#SantaBarbara eventually grew on me to the point where I was watching it on my own at home. While everyone else was obsessed with Cruz & Eden (I could never get on board with MW as a heroine because, to me, she was always Liza Colby) I was smitten with Gina, Mason & Augusta. - ThreadSky

spicenthingsup.bsky.social • 1 day ago

#SantaBarbara eventually grew on me to the point where I was watching it on my own at home. While everyone else was obsessed with Cruz & Eden (I could never get on board with MW as a heroine because, to me, she was always Liza Colby) I was smitten with Gina, Mason & Augusta.

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spicenthingsup.bsky.social•1 day ago

My grandmother religiously subscribed to all of the soap periodicals, so I got to keep up on all the comings & goings, storyline progressions and backstage backstabbing that went on across all of the soaps — even the ones I had never watched!

spicenthingsup.bsky.social•1 day ago

When I was a kid, my mom used to get her hair done at a place called “Command Performance” (pretty sure it was a chain, like Supercuts) and when her favorite stylist — a fantastic Finnish woman named Lina who was obsessed with #OLTL — left to work from home, my mom followed and brought me along.

spicenthingsup.bsky.social•1 day ago

While Lina’s kids played outside, I sat in front of her TV and watched #OLTL. I got so engrossed in Llanview that I occasionally convinced my mom to leave the TV on ABC after #AllMyChildren was over at home. (I’m 100% certain Lina was one of the first people to clock me as gay.)

spicenthingsup.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lina used to joke about how weird it was that Bo Buchanan was such a heartthrob — which was valid considering she was a tall, gorgeous Scandinavian woman married to a hunky blonde cop. #OLTL was wild back then — I remember thinking the Eterna storyline was truly bizarre, but I still watched!

spicenthingsup.bsky.social•1 day ago

My mom’s best friend when I was a kid (who was also the mother of my best friend at the time) watched #GH everyday so, as you may have guessed, if I happened to be there when it was on, my butt was on the floor soaking up the perils of Port Charles’ peeps.

spicenthingsup.bsky.social•1 day ago

I specifically remember being GLUED to the TV when Luke and some other folks were trapped on an island somewhere. I don’t know if it was before, during or after the Ice Princess storyline — but 80s #GH was seriously the action-adventure soap.

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