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rose@bluestrose· 21d

Here is a little piece I wrote for a local film zine called "Fear The Double" about Twin Peaks, Us, and class consciousness.

Fear The Double

"In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent." Everyone has a secret, everyone lacks the empathy to save Laura Palmer from her abuse and murder. In the season finale, Laura’s doppelganger appears—screaming and full of rage—filled with a burning desire to enact revenge both on those who wronged her and those who stood idly by. In Lynch’s universe where malefic spirits lurk at the forest’s edge, the greatest evils are man-made.

We see Laura again 25 years later when the series’ third season reveals a new evil: the slow death of American capitalism and the communities it ravaged. Residents of Fat Trout Trailer Park can barely afford rent. A school teacher goes further into debt to treat herself to a slice of the Double R Diner’s killer cherry pie. The principled Agent Dale Cooper's doppleganger, Mr. C, is a billionaire crime lord.

One does not need to go far to encounter the violent outcomes of wealth inequality in the town of Twin Peaks. But in Santa Cruz, Adelaide finds herself navigating endless corridors, descending staircases, and escalators to the Underpass, home of the Tethered. She quickly learns that instead of “a moment of unity for lasting change”, the Tethered’s cause is targeted, violent, and seeking to be seen.

"We're Americans," Red explains. Where there is one living above, there is one living below. One with the means to realize the American Dream of a comfortable middle-class life, one marginalized with no resources of her own. The Tethered’s lives consist of mimicking their surface counterparts’. Dictated by the choices of those they are tethered to, the Tethered lack the dignity and comforts their counterparts take for granted.

The dopplegangers in Twin Peaks are otherworldly beings; shadow selves embodying society's worst behaviors: violent abusers thriving off human suffering. However, the Tethered are neither otherworldly nor evil. They are humans that have suffered and turned the violence on their abusers in an attempt to claim agency in their lives and gain freedom. The Tethered are guided by rage in the same way Laura Palmer's counterpart was. The core of their beings, consumed by anger and bitterness in response to being failed by an uncaring, decaying world around us.

rose@bluestrose· 22d

shut the FUCK up I know whatever AI generated explanation for this will be incorrect

rose@bluestrose· 22d

jake tapper's face when he realizes that muslims can speak

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rose@bluestrose· 22d

LOL you could never get me to hate nomura dude

rose@bluestrose· Jul 10

for 70 dollars, it should come with the minger concept art

rose@bluestrose· Jul 9

rose@bluestrose· Jul 2

watching this shit is why I'm single

rose@bluestrose· Jun 24

Dumbest twin peaks reference in riverdale so far (complementary)

rose@bluestrose· Jun 16

I love the twin peaks subreddit

rose@bluestrose· Jun 14

this is the damage that square enix has done to the average american mind

rose@bluestrose· Jun 9

This is the biggest announcement for me and this is what it feels like

rose@bluestrose· Jun 9

My skin cleared my depression cured

rose@bluestrose· Jun 5

Lately

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rose@bluestrose· May 21

last night's fit

rose@bluestrose· May 21

just crying thinking being accepted as I am in a queer space

rose@bluestrose· Apr 17

I've never clicked faster

rose@bluestrose· Apr 10

Passion Pit is touring

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rose@bluestrose· Mar 16

Jesus christ no wonder I was so depressed in college

rose@bluestrose· Mar 16

I loved being about to hide the classic tidus bisexuality meme in there

rose@bluestrose· Mar 15

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rose@bluestrose· Mar 9

I don't need the youtube algo to call me out like this

rose@bluestrose· Mar 9

me reading these comments after I'm well into the jank PS2 classics made for the PS4 running on the PS5

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rose@bluestrose· Mar 9

come onnnnnnnnnmn what's better than this?