| Dark of Hearts |
| 10/04 |
How would the third-season episode “Jake of Hearts”
have gone if Jake’s father, Mad Dog Morgendorffer, were still
alive? A twisted Daria/Tom shipper-fic from an alternate universe
answers the question. |
| Howard |
| 10/04 |
Daria Morgendorffer hears the story about Howard
the duck (but not the one you are thinking of) in this third-season
tale that explains why Trent Lane will not go into a bookstore.
A little shipperiness and angst come with the humor. |
| More Than Just
Lost |
| 10/04 |
Jane Lane and Alison meet again, a few years after
the events of the movie, “Is It Fall Yet?” in this play for
three voices. The meeting, however, does not go as expected. |
| One More River to Cross |
| 10/04 |
In helping Sandi Griffin through a difficult situation,
Quinn Morgendorffer must make a decision that could determine
her own nature, for good or for evil—but which choice is the
right one? Story rated R for language and controversial content. |
| Potential |
| 10/04 |
Quinn Morgendorffer meets the man of her dreams,
but the potential for nightmares is there, too, in this post-“Is
It College Yet?” continuation of the second-season “Daria” episode,
“That Was Then, This Is Dumb.” |
| Prisoner of Hope |
| 10/04 |
Daria’s sole fan from childhood is reunited with
her heroine, only to learn a bitter lesson in this continuation
of the fifth-season episode, “Camp Fear.” |
| Where No Light
Breaks, Where No Sea Runs |
| 10/04 |
Sunday afternoons at the Kinsington Women’s Correctional
Facility are very slow, and one lone inmate has nothing to look
forward to—until her only friend appears, and everything changes.
Story rated R for language, violence, and sexual content. |
| Almost Strangers
in the Night |
| 11/04 |
A short Quinn/Upchuck shipper-fic. No, seriously.
Look, it was Brother Grimace’s idea, so go blame him. |
| Driving Miss Daria |
| 11/04 |
A shipper-fic with a surprise. With two failed
relationships and three miserable years of college behind her,
Daria sits down to write a difficult term paper. Then comes
a knock at her apartment door. . . . |
| The Morgendorffer
Code |
| 11/04 |
Imagine a “Daria” crossover involving Dan Brown’s
"The Da Vinci Code." Now imagine you’re about to read it. |
| Daria Dance Party |
| 11/04 |
Song lyrics about an alternate-universe Daria
that you aren’t likely to recognize—once the sun goes down. |
| Home on Deranged |
| 11/04 |
The annual faculty-vs.-DJ competition at Lawndale
High School gains a Wild West flavor when mechanical bull riding
becomes the death-sport of choice. A third-season “Daria” comedy
script (before Tom), set during Daria’s junior high-school year. |
| Like Father, Like— |
| 11/04 |
What personality quirks did Daria inherit from
her father, Jake? One possibility is explored in this ficlet. |
| Special
Delivery |
| 11/04 |
Why was Daria out after curfew in “The Big House”?
One possible (if far-fetched) explanation is given here, in
this prequel to that episode. |
| Tiffany in Futureland |
| 11/04 |
A sad ficlet with a happy ending. Tiffany Blum-Deckler
stars in this topical political/sci-fi tidbit written in early
November 2004, before the elections. |
| True Lies |
| 11/04 |
What were Daria and Quinn really doing out late
on a school night just before they were caught by their parents
in the opening scene of “The Big House”? And who would dare
to believe their answers? |
| Kill Tom (Volumes 1 and
2) |
| 11/04 |
The Deadly Fashion Viper Squadron meets its match
in this Daria/"Kill Bill" crossover. |
| See Jane Spike |
| 11/04 |
Daria, Jane, and the Fashion Club find themselves
on opposing teams in a nasty session of volleyball—a first-season
sequel, of sorts, to the opening scenes from every “Daria” show
in which Daria screws up the game for Stacy and Tiffany. |
| Gone |
| 1/05 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis boils over
in October 1962, and the lives of three young sisters change
forever. Helen, Rita, and Amy Barksdale star in this tale of
sibling bonds tested under the worst of worst-case scenarios. |
| Dear Whoever |
| 1/05 |
