Sweet Adelaide

A picture of Daria fans Caira and Dinareisness from Adelaide, Australia.

Congratulations to LOTR_Dan. His graduation day is today.

Gregor Samsa completed Part 8 of "The Bands of Summer Redux".

Fan art: the cast of Daria in the style of "The Simpsons" (by John Berry)

For the Daria Fan Who Has Everything

The songs of Mystik Spiral, sung en Français .

At the French Sick Sad Net site.

Note: you'll need an unzipper and an mp3 player. But spending the download time is worth it to hear "Je suis un jeune jour de fête! (et ça craint!)"

Merci to Mr. Orange for the link correction.

Mystery Upon Mystery

For those interested, ioxmo's Daria site is at http://daria.cjb.net , so drop by and take a peek!

It looks like someone didn't proofread MTV's "Before They Were Daria Stars" flipbook. The flipbook contains 72 images. Here's the caption of the last one:

Here's what Sandy looked like before she joined the Fashion Club. Just kidding--it's "Burnout Chick" who evolved into a different character.

The image listed with the caption:

Boy, Burnout Chick really DOES have a secret past! ( Nah, it just looks like they accidentally copied the caption from Image #2 onto Image #72. )

Furthermore, there is a hidden image #73 with no caption.



So who is this mysterious Daria character? Beavis's Mom?

Driven Wild Primer

From the Daria News Archive :

DARIA has dropped to number 19 in the tvshowsondvd.com poll of most-wanted unreleased DVDs, down one place since last week. 2,219 people have voted for DVD releases of DARIA.

For people interested in beta reading the new installment of Kara Wild's "Driven Wild Universe", Ms. Wild has supplied a primer here . (Note: if you've not read the stories, plot information is given away.)

Gregor Samsa completed Part 7 of "The Bands of Summer Redux" at the PPMB.
ioxmo completed "Daria the Perverse" at the hidden section of SFMB.

Added to Fanfiction.net:

Chapter 12 of "Quiet Girl" by Sleepy Lotus.

Tallahassee

Daria fan Richard Lobinske is the middle of a move to Tallahassee, Florida. We wish him the best of luck.

The Sheep's Fluff has a new site URL: http://www.sh33pie.com . For now, the site will redirect if you use the old URL but you need to update your bookmarks.

Ranger Thorne started "Padawan Lane" (a Daria/Star Wars crossover) at the PPMB.

Richard Lobinske completed "John Lane 6 - Morgendorffer Prison Blues".
The Angst Guy completed "Deus Jane".

The Great Saiyaman completed Page 2 of "Party at Lindy's" at the hidden section of SFMB.

Added to FF.net:

Chapter 11 of "Quiet Girl" by Sleepy Lotus.

Memorial Day Weekend

Happy Birthday to the Infamous Milderbeast.

ipswitchfan completed "A Night at the Soccer Game" at PPMB.

The Great Saiyaman completed Page 1 of his erotic comic, "Party at Lindy's" at the hidden section of SFMB.

As this is Memorial Day Weekend, I'll be taking my life in my hands on the roads, traveling to visit my mother. No post probably until Sunday, so have fun.

Furthermore, we have an answer to the question posted by Kara Wild about how long one could keep up a blog devoted to nothing but Daria fandom. Answer: at least six months, since the first post was December 26, 2004.

Fan art by psychotol: "Go Go Gadget Jailbreak!"



( Postscript: it seems that it is only FIVE months since December 26th. It looks like I can't count, which is going to be a bugger when I start my Actuarial Science major this month. )

Imagine Casting

D. T. Dey points out at the PPMB that there is a website called Imagine Casting where they ask fans of various cartoons/books who they would want to see portray the characters in live action.

"Daria" hasn't gotten too many votes for cast members, but here are the leaders so far. (Minimum four votes.)

As Daria, Sarah Drew:

As Jane, Eva Amurri:

As Helen, Megan Mullaly:

As Jake, Will Ferrell

As Mr. O'Neill, Dana Carvey

As Ms. Barch, Janeane Garofalo

As Upchuck, Ryan Pinkston

As Trent, Jesse Bradford

As Stacy, Courtney Halverson

As Tiffany, Brenda Song

As Tom, Adam Brody

Discuss (or mock) choices below: franlky, I think this has been done before .

Amusing Sidenote

Someone found the Daria Fandom Blog using a Google Search.

Search terms: "Contrarian's corner, 2005".
Search from: US Department of Justice Computers

Ms. Wild, I don't know what kind of trouble you're in, but I can't help you.

