#laura angel

[thatbitchsimone]

#laura angel

[ch3rryguts]

I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back.

#twin peaks #angel #laura palmer #aesthetic #tumblr #small town gothic #rural gothic #southern gothic #david lynch

[diioonysus]

women by female artists

#artist is frida kahlo #artist is elisabeth louise vifee le brun #artist is maru cassatt #artist is angelica kauffmann #artist is berthe morisot #artist is lois mailou jones #artist is laura wheeler waring #artist is lavinia fontana #artist is lynette yiadom boakye #artist is safeya binzagr #artist is hayv kahraman #artist is maria izquierdo #artist is aliza nisebaum #artist is sofonisba anguissola #artist is angel de cora #artist is chen ke #artist is catheraine van hemessen #artist is fu daokun #artist is lubaina himid #artist is guan dao gao #artist is pitaloosie saila and #artist is rocio navarro #artist is artemisia gentileschi #artist is judith leyster #artist is guan zilan #artist is gwendolyn bennett #artist is natalia goncharova #artist is angelina beloff #artist is rosalba carriera #artist is thalia flora-karavia

[hacksawvelvet]

twin peaks: fire walk with me (1992) behind the scenes

#i love this photo endlessly #twin peaks #twin peaks fire walk with me #laura palmer #the angels will return #sheryl lee #david lynch

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif as Tommy Ludlow | Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

#brad dourif #eyes of laura mars #horroredit #filmedit #braddourif* #eyes* #myedit #everycharacter* #28/? #an angel who has never done anything wrong in his life #drives me insane how pretty he is

[lexxieheart]

Twin Peaks’s only angel.

Laura Palmer 🪽

#laura palmer #twin peaks fire walk with me #twin peaks #david lynch #1990s #surreal #angel #angels

[black-rose-blue-lodge]

The Importance of Donna in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Okay, so a lot of people like to ship Donna Hayward and Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks, and there is good reason for that. Throughout the original run, Donna is haunted by her complex feelings for Laura. She loved her, she envied her, she wanted to be her. She misses her. Donna gets close to James, Maddy and Harold in part because they all give her the feeling of being close to Laura. In Fire Walk With Me, we are shown just how close they were.

Donna is very important in Fire Walk With Me. I believe that none of this requires you to ship the characters, although I also find it compelling evidence for a romantic reading of the film. Basically, even if you think the characters have only platonic feelings for each other, this is a summary of why Donna matters.

Near the end of the film, Laura tells James “You don’t know me. There are things about me… Even Donna doesn’t know me.” Of all the people who apparently don’t know Laura, Donna knows her the most. She is given the most importance. While Laura’s relationships with James and Bobby are shown to be ineffectual and largely irrelevant to the story of the end of her life, Donna is front and centre. Their friendship, their love for each other, is the emotional core of the film.

Our first insight into Laura’s psyche comes when she confides her depression and existential dread in Donna with the lines: “the angels wouldn’t help you… because they’ve all gone away.” In this scene, she is much more candid, willing to expose this part of herself. She essentially believes that she is doomed, that no one will be there to save her. (And, on a surface level, she is correct: even Mike, the “one man… Bob is afraid of” according to Laura’s secret diary, does not save her from death.)

When Laura begins to realize BOB’s true identity, she turns to Donna. Donna grounds her in reality. Laura seems to walk “between two worlds” in the film, constantly teetering on the brink of life and death. Donna is perhaps her greatest remaining connection to this world. And, difficult as that responsibility may be, Donna gladly accepts it.

Donna is depicted in Fire Walk With Me as a shy and conservative girl, contrasting strongly with Laura, who is openly ‘dangerous’ and promiscuous. Donna daydreams about having “lasting love… true love” but doesn’t even have a boyfriend. She takes all her cues from Laura. When she tries to become more adventurous, she does it to be like Laura, to understand Laura. This is shown after the Pink Room sequence, where Donna asks tearfully “Why do you do it?” She desperately wants to know, to stand there with Laura between two worlds and comfort her, but she can’t. She can never understand.

In The Missing Pieces, after Laura’s breakdown at Donna’s house, Donna whispers something to her father, who then reads a (clearly fake) “secret message for Laura”.

