Ya Call That a Cynic?

Daria's taking a little trip down under for Australia Day, and with the cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere right now I don't blame her one bit. I do caution her to watch out for the dangerous wildlife, or as they call it in Australia, the wildlife.

Maybe Jake and Helen will join her, so that they can enjoy some quality time together for Spouse’s Day! Of course, we've already seen that planned trips never really work out for them, so better luck next time?

It's just as well for Helen, who would never take the time off anyway. In fact, she's most likely celebrating National Fun at Work Day as we speak!

Fanfic Update!

• The Betrothed, by easmith (parts 1 and 2): "'I saw her again last night.' Dylan paused, the phrase tickling at the back of his mind. 'That’s from a song, isn’t it?'" (Part 2)


• Katie Huegel, by Meester_Lee (part 5): "Jane went into her kitchen that evening to make dinner for one. Trent was over at Monique’s: they’d reconciled again and they were doing whatever they were doing there."


• A Slip, by fridaythesavage (COMPLETE!): "'You know, Morgendorffer, you seem to have changed your attitude lately,' said Jane over an afterschool pizza."


• This is Not America, by ladyevil (part 4): "'And here come the rest of them.' Jane said as she and Daria sat on a small hill overlooking the pond in the park. The Fashion Club gathered to do their community service."


• Titanic - A True Story, by Sheila Wisz Ellayn (part 20): "Captain Edward Smith never quite liked when the ocean looked like this at night."

G'day!

Brittany's found a new and exciting way to celebrate Australia Day, which makes me wonder if Lawndale High has a new exchange student. Considering how she reacted to the French student, maybe Brittany's got a thing for a foreign accent.

Today is also Spouse's Day, so if you have a spouse then be extra nice to them. Helen and Jake, if their marriage in general is any indication, will celebrate by having an argument and then racing each other to the bedroom. It's messed up, but it works for them.

Fandom News!

• Discuss the latest developments with Russia and Ukraine.


• Erin M has a general writing announcement.

No Worries, Daria!

Daria is not too impressed about Australia Day, but that may just be because she's not actually Australian. To all the Australian Daria fans out there, enjoy your day!

Today is also Spouse's Day, so if you have an Australian spouse, then so much the better! Otherwise, let's just reflect on how many dysfunctional marriages exist in Lawndale and count our own blessings, shall we?

Fandom News!

• Contribute to the GoFundMe for Roger E Moore & wife's Cat Sanctuary if you can.


• Fandom is thinking about the late Arena del Sur on the anniversary of his birthday.


• Discuss the latest developments in Venezuela.


• Talk about the upcoming movie Alita: Battle Angel.


• Share Fast Facts about PPMB denizens.


• Scissors MacGillicutty is looking for recommendations for streaming video services besides Netflix and Amazon.


• Shiva posted a new Iron Chef in Creative Writing: Other People's Headcanons.

Uhh...Crikey?

Let's all say "G'day" and other cliches to Daria, the Australian fans, and anyone else celebrating Australia Day today. Aside from Jesse's Crocodile Dundee alter ego, I don't recall any other references to Australia in canon, but if you know of any I've overlooked then please share them in the comments!

Today is also National Peanut Brittle Day, so this would be a good opportunity to turn that leftover peanut butter from the last blog post into candy. Unless you're Jake, in which case it's never a good idea to do anything in the kitchen. Trust me.

Fandom News!

• Wouter explains why he hasn't been very active lately.


• See the latest news about Axanar Productions' fan-supported Star Trek film.


• Does anyone else see similarities between Quinn and a character from Black Mirror?


• Vote in the Big Brother Lawndale poll: It's a question of romance.

G'Day! Crikey! And Other Cliches As Well!

Daria's just thrilled to celebrate Australia Day, Australia's national holiday. I don't remember any Australian Daria characters, but we do have a handful of Daria fans from Down Under. Have a good one, guys!

Fandom News!

• Watch the video of Top 10 Cartoon Weapons. You might be surprised at what you find!


• Meester_Lee is looking for a beta reader.


• Robyn and DIsaac are looking for help with stories they're writing.

Vegemite, Anyone?

G'day, blog readers! Today is Australia Day, a day in which we all reflect on how everything in Australia can kill you. Or something like that.