Daria minutia: a sad plea from a “Daria”
character, from the unpublished musical version of, “And When
Your Heart Begins to Bleed” (not really, but if there was one,
this song would be in it). |
| Like
Angels' Visits, Short and Bright |
| 1/05 |
Amy Barksdale and two girlfriends
are in a spot of trouble, with the fate of Earth at stake, in
this way-over-the-top crossover of “Daria,” “Charlie’s Angels,”
Robert Heinlein’s "Starship Troopers," the USAF Space Command,
and H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu stories, if you will. |
| The IUF Tale,
or, Total Disaster in a Nutshell |
| 1/05 |
The author inserts himself and numerous
other Daria fans, particularly members of the notorious IUF,
into a lurid Daria fanfic, a nightmarish tale of cartoon lust
and horror. You won’t understand this unless you’ve read the
IUF spam threads on PPMB. No penguins were harmed in the writing
of this script. I swear. |
| Smoking
Mirror |
| 1/05 |
After a disastrous experience in Central
America, Penny Lane returns to Lawndale, her life in shambles—but
with her is a dark souvenir that unravels the lives of everyone
around her in terrifying ways. |
| Nine Point
Oh |
| 1/05 |
Just before noon, January 1, 2005,
west of Petchkasem Road down to Bang Niang Beach, resort city
of Khao Lak, Phang-Nga province, Kingdom of Thailand: The Griffin
family’s New Year. |
| Darialance |
| 1/05 |
A Daria/Dragonlance crossover was
suggested, and a ficlet was born. |
| Nothing
Happens for a Reason |
| 1/05 |
College freshmen Daria Morgendorffer
and Tom Sloane are together again, joyously happy and blissfully
in love—until the day she finds him in bed with a small zoo
and Tiffany Blum-Deckler. You’ll weep, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss
ten minutes of your life goodbye when you read this unofficial
sequel to Mahna Mahna’s Daria/Tom shipper, “Everything Happens
for a Reason.” |
| The Thirteenth
Man |
| 1/05 |
Compared to his intellectually and
morally challenged classmates at Lawndale High, Daria’s classmate
“Mack” Mackenzie is almost superhuman. What if he really was
superhuman? Enter an alternate universe in which Mack is not
only too good to be true, he’s even better than that. What could
possibly go wrong for a straight-arrow guy who can do anything
and everything? Let us see. |
| Darius |
| 2/05 |
Imagine “Daria” with a Y chromosome.
What might have happened if the eldest child of Jake and Helen
Morgendorffer had been born a boy? Here is an alternate-history
might-have-been, or a parallel-universe might-yet-be, with all
the fallout.
(This story is rated R for language, intense family conflict,
sexual situations, and abuse issues.) |
| When
the Torrent of That Time Comes Pouring Back |
| 2/05 |
The lone survivor of a disastrous
family vacation returns to Lawndale in January 2005, in this
sequel to the Daria fanfic, “Nine Point Oh.” |
| The Amazing Adventures
of D-Day and the Mighty Jane! |
| 4/05 |
The unstoppable D-Day Morgendorffer
and The Mighty Jane Lane face their greatest challenge yet in
this alternate-universe tale of superheroes, supervillains,
cliffhangers, and sudden death! |
| But Now
Is Found |
| 4/05 |
In this sequel to “Who Once Was Lost,”
twelve-year-old Daria Morgendorffer, the only human known to
have been kidnapped by aliens, tries to return to a normal life
in her new home in Lawndale. Now younger than her sister Quinn,
Daria finds fitting into school again is tough—but the trouble
has only started. Someone is looking for her and will stop at
nothing to find her, and what will happen if she’s found, no
one can say. |
| Easy A |
| 4/05 |
A ficlet that proves that a good grade
in school doesn’t always mean that getting it was a good thing,
too. |
| Illusions |
| 4/05 |
What did Daria see behind the attic
door that made her faint? Would you believe . . . another Daria?
Prepare for a long crossover journey into strange but familiar
Lawndales, drawn from alternate-universe Daria fanfics by almost
a dozen authors! |
| Who Once
Was Lost |
| 4/05 |
Two little girls from Highland, Texas,
go to Camp Grizzly for several weeks of annoying summer fun.
