Running on 1 hour of sleep and somehow got better at Among Us wth
Also daytime Among Us is pretty funny. In every round I've been the one to see/deduce the imposter, usually because they killed right in front of me, and somehow (apparently) I seem less sus than usual. (Though the first round I saw someone kill in front of me and the entire rest of the crew was like "A'ight we trust you but if it's not them we will throw you out immediately" which is pretty funny to imagine meeting-wise)
Last round was more wacky though since the imposter had shapeshifter as a role, which complicated things, but not by too much.
Pretty fun game. Trying to get better but will definitely not actually get better.

-Galaxian-

I probably have even less experience with the game than you do, so it's hard to say, but on the crewmate end (since I suck at being imposter as you all know) it spices things up a bit. I think it's a great tactical advantage that imposters can use, if they use it well. And I reckon it's a lot harder than it looks. I imagine it's really important to keep it as a sort of trick card when you're more prone to be voted out as imposter, but again, I dunno for sure.

It's interesting to me so I'm mentioning it, but mostly what I've garnered is Among Us is kinda like driving, you can't hyperfocus on one point. also you can't trust anyone else in all senses of the situation
As a crewmate, I mean. Maybe it's the same as imposter? I hate the role very very very much.

-Galaxian-

I'm trying to remember if I played the multiplayer option with anyone here outside of Fallon and I can't remember, which kinda sucks. My mind really wants to think that I did over chat with Specter and Echo (separately?), but honestly I'm kinda skeptical because there isn't a strong emotional component associated with that "memory" (when my memories tend to retain the emotional encoding aspect strongly), not to mention further details about the entire experience.
I do remember there was a player with a super high level who carried me through so many levels. They were really nice; I kept getting knocked out at the start of the round no matter how hard I tried because the game's difficulty scaling was really bad after a certain level (and everyone else gave up and left), but they kept winning. In the meantime, we kinda just chatted, and we sent friend requests to each other (that we each accepted of course).
But they never went online after that one session. It was really a pity, I wanted to talk with them again.
I also remember thinking that Ishmael's avatar was super characteristic. Same goes with Echo. But I don't think I ever saw them in-game.
Oh yeah, on that note, I don't think I even remember Specter's game avatar, adding to the possibility that my mind is just tricking me (I dunno if they had an avatar or not lol most of my memories of their posts were not on the SAMB). [Now that I think about it, I just forgot their username too lol. It somehow is like that with their username; I sometimes remember it but usually don't.]
Don't mind me. Just rambling.

-Galaxian-

Someone in Faerie Britain doing some trolling

-Galaxian-

This does not look legal.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

This does not look legal.

My F/GO experience is slowly realizing that I summoned her probably because of this.
If you think about it, her general appearance structure looks like Galaxian. Who is basically not legal, existentially speaking.
Also F/GO loves making me farm for Lancer embers. (And Rider, and Saber.)

Also I think this is Percival asking me to stop calling her ugly in my head every time she's canonically called beautiful. Look, I'm sure she looks fine actually, okay? Maybe I just don't dig the style. Plus the illegalness aspect.
I love Percival, dude's such a bro. One day I will draw him with Nagesh along with literally all the other character pairs I have to draw. :')

Watched blue try to frame me for a kill, reported them, told the other crewmates this
...then watched as they voted off another crewmate for no reason, scampered off in different directions instead of calling a meeting, and then Died

I did get a crewmate win yesterday by alternating between admin and vitals, though, so I guess that makes it up?? :')?

-Galaxian-

Short version of the Wumu arc's ED and full version of its OP came out. 
Time to incessantly ramble about the latter. (The ED will have to wait 'til the end or something, idk.) 
Spoiler tagged because it's long and spoilery~

First, looking at the title ("归宗" by 醉雪 btw), I'm guessing it's more of the HYXHN meaning than the traditional (which is more so tied to marriage), but I'm not too familiar with it. Specifically I'm speaking about Fan Yunfei's technique, calling the sand within a large radius to himself. It might be a callback to Season 1 in this way, since this is the arc where he regains his power (when formerly the huge building-sized mound of sand was his greatest feat). Plot-wise that is extremely significant. Otherwise, my personal connotations dub the title as being like a reference to his memories returning to him, returning to their source.
I might be completely wrong.
Oh, and by the way, the original meaning is usually related to a wife (in Ancient China) returning to her "original" family when her husband dies. I really want to think that it has to do with the title, but it probably doesn't. Tragedy and all, the ship sails! Yayy.

