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[yoyowrites]

omega shen jiu who is particular about grooming his babies. his students have to line up and wait, sitting prettily, as he carefully brushes and style their hair

[yoyowrites]

biggest flaw of mine is how i want everyone i like to be an omega. not evryone can be an omega

[yoyowrites]

do naturally blonde adults exist or they all turn to redheads and brunettes

[yoyowrites]

still rewatching challengers with friend

tashi and patrick both let art spit his gum out in their hand

[yoyowrites]

art and tashi both speak in riddles and through metaphors and patrick is the most direct communicator (which isn't saying a lot considering patrick sucks at communicating)

[yoyowrites]

rewatching challengers and the scene at the party after tashi wins and with art and patrick and they look over at ana (the girl who lost to tashi) and grimaced over , then we learn about cat zimmerman (masturbation story, got an injury), then tashi gets injured. idk moral of the story if men like you its a curse

[yoyowrites]

challengers and communicating in through metaphors and allegories on the brain (as always, this is a train of thought thing. if you wanna listen to my rambles come walk with me)

tashi does it the most. everything is about tennis except it actually isnt. like when she and pat are arguing in standford it isnt just about her thinking that patrick isnt that serious about tennis, she's worried he's cheating on her. pat is away, art got in her ear, she's a teen girl. yes, she loves and cares about tennis. she also likes patrick alot.

she wants reassurance and what is the one thing tashi knows that she has over most other girls, tennis. she is talking about their relationship through tennis but patrick needs more direct communication at that point. he too is insecure. he wants confirmation that tashi sees him as her equal, that she likes him. he wants to confirm tashi doesn't just like the fact that patrick is good at tennis and that patrick likes her. but to tashi it's just too vulnerable of a moment. compare to latter when patrick approaches her in the hotel and is like "coach me". yes he wants to be coached and he loves tennis and he wants to win. he also wants an in with her and art, he likes them. he knows he's speaking tashi's language at that moment.

also, when he talks to art in the sauna he approaches with tennis. he makes the little joke about art letting him win, a little callback, and then tries to do the song and dance with art but ultimately he wants in. he likes tashi. he has always liked art and wants to be more vulnerable but art shuts him out when he says there's nothing more for them to talk about other than tennis.

and with art, the most obvious example is when he tells tashi about how he asks her to say she'll still love him if he loses. just to be clear, in this household we are under the impression that all three of them are in love. tashi does love art. she also loves tennis. she knows art can be the best it's why she pushes him so much. yeah, there's the angle of living vicariously through him but tashi has always believed that art had it in him even before standford and her injury. so, her refusing to say that and going as far as to say she'd leave him if he lost was her pushing him to be great. (she's dead wrong for this btw. love her down but this moment was her lowest for me. yes when her refusing to say she'd love him regardless of the consequence and not being kinder about him retiring is worse to me than her cheating with his [ex]bestfriend/ her ex boyfriend). she doesn't want him to lose. she goes as far as to sleep with patrick to ensure it (also because she's in love with patrick). then, art bringing up his retirement, he clearly wants a deeper convo about this but she shuts it down. she has deeper feelings about art's retirement but she won't talk to her husband about it, even when he's opening the door to it. it's very ironic how much tashi brings up how little patrick has grown when she communicates the same way she did when she was like nineteen

[hayacinthandlilies]

“patrick loved art, art loved tashi, tashi loved tennis” IF I COULD BURN THAT QUOTE DOWN I WOULD. I hate this quote so much because it’s just not true part of it is but NOT FULLY. I hate this rhetoric because they were all in love with each other ALL OF THEM even Tashi. That’s why the director said at the end of the film they all went back to the hotel they were all pining for 13 years.

