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silenthillmutual · 3 months ago

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ongoing list of fics i enjoyed (current fandoms only) [so silent hill + bloodborne + pathologic]

i have not read every fic in the tag.

silent hill

1994 (T, 4k; TheIcyQueen); sh2 The town calls to people in its own way, managing to lure them in, more often than not. That isn't to say that its methods are unchanging, though--oh no. Silent Hill has many ways and many faces, and no two of its visitors will ever see it in quite the same light. A little peek into how the town might look for the characters of SH2.

art therapy (M, ongoing; stormyshark); harry/james An on-parole James Sunderland meets struggling single father Harry Mason in group art therapy. Takes place six years after the events of SH1 and SH2.

Box of Ash-turned Thoughts (T, <1k; Goldenocturne); alessa/claudia In here lies a collection of discarded emotions.

Complexities (T, 4k; bumblepuppy) eileen/henry Kind of sequel to Field of View. Eileen's straight up not having a good time.

familiarity (M, 5k; iwaslikenope); alex/travis Travis Grady encounters a familiar face in the same, familiar place. As it turns out, not everything familiar is a good thing - but maybe this time around he doesn't have to go through it alone.

It's time to let go.

Halogen Lamp (G, <1k; PhantomPiano); james She crawled out of the lake today.

Hanged Man (T, 4k; benignmilitancy); sh3 "We are all helpless without Her mercy." SH3 one-shot.

If Time Doesn't Heal Wounds, I'll Staple Them Together (G, 1k; orphan_account) harry & heather It's been six years since he escaped Silent Hill. An innocent question makes him realize he might not have moved on as well as he thought.

In This Silent Heaven (T, <1k; iwaslikenope); james/mary Three years long gone, and she sent me a letter.

It'll Last Longer (T, 4k; fret); eileen/henry Three pictures Henry takes of Eileen, and one that Eileen takes of him.

like nails in my feet (T, 1k; Riona); james/mary Maybe this is a love story that was doomed from the start.

Outbreak (M, 61k; UnlikeClockwork) "In memory of the sixty seven who died of illness and now sleep beneath the lake." -The Rosewater Memorial in Silent Hill The town of Silent Hill has long been known for strange events. In 2016, a virulent illness tears through the town, progressing rapidly through an array of horrific symptoms before the patients die. Worse, it has no identifiable cause. Epidemiologist Anna Garcia is sent to record everything she can about the sickness, in the hopes of tracing it to some point of origin, or discover something to combat it. She finds far more to the history of the town and its strange past.

Performative (T, 2k; 0plus2equals1, weatomicchildren); maria Maria is a walking, talking identity crisis. James is her audience of one. (Short fic exploring Maria's experiences in the main game.)

Restless Dreaming (T, <1k; TheIcyQueen); james/mary You'd do anything to see her again--anything. But have you looked right in front of you, James? Or behind you?

See? I'm Real. (T, 1k; TheIcyQueen); maria She wakes up cold and alone, with silence and memory lurking just outside of her periphery. She has to stay, despite her fear and her dread--she has to wait, to be patient, to just believe. Because she knows he's coming for her.

But he's looking for the her that isn't her at all.

Shadows And Fog (T, 3k; kcstories); dale cooper [twin peaks crossover] Whilst investigating a mysterious disappearance, Special Agent Dale Cooper finds himself in a strange, deserted town. (Twin Peaks/Silent Hill crossover)

swan song of the red god (T, 3k; larkspear); heather Heather becomes something she never wanted to be OR After all this time the town doesn't let her go OR Silent Hill dies, and maybe that's a good thing.

Wife | Mary Shepherd Sunderland (T, 1k; glitchbunni); james & mary Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly.

you (NR, <1k; goshozome); henry & walter you aren't a people person.

bloodborne

Ave Maria (T, 3k; xeboot); doll/maria After her defeat within The Hunter’s Nightmare, Maria awakens in place that she finds strangely familiar. She also finds herself conversing with something that is so disconcertingly similar to herself.

