Way Back When

Ten years ago this evening, MTV aired a special called "Behind the Scenes with Daria." You can find mention of it in various places, like this one. I've never had the chance to see it and was wondering if anyone else has. This sounds like it would be a great extra to add to a DVD release of Daria. Was anything presented that would be of special interest to us today?

Speaking of DVDaria, no news. Look at how sad Daria is, another year and no DVD. How can they hurt her so? Poor sad Daria.

I figured nothing else has worked till now, may as well try guilt.

More later. Back to fixing Backgrounders and writing fanfiction.


BREAKING NEWS!

Winners of the 2008 Daria Fanworks Awards are out! Written Works Winners & Visual Works Winners are out there! Congratulations to all, and cheers for everyone!

More Sparkly Thoughts for Lovers

Kevin has a romantic thought to share, too.

In other news:

Disco316 has kindly listed all the nominations for best Daria Fanworks of 2008 in DariaWiki. Thank you for that!

Speaking of which, VOTE NOW in the runoff poll on PPMB for the best of a four-way tie in the awards.

Speaking of DariaWiki, more pages have been added and updated. Brother Grimace offers us Echo Base, Disco316 gave us Divaween, and Nighthawk updated Highland. All three (plus Doggieboy, Ranger Thorne, Vlademir1, and João Paulo Costa ) also worked on many other pages as well. Cheers to you!

Know of any (credible) research that's been done on the Daria fandom? Neither do I, but if you find some, tell everyone here about it.

If you have some fanfic-writing or fan-art-creating plans for 2009, tell everyone about it here, then get to work.

New fanfiction will be given in my next post. Do it to it!

VOTE!

Time is running out to vote for the 2008 Daria Fanworks Awards. Give a nod of thanks for your favorite works of the year.

And don't worry, none of the vote counters live in Minnesota! :)

Daria Wants You To Vote

The nominations are up for the 2008 Daria Fanworks Awards, or Booties. Lots of good stuff this year, so savor the nominations and vote for your favorites.

Written works are here.

Visual Works are here.

How to vote is here.

Somebody Forgot the Bug Spray

No, not really, but TAG did invite me to write for the blog, so here I am.

He said I needed to write something about Daria or Daria fandom. Hmm…something tells me that there's little interest in the important role of entomology in Daria, so I guess I better come up with something else. Since I've been a longtime series writer, how about something simple, like a look at some of my favorite fanfiction series?

In no particular order:

The A.D. Universe by Mr Anonymous

Unseen Phenomenon by Wildgoose

The Driven Wild Universe by Kara Wild

The Lost Seasons by C.E. Forman

The Other Side of Time by The Sidhe

Pause in the Air by The Angst Guy

Though each series is dramatically different from the others, each has a special spark that makes them memorable. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

Oh, and speaking of favorites, don't forget to nominate yours for the 2008 Daria Fanworks Awards. The deadline is 23:59 UT, January 10.