Only one little girl comes home. Three years later, the other
little girl begins her long journey back—but she discovers that
the world has moved on without her. Inspired by the fifth-season
Daria episode, “Camp Fear,” “Who Once Was Lost” is the first
tale in a science-fiction series about a Daria displaced in
time. |
| And
When Your Heart Begins to Bleed |
| 4/05 |
Daria, Jane, Quinn, Stacy, Sandi,
and other students at Lawndale High struggle through a brutal
twenty-four-hour period of unforeseen challenges, in this alternate-universe
tale created from a list of the “Top Ten Things That Never Happen
in Daria Fanfics” (with a few extra ideas thrown in). |
| Aunt Kara |
| 4/05 |
When Helen Morgendorffer’s youngest
sister (the “wild one” from Hollywood) comes to visit, guess
which member of the family gets the biggest surprise! |
| Jane
Unchained |
| 4/05 |
During a sensory deprivation experiment,
Jane Lane reveals a talent for getting her freedom—in a very
unexpected way. |
| Nine-eleven
and Counting |
| 4/05 |
The lives of Daria and Quinn Morgendorffer
and Jane Lane are caught up in the events of September 11, 2001,
when Quinn flies to Boston to visit Daria one weekend—then tries
to fly home on that terrible Tuesday morning. |
| As She Remembered
It in the Long Years After |
| 8/05 |
An alternate-universe love that never
spoke its name finally does . . . too late. |
| Deus Jane |
| 8/05 |
What was happening behind the scenes
of the Daria show? Were the show’s artistic and script-related
mistakes truly “accidental”? Who was the show really about?
Discover the shocking answers in this fantasy crossover tale
about a teenage girl whose Neverland was her own home town:
Lawndale. |
| Like a Circle
in a Spiral |
| 8/05 |
Mystik Spiral hits it big—but not
in the way they had always expected. This post-IICY tale spins
off from the Daria episode, “Speedtrapped.” |
| Making
the Breast of It |
| 8/05 |
A ficlet about an alternate-universe
superheroine with two big problems. |
| Sudden Death
Overtime |
| 8/05 |
A pink blossom grows from Kevin Thompson's
crutch at the end of the fourth-season episode, “A Tree Grows
in Lawndale.” What happened after that? This horror-story sequel
starts immediately following the blossom’s appearance, so its
beginning is entirely in canon! |
| Forgotten
But Not Gone |
| 8/05 |
The statue of a bearded man stands
in Lawndale’s Village Green, but no one in town knows who he
is. When Daria is reluctantly goaded into discovering the bearded
man’s his identity, she and Jane uncover a bizarre ninety-year-old
mystery that leads them into extraordinary danger. This (slightly
AU) Daria fanfic is set in the “lost summer” between Daria’s
sophomore and junior year at Lawndale High School. |
| Brave
New World |
| 10/05 |
The only thing worse than waking up
without remembering where you are, who you are with, or how
you got there . . . is remembering. |
Drive
|
10/05
|
Investigative show hosts
Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane take their “Good Mornings with Daria
and Jane Show” to a Pacific island that houses a secret government
research base—and are caught up in a nightmare that leads them farther
from home than they can imagine in this near-future science-fiction
adventure based on MTV’s “Daria.”
|
| Mad Dog |
| 10/05 |
A Halloween tale from an alternate
Daria universe: "There shall be done a deed of dreadful note"
(William Shakespeare, "Macbeth"). |
| Polly Andry
Rides Again |
| 10/05 |
Jeffy, Joey, or Jamie? Quinn can’t
make up her mind which boy she wants to be with, so she picks
. . . all of them. |
| Unto the
End |
| 10/05 |
A church-based debate on the War in
Iraq gets out of control—thanks to the one person least likely
to cause such a problem. |
| Snow
Ball in Hell |
| 12/05 |
Mrs. Johanssen collects souvenir snow
domes--but only a certain kind, as Tricia Gupty discovers (rock
video script developed for an Iron Chef contest). |
African Queen
|
3/09
|
Fourteen heavily armed men went hunting for her in the jungle. It was not a fair fight.
|
After the End
|
3/09
|
Jane eventually forgave
Daria for kissing Tom . . . but what if she hadn’t? What if the
“freakin’ friends” were no more? An AU story with many twists.
|
And All Was Right With the World
|
| 3/09 |
A soldier
comes home, but the war has never left him. |
And I on the Opposite Shore Will Be
|
3/09
|
Jane Lane makes a stunning
confession to her closest friend—but is it a secret she should have
kept to herself? A tale of how “The Lawndale File” could have gone.
