#leland and donna

[birchblood]

Laura, Maddy, Donna, and Leland /Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death

[behindthescreamz]

behind the scenes of the finale of “twin peaks” (1991)

[raffaella-cerullo]

TWIN PEAKS | 2.04 Laura's Secret Diary

[lilatara]

Even before things get weird with Maddy/James, Donna is actually low-key terrible to Maddy. She uses her for her own ends, puts her in danger, treats her coldly. And there's something sort of fascinating in it for me. It's as if she's laying down the ground rules before Maddy can get any kind of idea about living up to Laura. Because Donna may have been willing to be HER sidekick, but she's never going to be Maddy's. No, Maddy can wander alone in a park while they bait a possible killer, because this is DONNA'S story, and she will be going with the boy to investigate.

There's always been a lot of discourse about Moira Kelly Movie Donna being Donna from Laura's POV. She's the Donna Laura needs. The one who loves unconditionally, the Donna who, if there is any underlying resentment, it's about being shut out of Laura's life. And in a way, Maddy serves a similar function for Donna. She's the Laura this Donna needs. The one who follows, who takes orders, the one the guy doesn't choose.

I love doubles.

[helbrides]

ALL I WANTED WAS FOR SOMEONE TO SAY THAT THEY WERE SORRY FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.

twin peaks: fire walk with me dir. david lynch / the secret dairy of laura palmer by jennifer lynch / house of the dragon (2022-)

[riotgrrrlnat]

Lesbian Laura Palmer is real to me. Way she feels control in how the men around her love her as a way to combat the abuse she faces from her own father, but her love for women being so pure she feels she doesn't deserve it.

[seanleelevin]

About to finish my rewatch of the original Twin Peaks. Such an incredible series, ahead of its time while influencing so much art that came after. Next up in the Great Rewatch in honor of David is Fire Walk with Me, then The Missing Pieces, and culminating with The Return.

[thebirdpro]

TCM crew as a SS from That 70s Show

It’s only Connie, Leland, and Sonny

Not a WORD about the hands ik they’re bad

OG photo

[taylorkellyreporting]

i hope no one minds if i liveblog this bitch: twin peaks 2x01-2x09

andy is yelling coopers name on the phone and for a split second, i forgot he was a cop and said “call the police” 😭

“room service!” my brother in christ, he is actively dying

what the fuck is this guys deal

the thumbs up and the wink are sending me so bad

is he just gonna keep coming back and doing the same thing or…?

oh a new giant, that’s fun

this show is so fucking bizarre. i love it.

“you will require medical attention.” no shit

audrey is so fucked

“i like you.” ew. i know he had no idea it’s audrey but still. ew.

did no one hear the gunshot???

finally. i was half convinced cooper was gonna die on that damn floor.

what the hell, how are catherine and josie missing when shelly was the one with catherine?

i’m so glad pete is okay

“give me a couple hours to get dressed” pls

someone needs to give poor lucy a hug

leland is handling his first murder well

no one in the palmer family is stable

hopefully that floorboard knocked some sense into andy

albert’s my favorite asshole <3

though i’d prefer leo dead, i’m glad he gets to pay for what he’s done to all those girls

“where do they keep his water dish?” the smile dropped off andy’s face so fast 😭😭

aw shit, leo isn’t the serial killer.

“good work, andy.” “ yeah. woof.” pls

“laura and james were in love.” no, i don’t think that’s true.

donna is trying way too hard

i’m sorry but i’m rooting for bobby and shelly

that forehead kiss was so cute

i take it back, nadine deserves so much better than ed

is albert fake crying? 😭

great, bobbys dad is back

that was an…interesting exchange

i’m so glad i was right about leo not acting alone. i wonder if ben was the 3rd guy.

poor pete ☹️

i can’t believe josie tried to allude to catherine killing her son knowing damn well she did it

i don’t believe catherine is dead

i don’t think any of what’s been happening is good for leland’s heart

is audrey…praying to cooper? 😭

what the fuck. what the actual fuck.

