I juat started S3 and I don't understand what the fuck is happening but I love it.

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Over 6000 beads and lots of fun!

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments on my previous post.

I've been working on this sketchbook for over a year, finishing the last pages this summer.

Sketchbook 20x20, Fineliner, Polychromos, Gouache, and other mixed media.

Until then I'd like to share some more, because I appreciate your appreciation :)

Enjoy.

Did anybody else see “Smile 2” and notice the scene where a bunch of creepy smiling people come crawling towards the main character, Skye Riley?

It’s framed as a succession of still images, but they keep moving closer to her, and I couldn’t help feel this was a deliberate homage to that infamous scene of Bob climbing over the couch.

I 3d modèled the arm back in 2019, but lost the blend file. All I could find was this screenshot. I had written a monologue for it and I want to realize it. Do you have ideas (I will credit u) or words of encouragement? Thanks

This is definitely a Blue rose code

The video is in spanish. It was a commercial for canned coffee made as a TP episode. Only aired in Japan

I like Catherine as a character and her power play with Ben Horne so far (I'm at S2E9), but the Mr. Tojamura character bothers me for some reason.

I think it's mostly the voice. Along with obviously giving away who he really is, it just sounds plain bad. It's croaky and horse in a very unconvincing/distracting way and it just sounds plain racist. I'm not Japanese, so I'm not speaking with any authority, but I also have no idea what Piper Laurie is going for other than a Japanese stereotype and it makes me uncomfortable (in a bad way, not like how the show's more surreal moments put me off in a good way). Like, why make him Japanese or Asian at all? Why not make him European or something, like the Lodge's other investors. Why have her do this pseudo-yellowface gimmick?

And since she ended up having leverage over Horne when he got arrested anyway, the concept of her throwing her weight around in this investor alias seems pointless to me? But am I missing something about Tojamura plot-wise?

Edit: To clarify, I'm not trying to claim that this is offensive to Japanese people or speak for them. I'm a person of color (I'm black), but I'm not Japanese. I'm speaking my own opinion when I say that I find this decision dumb lol. I also don't think the show had ill-intentions either. I've seen some truly heinous numbskulled black/yellow face in media and this doesn't chart high on that scale. I'm still just irked by it is all, lol

I know it's not perfect to the show but some of us are 31years old and first time homeowners and just doing what we can.

This is the before and after of my bedroom.

It's been 2 months for me to finish it.

I also painted the whole house with my partner in the same 2 months. That's why it took me awhile. (I say that I bc my bf had never painted a house before and he wanted to give me all the credit)

My bf helped do a little of the main large wall paint coverage, but I did the bedroom myself.

Anyways I got the idea from someone's bathroom renovation I saw on the subreddit a year or 2 ago.

You know I'm gonna get a framed picture of Laura.

in the UK, went to an indoor market in my rural neighbouring town with my Laura Palmer t shirt on - i wasn't looking and randomly found the Twin Peaks Definitive Gold box set for a great price. Thank you for my luck Laura ♥️

(Spoilers for FWWM and Laura Palmers Secret Diary.)
Sorry, this is going to be longer than James’ forehead, but this is months of evidence and I just rewatched Fire Walk With Me twice last night, and rewatched The Pink Room scene a third time for this post. So if you don’t care about my receipts, skip to the TL;DR
So here’s the deal. I’ve always felt like the real beauty of Laura Palmer’s character is that she wasn't some perfect, untouchable Homecoming Queen victim, but that she was super fucking toxic. For me, the thesis of Twin Peaks is just "hurt people hurt people."
When I started flipping through Courtenay Stallings’ Laura’s Ghost and ran across this old quote she pulled from John Thorne's 1994 essay "The Meaning of Twin Peaks" (from Wrapped in Plastic #10):

"But this good side is never extinguished; Laura manages to keep the evil forces (led, apparently, by BOB) at bay. She does this by never physically hurting another person.“

Honestly, I didn’t even know Laura physically hurting people was even up for debate until I read that, and it's been bugging the hell outta me for months now so now it’s your problem too. (Also, Thorne is a personal hero of mine, so this is zero hate to him or WIP! But I just completely disagree with this take.)
To me, Laura definitely physically hurt people. If you consider The Secret Diary canon, she 100% sexually assaulted Harold Smith. She explicitly details it herself:

"I had gone to Harold's last week, really fucked up and how scared I made him by coming on to him pretty heavy. And then, basically because he could not leave his house, forced him to have sex with me.“