Next I wanna talk about perspective! I left that as more of a question yesterday because I was so focused on the visuals. But now I can look at the lyrics, so yay.
The song pretty much just uses "I" as a personal pronoun without other hints, but this ambiguity also makes it cool.
The first guess I made is that the first part of the song is from Wumu's perspective, and then the second part is from Fan Yunfei's, kinda like how Fan Yunfei took after Wumu's legacy and still remembers it (well technically, would remember it if not for the tree shenanigans). But musically I can't make too strong a case for this, unfortunately.

I'll translate parts (or all lmiao) of the song to try to figure this out.
The start of the song goes:
"And at a certain moment, I too glimpsed tens of thousands of desires welling up within a ravine

I crossed between the heavens and earth hundreds of times
Which title should I take off?

While in limbo, your visage appears [along with] all of a past life's markings
On this journey of life, I need only look towards your eyes to escape my nightmares"

Originally: "沟壑之中 有万千欲念 在某一刻我也曾窥见 / 天地之间 我穿行百遍 应该摘下哪一个名衔 / 囹圄之中 你的脸浮现 前尘的印记深深浅浅 / 歧路之间 望向你双眼 带我逃离梦魇"

And this start is really interesting to me, because it has so many implications with its terms as well as where the "true cuts" are.
Let's start off with the ravines and the desires. This part reads to me more as Yan Yunfei, who watched his people's corpses get washed away (and it's clear as day how much he cares for his subjects, so in that instant he basically is watching their wishes and lives flow away because of the cruelty of others' ambitions). Setting-wise, the "ravine" is important too, because I don't recall Wumu having been in a ravine as a plot-significant setting.
But then the perspective feels like it switches to Wumu's. Why? Because as Wangquan Wumu, he is heavily associated with the "heavens and earth" (tiandi). And his character is about how inquisitive he is, taking off his grand title (as the next heir of the Wumu family) to seek out the world. 
And then the next portion feels like Fan Yunfei again, because it talks about the past (which Wumu would not be able to recollect) as well as someone whose eyes guide him. And that's pretty much the point of the arc.
The thing is, I'm not totally sure if I'm interpreting it right. Maybe Fan Yunfei is the one talking all along? Maybe his journey through the world and his desire to put down his name is a reference to his friend? It's possible, I think, especially seeing as he puts down his position as prince for his wife (just so they can be together), and it's very possible the two of them wandered around the world before she died. Plus with how the beginning is framed, I think it could be that the song is completely from Fan Yunfei's perspective: A prince who witnessed the tragic deaths of his friends and citizens, and went on, only to eventually lose his memories of all that transpired.
But that also makes how the song is framed entirely as Wumu's life in animation extremely sad. Not that it wasn't sad before. It means everything is literally just the episode after. The story itself is only a memory. The song itself is from his friend's perspective. And all the images of him, so bright and colorful, are maybe only from that friend's imagination, wanting him to be the hero of a story he never got to finish. 
The interesting question I now have is, are the eyes being referred to Wumu's? I formerly thought that they'd be Xueyang's (not to be confused with Xue Yang from Modao Zushi), but if I think of this start (and the song itself?) as totally being from one perspective, it's possible that here it means Wumu's, since the visuals imply that Fan Yunfei would be focusing on both of them in his recollections, not just his love. 

Next part! (Finally for anyone reading lol)
"Wait to see those tens of thousands of sand particles waiting for me to return
Swallowing the sky and blanketing the earth to bless him with all the colors, the heavens fracture and delusions are buried while I roil the oceans and seas with one hand"
Sorry, it's hard to make the meaning make sense by splitting up the sentences. Original was: "且看那万沙所向 待我归来 / 吞天蔽日赐他混沌色彩 / 穹宇崩坏 妄想掩埋 / 而我只手 翻江倒海"
That's the first main verse. Second main verse is:
"Even if tens of thousands of sand particles return with me
I swear to remember differentiate good and evil, and never change my starting wish
As if the roiling clouds, as if the pure white snow
I can lift the dust of time with a single hand"
Original: "纵使有万沙所向 与我归来 / 犹记善恶当辨初心不改 / 似云茫茫 似雪皑皑 / 只手亦可 拾尘埃"

