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Shiva

**Shiva** is a Daria fan who in 2012 turned into a writer of Daria fanfics, posts under the name *Shiva-J* at Fanfiction.net. In RL, he lives in Indiana with a cat named Whiskey and outside the Daria-fandom, he enjoys watching movies, playing video and computer games, reading, and collecting Buddha statues and Nutcrackers. The first episode that he saw was *That Was Then, This Is Dumb* and became an instant fan.

In terms of fanfic style, Shiva has proven fond of unusual 'ships (despite being a self-declared fan of Daria/Tom), mixing genres, and doing multiple series at the same time.

Despite his relatively recent entry into writing fan fiction, Shiva is easily one of the most prolific Daria fan fiction writers *ever*. The sheer volume of his work, as well as the quality of his writings, have made Shiva easily comparable to some of the most acclaimed Daria fandom writers of all (such as The Angst Guy, to whom Shiva has been deemed his "spiritual successor").

## Daria Fanfiction List

### Serials

* As Though She Had Done It All Before...: When Daria dies after a long life she finds herself a teenager again in her Esteem class, but her memory fades and things are playing out differently, and where is Jane...?

* Darkeresteemers (FF.net version (complete collection)): What if instead of meeting Jane in the Self-Esteem course, Daria met a teenage Brian Taylor instead? Originally a series of shorts.

* Ethan Yeager in Lawndale - moving the eponymous character to, of course, Lawndale.

* Invertedverse, where everyone's roll is turned on its head.

* Losers No More: After the infamous Grove Hills visit, Graham has a breakthrough and reconnects with David but find themselves isolated from their peers, the solution? Go to Lawndale High! FIN.

* Mack the Esteemer: On her first day at Lawndale Daria bumps into fellow prisoner of the Esteem course... Mack! Ongoing!

* Sexy Daria

* Unexpected Hookup: When Ronnie bumps into Daria at one of Brittany's parties, they discover something truly unexpected... Each other.

## Daria Fanworks Award Wins

2012 Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favorite Romance – Straight for Unexpected Hookup #1: First Taste
* Favorite Romance – Gay/Lesbian (tie) for Ethan Yeager in Lawndale #1: Ethan Yeager Rising
* Favorite Use of a Background or Supporting Character from the Television Series (tie) for Ethan Yeager in Lawndale #1: Ethan Yeager Rising
* Favorite Weird Idea for The Adventures of Nurse Goodnsexy
* Favorite New Series (split vote) for Mack the Esteemer & Unexpected Hookup
* Favorite New Author
Ozferret

Ozferret is a Daria Fan Fiction writer.

He joined PPMB in 16th May 2018 and started writing soon after.

His first story was a Melody Powers tale called "First Contact".

Ozferret was greatly impressed with the Fan Fiction work of Richard Lobinske. This has led to an expectation that Fan Fiction works are about 120,000 words long.

In an act very similar to cyber stalking Ozferret tracked Dr. Lobinske to his work email address. This is one of the reasons Ozferret rarely gives out his name or contact details.

Richard Lobinske agreed to mentor Ozferret and did so until time constraints made this arrangement untenable.

Ozferret wrote the epic tale "Erin Chambers".

He is from Australia.

He is not an actual ferret.
Pets as Characters

Some fanfiction writers have included pets as characters in their stories. In some tales, they are not really pets and only pretend to be, being highly intelligent. Sometimes the pets can speak.

These critters include:

* Alabama. In some stories featuring Evelyn Veronica Morgendorffer, Alabama is the pet ferret of her best friend Vidalia Johanssen. Alabama acts as if Evie is his mistress, following her instructions and wanting to sleep in her bed.

* Augustus is a male cat rescued from Brian Taylor by Robert Nelson in The Cynic and The Defender by Doggieboy.

* Benji is Dr. Kathy Wilson's terrier in Apocalyptic Daria by Doggieboy.

* Bump. Bump is Daria's foundling cat in Falling Into College, by Richard Lobinske.

* Buster. Buster is a beagle belonging to Anthony DeMartino in A Little Vacation by Doggieboy.

* Cheyenne. This 150 lb German Shepherd is the seeing-eye dog of Maria Macleod in the Unseen Phenomenon series by Wildgoose

* Damien. This is a black bull terrier/cocker spaniel mix nominally owned by Axl as a guard dog but adopted by Mystik Spiral in the John Lane series.

