MorganSkye wants "Daria" on DVD, too.

Thank God. I thought I was the only one. (/joke)

A DVDaria Forum has been added to the many forums at PPMB.
The purpose of the forum is to brainstorm for ideas regarding the campaign to get "Daria" released on DVD.

E. A. Smith's interview with C. E. Forman has been published at PPMB. Read it here !

If you are interested in participating with other Daria fans with "TeamSpeak", check out this thread on the PPMB.

The responses for where Helencon 2008 -- the first International Daria Convention -- should be held are still being tabulated. Check
here for the most recent tabulation.

A belated Happy 51st birthday to Daria fan sleepless! (March 28th)

"Daria" has risen to #15 on http://www.tvshowsondvd.com , a show that advocates the
release to DVD of currently unreleased shows.

Added to the PPMB:

hey completed "7 Down, Overworked" , Part III of "The Unlikely Match" , Part 8 of "Anger Meets Her Match" , "Tony's Girls" , Chapter 5 of "Daria's Goodbye Wave"

* Lawndale Stalker completed a new chapter of "1111 Space Time Lane" .
* The Angst Guy completed "No One Lives Forever" , as well as Parts 1 through 5 of "It Slipped Through My Hands, Like A Shadow, Like a Dream" .
* Richard Lobinske completed "Falling Into College 45: Lindy Lane" , and Parts 1 and 2 of "Misery's End" .
* Emerald Martini completed Part 1 of "A Rose for Sandi" .
* The Ranting Klown completed Parts I through III of "Unknown Artist" on separate PPMB threads. (The link is to Part III)
* Gregor Samsa completed Part 2 of "DAR" .

Added to the SFMB:

* The Great Saiyaman has started a brand new adult art story called "Growing Pains" . It can be found in the hidden section of the SFMB.
* Napalm Kracken completed "Daria Disenfranchised Part II" .

Added to Fanfiction.net:

"The Lane Boy" by Chubby Redburn

FAN ART

...lots of fan art!! For example, Daria reading on her bed can be found here . The art is by the acclaimed Christ Oliver. (Note: rear nudity.)

Daria fan S. C. created this slap-happy avatar!



And S. C. also envisions what a "Dream Dariacon" would look like. Click here to share his vision. Note: this pic is 1200x800, expect it to fill your screen....

Furthermore, if you want to see S. C.'s spot-on canon sketches of Quinn and Sandi, go to this thread on PPMB.

MDetector5 gives us a glimpse of Quinn as a cheerleader! (Full sized picture is here . Sorry, MDetector5, but it's hard to display in small form. - CG)

nullset makes use of the Gaia dream Avatar Creator here to create Daria characters. Here is Daria....



Emerald Martini gives up Tiffany and Joey, together. (Full sized pic is here .



...and to top the art show off, Kemical Reaxion makes it clear that being Queen of Lawndale High School is not all it's cracked up to be....

First, a hearty welcome back to Greybird. Greybird had been gone for a while, and I thought he had just taken a break from fandom. As it turns out, he had been hospitalized for infection, and the hospitalization was a serious one. To coin a phrase, he was getting in the neighborhood of Tommy Sherman's falling goalposts.

He's still severely ill and on oral antibiotics. The Daria Fandom Blog hopes that he will get well, and get well soon.

Second, an interesting link: a "Daria"-based editorial from an Alabama newspaper. You can read it here .

If you've not read it yet, you definitely have to read the update of The DVDaria Blog of March 19th.

Steven Galloway is giving up his co-administrator duties at the PPMB. The relevant thread is here .

Happy Birthday to Daria Fan Reese Kaine (March 21st)!

At the PPMB:

I don't normally highlight Iron Chefs, but some good writing can be found on this thread .

* hey posted several parts of "The Unlikely Match" , Chapter 7 of "Anger Meets Her Match" , further chapters of "The Secret Life of Penny Lane" , and two new parts of "See Jane Ride" .

* The Angst Guy completed Chapter XXVII of "Outcasts from Beyond" .
* Richard Lobinske completed Parts 2 through 5 of "Falling Into College 45: Lindy Lane" .
* MsHand completed "Not Exactly" .
* sleepless completed Part 16 of "Broken Connections" .

At the SFMB:

* M Man added new parts of "Something to Hide" at the hidden section of SFMB.
* ostragoth completed Chapter 9 of "Estrangesters" .
* Roentgen completed a new part of "Legion of Lawndale Heroes" .
* Dervish has completed several thought of "Daria of the Drow" .

Added to fanfiction.net:

"Diary Entries" , by Sailor Ranger
"The Mission" , by danogil

Fan art: Wind Lane as an "Emo Boy", by Emerald Martini. (Full-size image is here .)

I decided to compare and contrast two assertions regarding fanfiction by two good writers. One you know, and one you don't know, but you can find him on The Infamous Brad .

The first person is Kara Wild. She writes, in her DVDaria Blog entry of March 19th that:

I understand all of these sentiments, but I can't tolerate them, especially the third one. Fanfiction can be enjoyable, but its role has been to fill in the gaps left by the show, not act as a substitute for the show. Viewed alongside the actual series, fanfiction can be fascinating in its character studies and multiple "what ifs?", but without the availability of the series, a lot of fanfiction just doesn't hold up. To act as though fanfiction is a perfectly adequate substitute for the real show strikes me as irresponsible. Fanfiction should be tiding us over until we get the real series on DVD, not making us blase about whether or not the real series ever comes out.

