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i feel like what i keep hearing about is how terrifying the laura palmer screaming scene is, but it is absolutely not the scariest scene in the show. i dont know if anyone tries to say it is, but i feel like yapping so here we go.

there is something explicitly haunting about a lot of scenes in that show. all the ones with bob, all the weird mental breaks of the characters, its very clear whats scary about that. its creepy! of course it is! but the subliminal soft horror is the exact same thing that makes the show so comforting: the simple cinematography and seemingly not great acting.

of course theyre all great actors. but a lot of their scenes appear to be poorly shot. they stare just a little bit too long and seem to be making the wrong facial expressions at times, and their personalities are straight up confusing. and its really a testament to david lynch's genius how much this adds to the quiet horror of the show. you literally cant tell who's evil and who's genuine because everyone acts possessed. you cant even tell anything is up with leland because EVERYONE IS CRAZY. EVERYONE. who's possessed by bob? who knows because theyre ALL CRAZY!!! everyones wacky and zaney and insane!!!!!! who killed laura? EVERYONE DID BECAUSE EVERYONES CRAZY!! and just when you think you found the straight man, they have a mental breakdown. so.

its beautiful and comforting but is also genuinely the most accurate representation of horror mysteries. its the one i think is done the best, because you have no idea whats going on ever. you cant just sit down and think because all of a sudden theres a giant staring at you from where a girl was. theres a horse in the living room. theres a man tap dancing on a table. theres a llama walking around. theres harry looking cooper up and down for some reason. david lynch the man you were. we will never forget you.

you ever realize your problems are so much worse than you thought before

like i’ve thought i was a bad person since i was 10. what’s up with that

anyways what if tina was actually hugo’s daughter instead of bobs? random angsty headcanon. clashes with my headcanon that tina and bob look extremely similar, but who says you have to make sense

hey guys so fuck capitalism but also stop treating people who buy from big businesses like shit. me personally, i live in a town with only chain stores and food places except for like 5 places that are all crazy expensive. im sorry but if i want food id rather buy a sandwich from dunkin’ donuts than a $13 sandwich from a small business because i cant afford that. and i think thats fair. i don’t love supporting big businesses in fact i hate it, but literally what else can i do? i hate the college system as much as the next guy but i need to go to a decent college to be able to survive so im sorry but i have to be a part of it to get money and stay alive. like what am i supposed to do?? what are any of us supposed to do?

NO ITS SO BAD BC SINGING/BELTING LIKE LINDA IS MY MOST FREQUENT VOCAL STIM THAT I CANT FUCKING DO IN PUBLIC SO MY POOR FAMILY HAS TO DEAL WITH IT WHEN I COME HOME I DONT WANNA BE THIS WAY!!!!!!

i really shouldve sensed the pattern when i felt guilty as i watched every season of naruto, every season of south park, and every season of bobs burgers, all of which are incredibly long shows, in a very short amount of time

i really shouldve sensed something was up when i felt extremely embarrassed and told no one that i used to run back and forth flapping my arms imagining my favorite characters from percy jackson and pokemon in made up scenarios until i was 11, and still feel the urge to now

i really shouldve sensed i had something going on when i felt like i grew up too fast but also never matured as much as those around me, how i always had to wear a mask around people, a facade i had learned from disney tv shows i used to watch

but thank god i had the sense to let the mask fall off, get the fuck out of the smoke and breathe fresh air for once

i can’t look at bill hader in it chapter 2 without giggling and tearing at my face like that one melanie martinez music video.

Reblog if you think a woman can be complete without children

Y’ALL HAVE TIME TO REBLOG THIS. IT TAKES LESS THAN FIVE SECONDS.

guys brilliant au idea but i cant draw so if anyone who can draw sees this feel free to draw smth based off it

its vaguely like the fresh meat au except bob and linda get arrested. hear me out.

the family is still technically a cannibal family but the kids dont know. bob and linda put human meat in the burgers, all their food, they kill and slaughter people, but the kids have no idea this is happening. when tinas 11 (genes 9, louise is 7), bob and linda get arrested for killing people and eating them. the kids are then in and out of orphanages and the streets, and tina has to spend some time in a hospital because of mental illness, but eventually mickey and the other carnies take them in for good. the au takes place two years after the show does (louise is 11, gene is 13, tinas 15 in high school), and the kids are trying to lead normal lives in carniapolis.

individual characters

mickey - their main father figure, the kids live in his trailer, hes still a sort of sketchy guy but has a fairly stable job and loves the kids, a really good guy, not very different from the show but is more worried about the kids now, especially tina because she remembers everything

louise - big goof, kind of a hooligan, wears pajamas pretty much everywhere, still wears her hat, a lot less socialized, curses way too much, has a lot of flashbacks of her parents in her nightmares, sleeps really poorly, a lot more messy, starts play fights a lot more, still close with rudy when she comes back to middle school, clings to tina and misses her at school, all the kids are fluent/semi-fluent in a couple of languages but because she's been speaking spanish since she was seven, she speaks in mostly spanglish now, punk and 2000s emo fan, same sorta relationship with mickey that she had with linda, her parents kind of feels like ghosts that never even had the respect to haunt her

gene - a lot like louise he is also a little more punkish, only eats junk food, sisters have to force him to shower, still plays his little casio but its a lot more decorated and falling apart, kept one of lindas scarves and wears it everywhere he goes, snores loud as FUCK, even worse at reading rooms, met alex and courtney and are close with both of them, also knows spanish but is also fluent in russian because of a carnie named Georgi (doesnt exist but i made them exist), he picked it up so fast!! (ref to eugene mirman), listens to classic hiphop and jazz, close with mickey in the way he was close with bob, remembers his parents fairly well but feels more upset theyre gone than mad at what they did

tina - pretty similar to her original character, just more emotionally muted, like similar to the first seasons but maybe more angry, pretty blank and silent until shes around her siblings, then she gets more animated and seems a bit happier, remembers all of it the most, learned to be a really good fighter, incredibly strong but too thin, gives most of her food to louise and gene, very messy oversized clothes, sweaters and jewelry she made herself, cries in her sleep, when she goes back to school (she's the last to do so), all her old friends (jj, zeke, jocelyn, tammy, susmita, etc.) sit next to her silently and act like she was always there (shes so grateful they never treated her differently even after everything), knows a lot of languages, fluent in english and spanish very good at mandarin knows a little bit of italian and knows every russian curse word, listens to riot grrrl and old hippie rock mickey showed her, very close with all the carnies, especially a lady named Bernie (also does not exist in canon, i made her up), remembers everything, still loves her parents more than anything, just wants them back in her life

bob and linda - in prision, rotting like the people they killed, as much as i love them in canon, this version of them deserves to rot

when someone i follow likes my post i literally look like this

its like when my favorite asmr lady liked my comment and i started hyperventilating (with joy of course)

this is my version of a sabrina carpenter arrest

OH MY GOD like this person who i follow on spotify AND tumblr liked my post about jimmy jr and i looked like a crazed beatles fan in the 60s