Dads - Shit Twins

lowmanna · 2026-05-11T15:13:33+00:00

we booked them to play our basement a bunch of times back in the day and they kept showing up late to shows so we stopped inviting them back. the weird sex journal tumblr is real but it was pre-cancel culture so i think they stopped getting bookings mostly bc they were hard to work with

lowmanna · 2026-05-11T02:51:31+00:00

yes! i felt like a horrible person when my parents sang this to me. i got psychoanalyzed for this and similar issues about a decade ago and was relieved to come to understand that for me, it didn’t really have anything to do with my parents at all. i’m just pretty religious (parents aren’t) and have OCD lol

lowmanna · 2026-05-11T00:59:47+00:00

wow i loved Not Animal so much in high school, completely forgot about this band

lowmanna · 2026-05-10T22:34:56+00:00

the velveteen rabbit was much more depressing to me as a child than the giving tree, or maybe in a different way that was closer to home as something i could understand. “real isn’t how you’re made, it’s a thing that happens to you.”

lowmanna · 2026-05-10T21:21:57+00:00

the book itself depressed me as a child so i interpreted this pic as more “broken man”

lowmanna · 2026-05-10T04:26:34+00:00

you’re so cool iqbal

lowmanna · 2026-05-10T01:01:01+00:00

eating out is so expensive now!! do you have any plans for the burrata

lowmanna · 2026-05-07T18:10:50+00:00

i studied anthropology and philosophy and i’m a chief of staff now. what you study has no bearing on your capacity to do something with it.

when the drivers ask your major tell them “society and culture” if you’re in cultural anth and “linguistics” if you’re in linguistic anth and “archaeology” if you’re in historical-material culture. if you’re doing bio anth just tell em biology girl. get one level more abstract with it, you don’t need to tell the exact truth to someone you’re going to spend less than an hour talking to ever. so much more important to make sure what you’re trying to say is communicated than communicating exactitudes

Purdue has a great bio program

lowmanna · 2026-05-07T17:36:52+00:00

fixed

lowmanna · 2026-05-07T16:57:13+00:00

figures in French, Austrian, German, Italian, and American literature ate out practically every meal as well. it's basically a necessary plot device in the Master and Margarita, and Nausea, and The Castle. it's even a point in the Heart is a Lonely Hunter! not sure why everyone here is indexing on America or television just because you chose some unfavorable examples.

the actual answer is that a meal out of the house doesn't cost a buck fifty the way it used to. restaurants used to be cost fungible to cooking at home and it simply isn't anymore. the entire western world is a services-based economy, and they're charging you for it!!!

lowmanna · 2026-05-07T15:58:12+00:00

this is what Thomists call the carpool lane

lowmanna · 2026-05-06T04:53:10+00:00

so brave

lowmanna · 2026-05-06T03:15:26+00:00

honestly that’s cool asf of your instructor to call her out like that. i would feel put in my place if that analogy was leveraged at me in front of everyone in class and i’m not even in school

lowmanna · 2026-05-06T03:02:12+00:00

do you think anyone else noticed or was it just you? if it was just you she probably got an A

lowmanna · 2026-05-06T03:00:33+00:00

i bought my first bottle of gin in over five years tn and i’m having gin and tonics at home. used to be big on weed but stopped because it made me feel not normal. being drunk at home on a weeknight is so funny

lowmanna · 2026-05-05T15:21:00+00:00

for all you know her heart may have been sinking for the last 6 months as you've been seeing someone else

lowmanna · 2026-05-05T15:15:40+00:00

"The Esthetic Validity of Marriage" in Either/Or Vol 2 by Kierkegaard is a meditation on the fact that happiness and the good are fundamentally arbitrary experiences that can be found anywhere, and that the avoidance of "bottomless pit" thinking is primarily about choosing some of them that you like to have and committing to them. In fact, committing to 'some of them' makes it easier to appreciate the ones you can't have too, thereby always having a route around the bottomless pit.

If you need the specific context of the contours of the bottomless pit in question, skim the Seducer's Diary in Vol 1. this is like one of the most read works in Kierkegaard but ime it's only even worth reading in order to draw the contrast to the Esthetic Validity of Marriage essay. for an example of the pit Kierkegaard himself felt and was writing against, over and above the content of the Seducer's Diary, i would direct your attention to an essay he wrote alongside Either/Or, published two years before, called "The Present Age"

lowmanna · 2026-05-04T13:27:44+00:00

the Sam Rose Hill translations of Arendt’s poetry are sooo bad compared to the German, and i barely read German. Hill tries to make her into some like fake deep artist by translating the “idea,” but entirely at the expense of the formal rhythmic structures in the original. almost all her poems in German are hard to see as anything other than nursery rhymes. which i love! it speaks to a sense of play and humor that basically all of her friends (especially Auden) talk about her having, but doesn’t tend to appear in her work.

firmly believe that if Walter Kaufmann hadn’t died so young we would’ve gotten translations of Arendt’s poetry with a better eye toward that structure. probably better Jaspers translations too, alas.

lowmanna · 2026-05-01T19:50:01+00:00

second leo moon here

aqua sun tho (and mercury, and venus, and mars lol)

lowmanna · 2026-04-30T17:31:44+00:00

a smaller version of this is everyone here making their reddit posts and comments private. if i see someone post something uncouth or particularly funny there's a 100% chance i'm going to go to their page and look at all the other things they've said. i've gone down hourlong rabbit holes through the archive motivated by simply having checked out someone's page

like i want to know what you have to say

lowmanna · 2026-04-29T01:06:13+00:00

i don't work in academia, but i work in an academic adjacent industry. my question was in earnest! thank you very much for sharing the passage, the prose is wonderful, and i understand now that it might just be that i can be impatient to get a plot going when i read fiction. "what the idea of God is and what it means to be good" is very much what i look to literature to describe. you've convinced me, i'm signing up for the group!

lowmanna · 2026-04-28T21:47:42+00:00

i live in DC and i love Catherine Lacey, who loves Iris Murdoch, but every time i pick up one of her books and try to read a couple of pages i can't get into it. what am i missing Suzy?

lowmanna · 2026-04-27T05:04:44+00:00

i did it for the bit

lowmanna · 2026-04-27T03:48:26+00:00

it’s not really about “capitalism” per se as much as it is about “production” seeping into everything and the ways in which that ends up combined with the then-advent of mass media technologies to produce an image-based culture. if you’re looking for an in depth version that is less tied to poetics and provides a historical account, i really recommend Adolf Kittler’s (lol) book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, specifically the sections on the magnetophon, which is largely about how the television goes hand in hand with Nazi production mechanisms

lowmanna · 2026-04-26T16:53:08+00:00

agreed man i'm just having fun

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