Leaping Into a Rare Holiday

Jodie and Mack are clearly having a super Leap Day, and considering this day only comes around once every four years I'd say that's a good thing. So, to all of the Daria fans out there, go ahead and take a flying leap!

Although today is National Toast Day, I assume it's completely permissible to have toast more often than every four years. Indeed, Daria can recommend it as a great remedy if you end up at a greasy spoon after a long road trip full of humiliation and carsickness.

Leap? Leap! Leap Leap!

Jodie and Mack are leaping in honor of Leap Day, and you can tell someone to go take a flying leap too, if you want! Or just enjoy the random extra day tacked onto this year's calendar. I just want to know one thing, though. If we were going to get an extra day, why did it have to be a Monday?

Fanfic Update!

• Action Stories #6: Struck by Lightning, by NightGoblyn (parts 4 and 5): "'This is amazing,' Dr. Klein muttered, staring at her computer display. 'I'm going to have to revise some of my theories, and I'm not the only one. This could mean that we were in error about some of the fundamental underpinnings of scientific thought.'" (Part 5)


• Cynic and a Six-String, by fringeperson (part 2): "Daria didn't get to meet the infamously sleeping elder brother until about a week after the self-esteem classes were behind them."


• Daria: College Pains The Sophomore Year, by James the Lesser (part 15): "Quinn screams with Lindy and a couple others as Mystic Spiral finish up their set. They are at a huge concert set up by MTV."


• A Friendship Past, by elainefr (COMPLETE!): "'You look great tonight,' he openly admired how the soft green of the top that she wore brought out the fleck of gold in her brown eyes."


• The Geek's Expose, by cfardell_Brenorenz29 (part 1): "At the Morgendorffer's house, they were watching a home video, from Daria's third birthday. Young Quinn blew out the birthday candle's first. 'Hey! You're ruining my birthday cake!' Young Daria said."


• Hana Hou, Pt 2, by metameric1 (parts 7 and 8): "She looked down towards the tiny cove, and even in the bright, early afternoon light the scene was surreal." (Part 8)


• James the Lesser Presents Vinny Lane, by James the Lesser (part 32): "Vinny nears the track coaches house while out on a run. 'Show time.' The coach had started bothering him about joining the track team again."


• Lawndale & Sandi Griffin's Genie: Future Excerpt 1, by cfardell_Brenorenz29 (part 4): "When Quinn, Daria, Trevor and Elly entered the assembly hall they found another person entering through another door. 'You are looking for the emerald to?' she asked."


• New and Old (Iron Chef: Random Pairing Challenge 2016!), by VolantRedX (COMPLETE!): "Daria had been at this fancy party ten minutes and was already regretting twisting Tom's arm about not asking her to these things."

Leap? Leap?! Leap Leap!

Happy Leap Day! It only comes around once every four years, so try to make it a good one. Daria invites everyone to celebrate by going away and taking a giant leap.

It was also on this day in 1960 that the first Playboy Club opened in Chicago. This is probably Upchuck's most revered day in history, right up there next to the night of Jodie Landon's graduation party.

Fandom News!

• What are your best tips for fighting writer's block?


• If PPMBers were My Little Ponies, who would be which one?


• Share your book recommendations in a new thread.


• Roentgen started a plot outline project: Daria: Simpsons Did It First.


• Four new Iron Chefs were posted in Creative Writing: Vukodlak's The Talk, ThanatosRW's This years model, Wouter's bought on the net, and oni's The Wish endings.


• Wouter posted a new art Iron Chef: Bought on the net.

Happy Leap Year Day!

This was the most fitting pic I could find for Leap Year Day: Sk8er Daria.

Anyway, a new page has been added to DariaWiki: Science fiction! Please have a look at it and feel free to expand upon it at length. I have a few more things to add to it, but it's almost done as is. Westerns, horror, and some other major genres for classifying Daria fanfic are still to come. It is my secret hope that pages like this will encourage people to read older fanfics when they are displayed in original ways.

More soon. Okay, back again.

Here's an interesting mini-essay, on a blog called Conservatory Bound: "An Ode to Trent Lane." Interesting. Anyone else have this problem?

Another fan club, too, on Bebo.com: Daria Morgendorffer

More soon. More Bebo groups. Hmm, how to handle this. Does anyone reading this blog use social networking websites? I can post a truckload of them if so. Some of them are big, most are very small.

More soon.