2x02

senior drool cup skfjgjfks

that was creepy

fuck, what if mr. smith is the gray haired dude???

i feel so bad for ronette

log lady is the best character in this show

andy saying he can’t have kids was not on my bingo card

won’t be surprise if we find out laura was blackmailing ben about one eyed jack’s

i’m with bobby, fuck leo and collect his checks

what the fuuuuuck

omg, is maddy into james?

i wanna know why lelands grandfathers neighbor is torturing the people in twin peaks. specifically the palmer family

yup, audrey’s screwed

2x03

another letter…fuck.

albert’s not gonna take the giant thing seriously and i don’t blame him

“you were visited by a giant?” “any relation to the dwarf?” called it 😭😭

leland isn’t on the board of people who’ve interacted with that guy (alien?) so i’m gonna guess he never actually talked to harry

“so what did this giant sound like, huh? i mean, did he have a big booming voice or what?” “no, no. he spoke softly. distinctly.” “and you gave him the beans you were supposed to use to buy a cow?” giggling

when are albert and harry gonna enter the lovers part of their enemies to lovers arc?

“i love you, agent truman.” i guess i got my answer 😭

“wanna play with fire, little boy?” yeah, he’s def the guy

i don’t trust this dick dude

aw fuck, cooper figured out the insurance fraud

oh shit, nadine

nooo leland

those fuckass owls

“you’re dead, laura but your problems keep hanging around! it’s almost like they didn’t bury you deep enough!” that’s an insane line

donna’s just learned that how you get ‘em is how you lose ‘em. what, did she think she was the exception?

damn it, i was rooting for leland to get away with it!!!

WHY DOES HAROLD HAVE LAURA’S DIARY???

this ep would be perfect if not for all the teenage bullshit. i don’t really care about james and donna. maddy needs to flee that town immediately, she’s too good for it.

2x04

someone please hug leland

this type of shit would only happen to andy 😭

josie should be ashamed of herself. pete doesn’t deserve her manipulation.

poor audrey :(

OH SHIT

was not expecting that man to be an fbi agent

what the hell, why is that dude watching harry and josie 😭

dick certainly is living up to his name

“DICK!” i’ll say.

naming this episode laura’s secret diary and only showing it once was a hilariously poor choice

damn i kinda…don’t care if hank lives or dies

this episode was whatever.

2x05

i hope albert and bobby are in this ep

can someone please hug lucy?

bobby!!!

this guy is an idiot

i knew twin peaks was small, i just didn’t think it was ‘courtroom in the middle of a bar’ small 😭

donna was fucked up for that one

can’t believe all this shit has happened in 12 days

nadine is fucking superhuman now? 😭

ben’s gonna hate it when cooper comes back alive

“i’m a whole damn town!” PLEASE

FUCK, i knew lucy was lying about her trip. i really hope she’s having the abortion cause she wants it and not cause she thinks she’s alone

cooper dodging that knife without even looking was very sexy of him

hawk, my man!!! saving the day was also very sexy of him

this is the ep that should’ve been titled laura’s secret diary

fuck.

hello???

last ten mins saved this ep

2x06

fuck james!! donna should be apologizing to maddy for getting her into that mess.

“daddy?” he sure is

i’m sorry, i really don’t care about james and donna. they’re so boring.

cooper doesn’t know that ben owns one eyed, jacks, right?

well. there goes all of shelly and bobbys dreams

mr. lynch!!!

NO, WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALBERT WON’T BE COMING BACK?!?!?

“i was worried sick.” liar.

i’m gonna miss maddy but i’m glad she’s getting out of that town

josie kinda went off in that scene with ben

“good thing we didn’t light the candles.” 😭😭

i have a feeling there’s more to leo than meets the eye

“cooper, you remind me today of a small, mexican chihuahua.” hawks slow look over is sending me so bad

josie sucks and harry deserves so much better than her

i love leland 😭

THAT ENDING OMG. this ep was so good and i can’t wait for the next one.

