doodleswithangie

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how did it happen? how did you get to make THEE legalize catboys print? (Also how's working w DnP? Are there NDAs?)

so i went into the phouse and i sat down with dnp and i said "i wanna make history B)"

jk they emailed me with a screen shot from LazyDays and said "like this but both catboys" and i of course shat myself but it was too late to delete my account

#dnp #usagi you absolute legend

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Zendaya and Mike Faist behind the scenes of ‘challengers’

#challengers #challengers cast

[doodleswithangie]

Okay but let’s talk about Tashi and Art’s marriage.

How Art was there for her after her injury, one of the first people who rushed to help her. To help her heal, to go through arguably the worst moment of her life while holding her hand. To show her love and validation outside of the sport that was her whole life.

How Art spends the next decade of his life playing for the both of them. Pushing himself past his own limitations because this isn’t about Art, this is ahout Tashi. About her potential, about everything she could’ve been and everything he took away from her.

How the both of them know they shouldn’t have lashed out at Patrick, how it was just easier to blame him when Art knows deep down Tashi blamed him for her injury.

Love as penance, praying and hoping the next trophy would be the one that satisfies her, resentment souring the only thing that tied him to his best friend, the only thing they all shared. Laying his life on the sacrificial altar in the hopes that would earn the love and forgiveness she can’t give

#challengers #challengers spoilers #art being the dog that obeys but bites #sinner seeking absolution #<- damn

[doodleswithangie]

this is such a clever thing for them to do!! like of course Tashi would be covering magazines! she’s famous in her own right

#challengers #challengers cast #zendaya

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zendaya, mike faist, and josh o’connor behind the scenes of ‘challengers’

#challengers #challengers cast

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here have a silly lil doodle of the trio based on That anne hathaway twelfth night pic

#challengers #challenger spoilers #and so it begins

[doodleswithangie]

art would gladly pillow princess for both tashi and patrick but neither of them would ever let him just lay back and relax. they’re always goading him on and pushing him around. born to be a lapdog forced to run the track. he’s the most exhausted sub in the world

#challengers #challengers spoilers

[doodleswithangie]

I wanted to say that I’m looking forward to it. That I miss playing with you. Yeah? Well, I don’t miss playing with you, man. I’m too old for it.

CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

#challengers #challengers spoilers

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this scene has been playing on loop in my mind since i first watched it . it’s like a drug.

#challengers #challengers spoilers #the way this whole sequence telegraphs the rest of the movie

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i think we are all forgetting something when we talk about how toxic patrick, tashi, and art are — or when we decide one is “worse” than the other. they all have moments of seeing right through it, seeing each other’s toxic behavior for what it is, and STILL want and need each other in this possessive, envious, visceral way.

1. in the way beginning, tashi is clearly flirting more with art than patrick, and patrick is visibly annoyed. art sees right through it and even challenges him like “okay, let’s leave”, and has this little smirk on his face because he knows patrick won’t give up on tashi.

2. tashi immediately sees the visible tension and love between art and patrick, and literally orchestrates their first kiss. she sees right through their repression, and even calls herself a “home-wrecker” but still entangles herself with them, especially patrick because he’s clearly the better tennis player at that point and that is tash’s ONLY true love. tennis. that’s what she desires most in him, and patrick knows that. he even calls her out on it in the dorm room scene. but they have this mirroring fire in each other that neither of them can give up, not until patrick breaks the balance and bails — tashi’s injury is literally a metaphor for the balance shattering between all three of them when patrick leaves her.

3. before this, patrick sees right through art trying to break them up, and even admires that quality — maybe even feels smug and flattered because art is jealous and feels left out from both tashi and patrick. patrick has known this all along, we saw it in the “tick-serve” scene, where he even swears to tashi he won’t tell anyone but he still tells art, who is desperate to feel a part of them and patrick wants that, too — even keeps that close intimacy with art that we see in the churro scene (swoon swoon swoon).

4. haven’t you noticed that arts desire to be great is only ever tied up in patrick and tashi? how he needs to beat patrick to win tashis affection, how he needs to win in tennis so that tashi can live through him, how he lives up to his potential in the ending only because tashi and patrick push him to it, in their little fucked up ways? he knows this — he even admits that he’s playing for tashi, that he knows she’s living through him. he even admits he’s playing a fucked up little game with patrick when they’re in the sauna. yet he still does it. again, he knows what’s happening, sees right through them — still does it, still loves them.