We don’t know what Donna whispered to Doc Hayward, but she must have asked him to say something about the angels returning, because she was the only one present when Laura said that the angels wouldn’t help her. The camera reinforces this, lingering on Donna as her father “reads” the message. It is a message from Donna.

Laura leaves after this, clearly affected. The way it cuts to Donna during the line “the one that is meant to help you” suggest that Donna believes that she can help Laura. If no other angels are there, Donna will be the angel who helps Laura out of the darkness.

Now, BOB’s stated motivation in the film is to “taste through [Laura’s] mouth”, turning her into the next ‘vehicle” for his evil. In the series (2x9), Laura’s diary reveals that she died because it was “the only way to keep Bob away from [her], the only way to tear him out from inside.” She wrote, “I know he wants me, I can feel his fire. But if I die he can’t hurt me anymore.” She died to avoid a fate worse than death.

In Fire Walk With Me, the focus shifts, and it’s not just about Laura. In the film, Laura dies so that BOB can’t use her to hurt the people around her. It is strongly implied that the fate of Twin Peaks itself hangs in the balance. (This is arguably why the scenes of everyday town life in The Missing Pieces were included to begin with; they offer glimpses of what Laura dies to protect.)

If BOB possesses Laura, his fire will spread. The Log Lady warns her “the tender boughs of innocence burn first… and then all goodness is in jeopardy.” This is right before Laura goes into the Roadhouse, where Donna follows her, beginning the dangerous game of “chicken” that they play, where Laura keeps trying to scare Donna away, and Donna keeps trying to show Laura that she isn’t scared. This sequence is the last straw for Laura. When she sees Donna slipping into darkness in the Pink Room, she gets a firsthand glimpse of “the tender boughs of innocence” beginning to burn.

Laura’s influence, despite all her intentions, has started to corrupt Donna. It’s one thing for Laura to be taken advantage of by these men. In her opinion, she can handle it, and she is doomed anyway. But not Donna. In the screenplay, this is even more explicit during the Pink Room scene.

Donna represents everything at stake if BOB wins. For Laura, Donna is the incarnation of “innocence” and “all goodness”. In that way, she is indeed like an angel, and Laura doesn’t want to bring about her fall from grace.

This is the heart of the film. The essence of Laura’s sacrifice. She dies for Donna.

As much as I, like many others, ship Donna with Laura, Laura could never be with Donna, not in this universe. Though I believe Laura has feelings for her, she would not act on them, because she views Donna as someone fundamentally good, and herself as someone fundamentally bad. This is encapsulated in the line “I love you, Donna… But I don’t want you to be like me.” In the original series, a passage from Laura’s diary reads: “I love Donna very much, but sometimes I worry that she wouldn’t be around me at all if she knew what my insides were like.” Now Donna has seen Laura’s dark side, the things she does, and still she loves her, still she wants to be there for her.

So Laura returns the favour. She becomes the guardian angel of Twin Peaks, ignoring Cooper’s dream-warning and putting on the ring. She hopes that the evil will die with her. Of course, it doesn’t, because Laura was never the source of that evil to begin with. BOB’s power lies in his ability to be indistinguishable from human evil. As Albert remarks, “Maybe that’s all BOB is. The evil that men do.” BOB was never just Laura’s dark side. Laura ended up as just another victim, with a letter under her fingernail, like Teresa Banks before her and Maddy Ferguson after her.

Regardless, Laura’s death means something. She dies on her own terms, in defiance of beings far beyond her comprehension. Her choice to die is an act of love, born of the sincere belief that the world will be a better place without her.

At the very end of Fire Walk With Me, in the enigmatic purgatory of the Red Room, Laura sees a vision of an angel.

Earlier, Ronette Pulaski saw an angel while in the train car, but that angel actually did help her. Ronette escaped. Laura’s angel is different. It isn’t there to help her. Laura is beyond help now. No, it is the mere fact of seeing this angel that gives Laura comfort. The angel is pure, radiant, seemingly unaffected by the darkness that surrounds it.

