It was almost fun not knowing.

"So now the sadness comes - the revelation. There is a depression after an answer is given. It was almost fun not knowing." - Margaret Waiting for TSHOTP TPTR TFD just chillin' and loving Twin Peaks Reblogging mostly happy fanart and hosting the WONDERFULXSTRANGE fanworks exchange, plus other initiatives now and then.

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WONDERFULXSTRANGE - the prompts!

Here's the list of all 81 prompts submitted so far for this new, sleek, fest edition of wonderfulxstrange! Grab anything you like, make fic or art about it, and post it on February 24th, Twin Peaks day!

Prompting is open until the end of the event, so if you want to join the fun, head over HERE and add your own!

FULL RULES

Without further ado:

Laura working part time somewhere other than the diner—What would it look like for her to work at the hospital?? Or in the school?? Or at the station??

Laura, Donna, Bobby, James, Audrey, and Maddie on winter break, vacationing together as a friend group

Uncle Dick Tremayne hanging out with little man Wally Brando

Hutchenses family dinner (featuring Mr. C)

Mitchums family movie night (featuring the girls)

The phenomenology and temporality of key characters: how they are changed, how they are the same: 1992 and 2017 are linked. Is the cycle broken, or has it changed form? Can any of us break the cycle from within, or must it come from the outside? How do we know if we are inside or outside? What does change look like to someone who feels unchangeable?

olipeaksforever - Jeffrey Beaumont (Blue Velvet) & Laura Palmer having a surreal adventure

Klaasje Amandou (Disco Elysium) & Diane Evans girls night out

olipeaksforever - Annie Blackburn & Dale Cooper lodge dodge healing... Cute and sweet yet sad 🥹

olipeaksforever - Denise Bryson/Dale Cooper lodge dodge where dale isn't in Good State post lodge and denise is Worried

olipeaksforever - Smoker In The Balcony (Disco Elysium) & Dale Cooper meeting at Club Y

olipeaksforever - Albert Rosenfield/Dale Cooper growing old together... Fic or art I don't care just make it pretty 🥹

Harry Truman/Hank Jennings/Dale Cooper evil love triangle

Lucy Moran & Diane Evans getting coffee and talking about their favourite odd guys

michaeltillotson - Annie Blackburn during the events of Twin Peaks: The Return

michaeltillotson - Harold Smith working on his writing (art)

michaeltillotson - Josie Packard trapped in the Black Lodge (art)

michaeltillotson - Laura&Annie: Annie visiting Twin Peaks before joining the convent and interacting with Laura

michaeltillotson - Dale Cooper in the 80s, looking into Blue Rose cases related to aliens / abduction, or any of the cases from The Secret History of Twin Peaks (art)

The bizarre, surreal, cosmic horror politics of the lodge entities (and the humans they target)

Laura's intervention with the angels

Chet Desmond and Theresa Banks (not ship)

Laura and Cooper slip into the Twilight Zone and meet Rod Serling... who is narrating their predicament to his mysterious audience (also no ship fic)

Phillip Jeffries and the many downsides (and upsides) of being a teapot

What if Laura's doppleganger escaped too???

tildytwo — Cooper/Albert/Harry or Cooper&Albert&Harry — surviving chemo

tildytwo — Gordon & or / Albert — what happens after Gordon comes back

tildytwo — Gordon & or / Albert — post- season 2, how they got to the dynamic they have in The Return

tildytwo — Albert & Tammy — generation gap

tildytwo — Albert & Cooper — conflict of interest

tildytwo — Gordon/Albert — "Say please."

tildytwo — Albert & Laura — they never met, but he got to know her almost intimately

tildytwo — Albert & Margaret Lanterman — similar philosophies, but very different methodologies

Dale/(or &)Harry - fishing/camping/generally being in the woods

Denise & Audrey - doing badass agent stuff/Denise as a mentor

Log Lady - anything with her and the spooky elements of the town/surrounding forest

Donna/(or &)Laura - fic or art exploring their relationship more

Audrey - I'd be happy with an pretty artwork of her :)

the FBI agents solving another blue rose case (crossover or AU maybe?)

audrey becoming an FBI agent or a PI

laura palmer what would it look like for you to live

role swap! laura palmer and dale cooper

Albert and or Albert/Dale character study/introspective between Alberts departure in s1/return in season 2

Donna POV of laura through the years- jealousy?? closeted crush?? platonic love for her best friend??

Albert/Dale attempt at a normal romantic date and the dramatic twists and turns it takes...

Harry post Dale/Mr c leaving twin peaks

Laura having a nice time visiting Maddy/vice versa

Diane and Albert queening out (talking shit) on a smoke break or night out

Sam Stanley post Chet Desmond disappearance/leaving the FBI

Margaret & Laura at the Double-R Diner (no ship please!)

mycenaae - Donna/Laura, a reunion 25 years later

Donna & Shelly & Laura & Audrey - girls' night out (or girls' high school lunchtime hangout, ymmv! i just want to see them being friends <3)

Gordon Cole & The Blue Rose Team (Dale, Tammy, Albert) - working a case (no ship please!)

