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I said this on my old blog, so it bears repeating on this one: Dale Cooper only exists because Laura Palmer made him. A scared, abused 12 year old little girl, she's going to do the only thing in her power at that age to cope and conjure an imaginary best friend, a guardian angle, a child's render of an FBI agent who wants nothing more than to save and protect her. Who singularly lives and breathes the mystery of her trauma and inevitable death.

He's nothing like a real adult, because he isn't real at all. He throws rocks at bottles to discern suspects and revels in cherry pie like a kid enjoying dessert. His methods mature over the course of the show—perhaps emulating a maturation of Laura's understanding of the law—but he ultimately remains absurd and whimsical and the only one who could solve her murder.

There is no Twin Peaks without Laura Palmer and more intimately, there is no Dale Cooper without her, either. From the very start of her suffering, she was trying to cling on, to find a handhold, anything at all. She existed to be murdered, yes, to create this story, but she existed, also, to create her own savior, the only real hand that could finally touch her without hurting her. Even at her eleventh hour, Laura Palmer didn't die helpless. She did the best she could and, at just 12 years old, she made herself an angel.

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Laura Palmer lives

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The Simpsons, Laura Palmer

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faster and faster

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one of my favourite quotes in twin peaks came from the scene where windom earle was questioning major garland briggs about what he was most afraid of and he replied “the possibility that love is not enough” and thats it!!! thats the show!! the love was there. it was definitely there. but it was not enough. it didn’t save anyone. couldn’t save anyone. but it was there.

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I said this on my old blog, so it bears repeating on this one: Dale Cooper only exists because Laura Palmer made him. A scared, abused 12 year old little girl, she's going to do the only thing in her power at that age to cope and conjure an imaginary best friend, a guardian angle, a child's render of an FBI agent who wants nothing more than to save and protect her. Who singularly lives and breathes the mystery of her trauma and inevitable death.

He's nothing like a real adult, because he isn't real at all. He throws rocks at bottles to discern suspects and revels in cherry pie like a kid enjoying dessert. His methods mature over the course of the show—perhaps emulating a maturation of Laura's understanding of the law—but he ultimately remains absurd and whimsical and the only one who could solve her murder.

There is no Twin Peaks without Laura Palmer and more intimately, there is no Dale Cooper without her, either. From the very start of her suffering, she was trying to cling on, to find a handhold, anything at all. She existed to be murdered, yes, to create this story, but she existed, also, to create her own savior, the only real hand that could finally touch her without hurting her. Even at her eleventh hour, Laura Palmer didn't die helpless. She did the best she could and, at just 12 years old, she made herself an angel.

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Twin Peaks aesthetics/

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Twin Peaks (1990-1991) / “The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing, and Mental Illness”, B.N. Harrison

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Totally winning

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Laura Palmer was right when she said "Meanwhile... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

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throwback to last year when I made a series of shitty picsart creations called “wimpy peaks”

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Twin Peaks is such a crazy show because it's trying very seriously to grapple with abuse and trauma and grief and then in the middle of this grim murder investigation while an entire town is mourning Dale Cooper rolls up saying shit like this

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what i love about twin peaks is that there’s a pretty regular run of the mill murder in a very normal small town and the fbi sends down their whackiest gayest most autistic agent to help solve it and the law enforcement is like oh good some proper help and then coop starts being like yeah i had a dream of a dancing dwarf and a giant oh and the girl who died was there i think they gave me some clues that will be detrimental to this case also btw i was visited by a giant when i was shot he’s been giving me clues too it’s crazy we should definitely set the entire basis of our investigation off of these. i know what i��m doing i’m a professional

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