Genre's of fiction.

What genre's of fiction do you think Daria would read (execpt for the true quill, that's a potental given).

Alex Case of writes:

Some answers to that can be found by observing which books she actually does read on the show. Has anyone made a list of these? The only fiction one that springs to mind offhand is "Heart of Darkness", which Apocalypse Now was based on.

-Shez.

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:37:25 +0100, Shez wrote:

I think she'd like "Less than Zero"... although the book wasn't half as good as the movie (fewer spoiled rich kids snuffed it)....

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probably what us english major snobs like to call "literary fiction"--stuff that doesn't rely on the confines of a genre to define it (such as "mystery" or whatever). but that's probably just what i'd like to think. hell, she might own the entire collection of star trek novels for all i know.

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She also read "The Telltale Heart". And Poe might lead to Lovecraft. Humanity as a powerless and insignificant speck alone and adrift in a hostile and uncaring universe. No, that wouldn't appeal to her at all. :) I think I'll go continue working on my fanfiction "The Shadow over Lawndale".

In article , Michael Sears wrote:

<tongue in cheek>Watch out, Michael...when I tried to write a fic bringing the denizens of Lawndale, CT into the Cthulhu Mythos, my hard drive died. Weird shit happens to writers who delve into HP Lovecraft's universe.</tongue in cheek>

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Michelle Klein-Hass said:

I actually have, somewhere, a half-completed fanfic called "The Misery Birds" which is a crossover between ...

• Daria
• Darkwing Duck
• The Cthulhu Mythos

(It takes place in the Disneyverse with an alternate anthropomorphic Lawndale, includes DW characters, and touches on something From Beyond, if that explains matters. DW guest villain is Splatter Phoenix, whose "real identity" I reveal).

In article , [email] (Michelle Klein-Hass) wrote:

Lovecraft's

Too late. After I typed the first 4 pages I tried to save the file and my computer crashed. I couldn't even reboot, I had to physically turn the computer off and on again. The file hadn't been saved and I figured that it was lost. But fortunately, when I restarted Word, it automatically recovered the file. (I didn't know it could do that.)

But my story is more hybridized. Not as funny as pure Daria and not as dark as pure Lovecraft. In a sense its more of a Call of Cthulhu or Delta Green crossover than a straight Lovecraft crossover, with clear Brian Lumley influence (so sue me, I like it when humanity wins once in a while).

This is getting curious, is the there a significant correlation between being a Daria fan and being into Lovecraft and Call of Cthulhu. It's the only RPG I play, (with the exception of Vampire the Masquerade but that's only because I want to try and pick up Goth girls). The assorted Tolkienesque things I wouldn't touch with a bargepole.

<Wondering if Sandi is really an Avatar of Nyarlathortep>

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:55:07 +0100, Michel Morton wrote:

I think RPGs in general are the sort of thing that would appeal to many Daria fans (and likely would not to others). I am precisely the opposite of you, though. Tolkeinesque is my favorite, and I intend to play 3rd edition D&D at the first opportunity. I also play Vampire, but that's just because many of my friends prefer it, too, so it's play that or play nothing, really.

Can't say I enjoy Lovecraft too much. I played Delta Green once, and just couldn't get into it. Personally, I like playing a game where I can at least *start* by believing that my character has a chance of actually making a difference in the conflict he faces, even if he doesn't live through it. I've found Cthulu to be largely a "watch the DM find out how he can screw over the players" style of game.

In article , [email] (Daryl Sawyer) writes:

Speaking of which, ever play "Paranoia?" ;7

-IdentityCrisis

Ooooh yeah!

It gets worse! Ever come across the Paranoia/Call of Cthulhu crossover module?

"Ia, Ia Shub Nigerath, Infrared High Programmer of Alpha Complex with a Thousand Clones"

[email] (Michel Morton) wrote in :

A little, not enough to really enjoy it, actually only one session :(

So that's where iD got the name for the end of game baddy on Quake, always wnodered about that, thanks :)

Phill.

In article , [email] (Phill Harvey-Smith) writes:

I didn't get to play much myself, although it was fun while it lasted. My character was a technician - "citizen Why-R-CRS."

You figure it out. ;7

[email] (Michel Morton) wrote in :

No, I've never really checked the whole Lovecraft thing. I probably should sooner or later.

Although... From what I've heard, I'd imagine the whole thing got horribly, perversly twisted before long. :7

-IdentityCrisis

On 29 Aug 2000 16:13:30 GMT, [email] (IdentityCrisis1) wrote:

<:D <massive grin>

Yeah, that's the same sort of game. But that game is just silly enough to be *fun*

In article , Michael Sears wrote:

BTW, just so everyone knows, I turned the Lovecraft pastiche into a Stephen King pastiche and the result was "So Turns The Wheel."

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Shez said:

Most of the authors she's been shown really into (Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad) were _major_ cynics, and into extremely sarcastic social commentary about the darker side of human nature.

I've only been watching the show a short time, but I seem to recall she has a Kafka poster on her wall. I can see her getting into Kafka.

Steve Cross

While Daria can read and understand great works of literature, she also seems to have a definite taste for certain specific forms of Dreck.

James Bond. Her personal guilty pleasure in trashy cold-war spy novels is well established. I suspect Jake has (or had, until Helen found out that Daria was reading them) a whole box full of series novels with names like "The Eviscerator" and "The Liquifier" about maverick agents who kill piles of commie villians, and this was an early and seminal influence on Daria's taste in trash reading.

I can also see her getting into anything bad enough to have true camp value. Valley of the Dolls comes to mind. I think she'd have a particular weakness for that sub-genre where very rich and outwardly respectable people make complete asses of themselves over sex ... Payton Place and all its descendants. She's probably gleefully read "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Vampire Lestat" just to trash them, but has no desire whatsoever to read any further in those series.

Anything involving straight-faced paranoia. If she ever read Tom Clancy, she'd actually like "Clear and Present Danger" MORE than "The Hunt for Red October" (but for all the wrong reasons). She'd also read Whitley Streiber, just to make fun of him. I suspect she went through an intense UFO-conspiracy jag when she was a bit younger, until she got bored with it.