Further On We Go

From the Illinois Dariacon: photos by Damaged Roses.

At the PPMB:

Richard Lobinske completed Part 2 of "John Lane 6 - Morgendorffer Prison Blues".
Scissors MacGillicutty wrote an interesting mini-fic which can be found here .
Kara Wild is looking for beta readers to the new "Driven Wild Universe #21" story.

At the SMFB:

atimnie completed Part 4 of "Daria's Christmas Carol" in the hidden section.

Added to Fanfiction.net: "Coffee and Free Advice" by Chubby Redburn (another story I'd recommend reading and reviewing - the link is here ).

Daria in Chinese

Roentgen completed a new part of "Legion of Lawndale Heroes".

Note the promotional image of Daria from MTV Chinese. Interesting choice of colors:




Best to go here to see it without the line -- and doesn't Daria look like she's...smiling? (A better, larger picture is here .)

Photo Play

Mr. Magnum has a photo dump from the Illinois Dariacon.

Father Martin would like to warn fans that any mail coming from him ending in "yahoo.co.uk" is fake.

Brother Grimace concedes the last round of the Brother Grimace/Angelinhel write-off.
Richard Lobinske completed Part 1 of "John Lane 6 - Morgendorffer Prison Blues".

Added to Fanfiction.net:

Chapter 7 of "Quiet Girl" by Sleepy Lotus.

There is a cosplay image of Jane from "daria_jack". Her page can be found here . (I had a photo up, but it keeps breaking.)

Glitter Berries Update

A big update at Glitter Berries. From site operator Kemical Reaxion at the PPMB:

The big news this time is that I have re-organized the fanfic illustrations and renamed links to author and artist pages. This is important if you are linking to an artist or author page anywhere on your own site, blog, etc. Your links will need to be changed. Please note that the fanfic and artwork files themselves have not been moved or renamed, so if you're linking to individual works, they should be fine. If you have any questions about the changes, or if there are any broken links, please let me know. Because this was such a big change involving so many files, it's possible I may have missed something, so please do let me know if anything's not working right.

(Check out what's new here .)

Happy Birthday to Daria fan Wyvern.

The Angst Guy completed Part 5 of "Deus Jane".

Daria Movies on "The-N"

An update on the Daria Movies on "The-N" (and thanks to Greybird for the information):

"Is It Fall Yet?" and "Is It College Yet?" are being advertised heavily on The N for this coming Saturday, 28 May, as part of its May and June "movies" specials.

"IIFY?" is scheduled for 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT, and "IICY?" for 9:30 pm
ET / 6:30 pm PT. Greybird states:

"One showing each, though the on-line guide doesn't display
anything after 3:00 am ET, so I wouldn't rule out a late-late repeat as
yet. ("Daria" episodes are run at 4:00 and 4:30 am ET, the same ones
shown the following night at 2:00 and 2:30 am ET.)

The N is typically clueless, listing these 90-minute shows on line as if
they were each half-hour episodes, with two other half-hour shows
ostensibly scheduled in the following time periods (for example, for
"IIFY?", at 8:30 and 9:00 pm ET).

The direct link to their schedule is

http://www.the-n.com/ntv/schedule.php .

No word, obviously, on whether either one is the originally-as-shown
version, the cut-for-time MTV version (as with "IICY?"), or the
sliced-for-moralizers The N version (as with their first showing of
"IIFY?")."

If anyone else has news they'd like to see in the DFB as a full post, please send info to cincgreen (at) yahoo (dot) com. (And apologies to using the text of Greybird's e-mail without vetting it with him, but I figured he'd want to get the info out.)

Belated Congratulations

Belated congratulations to Kristen Bealer upon her graduation.
Belated happy birthday wishes to Scarlett upon her recent birthday.

At the SFMB:

atimnie completed Part 3 of "Daria's Christmas Carol" at the hidden section of SFMB.
Napalm Kracken completed Chapter 4 of "MTV's True Life: I Was a Marvel Anti-Hero".

Added to Fanfiction.net:

Chapter 6 of "Quiet Girl" by Sleepy Lotus.

Insomnia

Two great pictures, and some info:



This is a screen capture from a Beavis and Butthead episode called "It's a Miserable Life" which aired December 19, 1995. This Daria is from an alternate reality -- a reality in which Butthead died. The joke is that Butthead's death convinces Daria to give the male species a chance again.

