Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Meanwhile, as Law-Abiding Citizens Everywhere Went about their Business...
Of general interest:
- Kara Wild's DVDaria.info and the.wild-one.com are currently off-line due to a dispute with her hosting service, Amhosting. Ms. Wild is soliciting suggestions for more reliable and possibly less expensive hosting providers in this thread at the PPMB.
- As mentioned in CINCGREEN's post of 18 June, The-N no longer shows Daria and Greybird noted in a comment to that post that the URL for The-N's Daria's portal is now given to a Canadian live action show called “Whistler.” In light of these developments, it may be some comfort to Daria fans to know that MTV's Daria site at http://www.mtv.com/onair/daria/ is still on-line. Perhaps a fan could mirror or archive it (I could never figure out all the options to wget) before it too goes dark.
- A happy belated Bloomsday to the Joyceans among Daria fans.
- To Jake M., trying his best to cook for his family: What is a home without Plumtree's potted meat? Imcomplete. With it, an abode of bliss.
- To Anthony DeM., still reeling from that little boat ride: you can have the newspaper; we were only going to Throw it away.
- The Angst Guy wants to know if Daria fan fiction writers are on the right track in this thread at the PPMB. My opinion, which is only mine and not that of the Daria Fandom Blog, is that there is fan fiction I enjoy and fan fiction I do not. I won't even go so far as to say that whether the works I enjoy are good or not, although writers are still producing works I enjoy.
And now, having opined perhaps more than CINCGREEN would like me to, on to news of the fandom—
New and updated fan fiction at the Paperpusher's Message Board:
- Micka began “Musings.”
- Ranger Thorne posted a link to a Kim Possible fan fiction, “Full Potential.”
- Angelboy posted a new installment of “Is it Smiting Yet?”
- Richard Lobinske began “Falling into College 47: Melody of Life.”
New and updated fan art at the Paperpusher's Message Board:
- Christ Olivier and others posted various photos of Daria cosplay found on the web. For those wondering what “cosplay” is, Roentgen provides the following exerpt from the Wikipedia entry:
Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure), a contraction (or portmanteau) of the English words "costume" and "play", is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, or Japanese pop music bands. However, in some circles, "cosplay" has been expanded to mean simply wearing a costume.
In Japan, "cosplay" as a hobby is usually an end unto itself. Likeminded people gather to see others' costumes, show off their own elaborate handmade creations, take lots of pictures, and possibly participate in best costume contests. - S.C. posted his version of Robin Sena's “Strange Bedfellows.”
The original:
The remake (click for 1300 by 700 version):
Still more fan art! Via Christ Olivier, Salvador Dali's “Persistence of Memory” rendered by one Aelis as Daria fan art:
# posted by Frank Sinisterra @ 7:43 AM 
