Some Day Her Paints Will Come

Happy anniversary to Disneyland, which opened on this day in 1955. Perhaps one day, Kevin Thompson will score a winning goal in the Super Bowl, look into the camera, and declare his intention to go there. And on that day, Mr. DeMartino will lose whatever may remain of his sanity.

Jane, however, seems oddly content considering she's surrounded by woodland creatures that may well be about to strike. Hey, I'll bet there's a Sick, Sad World episode for that. Any ideas for the SSW teaser?

Fanfic Update!

• Apathymorphs: The Invasion, by JoeMerl (part 9): "What was going to happen tonight? What was this Yeerk pool anyway, what were we going to find? Would we manage to destroy this thing? Would we manage to free Trent? Was Quinn right? Was I really going to have to—"


• College Bound (Iron Chef - Doug, Susan and Ramona), by JoeMerl (COMPLETE!): "She approached and put her binder down on the table next to him. 'Evan Landon?' 'Uh-huh.' 'I'm Ramona Johnson, your new Math tutor.' 'Uh-huh,' he said again, not looking up from his football."


• Ethan Yeager in Lawndale: Ch 9 Soaking Up Summer, by Shiva (part 3): "'Afterward we talked on the phone and just hung out for a couple days before she took me to DC on a day trip, remember all those times Quinn had us go to the mall with her and her friends?' Both Jeffy and Joey shuddered at the memories, all the bag carrying, the expensive gifts, being forced to wait in the car for hours on end, and all of it to get the favor of girls who didn’t give a crap about them at all. 'Well this was so much better,' Jamie replied with a big grin, 'She bought clothes for me.'"


• Eye on the Target (Iron Chef - Let's Play Sports), by ST91 (COMPLETE!): "Three shots, three centers. Daria smiled when she saw that, once again, her arrows had hit the target perfectly."


• Family Reunion, by januense (part 8): "'Well ...' replied Jane '... in fact, we've captured something...' she pointed her finger at her left shoulder, where the little fairy, bandaged almost like a little mummy... thanks to Jane's really poor medical skills ... was graciously sitting '... though not in the way it was supposed to be captured. I hope it's not a problem for you, auntie...' she expectantly asked."


• First Day of Summer, by cfardell_Brenorenz29 (part 2): "'Let’s see, fifteen stores, including twelve clothing stores,' Quinn said as she leafed through the application forms. 'One of them JJ Jeeters,' Sandi murmured. 'Sandi, remember what I said earlier,' Quinn said. 'Yeah, beggers cannot be choosers, but the clothes there are very garish,' Sandi said."


• Full Circle (IC: Sandi Triumphant), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "Sandi smiled at the three little ones playing out in the front yard while she pulled her latest quilt up around her just a little more tightly."


• Getting Along (Scenes no Daria Fanfic should ever have: Embrace the Madness), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "Darius Morgendorffer had hoped that they could have dwelled in their own personal heaven forever, but alas Helen had called that morning informing her son that she and Jake would be cutting their trip short since she and Rita had argued so badly that Grandma had kicked them out."



• The Great White Dope (IC: KKKevin), by Roentgen (COMPLETE!): "How much life had changed since Kevin Thompson got arrested for being caught in a KKK rally. The joke was that there were more FBI agents than Klansmen in any konflagration or whatever the hell those nuts called themselves. It was easy for the FBI guys to talk Kevin into saying something stupid."


• The Hearts Within, by neonhomer (part 7): "I went to take a bite of my pizza, when the phone rang. Quinn leapt up and answered it. 'Hello? Oh.... Hold on.' She brought the phone to me. 'It’s Tom.' I found myself flying out of the chair, grabbing the phone."


• Immortal Blood, by Shiva (part 6): "'I am proud of you Child,' Felix said softly while looking down into Skylar’s flashing blue eyes, 'You have taken your first steps into eternity.' Felix didn’t have to use his psychic power, nor the link between them to know that his Child’s mind was starting to fall back on what it knew. The human instinct for guilt after making the first kill."


• In Bulgaria (Scenes no Daria Fanfic should ever have: Embrace the Madness), by Charles RB (COMPLETE!): "Mr Edwards would have continued if the church door hadn't exploded off its hinges. 'FREEZE! NATIONAL POLICE SERVICE!'"


• Insult Me!!! (Iron Chef: Opposites Attract), by Wassersauefer (COMPLETE!): "She only waited a few seconds, then her drive was there. Immediately she was met with insulting loud music that was totally outdated, the smell of beer and cheap booze and motor oil, an absolute fashion disaster and of course an insult. Like every morning."



• In the Woods (IC: Sleeping With Strangers (But Not Like That!)), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "Graham felt freezing cold as he slowly sat up and felt a sudden stabbing pain move across his fabulous brain. 'Ow!' he moaned while rubbing the back of his head where the pain was coming from, then as he tried to stand up he began to notice things, like that he was the middle of the woods, and that he was only wearing his tighty whiteys."


• Is Eat College Yet? (Pie, Pie, My Darling), by Smijey (COMPLETE!): "'Envelope small and thin: not good,' Daria muttered to herself as she opened the message from Bromwell."


• Jane Waits (Scenes no Daria Fanfic should ever have: Embrace the Madness), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "'Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.' Daria chanted over and over again while smearing blood upon an altar with unspeakable objects upon them, her eyes filled with the madness of having seen things that no mortal should ever know."


• The Journal of Steve Rowe (A genderswap never before done), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "I'm writting in you because Mrs. Manson thinks it's good for me. Well an intro should help, I'm Steven Liam Rowe, but everyone just calls me Steve! Hee Hee Hee! It was either this or go back to that stupid Self-Esteemy class, ugh!"