Next is this six-picture shot of Daria:



From left to right:

1) Daria as a baby, from "Pinch Sitter", aired June 9, 1997.
2) How Daria was initially represented on Beavis and Butthead. The episode is "Citizen Butthead", aired October 18, 1993.
3) An alternate look for Daria on B & B from the episode, "Sporting Goods", aired October 4, 1993.
4) The standard, baseline Daria from "Esteemsters", aired March 3, 1997.
5) A future Daria from "Write Where it Hurts", aired August 3, 1998.
6) Another future Daria from "Lane Miserables", aired July 14, 1999.

And if you want to see these pictures on the original page, as well as get cool wallpaper for your computer of these pics, go here . (P. S. Save these pics while you can -- Phil is still trying to Save Outpost Daria.)

Jane

The DVDaria Blog is down.

Gregor Samsa completed Part 6 of "The Bands of Summer".
The Angst Guy completed Part 4 of "Deus Jane".

Photo: someone from Australia dresses up as "Jane, from Daria". Her "photoblog" can be found here .

Number 18 With A Bullet

From the Daria News Archive :

By 0830 UTC today, DARIA had received 2,182 votes in the tvshowsondvd.com poll of most-wanted unreleased DVDs, bringing the show to number 18 in the chart, up one place and 12 votes since Thursday.

Added to Fanfiction.net:

Chapter 4 of "Quiet Girl" by Sleepy Lotus.

Fan "art": Daria figurine, unknown artist. (I think I've posted this before, but ioxmo recently found it on PPMB and it's cool enough to post again.)

Outpost Daria Updates

There is a new update of Outpost Daria. Go here to see what's new.

Crossada is asking for prayer. (Link here.)

At the PPMB:

Richard Lobinske completed "A Choice".

Added to Fanfiction.net:

"Loss" by bhut. -- Normally, I don't recommend stories but since this one is by a new writer, and is very good, please check it out here .

Home Again

Deref is now safely back home in Australia.

From The Daria News Archive :

A mere two votes have propelled DARIA up another place in the chart of most-wanted unreleased DVDs at tvshowsondvd.com. At 0845 UTC today, DARIA was at number 19 in the chart, with 2,170 votes.

At the PPMB:

Lawndale Stalker started Chapter 7 of "Kidnapped".
Richard Lobinske completed "First Summer 1 - Publicly Related".

At the SFMB:

atimnie completed Chapter 2 of "Daria's Christmas Carol".
Roentgen completed a new part of "Legion of Lawndale Heroes".

Added to Fanfiction.net: "Quiet Girl" by Sleepy Lotus.

Oooooo....

Working out the details...and COSTS...of summer semester.

So this is how I feel right now (me=Daria):

Top Twenty

From the Daria News Archive :

DARIA has risen another place in the tvshowsondvd.com chart of most-wanted unreleased DVDs, thanks to another eight votes in the last 24 hours. By 1000 UTC today, 2,168 people had voted for DARIA, bringing the show to the number 20 spot.

At the PPMB: the Brother Grimace/Angelinhel write-off continues.

Wish Him Well

Deref is on his way back to Australia after attending several American Dariacons. Wish him the best of luck on his way home.

Scissors MacGillicuty completed Part 2 of "Notes from Exiles".

Fan art: Daria and Trent as Helga and Arnold from "Hey, Arnold!"

Higher and Higher and Higher

From the Daria News Archive :

Thanks to another five votes in the last 22 hours, DARIA has continued to rise in the tvshowsondvd.com chart of most-wanted unreleased DVDs. By 1000 UTC today, 2,160 people had voted for DARIA, bringing the show to the number 21 spot.

A picture of Daria fan TerraEsperZ (and Praline).

The Angst Guy finished Part 3 of "Deus Jane" at the PPMB and SFMB.

At the SFMB:

atimnie completed Part 1 of "Daria's Christmas Carol" in the restricted section.
ostragoth modified the last part of "Estrangesters".

Fan art -- two versions of the "Punk Jane" pic posted below:

#1 - by Richard Lobinske, in direct response to the challenge:



#2 - by ioxmo, from an earlier sketch. Image is located here . (Angelfire restrictions)

Iron Cheffery

From the MTV site: a early picture of Jane Lane.



The caption reads: "Did you know that Jane started out with a punk look?"

My questions/observations:

1) This would make an interesting Iron Chef for artists. "Redraw Jane Lane with this haircut and style - assume that the show's creators kept this look for Jane Lane during the show. You can either leave Jane Lane's angular facial features the same, or give her a softer facial appearance."

2) What would the show have been like if Jane had been more "punk"? How would it have changed? Jane would certainly have been more of an outcast if she dressed to provoke a reaction.

3) Doesn't Jane look a lot like Helen in this pic?

