They all look so pretty 🥹🥹 challengers will never die idc

From @sxspirium on X

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hi this is super random but i saw this Challengers edit on TikTok to the song “DARE” by Gorillaz and i can’t find it!! the intro was a clip of Art asking Tashi “how are you gonna look at me if i still can’t beat Patrick Zweig?” and the thumbnail was of Tashi in her blue dress at the Adidas party. if anyone has this edit saved lmk or if you have the link/creator’s @ pls share!

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but on this rewatch I noticed something. A key visual motif is Tashi between Art and Patrick. From left to right it’s always Art, Tashi, Patrick.

The name of the challenger is the ATP challenger. Art, Tashi, Patrick.

As much as I love reading throuple fics and artrick fics I want more art and tashi fics together so so bad. Im pretty sure ive read every art and tashi fic thrice and THERES TOO LITTLE LIKE ITS CRIMINAL

Their relationship is so peculiar to me and I still can't believe they have a kid together

I know when the move begins they're in a rough patch but i really want their early moments because ik tashi loves art and I know she wasn't always like this throughout their marriage

I also desperately want #girldad art fanfics with tashi ofc

Its actually kinda sad how we didn't get any early tashi art relationship / marriage moments before they were both worn out - like ik deep down there was a good marriage there

And the fics of artashi are actually magnificent well written with great structure but im itching for some new ones especially ones with Lily

So to all the incredibly talented writers of the challengers community:pls pls pls write more and new art tashi fics + lily

Help a sister out🙏🙏🙏

I tried to search this up online but nothing came up so my apologies if it’s been asked before! why does Tashi have an arrow? what is the significance of the lines she boxed them in?

i've watched this movie 5 times but i still don't understand what led patrick to have that conversation with tashi. my best guess is that he wanted to reconcile his relationship with tashi and art-- maybe he didn't really want the coaching but just the proximity to both of them. tashi acting as 'the bridge' between the two, this also goes hand in hand with "tennis is a relationship" metaphor throughout the movie. what do you guys think?

Found this lamp at homesense! Do i play tennis? not really. does it remind me of challengers? Of course

I’m curious how people actually find a Challengers - type dynamic in real life. I mean two guys who are genuinely attracted to each other and are both also into you. Is this something that happens naturally, or are there communities/apps I can search on meet? I almost wanted to put a profile out asking for this on bumble or something but idk… Any advice?

In both Moonlight and Challengers, desire does not arrive plainly. It is buried, redirected, disguised, and, in moments of great emotional intensity, made visible through the body before it can ever be spoken aloud.
This video essay examines how Barry Jenkins and Luca Guadagnino depict affection when ordinary language fails. In Moonlight, Chiron and Kevin’s relationship is shaped by silence, repression, violence, and the aching possibility of being genuinely seen by another person. In Challengers, Art, Patrick, and Tashi transform tennis into a strange and ecstatic language of longing, rivalry, power, and emotional revelation.
Though these films appear radically different in tone — one restrained, intimate, and fragile; the other kinetic, theatrical, and delirious — both are concerned with the same underlying question: what becomes of affection when it cannot express itself directly?
Moonlight gives us desire beneath silence.
Challengers gives us desire disguised as spectacle.
And both suggest that authentic affection is not always defined by clarity, gentleness, or resolution, but by the moment when performance briefly becomes revelation.

"if you fucked serve like me" with the ball on the neck of the racket i think thats what its called. this is such a dumb question but obviously at the end patrick does that to show art that he fucked tashi and art understand and yells "fuck off!". but tashi doesnt seem like she knows whats going on, does she understand what the signal implies?

I watched the film recently and I really loved it and found this scene pretty funny but also wouldn't that be a bit weird if josh o Connor actually slapped mikes d ???😭 Hopefully people can answer this question I need closure lol sorry ik its a stupid question but

in the scene towards the beginning of the movie where patrick is driving to the parking lot to sleep in his car, there's a radio news report or podcast playing in the background. i've seen the movie 5 times but not enough of it is audible for me to tell what it is. an online transcript of the movie writes it as:

"The Clinton campaign paid
a million dollars to use your GPS to hire…"

i'm curious if anyone has more insight to the significance of this, or if it just a random news report from 2019, when the film takes place. do you think whatever the radio is saying supposed to suggest that patrick has certain political beliefs?would this brief snippet suggest that he's a republican or conspiracy theorist?

TL;DR: is the news report playing in patrick's car significant and does it suggest anything about his political views?

It might just be me but every time I rewatch challengers I always notice the cross on her neck during this scene, does it symbolize something about her?

