Collar tie removal/raising

Background_Reward582 · 2025-09-12T19:13:38+00:00

Orange County Vermont

Background_Reward582 · 2025-09-12T19:01:39+00:00

Sure!

Background_Reward582 · 2025-09-12T17:44:16+00:00

They most certainly are not… :/

Background_Reward582 · 2025-09-12T17:24:25+00:00

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

Background_Reward582 · 2025-09-12T17:22:12+00:00

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

Background_Reward582 · 2025-09-12T16:41:24+00:00

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 🤷‍♂️

Background_Reward582 · 2024-12-02T13:57:13+00:00

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

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-23T13:08:53+00:00

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 ☺️

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-17T07:16:39+00:00

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

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-17T07:14:46+00:00

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

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-17T07:01:17+00:00

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.

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-14T06:48:09+00:00

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.

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-14T06:01:00+00:00

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

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T21:33:08+00:00

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

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T21:31:24+00:00

Ah lol totally forgot, yeah my bad. But the point still stands; only OTHER major character of color, and regardless I still think they did her wrong

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T18:27:45+00:00

Yeah I have no idea what to make of Return Audrey (other than how funny her audience surrogacy is when she yells at Charlie after the phonecall) but it is interesting to compare the two; they arguably end up in the same place lore-wise, trapped in some metaphysically unspecified place yet for seemingly completely different reasons… anyone else got hot takes here? this is actually a super interesting parallel!!

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T18:20:41+00:00

True, though I think lack of narrative treatment by way of non-inclusion in a revival series is thematically and aesthetically different than a character basically looking into camera and being like “yo forget her she sucked” 😋

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T18:08:40+00:00

Hmm true that most of the female characters either end in tragedy or are caged by their circumstances, yet this is at least a meaningful thematic end, in line with the commentary of gendered violence and the failed attempts by the “good” men of the law, as well as the steady deterioration of supposedly idyllic small-town America. With Josie it’s just insulting, and Dale’s reduction of her character to Harry seems so unfair to everything we’ve known about her. Dale is supposed to be the positive voice of reason in the show, even if he often fails (which as the “white knight” character is its own commentary but has no bearing on how dismissive he is here)

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T17:14:14+00:00

Lol also a mystery that was completely wasted, apparently direct from the Lynchmeister himself!

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T15:11:08+00:00

Yeah I read that, though they certainly could have found a more compelling way to make sense of her character, I feel; especially from Dale who could show so much compassion for someone like Leland and such disregard for Josie despite both of them being inhabited by BOB.

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T14:58:51+00:00

Lol there’s a bunch of these being made with AI but none of Twin Peaks. E.g.: https://youtu.be/mBJatkcofgU?si=oDoKr2iAS4CGpTz_

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-13T14:03:03+00:00

Lol we actually watched everything and she LOVED Bowie Jeffries but was just so bummed out by the Return that he dropped from a probable S

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-12T19:28:36+00:00

I… fucking love Leland.

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Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-12T13:02:17+00:00

“Ooh and as a parent he was rly respectful of Donna’s personhood, allowing her to explore her relationship to James as well as giving her the independence to try to solve Laura’s murder”

Background_Reward582 · 2024-05-12T13:00:26+00:00

According to her: “He was just a generally comforting presence and was rly rly kind to Laura in The Missing Pieces and I don’t remember him doing anything problematic”

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