#challengers throuple

[leclercstars]

advantage, zweig.

college!art donaldson x college!patrick zweig x reader based on this request

Summary: You've been into Art for years, but after he misses out on your senior awards ceremony, your feelings completely disappear. Seeing you out with a new guy certainly didn't help Art feel any better either. Warnings: mentions of alcohol, drug usage, kissing, mentions of sex.

You had been friends with Art and Tashi since you all were in the 5th grade. Spent hours on the playground together and in each other’s backyards before tennis consumed all three of you. When you all committed to Stanford, the joint going-away party your parents threw was unforgettable for quite a few reasons.

There had never really been any romantic tension between any of you. You and Tashi always had different types, and Art was sort of a self-proclaimed fuckboy so neither of you wanted anything to do with that. At least neither of you ever let it show. You had a sort of evergreen crush on Art, that seemingly persisted through every phase of your lives. From playing spin the bottle in basements to sneaking out for real parties in high school, the silent yearning you had for his touch never fully went away. Even when you had other boyfriends, shamefully, you always caught yourself thinking of Art when you listened to playlists they had made you. So when you walked him out to his car alone after your party, both of you single, Tashi preoccupied with talking to the adults, you knew you couldn’t pass up the opportunity. Bathed in the yellowy light of the street lamp, you leaned up against his car, wearing a low-cut white mini dress that did a good job of showing off your assets. Exactly what you wanted in this moment. It was 10pm, and the summer breeze had picked up, making your nipples pique through the thin fabric of the little dress. Art slowly stepped towards you, saying nothing, the lighting making his features dark, shadowy, lustful. His hands found the curve of your waist and pinned you against the chrome car door, tongue snaking its way down your throat with a passion that you had never experienced before. You tangled your hands in his hair, never wanting to let go of him or this moment. You kissed for what felt like hours, but as soon as he pulled away you already missed the taste of his lips against yours. He rested his forehead on yours, eyes closed, thumb rubbing your cheek. And then he got in the car and drove off.

And that was it. You never spoke of that moment again. You never told Tashi. That was it. And it was eating away at you. Your insides were constantly being mauled by a hunger for the feeling of his hands on you again. It was like a drug. A moment that had happened two years ago, and you constantly wanted another hit of that feeling. You all stayed friends, and you started to wonder if Art even remembered that it happened. It became harder and harder with each passing day to just act like things were the same, even when you had boyfriends of your own. You felt awkward bringing them around Art, knowing the way you felt. You still texted him all the time, hoping every notification was one from him. He had never been able to tie down a serious girlfriend, but spent quite a bit of time going on dates, which Tashi thought was trashy. “You can’t just keep leading girls on!” she would constantly groan. Boy, if only she knew. You kept yourself distracted from your own emotions by throwing yourself into school work, knowing that would at least pay off eventually. You excitedly texted Tashi and Art when you learned you were earning a distinguished senior award, and both of them promised to come to the ceremony. Tashi showed up 10 minutes early, always eager and overly punctual. 5 minutes passed, then 10, then 20. No sign of Art. He wasn’t responding to either of your texts, and Tashi started rubbing your back, knowing how excited you were about him being there. You had all done everything together for so long, and Art was missing out on the most important moment of your college career. How could he? This man you had loved for so long suddenly exposing his true colors sent a shock throughout your entire body. It was like waking up from a deep sleep, your feelings for Art slowly dissipating into the air around you. You heard a knock on your apartment door late that night. It was Art, standing there with flowers, wearing his sweat-stained Stanford tennis t-shirt. 

“I am so sorry.” “I don’t care Art,” you snapped, starting to close the door when he put his hand out to stop you, forcing himself inside. “Get out of my house,” each word dripping like venom off your tongue. “At least let me apologize, I overslept.” “You don’t get to just oversleep an important moment in my life and then expect me to act like it never happened,” you were choking back tears, not wanting to appear vulnerable in front of the man who hurt you so badly. “You’re gonna throw 10 years away for this? For one moment?” Art’s emotion was visceral, slicing through the thick tension hanging between the two of you. “I loved you Art,” you said matter of factly. “But this isn’t the only time you’ve “overslept” and no one who is wasting my time is worth any of mine.” He stood there, mouth agape. Tears welling up in the bottom of his eyes. He looked like a sad puppy, which was making it harder and harder for you to remain stone faced.

