Re: OT: from mudrat

["mudrat_26" <mudrat_26@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aww, now I feel bad, Dan. Didn't want to make you drink from the Big 
Vat O' Bitterness on your birthday. :-(

Happy thoughts, happy thoughts...

OK, I'll share Willow. I'll be good. My possessiveness was heavily 
influenced by my libido anyway. I gotta do something about keeping 
that in check...maybe... 



--- In buffywantswillow@y..., danspector@w... wrote:
> Mudrat,
> 
> Well, I'm afraid I'm a few years late for "30 therapy". Would 
grumble
> more about my advancing years, but we had a survey a few months 
ago, and
> while I'm older than a lot of folks, I'm younger than some, so it'd 
be
> gauche.
> 
> Thanks for the birthday wishes, though.
> 
> And of course she's my Willow. And yours, and all of ours. "We 
are all
> Willow, but we are also all Cordelia" says Joss on the Season 1 
DVDs.
> (So we are all psychotic murderers, and we are also all bland,
> platitude-spewing demons with godawful hair? Oops, still got a 
hate on
> for Joss, there.) Anyway, Willow speaks to some fundamental part of
> each of us, connecting us to our greater humanity, forgiving Xander,
> Cordelia, Oz, Jenny, Giles, Angel, Amy, Riley, Dawn, Tara and (many,
> many times) Buffy. She gives Angel back his soul after he 
slaughters
> her hero, doesn't want Buffy to kill Faith after Faith was seconds 
away
> from slaughtering Willow herself, insists on saving Spike from 
suicide
> because she can't bear to see anyone in pain, and can't even think 
of
> killing Ben to stop Glory. She always tries to see the best in
> everything, whether it's rooting on a Buffy/Angel romance she knows 
has
> no chance, hoping that when Buffy found Giles drinking it 
was "tea?", or
> finding a way to sympathize with Buffy and understand her affair 
with
> Spike. She loves Oz when he's wolfy, and Tara even if she's a 
demon (or
> brainsucked) --
> 
> Oh, wait, she's a powerhungry bitch with no morals, who has always
> resented Buffy, can't stand Shiny McWhiny (the same girl whose side 
she
> constantly took in Season 5) and uses magic to fix her life because
> she's immature and needs to "grow up". Bite me, Joss. (**That**
> Willow, you're welcome to.)
> 
> Dan
> 
> Unable to reply to simple birthday greeting without at least 
sampling a
> little bit o' bitter.