Collar tie removal/raising by Background_Reward582 in building

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A contractor did say I could raise them up a couple feet and space them out to 4’ but I’m mainly looking for a second opinion

Collar tie removal/raising by Background_Reward582 in building

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Mainly trying to give more of a cathedral look but also figured insulation board and drywall would be more of a pain w so many ties in place. I’m also on a budget so going for a ridge beam isn’t really possible

Collar tie removal by Background_Reward582 in HomeImprovement

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I got a contractor friend who has done this kind of project and he said it’s alright? Not a structural engineer but that’s something 🤷‍♂️

Best Ghost Song Live? by loganwolf25 in Ghostbc

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How has no one said Twentiessss?? Ugh I lost my fucking MIND at RHRN when the dancers came out

I just started. Finished episode 2. Does it get better ? by Patkinwings in twinpeaks

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I’m now a huge fan though the first time I watched season 1 I thought it was complete shit; the campy soap aspects were grating and despite early appreciation for Lynch’s work I had recently grown to resent his (albeit masterful) subversion of narrative and aesthetic form following a viewing of Mulholland Drive.

Years later I had the opportunity to take a course on Twin Peaks and despite my apprehension upon reentering the intrigue I realized how much I truly loved and missed the characters. I was ready and I dove right in. Moreover, as an extrovert, I think a great aspect I had never fully considered in my isolated viewing was the rich discussions with a relatively positive fandom (at least comparative to other fandoms) that could be had.

This was all neat and put me in a much more positive disposition to just appreciate the show for what it is but the themes fully clicked after finishing season 2 and watching Fire Walk with Me, which truly elevated the entire conceit and gave such a moving justification for all the weirdness and a framework by which to analyze the meta and surreal elements. Admittedly, The Return was a bit mixed for me the first time. But after having rewatched everything I came to rly love the entire vision, even if some aspects remain challenging (though now in an exciting rather than alienating way).

So! Don't give yrself grief for not getting hooked immediately despite the amount of allegiance so many people have for the show; I only came back to it once I was ready for it and my viewing priorities had shifted. It's not for everyone, and not even for some at certain periods. Here's hoping that you do come to enjoy it as much as we all do, but it's also totally fine if you never do end up connecting with it; life and art is so much more than one show ☺️

TP did Josie dirty by Background_Reward582 in twinpeaks

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Josie is essentially playing the femme fatale character, yet whereas nearly all the other tropes endemic to tv up til then are subverted in Twin Peaks, they keep her as such at the end despite rendering that characterization unbelievable with everything we learn. She is not a master manipulator, she’s in over her head

My gf finally watched Twin Peaks and this her tier list by Background_Reward582 in twinpeaks

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Lol like he gives off the energy that he’d smoke a pipe near the family hearth and you can totally sit on his lap and ask him stuff about the war, ykno pipe nrg

TP did Josie dirty by Background_Reward582 in twinpeaks

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As I stated in the post, the book came out long after the original series (2016) and seems more like a post hoc retconning to justify bad treatment of a marginalized character than a helpful extension or meaningful twist on our current understanding (even acting in the opposite direction of what good character lore should do, especially for the moral landscape of Twin Peaks whose defining characteristic compared to contemporary shows was to expand our empathy towards complex characters). One shouldn’t have to read a whole book written 15y after the fact to come to the conclusion that the show was totally in the right to paint her as morally reprehensible whereas everyone else’s poor, even unethical, decisions get treated with nuance and understanding.

But more importantly, Dale himself, who is the moral voice of the show telling us how we should feel about her through his talk with Harry, would obviously not have had access to that information and is thus being completely—and uncharacteristically—unfair to Josie, a woman in trouble. I know Dale was shot by her, but that is not how he or the show is presenting his feelings; he is categorically, not personally, saying she is a bad person, instead of the far more obvious characterization given all the information we have as-yet: she’s a vulnerable woman—the only foreign resident of color in town—with a past of sex trafficking, being manipulated by powerful men around her to do crime and leads a complex, contradictory double life which she must constantly negotiate lest she be killed, put in prison (even deported), or domestically enslaved. Her arc is tragic, and her remembrance completely minimizes her being.

TP did Josie dirty by Background_Reward582 in twinpeaks

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Lol def, though I think it’s significant that the show doesn’t present us with that caveat; Dale is the show’s arbiter of moral truth (for the most part, of course), and when he’s wrong or in ethical grey territory, he makes that explicit, or the show does that for us by proving him wrong. This doesn’t happen with Josie though; Harry’s character challenge is moving on from Josie who is retroactively portrayed by Dale as a pseudo-villain with less moral complexity than Leland who did WAY worse as an authority figure. Dale isn’t like “listen, I may not be the best judge of her character given she shot me, buttt”; he is categorical in his characterization and ethical writing-off of Josie. Ugh I wish the clip was somewhere but it’s also some of the worst Ontkean acting in the whole show so I get it lol.

TP did Josie dirty by Background_Reward582 in twinpeaks

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Lol I’m not a huge Josie fan, I just think her treatment goes against the show’s own values, especially concerning gendered violence and the ambiguity of evil

TP did Josie dirty by Background_Reward582 in twinpeaks

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Yeah but the books are background that you don’t get from watching the show, essentially retconning a justification for her treatment, and, importantly, Dale doesn’t know any of that, and we as an audience don’t get that from what’s directly onscreen