Fanfic Update!

• Abattoir Blues (1): The Hitman and Her, by LongSnakeMoan (part 11): "We stare at each other, me lying on the floor and him leaning against a low bookcase, neither of us make any attempt to move as I try to work out what’s going on in his head. Maybe he’s trying to work out what’s going on in mine."


• Chapter 5 (Iron Chef; You're Standing on My Immortal), by OverlordMikey (COMPLETE!): "NOTE: screw you all homophones! Trent is now gay except for when he’s kissing Daria, otherwise he dates {insert “goth” band leader person???}. And Dair’a true love I Michael he hot bi boyfriend who isn’t in this chapter - he is not a sue jerk prep trolls!!!"


• Cinema Verite (Daria and the Gang Thread), by Roentgen (COMPLETE!): "Upchuck didn't understand, so O'Neill continued. 'A fifteen second loop of Tiffany Blum-Deckler applying mascara, repeated over and over for an hour is not a movie.' 'Mr. O'Neill...that's not a loop repeated over and over.'"


• Daria meets ME, by Roentgen (parts 1 - 3): "To be blunt, I never liked the inhabitants of Lawndale that much. It was a white-bread middle class community. If some sort of Marxist wanted to condemn the petty-mindedness of the bourgeoisie she couldn't have chosen a better example than Lawndale." (Part 2) (Part 3)


• Daria's Voyager (Ep 1), by cfardell_Brenorenz29 (part 2): "In her Ready Room, Captain Morgendorffer was talking to her fiancé over subspace. 'The doctor called.' 'And?' 'I was right.'"


• DW: The Many Doctors, by cfardell_Brenorenz29 (part 12): "'SGC, do you read?' Mitchell asked. 'We read you, Colonel,' Landry said. 'We’re going to bring the TARDIS back through the gate. Be prepared for possible high speed impact, sir.'"


• Dylan, by J-D (part 17b): "The awkwardness was broken up by Kris’s interruption to draw attention to a rusty old junker pulling up. 'He doesn't care how he looks.' As the driver emerged, Dylan said, 'Uncle Andy?'"


• The Execution (Iron Chef: Throughout The Ages), by Gnome (COMPLETE!): "'And what would be the purpose of this little midnight stroll?' asked Daria as she folded her arms. The knight smiled without mirth and backhanded her with his gauntlet backed hands. He motioned to his followers, and two of them roughly grabbed the stunned woman and half walked, half dragged her, to the cathedral."



• Heroes and Villains Part One: The Incident, by Reven384 (part 5): "Jane walked home thinking about all that had happened. She was worried about Daria. The girl had basically lost her entire family in one night. Daria was holding it together, but she knew her friend was repressing real bad and once the dam bust some needed to be there."


• Jodie and the Hot Tub (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "'Hmmm...' Jodie moaned as she slid into the bubbling hot tub, her nude form relishing the frothing liquid, 'This is what I needed.'" (Continued by Silver)


• Operation Glitterberries, by BF110C4 (part 11.3): "Jake awoke in a hospital in Oakwood two days after the accident, thirsty and hurting from a dozen different places we hadn’t remembered they existed since the hellish years of military school."


• Mrs. Johanssen's New Look... (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "It was supposed to be a relaxing night out for the Cynical Duo, Daria and Jane."


• A Need to Check (Iron Chef: Party at Casa Lane), by SinisterExaggerator (COMPLETE!): "'Simple. I have a nifty little maxim. Freshman year: setting the bar. Sophomore year: still setting the bar.' With each tier of the academic system being namedropped, she extended her hands further. 'Junior year: maintaining the bar. Senior year...' and here she clapped her hands together with a thunderous force, 'YOLO.'"


• Tiffanyzilla (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "Daria and Jane watch the news, regular not Sick Sad, and it's very watchable since it was a live feed of a 65 and a half foot tall Tiffany Blum-Deckler rampaging through downtown Tokyo, shooting fireballs out of her mouth, and destroying buildings with flicks of her hands."


