Farewell, first fandom
Earlier this week, it was announced that As the World Turns was being cancelled. Granted, I haven't watched ATWT in YEARS (or really any other soap for that matter, apart from the random clip here or there). Yeah, soaps have been a dying breed for a while, but the last 6 months have seen the cancellation of two of the oldest. And that's sad.
I blame my grandmother for getting me mixed up in this in the first place (soaps AND fandom). She would stay with us during the summer and she could never miss a day of her "stories" - and so, therefore, neither could I. I never paid close attention or anything... until one summer Katie and Mike showed up and sucked me in, and then the next summer ATWT cranked out Dusty and Lucy:
So this is just an homage to the show and it’s ‘ships that got me into the whole cracktastic crazy of fandom, and I will always love it for that. Warning: it is stupidly, massively long, picspammy and loaded with scene clips because I am a loser and I apologize.
Katie & Mike
I know a lot of people probably weren’t into this pairing because of the whole “Simon/Katie are soulmates!” thing, but I didn’t see Simon/Katie, so I had NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER watching the Mike/Katie friendship-relationship start up. They were just so fun and I may not have actively shipped them, but I LOVED THEM LOTS
There was SRS MEET CUTE:
"Could you help me find something before I go?"
"I don’t know.. What is it?"
“The tip of my little finger."
"You see, that's your problem."
"What?"
"You're a very good looking guy, you're charming, you're nice, good with a hammer and women just want you. I mean, Molly - and other women, I'm sure... Especially women having a tragedy or a bad day..."
"Kinda like you..."
They bonded over Mike's Molly/Carly/baby drama and Katie's runaway husband and became the most awesomest and hottest soap BFFs ever and went on fun/emo-y BEST FRIEND ADVENTURES together ("emo-y"? DUH, SOAP)
Katie: ”Did I forget to mention the fact that I was marooned on a desert island….in this lifetime?”
and Mike was all totes in love with her and Katie was all O_O "BUT I'M MARRIED EVEN THO MY HUSBAND LEFT/DIED!"*DENIAL*
And then Katie RAN MIKE OVER WITH HER CAR BUT HE WAS LIKE “I TOTALLY DON’T CARE ILUVU!” and there was omg tension and it was all cute and hot (what?? Ikr?! It may not seem like it works BUT IT DOES)
Mike: "You touch me, and I wanna touch you back. You walk around this house and I just stare at you."
and katie realized she *hearted* him too, and there was adorableness and earnest "will you go out with me?" asking
Mike: "We have a chance, you and me. I think we could have the whole picture."
And they were all happy and pretty and in love
AND THEN THEY HAD SEX FOR THREE DAYS AND IT WAS AMAZING AND THERE WAS SHOWER SEX AND MARK COLLIER TOTALLY NAKED AND MOONING ALL OF AMERICA AND IT WAS SO HOTTTTT :O
"I must have been a saint in a previous life.. having the most beautiful woman in the world, feeding me strawberries..."
"You believe in reincarnation?"
"Only if the next time I come around I get to relive tonight."
"It's not over yet :DDD"
and then this happened, and obvs everything immediately went to hell, as is the rule in soapland, and I’d rather not talk about it. And by "immediately”, I mean, like, 7 minutes later. Literally.
So 8 months of awesome Katie/Mike funtime, and then it was over :(((
But then the next summer, there was this:
Lucy & Dusty
This was the first couple I hardcore shipped and actually participated in fandom for. I vidded, I ficc'ed (half of which were lost in the great EZ attack of '06 >[), fangurled, analyzed and basically geeked out over every awesome second of "Lusty" interaction with fellow Lucy/Dusty shippers.
Where Mike & Katie started out all snuggly and BFFy, these two started out more like antagonistic, hilarious pains in each others’ asses. Being complete polar opposites usually does that.
"Your father's not the uh, sharpest crayon in the box, y'know?.... What's that face?"
"Crayon?"
"Yeah..?"
"Yeah, I'm not six."
"Yeah? Stop thinking like you're six."
