Guardian + Reductress Headlines, Weilan Edition - 3/?

Hello to all of you who will read this

I'm bored and trying to practice my English in this way cause I don't know how to get rid of the frustration. Because I can't force myself to write my diploma thesis now when I have a looooooot of time. I feel guilty for being unproductive. But even so I still am not reading any articles that will might help with my research. I'm reading fanfics and watching movies in English

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

For Xichengclipse2021 DAY 3: Courting

These are their first of many courting gifts to one another. The sappiest one is yet to come.

middleman

i love the enthusiasm, but mike was canonically specifically styled to look like eddie per the stylists who work on ST, not to mention them both being party leaders and dms. mike admired eddie and looked up to him. meanwhile gareth has the light brown bowl cut like will, and he doesn’t take the dm role up, much like will rarely takes up the dm mantle in the boys’ party.

and I love your enthusiasm anon. It got me in a thinking mode. 

Since you seem to like the Mike-Eddie parallel so much, let me give you a better nugget : Eddie plays the guitar and Mike has the guitar. 

you are suggesting HAIR, DM, Mike's admiration for Eddie makes for a better case for eddie and mike parallel. so let me address them one by one. reasons why i don't agree with it:

Hair theory. Let's just say, hair is the dealbreaker. The scene where Chrissy is unable to remember Eddie as he used to have short hair. So his hair theory is inconclusive. 

Also, I am sorry but I never came across such a specific mention by the creators about Eddie and Mike being canonically similar. Not even Stylist, I looked it up and I didn't find anything. This is from the official stylist and she doesn't mention the eddie and mike connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI3j673h0GE&t=37s

2. Mike as DM. Let me remind you of s3 which specifically showed Will as the DM. Him and eddie take their d&d way more seriously than any other party member. reflected in their over the top d&d setup and prep for it. (Will must've broken his back, the whole season 3 he was only setting up the damn game) Mike on the other hand is easily distracted by phone calls and Letters(el suggests will may have replaced him and even after they win at eddie's satanic campaign he seems distraught). His commitment is more towards Will than the game itself. so i don't see him and eddie on same plane there. not questioning mike's proficiency though.

3. Mike admiration for Eddie and looking up to him: Just think about it this way. Mike is shown to have a tiny crush on Eddie.

I don't know why they would choose to show this, unless he is a narcissist who likes himself or people like him or maybe simply because Eddie is nothing but another version of Will. 

If you recall Will and Eddie have been aligned together since S4 aired, see the old posts of 2022 and I pinned this parallel because I knew some would argue.  

Will & Eddie parallelism

focus on Nuances: in the context of d&d. (Bear with me)

Authoritative mannerism of eddie and will. 

Eddie: "it's the championship game?" "Can i level with you"?

Will: “is it? is it early Michael?” 

2. Will and Eddie’s speech: Words of encouragement to become heroes. 

3. Mike's Act of Pacification : its a rarity to see Will pissed. Angry Will also overpowers Mike within fragments of seconds

During their fight Mike was defensive and right after will left He went out of the way to fix things. He does not enjoy angry will. Apologises to will and goes out to find sub for eddie.

4. Missing Member: Eddie and Will are both pissed about a missing member. And lash out at mike for ruining the party. 

5. The Erica connection: s3 shows dustin and lucas giving Will's D&D to Erica. and right after that s4 she joins the hellfire where eddie is the DM. its a little telling.

6. s5

*throws a very late Xichengclipse Childhood Friends + MerMay and runs away*

“Look A-Cheng! If you put the water in here and add this, it changes from blue to green!!" 

"How does it do that A-Huan? Is it magic??" 

"No A-Cheng! At least I don’t think so… I got this science kit for my birthday and I wanted to share it with you!”

Very late xichengclipse post I know but I got distracted with other obligations and became very unmotivated to finish projects but I shall do better in the near future I promise!!!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SENKU-CHAN🎉🎉

My conspiracy theory is that one of the reasons they fired Stephanie J. Block for the role of Elphaba in 2000 and replaced her with Idina Menzel at the end of the OBC workshops is because SJB played the role SO gay that it was quickly crossing the line of plausible deniability. Like she doesn't seem to be able to help herself.

And thank god she eventually got to play the role on Broadway (arguably one of the best - if not THE best - actresses who ever did), because we finally got to see her get super fucking handsy and stare lovingly into Glinda's eyes inches away from her face for three hours:

Like holy shit why do you keep looking at Annaleigh Ashford like you want to eat her alive??

Plus I cannot emphasize enough just how effective and moving this particular version of For Good is. Straight up feels like wedding vows.

(Ironically, she also has the best chemistry with Fiyero's character, and arguably the very sweetest performance of As Long As You're Mine in the entire slime tutorial universe.* So I'm just reading this as a Thropple Truther performance.)

*But that's just because she was (and still is) literally married to him. So they get uh. A little carried away in their performance. *cut to Sebastian Arcelus holding lantern up, his face covered in green makeup from aggressively making out with his wife on stage for several minutes* Apparently the makeup team HATED that song for them.

I'm gonna reblog with the gofundme link so it shows up in the tags.

025/365

It was a gift from Stan 💕

So it started with a thought that “Oh, actually 5 Generals really suits 5 elements! Space for Senku, water for Ryusui, wind/air for Ukyo, fire for Chrome and earth/wood for Gen!” And I ended up thinking of them as dragons of elements.

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