If Only They Could Sing a Little More Quietly!

Happy Boy Scout Day! Daria--I mean, the Bad Grades House Girl--is less than impressed by their performance, but today is still the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America.

Fanfic Update!

• After the Disaster :: Chapter 3, by Fhujeth_x (part 1): "That voice. It was one she hadn't heard in so long. One so familiar. A voice so trusting. The voice of a friend she had put a good seven years of her life into. Brooke..."


• Armored Cynic Daria, Episode 1: Esteem Rising, by RX-87 (part 3): "HELEN: Quinn! Both of you stop it. Now you both need to start heading to school, it starts in less than an hour. QUINN: But Mo-ommm! It's the middle of the afternoon. HELEN: Maybe it was in Highland, but here it's morning. QUINN: Ugh. Can't we have a day off to get settled in? If I go to school now I'm going to be all tired and puffy-eyed by the end of the day. Oh God, and it's my first day! What kind of first impression would I make?!"


• The Author as a Lesbian, Season 5, by DeacBlue (parts 11 and 12): "Helen put her hand on his shoulder. 'Frank, all I can tell you is that, by some strange roll of the dice, my daughter grew up as a very intelligent, self-sufficient young woman. She has also been far more social, and more importantly, happier, since she met Jane and your daughter. I have had to accept that she knows what she's doing, and that if she put herself in harm's way, it's to protect someone without whom she wouldn't be the same person. As someone once said, "There are things worth risking, and sometimes giving, everything for."'" (Part 12)


• Black Dress (IC: Without you...), by ST91 (COMPLETE!): "Despite a month having passed, Quinn still couldn’t believe that what happened was true. Every morning she woke up hoping it was all a bad dream. But, unfortunately, it wasn’t. That tombstone in the cemetery was the proof that everything was real; that her friend was dead."


• Cinderella (Iron Chef - Homework assignments - Fairy Tales), by OverlordMikey (COMPLETE!): "Once upon a time there was a young maiden with brown hair and really frumpy clothes. She lived with her wicked step-mother and two mean red-headed step sisters. She had a daddy once too who really loved her and bought her lot of nice stuff, but he’s dead now. I’m not sure why - actually no he’s alive, but off doing daddy stuff in a country to the east."


• Coffee (Scenes no Daria fanfic should have: Last Friday Night!), by thatLONERchick (COMPLETE!): "The only thing she knew was that she had to kill him."


• Daria & Son 3: Freakin' Friends Redux, by Erin M. (part 1): "CHARLENE: It's what I do. MARK: When you aren't...what ARE you doing over there? CHARLENE: Making coats. Mark reaches over to Charlene's desk and picks up a small brightly colored patchwork coat. MARK: For dolls? CHARLENE: Hamsters."


• Hansel and Gretel (Iron Chef - Homework assignments - Fairy Tales), by Fhujeth_x (COMPLETE!): "Once upon a time... there were these two kids, named Hansel and Gretel. They were really poor. They were so poor they lived in like, a cottage in the woods. They didn't even have plumbing OR diet soda - so they were really fat."


• Into the Black, Into the Blue (Chapter 1), by Lord Yellowtail (part 1): "'Is something the matter, Ditzy Doo?' She smirked, not unkindly. Another few moments of jocularity. It shall all come crashing down soon enough. ... It was nice, having a friend."


• A Moment of Regret (1,001 Deaths of Tom Sloane - Part II), by LadieT (COMPLETE!): "'She's in surgery right now, that's why I called you. I figured she would want to see you when she wakes up,' Quinn said. You mean if she wakes up. Jane nodded. Looking over at the Sloanes, Jane asked Kay 'Are you here to check on Daria, too? Where's Tom?' Kay stared down at the floor. 'Angier and Tom were in the pile-up as well.'"


• A Mothers Love, by ash_blackfire (part 8): "'Jane, What is your dad’s name?' 'Vincent, why?' 'I think that you should meet someone.' Daria said with a smirk 'Ok, can it be after we have a pepperoni with 4 times the pepperoni?' 'Yes, it may just change your life'"


• A New Beginning (IC Runaway Daria), by LadieT (parts 1 and 2): "Looking at the well-worn copy of Black Beauty that was now in her hands, she thought about her mom, dad, and sister. They had gotten in a big fight over her unwillingness to make friends. In her six-year-old anger, she packed up some clothes, a blanket, and most of her books and what little bit of money that she had hidden in her pillowcase, climbed out her window and left." (Part 2)


• Sandi :: Well... This Sucks :: Chapter 1.5, by Fhujeth_x (COMPLETE!): "The others tests had come back normal. The blood results had come back fairly normal. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Sandi was just as fine as she had been the day before the animal attack. Fine for Sandi, that was. Minus some scarring on her left shoulder and upper arm."


• Sandi :: Well... This Sucks :: Chapter 2, by Fhujeth_x (parts 1 and 2): "It felt good to be back in school, with her usual clique of snobby, fashionable girls. Sandi walked with pride down the halls of Lawndale High as Stacy, Quinn, and Tiffany followed behind her in their usual manner of vanity. All eyes on her. That's what Sandi wanted. She was back, she was better, and she felt damn near great since." (Part 2)


• The Skelton Girl, by oni (part 3): "She turned her head in Daria’s direction with a pleading look in her eyes, and asked, 'Did anything happen at school for you Daria?' Daria looked at her mom for a couple of seconds, considering a sarcastic comment to end the conversation, but a sudden impulse in her decided to take the high road. 'Actually yes it did, mom. We had a new girl in some of my classes,' she replied."


• Twelve Weeks (Angst-Off!), by Angelinhel (COMPLETE!): "Okay, one good thing is there's no traffic at 4 am. He was running red lights. I had gone from trying not to to sob to a cold, dead feeling. As cold and dead as the towel I was sitting on. This was not the first time."


• Unexpected (continuation from Nemo Blank's unfinished story), by mmmdraco (part 2): "Pulling a hand up to her mouth, Jane started to gnaw on a thumb nail. 'What the hell happened to my brother?' Daria sighed. 'He's still in there, Jane. He's just got a little more polish on him, a slight militant bent to how he does things now... and some secrets we need to make sure we don't ask him about.'"


• Unnamed story (A genderswap never before done), by Charles RB (COMPLETE!): "'Well, my history teacher hates me because I know all the answers, but there are some interesting idiots in my class.' 'That's great, poppet!' Daria's father - sleek, emaculate, the suit that walked like a man - gave the merest hint of a wince, and then calmly said: 'Like your mother says, you shouldn't judge people until you get to know them.'"


• Unnamed story (IC Runaway Daria), by RX-87 (COMPLETE!): "'Mheh. Heheheh. Hey, Butthead?' 'Uhh... Yeah, Beavis?' 'Remember that chick we went to kindergarten with?'"


• We Only Hurt the Ones We Love (IC Runaway Daria), by deneich (part 1): "As she stared at the freshly placed glass of soda while sitting in a well worn booth of a down-scale chain restaurant; Daria had to admit, that of the many possibilities her decision to end – unannounced – her estrangement and return to her family might involve."


• With An "Uh", And An "Um", by mmmdraco (part 20): "Daria took a deep breath. 'Actually, I'm buying the champagne, and it's not just for you. While I'm very proud of your achievement, and the fact that your nap has made you able to function more like a human being again, I also want to celebrate the fact that I have an agent who wants to take me on. I got the contract in the mail today.'"