Cassie's Poetry and Paintings

Cassie's Poetry and Paintings was the website of Cassie Newton.

Details
Due to the overwhelming nature of her powers and the usual challenges of adolescence, Cassie mantained an online diary, in which she uploaded her drawings, paitings and poetry (described by Xander as "Always a sign of pretentious inner turmoil"), which led the Scooby Gang to wrongly believe that Cassie considered suicide. Willow found Cassie's website by googling her name.

Trivia
In Help, to emphasise the dramatics of teenagehood, Cassie maintained an online diary. Following a suggestion from Joss Whedon, the production team decided to create this website for real, complete with poetry. It was actually composed and created by Rebecca Rand Kirshner, the episode writer. The site was created and hosted at Geocities, and the writers even registered a domain name for it in the name of Cassie Newton.

The whois entry for the domain name was interesting:

Creation Date........ 2002-09-14 Registration Date.... 2002-09-14 Expiry Date.......... 2003-09-14 Organisation Name.... Cassie Newton Organisation Address. 13 Shadow Lane Organisation Address. Organisation Address. Sunnydale Organisation Address. 94086 Organisation Address. CA Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name........... Cassie Newton Admin Address........ 13 Shadow Lane Admin Address........ Admin Address........ Sunnydale Admin Address........ 94086 Admin Address........ CA Admin Address........ UNITED STATES Admin Email.......... newcassie@yahoo.com Admin Phone.......... 666-442-8363

Thus Cassie lived at 13 Shadow Lane, Sunnydale. 94086 is actually the ZIP Code for Sunnyvale, CA. Sunnyvale is much further north than the supposed location of Sunnydale, but the similar names make it a logical joke. The use of 666 in the phone number is typical of Whedon's sense of humour.

The site became extremely popular, exceeded its download limits, and the site guestbook filled up some thirty times over.

When the domain name registry lapsed, the Geocities site was deleted; the Internet Archive has a cached copy. The domain name is now registered to a company in Hong Kong.