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She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.

Willow ,'Help'

Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!

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Polter-Cow - Jan 03, 2012 2:06:37 pm PST #8071 of 10459

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Is it just the term crazy that's not allowed or is it any term that means mentally ill that has a negative connotation, like insane.

The latter. Crazy, insane, psycho, etc.

I think he was just really excited about Spike and focused on the general plot, and there wasn't a good place for him to talk about Dru in the review. There have been other reviews where he completely leaves out or awards very little space to events I would have considered worth writing about, so I guess it's a matter of what he wants to focus the review on.

Ginger - Jan 03, 2012 2:13:08 pm PST #8072 of 10459

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

You know, he hasn't really seen Drusilla in her full glory. He may find he has to use crazy after all.

askye - Jan 03, 2012 2:13:21 pm PST #8073 of 10459

Thrive to spite them

Okay, I kinda scanned through the reasoning for not using crazy. I missed what PWMD was the first time. I guess mental illnesses are included in the mental disabilities part of PWMD?

§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 2:16:07 pm PST #8074 of 10459

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But the sort of mentally ill that Drusilla is *is* a negative connotation. I don't want to get into a debate if they all are, but she damned sure is. Give her a word, dammit.

DavidS - Jan 03, 2012 2:25:55 pm PST #8075 of 10459

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But the sort of mentally ill that Drusilla is *is* a negative connotation. I don't want to get into a debate if they all are, but she damned sure is. Give her a word, dammit.

Right, it's problematic to call her craziness "mental illness" since she's actively evil in a bizarrely unstable way. It makes her evil ways sound like she's got a deficit of neurotransmitters - like she's not choosing it - but I don't think you can separate the evil from the crazy in her case.

P.M. Marc - Jan 03, 2012 2:27:12 pm PST #8076 of 10459

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

How the hell is he going to handle Normal Again?

sj - Jan 03, 2012 2:30:42 pm PST #8077 of 10459

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I can't even imagine how to describe what Angel did to Druscilla, other than to say that he drover her crazy or insane.

Scrappy - Jan 03, 2012 2:38:41 pm PST #8078 of 10459

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

You could say he damaged her.

askye - Jan 03, 2012 2:39:30 pm PST #8079 of 10459

Thrive to spite them

would describing her as a vampire with psychosis be acceptable? Or a psychotic vampire.

Her behavior fits the technical definition of psychosis

Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations).

You could say Angel drove Druscilla to a mental breakdown that left her in a permanent state of psychosis that is made worse by her lack of a soul.

le nubian - Jan 03, 2012 3:07:38 pm PST #8080 of 10459

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

but she is cray-cray!

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