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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''.) |
'''<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''.) |
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According to fan [[Yui Daoren]], |
According to fan [[Yui Daoren]], noted 'shipped 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. |
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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. |
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. |