“What?” he said softly, voice quivering. “Get out, Art.” you choked. You couldn’t do this right now, just wanting to push him out of your apartment and out of your life. He threw the flowers on the table and left, slamming the door behind him. The wilted flowers still sat there two weeks later when you were bringing Patrick through the door, drunkenly stumbling with him to your bedroom. Tashi had set the two of you up after you spent hours crying to her about Art. “You can’t spend the rest of your life buried in a pint of ice cream,” she said. Obviously, it went well, as you watched him slip the condom out of his wallet before you shut your bedroom door.

Things were far from serious between you and Patrick. You couldn’t stand the thought of experiencing real emotion for anyone at the moment. Patrick was fun, he was sexy.  He loved going out and he was always happy to provide you with drunk cigs. Patrick showed up right at the perfect moment on Friday night. You were already drunk and all that tequila had gone straight to your clit. It was like he had a magnetic field around him, pulling you closer and closer with each passing minute. You met on the dance floor, your ass finding his crotch pretty easily as he pulled you in, the bumping techno song intoxicating you even more on him. 

“Oh hey that guy over there sits next to me in class!” Patrick waved and grinned before getting back to feeling you up. It was Art. Standing at the edge of the dance floor, watching you bump and grind with a guy who he thought was a random classmate. Your phone pinged and you sneakily pulled it out to read the text. It was from Art.

“I’m pretty sure he does coke.” You rolled your eyes and glared at him.

“I don’t really care Art.”

“I’d be a much better dance partner.” he shot back

Your stomach fluttered a bit at that, but you suppressed it. Remembering why you had distanced yourself from Art in the first place. “Let’s get out of here” you whispered to Patrick.

The two of you waded through the crowd, hand-in-hand, and you were sure to choose a path that led you directly by Art. You walked past without glancing at him. Once you reached the door, you saw him standing there still, watching, mouth drawn in a tight line, brows furrowed.

You had never felt so satisfied.

dividers by @.cafekitsune

tags: @fangirlinc @nuhteyam

#challengers #challengers movie #challengers fic #art donaldson x patrick zweig x reader #challengers throuple #art donaldson smut #patrick zweig smut #art donaldson fluff #art donaldson imagine #art donaldson fic #art donaldson x reader #patrick zweig x art donaldson #patrick zweig imagine #patrick zweig x reader #challengers x reader

[charcubed]

Challengers throuple: as told via memes

specific choices were made

they're all in love/lust/obsession with each other and they don't work without all of them being together btw.

#challengers #challengers movie #challengers 2024 #tashi duncan #patrick zweig #art donaldson #challengers throuple #challengers ot3 #polyamory fuckin rocks #hope this hasn't been done yet! #I made such deliberate choices I feel like I should almost tag this as spoilers but it really isn't LMAO #in my head though... this is in story order on purpose. I can't even lie.

[midwestprincesss]

just a thought but art and patrick double penetration HSHDJDDJ

OH MY GOOODDDD being on all fours on the bed w art fucking u from behind while ur mouth is stuffed full with patrick's cock😫😫😫 AND patrick getting even hornier seeing the way art's cock disappears in and out your pussy while he's just sniffling nd whimpering :((((( like art would be SO eager to hear any kind of praise from u or patrick,,,,but given the state you're in... it's mostly from patrick <3

#art donaldson x reader #patrick zweig #challengers movie #challengers x reader #art donaldson smut #challengers fanfic #challengers #challengers smut #mike faist #patrick zweig x reader #patrick zweig smut #art donaldson x patrick zweig #art donaldson x patrick zweig x reader #challengers throuple

[tears-stained-t-shirts]

this meme applies to every ship i like

#challengers #art donaldson #patrick zweig #tashi duncan #mike faist #zendaya #art x patrick #most toxic throuple to ever exist #except house cuddy and wilson #house md #tennis

