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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 23h

the uma experience > summer > trainee's mood great > trainer's energy mid > turn 1 > 2% chance of failure on speed > press > FAILURE > Mood DOWN > trainee's mood good > "oh it's just a coincidence" > turn 2 > 2% chance of failure on speed > press > FAILURE > Mood DOWN > Event: Summer Training Ends

picture of Umamusume Curren Chan in a fisheye angle

source: https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/107172554

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 28/09/2026

on the grand scope of things I'd probably pass as this if I pretended 2018–2021 never existed

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 19/09/2026

going to hell later, wish me luck

screenshot of home screen, with Umamusume install

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 18/09/2026

interesting thing is that some of the claims are compelling *if* you throw out "cognition" and "perception" as the horizons of rationalism

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 04/09/2026

ok yeah this is probably most representative even if the sound rules are p much the same

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 02/09/2026

this is literally just "getting clocked"

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 31/08/2026

@eliza.vg your ass so fat they needed to bring PPE

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 23/08/2026

I think we should teach more jazz history not (just) because it would foster diversity, but because it's way more relatable to popular music discussions

Scott DeVeaux, "Constructing the Jazz Tradition: Jazz Historiography," 535:

The continued presence on the jazz scene of such august figures as Armstrong and Sidney Bechet; the success of jazz researchers in uncovering so much of the historical context for the origins of the music; the startling public acceptance of such authentically and previously neglected "folk" idioms as boogie-woogie; the dramatic resurrection of Bunk Johnson, providing a Romantic story of triumph over adversity to equal the superficial triumphs of the swing stars - all reinforced a view in which the thrust of Jazz history was to restore and strengthen the "original" music.9 Swing's purpose would be admirably fulfilled if, after leading the uninitiated to the "real jazz," it would simply wither away.

The most vociferous proponent of this view was Panassie, in his 1942 book The Real Jazz. In this volume, jazz is now specifically defined as "the spontaneous urge of a whole people" (7), a "primitive" African-American folk expression superior by virtue of its emotional directness to the tired intricacies of European art. Over this "natural, spontaneous song" (6) there is no possibility of improvement. Indeed, the very notion of progress is inherently destructive, seducing musicians from their true calling:

"These musicians who had infallibly played in a perfect manner, and had never digressed for an Instant from the pure tradition of their art as long as they blindly followed their instinct, now rejected their tradition and began to reason and to "improve" their music. Of course they fell into innumerable errors." (54)

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 22/08/2026

found this classic in my camera roll

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 13/08/2026

there's a way to call Superhero End Shirou Stoic, but even more Stoic is Illya's warning that's always stuck with me

Fate/stay night, Superhero Bad End:

Illyasviel (Illya): "I pity you, Shirou. You're going to be deceiving yourself forever with that crying face of yours."

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sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe · 14/07/2026

I feel like part of me would be more sympathetic to "play" as a core concept were it not for the sheer abuse and castration of "free play of the faculties".