From The Illinois DariaCon (Part II)

From the Daria News Archive :

Thanks to five new votes this weekend, DARIA has moved up another place to number 23 in the tvshowsondvd.com chart of most-wanted unreleased DVDs. By 1200 UTC today, 2,155 people had voted for DARIA. The number ten slot is occupied by GET SMART, with 2,617 votes.

From the Illinois Dariacon : Bryan, Kristen, Milderbeast, Deref, MrMagnum, Damaged Roses. And, of course, an AVI movie .

The Angst Guy completed Parts 1 and 2 of "Deus Jane".

At the SFMB:

Shallow15 continued his story in the restricted section.

Fan art: artist unknown. (To get the "Cornholio" joke, you have to have watched "Beavis and Butt-Head"

From the Illinois Dariacon

Picture from the Illinois Dariacon: Brother Grimace on the left and Deref on the right. (Anyone care to identify the fellow in the middle ?) Also, a little film .

At the PPMB:

Richard Lobinske completed "Falling Into College 34 - For This, We're Thankful".
The Angst Guy completed "Forgotten But Not Gone".
DJW completed Part 3 of "The Dammitall Run".

At the SFMB: Roentgen completed a new chapter of "Legion of Lawndale Heroes".

Thinking of June

Greystar completed Part 9 of "Daria 3059".

I'm thinking of doing a fan ballot for a project in June. If anyone cares to collect votes for the ballot (for voters who might not want the public to know they read the page, but want to vote anyways), please leave a note in the comments section and I'll get back to you.

Number Twenty-Four

From The Daria News Archive :

DARIA has now moved to number 24 in the chart of most-wanted unreleased DVDs at tvshowsondvd.com. By 1205 UTC today, 2,150 people had voted for DARIA.

Deref has made it safely to Springfield, Illinois.

The Angst Guy completed Chapter 14 of "Forgotten But Not Gone".
At the SFMB, Ranger Thorne completed Chapter 5 of "Daria's Web".

New fan art by The Great Saiyaman (link is here , which means work related browsers might block it).

New Dress-Up Game

From Cyberdaria , involving Quinn and the rest of the "Club de Mode". Most of the clothing seems to come right out of The Daria Diaries. Safe for kids.

The Prairie State

The Ohio Dariacon is over and with Deref on his way to Illinois, the Illinois Dariacon is about to begin!

At the PPMB:

Isabelle Young-Johnson started Part 1 of "Grant Me The Serenity".
Richard Lobinske completed Part 3 of "Falling Into College 34 - For This, We're Thankful".

"Burnout Chick CHRISTY?"

Art from the MTV flipbook "Before They Were Daria Stars"



With this cryptic caption:

"Here's what Sandy looked like before she joined the Fashion Club. Just kidding--it's "Burnout Chick 'Christy'" who evolved into a different character."

So what the hell IS the name of "Burnout Chick"?

Stickers

Richard Lobinske completed Part 2 of "Falling Into College 34 - For This, We're Thankful" at the PPMB.

More from the article by Mr. Anonymous:

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Next we have the stickers. As stated above there were sixteen stickers made. Fifteen of them were produced for retail sale while one was a promotional item. First we'll look at the commercial stickers.

The first four feature Daria in various familiar poses and alongside equally familiar quotes. Just like the patches, the two round decals feature the logo and skull design. The two long stickers show Daria alongside two quotes readily associated with her. The first has a line from the opening theme, "You're standing on my neck" and the other has a line she actually quoted in the series, "How come even in my fantasies, everyone's a jerk?" The round stickers are slightly larger than the patches and the stickers are about an inch and a half tall and about three inches long.




Next in line is the other Morgendorffer daughter. Quinn got two stickers featuring her lovely visage. The first is a round decal showing her more vain side as she gazes lovingly at her reflection in a hand mirror. The long sticker features the quote, "It's not easy being cute and popular." Quite appropriate for her at the time the stickers were produced. Remember, these were all made during the first two seasons before she was allowed to develop beyond her shallow roots.

Now it's time to look at the Lane siblings again. Jane once more gets the short end of the stick compared to her big brother. Her round sticker has the same image used in the patch but at least the long sticker allows her a new pose next to the quote, "What's my motivation again?" Trent, on the other hand gets two round decals as well as a long sticker. The first round sticker recycles the sleeping pose from the patch while the other has a slightly (very slightly) psychedelic swirl background and his head in the foreground. His long sticker has the quote, "I'm not a musician... I'’m an interpreter of sound." A familiar quote quite popular among fans.