"What's the matter?"
"This place is so dingy."
"You gotta be kiddin' me. I'm sorry it's not a 5 star hotel, call your travel agent, okay?"
They snark at each other about 97% of the month they’re stuck together. Soap plot #3 - stick two people who hate each other together in stressful circumstances and they will inevitably fall in love.
Dusty: "I gotta get outta here, before your grandmother comes back with a cookie for you. You're a tough girl Montgomery. Too bad nobody in your family knows it."
DON’T MESS WITH WHAT WORKS!
And Lucy was all WE SHOULD BE TOGETHER and Dusty was all I WAS ALREADY DRIVING WHEN YOU WERE BORN
But then Lucy got kidnapped a second time(!!) AND ALMOST DIED and Dusty saved her and Lucy was all "YOU'RE A HERO. YOU'RE MY HERO" and Dusty was like fuck it BECAUSE HE SRSLY LOVED HER
AND WHO CARES THAT LUCY IS BARELY LEGAL THEY HAVE RIDICULOUSLY HOT CHEMISTRY THAT MAKES ME TOTALLY NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE AGE DIFFERENCE
Lucy: ”You know, having a certain upbringing that you keep talking about... it doesn’t mean anything if you don’t feel loved.”
Dusty:“Is that what I do for you? Make you feel loved?”
BUT THE ANGST OMG
"I am not the guy you wish I was, Lucy!”
“Stop acting like I dreamed you up! I know the man that you are and I love him!”
“You love me, people love me.. until they figure out it can’t last.”
And then their story got highjacked by a giant dork, and Lucy slept with the giant dork and then there was guilt!angst but Dusty didn't care and wanted to marry her (SOAP DOOM) but Peyton List was leaving the show so they had Lucy go off to college and Dusty was all :((((, making me all :((((
What is with me and these short-lived, "lightening in a bottle" couples? It's like I'm a soap ship masochist. Yeah, they've revisited both couples, but they were never able to capture the original magic. *SIGH*
They were awesome while they lasted the first time around, and they made it ok to be ridiculously obsessed with fictional ppl - SO THANKS ATWT! I hope you find that alternative broadcaster! I'll always have fond memories of you :D
I blame my grandmother for getting me mixed up in this in the first place (soaps AND fandom). She would stay with us during the summer and she could never miss a day of her "stories" - and so, therefore, neither could I. I never paid close attention or anything... until one summer Katie and Mike showed up and sucked me in, and then the next summer ATWT cranked out Dusty and Lucy:
So this is just an homage to the show and it’s ‘ships that got me into the whole cracktastic crazy of fandom, and I will always love it for that. Warning: it is stupidly, massively long, picspammy and loaded with scene clips because I am a loser and I apologize.
Katie & Mike
I know a lot of people probably weren’t into this pairing because of the whole “Simon/Katie are soulmates!” thing, but I didn’t see Simon/Katie, so I had NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER watching the Mike/Katie friendship-relationship start up. They were just so fun and I may not have actively shipped them, but I LOVED THEM LOTS
There was SRS MEET CUTE:
Click to view"Could you help me find something before I go?"
"I don’t know.. What is it?"
“The tip of my little finger."
"You see, that's your problem."
"What?"
"You're a very good looking guy, you're charming, you're nice, good with a hammer and women just want you. I mean, Molly - and other women, I'm sure... Especially women having a tragedy or a bad day..."
"Kinda like you..."
They bonded over Mike's Molly/Carly/baby drama and Katie's runaway husband and became the most awesomest and hottest soap BFFs ever and went on fun/emo-y BEST FRIEND ADVENTURES together ("emo-y"? DUH, SOAP)
Katie: ”Did I forget to mention the fact that I was marooned on a desert island….in this lifetime?”
and Mike was all totes in love with her and Katie was all O_O "BUT I'M MARRIED EVEN THO MY HUSBAND LEFT/DIED!"*DENIAL*
And then Katie RAN MIKE OVER WITH HER CAR BUT HE WAS LIKE “I TOTALLY DON’T CARE ILUVU!” and there was omg tension and it was all cute and hot (what?? Ikr?! It may not seem like it works BUT IT DOES)
Mike: "You touch me, and I wanna touch you back. You walk around this house and I just stare at you."
and katie realized she *hearted* him too, and there was adorableness and earnest "will you go out with me?" asking
Mike: "We have a chance, you and me. I think we could have the whole picture."
