#major garland briggs

[arrayed-in-purple]

𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 - 𝐒𝟐/𝐄𝐏𝟐𝟎 (1990)

𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐢𝐧 - "𝐖𝐚𝐜𝐨, 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬" (2025)

[devilboydogman]

“What do you fear most in the world?”

“The possibility that love is not enough.”

In the lore of Twin Peaks regarding the Lodges, love and fear are painted, I’d argue deceitfully, as dichotomous, opposite emotions that open the White and Black lodges respectively. But what are we to make of Major Briggs’ biggest fear being that love is not enough? The major, who is implied to be an arbiter of sorts, a figurehead of the White Lodge.

I think this means that love and fear are not nearly so separate as we are made to believe, and, that the possibility that love is not enough is a reality.

And I think that this is the reality we are meant to realize to understand why Dale Cooper failed. Because yes, his heart was indeed FILLED with love when he entered the Black Lodge, and when he spent 25 years there, and when he traveled time and space in a pathetic, heart-wrenching attempt to save Laura Palmer, just one more chance… But he was also so so afraid. Afraid of facing himself, the reality of the evil men do, of what he could be capable of, of what he could be incapable of.

As much as he would like it to, love alone does not save people’s lives. It does not raise the dead. It does not bring peace to traumatized psyches on its own. Because love is NOT enough. There must also be action, and accountability, and discomfort, and anger, and yes, fear, but not so much fear that it leaves you immobile and indecisive or CRUEL.

Love is not enough but an over abundance of fear will make that deficit all the more potent.

[interrobang-ptang]

Today's Tarot: Eight of Cups § INTROSPECTION - art by @benjaminmackey -

[treecitysessions]

Twin Peaks, s2e1 (1990, dir. David Lynch)

[lecscevico]

[yosoybaxter]

[starzonez]

it is some men’s fate is confront great darkness. we each choose how to react. if the choice is fear then we become vulnerable to darkness

[agreeablecar]

“What do you fear most in the world?” “The possibility that love is not enough.”