|
Another Damn Mary Sue Fanfic
|
3/09
|
The author writes a Mary Sue story for “Daria.” The cause of literature is hurled back into the Dark Ages.
|
Anything for Jane
|
3/09
|
A Mother’s Day fanfic about a girl who discovers her favorite aunt was more important in her life than she had imagined.
|
April Is the Cruelest Month
|
3/09
|
Two junior undergraduates
from Boston take their medical and emotional problems with them during
spring break in the Rockies. (Rated R)
|
The Art of Seeing
|
3/09
|
When Daria meets Jane in an alternate universe, they discover things that the eye will never find.
|
As Many Worlds as There Are Artists
|
3/09
|
Daria and Jane consider
their future after high school, while Trent and his friends discuss
Mystik Spiral’s next masterpiece—but what if things had come out
differently, artistically speaking?
|
Backhanded Remarks
|
3/09
|
Sandi Griffin courts disaster at the French Open tennis tournament, and nets a ton of trouble.
|
The Ballad of Stacy Rowe
|
3/09
|
A musical spin-off from a
much better fanfic by E. A. Smith (“Good Intentions”), this
bluegrass-music ballad works best if sung to the tune of Grandpa
Jones’s famous “Mountain Dew,” with banjo accompaniment.
|
Bus Stop
|
3/09
|
A crossover ficlet with an ironic “uh-oh.”
|
But in Her Heart a Cold December
|
3/09
|
“Might be CIA,” Daria
Morgendorffer sarcastically wrote of the security-obsessed principal of
“Laaawndale High,” Angela Li—but Daria was closer to the truth than she
knew. From her hospital bed, Ms. Li reviews her turbulent life through
the Cold War as she recovers from her breakdown in the fifth-season
episode, “Fizz Ed.”
|
Can’t Touch That!
|
3/09
|
Kevin “QB Hammer” Thompson gets his fifteen seconds of fame on “Lawndale Idol,” with predictable results.
|
A Certain Amount of Depth
|
3/09
|
Quinn Morgendorffer and
David Sorenson meet in Lawndale just before Quinn’s senior year, and
they try to resolve troubling issues between them from the time when he
was her tutor a year earlier in “Is It Fall Yet?”
|
Click, Click, Boom
|
3/09
|
Somewhere in an alternate
universe, Daria Morgendorffer meets Jane Lane, and before you know it,
and they’re all over Lawndale, shooting people—so to speak.
|
Could Someone Turn Down the Sun?
|
3/09
|
Wackiness aplenty takes
place on the “Good Mornings with Daria and Jane Show,” when Madame
Tiffany the psychic accidentally causes the sun to go nova and destroy
the earth. How will Daria and Jane cope with the loss of their core
audience and network ratings, not to mention an astronomical
catastrophe? Read on and find out! (Based on the future-ego shots at
the end of “Is It College Yet?”)
|
Crossing Over
|
3/09
|
A dystopian Mary Sue crossover “Daria” metafic ficlet that should not have been written.
|
Change the World
|
3/09
|
Mr. O’Neill asks his class
to write inspirational essays—and comes to regret it when Daria
Morgendorffer reads one entitled, “You, Too, Can Change the World.”
|
darea
|
3/09
|
Unrequited love is not always properly spelled.
|
Daria 2007: The Girl from Hope
|
3/09
|
What might “Daria” have
been like if the show had taken place in 2007, ten years later than it
did? And what if Daria had gone to an alternate high school back in
Highland? One answer to those questions lies in this response to two
fanfic challenges. (Rated R)
|
Daria’s Addition
|
3/09
|
What could have happened after “Jane’s Addition”: Daria finds a new friend that comes in a bottle and is 80 proof.
|
Darkness
|
3/09
|
In the not-too-distant
future, a funeral-home director in Montana struggles to defend her
family and home from the End Times foretold in the Book of Revelation.