[yoyowrites]

patrick alone didn't bring out the fire in art and tashi alone didn't bringout the fire in art but patrick and tashi together ignite art in unforseen ways hmmmm

[yoyowrites]

yeah ok i stand by my point on challengers

in a world where throuples were more accepted these three could be happy together and the movie would have no conflict

[yoyowrites]

im never gonna finish this movie bc i do pause every five minutes but who cares i wanna talk

art is sorta giving possessive insane s/o. odk maybe the conflict of this story wouldn't have been a conflict if throuples were more common

[yoyowrites]

zendaya is so undeniably beautiful this movie is so beautifully shot buy like wow she's stunning

[yoyowrites]

im so bad at watching movies bro

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[yoyowrites]

hollanov au

where they don't play hockey they're office workers or something and shane is out. jj is super involved in gay spaces bc he's a great friend and wants to be a better friend (#ally well he's bi but he doesn't know). theres a queer club/diner thats having a date night where couples get a discount so he invites shane just to get his friend out of the house. shane has nothing better to do.

he was not expecting to see the most gorgeous, absolute adonis at the club. he finds out the adonis's name is ilya and he's a server at the club. shane has never regretted agreeing to let jj rope him in to this plan. its not all bad, jj seems to be a regular and most people are nice to him by virtue of he being 'jj's boyfriend'. well, everyone but the bartender who keeps staring at jj and ignoring shane when he tries to order a drink. maybe he and jj don't get along and by proxy he doesn't like shane?

shane's weighing the options of how to approach ilya (look like a two timing douche, pretend to break up and after a bit ask for his number, come clean abt lying for a discount?). jj is blissfully ignorant as he chats with the mean bartender, who clearly likes jj well enough but refuses to even look in shane's direction. whatever, shane just can't keep his eyes off ilya.

[socialmurderer]

kept thinking about the hive in ywmtbh and stuff i wish were better explained. i wish crane had felt happy and accepted by ths hive on screen at some point. he is miserable the whole time and it's a bit hard for me to understand what drew him to the hive or what acceptance he felt. obviously one part is being able to transition. though it can't just be that because he has aspen and birdie as well as his parents, who he admits are kind and we as readers later find out do still love him and accept him.

I'm thinking it's the paraphilia that he feels no one can accept? still there isn't a shortage of older shitty guys who wouldn't fetishize a barely legal person in the "real" world outside of the cult. so why exactly is crane so drawn to the hive? i get it w/jess and tammy, their shitty boyfriend and husband respectivily. i couldn't care less abt levi but with crane i did feel a little like a victim blamer bc there were moments where i wondered why he was going through this. obviously, it is self harm and self sabotage and obviously he does not deserve what happened to him and the people who are to blame are levi and the hive (and the government).

i just wish we had gotten more of the hive, even if it were through stagger. how do they know what they know? how do they make people feel safe? does everyone hear the same voice for the hive or is it different?

also also i was thinking abt how interesting a black crane or just a black mc in this environment would be. like a black mc w/a great family realizing that theyre trans and worrying about feeling accepted bc 'thats not something black people do' and that pushing them to join a cult which isolates them and they have to deal with the sunk cost fallacy of 'well i cut all of my family off so this does have to work out'. obviously there are many black families that are lovely and accepting of their queer family members but for the sake of the plot. idk i just want more queer black people

No yeah, Andrew didn’t even TRY to answer the question of what brought Crane to the hive. He literally admits that he had the ability to transition outside of the cult but just waves it off with “no one told me I could ask for help”. Nigga, WHAT? You’re right in that the paraphile shit is the only major problem he faces, and I get that that would be difficult to ask for help for, but his self-hatred problems seem to go beyond that, so I’m not even sure what the hell Andrew thought he was doing here. It’s not like Crane’s paraphiliac tendencies lead him to do anything genuinely illegal.

And you are SO right about the idea of Crane being Black! One of my OCs is a d/Deaf trans man, so initially I joked that Luka would be a superior version of Crane in that he’d actually be fluent in ASL and more intentional about why he de-prioritizes oral communication, but then I actually got to thinking about it and realized Crane being deaf could also be an interesting concept. It would vastly affect the loneliness and isolation he’d feel that would lead him to joining a cult, but Andrew would probably be allergic to depicting a trans man who’s disabled beyond just being autistic, so you know. (I have like 3 book ideas involving Black trans male protagonists, but I’m lazy as fuck, so I’d be lucky if those escaped my Google Docs in the next 7 years 😭)