* Elvira. She is Karen Myerson's black mare in "Falling Into College".

* Fluffy. This is Sandi Griffin's cat, mentioned only in "The Misery Chick."

* J.B.. J.B. is the bulldog of background character Dawn in The Angst Guy's story, "A Hard Days' Night." He is also the dog Daria almost hit in the episode, "Through a Lens Darkly."

* Joyce. Daria's cat in Ruthless Bunny's series, Bed and Breakfast Man, is named Joyce.

* Leary IV. Coyote Yeager and Willow Yeager's German shepherd (from "That Was Then, This Is Dumb") was featured in Paws Force Power Rangers by Brother Grimace.

* Night. She is the clone of Bump in the story, A Legend of Rebirth created by Derek and Karen after the death of Bump.

* Opie. At one point in the Tales of Young Daria series by Galen Hardesty, Daria owned an orphaned opossum. Opie has also appeared in numerous ficlets.

* Roger the Mouse. This rodent is featured in "Scarlett" by The Angst Guy. Roger is the mouse from Daria and Kevin's experiment in "The Lab Brat," adopted by Scarlett, also known as "the ankh girl."

* Sissy. Bump's sister, who was secretly rescued by Archangel and reunited with her a couple years later following a complicated series of events.

* Smokey. An abandoned housecat who is adopted by Scarlett Hawkins in Doggieboy's Apocalyptic Daria: Scarlett's Tale.

* Sparky. A house cat owned by 22-year-old Robert Nelson in The Cynic and The Defender by Doggieboy.

* Taylor. One of the Lane cats mentioned in *The Daria Database* that has been used in several stories.

* Zachary. One of the Lane cats mentioned in *The Daria Database* that has been used in several stories.
Scriptfic

A fanfic written as a TV episode or movie script. This format was more often seen in the earlier years of the fandom, while the *Daria* show as still being aired. Some very long *Daria* series have been entirely written in script form (see examples below).

No commonly agreed-upon format exists for the way in which scriptfics are presented. Some include detailed stage directions, some are structured like actual animated episodes (even having commercial breaks and fake commercials), and some are exceedingly simple and spare in design.

Debate exists at times in *Daria* fandom over the relative merits of scripts vs. prose. Among the positive aspects frequently cited are a tight focus on dialog, and character development through the spoken word, both of which are often lacking in prose.

## Examples of *Daria* Scriptfic Series

* Abruptly Amy, by Kara Wild et al.
* DF Continuum, by Steven Galloway
* Driven Wild Universe, by Kara Wild
* First Summer series, by Richard Lobinske
* The Look-Alike Series, by Canadibrit
* The Lost Seasons, by C.E. Forman
* Submariner Series, by Wildgoose
* Unseen Phenomenon, by Wildgoose

## External Links

#### Scriptfic vs. Prose Discussion Threads on PPMB

* "Ten Years: Who'd Have Thought...?" (begun April 2009)
* "Format/Narration" (begun March 2007)
* "Where is Daria fanfic going?" (begun April 2005)
* "C.E. Forman's 'A Morgendorffer Scorned' (SPOILERS)" (begun January 2005)
Rob

**Rob** is an Asian-American classmate of Daria's and backgrounder given name via seating chart in "Cafe Disaffecto". He is forever seen with that pleasant smile and grey shirt.

A fan of "Mental in the Morning", overhearing Daria's comments in "Jake of Hearts" and being left horrified.

In the school trip in "Antisocial Climbers", Rob had brought a sleeping bag in his kit - not that this helped him, because Ms. Barch stole it the instant he unpacked it. (Naturally he was quite stunned by this.) In the early part of the trip, Rob had been walking with "Layered Blonde" as if they were friendly.

Rob watched a failed game with dismay in "The F Word".