God I love these main verses. Especially...actually, I can't even pinpoint parts of it. I love all of these two parts. Gosh.
Okay okay, back to the analysis. First I just wanna point out how it's "wait and see." This, coupled with so many other cues, make me feel like these main verses are definitely Fan Yunfei.
But who is he telling to wait? I like to think it's Wumu. Xueyang too, of course, but she's fainted by this point due to a certain bastard. So the first and second main verses pose an important distinction.
The first verse is Fan Yunfei heading out to kill Wangquan What's-His-Bastard-Face. He's set out, full of anger and passion and emotions, and wants so much so to avenge his friend. It's not completely negative, though; the sky is blocked with sand and his intentions, but in doing so he is blessing him with beautiful colors.
It's also important to remember the significance of Fan Yunfei's technique. When he brings sand together, it's for the sake of love. In the first season, he does it to save his (reincarnated) wife. And here it's to avenge his friend as testament to the life the other led. 
It's a horrifying technique if you look at it on the surface level, but it's always done with kind intentions.
I just really love the imagery evoked by this, y'know? His power (as one of the Four Spirit Kings of the work) is tremendous and terrifying. The sun is blocked, the world is as if it's about to end. As he says in the lyrics, a single hand of his could bring the oceans to turmoil. But he only uses it to end the life of a Certain Bastard (hence "burying delusions," which is an incredibly relevant cue to the perspective too btw) and doesn't extend his revenge towards innocents.
On the other hand, I find it so sad that I could interpret this to be from Wumu's perspective too, even though it doesn't fit as well. The tens of thousands of sand waiting for him to return could be a reference to Fan Yunfei (whose body is made of sand), and a big plot point is how he was able to wield the Power of the Heavens and Earth even though he was underground and shouldn't have been able to access it. I mean, he could split apart the heavens and earth too, so it's not like that disqualifies his perspective. Even the delusions part could refer to him expanding others' perspectives of the differences between spirits and humans, though I do place an X on this to doubt (because "delusions" isn't so neatly translated here, it more so refers to wishes rather than thought patterns and such). 
For the second main verse, I just feel like this is definitely Fan Yunfei, no matter how much the first verse could have fit his friend in certain aspects. Because it switches the wording, indicating something has changed. "Even if the tens of thousands of sand particles return with me." By this point, it's clear that this is Fan Yunfei by the end of all of this, killing the single man he intended to kill and then retreating. The significance lies in just how much control over his newfound power he has and, by extension, the power he has over his heart. Really, I can't even begin to describe just how profound this verse is--describing Fan Yunfei's resolve in a single line. This verse, maann.
The full version of the OP is definitely gonna be played during that specific episode like "Unravel" did for Tokyo Ghoul's first season. I will be mad if it doesn't. Make my heart into paper and crumple it, I dare you, HYXHN.
Specifics-wise, I think two things are especially notable. One, the analogy, "like snow." Clearly a reference to Xueyang ("xue" in her name means snow). No alternatives exist. Or if they do, no better alternatives exist. Fight me on that.
Second: The significance of "尘埃" in Chinese. Ashes in English refers to time, right? In Chinese, it more so refers to worldly experiences, I guess. So by proclaiming (very righteously btw, at least while he has these memories) that "with a single hand, he can lift the dust [of time]", it shows how much understanding he now has over the world. Plus it's a reference to his memories being recovered and his powers over sand. Absolutely genius.

Song analysis high is over, now the depression begins.

-Galaxian-

Fan Yunfei about to say "Even dog houses are--" and being told to shut up is so funny because that room being compared to a dog house is more spacious and looks better to live in than a college dorm.
(:
I really do wonder how Chinese universities' dorms are. Betting they're the same everywhere though.

-Galaxian-

Major F/GO spoilers in the form of shouting. Please do not click.

YOU THINK YOU CAN KILL MY SENPAI IN FRONT OF ME, BERYL? 
You have guts. I'll give you that.
Okay, now Kagekiyo's gonna gut you. Enjoy.

This Lostbelt, man.

(Major LB6 battle spoiler and some other spoilers to boot)

I'm pretty happy with how long I lasted in the Morgan copy fight. Btw it's scripted to end only when you lose and is totally unwinnable.
I didn't get through to all of their final break bars (at which point the Morgan gets infinite Guts because Fair Enough), but I did get through to two, and the last one had 100K health left. And since it's my first attempt, I was pretty happy with it.
I used Castoria, Lanling Wang, and Voyager, and rolled Miss. Crane in too. I don't think I'm able to sustain battles with her, but I'm getting better, maybe.
The irony in using Voyager was intentional. Protection of the Ends of the World is his third skill. I couldn't resist. Plus I love the entire team so.
Anyways. 
Wow, the story is brutal by the end. Though it's a bit cliche in that brutality. So I can't really say much. Can't even be very sad about it.
I do feel bad for Morgan. But I think that despite her genius, she is...very obstinate indeed. Though I suppose a genius like her probably would never die if not for emotional weaknesses.
Also, I'm sorry, but Tam Lin Tristan is just incredibly stupid. I understand why she is, why she never learned, and then went to extremes. It's her nature, I know. But my gods. 
It seems I'll just have to judge Tam Lin Gawain and Lancelot, especially Lancelot. I know Gawain is definitely not gonna just disappear after this.
Also I'll be nice to Baobhan Sith and Melusine now that they're here. They do deserve that.
And I've finished LB6, Part 2. Part 3 unlocks July. Dunno if I'll be playing games by then.

