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Line 1: '''<nowiki>'</nowiki>maters''' were a long running joke back in the very earliest days of ''Daria'' fandom, approximately from 1998 to 2000. (The word is prononunced much like it is spelled, a dialect form of the word ''tomatoes''.) According to fan [[Yui Daoren]], ~~Daria~~noted 'shipper ~~fan~~writer [[Diane Long]] (known as "Smoochy-Jane" on the [[Outpost Daria Message Board]]) suggested that as a [[shipper]], if people didn't like her Daria/Trent stories they should throw tomatoes at her. This led to [[Rey Fox]] throwing a tomato (in prose, of course) on the ODMB. Supposedly, Diane Long preferred the <nowiki>'</nowiki>maters spelling because she didn't know how to spell tomatoes in plural form. Soon, several fans were "throwing 'maters" at one another in threads. A 'mater toss would look something like this: ==============O. Entire threads of 'mater attacks led some fans to complain that board space was being used up for stupid games at the expense of discussion~~. Eventually, the 'mater craze died out~~. Daria fans would later imbue each form of <nowiki>'</nowiki>mater with special abilities. Line 24: This <nowiki>'</nowiki>mater gives those hit with it a Wookie-like appearance with the grammar to match. '''lavender <nowiki>'</nowiki>mater''' Fans hit with a lavender <nowiki>'</nowiki>mater will have the urge to write about Timothy O'Neill and Janet Barch as a couple. Created by [[Peter Guerin]]. ==The Killing Frost== Like any in-joke, the use of <nowiki>'</nowiki>maters slowly dwindled away, leaving only today's puzzled fans who might read 'mater references in the works of early fans such as [[Crazy Nutso]]. ==Links== [http://web.archive.org/web/20040721183217/http://y1.8m.com/maters/menu.html 'mater types at the Web Archive] [[Category: Fandom\|Maters]]