His most significant moment in fanfiction came from The Excellent S suggesting he's the recurring tertiary punk and amiably violent thicko Koichi in "God Save The Esteem", with Rob as his anglicised nickname. This led to S himself putting the guy into Lawndale Fighting Championship as wrestler Koichi "Rob" Robazaki, tag-team parter with Shane. He makes a minor appearance as a member of the Anime Club in cfardell\_Brenorenz29's "Quinn's Code".
Jim

**Jim** is the owner and manager of Jim's Paintballing Jungle, a paintball camp near Lawndale.

Jim appears in The Daria Hunter and in The Daria Database, the latter providing details of the possible activities in the camp. In "Hunter", he is cheerful about the fact all the toilets are hidden, that he's got a replica of the "Hanoi Hilton" POW camp, and that there's a labyrinth of tunnels under the park, and he assumes *you* will find this cheerful too.

"Database" establish him as a Vietnam War veteran (and possibly Grenada and the Gulf War) and highly right wing. He boasts about how his park will stop your kid being "a sissy" and show if "the guy you're dating is a real man", while disparaging "crybaby U.N." and how inner cities are hellholes full of "vermin".

## In Fanfiction

He appears in Good Art Hunting, by Richard Lobinske
Kay Sloane

**Katherine "Kay" Sloane** is the wife of Angier Sloane and mother of Tom and Elsie Sloane.

Kay appears only in the two *Daria* movies, *Is It Fall Yet?* and *Is It College Yet?* In the former, she invited the Morgendorffers to a high society function, unaware that the cost was going to be too high for them. In the latter, she drives Tom and Daria to Bromwell and Raft College for their interviews - she apologises for causing Daria to miss meeting the Raft admissions people but was blithely unconcerned this could happen when she was talking to family friend Bill Woods.

Kay and Angier Sloane met at a free concert held at Bromwell by the Carpenters, when she was a sophmore and he was a senior.

She is always polite and pleasant to Daria, though Daria is put off by the Sloanes' wealth and the upper-class life they lead. She was initially left confused and worried by Daria's sense of humour, before she worked out the girl was joking. According to Tom, she thinks well of Daria. (This didn't stop her overlooking that Daria wanted to visit Raft!)

When Kay appears in fanfiction, she is usually pleasant and well-meaning. In contrast is HolyGrail2007's Bromwell Bound: One Fateful Summer, where we see her from Tom's uncensored POV and she's revealed to be a neglectful mother that Tom politely tolerates; and Atiyatortilla's "Together", where Kay and Angier are both cold, emotional neglectful parents who pressure their children into place.
Mike Quinn

**Mike Quinn** is a long-time fan, respected member of the community, and evil super-genius. Most noted for writing the "Delayed Reaction Reviews," he also wrote a handful of essays and fanfics.

## Fandom Contributions

#### **Delayed Reaction Reviews**

Mike's Delayed Reaction Reviews were detailed reviews of each Daria episode and both movies, as well as comprehensive reviews of some entire seasons. Each review broke down the episode and also gave an overall grade for each episode at the end of the review.

Mike started writing the reviews during the second half of season 2. The original reviews were known as "Initial Reaction Reviews" because they were written immediately after the episode had aired. The first set of reviews were met with mixed responses. Many people enjoyed reading the reviews, but some people apparently did not.

Due to popular demand, retroactive reviews for season 1 and the first half of season 2 were written. At this point, the name "Delayed Reaction" was born. Reviews continued for the duration of the series, most appearing within a few days of each episode's original air date.

#### **Fan Fiction**

* Padded Room of Terror
* Touchdown Jane
* Race to the Finish
* It has also been rumored that Mike Quinn is responsible for Raiding the Bar (Abruptly Amy: Episode 4), under the name J. Michaelis Quinn. However, these rumors have not been confirmed as of press time.
* Mike also wrote a mock "Delayed Reaction Review" for the fanfic Abruptly Amy: A New Beginning written by Kara Wild. [1]

#### **Essays**

* The Fashion Club Dynamic
* The Hidden Intelligence Theory
* The Ladder Theory (of Daria and Quinn)
* The Running Gag Theory

## Trivia

* Contrary to some people's beliefs, the grades for the reviews were more or less an afterthought and should not be taken that seriously. Seriously.
* Mike's brother is on a magical quest to clog a toilet in every state in the United States of America. Thus far he's conquered Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia. His quest has been hampered by his lack of traveling. UPDATE: A toilet somewhere in Louisiana has been clogged. However, a recent trip to Hawai'i proved fruitless. The mummy arm was no match for those space-age Hawai'ian latrines.
* Mikey *does* indeed like it. Who knew?
* There is a little-known theme song to the "Delayed Reaction Reviews" written by some guy named Joe on the newsgroup.
* While everyone and their mother has heard of him, he is quite pissed that his own wife has to be the one to create his Wiki page. Respect his authoritah!
John Berry

**John Berry** was a comedic fanfic author and prolific artist, most active from late fall/winter of 1998 through 1999. Some of his works appear on major webpages such as Outpost Daria. John later went on to create the webtoon "Evil Josh and Billy", where Daria made a cameo.

