| 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.) |
| April Showers |
| 2/05 |
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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
|
Pause in the Air
|
| Pause
in the Air |
| 1/05 |
Thanksgiving is a time for families
to go a little crazy, but it is also a time for . . . giving
thanks. |
| Thanks
Giving |
| 1/05 |
Thanksgiving is a time for families
to go a little crazy, but it is also a time for . . . giving
thanks. |
| Moving Day |
| 1/05 |
A romantic conversation—but since
when was anything what it seemed? |
| Silent Night |
| 1/05 |
A question about a High Power is posed
and answered. |
| Shock and
Aww |
| 1/05 |
Two parents-to-be wrestle with attitude
problems and a need for change at their first childbirth class. |
| Family
Affairs |
| 1/05 |
Valentine’s Day in Boston has a twisted
surprise for college freshmen Daria and Jane. |
| Writes
of Spring |
| 1/05 |
Winter changes to spring (and more
changes come to light) in the little home of two Boston college
students in this, the seventh tale in the “Pause in the Air”
series. |
| 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). |
| 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." |
No Author Description.
Artwork based on "Where No Light Breaks, Where No
Sea Runs", drawn by Rick Hennigan.
"Dariaverse Meets Dariaverse," by Damaged Roses
(a scene from the fanfic "Illusions," by CharlieGirl, The Angst
Guy, and Angelinhel)
A world-hopping Daria discovers to her annoyance that her alternate-world
selves always faint upon first meeting her. This work was created
by Damaged Roses in February 2005 using Paint Shop Pro 8.0.
"But Now Is Found," by Uzurpator (for the fanfic,
"But Now Is Found," by The Angst Guy)
Young Daria and an alien invader take a story break to comment on
the author of "But Now Is Found." This work was created in May 2004.
Says Uzurpator, "As for technique - I have first drawn the basic
shapes and contours using b-splines, then simply filled resulting
bitmap with colors. Nothing special really."
"Darius," by Nick "Ranchoth" Gaston (2005) (a scene
from the fanfic "Darius," by The Angst Guy)
"By my records, I finished it in mid-March. And to create it, I
composited promotional art of Daria, with a couple of screencaps
of Mr. O'Neill, one of the three Js, and a hint of Jake's jaw. I
mostly used Color It! 2.3, a freeware Mac paint program I got free
on a floppy disc with a Macworld book in 1994, and did the background
(a distorted photo of the cover of El Greco) and a lighting filter
in PhotoLine, a shareware paint program, before wrapping it all
together in Color It." -- Ranchoth.
