A ROSE by Any Other NAME....

I'm very sorry to report that Mr. DeMartino has chosen to celebrate Red Rose Day in the very worst way possible. I suppose it could be worse...it could have been Upchuck.

I hope that if you see someone dressed in nothing but rose petals that it's someone you love, because it's Loving Day and that would be much more appropriate. Although I wouldn't wish this fate on even people I don't like, because who wants to have to pick rose petals out of awkward places?

Honestly, I'd much rather celebrate National Peanut Butter Cookie Day with Rita and Helen once they've finished cooking the pre-made dough. Celebrate by eating the cookies, that is. Not wearing them. Just thought it would be a good idea to clarify.

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You Could Always Make Rose-Shaped Cookies!

If you want to celebrate Red Rose Day by throwing those overpriced soon-to-be-dead plants in the garbage, then go right ahead. I won't stop you.

Instead, I highly recommend celebrating National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. They're far cheaper to make or buy and taste far better than roses do. Or so I assume, having never eaten a rose before.

A Rose By Any Other Name...Is Still Trash

I would say that this goes against the spirit of Red Rose Day, but then again I'm pretty sure the spirit of Red Rose Day is to sell a bunch of overpriced flowers. So I'm not going to judge! I prefer the chocolate roses--cheaper, tastier, and they don't die on you.

Today is also National Peanut Butter Cookie Day, and I recommend celebrating by baking some heart-shaped cookies for that special annoying someone and being super creepy about it.

Roses Are Red....

Kevin and his fantasy girlfriend (does he really have any other kind, Brittany included?) are happily celebrating Red Rose Day. Meanwhile, Tom should probably fish the roses he got for Daria out of the garbage just in case this is one of the days that she likes sentimental yet meaningless holidays.

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Roses are Red....

It's Red Rose Day, so take those flowers out of the garbage can and give them to someone special! Unless that someone special stands you up, in which case go ahead and trash those things.

Fanfic Update!

• Cynic and a Six-String, by fringeperson (part 17): "The Spiral, Jane and Daria were planning on going for a burger – no, not one for all of them to share – after the band had finished their single set at McGrundy's."


• Daria Ravenclaw: The Highland Years, by Meester_Lee (parts 7a and 7b): "Daria went to school the next day with a feeling of excitement about the Holiday Pageant. Today was show day and she felt ready, as did members of the chorus and the schoolmates who were going to be doing the holiday play." (Part 7b)


• Family Ties, by Princess_Pasta (parts 1 - 3): "It was 3:00 PM on a balmy, July afternoon when Daria Morgendorffer's left came to a screeching halt." (Part 2) (Part 3)


• Quinn's Code 16: The Geek's Expose, by cfardell_Brenorenz29 (part 2): "'... And then you open the window and say, "Life is a meaningless descent into the void." Then you jump, and on the way down you scream, "Now I understand, I understand everything,"' Daria said. 'That's quite existential,' Jennifer mused. 'That's the point!' Daria grumbled."


• Trouble in the Future (Chapter 1), by cfardell_Brenorenz29 (part 2): "James approached the Marie Green vehicle. He swiped his card on the port. Access Denied. Marie Green Agents only. 'Of course,' he said. But there were still other ways."


• What If The Storm Killed Them?, by The Madi Hatter (part 6): "Jane and Will where cooking breakfast when they heard feet coming down the stairs. 'Good Morning big brother!' Jane sang without noticing it was Daria and Trent, Hip to hip with Daria looking half asleep."

Roses Are Red, Tom's Feeling Blue

Don't throw your roses away today, because it's Red Rose Day! I'm sure that's not any comfort to Tom, though, who just got stood up. Poor guy, but maybe Daria's more of a carnations kind of girl anyway.

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• View the 10 Fonts Designers Love to Hate and post in the follow-up thread, Why do people hate comic sans?


• Robyn posted a new Iron Chef in Creative Writing: Daria in the Past.

Roses are Red, Tom's Feeling Blue...

Happy Red Rose Day! Tom Sloane should fish that bouquet out of the trash and get into the spirit of the day, too. Then again, if Daria Morgendorffer was pissed off at me for reasons I didn't understand, I'd probably feel much the same way.

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By Any Other Name....

Happy Red Rose Day! Celebrate it by stopping to smell the above-mentioned roses, giving one to that special someone, or throwing an entire bouquet of them in the trash after being stood up by your girlfriend. Or you can ignore red roses entirely and check out today's fanfic update!