The actress who plays Laura’s angel, Lorna MacMillan, has dark, curly hair, and from a distance, is somewhat reminiscent of Donna. (Similarly, Ronette's angel is blonde, possibly to remind us of Laura.) Now, it would have been far too obvious for Moira Kelly to play Laura's angel, and that isn’t really the point. The angel represents the goodness that endures. It represents the same thing as Donna. The innocence that Laura died to protect. In the end, Laura’s only comfort is knowing that, though her death did not bring an end to darkness, it did allow for the continued survival of light. The light flickers on Laura's face in this scene, just like in the Pink Room. There, she was watching Donna flirt with the darkness. Here, she is looking at the angel Donna promised would return.

The track that plays during this scene is “The Voice of Love”. Laura was not ultimately corrupted. Like that angel, she is now a lonely light in a world of darkness. The darkness did not win. Generations of trauma and evil could not make her give in. So why does the angel look like Donna? Because Donna was the best thing about Laura. As much as Donna tries to emulate Laura, both while she is alive and after her death, Laura saves herself, and the world, by emulating Donna. Donna’s selflessness, compassion and bravery are qualities that Laura already has, but she can’t see them in herself. That is why she sees the angel as something outside of herself. I believe the angel is Laura. Of course, Laura could never see herself as an angel.

But she could very easily see Donna as one.

#twin peaks #fire walk with me #laura palmer #laura is the one #donna hayward #the angels will return #meta #sheryl lee #moira kelly #lara flynn boyle #david lynch #the voice of love

[fawndollita]

Each breath is sent from angels ♡👼🏻

#lana del rey #lizzy grant #miss daytona #just girly thoughts #angelic #nymph3t #coquette #trailer park darling #vintage americana #lana unreleased #this is what makes us girls #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #lana del rey lyrics #dollcore #born to die #heaven sent #lolit4 #sweetheart #angel girl #america’s sweetheart #lux lisbon #the virgin suicides #laura palmer #americana #video games lana del rey #born to die summer #old hollywood #classic hollywood #old hollywod glamour #born to die aesthetic

[thatbitchsimone]

#laura angel

[themasterusersblog]

no xmen is straight

bonus

#laura had gay sex and disliked it. ace awakening #laura kinney #wolverine #warren worthington iii #angel #cyclops #scott summers #logan howlett #warren def tried at some point #also warren appreciation

[nataliesscatorccio]

not to get biblical on main but the girls (abraham) being willing to sacrifice travis (isaac) and getting the bear in return is very "god will provide the sheep" and "you did not withhold from me your son" of them

#''not to get biblical'' #it WILL happen again #rip Laura Lee you would have loved symbolically sacrificing your son to god #''you took something that didn't belong to you'' much to think about #Natalie angel of the lord Scatorccio #Natalie you were always its favorite Scatorccio #yellowjackets #lottie matthews #travis martinez #shauna shipman

[ccampaigns]

AnOther magazine ‘Afternoon Angels’  This shoot is about the fate of the angels, imagining them in their simplest representation, falling from the sky one bright afternoon and taking their first steps into our world. Among us, only hair knows how to fly. “Hair was the very starting point of our process and the wing-like pieces developed by Olivier informed the story that we wanted to build around it. The main reference for the hair is Hermes, the Olympian deity from ancient Greek mythology, who is considered the herald of the gods as well as the representation of the angel in its biblical character. “The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick and Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin were our inspirations for the shoot. Our objective was to depict the powerful bond between parent and child, reflecting its journey through challenges and the enduring love a mother holds for her son. “Delfine Bafort was cast alongside her son, Ellis. Their authentic portrayal of a mother-son relationship imbued the images with a strong sense of intimacy and reality. “We wanted to combine ethereal and human emotions, from the grace of angels to the warmth of family love. Our goal was to capture the beauty of everyday moments through an otherworldly point of view.” Photography by Laura marie cieplik Art Direction by Arthur Morisset Hair by Olivier Noraz Models #DelfineBafort and her son Ellis Bafort.  Special thanks to the MANIERA Gallery

#fashion #styling #magazine #fashion magazine #another magazine #laura marie cieplik #afternoon angels #fashion photography #editorial

[rescuerabbit]

wikipedia was so real 4 using this as the image on the page for laura

#im so happy its her alive ​instead of like. her being dead #twin peaks #laura palmer #the angels do come for us

[sunbleachedlottielee]

Thinking about Laura Lee inviting her teammates to attend church with her before nationals, expecting not a single one to show (after all, why would they? She sees the way they roll their eyes and snicker when she suggests a pre-game prayer) but to her absolute delight, not one, not two — but four Yellowjackets show up to mass.