The protagonist? A tormented, world-weary, thirty-something cynic named
Daria. (Rated R)
|
Die! Die! You Bastard!
|
3/09
|
After ruining Jane’s
hair-dye job, Daria fears she has lost her best friend. Jane, for her
part, fears Daria is trying to steal her boyfriend, Tom. Will
everything work out for the best? And what does T. S. Eliot have to do
with any of this?
|
Every Hour Saved from That Eternal Silence
|
3/09
|
Astronaut Daria
Morgendorffer takes one small step on the greatest voyage of her
life—then discovers her ultimate destination is not the moon, but hell.
|
Feeding Frenzy
|
3/09
|
On a most unusual day at Lawndale High School, Upchuck discovers that he has—somehow—become the king of the babe magnets.
|
The First Time
|
3/09
|
Daria and Tom do it for the first time—and it’s rated G!
|
Fortunate One
|
3/09
|
When Quinn Morgendorffer
moves with her family to Lawndale, she tells her new friends that she
is an only child—but she secretly suspects this was not always so. Did
she once have a big sister? What happened to her? Where did she go? And
was her sister named . . . Daria?
|
The Girl Who Walked Home All Alone in the Dark
|
3/09
|
Jane Lane tells a slightly twisted bedtime story to the Gupty kids, in the manner of the “Legends of the Mall” episode.
|
Go Ahead and Dance
|
3/09
|
The lyrics to one of Trent
Lane’s better-known songs, written after Mystik Spiral’s move to Boston
(shortly after Trent’s sister Jane began college there).
|
Hal Point Nine
|
3/09
|
A story about a girl and her unusual . . . pet.
|
Highland Fling
|
3/09
|
The best night that Daria ever had in Highland, Texas, did not start out in a promising way.
|
History Lesson
|
3/09
|
The Morgendorffers discover a new member of their family tree.
|
I Never Metamorphosis I Didn’t Like
|
3/09
|
Daria Morgendorffer
awakens one morning from uneasy dreams to find herself transformed into
a giant cockroach. Seriously. Well, not seriously, but a giant
cockroach. We’re talking great literature. Based on it, I mean.
|
If You Only Walk Long Enough
|
3/09
|
A ten-year-old girl in abject misery at summer camp has an unexpected conversation with a talking cat.
|
The Impossible
|
3/09
|
A little girl realizes her goal in life with the help of an even smaller girl—a bright blue one.
|
In the Beginning
|
3/09
|
Brittany Taylor is hiding
a guilty pleasure. How will people react when they discover what she’s
been doing, and how long will she keep lying about it?
|
Invisible Planet
|
3/09
|
Quinn Morgendorffer sets
out to visit her aunt, Amy Barksdale, for a long January weekend. When
her plans are literally shot to pieces, Quinn discovers that nothing is
as she once believed, and saving her aunt from further harm might also
mean saving the entire world as well.
|
It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream
|
3/09
|
In an alternate universe,
a lonely outcast named Daria moves from Highland to Lawndale . . . yet
in the wake of a single change to the Dariaverse we know, disaster
spreads. The one who could have prevented the horrors now cannot, and
the avalanche of chaos widens to engulf everyone the outcast has
known—unless someone takes a stand to stop it. (Rated R)
|
Just Desserts
|
3/09
|
Timothy O’Neill makes a
special dinner for Janet Barch—right after Barch makes O’Neill stop
taking that completely unnecessary psychiatric medication.
|
A Knight to Remember
|
3/09
|
An offbeat “Daria” shipper
about a girl, a guy, and a Batmobile. The tale continues from where the
fifth-season episode “Sappy Anniversary” leaves off.
|
Life Is Good
|
3/09
|
A very short tale of an evil Daria and a sympathetic Tom. Sort of.
|
Luuuv Story
|
3/09
|
A
decade after high school, Daria and Quinn learn that their widowed
mother, Helen Morgendorffer, has a special man in her life . . . and
it’s Kevin Thompson. A sensitive and touching portrayal of mindless sex
gone wrong.
|
Mack Daddy
|
3/09
|
Andrew Landon and Michael
Mackenzie meet again, years after Mack and Jodie graduate high school,
and Mr. Landon says something that Mack never expects.
|
Meet the Fashion Club
|
3/09
|
There was one career path
that the Fashionable Foursome could have taken, if they had wanted
popularity, money, fame, and dates—and had talent, too.
|
Memory Lame
|
3/09
|
Amy Barksdale tells a little story, and Daria and Quinn almost die as a result.