• Adobe Nights (IC "You Look Familiar" Entry), by Lord Yellowtail (COMPLETE!): "She tried to swear, but was too busy fighting off what felt like her lungs trying to escape through her throat as she staggered over to one of the alley walls, grabbing a trashcan with both hands and willing her lungs to pull their shit together long enough for her to get some air before she fucking passed out alone in a back alley in East LA. She managed to steady herself enough to lift a hand from the trashcan and pull her rebreather towards her lips, but it wouldn’t do her much good if she couldn’t get some air, like, five minutes ago. Breathebreathebreathe--"


• Bad Timing (Scenes no Daria fanfic should have: It's Friday!!), by thatLONERchick (COMPLETE!): "Daria had just stepped out of the shower when the bathroom door swung inward and Max stood staring from the doorway. 'Uh....' he commented smartly, just before a bottle of body lotion met his forehead with considerable force."


• Boxing Ms. Morgendorffer, by Chris Tucker (part 1): "As she sat on her sofa and went through the day's mail, there was a birthday card from her parents. Happily retired to Florida 5 years previously, the letter contained a check from Mom and Dad, $2000 dollars, the annual birthday share of the proceeds from the sale of the house in Lawndale."


• Dimwits & Dragons, by Ken T. (part 6): "Daria looked up at her friend, 'If you could manage Mystik Spiral on the road, this should be a cake walk. Just find Mack, get his bow, beat the warlord and do me a very big favor.' Jane sighed, 'OK, what?' Daria reached out and wrapped her arms around her friend, 'Don't die.'"


• Doctor Who – The Many Doctors (Non-Daria), by cfardell_Brenorenz29 (part 1): "The Doctor told his companions to run. They ran to a nearby park and hid behind some trees before the figures in the ship could see them. 'What are they Doctor?' Felicia asked, wondering whether this was what the TARDIS was disturbed about. But at the moment she thought that thought, though, she knew that it wasn’t what the TARDIS was disturbed about. The TARDIS was disturbed about something else."


• God Save The Esteem Ep31: Achy Jakey Heart, by Charles RB (parts 5 and 6): "The two women were both dressed demurely and properly, but that was the only similarity: Grandma Ruth showed her age, while Aunt Eve looked younger than fifty at first glance. At second glance, the unwrinkled skin was due to makeup and her chestnut brown hair was a dye job and her eyes looked as tired as her mother’s. At second glance, Daria thought, they looked the same after all." (Part 6)


• Man of the House, by Smijey: "'Come on, your holiness,' Daria chided. '"A wild, rolling, surging ocean of love"? Don't tell me that's from the Bible.' 'You said what?' I asked, leaning over the fallen man of the cloth. 'You said WHAT to my daughter?' An icy clamp had settled over my heart, and for once the Old Man shut up without having been drowned in an ocean of beer."


• The New J's, by GingerLove84 (COMPLETE!): "She had come a long way from the clothing obsessed little brat she had been, she thought idly as she gazed down at her holey jeans and baggy sweatshirt. Much to her chagrin, she realized she was wearing two different shoes. Gawd, she groaned inwardly, What happened to me?"


• Not So Different 41: A Hard Journey And Back Again, by J-D (COMPLETE!): "In retrospect, Jane had been right to suggest that there was the possibility of something good from going to that stupid medieval fair. Of course, he’d done that with Jane, and she had wanted to go, but she didn’t want to go on this hill trek. Or at least that’s what she’d told him. But now that he thought about it, she’d been careful to find out his opinion first before giving hers. He looked at the money again. The point of a fifty-dollar bill was to get fifty dollars of value out of it ...."


• Not So Different 42: Bad And Good Ideas, by J-D (COMPLETE!): "‘Say, babe ...’, he began, but Jane cut him off. ‘I have a boyfriend’, she said, and, as Sonny finished writing, tore a page out of his notebook and handed it to her, ‘He goes to another school.’ ‘Is he a loser too?’ ‘Do you know’, Jane said, ‘the idea of asking him has never crossed my mind?’"


• Not So Different 43: Impossible, Barely Possible, Only Too Likely, by J-D (COMPLETE!): "Quinn and Lane made the final adjustments to Jacob’s pre-prepared mask. They’d already fitted the rest of his disguise. Ruttheimer was monitoring the security system as Mack broke them into the building. Now it was time for a quick check to make sure that the earpiece was still working under the mask. Jacob pointed at Lane and she spoke softly into her microphone. When she came through five by five he made a ‘thumbs up’ gesture and then pointed at Mack to test his microphone. After a second ‘thumbs up’, he signalled everybody into position."