The Bookhouse Boys - what does downtime look like at the clubhouse?

mycenaae - Donna/Laura (or Donna & Laura), another picnic

mycenaae - Lucy/Andy as new parents!

mycenaae - Annie & Laura, meeting again (any context)

sheryllee - Sarah Palmer and Carl Rodd drinking black coffee in their ratty robes

sheryllee - Margaret & Hawk (any context)

sheryllee - Laura, Audrey, and Johnny at the Great Northern

sheryllee - Bobby and Laura at Jack Rabbit's palace

sheryllee - Laura and Sarah (and Maddy, if you want) - just regular, maybe a little psychic, family stuff

sheryllee - Donna and Gersten and Harriet - ALSO just normal family stuff

sheryllee - Laura and Norma planning Meals on Wheels

sheryllee - Audrey and Laura's ghost

Coop and his dad are so similar (new-agey, impulsive, etc.) and Dale dislikes/ignores that. Something about how they feel about each other, or parallels between them, how they both feel about his psychic bond with his mom, etc.

Omegaverse! The classic smut, or something that plays with the verse's weird gender and social rules. (+ breeding would be cute too but obviously optional) Any pairing but Harry/Coop & Albert/Coop are classics

Hank/Harry (NSFW?)- They really did like each other. Frustrated, intense, and maybe a little manipulative-- this would work well as pre-canon. (one of them being trans would be a very interesting addition to this one)

Audrey (& Donna?) - Religion in TP-- The Hornes canonically attend the same church as the Haywards. I'd like to see something about how Audrey feels about that, especially with the corruption/hypocrisy + her family. Just her feelings on the matter/her personal ideas of faith would be great, or bringing Donna in with the sister angle.

Denise/Cooper/Albert (NSFW) - Breeding kink: they lovingly make fun of Cooper for wanting to get knocked up. Then they knock him up. I just need that man in the family way ✋

Diane & Cooper (&/Albert?) - Playful and sincere affection! Flirting at work, falling asleep on couches together, fixing each other's makeup etc.

Hawk/Harry (+Cooper?) - Harry has an easy heart to break, and he's very easily led. It'd be a shame if a close friend (or two) were to protect him from the former and take romantic advantage of the latter.

Harry and Frank, masculinity and the idea of being a Good Cop. Turning a (willful?) blind eye to uncomfortable realities, be it repressed sexuality or atrocities being committed in and around town

laughingpineapple - character of your choice slips through the cracks of reality and ends up in the red room/in other worlds/on lonely highways/along a purple ocean. Laura&Coop optional but always welcome.

laughingpineapple - the opening credits wren. &Laura? &Margaret? &anyone. Just put that bird in the narrative.

laughingpineapple - Tammy&/Cynthia on a case! Like Mulder and Scully but worse!

laughingpineapple - Reddit informs me that the name "Diane" actually means the same as "Dale" in old English. Metaphysical hall of mirrors GO

laughingpineapple - Hawk&Albert gossiping or something, I need their snark to bounce off each other

laughingpineapple - Wally meeting someone who by all rights shouldn't be in this world anymore

laughingpineapple - Naido as her own character, a Lodge entity of sorts, a cocoon for those who were hurt too deeply

laughingpineapple - Albert&Phil. In the '80s? Teapot era? Your pick.

[corelle-vairel]

Who killed Laura Palmer ?

[starlingstalk]

I Found the End

[okunichh]

I had to think of flowers and of smiling faces and anything... big trucks filled with lumber, of birds, of Donna Donna Donna... good things only.

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prints here

[ripeteeth]

the owls are not what they seem

[aphrostiel]

ronette, laura and teresa ♥

[littlegrnghoul]

Smoke break at the Double R

[moldymuffim]

Fire walk with me

[snaillesnaille]

[olipeaksarts]

An Annie Blackburn fanzine I did earlier this year for the Buenos Aires edition of the Twin Peaks fan fest.

[littlegrnghoul]

Yeaaa 😸

[jjemstones]

Dale Cooper commission, disco style!

[littlegrnghoul]

For a while I got to be somebody different

[avichuella]

wanted to draw them together (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

[tourniquesence]

where there’s smoke there’s fire

[matamorose]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Twin Peaks (TV 1990), The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life My Tapes - Scott Frost Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dale Cooper & Diane Evans (Twin Peaks), Dale Cooper/Diane Evans (Twin Peaks) Characters: Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks), Diane Evans (Twin Peaks), Yes (Characters), Just Roll with me here - Character Additional Tags: Black Lodge (Twin Peaks), Surreal, Onomastics, Onomatology, Identity, Tagging for this is kind of a nightmare actually, Classical References, Tibetan Buddhism, Colonialism, Pre-Roman Britain, Canon-Typical Violence, This could very easily be wolf hall fanfic iykyk, Twin Peaks: The Return Summary:

For Laughingpineapple: “Reddit informs me that the name "Diane” actually means the same as “Dale” in old English. Metaphysical hall of mirrors GO"

That Redditor was wrong. However, the way they were wrong is pretty well-suited to Twin Peaks, and especially to Coop and Diane + their relationship, I think.

So we’re in the lodge. We all know better than to ask questions, but Coop doesn’t. He heard once that his name and Diane’s meant the same thing, and he liked the idea. Years later, behind some formidable curtains, things get a prodigious bit more intense.

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I LIVED BITCH. POSTED ON AO3 AT 11:59

@laughingpinecone I hope you like it! I went kind of insane, this is a subject I really get down with, and happen to know a lot about.

[dogsstew]

Happy Twin Peaks day to all!