|
A Midsummer Nightmare’s Daria
|
3/09
|
Quinn pulls a prank that
causes Jake to think that Daria has taken up demon worship, and he
takes Daria to a weekend father-daughter seminar to bring her “back to
the light.” Add in a few former classmates, romance, and an unexpected
twist—by way of Stephen King—and a very strange summer weekend gets
underway in Lawndale.
|
Natural Charms
|
3/09
|
When Upchuck takes up modeling photography, things unexpectedly develop in a negative way.
|
Next in Line
|
3/09
|
Thirty years from now, three old friends reunite to remember the past, just moments before the future arrives to overtake them.
|
No One Lives Forever
|
3/09
|
It’s a typical day in Los Angeles for Brittany Taylor: warm sun, busy streets, job hunting, and sudden death.
|
The Nothingness of Being
|
3/09
|
Joey arrives to take Quinn
on a date—but she slams the door in his face. What happened after that
moment in the fifth-season “Daria” episode, “One J at a Time”?
|
Nuthouse
|
3/09
|
Dinnertime visitors at the Morgendorffer home prove that Jake was right about one thing after all.
|
The Omega Jane
|
3/09
|
After a lethal pandemic
kills almost everyone alive, Jane Lane inherits the earth—but only from
dawn to dusk. Ghouls by the billions arise after sunset, and Daria
Morgendorffer is one of them. A horror tale inspired by Richard
Matheson’s classic novel of paranoia and vampirism, “I Am Legend”
(later filmed as “The Omega Man”). (Rated R)
|
The
Original Underground Government-Suppressed Version of Brother Grimace’s
Classic ‘Daria’ Fanfic, ‘The Sun Will Come Out, Tomorrow’
|
3/09
|
A sad example of what
happens when a fanfic writer takes a well-known opening scene from
another fanfic writer’s story and mucks it up, abusing other fanfic
writers in the process. There ought to be a law. However, since there
isn’t, you may as well read this.
|
The Other Story of D
|
3/09
|
Jane discovers a short
story that Daria wrote during a low period in her life, and she gains a
view into her friend that she never imagined existed.
|
Outcasts from Beyond
|
3/09
|
On her way to see Tom
Sloane, Daria Morgendorffer has a car wreck—but that’s only the start
of her problems in this long, weird alternate-universe/crossover
“Daria” tale of secret identities and super-powers that begins about
halfway through “Boxing Daria” and heads into the wild blue.
|
Pander Bare
|
3/09
|
Daria mulls a possible career path as a nude exotic dancer—for a moment.
|
Prayers for a SAINT
|
3/09
|
Amy Barksdale takes her favorite niece out to celebrate the publication of a Melody Powers story. Another story follows.
|
Pristine
|
3/09
|
Tom discovers that his ex-girlfriend Daria has gotten a new car—but he has forgotten that old saying about curiosity and cats.
|
Quinnisqatsi
|
3/09
|
A Daria/Koyaanisqatsi crossover. It is impossible to describe this story better than that.
|
Quinnts, Episode #101: Extremesters
|
3/09
|
Mike Xeno once asked, what
if Quinn were a quint? Thanks to shoddy fertility drugs, Quinn in this
alternate-history tale becomes the oldest of a group of
quintuplets—five same-age, genetically identical sisters, each with her
own interests. The dramatic effects that this has on the
Morgendorffers’ life are revealed—with the equally dramatic effects
this new family arrangement has on the more-outcast Daria.
|
Scarlett
|
3/09
|
When
Daria moved to Lawndale and started school at Lawndale High, someone
else moved there and started classes with her. Introducing Scarlett,
her mouse, and the Lawndale Leopards in an illustrated tale about what
the background characters were REALLY doing behind the scenes of our
favorite show, “Daria.”
|
The Secret Life
|
3/09
|
Two college students from Lawndale finally realize they were made for each other—but will anyone else realize this, too?
|
Self-Insertion
|
3/09
|
A semi-erotic furry Mary-Sue fanfic for the “Daria” show. One day I will regret ever writing this, I am sure.
|
Small Worlds
|
3/09
|
Jane and Daria meet a new Tom in this shameless Mary Sue.
|
Snowflakes
|
3/09
|
Daria makes a surprising discovery while looking through her parents’ bedroom drawers, but the real surprise is yet to come.
|
The Sound of Muzak
|
3/09
|
Music can have a
tremendous influence on fanfic writing. Examples are offered from this
writer’s own “Daria” works. This essay has been extensively revised.