2x07

this episode better live up to the hype

why do i have a feeling we’re gonna find out harold is either gone, dead or that he destroyed the diary…

oh my gosh

leland and sarah took the news of maddy leaving a lot better than i thought they would

“it’s like you’re blaming me for something.” i think it’s the other way around

“he’s alive!” he was never dead 😭

the face of a man realizing he’s in deep shit

“did you kill her?” “i loved her.” SHE WAS A TEENAGER YOU DISGUSTING PIECE OF SHIT

no wonder laura was so fucked up

this norma, ed, and nadine scene is so awkward 😭

omg what if leo recorded what went down that night with ronette and laura?

laura refers to bob as a friend of her fathers and the one armed man said bob uses a host. hear me out, what if ben is that host? and that’s what laura meant by “someday i’m gonna tell the world about ben horne. i’m gonna tell them who ben horne really is.” she could also just be talking about him being a disgusting pedophile.

this is me trying to figure the ben and bob stuff out. if you even care.

i’m so glad audrey told cooper about her father. i just wish he would’ve hugged the poor girl.

ben could also just be a red herring. at least when it comes to bob.

about 30 minutes in and this ep is certainly living up to the hype

what the hell is going on in the palmer residence

i am so uncomfortable

I FUCKING KNEW CATHERINE WAS ALIVE AND I FUCKING KNEW THAT GUY WAS REALLY A WOMAN!!! i just didn’t expect it to be her 😭

no seriously, what the hell is going on at the palmer residence

this episode has me on the very edge of my seat

WHAT THE FUCK MAN. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

SPEECHLESS. I AM SPEECHLESS.

2x08

alright, it’s the next day and i’m still fucked up from the last episode and not at all ready for this one 😵‍💫

what the fuck did he do with maddy

oh my God, he is aware of what he’s done

this is so fucked up

“God, how you must hate us white people after all we’ve done to you.” “some of my best friends are white people.” i’m screaming

i really need leland to be exposed

evil asshole

i’m so conflicted about ben. on one hand, i’m glad he’s being interrogated about laura but i really want them to figure out he’s not the killer. but that means he walks free 😵‍💫

i don’t like norma’s mom at all

at least the deputy isn’t dead?

norma needs to leave hank already

i’m sorry, was pete in love with josie? is that what he’s saying?

please tell me andy isn’t dumb enough to believe lucy already gave birth 😭

i love that ben is on the brink of losing everything

please for the love of God, search the car

gwen is so dumb 😭

“clearly this mans stairs do not reach the attic.” i’m crying

no fucking way hank knows ernie

i hope they found maddy

2x09

MY FAVEEES

hate the circumstances but i’m SO happy albert is back!!! my favorite asshole 🫶🏼

omg that’s why he took the fur from bens office!!!i really didn’t think twice about anything leland did leading up to the reveal and thought he was just being his regular crazy self but no he was literally planning maddy’s murder 😭

i wonder if leland starting planning maddys murder right when she got into town or if something in particular triggered him

i think this is the most serious albert has ever been and that’s saying something

oh brother

ugh, normas mom is a real bitch

WHAT THE FUUUUUCK

my heart is breaking for laura

damn, leland is setting ben up real good

where the fuck is bens wife?

damn, it donna!! it’s not her fault but still. damn.

i don’t really care for donna but i don’t want her to die

i can’t watch but i can’t look away, either

thank God for harry

“doesn’t matter, don’t you see? nothing we do matters, nothing’s gonna change.” i hate that he’s right.

FUCK james, all my homies HATE james.

i have so many questions

OH MY GOD HE’S FIGURING IT OUT

wait, leland doesn’t know what he’s done???

fucking hell.

my honest to God reaction to last half of this episode. how am i ever supposed to move on from this storyline? i almost don’t want to press play on the next episode because i’m failing to see how they can ever top this arc.

[gloriadenton]

Sometimes I think about how Doc Hayward was probably one of Audrey's primary doctors when she was pregnant with Richard and how he knows in his gut what happened to her in her coma and it makes me think she should be allowed to bite him, actually.

[dogcatgirlthing]

twin peaks 2x09 ……

[birchblood]

Leland and Donna

Twin Peaks ; Fire Walk With Me ; Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 1, 1926-1927, September 14, 1926 ; Amal El-Mohtar, This is How You Lose The Time War ; Isobel by Flower Face ; Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947; Isobel by Flower Face cont.

