all is fair in love and war: or, where relationships and sportsmanship intersect.
citations: challengers (2024), wikipedia (various articles), friend at court 2022 handbook of rules and regulations, gq interview.
(insp)
Going from the radiant emperor duology to the masquerade series to blue eye samurai has been a fabulous experience ngl like it’s completely ruined me for any media that doesn’t involve some sort of girl-thing with lots of Gender and a burning desire to become a war criminal but the dash is bussing the lesbians are fucking it up and I’m having a great time so can’t complain honestly
So: A League of Their Own was a sports related film with a lot of queer subtext, turned into a modern television show where there was room for fully developed queer characters and relationships, while respecting the spirit of the original
& I just think if we’re gonna roll with this concept, then Bend it Like Beckham should be next
funny to think about tashi’s scene with patrick behind the hotel or art’s scene with him in the sauna because they are both so mad at him even tho it doesn’t make any sense like they’re the ones that shut him out over an injury that couldve happened under any circumstances art stole his girlfriend and tashi married his best friend and they’re angry with him and it’s literally because they want to fuck him so bad that it makes them furious
Just in case the show doesn’t end up airing or they air the censored version Internet Archive has the whole series plus more so you can watch this fall :)
“Living weapon” covers a lot and all of it is hot
RENEE RAPP as REGINA GEORGE Mean Girls (2024)
Stop Erasing Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan From Challengers Because You Want New Internet Boyfriends, by Ayan Artan
Bend It Like Beckham (2002) dir. Gurinder Chadha