CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. luca guadagnino
was supposed to start working on my lab report but then zoology brain wouldn't shut up about corals and i had this really cute idea
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preacher's sons!artrick who have known each other since they were kids, attending the same sunday school, sharing pews every weekend, running around at the potlucks after service
preacher's sons!artrick who were raised together but who couldn't be more different today
preacher's sons!art who is a true believer, pure and innocent and good, who wants to follow in his father's footsteps and inspire a community in His name
preacher's son!patrick who rebels against the stifling expectations of his parents and the church, who smokes and drinks and is an unabashed flirt (a little bit of a slut)
preacher's son!art who proudly wears the gold cross around his neck and the purity ring on his finger and has bible passages memorized for any situation
preacher's son!patrick who wears his gold cross more out of habit or fashion than anything, plus he likes the way it dangles in the face of whoever he's fucking
preacher's son!art whose father asked him to help patrick, to bring him home to the light, and who's determined to make sure he'll be Saved
preacher's son!patrick who is just as determined to corrupt angelic little artie, who coaxes him into trying his first cigarette and whose touches get less and less innocent so quickly
preacher's son!art who's so confused about how to feel about patrick, someone who he was boys with but who has strayed so far from the flock, he prays every night for guidance until it just turns into his thoughts wandering to patrick's hair and eyes and the feeling of his skin...
preacher's son!patrick who is still dragged into that front pew every sunday, but it's much more entertaining now that he can sit a little extra uncomfortably close to art and run his hand up his leg so slow it could be played off it weren't for art's bright red face
preacher's son!art who still insists he only likes girls, but the one time he stopped by patrick's house and he heard him fucking some girl he didn't know through the door, the only thing he could focus on were the grunts and groans of effort he recognized in patrick's timbre
preacher's son!patrick who pins art down to the mattress when they're supposed to be studying bible verses to pry that ring off his finger just to see the way he reacts, flushed and trying so hard to be angry, demanding he give it back but patrick just argues that he should be better at protecting something so sacred as his purity
preacher's son!art who begs patrick to come see him speak at the youth service only for him to sit right in the front row in jeans and a mostly unbuttoned polo with the gold cross and shit eating smirk glinting back at him and making him all flustered in front of the congregation (he doesn't ask again but patrick still comes every time he speaks, the one time he doesn't have to be dragged into a pew nowadays)
saw someone getting mad at people in the fandom for being too pervy... like. This is the Pervert™️ show. Will and Hannibal are capital F Freaks. They are nasty. They are disgusting. They fuck and 10 people are dead-type freak. And that's so fucking hot.
k you sickos have me starting hannibal whatever i dont want to talk about it
I am literally obsessed with this scene, and with them. I feel that it is an important moment that represents a lesson for both the characters involved and the reader.
In the books, Sansa teaches Sandor a lesson with her song. Violence is not the way. Things are not taken by force. Even people like him, whose life is full of resentment and anger, have a chance to redeem themselves.
In the TV show, it is Sandor who teaches Sansa a lesson. Looks are deceiving. She is afraid of him because of how he looks and is unable to look at him but he tells her, in his own way, that she will encounter people in life much worse than him and that she will have to look at them. In that moment, Sansa understands what he meant and sees through his horrible burned mask. That's why she says: "You won't hurt me".
Both versions seem like a poem to me and I needed to make a fanart of it. I love this scene, and I love the interactions they both have. I hope that at least in the books they’ll have a worthwhile reunion and that they can thank each other, or if GRRM allows it, something more. It would be such a beautiful thing to read that she sings to him again, actually wanting to sing a song for him. Of course, that’s if Sandor is really alive.