Brittany Taylor is the only other character blessed with decals. Her round sticker shows her giving that sweet but nonetheless vacant gaze she was best known for. The long sticker has the quote, "Bounce, Smile, Giggle, Repeat!" Quite appropriate actually.



Should you merely wish to have all the characters in one place there's a sticker to satisfy your desire. The group decal has all the characters mentioned above in extreme closeups. At around four inches it's slightly longer than the quote decals and is a little narrower but is quite colorful and fun.



The last sticker produced was for Daria and Jane's favorite television program. It's about the same height as the round stickers but its oval shape makes it about a half inch wider.



Finally we have the promotional decal. This was handed out mostly during the first season to announce the series. The basic image is the round logo but it differs from the commercially available sticker in some notable ways. The first and most obvious difference is the border is a burgundy color as opposed to the green on the regular one. Another difference is the lack of the MTV logo anywhere on the front. All the other decals feature this vital piece of proof they are legitimate bits of licensed merchandise. The final difference is the back of the sticker features information about the show as well as the Daria logo. The MTV logo also appears here so it's proof that the item is a real piece of merchandise from the series and not a piece of homemade memorabilia.

All the items mentioned and shown above are real licensed items. There are several sellers on auction sites offering merchandise similar for sale. If you have any question about it being genuine please note that every item shown here features the MTV logo quite prominently as proof of its legitimacy. If the item you are looking at doesn't have this feature it's almost certain not to be genuine. This isn't to say there's something I haven't seen yet but it's been a long time since a new decal or patch has materialized so the odds are against anything new popping up anytime soon.

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Mr. Anonymous also sent me some mail:

http://www.musicstickers.com/daria.html

Anyhow, this is a link to a place that sells all the licensed Daria stickers. The original MTV and Noggin stickers are likely only to be found by auction. If you're lucky. All that seems to be out on Ebay right now is bootleg stuff.

Fandom Goes On

Richard Lobinske posted Part 1 of "Falling Into College 34 - For This, We're Thankful".
The Brother Grimace/Angelinhel write-off continues.

Daria Collectibles

From an article by Mr. Anonymous:

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Of the roughly hundred licensed bits of Daria merchandise patches and stickers are among the items that are still relatively easy to find. In total there were six patches produced and sixteen patches, fifteen of which were produced commercially.

First let’s look at the patches.

The first three feature our heroine in three different guises. Of course there's the logo but then we get treated to one of just her head and torso with no logo getting in the way. The final one has the familiar picture of her holding a skull. All three are quite colorful. The scan has muted the colors but they are quite attractive when viewed up close.

The final three patches feature the Lane siblings in all their glory or at least in familiar poses. Jane graces her sole embroidered effort with a rather bored look while channel surfing with her favorite remote control in hand. Trent get treated to a duo of patches though. His first shows him with his guitar. Fortunately he isn't playing anything so it's quite nice. The second patch has him in a more familiar pose sleeping the day (or night -- whichever) away.

All six patched are embroidered and about 1-3/4 to 2" across. As the pictures show they come on a rather plain black card and are stapled on. They can be ironed on to whatever you plan to stick them too but many people have stated they don't always stay attached that way so it might be wise to consider getting out the sewing kit and making sure they stay put that way.

These still show up on auction sites from time to time and are quite reasonable. There are also a few online retailers that still have these in stock so a little research can turn them up. That is if you want them.

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More from Mr. Anonymous later.

Daria Fan Jam

At alt.tv.daria, Invid Fan asks if there are any Daria sites remaining that would care to host "Deep Daria" and other "non-family friendly" Daria pics. Either leave a message in the comments section, or follow up to his post on alt.tv.daria.

Fans E. A. Smith and Deref do a little jamming on the gee-tar. File is here .

Birthday Time

Happy Birthday to Martin J. Pollard on his 39th birthday.

A picture from the Ohio Dariacon . (Left to right: Reese Kaine, Thea Zara, Kevin (?), Renfield and Deref.) As well as a video for those with fast download.

Father Martin (not the Martin above) has also provided a labeled picture from the Georgia Dariacon (go here ).

Blast from the past: a press release from MTV dated January 1997 announcing "Daria".

The link at the former TDJC site now has an explanation, as well as some blogging by Dr. Mike.

At the PPMB: Mike Xeno completed Part 9 of "Sarcasm at 1600".

A FAMILY FRIENDLY version of the Daria/Quinn dress-up game by ioxmo can be found here . (My bad for not vetting the other one.)

Added to Fanfiction.net: "United We Fall" by Cesudo.

Fan art: by Beatnik Shaggy (unfinished sketch)