• A Universal History of Annoyance: The Twice-Unmarried Empress, Theodora (Iron Chef: Throughout The Ages), by welltemperedclavier (COMPLETE!): "The woman of whom I now write is a different Theodora, born into the purple as the youngest daughter of Constantine VIII. Little is written of this Theodora’s earliest days, the historians seeing only her father’s endless furies, a man forever shadowed by emperors greater than he." (Part 2) (Part 3)


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: The Sheldon Quotation Theorem), by Staren (COMPLETE!): "Ted walked up while Daria was in the middle of sorting out economics worksheets when he came up, so she could be forgiven for the spectacular mass of papers that found there way on the floor when she processed what he asked."



• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: Throughout The Ages), by Demon-Something (COMPLETE!): "An abrupt ring of a cheap cell-phone jolted Daria Morgendorffer from a nice enough sleep. She let out a groan and threw the sheets back and reached onto the bedside table to her right. Daria picked up the phone with a sigh, despite the clock reading 2:13 in the morning. 'Heeeeeeey, amiga,' Jane slurred into the phone, tipsy off something Daria couldn't immediately recognize, 'I totally wanted to talk about sum'thin, y'know?'"


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef; You're Standing on My Immortal), by LongSnakeMoan (COMPLETE!): "Hi, mi name is Duharea Mizeree Meluncoliee Morjanduffer. I have kewl red hur tht gos 2 mi shouldrs and brwn eyes lyk choculat."


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef; You're Standing on My Immortal), by percussivemaintenance (COMPLETE!): "Once there was a girl name daria morningsnorer she was cool an sarcasm! she had brownish red hare that was kol and kol bangs and glass her glassare hot and round!"


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef; You're Standing on My Immortal), by PrecambrianStudios (COMPLETE!): "daria went and made a spell that gave all the other peeples at hugwars ice cream and they all said yay and they ate the ice cream but then a gigantic spaceship flew out of nowhere and it was anakin skywalker wos culer than luke and he said the darak side is here i must destroy it and hten he want and killed snape becayse he was bads."


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef; You're Standing on My Immortal), by SinisterExaggerator (COMPLETE!): "i fel uhslip n i woak up n i foun miself in lawndael n i tuk a luk at miself n i realeyesed "wholey crap (shit iz a no-no wrd), i cartoon;'"


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by DIsaac (COMPLETE!): "COMMON SENSE COMES AT YOU REALLY FAST! (Daria is walking home, and as she approaches her house, she sees Tom parked in front, At that very moment A Driver pulls before she gets to Tom) THE DRIVER: (in a New Hyundai) Get in."


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by mac (COMPLETE!): "Yes, thought Daria, compared to everyone else I've met at Lawndale so far, Jane seems like the best choice for an acquaintance, if not a friend."



• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by PrecambrianStudios (COMPLETE!): "'Hey,' Jane said to her brother as she walked into the living room. Trent was staring wide-eyed at the TV. 'Trent? You okay? Did one of those spinning circles come on?' 'No, Janie. I just saw Reefer Madness. Man, weed can really mess you up.'"


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by PrecambrianStudios (COMPLETE!): "Walking into the backyard to find a nice, cool spot to read, Daria saw Quinn crouching next to a pipe with a tin cup and a shovel. She had obviously been digging a hole. What the cup was for, Daria couldn't determine."


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by Roentgen (COMPLETE!): "Upchuck noticed someone behind him. It was Daria. 'Ahhhh!!' he cried when he noticed her. 'OhGodOhGod pleasedonthurtmeI'msorry!'"


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by Silver (COMPLETE!): "'Dar-eeee-uhhhhh! Time to wake up....' Daria tried to do that. Her eyes slowly opened to an industrial hell. She tried to push herself upright, but couldn't move her arms. Her eyes shot down, widening at the sight of the straitjacket."


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by thatLONERchick (COMPLETE!): "Daria and Jane sat on Jane's bed, watching TV and eating junk food as on any other day. Trent wandered in, reached down and snagged a cookie from an open pack. He took a bite and grimaced at the flavor."


• We All Scream (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by SinisterExaggerator (COMPLETE!): "'Kevin, there is no way this can possibly work out in our favor.' 'C'mon, Mack Daddy! You said that if we wanted to edge out the competition, we had to be individidual or something like that.'"


