The clincher here is that he just seems SO much more invested in Joyce than most fans. I mean, I love Joyce. Lots of people did. But he obviously has a much deeper attachment than usual. He's gonna break.

"The Body" aired after my dad died. I don't really whether or not I cried, I assume I did. I remember the episode made me angry.

Monday it looks. We've got Phases and then Bewitched, etc. to finish out this week.

He should love Phases, then, since he's all about Oz, and about Willow/Oz. Yay!

I saw it once, and I think that will do for me for the forseeable future.

I watched it more than once, and it was sad, but acceptably so. Then Tim's mom died, and I'm pretty sure I can never watch it again. That and "Up."

Joyce kind of reminds me of my mom. I don't think I'll watch The Body again. Which is weird, given the stuff I like, but those bodies...are bodies. (Adena Watson excepted, perhaps.) They "exist" so some mope can kill them, someone else can do the ballistics and Frank Pembleton can elegantly mindfuck the mope into confessing.(Even within that framework, there are exceptions, "Bop Gun" and "Colors" come to mind, as well as "3 Men and Adena") but mostly? procedurals don't let you feel the loss.

Hey, Villaness soaps does a Miss Edith soap/scent: [link]

Oooh, I may need to get that the next time I place an order with Villaness. Their products are wonderful.

Jilli, you were primarily who I thought of when I saw that.

I've had such bad luck with BPAL's scents all turning to Play-Doh on me, I'm reluctant to try Villaness's perfume oils, although there are several scents I would like to try. Although the Play-Doh might be unique to BPAL, since I mix my own lavender/sandalwood oil mix, and I can wear it all day and it never turns to Play-Doh.

(I actually LOVE the way Play-Doh smells, but not ON me. Something that smells like grass is supposed to STAY that way, not turn to Play-Doh.)

I haven't tried any of Villainess' perfume oils, but their soaps and scrubs are delicious. (And the owner told me that I partially inspired the Bloodsugar soap, which is blood orange and cotton candy.)

re: Mark Watches--does it make me a bad human being to get tired of people being horrified and heartbroken that the show doesn't address all the social ills they personally abhor and it's just the most awful thing ever?

does it make me a bad human being to get tired of people being horrified and heartbroken that the show doesn't address all the social ills they personally abhor and it's just the most awful thing ever?

Around the time I left the freak-ass church, the plotline on Friends was Rachel being pregnant. And the girls in the FAC loved to watch Friends, but were appalled -- pearl-clutchingly so -- that Rachel wouldn't get married since she was pregnant, and the show would be SO much better if she got married!

And I was like, It's *fiction,* not a damn sermon! The plot serves the story, not an agenda, WTF?!?

Which is basically how I feel about BTVS not being a pro-Romani bandwagon. Don't give a crap. It's fiction. Shoehorning in A Message makes for really, really crappy fiction.