Lottie is the first to show up, and she’s not sure why she’s there to begin with. Raised Protestant and even then only nominally, religion has never exactly been her cup of tea, but Sunday morning she finds herself dressed and in the church parking lot before she knows what she's doing. Laura Lee nearly tackles her with a hug when she finds the lanky brunette milling about the vestibule nearly 30 minutes early; the deacon's daughter, Laura Lee eagerly reserved a pew in the front center for herself and any teammates that might show. Lottie feels increasingly at ease as the bubbly blonde gives her the rundown of what to expect, but when Laura Lee takes her hand halfway through mass for the recitation of Our Father, Lottie's heartbeat is so loud that she would've sworn it was ringing off the rafters.

Nat follows shortly thereafter, sheepishly ducking into the church and quickly crossing herself with holy water from the font. When she notices Lottie’s quirked eyebrow as she slides into the pew, she shrugs and explains “I was raised Catholic,” but doesn't add that she hasn't been since she was a child whose prayers for the violence to end went unanswered. Laura Lee’s quiet parish is much different than the boisterous Italian-American church she grew up in, but the rituals are the same regardless. She looks a little out of place in an old dress she borrowed from her mom and her leather jacket over it, and (what she considers to be) a touch of eyeliner but despite the judgmental looks of nearly everyone around her, she's entirely sober for mass. She does, however, line up for a taste of dry red communion wine even though she vaguely remembers something about needing confession first — it may be a sin, but she sees it as a well-deserved treat.

Shauna and Jackie arrive together (as always) with the stragglers only minutes before mass is supposed to start. They actually got there before Nat, but sat in the car for nearly 20 minutes because Jackie was dragging her feet about the whole ordeal. When pressed about why she even wants to go, Shauna says she has a renewed interest in the “tragic saints,” but she really just thinks it’s a good idea to double down on the latter half of pull n’ pray. Jackie eventually concedes when Shauna plays the God forbid we do something that I want to do for once card, and tries to make it seem like it was her idea to go in the name of "promoting team unity."

Jackie prays for Jeff to break up with her before she has to break up with him; Lottie prays that the butterflies in her stomach, born of forbidden feelings, will drop dead. Shauna, who still doesn't quite know how you're "supposed" to pray, steals secret glances of Jackie with her eyes squeezed tight, kneeling next to her in the pew, and feels a wretched pit of guilt opening in her stomach as she recalls just one of ten commandments: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Laura Lee is the only one who prays that the team will win nationals, but even she knows the New Jersey state champion Yellowjackets don't need divine intervention to come out on top. After all, her biggest prayer of all had already been answered.

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets drabble #lottielee #jackieshauna #lottienat #my writing #none of the other yjs told their teammates they were going to be there btw #and they go out to lunch at a diner afterwards because obviously that's the best part of church #i just need more happy laura lee #my sweet angel bb

[alliekitaguchi]

I love when the dynamic of 4SD is like “47 year old man and his 3 female coworkers he has who are essentially his little sisters who bully him relentlessly”

#Sam and the girls #though let’s be real: Sam IS one of the girls #Laura and Ashley sitting on either side of him like the devil and Angel on his shoulder #except instead of guiding him they’re just incessantly bullying him #4SD #4 sided dive #Sam Riegel #Ashley Johnson #Marisha Ray #Laura Bailey #critical role

[strawberryvulture]

Twin Peaks (1990-1991) + High as Hope (2018)

#twin peaks #high as hope #florence + the machine #florence welch #twinpeaksedit #fatmedit #LAURA PALMER #dale cooper #audrey horne #shelly johnson #david lynch #sheryl lee #mädchen amick #fatm #song lyrics #lyrics #lyric edit #[communing with angels]