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"There are many stories in Twin Peaks. Some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence.
Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery. The mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death.
The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks. To introduce this story, let me just say it encompasses the all.
It is beyond the fire, though few would know that meaning. It is a story of many, but it begins with one--and I knew her.
The one leading to the many is Laura Palmer. Laura is the one."
- Margaret Lanterman

"...A lost little girl and a madwoman confined behind her last shred of sanity, and her last days on earth. She extends her emotions beyond the obvious sympathy though: the fact that Laura's merely a child who has been sexually abused by the men of her idyllic small town for the better (worst) part of her life. Laura knows she has nothing left, even if she's so far been able to veil her consuming inner demons behind charity work and a spiraling drug addiction. She is a girl on fire whose only hope is to be extinguished, and perhaps the most grim notion...is that Laura knows, and occasionally desires, that her end is near."
- Welcome to Club Silencio (blogspot)

This post contains:
• Application
• Permissions
• Playlist
• TV Tropes
• A Letter: Sheryl Lee to Her Character

APPLICATION
Laura's application can be found HERE.

PERMISSIONS
Laura's permissions can be found HERE.

PLAYLIST
Wonder what music I listen to while writing Laura? Wonder no more! Here's the list, in alphabetical order by artist and then song. Clicking each song title will take you to a youtube upload of it. Songs with their artists in purple were actually written about Laura! Isn't that neat? Songs with an asterisk beside them are the ones I'm playing constantly at the moment.
• Angelo Badalamenti, "Laura Palmer's Theme"
• Angelo Badalamenti/Thought Gang, "A Real Indication"
• Anthrax, "Black Lodge"
• Bastille, "Laura Palmer" *
• Bastille, "Overjoyed" *
• Bat for Lashes, "Laura" *
• Benighted In Sodom, "Laura Palmer"
• Berlin, "Torture"
• Bjork, "Play Dead"
• Cocorosie, "Werewolf"
• Fever Ray, "Seven" *
• Fiona Apple, "Criminal"
• Flogging Molly, "Laura"
• Florence and the Machine, "Blinding"
• Florence and the Machine, "Heavy in Your Arms" *
• Florence and the Machine, "No Light No Light" *
• Florence and the Machine, "Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)"
• Goo Goo Dolls, "Without You Here"
• Hole, "Miss World"
• I Am Kloot, "An Ordinary Girl" *
• InnerPartySystem, "Die Tonight, Live Forever"
• Julee Cruise, "Falling"
• Julee Cruise, "Questions in a World of Blue"
• Julee Cruise, "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart"
• Julee Cruise, "World Spins"
• Kidneythieves, "Feathers"
• Marina and the Diamonds, "Bubblegum Bitch"
• Marina and the Diamonds, "Teen Idle" *
• Massive Attack, "Angel" *
• Peggy Lee/Iggy Pop (unofficial mash-up), "Passenger Fever" *
• Placebo, "Running Up That Hill"
• Portishead, "Roads" *
• Rasputina, "A Quitter" *
• Schadenfreude, "Vertigo"
• Shawnee Smith, "Please Myself"
• Sia, "My Love"
• The Band Perry, "If I Die Young" *
• William Fitzsimmons, "Everything Has Changed"
• Wintersleep, "Fog" *
• You Say Party, "Laura Palmer's Prom" *

TV TROPES
Here are all the TV tropes that apply to Laura, in alphabetical order. Many of these seem to contradict each other, but remember: Laura led a double life and had many conflicting aspects to her personality.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
• Bi the Way
• Break the Cutie
• Broken Bird
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Defiled Forever
• Double Consciousness
• Dreaming of Things to Come
• Dying as Yourself
• Dysfunction Junction
• Evil Me Scares Me
• Fate Worse than Death
• Go Getter Girl
• Heroic BSOD
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Hookers and Blow
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold
• Internalized Categorism
• Jade-Colored Glasses
• Living a Double Life
• Messianic Archetype
• Mind Rape
• Mr. Vice Guy
• My God, What Have I Done?
• Parental Incest
• Plot-Triggering Death
• Posthumous Character
• Rape as Backstory
• Rape as Drama
• Secret Diary
• Seemingly Wholesome '50s Girl
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• Sex for Solace
• Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny
• Stepford Smiler (Type A)
• Then Let Me Be Evil (More like "Then Let Me Be Dirty")
• Too Good For This Sinful Earth
• Uncanny Family Resemblance
• You Are Better than You Think You Are
• You Can't Fight Fate
• Your Days Are Numbered

A LETTER: SHERYL LEE TO HER CHARACTER
[One of Sheryl Lee’s diary entries from the early ’90s, just after filming Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, to Laura Palmer.]

Where do I begin? It has been a little over a month since we stopped filming. In a way, it seems like years and in another, only yesterday. As I sit down now to write this, so many emotions arise. The gift and the experience that you gave me are beyond expression of words. I am aware that your death also allowed an old part of myself to finally die… a very self-destructive part. Through you, I came face-to-face with my own dark side. I feel as if I have lived a whole lifetime in those two short months of filming. I will never forget how, the week after we finished, I suddenly became aware that my thoughts were my own again. My mind and my life had been completely occupied by you. You came to me morning, noon, and night—especially night. That was your time, the darkness of midnight. You continually wove your spirit into my dream world, revealing bits and pieces of yourself, myself, and our fears and struggles. The thing I remember most about you, though, Laura, is your loneliness. That loneliness haunted me. Walking back into my empty hotel room by myself each day, left to deal with the fragmented pieces of my own life, your loneliness would still fill my room. My prayer is that you are now someplace where you are truly loved and at peaceful rest.

Much love and gratitude,

Me