[raffaella-cerullo]

TWIN PEAKS

May The Giant Be With You / Arbitrary Law

[laurapalmerz]

i love maddy so much honestly, such an underrated character that i grew to adore on my rewatch. i didn't think much about her when she was initially introduced as laura's cousin, who drove in to mourn with the family and attend her funeral. but now? i see her as laura's unfortunate second half, the flip side of the same coin. she's constantly compared to her, so much so that she proclaims to leland, "all i did was come to a funeral, and it's like i fell into a dream. it's like people think i'm laura, and i'm not! i'm nothing like laura!" which is true, maddy's rebellious in her youth, giving laura and donna their first cigarettes when they were 12. the cool older cousin who's in high school and giggles at cute boys. she's kind, comforting, giving, and determined. yet, she can't escape the comparisons. she's not her own person when she's in twin peaks, she's relegated to being the shadow of her cousin and it eats away at her. yes, she'll help try to solve laura's murder no matter what, but deep down, she hates the idea of all the eyes that stare at her think she's just her cousin with glasses and deep brown hair, risen from the dead. i think the most disturbing aspect to maddy's story is how she becomes entangled with leland like laura did. he sees the similarities too, and because of this, he latches onto her. she begins to see BOB like laura did, she has weird dreams like laura did, and she dies by the hands of the same man laura did (though not by the same means). her body wrapped in plastic is a deja vu for everyone. laura has died again. but it's not laura, it's maddy ferguson, and she fell into the same cycle of abuse her cousin did. leland palmer did not see maddy as her own autonomous person, instead, just a mirror of his daughter. such a tragic end to a character who did nothing but love her family and sought out the truth. maddy couldn't escape that dream she fell into and leland made sure she wouldn't.

[whoslaurapalmer]

twin peaks but it happens in 2010. laura palmer have iphone etc etc

this ask has been haunting me since i saw it last night oh my god okay okay so

i wanted to lead with laura being an influencer but no one was quite influencing in 2010 yet. but the point here being that i think she posts a lot online and cultivates her online image very carefully (very soft, carefree, excited teenager) and has a LOT of followers on everything and always gets a ton of likes. bc it's laura, she's so beautiful and special and popular, of course everyone is following her, of course everyone is liking all her posts to get a piece of her

she has a twitter (laurapalmer93) where she posts a lot of pictures with little captions like.......'morning donuts at the diner!!' with a picture of the donuts and a milkshake or a Coffee To Be An Adult, 'can you believe this guy? <3' with a picture of bobby making a face (or even.........dare i say it...........doing the dougie), a picture of donna and james with '<33333333' (modern emojis were just getting really big then but i myself was not a big emoji user in 2010 yet, so neither is laura), 'don't tell ;)' with a picture of her holding a cigarette (of course everyone still smokes in the high school bathrooms).

one time she gets away with posting the lyrics to if i die young by the band perry (IF I DIE YOUNG! BURY ME IN SATIN! LAY ME DOWN ON A BED OF ROSES!) (FUNNY WHEN YOU'RE DEAD HOW PEOPLE START LISTENING!) bc it's a popular song. it raises a few eyebrows but it's a song and it's laura. how seriously do you take teen angst, even among your friends? that's just what laura does. what's there to really worry about, huh? (the song was released in may 2010 but let's say the lead up to her death is in 2010)

on facebook she posts a lot of volunteer stuff. school dance photos, which she helps organize. buy some cookies to support the french club!! she's very involved with student council, and she organizes the group halloween costume. her facebook is filled with photos of her with other people, but not really any of just her. she doesn't post a lot of statuses, but they're usually about homework or tests or 'feels like summer!' towards the end of the school year. she's friends with her parents. she definitely takes ap classes.

she has a private vent twitter (lostinthewoods) with zero followers that she uses as a diary bc she thinks it'll be safer than having it physically written down. her childhood lisa frank diary with the tiny lock and glitter gel pens that she kept in her bed post went missing, after all. her vent twitter is filled with sooooooo many tweets bc this was still the 160 character limit days and she would just post and post and post especially late at night. (she definitely has string lights in her room.) she is a MASTER of using her phone with no one seeing -- she has the layout absolutely memorized. she was only caught texting in class once and of course the teacher let it go.

bob/leland finds her passwords and breaks into the vent twitter and leaves her horrifying tweets she sees later, instead of the back and forth they have in the diary and leland ripping the pages out.

i think she has a third twitter, for sex, but i'm not sure if that tracks for the time period? (snapchat wasn't a thing until fall 2011.) or like a forum sort of thing? i think it's still super easy for laura to sneak out, even in an increased security camera world. there's still a lot of stress on the, yknow, ~secret unexposed underbelly of the world especially in a time of more eyes on everything~ in the 2010s.

