Shakespeare Sonnet LXVIII

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before the bastard signs of fair were born
,Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head
;Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,
Making no summer of another's green,
Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;
And him as for a map doth Nature store,
To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

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Hermes is still the cutest thing ever.

He adores my huge teddy bear. Well, adores biting it.

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Two people recced this article. And wow.

Let me count the ways that I disagree with it.

A) Tara. Whom I have always loved. Chick has always had a personality.

B) Willow. I love Willow's arc. Of course, she'd blame it on the magic. Willow would never admit that it might possibly be her fault.

C) Xander. The article says, "He so feared turning into his bigoted, abusive, alcoholic father that he allowed his fear to turn him into the very thing he loathes." No, he didn't. He saw what was happened. He chose not to get married so that he could confront his problems. He had problems. But he has never been abusive. Ever. He may not have been tactful, but there's a difference. And we have never seen him drunk. We've seen him drink, yes, but not drunk. And he isn't a bigot. Yeah, he doesn't trust Spike. Why the hell should he? He had no problem with the multitude of demons that Anya invited to the wedding, other than being icked about D'Hoffren, the guy who offered demonhood to Willow. But why should Xander trust Spike? Do I really need to mention everything that Spike has done? Maybe I should make a list of Spike Offenses. Seriously.

I do agree with the gist about Anya.

D) Spike is possibly the biggest area of disagreement for me. I see Spike being love's bitch, as always, but he'd still kill someone the second he got the chip out if he was soulless. I don't know, maybe I'm just a bitch when it comes to Spike, but I doubt that I would have acted any differently than Xander when it came to him. I mean, it says, "whether Spike refrains from eating someone out of love or principle, I doubt the potential Happy Meal gives a damn." But he hasn't done that. He couldn't bit people. He has never chosen not to bit out of love, unless you're counting Buffy herself.

On Suicide:

From Conversations with God, an uncommon dialogue; Book Three by Neale Donald Walsch (and God).
Why is there such a taboo against the ending of one's life?
( Indeed, why is there? )