Reading Challenge

The **Reading Challenge**, also sometimes referred to as **Reading is Fundamental**, is a mini challenge where the contestants have to read each other and throw shade. The winner of the challenge is usually the contestant with the funniest and/or shadiest reads.

## Challenge's Timeline

█ The challenge never appeared in the season.
█ The challenge appeared in the season once.
█ The challenge appeared in the season once but under another format.
## Reading Challenge Winners

Lilac Candy - Season 2Doc - Season 3Moxie Valor - Legends
## List of Reads

* Season 2
* Season 3
* Legends

### Episode 11 - Queens of Comedy

**Mini Challenge Winner: Lilac Candy**

**Venetia**

1. **to Moxie Valor:** "Moxie, My sister Moxie! So I know some people like to name themselves after traits they have, but I guess “Late Bloomer Valor” didn’t quite pack the same punch."
2. **to Lilac Candy:** "Lilac, my track record twin! We spend so much of this competition neck and neck girl! But after last week, I guess we're more like Track Record Distant Cousins. Maybe this week you could bottom and break the family bond entirely!"

**Moxie Valor**

1. **to Lilac Candy:** "Lilac, I know Britney is your idol and you actually remind me a lot of her, especially around her 2007 era."
2. **to Nikky Fox:** "Nik, I assume you're really good at cooking pancakes with the way you flip opinions during critiques."

**Nikky Fox**

1. **to Moxie Valor:** "Moxie! Here we are today to roast our lovely queen Trixie mattel- I mean Karen from fi- nope nope I meant Sharon Needles… omg it’s Moxie I’m sorry it’s just hard to tell the difference between white trash these days"
2. **to Venetia and Lilac Candy:** "Speaking of white trash, I’m happy to introduce you all to Venetia! His claim to fame in the discord drag community is butchering micro more times than Lilac having a hemorrhoids problem"

**Lilac Candy**

1. **to Venetia:** "Venetia! It’s no coincidence that your two best looks this season were a chicken and a cow. I think it’s time to admit that drag is not your true calling, you were actually born to be one of those store mascots who dress up in animal suits and spin signs on the street corner."
2. **to Nikky Fox:** "Nictoria Foxworth the Third, I know everyone, including yourself, is shocked to see you here in the top 4 but I always knew you'd make it! Micro has a soft spot for losers, she is a Jujubee stan after all."

### Episode 7 - Micro in Wonderland Ball

**Mini Challenge Winner: Doc**

**Morgs**

1. **to Papaya:** "Egg - Who boiled you? The same person that fried sharris’ hair? The same person who made Dip so runny?!!?! At least they didn’t make Steph sunny side up."
**Papaya:** "Rebrand honey, rebrand."
2. **to Doc:** "Doc, I didn’t realize we were naming ourselves after something we needed! While I do think you should get your ears checked if you don’t like Lante I have a better idea. Individual Solo Win! We could be twins!"

**Angolan Desert**

1. **to Papaya:** "Papaya, just like your name, you are may be rough on the outside but you are SO sweet on the inside… and full of semen."
2. **to Doc:** "Doc actually created wine as her product, which is fitting because she only looks good if you’re drunk!"
**Doc:** "That's not what your dad thought..."

**Papaya**

1. **to Doc:** "As many of you guys know, doc has been here in the fantasy community for a while, but I know Doc from back in TLC’s 1000 pound sisters."
2. **to May I. Havanother:** "May is so boring that every time she talks a fly dies. May is so boring that Cup O Death saw her and immediately fell asleep preventing her from going on the runway. May is so boring that people confused her for a piece of meat and put her in a meat grinder."

**May I. Havanother**

1. **to Angolan Desert:** "Angolan, I'm trying to find a new place to live; how much are you charging for the empty space inside your head? There's obviously nothing in there."
2. **to Morgs:** "Okay, but in all seriousness, Micro did say that two people would be eliminated this week... so Morgs, do either of your faces need help packing?"

**Doc**

1. **to Angolan Desert:** "Here we have Angolan, the resident top of Micro's circuit party. She's so amazing! It would really be in poor taste to mention her lack of fashion sense, personality, or looks. So of course I'm not going to be the person to do it!"
2. **to May I. Havanother:** "Oh May I...you know it's rare that a queen has so much manners. Her name even asks politely if she can find her way to another bottom placement."
**May I. Havanother:** "Get you another win before you come at me."