[dean-mikaelson]

team patricktashi this. team tashiart that. you're all wrong. polyamory is the answer

#throuple #challengers #tashi duncan #art donaldson #patrick zweig #zendaya #mike faist #josh o'connor #challengers (2024)

[bigwigs]

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

#challengers #zendaya #mike faist #josh o'connor #tashi duncan #art donaldson #patrick zweig #my fav throuple #i drew a thing #art #artists on tumblr

[poppy-metal]

the artrick gays n gals dont get it. top patrick is OUT. that man was archin his back and moanin like a slut under tashi all bc she brought up art being better than him like he craves that mans cock deep inside him.

#poppy speaks #they're all switches but i need patrick to receive princess treatment alright hes been in love w artashi for YEARS #artrick #challengers spoilers #art donaldson x patrick zweig #team throuple #challengers #patrick zweig

[anxious7sami]

I will not stand for this Tashi/woman erasure. Stop tryna erase my girl from the equation.

# teamTashi

# team whatever the trio ship name is

#throuple

#challengers #tashi duncan #art donaldson #Patrick #zendaya #josh o'connor #mike faist #throuple #teamTashi

[cowleyes]

i know who you two are

#very into the idea tashi loving close relationships #and thats one of the big reasons she loves these two #like she knew she wanted them Together #challengers #challengers 2024 #tashi duncan #tashi donaldson #patrick zweig #art donaldson #patrick x tashi x art #wtf is their throuple name #art tag!

[lunar-years]

Peanut gallery social media commentary on Challengers is sooo funny to me.

“Art was the victim!” Did you miss the part where he started stirring shit up between his best friend and his best friend’s girlfriend in the hopes they’d break up and he could get with her instead? Or how he chose to cut off his best friend entirely to side with Tashi because Tashi blamed said best friend for her injury (literally he doesn’t even talk to Patrick about the argument? Ever? Just kicks him out of his life because Tashi wants them to LMAO)?

“Patrick was the victim!” Did you miss the part where Patrick spends like 13 years willfully reinserting himself back into a relationship he no longer gets to be a part of all because he’d rather ruin them and come between them and repeatedly hurt them if it means he knows they still think about him, rather than taking ownership of his actions and coming to terms with the fact that they no longer think about him at all? Did you miss the fact that he’s a giant flop on top of being a giant asshole?

“Tashi is an evil cold manipulative bitch who doesn’t care about anything but tennis and comes between them!” Okay what we’re not going to do is 1) act like those two losers weren’t active participants in the vast majority of what was happening to them so that we can blame everything on the woman 2) forget that Tashi spends the entire movie both being incredibly horny for yes tennis, but tennis very much including Art and Patrick specifically, as well as bringing a wrecking ball down on her own life repeatedly because she physically cannot go on without having all three of them in her life.

“The three of them are ALL terrible, bad people!” Are they or they neither good nor bad but a secret third thing (messed up, regular people)? Are they or they all three simultaneously the one’s holding the gun and falling into the graves they’ve dug for themselves?

“The movie promised me a throuple and then didn’t even deliver!/it was just a regular boring old love triangle” Did you miss the part where Patrick was the person who taught Art to jerk off? Did you miss the part where Tashi encourages them to neck her until they’re close enough for her to back away and leave them kissing each other as she watches with horny amusement? Did you miss the fact that they’re both playing for her number? Did you miss Art molding himself into the person who could obtain the glory that Tashi was denied? Or how he saw his fiance/wife kissing her ex boyfriend who also happens to be his ex best friend in Atlanta and then spends like 10 more years doing absolutely nothing about it? Did you miss “Don’t I matter?” “Not to the most obsessive tennis fan in the world” “I’m not talking about tennis” followed by an Art who has stopped caring whether he wins or loses caring, by the end of the match, more than he’s ever cared before, because Patrick DOES matter and because he’s STILL playing for Tashi’s number? Did you miss the part where for about 15 seconds there they were actually playing tennis and they understood each other completely and so did everyone watching and it was a bit like they were in love or like they didn’t exist and they went somewhere really beautiful together? HUH?

