Miami QB!

Happy 62nd birthday to Don Johnson, star of the 80's crime show Miami Vice and inspiration for Kevin's alter ego on the right. Note the lack of shoulder pads, too.

Today is also Bill of Rights Day, which commemorates the ratification of the Bill of Rights on this day in 1791. Celebrate by, um, not quartering soldiers in your house, I guess.

Fanfic Update!

• All Points (Something I bashed out....), by neonhomer (part 3): "'Thank you Captain Picard. This is my brother Trent Lane, and Dar...errr, Captain Morgendorffer’s husband.' Jane motioned toward Trent, then to Quinn. 'I’m Commander Quinn Morgendorffer, Captain Morgendorffer’s sister.' 'I wasn’t aware that Daria was married.' Blurted Sheridan without thinking. Picard turned to face Sheridan, and was beginning to speak, but Trent cut him off. 'It’s a long story sir.' Said Trent."


• Daria/Dorian Ch.16: Sugar High, by LadieT (part 2): "'You would think that with the hush money Ms. Li was given, we wouldn't be having these problems.' The reply was in Dorian's voice, but Quinn and Jane both knew who said it. 'Yeah, but knowing Ms. Li - she spent it on some piece of unnecessary and insane security equiptment. As if the Great Zombie Uprising would ever come here,' Jane smirked trying to cheer Dorian up. 'True, we are lacking their primary source of food. Speaking of food, maybe a little lunch will help me out. Nothing greasy though.' Dorian said."


• Daria - Double Down, by neonhomer (part 11): "'I'm going senile.' Said Daria dryly. 'Wh-hy do you say that?' asked Quinn, looking at her herself in the mirror. Daria turned to Quinn, taking Quinn's hands into hers, and looking up into Quinn's eyes. 'Tell me I am not cracking up. Tell me I didn't just dream up the past four days.' 'You're not cracking up Daria, you didn't dream up the past four days.' Said Quinn, trying to match Daria's monotone voice."


• Fallout Lawndale: 2289, by Vukodlak (part 1): "'Try not to blow us up' Jane was only half joking. These decaying engines from 2077 have a habit of exploding if you put enough bullets in them. 'Relax Jane so long as no one shoots the cells we'll be fine.' She pulled the first glowing cell out and put it into a lead lined case. 'These nuclear engines only explode from weapons fire never from simple impacts.' 'And yet your wearing a radiation suit' 'I didn't say this job was completely safe did I?' Jane couldn't see it but knew Daria was smirking."


• God Save The Esteem ep 38: Highland Lassie, by Charles RB (part 3): "She’d prided herself on walking alone, ignoring the herd, and not caring to look back, and while she knew that meant she’d have no real ties to the old hometown, she’d never expected to want any. Returning to Highland for a bit was a sobering experience. It was only when Daria could see it and remember that she realised how little ties she had to the place, how few people would have been bothered she’d left. "


• LLH Alternate Future - 09 - It Never Ends, by psychotol (parts 3 - 6): "As Daria and Jane emerged from the sewers at their initial ingress point, the sanitation worker asked them 'Whoa, what the fucking hell happened down there?' Jane looked at Daria, and Daria asked Jane 'What do you reckon? Walked into the stairs or fell down a door?' Jane's clipped tone spoke volumes as she responded 'Daria. ... I'm covered in faeces and bruises, and am SO not in the mood, right? ... Shut the hell up, and fly us home.'" (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6)


• A QB Grows in Lawndale, by Kristen Bealer (part 13): "When they arrived at the camp, Mr. O'Neill led everyone into the activity room for introductions. 'Greetings, and welcome to the Okay to Cry Corral,' he announced. 'I'm Uncle Timothy, and together, we're going to take a journey to the land of self-discovery. A land where it's okay to laugh, and it's okay...to cry.' Kevin hoped none of the kids were going to cry. He never knew what to do, and their faces got all goopy and gross."


• Tigresses of Lawndale, by taishigi (part 12): "'I just got off the phone with them. I did ask them not to say anything, although I don't know if that will do any good or not. Tiffany also asked that I thank you and give you a hug.' 'Could you just say you did both?' Daria asked. 'I could, but . . . but I think I could use a hug,' Quinn admitted, a little teary. 'This has been scary, Daria.' Daria said nothing, she just lifted her right arm, and Quinn scooted over. Daria wrapped her good arm around Quinn's shoulder, and Quinn tucked her feet up on the sofa and laid her head on Daria's shoulder. Daria rested her head against Quinn's."


• Unnamed story (1,001 Deaths of Tom Sloane - Part II), by Aloysius (COMPLETE!): "Thomas Sloane blinked as he looked at the upright rectangular glass and metal box as it stood near the edge of the mesa. 'I know what that is,' he said. 'But what the hell is a telephone booth doing out in the middle of nowhere?'"


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: Guilty Pleasures Redux), by ash_blackfire (COMPLETE!): "Daria couldn't keep her slight smile off of her face on her walk home from the CD store. As she passed Quinn's room she could hear her singing along with her music... Gwar in the same low gut grunting. 'She thinks she is here by her self.' Daria's smile got bigger ever so slightly. She would torment her later, she had more pressing matters on her mind."


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria fanfic should have: Last Friday Night!), by JPAGC (COMPLETE!): "The camera focus on the door of a dressing room. Suddenly, the it opens and an orange-skinned, glassed- eyes muppet puts his head in. Scooter: twenty seconds to curtain! Mystik Spiral, twenty seconds to curtain!"