• The World is Yours (Scenes no Daria fic should have:Stupid, Silly and Disturbing), by SinisterExaggerator (COMPLETE!): "'Jane,' asked Daria, 'did you ever get the feeling you were being watched?'"

G'Day...Yeah.

Happy Australia Day, everyone! Aside from that Crocodile Dundee alter ego there, I promise not to make any horrible Australia puns or pop culture references. I'm afraid that if I piss off the Aussies, they might send some of their flora and/or fauna after me. That stuff's deadly, man.

See a thread started by Deref at the PPMB if you'd like a perspective on the day from someone who, you know, actually lives there.

Fandom News!

• The results for the 2011 Daria Fanworks Awards have been announced! See the winners for Written Works and Visual Works!


• Fhujeth_x posted Stacy and Sandi cosplay videos.


• Dervish wonders, what would ruin an astrophysicist?


• Teeki wants advice on getting an ex to leave you alone.


• What happened to Goofy's wife...? Share your theories in the thread!


• Talk about your favorite first person shooter games in a new thread.


• D.T. Dey suggests Jennette McCurdy as Daria.


• mmmdraco and OverlordMikey will be participating in an Angst-Off. Check it out, but brace yourself for the inevitable carnage!


• Charles RB posted a new Iron Cuisine in Creative Writing: Daria, the Mike Judge pilot version.


• Wouter posted a new art Iron Chef in The Easel: Party like it's 1995.

G'day, Oz!

Jesse, still shirtless, poses as Crocodile Dundee in honor of Australia Day. Cheers to all Daria fans in Oz! A reflection on Australia Day is offered on PPMB by Deref, a long-time fan.

This is also the birthday anniversary of celebrated SF writer Philip Jose Farmer, who created the Wold-Newton family of which Jane Lane is a part, as least in my opinion. (The last link explains all.)

WARNING: Superfan and webmaster Wraith reports that the Daria fandom site Sick Sad World has been hacked. He is repairing the damage, and we will report when the site is back up.

A PPMB art thread that began with an innocent request for images of Amy Barksdale has turned into a month-long discussion / argument over assumed breast sizes among various Daria inhabitants. If this issue is relevant to your interests, you know what to do.

Ranger Thorne, long live his name, has started an amusing thread about student superlatives (most likely to succeed, etc.). Please visit and contribute!

Moar when I figure out what to post.

S'trewth! It's Australia Day, Mate!

It is indeed Australia Day, when we celebrate all things Australian, like 'roos in the top paddock (seen here in an image from Animal Pervert. I mean, Planet).

It is also the new Chinese New Year, forgot which animal (kangaroos, probably, but I can't translate 農曆新年), and the birthday of that wacky talk-show icon Ellen DeGeneres, whose fans cannot for some reason stop talking about whether Daria is a lesbian. My gosh, you'd think they were Daria fans too or something. Ellen is 51.

More soon, not with it yet, but not quite as not with it as I was yesterday, when I wasn't with it at all.

MOAR: I've been reading over the list of cartoon-oriented people that Ellen's fans think are lesbians. Good Lord! Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble? Buttercup? DORA THE EXPLORA? Damn, people!

Mindful that it is almost the end of January and we haven't yet talked about Helen Morgendorffer's prize-winning breasts, we will devote a little space here to talking about Who on Daria Do You Think Is Most Likely to Be a Lesbian, and Why. You can talk about as many characters as you want, but you have to pick your Main Choice.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You cannot bring up Daria and Jane. They've been done to death. Forget 'em. ALSO cannot bring up Alison, who came right out and said she was bi. Forget her, too.

As for the ones I don't think are lesbians or had any sort of lesbianical experiences:

• Helen Morgendorffer. With all apologies to a certain fan whose initials are BG, Helen was straight right out of the gate. She wants the Big Jake. Constantly.
• Brittany Taylor. Despite that wild tactical routine in "The Daria Hunter," nope. Never even crosses her tiny but well-meaning mind as she humps her merry way through every guy in Lawndale County.
• Janet Barch. Despite her martial-arts ass-kicking on DeMartino in "The New Kid," nope. Never even crosses her mind. She wanted a Mushy Banana Male of her own, for which all lesbians everywhere can be thankful.
  

My pick? (see next post)