September Surprises

This is an important month for fandom anniversaries. Kara Wild began working on Contrarian's Corner nine years ago this month. According to Richard Lobinske's Falling into College timeline, September is the month in which Wind Lane was born (41 years ago) and Helen Morgendorffer started law school (31 years ago). Quinn planned to break up with Skylar this month. And there was Daria's interview in Jump magazine eleven years ago, in which she passed along important advice on having a good school year.

Today also turns out to be an important day in a number of fanfics. Indeed, early September (and the start of school) figures prominently in even more stories. An attempt to list a few of these tales follows.

• Scarlett (about 12 years ago)
• Cat Fights (about 10 years ago)
• Snowflakes (9 years ago)
• Broken Star (7 years ago)
• Alien Heritage (7 years from now)

Perhaps the most unusual anniversary today is that 15 years ago a new animated series was begun on MTV that had a connection to Beavis and Butt-head, and thus to Daria. (Butt-head had a cameo in the first episode.)

The Head is little known nowadays, but it had very interesting characters, great dialogue, and an appealing and humorous atmosphere. If you manage to get a copy of the VHS tape for the first year of the show, grab it. Lots of fun to watch. If you can fit it together with Daria and Beavis and Butt-head in your fanfics, more power to you. I'm giving it a shot myself.

Wild for Contrarians Day

The last update for Kara Wild's Contrarian's Corner was exactly one year ago. I love that website. Though now dormant, it's got tons of great stuff, from stories to fandom histories, artwork to interviews. Let each of us raise a glass of [insert favorite beverage here] and toast the immortal CC goodness, and also toast Kara's new career as Helen Morgendorffer. Kick legal booty!

A major fanon character in Dariadom died on this date, 145 years ago. See if you can guess who that was before you click here.

In the realm of Daria news on the Internet, look for the golden note in this report on strange websites.

Now 865 members in the Daria Fan Club. I need to add more quiz questions.

Richard Lobinske, Brother Grimace, and NightGoblyn have done wonderful things on DariaWiki. The most recent new page: Night. (Who? Click and see. Weird.)

Among the many items added to Outpost Daria a few days ago was an old-school shipper essay by Fayth S: Improbable but not Impossible. Interesting read, with evidence to support its thesis.

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• Box to the Future, by Smileyfax (Part 5): Ow! Ouch! A bit of angst there. And this story went from being merely brilliant to full-fledged genius.

PPMB

• The Lawndalian Candidate, by MMan (continued): "You said I'd never amount to anything, didn't you, Old Man? Well, LOOK AT ME NOW! TAKE THAT! I'M THE GODDAM PRESIDENT! IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU? HUH?! HUH?!" [I so love this.]
  
• Sarcasm at 1600, by Mike Xeno (Part 16 at last! Yay!): "Rule four," Jodie continued, "Quinn speaks when spoken to."

More exciting news to come!