Charade (M, 5k; SassyCephalopod); laurence & micolash & gehrman Before the schism of the School of Mensis from the Healing Church, Micolash hunts for answers about what happened on the night Laurence and Gehrman beckoned the moon. He follows the trail of influence Gehrman left behind deep into the Vicar’s subconscious, through dreams of the shared stages of their lives. What exists at the end of their charade may be the knowledge he seeks, or it could be the undoing of them all.

cupio, careo (E, 4k; 0plus2equals1); hunter/valtr The hunter is having a hard time adjusting to being the new Leader of the League.

Do hunters dream of electric beasts? (E; sugarboat); alfred/hunter The Hunter finds an unopened summons to the forsaken Castle Cainhurst, and has more than the expected troubles locating its intended recipient.

Dressing for a Funeral (G, 4k; aurillium); gehrman & laurence On the colour red, and the first signs of the scourge.

EYE OF A BLOOD-DRUNK HUNTER (M, >1k; kirkhammer) It is a fate no hunter can escape

facile oceanum (T, 2k; 0plus2equals1); kos/maria Lady Maria is trapped within an aimless nightmare. She goes to Kos while her consciousness still remains.

Hide Your Face from Prophecy (T, 5k; Karanca); caryll & micolash [On the voices of the Great Ones and how they manifest, c. 1862]

In darkest shades (E, 2k; retrospectral); gascoigne/hunter It is not a conventional relationship you have with him; still, you find solace in familiarity.

Necrophoresis (T, 8k; SynthWave); laurence/micolash The clock is ticking. Micolash seeks Laurence after an experiment goes awry, but the Vicar is not as composed as he'd hoped.

Nietzsche is angry with me (M, 5k; captainjackspearow) "An eye bubbles to the forefront of the forehead. There is no face, just an amalgam of pain set upon a limp, dangling body.

Oh, she notes, blankly, as her vision begins to cloud-

-I’m beginning to see things."

of the beholder (E, 1k; retrospectral) gascoigne/hunter It’s obscene, truly, that a man like him should be brought to heel in such a way.

o, galatea (G, 2k; talionprinciple) He scrabbles at the stone beside her, bent over like a man gutted, scratching feebly, digging at nothing. At length he crumples to the ground, letting out a wounded, animal groan.

"...You are my punishment."

A Schism (T, 4k; Karnaca); laurence/micolash [A selection of letters exchanged between the Vicar of the Healing Church and the Headmaster of Mensis, 1875-1880]

Song of Blood (NR, 2k; happywalrider); gascoigne/viola Oh, to be sick on blood, like a hunter lusting for a hunt.

weep with them, as one in a trance (M, 3k; Azrioael) On a cold beach, Laurence and his associates parse through the guts of a god to find promises of divinity.

Maria begins to harbour doubt.

pathologic (starts here; below are newer)

and here it is (our final night alive) (T, 2k; Talinor) Worn and defeated by the trials of the Pest and those behind it, Daniil stays in the Cathedral.

Ce Verre Levé aux Prêtresses de Cypris ! (E, 2k; Creaturial); eva/yulia Eva invites herself in, welcomed without asking, slipping through like light. She brings her affinity for velvet and silk, for the twirls of incense, for the greens of twyrine; she brings her empyreal glow that fills Yulia’s house like a heart with blood. She likes Yulia's silver, pale hands on her hallowed, supernal skin; Yulia likes her solar touch, her constellations-eyes. They like to learn from each other — and quite a few more things.

Filling His Shoes (By Asking Them Nicely, Not By Cutting Off Your Toes) (G, 4k; omnipah) Observation: The Burakh family house is laid out incomprehensibly. Observation: Houses take after their owners, both in function and personality. Observation: Artemy’s arc is about not taking after his father, and instead forging his own path and deciding what it means to be himself. Conclusion: Artemy’s household is not shaped the same way as Isidor’s household.

