About Laurelton
Our (Out-of-Universe) Love Story
November 2022
It all started back when I first watched Wednesday. I probably wouldn't have watched it on my own, at first glance it seemed a lot like other failed reboots that I had no interest in, but my mom had been interested in watching since the first trailer dropped and I happened to be staying at my parents' house for Thanksgiving, so I figured, what the hell? I already loved the 90s Addams Family movies, I'd give it a shot. I had no intention of finding an F/O or coming up with an S/I to fit into the world, but that's generally not the way things go for me in my experience lmao
My first time watching, I already thought "Marilyn" was a cutie patootie. I remember that my first thought was that she looked a lot like another F/O of mine, Poppy, and that she'd be just my type if she wasn't just a smiley good girl (oh, if only…). I also took notice of her whenever she was onscreen because my family would always go "hey, it's Christina Ricci!" instead of her name.
And then when the mystery picked up (and the show got good, in my opinion), I spent so much time convinced that "Marilyn" was actually the Hyde, who'd been awakened by the deaths of her family and had Larissa as her master. I was so prepared for the angst bomb that would come with that reveal, preemptively feeling so bad for her carrying out these violent acts against her will when she seemed like such a sweet person… Then the actual reveal happened and I went, yeah fuck that gal. I even remember saying at some point after watching that I was so prepared to feel sorry for her and found her attractive, but that all of that went away when I realized she was a prejudiced villain.
So it ended there, right? You would think. But you know what they say about denial not being a river in Egypt…
Winter 2022-2023
Laurel kept coming back into my mind, but I didn't want to ship with her. I'd have little daydreams of myself being a psychic outcast who she'd be using for her nefarious ends but secretly getting attached to, like if Shigeo and Reigen from Mob Psycho 100 were both adults and sapphic. But even though the primordial version of my ship lore was already taking shape in my mind, I still kept thinking shipping with a bigot would be a bridge too far, even if she wasn't bigoted against any real-world groups and my S/I would be from that fictional group. I blame Selfship Tumblr for how long this took.
None of this stopped me from having a dream at some point that involved her doing villainous stuff and me wishing she wouldn't. Or me bringing up that she was a crush to one of my friend groups.
February 2023
So I had another dream.
This one took place in the Addams Family mansion. I was hanging out with them all, just like I was part of their family. And Laurel was there. And she was holding our baby.
I could not deny my love and desire for her any longer. For this reason, I consider February 25, 2023 our anniversary~
March 2023
I first posted publicly on my old blog about adding Laurel to my F/O list on March 18th, after a long time away from Selfship Tumblr: (link)
I then proceeded to go ballistic and have her take over the blog, dethroning my previous main F/O practically overnight, because the brain rot had fully set in. I couldn't deny that Laurel was my fictional soulmate anymore.
This was also around the time my ship lore began to really take shape! My S/I being named Peyton Ravenna and a distant cousin of the Addamses with telekinetic powers, and our first two fankids, Ollie and Marigold Gates! I'd develop them all much more as time went on, but the broad strokes were already there.
April 2023
I wrote my first love letter from Laurel to me, in which I expounded on the sheer feelings I had about our love being a redeeming force for her that would break down the walls that had been programmed into her by her culty upbringing and trauma and grief: (link)
I also got the first addition to my Laurel collection: a keychain featuring her, Wednesday, and Enid! I'd ordered it in March, but it got lost in the mail, so the seller was kind enough to send it again and with some extra stickers to go with it! I keep one of the stickers by my computer and another in my purse so that she can always be with me wherever I am~