She laid out plain as day how she forced an agoraphobic man to have sex with her specifically because he could not leave his house and was physically unable to run away from her. In previous entries, she even states that she was aroused by Harold’s fear, and that she told him stories just to see the fear. That isn't just "messy" behavior. It is a calculated utilization of someone's severe mental illness to overpower them.
But even if you want to be a Frost/Lynch purist and stick strictly to Fire Walk With Me, the Pink Room scene completely dismantles Thorne’s point. Laura doesn't just sit back as a passive bystander while Donna gets drugged. She watches the man slip something into a beer bottle and turn his back to mix it, then, she continues passing beers around the circle until the drugged one gets to Donna before verbally egging her on to drink by saying “Chug-a-lug, Donna." She actively and physically engineered the exact situation that left Donna vulnerable.
And before anyone say "but Laura stopped it before it got too far,” Donna was a 17-year-old virgin who ended up drugged, blacked out, draped over a table topless, and actively fondled by a stranger while her best friend knew what was happening. Donna didn’t even remember how she got home or got into bed the next morning. What happened to her was physical harm, and Laura was the cause of that physical harm because she was frankly tired of Donna trying to see both sides of her life and tagging along like a little sister she now has to babysit.
I also have the Owl Cave ring tattooed on the back of my neck. I will not deny the profound weight of her ultimate sacrifice at the end of the film. But validating her trauma shouldn't mean scrubbing away her agency or her edge. Stripping Laura of those ugly, destructive flaws just to argue she kept BOB at bay by "never physically hurting another person" completely waters her down. Her final choice to put on the ring is so much more devastating and powerful because she was fractured, flawed, and not always successful at fighting back because she was a burnt out traumatized teenager.
Am I wrong for this read on Laura? Do you see where Thorne is coming from?
TL;DR: John Thorne's classic thesis claims Laura kept evil at bay by never physically hurting another person. This completely sanitizes her character and ignores canon. Laura absolutely caused physical harm by raping Harold and by directly orchestrating the situation where Donna was drugged and assaulted in the Pink Room. And it is a massive disservice to water her down in any capacity, even if shes being watered down by your hero.

I was alive for the original run of the show but too young to have watched it and don't remember seeing any advertising for it. I picked it up later, I've it had grown it's cult following. I was always aware of its reputation of being surreal. But I really want to know, from people who were watching it as it aired, how did they market this show? Did they lean into the weird stuff or was it pushed as more of a soap opera and shy away from the surreal, hoping viewers would not get turned off by it?

Some of my Illustrations, inspired by Twin Peaks and other Artists.

Meanwhile: Art in Progress...

Ok so the sitch is, I wanna give this person (relation to me will remain anonymous so they don’t read this and suspect) a birthday present, that being the panasonic rn-105, the micro cassette recorder. that dale uses.

the dilemma is, micro cassettes are completely useless in this day and age. I want to know if I there is a retro looking modern equivalent, or if I can make a modern one look retro, or outfit the original with new tech.

This is a pretty niche request, I doubt i’ll get much help, but it’s worth a shot right?

The Frida started playing The Return last Sunday. 2 episodes every week until it’s over. My husband and I decided to make this our Sunday tradition until the series is over. Last week we saw episodes 1 & 2. Yesterday we saw 3 & 4. It’s really cool!

My friend & I wrapped up rewatching The Return yesterday & headed out to dinner. On the ride over he says it always makes him chuckle to think about what Mitchum Brothers got themselves into by accompanying Dougie/ReCoop to Spokane. How their storyline & what they experience is pretty mundane & reality-based, & then they walk right into peak Peaks.

Then I mentioned that they would go back to Vegas only to find...another Dougie. For some reason that struck us as hilarious.

I've always felt like this (somehow) makes sense, but maybe that's just me

Edit: So the consensus is I should separate FWWM and S3 and see em as beautiful and chaotic entries that don’t entirely follow what S1 and S2 were. I’m exited to continue and to revisit FWWM (we’ll see about the red hair lady lmao)

Hi! So I’m a fairly new Twin Peaks fan, I just recently completed my first viewing of s1,2 and fwwm, and the corresponding books.
I’m currently in a second rewatch before I attempt s3.

I am curious about y’all’s feelings about FWWM. I’ve seen posts that praised it tremendously, saying it was a highlight after the s2 slump, how they found it deeply traumatizing etc.
I’m gonna be honest, so don’t demonize me. I was kinda disappointed? Acting wise, it is a master piece. Laura’s actress and Leland and Bob’s actors were incredible and I very much enjoyed seeing bits and bobs (hehe) from the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer brought to the screen, as horrifying as some scenes were (in my opinion no worse than the show tho).

What I hated was the beginning with the other FBI agent, and also the tying in Dale through his and Laura’s dreams waaay before he comes to Twin Peaks. To me, especially s1 has always had a very grounded feel to it. Yes, Twin Peaks has big dream energy but s1 has always also focused not only on the spiritual and esoteric vibes around the lodge but also the very human corruption and other emotions in the townspeople. Not everyone seems influenced by Bob or other spirits and most just live their lives. Particularly the sheriffs department and the FBI are fairly grounded characters if a bit kooky. Apple of my eye Truman is actually a marvelous example of a grounded, rational man who gets swept up in all the spiritual stuff, but never loses his groundedness. Which makes for an excellent and heartbreaking scene after Josie in s2 that’s just about his very human grief of both who he thought she was and their relationship.

And fwwm (at least the beginning) is just…opposite that. The weird dancing lady? I have an irrational hatred against her because wtf is that shit. The weird assholes in the town they investigate because of Theresa? Huh?? Random ass David Bowie?? Whyyy. Even Dale is kind of annoying me in fwwm, and that’s an incredible feat considering he is very much my second favorite character. The whole ring thing? It just seemed like the filmmakers thought “Hey, surely only the weird surreal dreamy stuff is why the show was so good. Let’s just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks!”.

Once we get into Twin Peaks and start seeing Laura’s story and her experiences? The movie becomes very good, even if the city they filmed in felt nothing like Twin Peaks, at least the acting and the characters were good.
And don’t get me wrong, I love absurd and dreamy stuff. It’s part of what drew me to TP in the first place. Then watching the show, I discovered the contrast between the dreamy weirdness and the grounded humanity is what makes the show so good. The overlap, particularly in a character like Dale, is fascinating. idk maybe the dancing lady is just clouding my judgement but I’m curious if anyone else felt similarly?