Grief's Rehearsal (T, 4k; visceralVastation); artemy/daniil On paper, Artemy Burakh was no stranger to loss, having lost not only his brother at a young age, but also personally witnessed what felt like a veritable myriad of deaths during his service as a field medic. The death of his father was another story, only sinking in at a moment where he glimpses joy for the first time since returning home.

remind me of who you are (G, 1k; 4wholecats); kain family “I’ll miss you,” he tries again, louder. “And Victor. Mother and father too, of course.” “You said you weren’t going anywhere.” “I ought to say it. Just in case.”

Shedding Skin (M, 70k; Plaguedboar); artemy/daniil “He wounds, Cub. You are aware of that.”

“Yes. But he also heals. What we saw of him back then was also a reflection of us. He became what he needed to be in order to do his duties. We were hostile to one another, Stakh. Imagine how it was for us and how it was for an outsider… how it still is for an outsider.” Artemy looked down. It’s been months since the plague ended and still others treated Dankovsky like a stranger. He treated himself as a stranger. Calling him any other thing would have felt disingenuous... but it still felt wrong.

“Of course. Humans need to adapt to their surroundings to live and survive. But snakes do not adapt when their skins shed, nor do they become anew. They become more of what they already are.” Rubin spoke slowly, choosing his words with either care or caution while looking at Daniil’s signature coat on the rack.

sons of the commandment (T, 2k; actualkoschei); daniil & rubin There is no rest for Shabbat in the middle of a plague. No rest for the righteous or the wicked, or for Daniil Dankovsky or Stakh Rubin.

tempus edax rerum (T, 5k; Talinor); artemy/daniil Daniil Dankovsky doesn't have a firm grasp on time.

White Azaleas (T, 10k; LilliaLuna); capella, khan & notkin He does love her. Just… not as a husband should. Not how the husband of a Mistress should.

#icarus.txt #fic recs

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beardedmrbean · 2 years ago

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In my restless dreams, I see that town.

Silent Hill.

You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did.

Well, I'm alone there now… In our 'special place'… Waiting for you…

Waiting for you to come to see me.

But you never do.

And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness.

I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for.

I wish I could change that, but I can't.

I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you…

Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is…

The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay.

It’s not that I'm getting better. It’s just that this may be my last chance…

I think you know what I mean…

Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly.

But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home.

Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you…

I don't know if you hate me or pity me… Or maybe I just disgust you…

I'm sorry about that.

When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it.

I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James.

That's why I understand if you do hate me.

But I want you to know this, James.

I'll always love you.

Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together.

Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye.

I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone.

That means that as you read this, I'm already dead.

I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me.

These last few years since I became ill… I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us…

You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing.

That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James.

James…

You made me happy.

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that's a pretty poem, thought it was about James from Twin Peaks at first and was gonna be annoyed since nobody likes that James

#anonymous #silent hill

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geekysteven · 6 months ago

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[IDs the title card from the opening of Twin Peaks with the name changed to Twink Penis. Second image is the same as the first but the sign for the town was edited to have the name Twink Penis as well. Third image is the letter from Silent Hill reading "in my restless dreams, I see that town. Twink Penis]

