Celebrate the Solstice! Yule Be Glad You Did!

Today is the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and in the Southern Hemisphere it is Monday. Throw the old Yule Log on the fire and haul out a bottle of fresh apple cider!

NEWZ!

• The awesome Richard Lobinske has once again updated the 2009 Daria Visual Fanworks Listing!
• MidnightStorm has started a PPMB pitchfork thread for the end of the year. Vote for your favorite unfinished story, and demand it be finished!
• Iron Chef: Brain Swap is a SF-slash challenge from Thecoffeeguru.
• Suffering from Daria/Jane burnout? Here's the place to talk about it.
• Kara Wild has also asked on the Daria forum in Television Without Pity for questions for the Daria staff. Some are quite interesting.
  

PPMB

• Apocalyptic Daria: Scarlett's Tale, by Doggieboy (Part 15): —You humans are strange. If it wasn’t for cats and dogs, you wouldn’t know what to do.—
• Counting the Days, by Jim North (COMPLETE!): She takes in a deep breath of warm Raft College air and expels it as if she is expelling a part of herself. The part, in particular, that is capable of coherent thought. The day is only halfway over, but she is already beat. (FF.net)
• Eve, by MidnightStorm (Part 1): The lights in the small blue room were dimmed ever so slightly. The brunette shifted her steady gaze from the beds end towards her black-haired partner. She was her friend before, in another life, but from now on they would possess the title of "lovers."
• Finn Morgendorffer 22: Daddy, by HolyGrail2007 (Part 1): “My...” Jake started to sweat a little more. His voice trailed off into a whisper, and his face flushed even more. The house was not warm at all.
• Rainbow Disconnection, by Disco316 (COMPLETE!): “You are not the Morgendorffer I was expecting,” said Jane, realizing that Daria was not at her door. “I could talk like her if you think it would help,” offered Quinn in a flat, monotone voice.
• Unnamed story, by Trscroggs (continued): Two nights later, Purple Blossom had to fight off a feeling of deja-vu. Once again she had been returning home late from a Fashion Club meeting, and again a monster appeared, forcing her to transform, and again the monster broke and ran when it caught sight of her.
  
• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: Brain Swap), by Roentgen (COMPLETE!): Daria and Jane enjoyed those warm, comfortable moments after making love. Both rested silently in Jane's bed. Daria spoke up. "Jane... there's something I have to admit...."