Lost Zebra Day
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To have a "lost zebra" day is to have a bad day caused by a series of trivial things going wrong; your day is ruined and you just want to curl up and cry until it's over, but nothing truly terrible has happened. The term was used by some due South fans on LiveJournal.
The term was inspired by a scene in the 2001 fanfic With Six You Get Eggroll by Speranza. In the story, Ray Kowalski and Benton Fraser's three-year-old adopted son is crying inconsolably until Ray Kowalski figures out that he lost his toy zebra. Ray says sympathetically, "That is such a hard day.... I've had days like that.... You lose your zebra and your pictures suck, and all you wanna do is cross that day out."[1]
At Con.txt in 2006, a number of people in the Due South/C6D fandoms were given gift bags that were a survival kit for that kind of day, containing zebra finger puppets and juice boxes.
Usage Examples
2006
Because one can only have so many lost zebra days before one has to take the yay by the proverbial horns.
Because dS fandom is collectively having a lost zebra day, I offer some shamelessly schmoopy Fraser/Kowalski fic.
2007
This is a slightly tweaked version of a bit of comment fic that I wrote for slidellra, who was having a lost zebra day.
2011
Sisterofdream had a lost zebra day, so I gave Dean one -- and introduced Castiel to fanfiction,because I hadn't written that cliche yet for reasons of plot. Season 5...ish, spoiler for the end of the season.
References
- ^ Speranza. With Six You Get Eggroll. (Accessed 17 March 2013)
- ^ Things of Yay!, Archived version by sage. Dreamwidth mirror of a LiveJournal post, 17 May 2006.
- ^ ten things ray loves about fraser (ds) by jai. Dreamwidth mirror of a LiveJournal post, 2006-07-10.
- ^ Fic: Evidence (F/K, R), Archived version by malnpudl in ds_noticeboard. Dreamwidth mirror of a LiveJournal post, 22 August 2007.
- ^ From the fic summary of had to learn your ways and habits, Archived version by ifreet, 2011-03-01.