meanwhile, james posts music a lot on facebook, and also acoustic covers of songs. like. yknow. HEY SOUL SISTER. donna loves the original pusheen stickers. they record the picnic video on her flip video camera. mike loves icanhascheezburger, and he jailbreaks his phone. audrey gets really into audrey hepburn quote posting, Aesthetic France, black and white photos, berets, has a photography phase and carries and actual camera bc it's Vintage. she's an early tumblr user. no one else in school has a tumblr yet, so she feels very cool but also very lonely about it.

harry has very little understanding of social media, however cooper is very into all social media, he finds it delightful. he enjoys a good cat video. he looks through all of laura's photos, her tweets, facebook videos, and i think there's, honestly even more of a feeling of tragedy bc of how much more physical evidence there is available of laura's life, lingering fingerprints, last tweets, last posts, passwords to put in and information to see, cold blue computer light, the even worse voyeurism in people expecting so much of your life to be online, in watching it play out online, in the image laura created for herself online to be the person people expected

donna rereads laura's twitter in the dead of night, just over and over again. goes back through their texts. so much of grief has become so much more public with social media and using it as a teenager, and there's this back and forth in donna of not posting anything and then posting the most miserable statuses about losing her best friend.

i know i should get deeper into the investigation but i keep thinking instead of how laura definitely gets a 20/20 special. it's probably definitely called 'the secret life of the american teenager.' (bc there was that show on at the time with the same name) elizabeth vargas visits twin peaks, is appropriately grim, there's a lot of b roll of the town and the woods but without the grace of twin peaks' cinematography. they play up the creation of a narrative big, as they always do on 20/20. the revelation of her 'double life' is at the halfway mark and simultaneously not discussed enough and overestimated. 'laura palmer was your average, everyday teenager -- she liked horses. cats. she got good grades, was homecoming queen, had a boyfriend on the football team. she volunteered on weekends. she had her whole life ahead of her. or was there more to the story than anyone knew? was there a dark side to the all-american girl?' oh, it's agonizing. the trailers play up a lot of potential spooky woods stuff that isn't followed through on in the actual episode.

now 20/20 prides itself on getting the story right, so i feel like it's.........i feel like they have to say it's leland at the end (and they definitely never get into anything about bob). but i also think, for some reason, it could easily have a 'we never found the killer' ending. especially re: s3........the thing is, i feel like laura's death particularly is the kind of thing that shows up on 20/20, but the rest of the circumstances would've ended up on like the unsolved mysteries website (the last revival ended in 2010, before the netflix reboot in 2019) (especially with WELL OUR FBI AGENT WENT MISSING). and there's so much online to put together in a website about it, there's so much for people online to dig into who have never even been to twin peaks, to think they know a town and the people in it and the girl who died even if it's just literally THE MOST DISGUSTING VOYEURISM IN THE WHOLE WORLD i just think there's such a. horror in that. people have the most, just, enraging takes when they get involved in a Murder That Happened Somewhere Else. people thinking they alone can figure out a mystery they've never seen, they can of course see something no one else has. and it's different than the people in the town ignoring it -- i think a lot of the secrets in twin peaks stay the same, no matter the time period, so of course it's still, a terrible dying town killing the people in it, maybe even quieter than it is in the original, some new infrastructure but old buildings, not all of them occupied anymore, ANYWAY -- like of course yes people in the town ignore the same amount they did in the original, all small towns bury things. but just bc the town itself isn't paying attention doesn't mean that some rando online is going to know more, no matter how much they think they will. there's like an entitlement to details of a murder, an I Must Be The Hero, The Savior, bc i'm on a fucking reddit thread about it

now i have zero (0) idea of how medical science and forensics work, but i have to assume there have been some advancements in the field between 1989/1990 and 2010/2011. the town still rushes the funeral, but would albert have been able to find anything else sooner? what is it he would have found to point to leland sooner? oh........dna testing, maybe? would he be able to find out about leland right away? there's more of a sense of urgency, maybe less of a slowness between events, even more of a shattering horror. maybe leland goes missing in an attempt to cover things up. hmmmmmm.

final note -- cooper gets called mulder as a nickname bc the x files happened as a show in this universe.

[seanleelevin]

Starting Part 2 of the Great Twin Peaks Rewatch. I adore this film.