The DVDaria Blog has, along with news notes, a new set of responses to questions posed to Glenn Eichler. (One supplemental question with answer is posted at PPMB.) Several mysteries are at least partially resolved.

The Contrarian's Corner has a fan fiction update for the new year.

Kara Wild, who operates both of those sites, also put forward some requests to prolific fanfic authors, as to more easily hosting, linking, and revising their work. The resulting PPMB thread has garnered much discussion and additional suggestions.

If anyone has recommendations as to hot-link-capable, preferably ad-free Web hosting options, at low or no cost, please make them in that thread or send them to the DFB. We may add a page here of links to such services, along with site-maintenance and graphics tools.

At the PPMB:

~ RLobinske has sketched a "Heavy Metal Daria." (Further discussion is in a related Iron Chef and in a thread at SFMB.)

~ The selfsame Bug Guy has the first three parts of "Falling Into College" part 42, "Registering Annoyance," and has apparently finished "First Summer" part 7, "Cruising."

~ A revived Iron Chef using minor "Daria" characters, "And the Last Shall Be First."

~ A vignette by Robin Sena, "Sheep Go to Heaven, Goats Go to Hell."

~ MsHand has part 2 of "Not Exactly."

~ New reports arise of allusions to Daria in the "Beavis & Butt-head" book (if that phrase isn't as oxy-moronic as they are), Reading Sucks.

~ Is there a Daria resonance, character or series, in the comic book "Sandman"? You decide.

~ Taryn has archived the "Tanandaria" put-yourself-in-the-frame art project, for "those who remember." Details and more links are here.

~ MDetector5 has two versions of art for a "Devil Quinn."

At the SFMB:

~ Stacy Rowe! A new column! (Transcribed by Roentgen.) You can get some questions answered about the current situation in "Legion of Lawndale Heroes."

~ Angelboy added to chapter 3 of "Diary Entries."

~ DJ posted a revised version of his nude of Quinn, in the adult section.