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making tennis edits brings me so much genuine joy

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Sincaraz // "Northern Attitude" by Noah Kahan

(story behind this one: I texted @advantage-sinner and I was like "I have to make an angsty sincaraz edit" and she was ready with like four songs including this one so thank you I literally can't get anything done without you lol)

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Fuck. I can't do anything right. *pulls my shirt up slightly and you can see a little bit of my abs*

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Challengers is fedole fanfic actually /j (writer said he watched 2019 Wimbledon)

of course, how could I have missed this!

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american idiot news: tommy paul is now playing doubles in madrid with..........daniil medvedev

LMFAO

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call me taylor fritz the way i can get in my own head

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Here for the hug between two good friends.

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prayer circle for shapo rn

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sabalenka-collins feels like a final level match rn, not a fourth round

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Andy Roddick - Indian Wells 2005

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That thing jannik said about how he likes tennis because you can make mistakes and still win in the end, been thinking about it ever since

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whoever scheduled ben/bublik as the early match is my enemy

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some disorganized thoughts about challengers (some spoilers):

so I already talked about this but good god, mike faist's backhand was literally just domi's and yes I was insane about it the entire time

"challengers is a poorly disguised fedal fanfic" wrong. challengers is a poorly disguised rafole fanfic

like, the friends who are idealistically staring out on tour growing distant from each other? come on

every tennis scene felt like a sex scene which was the point, but I just feel the need to point that out because they executed it SO well

if art donaldson was a real tennis player I just know I'd be obsessed with him

all three lead performances were great. zendaya stole the show, which did not surprise me, but the guys were amazing too!

a decent chunk of the movie took place at the 2006 us open and andy roddick's face was EVERYWHERE. he was also on a poster at the atlanta open and I think cincy too? some other player posters I saw were andy murray, roger (for a very brief second), agassi, and isner

the product placement was hilarious. during one scene they lingered on some on shoes for a solid two minutes

the injury scene. oh my god. absolutely gut wrenching. the sound effect sounded so real and zendaya's scream and reaction... damn. damn. good shit

the actual challenger final was hilarious because they could not keep track of who was serving. at 5-5 in the third set mike faist was serving and then again at 5-5 in the third set josh o'conner was serving and then mike faist was serving at 6-5 and then what do you know josh o'conner was serving at 5-6. it was like that for the whole movie, the actual scoreline was consistent but the server kept switching. mike faist was up an early break in the third when josh o'conner got a game penalty but in the next scene it was on serve and the scoreline hadn't changed

tennis-wise, that was the only thing that really bothered me, obviously the form and point construction wasn't going to be perfect and I think they used the tennis scenes really well as symbols for the relationships

there were some scenes where I was like "oh yeah I've definitely read this in a fic"

the underarm serve. I had to stop myself from cackling. it was the worst underarm serve I have EVER seen, it bounced basically on the service line (of course the whole point was that the other guy was throwing the point but still). it screamed stefaniil and I loved it

the last point was insane. I'm obsessed

zendaya's "come on!" and the explanation and then the callback at the end was absolutely perfect, hats off to the writer because that got me like "ooh"

the slo-mo in the last scene was killing me because I had to pee SO BAD (the theater played like eight fucking trailers it was insane) so I probably didn't appreciate the ending enough oops

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Naomi Osaka and Iga Świątek during the 2022 Miami Open Women's Singles Final trophy ceremony. Iga defeated Naomi in the final 6-4 6-0.

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2, 9, 25, and 29 for the ask game ! 💌

2: Do you have readers that you recognize by name (even if they may not comment regularly)?

for sure! I really appreciate every comment so much and I reread them quite a bit, so if someone pops up even a few times I'm like "oh! it's you! :)"

9: What genre is your favourite to write?

I'm forever and always a lover of writing fantasy even when the plot is WAY more than I can handle (I should write a tennis fantasy au...)

25: Have you ever gotten hate and if so, how did you deal with it?

not yet and fingers crossed it stays that way!

29: Do you listen to music while you write? If so, what kind?

I like to listen to movie scores while I write (usually lord of the rings but I mix it up sometimes). I've tried to listen to music with lyrics but I find it kinda distracting