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Stacy and the Lamp
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3/09
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Stacy Rowe rubs an ancient brass lamp, gets three wishes—and it’s the end of the world as Lawndale knows it.
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Stacy in Hell
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3/09
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A cautionary tale. The title says it all.
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Suite for Cello, Two-Part Invention
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3/09
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Brittany Taylor has a secret talent—and her new tutor, David Sorenson, is about to discover what it is.
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The Summer of the Hot Lake
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3/09
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The younger siblings and
relatives of major “Daria” characters find themselves spending the
summer at “Uncle” Timothy O’Neill’s Okay-to-Cry Corral, with none other
than Wind Lane as their cabin counselor. There, the kids face the
horrors of rice cakes and tofu for breakfast, therapy sessions to heal
their inner selves, a legendary monster in the cooling pond of a nearby
nuclear power plant, and—first love. Sam and Chris Griffin, Rachel
Landon, Brian Taylor, Link (from the movie, “Is It Fall Yet?”), and
Jane Lane’s nephew and niece, Adrian and Courtney, appear herein. The
action takes place during the summer after the conclusion of the movie,
“Is It College Yet?”
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Terrible Tales of Tiffany
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3/09
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A series of unfortunate dates with Tiffany Blum-Deckler, guaranteed to bring new meaning to the term “dismemberment.”
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There Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies
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3/09
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Ninth-grader Daria
Morgendorffer learns from her new phys-ed teacher at Highland High that
the future can ride on the flip of a coin.
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The Thong Remains the Same
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3/09
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In this sensitive and
insightful, though unofficial, continuation of Kara Wild’s Driven Wild
Universe, Amy and Joel separate after fighting over a trivial issue, as
married couples usually do, and they and Daria, Jane, Quinn, Helen,
Jake, Tom, and everyone else wander Lawndale in search of a plot that
is supposed to involve thongs. I think this is also the first “Daria”
fanfic to feature a Hooters restaurant as a major setting.
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Though the Course May Change Sometimes, Rivers Always Reach the Sea
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3/09
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Ten years after she met
Daria Morgendorffer at Lawndale High School, Jane Lane has moved on
with her life—but adulthood has led her in unusual directions. (Rated R)
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Three Ways of Looking at a Tiffany Blum-Deckler
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3/09
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Just what is the deal with Tiffany Blum-Deckler, anyway? Three suggestions from science-fiction movies follow.
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Through a Scooby Darkly
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3/09
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Daria meets Scooby-Doo! Isn’t that great?
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Tiffany in Wonderland
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3/09
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Tiffany Blum-Deckler goes to Wonderland, and Wonderland goes to heck.
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Till Death Do Us Part
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3/09
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“I’m in the witness protection program,” Daria told the bridesmaids
at her cousin Erin’s wedding. “The Morgendorffers were kind enough to
take me in after my real family was exterminated by the mob.” What if
she had been telling the truth? Here is an alternate-history version of
the wedding episode, “I Don’t.”
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The Two of Them
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3/09
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A blind date goes horribly awry—or does it? A Daria/Stacy shipper from an Iron Chef challenge, just because.
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Uranium in the Drinking Water
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3/09
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There really was uranium
in Highland’s water supply—and a new kind of Daria Morgendorffer is the
result! Meet Daria the Faerie, the counterpart to Tinker-Jane of “Jane
Unchained,” in this response to an Iron Chef fantasy challenge.
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Winter in Hell
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3/09
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Two cynical outcasts, seniors at Lawndale High School and the best of friends, struggle through another difficult day. (Rated R)
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Wish Upon a Fallen Star
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3/09
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Stacy Rowe goes out on a weird date with Ted DeWitt-Clinton—and together they discover the future.
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Wonderlane
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3/09
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It was hot, and little
Jane Lane was tired and bored and had nothing to do, when a White
Rabbit wearing a waistcoat ran past her, and—
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You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows
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3/09
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A terrible secret from the
past catches up with a former hippie radical, engulfing her family, her
job, and the rest of her life.