“They’re incredibly toxic!” Well, yes! but you see, that’s part of the fun!

#challengers #people are watching movies with their eyes closed or something I stg #anything to deny a throuple i guess but like ???? #art donaldson #patrick zweig #tashi duncan #art x patrick x tashi #artpatricktashi #challengers spoilers #thinking about them tonight because I can’t bear to think about Taylor ope #I’m not on here actually I’m not scrolling I just came here to post this before I forgot and now I’m dipping again LOL

[charcubed]

blurry behind-the-scenes post-canon image that I had to turn into a lockscreen my beloved

#challengers #challengers movie #challengers 2024 #tashi duncan #art donaldson #patrick zweig #challengers spoilers #??? not really but eh #challengers throuple #I'm being soooooo normal #this edit is very shitty but it's bringing me joy so I don't care

[midwestprincesss]

ahh thinking about giving head to patrick and art at the same time<3 you're on your knees in front of them, both manspreading and their knees touching. you take turns, once kissing patrick's tip and giving him little kitten licks, only to move on to art and just straight up deepthroat him, only to make patrick jealous. then you stop, resting your hands on their thick, muscly thighs, and demand them to make out with eachother, as you watch the way their dicks twitch at the lack of touch:( patrick is more confident and bratty, unlike art who would never do something without your permission- therefore patrick lets his hands wander wherever they want to; he'll start jerking off art as you start jerking him (patrick) off. need them so bad it's not a joke anymore. (or was it ever a joke really?!)

#art donaldson x reader #challengers #mike faist #patrick zweig #challengers movie #art donaldson #challengers x reader #art donaldson smut #challengers fanfic #challengers smut #patrick zweig x reader #patrick zweig smut #patrick zweig x art donaldson #art x patrick #art donaldson x patrick zweig x reader #challengers imagine #smut #challengers throuple #challengers fic #art donaldson x you #art donaldson imagine #josh o connor smut #josh o connor #josh o'connor #mike faist smut #mike faist x reader #josh oconnor x reader

[shesnake]

challengers (and, on some level iwtv) on the brain it really is so funny how so many people often will happily talk about polyamory as a solution to their little ships but when confronted with narratives that truly explore that it can't compute for them and they start picking teams of two.

#even if it's gay that's still heteronormative thinking. imo #because it's just not something they even understand/respect in real life #a throuple is always a scandal it's a juicy piece of gossip it's a display of audacity to youse #and with challengers being that spectacle of something so rarely portrayed (positively or negatively) it IS exciting!! #but really some people are just wired that way and it works for them and it can be the most blasé thing in the world #but also this world is full of unfortunate relationships attempting this with people who just aren't wired that way! #with monogamous-leaning(?) people trying something that doesn't work for them as a solution to their own relationship issues #and so as the majority they end up viewing it as inherently toxic and deviant. and then in fiction it's still just spicy to them! #challengers

[coldblooded-angel]

This is literally the cutest fucking thing I have ever seen i spit in the face of every throuple non-truther !!!!

#tennis throuple ftw!!! #they belong together !! #because setting any one of them loose in society would be considered a war crime !!! #the smiles ;(((( #they’re so fucking cute #challengers #someone said this was from a deleted epilogue??? WHERES THE PROOF

[thvndrlight]

Little challengers sketch! In my head the movie ended here 🥰😌

#artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #drawing #original art #illustration #sketch #fanart #artwork #zendaya #challengers #challengers movie #mike faist #josh o'connor #art donaldson #patrick zweig #tashi duncan #throuple #ot3 #omg and they were teamates #yes im delusional #i choose happiness

[davidjenkins]

Three tickets to Challengers please

#hannibal #will graham #alana bloom #has anyone done this one yet #one of the best love triangles where all the corners touch #toxic throuple rep where all 3 of them are queer #challengers #hannigram #i don’t know any of the other ship names sorry