#twin peaks #silent hill

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crijoh · 8 years ago

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Hi! I’m surprised there isn’t a whole lot of “Fashion Souls” treatment of Breath of the Wild. I love dressing Link up! So, I’ve spent the last couple of days putting together virtual photoshoots of my favorite outfits / characters to share. As a personal challenge, I’ve tried to stick to a “only one piece per set” rule, but using Amiibo items has made that much easier. I’ve also touched up most of the images with Photoshop to get rid of UI stuff and enhance color.Hope you enjoy!The Snow KingSapphire CircletZora Armor (white)Hylian Trousers (white)Blizzard Rod, Frostblade, Silver ShieldIn this combo, Link rules the frigid tundra as the Snow King. He wields the power of ice in both enchanted blade and magic rod, and defends his realm against all sorts of icy baddies.The War BoyRadiant Mask (black)Barbarian Armor (white), Climber's Gear (black)Flamebreaker Boots (black)Drillshaft, Savage Lynel ShieldLink is a War Boy in Immortan Joe's army. He's fierce, loyal, and loves riding the dunes. He lives, he dies, he lives again after a short loading screen.The RangerHylian Hood (brown)Tunic of TwilightSnowquill Trousers (brown)Soldier's BowWolf LinkThe Ranger is master of the wilderness. He roams Hyrule's forests and plains, surviving off the land. Often alone, sometimes accompanied by a great grey wolf, he keeps the deep green spaces of Hyrule fast against Ganon's infectious evil.The Prince of HyruleDiamond CircletFierce Deity ArmorHylian Trousers (crimson)Goddess SwordSolid blue horse with Elegant gearAfter Zelda was restored to her throne, she married her appointed knight and named him Prince Consort of Hyrule. Link continued to defend the realm by his Queen's side, and they led Hyrule to a new golden age of peace and prosperity.The MermanRubber Helm (green)Zora Greaves (green)Lightscale Tridentsome frogs, some fishThe Merman is a strange creature that has taken up residence in East Reservoir Lake. The Zora aren't sure what to do with him, or even what he is. Is he an odd Hylian wearing a rubber helm and some suspiciously procured Zora greaves, or is he some new aquatic species? He's not telling. He spends his days catching fish and playing with frogs, and gets weirdly territorial about his tide pool. When he does visit the Zora palace, he's always a hit with the kids.The ArchangelSnowquill Headdress (white)Desert Voe Spaulder (white)Gerudo Sirwal (white)Twilight BowThis angelic being protects the skies of Hyrule with a shining bow. The golden light of his arrows pierce like rays of the sun, and no darkness can quench them.The GhostFierce Deity MaskTunic of the Wild (white)Worn Trousers (white)Torch with blue flameSome nights, a ghost appears from the depths of the Lost Woods to roam over Hyrule. His presence gives people unsettling dreams as he passes through their towns, and the morning finds strange blue flames lit in the street lanterns. Aside from his restlessness, he harbors no grudge and wishes no ill will on the living. After a night of wandering, he returns to the Lost Woods among the grinning trees where he feels most at home.The Grey WandererSheik's MaskHylian Tunic (grey)Trousers of TwilightGiant BoomerangThe Grey Wanderer is a nameless nomad known throughout Hyrule. He can be seen passing through stables, but his tell-tale makeshift tent is more often found on some remote peak or pitched in a quiet valley. No one knows what he really looks like, or what his name is, or what he searches for so desperately. They do know that if a traveler finds themselves in need of shelter, they are always welcome at his fire. They also know that if a traveler finds trouble when the Grey Wanderer is near, they will be quickly saved by a flash of a giant boomerang and a dim figure already disappearing into the fog.The Shining KnightSoldier's Helm (white)Soldier's Armor (white)Soldier's Greaves (white)Knight's Halberd, Knight's Sword, Knight's ShieldWhite Mare and horse Knight's gearThis knight in shining armor rides to face the fiery dragon wrecking havoc on Hyrule. As the dragon comes snaking down the blasted mountain side, the knight hefts his war-worn halberd and urges his valiant mare to battle. (Technically breaks my rule of one item per armor set, but I couldn’t resist!)The Oni KingDark HoodZora Armor (black)Soldier's Greaves (black)Great Flameblade, FlamebladeThe Oni King rules the denizens of darkness. He makes his home in the fiery pits of Death Mountain, and none dare approach his domain save creatures of ember and ash. His wrath is so fierce he bursts into flame, and his subjects know not to bug him when he's like that. He wields blades of pure fire and leads hordes of monsters against the living lands.The Prince of the EmishiHylian Hood (red)Champion's TunicTrousers of the SkyPhrenic BowStagAshitaka, the last prince of the Emishi Tribe, journeyed west on his trusty red elk Yakul in search of a cure for his terrible curse. He crossed over many lands, met many people, a few gods, and even the Spirit of the Forest.The Moon GuardianFierce Deity MaskGerudo Top (white)Trousers of TimeSword of Six SagesSome strange nights atop Mt Satori, the Moon Guardian appears with his friend The Lord of the Mountain. When these two spirits cross into the material world of Hyrule, they rest in the cherry tree glade and tend the silent princesses. But if evil should dare scale the mountain on these nights, the Moon Guardian unsheathes a mighty sword that glows with the light of crystalline stars and abides no darkness.The ModelCap of Time (or whatever hairstyle you find most sexy)Trousers of the HeroThe Master SwordAttitudeLink is working toward his dream of becoming Hyrule's Next Top Model. With the Deku Tree's coaching (no one smizes like the Deku Tree) Link is quickly making a name for himself doing underwear modelling. Here is his latest shoot for Rocktorock- the best in men's luxury boxer briefs - and you can see their logo on the right leg. Since Link is also the Champion of Hyrule, he brought along the Master Sword to give the brand that "hero approved" buzz.The Moody Teen (on a field trip)Climber's Bandana (red)Switch ShirtRubber Tights (black)Heatstroke/AttitudeHateno High always takes the seniors on a big end-of-year trip, and this year they went to the renowned Gerudo Desert Ruins. Too bad Link didn't appreciate it much. He's more of an indoors with AC, play on the Switch, watch some Twin Peaks kind of guy. He was kind of excited to show off his new Nike hightops, but the novelty of that wore off quick. Needless to say, his bad attitude landed him on his teachers' bad side. Mrs. Impa sent his whiny ass back to the bus with instructions to write Principal Rauru a letter explaining why he was so intent on wasting school resources. via /r/NintendoSwitch