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The Boy with Sea Green Eyes
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| 5/10 |
Of all the “what ifs” of
Daria, the most intriguing pivot around Tom Sloane’s appearance in the
series. What if neither Jane nor Daria had hooked up with him? Here is
one possible outcome.
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Collection Day
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| 5/10 |
What happened to Tommy Sherman after the goalpost crate fell on him? Nothing good, that’s for sure.
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A Life of Bit Parts
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| 5/10 |
What if "Daria" had been a
scripted, live-action TV show? Where might the actors be now? Through
an interview with his sister, we look into the life of a one-shot actor
whose character everyone recalls.
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| Short & Sweet |
| 5/10 |
This is an anthology of 25
ficlets and one-shots that are not worth posting by themselves. I’m not
sure if they’re worth posting even as a group, but I have no
self-respect and I love to bother people, so here they are.
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The Stick Is Canon!
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| 5/10 |
There should perhaps be
limits on how literally fanfic writers can interpret canon, or on how
trivial a detail can be to not be worth writing about.
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Stupid
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| 5/10 |
It was the worst possible relationship in every way but one.
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That’s Daria!
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| 5/10 |
What if “Daria” returned to the airwaves... as an offbeat teen sitcom created in the most way-out-there Hollywood style?
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They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
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| 5/10 |
There is a fine line between fandom and complete insanity—too fine for some fans to discern.
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What Goes Around
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| 5/10 |
There are lots of ways in
which “Dye! Dye! My Darling” could have come out better. And there are
lots of ways it could have ended far, far worse.
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With a Wicked Pack of Cards
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| 5/10 |
In an alternate universe,
in their senior year at Lawndale High, Sandi and Quinn discover that
Tiffany has a hidden talent for cards—Tarot cards. But Tiffany is not
using her deck for mere card tricks...
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Esteemsters: 4chan /b/ edition
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| 5/10 |
The Daria episode "Esteemsters" as it would look in script form on 4chan's Random (/b/) channel. Hang on for the ride.
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Pause in the Air
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| Pause
in the Air |
| 1/05 |
An unexpected guest appears during Thanksgiving dinner at the Morgendorffers’ home (story #1 in the Pause in the Air series). |
| Thanks
Giving |
| 1/05 |
Thanksgiving
is a time for families to go a little crazy, but it is also a time for
. . . giving thanks (story #2 in the Pause in the Air series). |
| Moving Day |
| 1/05 |
A romantic conversation—but since when was anything what it seemed? (story #3 in the Pause in the Air series). |
| Silent Night |
| 1/05 |
A question about a High Power is posed and answered (story #4 in the Pause in the Air series). |
| Shock and
Aww |
| 1/05 |
Two
parents-to-be wrestle with attitude problems and a need for change at
their first childbirth class (story #5 in the Pause in the Air series). |
| Family
Affairs |
| 1/05 |
Valentine’s Day in Boston has a twisted surprise for college freshmen Daria and Jane (story #6 in the Pause in the Air series). |
| Writes
of Spring |
| 1/05 |
Winter
changes to spring, and more changes come to light in the little home of
two Boston college students (story #7 in the Pause in the Air series). |
April Showers
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2/05
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A surprise visitor opens
the door to chaos in the little world of two Boston college freshmen,
two months away from the birth of their child (story #8 in the Pause in
the Air series).
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| Labor
Relations |
| 10/05 |
On a dark and stormy night before
a funeral, the tiny world of a married couple in college changes
forever (story #9 in the Pause in the Air series). |
After Birth
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| 3/09 |
A moment after midnight with mother and child (story #10 in the Pause in the Air series).
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The Awakening
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| 11/09 |
A teenager girl makes a slight change in her diet—and discovers that the real world is not.
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Eight Miles High
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| 11/09 |
It is better sometimes to never wake up.
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The Fury
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| 11/09 |
"I acknowledge the Furies, I believe in them, I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings." --Theodore Dreiser
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Roamin' Holiday
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| 11/09 |
A familiar face turns out to be Daria Morgendorffer’s college roommate—but it wasn’t a face she had ever expected.
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Schrödinger’s Tiger
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| 11/09 |
Quantum physics and murder—the perfect combination.
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Viagra Falls
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| 11/09 |
In
the wake of a bizarre medical disaster, the military draft is
reinstated—but it’s for women as well as men. And Daria has a problem
with that.
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