d'Herblay

BtVS watcher since: Saw the part of the Season Premiere where Cordelia and Buffy bond. I watched in drips and drabs until I tuned in cold to the scene in "Nightmares" where Hank tells Buffy the divorce is all her fault. That made me an obsessive.
Hanging out at the ATPoBtVS Posting board since: I bookmarked the site on 1/27/2001. Discovered the posting board when the 1st Anniversary character analyses went up. I made my first post on July 17, 2001.
Origin of posting name: ."D'Herblay" is the name Aramis takes in Vingt ans après and Le Vicomte de Bragelonne. It's supposed to suggest clear, Jesuitical reason and deep moral ambiguity. It instead suggests "pot-smoking sex fiend."
Age / species / day-job: 29; armchair paleontologist; rationalist; materialist; absurdist; skeptic; secular humorist.
Most memorable BtVS/AtS quote: "I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him."
And, "Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass."
Favorite philosopher: I agree most with Mill; I am most fascinated with Hobbes; Beccaria feels like he's mine alone; Montaigne makes the best bedside reading (unless I have insomnia, when I reach for The Nicomachaean Ethics).
TTMQ: Shouldn't a "quotient" involve division? And is this a linear distribution or a bell curve? In relation to society as a whole or just this board? Put me down for 6 2/3.
Strangest thread topic ever posted: "Innocence and nasal ice-cream." Which I haven't yet posted, but I'll get around to it.
Coolest thread topic ever posted: "Exercise in counter-factuals: Where was Dawn?"
Why I love this board more than unlife itself: I used to post at "The Watchers' Diaries." Once I posted a thousand-word argument that the Initiative was not a force for good because of the Buffyverse's innate distrust of beauracracy. I think the only response I got was, "But Riley's so cute!" Here, if I respond to a simple question with an overly complicated exegesis, I know I'll get exegised right back.
Read d'Herblay's character analysis of The Mayor.