• The Ol' Switcheroo (Iron Chef: Stealing Tom), by Hyrin (COMPLETE!): "Sandi checked her hair one last time, making sure no roots showed. She checked herself in the full length mirror, then nodded. Perfect."


• Rude Awakening Ep. 6: Divas NOT Wanted!, by DIsaac (part 7): "(Doorbell rings) UPCHUCK: That must be Stacy, Dani and Lizzy. (The crew gives Upchuck a confused look) UPCHUCK: Chipmunk's real name is Lizbeth. Lizzy is short for Lizbeth. (The crew still gives Upchuck a confused look) UPCHUCK: You people don't pay any attention to anything."


• Tom Sloane's Rainbow Six (Iron Chef: Stealing Tom), by Charles RB (COMPLETE!): "Daria sat in OpsCent, the feeds from a dozen monitors - CCTV recordings, satellite footage, intel reports, recon footage from Backgrounder 1 and 2 - reflecting on her glasses. The Cashman's warehouse was large and open, no place for a small team; they'd be cut down by the enemy in seconds. A rooftop strike would get them to the hostage fast - it was clear he was in a first-floor office - but getting there..."


• Unnamed story (Bits & Pieces that just BEG to be made into Daria FanFic), by RLobinske (COMPLETE!): "In time, she heard her mother go to bed and then the silence returned. Worry and fear kept sleep at bay. Until a rhythmic sound outside her window drew her curiosity. A sound that she completely didn't recognize. Curiousity overcoming fear, she crawled out of bed and went to the window to peek out. Maybe her father had come home."


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: The Name Game), by ash_blackfire (COMPLETE!): "Jane was stepping back from her canvas looking at her work. She had been at Ashford for a while and had been blacking out while painting the past few days. Her muse would do that from time to time when she had to figure out a major part of her life. The panting she had made was full of burnt out husks of people after what looked to be a nuclear blast. But at the epicenter there were two piles of ash. Black surrounded the piles for most of the painting. She had outlines of flames still burning but with black and blue only no red or yellow or orange."


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fanfic should have: It's Friday!!), by Greystar (COMPLETE!): "Jane threaded her way down the hall and came upon her former boyfriend’s room and went inside without knocking. The occupant of the room had his father’s weather beaten fedora balanced on his head at an angle and was packing at a pace that suggested enemy soldiers were about to storm the mansion. 'Okay, Indiana Sloane, just what the hell’s going on?' Jane asked as she put a fist on her hip."

Roses Are Red, And Appreciated Too

This is Red Rose Day, the origin of which is not known but it still sells a lot of roses. Flower industry, maybe. Perhaps it is not coincidental that this is also Loving Day, the origin of which is most definitely known and highly appreciated. It is also Russia Day, and Russians are said to be fond of the color red, so it all works out.

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• Daria Hunter: Collision Course, by Bhut (COMPLETE!): "...And so," said Ms. Li, "the school board decided to donate this grant to Lawndale High's Filmmaking Club!" "But we don't have this kind of club!" "We do now!" (Daria/Crocodile Hunter)

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• Daria/Dorian, by LadieT (continued): Jane and Tom sat at their usual table in the Zon. Between the music and the image of Dorian shirtless, Jane couldn't focus. Tom stared at her sad and distant face with concern. Jane felt his hand reach for hers. Her mind replayed her conversation with Dorian just hours earlier. We can't hold hands Jane. You have a boyfriend, remember?" Jane winced slightly. Tom gave her hand a gentle squeeze.
• NEW! Finn Morgendorffer 49: Blessed Be This Meal, by HolyGrail2007 (Part 3): “Hey.” Jane’s voice sounded on the phone when Finn answered it. “Hey. Good to hear from you again.” Finn relaxed as he lay down on his bed. “What’s up?” “Just wanted to ask a favor.” “For you? Anything.” “I wanted to know if you could check up on Trent next week.”
  
• Last Stand in a Small Southern Town, by Aloysius (COMPLETE!): Jane and Daria rode their horses into the town and looked around the main business district. “This place is beginning to stink,” Daria said and sighed. Jane guided her horse towards the cantina and glanced at her partner in crime. “Amiga, this is Bolivia. They don’t have the sewage systems that the Eastern U.S. and Western Europe are famous for.” Daria glanced at her friend and shook her head. “That’s not what I’m talking about,” she said and pushed her hat back slightly. [Guess the crossover!]