And they were all happy and pretty and in love
AND THEN THEY HAD SEX FOR THREE DAYS AND IT WAS AMAZING AND THERE WAS SHOWER SEX AND MARK COLLIER TOTALLY NAKED AND MOONING ALL OF AMERICA AND IT WAS SO HOTTTTT :O
"I must have been a saint in a previous life.. having the most beautiful woman in the world, feeding me strawberries..."
"You believe in reincarnation?"
"Only if the next time I come around I get to relive tonight."
"It's not over yet :DDD"
and then this happened, and obvs everything immediately went to hell, as is the rule in soapland, and I’d rather not talk about it. And by "immediately”, I mean, like, 7 minutes later. Literally.
So 8 months of awesome Katie/Mike funtime, and then it was over :(((
But then the next summer, there was this:
Lucy & Dusty
This was the first couple I hardcore shipped and actually participated in fandom for. I vidded, I ficc'ed (half of which were lost in the great EZ attack of '06 >[), fangurled, analyzed and basically geeked out over every awesome second of "Lusty" interaction with fellow Lucy/Dusty shippers.
Where Mike & Katie started out all snuggly and BFFy, these two started out more like antagonistic, hilarious pains in each others’ asses. Being complete polar opposites usually does that.
"Your father's not the uh, sharpest crayon in the box, y'know?.... What's that face?"
"Crayon?"
"Yeah..?"
"Yeah, I'm not six."
"Yeah? Stop thinking like you're six."
"What's the matter?"
"This place is so dingy."
"You gotta be kiddin' me. I'm sorry it's not a 5 star hotel, call your travel agent, okay?"
They snark at each other about 97% of the month they’re stuck together. Soap plot #3 - stick two people who hate each other together in stressful circumstances and they will inevitably fall in love.
Dusty: "I gotta get outta here, before your grandmother comes back with a cookie for you. You're a tough girl Montgomery. Too bad nobody in your family knows it."
DON’T MESS WITH WHAT WORKS!
And Lucy was all WE SHOULD BE TOGETHER and Dusty was all I WAS ALREADY DRIVING WHEN YOU WERE BORN
But then Lucy got kidnapped a second time(!!) AND ALMOST DIED and Dusty saved her and Lucy was all "YOU'RE A HERO. YOU'RE MY HERO" and Dusty was like fuck it BECAUSE HE SRSLY LOVED HER
AND WHO CARES THAT LUCY IS BARELY LEGAL THEY HAVE RIDICULOUSLY HOT CHEMISTRY THAT MAKES ME TOTALLY NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE AGE DIFFERENCE
Lucy: ”You know, having a certain upbringing that you keep talking about... it doesn’t mean anything if you don’t feel loved.”
Dusty:“Is that what I do for you? Make you feel loved?”
BUT THE ANGST OMG
"I am not the guy you wish I was, Lucy!”
“Stop acting like I dreamed you up! I know the man that you are and I love him!”
“You love me, people love me.. until they figure out it can’t last.”
And then their story got highjacked by a giant dork, and Lucy slept with the giant dork and then there was guilt!angst but Dusty didn't care and wanted to marry her (SOAP DOOM) but Peyton List was leaving the show so they had Lucy go off to college and Dusty was all :((((, making me all :((((
What is with me and these short-lived, "lightening in a bottle" couples? It's like I'm a soap ship masochist. Yeah, they've revisited both couples, but they were never able to capture the original magic. *SIGH*
They were awesome while they lasted the first time around, and they made it ok to be ridiculously obsessed with fictional ppl - SO THANKS ATWT! I hope you find that alternative broadcaster! I'll always have fond memories of you :D