### Episode 1 - Legendary Girl Groups

**Mini Challenge Winner: Moxie Valor**

**Angolan Desert**

1. **to Slerna Jimbles:** "Slerna is one of my FAVORITE drag artists and I appreciate her for completely disproving the idea that aliens are ugly, grey in color, and have big ass heads, it’s *SO* discriminatory. Unfortunately for the community though, we do have Kami here to reinforce those stereotypes"
2. **to Karte, Yuka N. Havanother, Moxie Valor, and Nikky Fox:** "Clowne has an amazing sense of fashion that has been truly inspiring and groundbreaking for all queens. No really, the ground fucking CRACKS every time she takes a step. There are more cracks on that runway than cracks on Yuka’s skin, Moxie’s teeth, and Nikky’s toenails dragging on the ground!"

**Crystal Waterz**

1. **to Karte:** "Karte! Its so good you are here, serving 10s across the board! And by 10s I mean your placements in MDR...shall we keep that streak going?"
2. **to Nikky Fox:** "Nikky Fox! I see that you competed on the "lost season" of MDR. But seeing you in this werkroom...I think you're just lost."

**Kami**

1. **to Nikky Fox:** "My sweet Nikky, now I know you’ve been on your fitness journey and I just know you’re gonna be the biggest loser!… In this competition, not in correlation with weight."
2. **to everyone:** "Now I tried to research the rest of you all, I really did, but I sadly got bored looking at you guys' past work, I'm so sorry!!"

**Karte**

1. **to Zodya Killer:** "Zodya Killer! People complain that there aren’t many Big Girl winners, but with shoulders comparable to Moxie Valor and teeth shaded like that… I’d say you got plenty of crowns!"
2. **to Slerna Jimbles:** "Slerna Jimbles! As Blondie Dahl once famously said… YOU got a mess in your pants, alright… The type you can only find in Micro’s granny diapers."

**Lisbon**

1. **to Nikky Fox:** "Nikky! Gurl you are looking so thin! No wonder you slipped through the cracks and somehow ended up on a legends season!"
2. **to Crystal Waterz:** "Crystal, Crystal, Crystal… I’m so glad they cast you as my understudy for this season. Too bad we won’t be needing you cause the role of winner is already filled."

**Moxie Valor**

1. **to Angolan Desert, Crystal Waterz, Nikky Fox, and Kami:** "Angolan! You've been missing for so long! You're like Crystal's talent, Nikky's crown, and my knowledge of who the fuck Kami is."
2. **to Yuka N. Havanother and Zodya Killer:** "Yuka Havanother, everyone clap for Micro, she sure has a way of keeping us all on our toes with these casting decisions, it was actually a medical order by Zodya's doctor to keep her on her toes this season, we've got to fight the obesity epidemic somehow folks."

**Nikky Fox**

1. **to Kami:** "When Kami finished MDR we seen her BIG television debut! I think it was wipeout? She did a cameo as 1 of the obstacles!"
2. **to Zodya Killer and Crystal Waterz:** "Zodya and Crystal, as soon as I hear galloping I knew Zodya was here! And when those floors shaked I realised that Crystal was feeling productive and actually did those 20 steps from her station! She finally got her first record!"

**Slerna Jimbles**

1. **to Moxie Valor:** "Moxie Valor! It's no secret you're fat, I mean it'd be pretty hard to cover all THAT up. But the moment it really set in for me was when Micro told us to eat it up on that stage, and you responded 'I'm so fat.'"
2. **to Karte and Moxie Valor:** "Karte, the only thing fatter than your hair pieces is, well, Moxie Valor!"

**Yuka N. Havanother**

1. **to Moxie Valor:** "Moxies personality is what you get when you mix a Pink Whitney and Zoloft in a public bathroom at your local supermarket…."
2. **to Crystal Waterz:** "Crystal truly is the full package! I mean she’s got Looks, she’s got the talent…. I mean the only thing she’s missing is her front teeth you British Cunt"

**Zodya Killer**

1. **to Moxie Valor and Crystal Waterz:** "Moxie! You truly are the Amy Schumer of Discord drag. You’re *morbidly* obese, rarely funny, and have worse fashion sense than whatever Crystal “Baroness Basic” Waterz decides to ~~trace~~ draw on her base!"
2. **to Yuka N. Havanother:** "Now, I think we all understand the importance and benefit of affirmative action for everyone. Because of this, I’d like to thank Micro for giving this opportunity to the most oppressed class there is: white twink theatre kids! You hear that, Yuka? Make the most of your *short* stint here!"

## Trivia

* Despite the challenge being a staple in regular Drag Race, the reading challenge has only appeared on three seasons of MDR.
	+ Only 16 queens have ever participated in a reading challenge, and only three queens have done so twice (Nikky Fox, Moxie Valor, and Angolan Desert).