## Bibliography of Major Works

* Behind the Glasses
* Best Years of Our Lives, Revisited
* Bond, Jake's Bond
* The Education of Dumber-than-a-Tree
* Gone with the Whine
* Herself, an Elf
* Lovers' Lane
* My Quinn's Delayed Reaction
* She Was All That
* Silly Rabbit, Matrix Are for Kids!

## External Links

John Berry's fanfic at Outpost Daria Reborn

John's deviantART page
Mahna Mahna

*Daria* fan and author. Also adept at altering screengrabs of Daria episodes to illustrate various IUF members and events.

## Fan Community Contributions

One of the original members of the Infamous Unserious Five.

## Bibliography of Major Works

* The Christmas Clip Show
* Do You Like Convertibles?
* Everything Happens for a Reason
* Hail to the Chief
* It's a Nutty, Nutty, Nutty Coincidence
* The Last Words Heard
* Poetic Injustice
* Truth and Consequences
* The Lawndale Tango by The New Kids on the Cell Block (Mahna Mahna, Betting on Delusions, Beth Ann, Guy "Decelaraptor" Payne, Scarlett)

## Daria Fanworks Awards

1st Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favourite Movie Rip Off Work (tie) for *The Lawndale Tango*

## The CRAPPIES Awards

1st CRAPPIES Awards

* Most Out of Character Daria for "The Lawndale Tango".

## External Links

Mahna Mahna's fanfics at Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
On the Subject of Quinn and Rape

**On the Subject of Quinn and Rape** was Kara Wild's first *Daria* essay. Its exact release date could not be confirmed, but Outpost Daria archives suggest that it was late August 1999.

## Summary

Wild looks at fanfiction, specifically two well-known stories, that use rape as an instigator for Quinn's growth as a character. She questions the underlying assumption that Quinn's behavior led to the rape, and points out alternate methods for achieving character growth.

## External Links

* Essay at Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
Invisigoth Gypsy

One of the earliest *Daria* fanfiction authors (active primarily in 1998 and 1999) Invisigoth Gypsy (also known as 'IvG') was a classic shipper-writer. Author of the IVG Continuum, where she concentrated primarily on Daria/Trent shipperfics.

Invisigoth Gypsy is unique in her writings, as she chose to concentrate **only** on the trials and tribulations of Daria and Trent becoming a couple; she ended the series at the end of The Disney World Story, just after Daria and Trent kissed for the first time.

Her major works include The Disney World Story, Conformity For Hire (introduces the band Conformity For Hire - aside from the Back Alley Name Droppers, one of the few named bands in Daria fan fiction), Silver Goddess (tells the story of how Aunt Amy, back in the 1980's, was a member of a band named Silver Goddess), and Good-Weird/Bad-Weird, a pair of experimental fics depicting unususal romantic entanglements within the 'Daria' cast.

Invisigoth Gypsy also ran her own Daria-based web site, *seven: trent lane*. The site has long since disappeared from the Internet.

## External Links

Invisigoth Gypsy's fiction at Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)

Invisigoth Gypsy's fiction on The Daria Fan Fiction Website (via Wayback Machine)
Linda Griffin

Mother of Sandi, Sam, and Chris Griffin, and the wife of Tom Griffin. Her husband is said to be unhappy with the marriage in "The Daria Database"; "Gifted" shows she believes she has control over what Sandi is up to, but Sandi is able to sneak around her back.

According to "Database", she is 43, VP of Marketing for KSBC and had a brief career as a news anchor twenty years ago, with an interview of Rosalynn Carter the highpoint. She won't stop talking about this news anchor career.