However, Brad Hicks writes the following on March 20th -- the discussion concerns the difficulty of writing and if Alan Moore truly deserves the praise he's been given:

Not all writers get shat upon equally. Comic book writers, as Alan Moore accurately complains, get shat upon more. There's a reason for that, and that's that what they do is, yes, really is, that easy. When you consider how much of what Alan Moore has done is based entirely on other people's characters and simply continuing inherited story lines, jesus, I'll bet at least two hundred of you could (for example) have done as good a job as he did on "Swamp Thing", and I have no doubt whatsoever that any ten out of fifty random fanfic writers could have churned out fan-fic involving the same characters as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and done a better job of it than he did. (emphasis mine - CG)

The topic for debate:

"Resolved: That the best "Daria" fanfiction writers are at least as good, if not better, than the people who wrote the "Daria" episodes. If circumstances were changed, these fanfiction writers could have done at least as well as Bernstein, Nicoll and company".

If you leave a comment, state whether you are taking the positive position (agreement) or negative position (disagreement).

Part II of an update, which completes review of the PPMB.


At the PPMB:

* SigDiff completed Part 10 of "Lambda" .
* Kara Wild provided a link to "I Don't (The Aftermath)" .
* The Angst Guy completed "The Two of Them" .
* Ms. Hand completed Parts 15 through 19 of "Not Exactly" .

* hey completed Chapter 3 of "Moshpit" , "Worth the Blood" , Chapter 6 of "Anger Meets Her Match" ,
"DJ Tripps" , Chapters 2 through 4 of "Daria's Goodbye Wave" , Chapters 8 and 9 of "The Secret Life of Penny Lane" , and the first three chapters
of "See Jane Ride" .

* Richard Lobinske completed "Falling Into College 44: Apartment for Rent" , "John Lane 16: Left to the Heart" , and part one of "Falling Into College 45: Lindy Lane" .

Fan art: Two pictures from the "Daria Olympics" in Turin, Italy. We take you to the ice skating competition....

"Andrea Skates!" by Kemical Reaxion. (Full size image is here .)



But will she be able to defeat the sparkling Quinn? MDetector 5 brings us this lovely image.... (Full size image is here .)



And...will "Daria's Inferno" ever come to GameBoy? Maybe it has, according to Christ Oliver. (Full size image is ici .)

Part I of a continuing series to bring the blog up to date.

New from The Daria News Archive:

As Autumn begins, ABC viewers in Australia are able to see again the fifth season of DARIA. On March 2nd the network began repeats of Season Five on Fridays.

New ban procedures have been posted at the PPMB. You post at the pleasure of the site owner; don't get yourself booted. (The relevant PPMB thread is here .

According to Daria fan "Crabcake", "Daria" is #17 on TVSHowsOnDVD.com, meaning that it is the seventeenth most popular show whose seasonal episodes have not been released on DVD. You have no excuse not to vote!

Happy belated 29th birthday to Daria fan E. A. Smith (March 11th)!!

Once again, we have a delay, possibly the longest in Daria Fandom Blog history. Have been trying to put together a grad school application. Took the GRE today, have been assembling letters of recommendation, transcripts, and filling out applications...thus, the delay.

Until Daria goodness can be restored, here is a snowshoe bunny to keep you occupied until a hopeful update late Wednesday or early Thursday.

Currently on vacation in Pittsburgh. Will update someday. Hopefully, before Sunday when I get back home.

As my wife and I drove home, we saw a sign that said, "Quinn in the Morning! Radio 104.7!" And of course, I made the obvious comment, e. g., "That would make a good fanfic...."

March 3, 2006 was the 9th ("Pottery") anniversary of the first airing of "Daria" on MTV. The episode "Esteemsters" aired on March 3, 1997.


If any fans in the NC/VA area are interested in an informal gathering, contact Daria fan "hey" at the PPMB .

Kristen Bealer, her husband Bryan, Milderbeast and Damaged Roses are holding a mini-Dariacon in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the weekend of Saturday, May 6th. Contact her here if you are interested in attending.

Added to the PPMB:

* hey completed Part 2 of "Lost in Suburbia" (Kevin/Andrea relationshipper), Chapter 7 of "The Secret Life of Penny Lane" , and Chapters 1 and 2 of "Moshpit" (Trent/Andrea relationshippper).
* sleepless completed Part 15 of "Broken Connections" .
* SigDiff completed Part 4 of "The Lost Cobra" .
* Greystar completed Chapter 15 of "Daria 3059" .
* Richard Lobinske completed "John Lane 15: Ring of Champions" and Part 1 of "Falling Into College 44: Apartment for Rent" .

At the SFMB:

* Ranger Thorne posted Chapter 6 of "Daria's Web" . ("Daria"/Spider-Man).

Fan Art x 2: first, a picture of a "chibi" Daria and Tom by TokyoLover9. (Full size link is here . You might need a DeviantArt account.)



...and finally, a sketch by Beatnik Shaggy of Daria asleep. There is a colored sketch, but I liked the black and white better. (Original link is here .)



For your information: the infamous "Daria" watch. It was once offered through the Viacom web site. (Image from Sick Sad World .)