• The Kissing Book, by DeacBlue (part 5): "'Death cannot stop True Love. All it can do is delay it for a while.' Daria blushed. 'I will never doubt again.' Jane, in a near-whisper, said, 'There will never be a need.' And she then kissed Daria."


• Loner Type (A genderswap never before done), by ThanatosRW (COMPLETE!): "She was independent. He felt he needed her. He never thought about how hypocritical his love was. When she returned to Texas, he was heart-broken, In desperation, he tried each year to get Camp Grizzly to do a reunion, all to see her again."


• Misery Machine, by NightGoblyn (part 2): "'Problem?' Daria asked, stowing the knife and grabbing her pack. The two girls began walking down the hallway. Jane shrugged. 'I wasn't gonna enter the contest. She got all . . . .' 'Pushy?' Daria asked, a slight growl in her voice. 'Excited,' Jane corrected gently."



• My Name is Quinn, by ThanatosRW (COMPLETE!): "My name is Quinn Morgendorffer, and I am a brain."


• Operation Glitterberries: Chapter 08, by BF110C4 (part 2): "Marianne was distracted from the conversation by a short, sharp, noise coming upstairs, followed by a much closer crash and crack that gave her a bad feeling. 'Just a second Helen, something wrong.' Without waiting from a response form her boss she rushed the stairs, and what she found horrified her."


• Save the Last Trance for Me, by jtranser (COMPLETE!): "Jane said: 'O.K., Daria, I'm seeing it and I bet you are too. But that's not a dream, but an hallucination, probably induced by contact with fish that fed on psychedelic algae blooms. That, or the Tikis are messing with us.'"


• Saving Humanity? (IC: Sleeping With Strangers (But Not Like That!)), by Aloysius (COMPLETE!): "He turned over and froze as he saw a redheaded teenager laying on her left side. He felt his mouth dry up as he stared at her sleeping form. Who are you? And where the hell am I?"


• Sexy Daria: Sexy Cute Models, by Shiva (part 5): "Then when her alarm clock failed to go off, Charles had proven to be an early riser and had gotten her up and never once leered or said anything Upchuckish. 'He’s growing up fast Mrs. Lane.. Jane thought to herself, .And growing up to be pretty damn good.' That last bit caused absolutely everything in the fiber of her being to suddenly freeze. Upchuck... looked good?!"


• Sisters of Silence (Iron Chef: Opposites Attract), by Wassersauefer (COMPLETE!): "Tiffany sat on a bench, not moving for hours and staring straight ahead. Neither she nor her companion sad anything, just starring and sitting. It wasn't like there was anything to look at, just a building site without any movement, the workers long gone home. A tumbleweed blew past. Nothing happened."


• Stacy 13 (Scenes no Daria Fanfic should ever have: Embrace the Madness), by Smijey (COMPLETE!): "A brief thrill ran through Stacy as she heard the voice. She was strapped into the rocket along with two other astronauts on the first expedition back to the moon in decades. She was to be the first woman on the moon. 'Suck it, Sandi,' she thought to herself, a smile on her face."



• This is Lawndale (Scenes no Daria Fanfic should ever have: Embrace the Madness), by ST91 (COMPLETE!): "'Nooooooooo. Stop. How dare you do this to me. I am your principal. 'Angela Li screamed while two security guards carried her on the school roof."


• Unexpected Hookup: A Bigger Bite, by Shiva (part 6): "'I think that, well... Well I’m not sure what they’re thinking but... I’ve been thinking and... Well...' There was a pause and Daria was tempted to hang up the phone before Quinn forced it out. 'I’m not happy.'"


• Unnamed story (IC: KKKevin), by RX-87 (COMPLETE!): "'My Spring Break was awesome! At first I thought it was gonna suck, cause my family went down to visit my boring aunt and uncle in Texas and they wanted us to go with them to this new church or something they joined. It sounded really dumb, but then it turned out really cool. When we got to the meeting, everybody was dressed in white and the leader had, like a hood or something over his head...'"


• Unnamed story (IC: Sleeping With Strangers (But Not Like That!)), by BrownEyedBagel (COMPLETE!): "Jane stirred slightly as if she was getting over being shot. Tiffany was at a loss for words; which in all fairness was an understatement. Jane was missing her red jacket and the equally unfashionable footwear. She spoke in a low voice that sounded very intimidating."


• Unnamed story (IC: Sleeping With Strangers (But Not Like That!)), by januense (COMPLETE!): "Mack was the fist to wake up. He shook his head, trying to remember what the hell happened to make him faint like that."


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef - Doug, Susan and Ramona), by RX-87 (COMPLETE!): "'No offense,' Daria addressed the curvacious, cyan-haired woman fixing her makeup in the mirror of the ladies' room, to which they had retreated in order to be able to converse without Icebox Woman drowning them out, 'But you look older than I thought you'd be.'"


• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: Opposites Attract), by Ranger Thorne (COMPLETE!): "Here he comes, she thought, bracing herself. He's gonna say it, but I'm not going to laugh this time."


• Unnamed story (Scenes no Daria Fanfic should ever have: Embrace the Madness), by peetz5050 (COMPLETE!): "'Hey Quinn, whatcha doin?' 'I'm writing... trying to write this report for O'Neill. It's Macbeth this year, he wants us to write about some personal insight we might have into this scene with Lady Macbeth washing her hands. Any ideas?'"


• Unpopular, by Reven384 (part 2): "'That loser will pay for bumping into me. Losers like her need to know their place,' Sandi said before an idea came into her mind and she walked towards Skyler’s normal spot during lunch."


• The Visit, by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "'Well I just came to tell you that Dad died a few weeks ago, a heart attack while on a cruise to Jamaica.' Evan then sighed when Rachel continued to sit glassy eyed in her little white chair in the sunlight filtering through the tiny window in her little white room in the Brookside Rest Home."