Linda and Helen Morgendorffer have an ongoing rivalry over which one has the better job and children, though they are "pleasant" to each other on the surface; the relationship is near identical to Sandi's with Quinn Morgendorffer. Linda heads the Lawndale Businesswomen's Forum, which Helen is a member of.

In "Fair Enough", she is visibly happy to see Quinn be humiliated in public after she beat Sandi in drama auditions.

In a flashback in "Daria Dance Party", she told a younger Sandi never to volunteer. When Sandi's attempts at volunteering went disastrously wrong, Linda actually looked *smug* about it - despite Sandi's distress and Sam & Chris destroying Sandi's decorations.

## Fanfic Stereotypes

Fandom is not generally sympathetic to Linda Griffin, laying the blame for Sandi's worst behaviors squarely at her mother's feet. Such a portrayal does have canon support, as Linda was shown berating Sandi for volunteering and thereby laying herself open to exploitation in a flashback in "Daria Dance Party". Typical of the genre is The Angst Guy's "Winter in Hell."

One notable exception to this image is in Doggieboy's ongoing work "Apocalyptic Daria." In this fic, we see a Linda who is vulnerable, afraid, willing to make unpleasant decisions, yet unbeaten and still able to show compassion. At present, this is possibly the single most sympathetic depiction of Linda Griffin yet portrayed in Daria fanfic.

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State University

A college located in the same state as Lawndale, mentioned only in canon in "Is It College Yet?". Due to the fact that Lawndale's location is deliberately ambiguous, "State University" is almost certainly not its full name and the characters are leaving off the state's name from it. (Maryland is the state usually assumed to be where Lawndale is, but in real life the state university is University of Maryland)

Next to nothing is known about it, save what was revealed in the movie. According to Mack Mackenzie, it lacks a business school, Jane Lane speaks disparagingly of its art department (which doesn't request samples from its applicants), and Brittany Taylor says it has one of the best cheerleading squads in the country. Both Brittany and Jane applied to go there, the former willingly and the latter bregrudgingly. Neither student is accepted - for all of State's detractors, it has better standards than Great Prairie State University!

Confusingly, it has a similar name to Lawndale State University, about which even less is known. Based on Mack's comments on only being able to afford "State University", it's cheaper than Lawndale State (unless he was using that as a term for both places and Brittany didn't realise).

Curiously, it shares a name with the university where another MTV cartoon, *Undergrads*, takes place. This could be a deliberate reference to a contemporary show - and that show's implied to be set in the same general area that *Daria* is!
Sam Johnson

**Sam Johnson** is a television screenwriter, comic writer and an additional voice actor (including Mr. Herrera) on several episodes of *Beavis and Butt-head*). With Chris Marcil, he wrote the Daria episodes College Bored, The Big House, The New Kid, Depth Takes a Holiday, and Speedtrapped, as well as the pilot, Sealed with a Kick. In an interview, Glenn Eichler says he believed they named Quinn, Jake, and Helen.

Johnson and Marcil also wrote for *Beavis and Butt-head* and issues of the spin-off comic, many featuring Daria - #6, #8, #10, #12, #21, and #27. On the parent show, they suggested a character that would evolve into Todd Ianuzzi and also contributed the term "assmunch" (which MTV initially forced Mike Judge to change to "buttmunch").

Johnson and Marcil's contract with MTV expired by the time *Daria* aired and they moved out to Los Angeles to work on sitcoms ("where the money was", Marcil told Paste), which is why they didn't take a larger role in the show. He has since worked on *NewsRadio*, *Frasier*, and *How I Met Your Mother*

Sam Griffin is named after him.
Hope High

Presumably an alternative high school in the Highland, Texas area, where problems students were sent. This school is mentioned only once in a *Beavis and Butt-head* episode, "No Laughing", where the lads were threatened with being expelled from Highland and sent to Hope High if they laughed again: Coach Buzzcut implied it was a very violent school and they wouldn't last long.

Daria, as with the rest of the class, thought this was *hilarious*.

Several alternate universe fanfics have put *Daria* in Hope High instead of Highland High, either instead of or after being expelled from Highland. These include Daria 2007: The Girl From Hope by The Angst Guy, where going to Hope is part of an intensely downward spiral faced by Daria when moved to the (then) modern world, and Saving Hope by Richard Lobinske, where Daria crashed out into Hope but has developed positively since. In a short by 'getrealordie187', in the Scenes No Daria Fanfic Should Have threads, a stint in Hope has left Daria violent and amoral.

