#tashiarts

[fangirltothefullest]

I REALLY NEED TO GET INTO THE BUILDING DON'T WANT TO WAIT ANY MORE- EVERYONE OUT HERE IS DYIN' TO GET IN SO IF YOU COULD OPEN THE DOOR-

I dunno why I doodled this lol

[posalis]

"I just don't wanna feel left out."

[sequenceofmind]

tashi and art behind the scenes

[heartz4shauna]

i never was in love,

you know that you were never good enough.

fall asleep right next to me,

you know that you were never good enough.

[jesuistrestriste]

i’ll never get over how much tashi liked art from the very beginning, and how agitated she always was with patrick 😭😭😭 like from the moment they all met at the us open junior championships

tashi was always so engaged when art was speaking with her, a lil smile on her face and more open body language, and anytime patrick opened his mouth her face just felllll

when they were all talking with each other after the adidas party and art was like “i actually wanted to ask you about that point you made earlier—“ and tash is just all ears :( leaning forward a bit and clearly anticipating his next words.. and then patrick is like “do you smoke:D”

SHE WAS SO OVER IT. she immediately looked annoyed and her responses to patrick were so short and dismissive,, “cigarettes?” “yeah” “no.” then right back to looking at art

like it was always gonna be them.

she chose him from the start !

she could see that patrick wanted her bc she was fiery on the court and beautiful and he wanted to ‘have’ her (or at the very least her body), while art wanted her because she was extremely talented and confident and he wanted to know her.

art wanted to learn from her. ugh.

[ofinkandust]

challengers (2024) dir. luca guadagnino

[holydrawingbatman]

If I have to see one more post hating on Tashi for cheating on Art, while claiming Patrick would’ve been the better option for him, I’m gonna lose it.

It takes two people to cheat on someone and Patrick was well aware of Tashi and Art‘s relationship. You can’t say Patrick did what he did (sleep with Tashi) out of love for Art. That’s stupid and untrue. I’m not denying that Patrick loved Art (romantically and platonically) but he also loved Tashi.

Excluding the main character that is female and black to only ship the two white boys is not the revolutionary and forward thinking take some of you people think it is.

(Also, Tashi didn’t only love tennis. She’s a human being capable of loving more than one thing or person. This also goes for Patrick and Art. „Patrick loves Art. Art loves Tashi. Tashi loves tennis.“ is the most boring and surface-level reading of the movie. Stripping a woman of her emotions does not make her three dimensional. It makes her a flat character even if she’s focused on her „career“ rather than „a man“.)

[rodrickheffeley]

he’s soo obsessed like back up a bit my god

[futuremrscameron]

patrick and art kissing her knee… could mean nothing

[nicollekidman]

tashiart can only ever be Exactly What They Are, patricktashi is the comfort and possibility of pretending like you're both still teenagers, patrickart is sandbox love that actually never died, patricktashiart past present and future all together baby

[fangirltothefullest]

Creativitwins with a sort of sun and moon aesthetic. Basically just wanted an excuse to draw them with long hair and jewelry.

[imthataliensuperstar]

I'm blushing and kicking my feet because I can't stop thinking about how Art wanted to kiss Tashi so badly and was practically begging for it , I love when male characters are so whipped for their love interest they genuinely say what they want. True romance 😍

[manicpixiedepressedwitch]

this look is so tashi duncan coded

[charcubed]

and what if I told you that even here Art’s repressed bisexuality is blatantly haunting/informing the narrative and everything that’s happening throughout (which of course also means that the absence of Patrick is also haunting the both of them).

how the moment where he decides to tell Tashi that he wants to retire is shown with a slow pan down his body with the open closet in frame, and then focus on his wedding ring…. then Tashi looks large in frame while he looks very small… and there’s a closeup when he says “I’m tired,” and then right after that there’s this specific shot of him framed as being in the closet as he starts saying, “I don’t want to be one of those guys who doesn’t know when to walk away, okay, it’s embarrassing to still be doing this shit when you’re 40.”

which is a conversation that happens a few hours after…

“Well, I don’t miss playing with you, man. I’m too old for it.”

(“We’re not talking about tennis.”

“What the fuck else do i have to talk to you about?”)

((“Tell me it doesn’t matter if I win tomorrow.”))

(((“I don’t matter?”

“Not even to the most obsessive tennis fan in the world.”)))

[tomwambsgays]

thought she needed me, but i need her

[dayas]

“Tell me a secret.” + tashiart

Your mind is so beautiful 🫂 ugh I’m honored!!

Drabble Prompts

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It was bad luck to see a bride on her wedding day. But Art Donaldson believed luck was made, not gifted. Besides, part of him was unsure she would even make it down the aisle. Their engagement wasn’t sudden — he’d planned it meticulously, planted a few seeds, tried to do his best to make sure she would like it. Tashi Duncan deserved nothing but the best, and he would have given anything to ensure she had it.

He would have given her his knee if he could have, and in a way, he was doing just that with his tennis career. He so rarely took, but this morning, he wanted one simple thing for himself: to see her.

So he made his way to her room before dawn broke, knocking quietly on her door.

Tashi’s eyes widened when she opened it.

“You know this is bad luck, right?”

“I know,” Art murmured. “I’m sorry, but… I had to see you.”

Her gaze softened in a way he had only seen a few times before, the rare indication that his words had struck at her elusive true heart in some way. Nodding slightly, Tashi opened her door and allowed him to come inside.

Art wrapped his arms around her immediately, kissing the top of her head.

“You still wanna do this?”

She chuckled.

“Do you think I’m gonna leave you out there in the cold?”

“I don’t know, Tash. You like to keep people guessing.”

“I guess we’ll see, then.”

Art sighed, slightly dramatic.

“If this is the last time I see you, I want you to tell me something.”

“What do you want to know?”

Art took a moment to truly consider her question.

Then — “Tell me a secret.”

Tashi hesitated. She placed her cheek against his collarbone and whispered, “I think I might be pregnant.”

Before he could get a word in, she quickly said, “I don’t wanna talk about it.”

“Okay,” he whispered, holding her a bit tighter. They stayed like that for a while, standing together in silence.

Eventually, the sun began to lift itself from the bottom of the world. Day was coming, and there was still a wedding to put on.

Art’s hands cupped Tashi’s face.

“Hey,” he murmured, “I love you. No matter what.”

“I know,” she told him, before adding in a near inaudible whisper, “I love you too.”

He left then, because he had to. Once the festivities began, they wouldn’t stop. They’d have to speak about it eventually, but Art respected Tashi’s decision first and foremost.

He returned to his room, still hoping she would make her way to him.