hear that they're sold in the PEG store. 😊👌🏻

Much cheaper Kindle links also!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alaska-Thunderfun-Odyssey-Sickening-Adventures-ebook/dp/B01EDABVLY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498746398&sr=1-1&keywords=alaska+thunderfun

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sharon-Needles-Devils-Sickening-Adventures-ebook/dp/B01EDABYVQ/ref=pd_sim_351_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0G6AM2QXFHZDVG9YM9CJ

IF YOU WANT TO BUY THE AMAZON SEASON PASS AND DOWNLOAD/WATCH YOURSELF, I FIGURED OUT HOW.

You'll need two things:

1. The season pass, purchased off Amazon, and
   
   
2. The Amazon Unbox player. This episode isn't available right now on any other Amazon device.
   
   
   The season pass is available at this link:
   
   http://www.amazon.com/RuPauls-Drag-Race-The-Ru/dp/B00TX2Q01E
   
   
   And the Unbox installer is available at this link:
   
   https://d2icpe6bfjvl9u.cloudfront.net/unbox/setup-2.2.0.153/AmazonUnboxVideo.exe
   
   Fair warning: this APPEARS to be a legitimate link; I used it and scanned it with Microsoft Security Essentials, and it detected no problems. After I installed it, I had to log into my Amazon account, and it prompted me to install a newer update to Unbox, which I did. Now, the episode is nearly done downloading, yay!
   
   Also, /u/strudel_q reports that this link works too, and appears WAY less sketchy URL-wise:
   http://www.amazon.com/cs/unbox/download/104
   
   Good luck ladies!

He also just made ANOTHER post praising these non-FDA approved eyedrops: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006UVAA30/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_4.wYDbKB90JYP

Literally one star on Amazon. Also posted a Gore Vidal quote, "Never turn down an opportunity to have sex or to be on television”. While I feel Vidal meant it with some irony Ru posting it really rubs me the wrong way for some reason.

Your options are as follows:

1. Make friends with someone who subscribes to Logo
   
2. Find a local [gay] bar that's airing it
   
3. Buy a season pass from one of these places and watch it the day afterish
   Amazon | iTunes | Google Play
   

it's all good. Amazon and Itunes has a season pass. google plus has the cheapest season pass

I have no idea if these ever existed in print format, but the Sickening Adventures books for Kindle are fun. I wish they'd do more of them. Available on Amazon:

Sharon Needles and the Curse of the Devil's Deck

Alaska Thunderfun and the Inner Space Odyssey