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'''<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]], noted 'shippedshipper 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.
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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==
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[http://web.archive.org/web/20040721183217/http://y1.8m.com/maters/menu.html 'mater types at the Web Archive]
 
 
[[Category: Fandom|Maters]]
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