#IFTTT #reddit

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spynotebook · 8 years ago

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The first season of Twin Peaks is almost perfect.

The gist of the core plot is not unique to David Lynch’s soon-to-be revived brainchild, but he pulled it off better than anyone else. A local teenage’s grisly murder and the subsequent investigation take center stage, and the unraveling of that central mystery soon sweeps up the whole town. The seemingly idyllic town that gives the show its name is, surprise!, not the sleepy hamlet it may seem. Unnervingly dapper FBI agent Dale Cooper sifts through the fresh horrors stirred up by Laura Palmer’s death while a rich cast of supporting characters help him out, get in his way, or navigate their spooky town outside of Cooper’s orbit.

Twin Peaks’ first season works so well because the show goes to such extremes when it both portrays the town’s endemic evil and paints saccharine portraits of small-town life in 1990s America. Lynch’s show is a loving paean to small towns and TV sitcoms, which makes his subversion of all their seemingly placid elements that much more disturbing. The line separating the two is paper-thin and liable to blur at any time. A tryst between high school lovers might get interrupted by a murderous psychopath. A character’s independent investigation might lead to her almost being fed to her father, who runs a secret brothel over the Canadian border. The evil shown in the first season oscillates between a sketchily-defined cosmic rupture and a tightly plotted story of a police investigation, and Lynch never shows all his cards. It covers a lot of ground but does not meander.

Lynch preceded Twin Peaks with 1986's Blue Velvet, which is perhaps the best film of the 1980's and resembles Twin Peaks on several fronts. A puppy dog-perfect Kyle MacLachlan stars as a college student who returns home to his idyllic small-town home and falls for a mysterious woman being lorded over by a maniacal creep (played by Dennis Hopper, who puts forth one of the scariest performances I have ever seen). Laura Dern plays interlocutor and audience surrogate, as Lynch plumbs the same thematic depths that he returns to with Twin Peaks: the hidden savagery at the heart of supposedly placid American life. No mater how calm things seem, no matter how cleanly the lawns are mowed, violence and perversion are woven into the fabric.

MacLachlan’s all-American steadiness drives both projects. Blue Velvet works in part because the boyish, innocent-looking MacLachlan (who had just starred in Lynch’s Dune, a legendary flop, as a 25-year-old unknown) is a peerless representative of the sort of Americana that Lynch seeks to simultaneously skewer and praise. His character in Blue Velvet is an innocent college kid who is nonetheless curious about the kinkier, darker side of town. Dale Cooper is almost a progression of that character. He has seen the lurking menace at the heart of the American experience, and he’s on a crusade to eradicate it wherever it pops up.