Let's see.
Story-wise, the timing got weirder because of the Ringing of the Bells and events like Gareth's death (which was very conveniently timed). But I really enjoy the sections with Castoria and Oberon. Both of them are honestly liars. And I really like how ruthlessly efficient Oberon's character is. 
As you might've guessed, I pair some characters (mostly of mine) together with this arc's because of thematic parallels/contrasts. For example: Rai and Oberon. Galaxian and Melusine. 
There's someone I could pair with Morgan too, but that's a double spoiler. ...not that the above aren't big spoilers by themselves, probably. 
I unintentionally paired together Lanling Wang and Melusine, and it was pretty funny seeing as I could imagine Melusine being someone who doesn't believe he's a general, prompting his "I was a general in my last life. I swear I was!" (paraphrased) line for his summer costume.
Anyways, yeah. I dunno too much about Melusine and Galaxian (whose main parallels are through the idea of loyalty, being an "outer existence," beliefs towards love/susceptibility to being manipulated, ability to change their forms, etc.), but from what I can tell, Melusine is a bit worse when it comes to how she approaches love.
Essentially, as a god of loyalty, Galaxian becomes more hurt and withdrawn when he lacks caring from others, while she seeks it like a moth nearing an open flame. Essentially, she's in denial and will seek out toxic relationships over having none, which I think is worse than depression in their case.
Also I find it funny that if they fought, I don't think Melusine would be able to underestimate him. Not because he's particularly powerful, but because he negates her ability to blitz people in the air at the very least and can block the space in which she can move.
Not to mention, since she's not good at knighthood (she states to be bound by human swordplay), both of them probably would resort to throwing hands. And energy blasts ig.
I tend to lean towards characters who show their innate good (or otherwise have very good reason to conceal it), so that's probably why I'm not that big of a fan of Melusine. She is very inhumane. Not her fault, but in terms of liking her, that's all there is to it. She has no qualms about slaughter. That's probably also why I like Barghest a bit more, and why Baobhan Sith's extremes cut me the wrong way.
But to be honest, I don't like any of the Fae Knights too much. Barghest is probably up top, and that says a lot, since I don't like her that much. Her personality's fine, I'm not even too bothered by her sprite's proportions, I just don't like how she needed Chaldea to spell out things for her. Also it is obvious that Adonis is already dead so there's that tragedy waiting to happen.
Again, I'll try to be nice to her, because I understand the importance of that development stage. It can't be that different for her, even as a dragon. Maybe she just needs great luck in finding guidance, like Galaxi.
...rip. In my eyes she really is very similar to a seven year old.

It's just a color test btw. For same face syndrome.
But now I'm cursed with...with this hunger.
:')

-Galaxian-

She just got another Great Success (boosted her to level 70) so it looks like she likes the blanket/couch headcanon. Which is fair, I like it a lot too.
She's sparing me from farming more embers, she really does have a kind heart at her core (slight joke but also not really)

(Final Ascension)
You're welcome ma'am, now this Chaldea will offer you therapy. 

I wonder which ascension is the "humane" choice for keeping her in...? My current logic is that maybe it's her Third, not because she's more susceptible to being changed but because she actually has all her trauma accessible to her. So any healing is done without her needing to put up her cruel act and with all the information accessible to her.
...I may or may not be entirely wrong (and also a horrible wannabe therapist). Just a disclaimer there.
I dunno, I just feel like it's the most painful fast solution? Y'know, instead of being kind to her while she's distrustful of kindness and doesn't even remember everything that happened, just dealing with her extremely hurt, traumatized, and vengeful side in hopes of healing her. It makes sense to me, idk though.

Scary eyes list:
-Galaxian (GGaD)
-Ambryll (in general she just seems to hate blank eyes lol)
-Forum!Galaxian (various times, which is fair)
-Rei
-Xolani (also fair)
-Raez (very fair)
-Kiaane (see above)

Random commentary from her (translated from Chinese)
"He (Rai) has too soft a face, he's handsome but he's not my type"
"I like Kanon the most"
"(*inner fangirling slowly being unleashed*) WHY ARE THEY ALL SO HANDSOME, WHY ARE THEY ALL SO PRETTY"
"Why is he so sad"
"Why is he (different person) crying blood"
"Aww he's (Galaxian's) so cute!! I don't like his eyes though ):"
[I inform her that that's the drawing of Nagesh beating Zouken up while his friends watch and drink various beverages]
"Oh okay (*completely unconcerned, stuffing drawing into a folder*)"
"Is this Galaxian too"
"How can this be Galaxian when you're Galaxian (*genuinely confused*)."

-Galaxian-