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“i wanna watch challengers”

“we have challengers at home”

the challengers at home:

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I am always saying this during museum visits

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I love subjects and topics

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art donaldson is the helen of troy of challengers

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tashi and patrick are both team art even if they need to have a little thing on the side for themselves once every 5 years how are people not getting this… he is their WIFE

literally they are three horrible sexy people who can’t exist outside of their game and what they share with each other as a group like why does no one want the dragon to have three heads smh

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challengers spoilers…. im obsessed with how we know everything we need to know about art and patrick and tashi within their first scenes like. art asks patrick to throw the match so art can please his grandmother (or at least that’s what he says) and patrick agrees both because he’s deeply unserious about tennis separate from art, and also because art asks. then tashi enters. patrick blusters and pushes her but she keeps looking at silent art who seems to have fallen for her tennis game at first sight. she says tennis is a relationship. whoever wins the match will get my number. and patrick, knowing that art and tashi are both going to stanford, doesn’t throw the match. because the only way he can stay in their lives (art’s life) as they go off to the same school and work on the same sport, is to be dating her……..

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challengers opening weekend slay

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes in Seinfeld (1989—1998)

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#a dominating figure who is INSANE about their craft and if you want to enter their magnetic orbit you need to get insane too

YOU GET IT!!! YOU GET IT!!!!!

challengers 🤝 whiplash: movies about the intersection of achievement, potential, and desire. about the absolutely intimacy of being seen for what you are, being wanted. the magic of performing at the top of your game, shining and beautiful and powerful, knowing it was only possible because you were painstakingly molded into the shape you are now. heavy breathing and sweat and blood. fucking awesome

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challengers written by justin kuritzkes

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bonus: they’re all soooooo obsessed with winning that it makes them losers. and the gum thing

reasons why the love triangle in challengers serves cunt:

it’s a real triangle

the hate and love and lust volley between the three of them the whole time at dizzying speeds.

sexual tension is so insanely off the charts you can feel it in your mouth

zendaya

each of them is deeply jealous of the other two, in ways personal or professional or both. tashi had her career cut short before its prime. while patrick and art are still known as tennis players she will never be. art’s whole life is an exercise in repression and he knows he’ll never have that chaotic, prodigal spark that tashi and patrick share. patrick’s ex best friend and ex girlfriend got married and rich together while he’s sleeping in his car. they’re all longing for what the others have.

ZENDAYA

tennis as sex my beloved

in an early sceenplay, when art and tashi hook up for the first time, he doesn’t get hard until she coaches him while jerking him off. in the movie, patrick tells the story of how he taught art how to masterbate for the first time. haters will say you can’t have cinematic parallels with a scene that was never technically filmed but they haven’t watched the version of this movie in my head

did i mention zendaya is there?!?!

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CHALLENGERS (2024) Dir. Luca Guadagnino

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what the fuck is a salesforce. we're briefly alive for a few violent decades

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i didnt even care about tennis three days ago. that’s crazy

goooood morning everyone i want to see challengers again

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justin kuritzkes i love you (x)

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I like complicated queer stories like the sopranos (i pretend tony is gay while i watch)