So this post was inspired by an interview that Zendaya did a while back during the drama promo where she was asked who were her most romantic characters she ever played and she didn’t mention Tashi and that ticked me off cause even tho i love z as much as everyone, that just reminded me of all the times I saw people talking about how Tashi never loved art or pat or the whole « Patrick loved art, art loved tashi, tashi loved tennis » nonsense (which i truly hate w all my heart and cringe everytime i read this fuckass sentence)

Now, I dont fully blame people for believing that because to be fair she isn’t the most demonstrative person ever, but i do think that it’s misreading a lot of her character than to just reduce to this cold ambitious tennis obsessed woman, she truly does love her little white boys in her own way.

However, I think that to understand Tashi’s relationship w love it’s important to understand her relationship w tennis and how it’s evolution affected her. In 2006, Pre-injury Tashi was way more innocent, free and in touch in her emotions as her relationship w tennis was basically perfect. She openly talked about her relationship w tennis, what it means to her, how she sees her life going forwards, her goals etc to two boys she really just met. Adding to that she is  seen w friends, dancing freely, making jokes, just way more open and willing to connect with people, a stark contrast to what we’ll see afterwards. Same thing at Stanford, from what we hear from pat their relationship seemed to be going really well like a regular young couple. Now ofc she tells art she’s not in love with him and does not care but the way she acts afterwards clearly shows the opposite.

And then there was the injury. Now keep in mind that tennis was really tashi’s first love and the way she connected w people and things she wanted adding to that the fact that she’s someone who may struggle a bit more than the norm to connect w her own feelings, especially when they feel uncomfortable (like grief and love) and doesnt really like being vulnerable in general. it really was the base form from which she viewed the other relationship’s in her life. And then she just lost it. She put her heart and soul into it and gave everything she had into this relationship and it just didn’t care and left her all alone without any warning. This trauma just affected the way she saw all relationships moving forward, first cause without her base she’s not even sure of what she’s feeling anymore, and even less of how to express it. 

Now does that mean she never loved anyone from now on ? No! I’ll take the dinner scene w Art as an exemple cause that’s where she was the most demonstrative. Most ppl talk about that scene to show how bad Art wanted tashi (which is true) but you guys keep forgetting she was down bad too the whole scene. She initiated the whole thing, asked him twice if he was in love with her (which she explicitly told him she would not care about that unless she loved the person), gave him advices in her love language, told him she didn’t care about Patrick being her (their?) ex, she was on a MISSION. A lot of ppl focus on how art and tashi didnt date until 3 yrs after her breakup w pat but she had so much going on i think it’s pretty normal for her to not run into a new relationship right away. 

I just think ppl are too quick to judge her on some of her actions during 2019 challengers and i dont think it’s fair, they’re all in a really low and difficult place. For Art and Tashi, a lot of things that used to work in their relationships do not anymore and they don’t quite get why. Art used to like playing tennis, understand that tashi loved him without her having to say it directly, was fine w playing for the both of them, it all used to be easy until it wasnt and tashi does NOT want to address it so she becomes even more closed off and tries basically everything to avoid having to address the elephant in the room as she does not know what it might lead to. Cause what if art stopped being her tennis player? would they still work? would she lose him? It’s a thought as scary for him as it is for her and literally sends her back in patrick’s arms in an attempt to maintain the little control she has managed to maintain in her life since she got injured and lost the grasp on her own future, career and LITERAL BODY (i also don’t think this aspect of the injury is paradoxically not talked enough, imagine just suddenly not being able to move your body the way u used to in everyday life…)

To conclude, i think she should be treated w more empathy and understanding by the fandom, her struggling a bit w her feelings and expressing them does not make her heartless nor does that mean she’s this conniving manipulating woman who does not care about her husband or anyone else and no her and art are NOT getting divorced after challengers ill die on this hill. sorry if im rambling  but the mischaracterization is driving me crazy i love that girl too much, the movie is about how complex love is and how it can get so easily mixed up and minsunderstood yet tashi is so often not given the grace she deserves despite this.

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Could not imagine that these two films could be compared and converge so well together -- they could not be further distinct, but at the same time, so sincere and authentic. Wanted to provide some praise to this gem, genuinely conveys yearning through two different lenses yet achieving the same objective. Bravo to the creator.

https://youtu.be/PJvfVArQsUg?si=AYaFcsdfMw1qbsqS

Found this valuable video on the tennis trio we all love, where the thematic elements of desire, masculinity, and affection are explored in an excellent fashion. Thought I Would share to those who still hold this film close to their heart, it also converges the use of another motion picture in an incredibly ingenious way.