Given the thematic heft of the show, it could easily lurch into soap opera nonsense, but Cooper is utterly unflappable and the town’s inhabitants are not written as clueless rubes, even if they are acutely dramatic people. Twin Peaks plays it all straight, which makes it all the more unsettling. As someone who wasn’t born when the series ended and only came across it after the whole thing had been turned into one big meme, I was struck more than anything by the uneasiness of the world. The coffee habit that launched a thousand tote bags is there, and, yeah, the red room scene is deservedly iconic, but the show isn’t a campy send-up of the American television show. Its subversion comes from its unrelenting weirdness and obtuse horror. Lynch’s camera fixates on screaming mouths and spinning sawblades, picking away at the fabric of the town as it shows it to you.

Then it turns into a big mess.

The tightly-knotted yarn of Season 1 unravels the moment Season 2 starts. Instead of a resolution to the season-ending cliffhanger where Cooper gets shot in his room, viewers get their heads dunked into a big bucket of cold water and are forced to watch Cooper lie on the floor bleeding and rambling. A geriatric waiter enters the room and instead of helping, he just sort of bleats at the camera. It’s a grating and abrupt capsule of the entire season in miniature: a once mysterious and claustrophobic show has bloated out and glazed over.

Yet it still works. The consensus is correct; Season 2 is the inferior season. The majority of its episodes are worth a damn, though, and things don’t truly go off the rails until the home stretch. The show’s second batch of episodes reach higher highs than those in the first season, and ambition and restlessness serves the show well. The episode where the audience discovers who Laura’s true killer is features perhaps the most chilling single scene in the entire series. I am amazed that so many moments made their way onto television screens unedited, and nothing short of the finale is as chilling as watching the killer take his second victim while he garbles desperately at the camera.

The schlock also gets dialed up to 11 in Season 2. The first season balanced its horrifying impulses and tendency towards grandiose sweetness well by playing them off each other and never going too far in either direction. By the time Episode 9 rolls around, the show has abandoned any restraint. Season 2 isn’t anything like the evenly-tempered pilot episode (for my money, the best pilot ever put to wax) and it goes way too far in every direction as David Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost became less involved with writing and directing as they pursued other projects. One of the James-centric subplots is pure soap opera trash; a core character has a breakdown and lives out an extended fantasy that he’s a general in an alternate universe Civil War where the South won; there is perhaps the schlockiest scene in TV history.

If you dig the atmospherics of Season 1 and enjoy the moments where the shows fully indulges in its own whimsy, you’ll like the bulk of Season 2. It’s the apotheosis of everything that made Twin Peaks unique, for better and for worse. I can’t defend the back third of the season, where a ratings nosedive caused producers to flail at all manner of rotten and nonsensical plotlines. There’s nothing good about Audrey’s sudden fling-ette with a dapper cowboy guy from out of town or the ham-handed way the entire Windom Earle plot is carried out. It’s a big dumb mess and there’s little to enjoy.

However, the show did not end with a whimper. The hallucinogenic finale, where Cooper enters the Black Lodge and seeks to confront BOB and Earle in an interdimensional M.C. Escher nightmare world, does not hold back. Cooper plunges deeper into new layers of a funhouse-mirror infested chamber, unsheathing new horrors at every turn. A malevolent spirit devours his rival as doppelgängers wail and shriek. The grotesquerie of the Black Lodge is relentless and nigh-inscrutable, as if Lynch (who took charge of much of the episode personally) wanted to pull back the curtain once and for all, exposing the supernatural rot and savagery at the heart of Twin Peaks.

Lynch briefly returned to the town of Twin Peaks for the 1992 prequel Fire Walk With Me. At this point, the humor and spirit that animated the show was gone and all that was left was the repulsive side of things. The movie tells the story of Laura Palmer’s last days on Earth. MacLachlan is briefly present, but the film spends most of its time digging into the grittier stones that Twin Peaks turned over. One could make the case for Fire Walk With Me as a fittingly unflinching meditation on abuse, but as for the town of Twin Peaks, the mask had come all the way off and the product Lynch put forth was gross and listless.