5. when tashi calls patrick to come pick her up he knows it’s not just to tell him to throw the match — and despite how she battles him about it, they still have sex in the car, because he already knows. he’s so fully aware of her and her game and he’s so willing to be caught up in it, the same as art.

just some examples of how they all have moments of clarity and agency and yet they still choose to be entangled in one another because they’re all fucked up in their own, individual ways, and they’re all living through each other for their own specific needs. arts is to be seen as worthy, as great, but only through their gaze. tashis is to have the career that was stolen from her. patricks is truly to be in love and in lust with both of them, because we even see that from the beginning that tashis love alone will never satiate him; it has to be arts love, too. that scene in the sauna when he thinks he’s lost it from art is the most sad and fucked up we ever even see patrick. on top of tashi asking him to throw the game — he’s so defensive of arts feelings.

in short this is an actual love triangle (and i would go as far as to see it as a polyship). you can’t erase one without the whole thing unraveling, and you can’t say one character was the “worst” without picking apart the motivations and pointing to the fact that their bad behavior was never a secret or left unchecked.

even at the end, patrick signals to art that he slept with tashi — art knows and they still have that intimate completion at the end, all three of them. art living up to his potential and embracing patrick fully (id argue this could even be a metaphor for embracing his bisexuality), patrick having both tashi and arts affection again, and tashi playing a phenomenal tennis match through her little white boys — in such a visceral, emotional way that she cries out like she did in the beginning and the last frame is her smiling.

in a fucked up way, they all get what they wanted out of each other.

#challengers #challengers spoilers

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♡

#dnp #oh danny boy #wad

[doodleswithangie]

#Literally stop tweeting things like "what do you said to them after filming this". It's just a movie, it's pretend. You're an adult you should know that.

#zendaya #challengers #challengers cast #dune #dune cast

[doodleswithangie]

one of the craziest scenes in challengers is when tashi and patrick are making out in her dorm and talking about how good art is like how good looking he is, how much better he’s gotten at tennis. i would almost argue that they both did everything For him in the end

#challengers #challengers spoilers #this is how i’d argue art caused the fight not through his poorly executed manipulations but literally just him #i’ll have to rewatch

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No in between. Reblog if you vote pleas

#polls #that’s light jacket weather so cool

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i think one of the best subtleties of challengers is we all think art has matured because he got what he wanted - tashi and fame - and tashi and patrick are still immature teens but art hasn’t! he’s still a stunted adult, a literal teenager in the body of an adult who puts on this facade of maturity and wisdom to hide the fact that he’s deeply hurting inside because he does not want to be perceived as childish or immature, he does not want people to know he still ruminates over being the second choice lurking in the shadows of patrick and tashi - because even as an adult he still is. he can’t exist with tashi and he can’t exist without and so he becomes this blank nothingness and does what she says to feel something - approved, desired - so he does not become the bitter and jealous child that broke up tashi and patrick and ultimately led to tashi injuring herself. he is literally nothing more than tashi’s partner (as she is to him too) and has to pretend he’s okay with that so he doesn’t lose everything he’s built like he did when he was 18 and in love with his best friend and his best friend’s girlfriend.

#challengers #challengers spoilers #this is a good take op i rescind my earlier thoughts of art being the only one who was afforded the chance to grow up through his career #maybe it’s not so much that he’s frozen chasing the highs of his youth like the other two but he’s still stuck #like someone said he’s a corpse on the court and he’s tired and is the only one of the three who knows when to quit but he can’t

[doodleswithangie]

“tashi never liked art or even loved him. she only loved tennis” now granted she did have some 50s housewife bitterness but you think TASHIIIIIII would MARRY and have A CHILD if she didn’t at least LIKE that man??? they were textually friends. also she is the character least likely to longsufferingly martyr herself like BE serious. TASHI???? tashi. art was her pet dog. she is allowed to have agency you know. some of you never watched tomshiv succession and it shows

#challengers #challengers spoilers #points to the scene on the couch pre-challengers match

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quote (x) / challengers (2024) dir. luca guadagnino

#challengers #challengers spoilers #the second car scene with the ghost of the third looming above them