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."