TAG has also used the name "Hope High" as the 'bad' school on Holiday Island in "A Hard Days' Night", where the 'holidays' for events like Hitler's birthday live.
Russell Hankin

**Russell Hankin** is an American actor who voiced the part of Tom Sloane.

At the time he began voicing the part of Tom, Hanking was vice president of Ring of Fire Productions, a "multimedia" theater group based in New York City. Hankin worked both as a producer (commissioning adaptations) and as an actor.

Recently, Hankin worked with the Cry Havoc theater company on off-Broadway, both as a production designer and actor in the company's production of "Romeo and Juliet" in 2005, and worked as a projection consultant in "Sleep Over" for the Theater for the New City in 2007.
Night Witches

**Night Witches** is a military alternate universe story by Jason Weiser (as Panzerfaust 150). Intensely detailed, it is taking years to complete.

Daria and Jane graduate in 1981, only for a series of bad investments to wipe out most of the Morgendorffer's savings and make Daria join the US Air Force so 'Uncle Sam' will cover her college costs. An alternate universe decision to put women in combat pilot roles (to bulk short numbers) sees her and Jane serving in a F-111 bomber plane just as the Third World War breaks out in 1985.

As the story goes on, Quinn (as a press reporter) and Aunt Amy (as a propagandist) are drawn into things while Daria and Jane fight the Warsaw Pact nations.

## Trivia

* The title refers to the nickname for the all-women 588th Night Bomber Regiment, a Soviet WW2 force that used wooden biplanes to bomb German lines.
* The WW3 is the one depicted in Sir John Hackett's "Third World War" novels. (When Hackett wrote the first one in 1975 and the update in 1982, the books were near-future sci-fi)

## External Links

* Night Witches at FF.net, chapters 1-12
* Chapter 13 at PPMB
Squandered Potential

A pre-canon story by Kristen Bealer, **Squandered Potential** focuses on the teachers of Lawndale High.

Anthony DeMartino's first year at Lawndale High School may also be his last. We see how events turn him from a failed beatnik into the high strung, eye bulging, syllable stressing teacher we know and sort-of love - not to mention the early days of Timothy O'Neill and unhappily married Science teacher Janet Richards.

Winner of "Favorite Pre-Esteemsters" and tied for "Favorite Character Development/Redevelopment/Growth" story in the 4th Daria Fanworks Awards.
John Lane (character)

Main character in the John Lane Series by Richard Lobinske that speculates on how things would be different if Jane Lane had been born a male.

He is slightly taller than the canon Jane and has hair more like his brother Trent. Because of divergence from the canon storyline, the bank successfully foreclosed on Casa Lane. In the fallout from that event, John's plight was reported to the local child protective agency. At Daria's insistence, Helen and Jake agreed to become John's legal guardian after Amanda and Vincent reluctantly agreed.

Life with the Morgendorffers stabilized his life and he developed a romantic relationship with Daria. As the series progressed, issues with his biological parents were slowly addressed.

First introduced in the story "John."
Shane

**Shane** is a backgrounder at Lawndale High and a student in the same year as Quinn Morgendorffer. He's a tuckerization of Daria production assistant Shane Guenego. Officially he goes unnamed but a seating chart for his class in "Cafe Disaffecto" names a "Shane", taken to be a nod to him/Guenego. Previously, he was nicknamed "Butt-head Two" on the website Backgrounders.

He first appeared in "Too Cute", where Quinn asked for money for cosmetic surgery: he responded with a Butthead-esque laugh. His other big moment with Quinn was to act horrified and look for help when she answered a question correctly in class in "Is It Fall Yet?".

In "Lucky Strike", Shane was taught by Daria and, like the rest of the class, left dismayed by the sound of a test. Despite this, and his looks, he smiles at his returned paper: we don't know what his mark was but he considered it a job well done.

As well as looking and sounding dopey, he's a bit of a delinquent too: he's friends with another trouble-maker, "Red Cap" and the two ran around spraying silly-stringer at a defenceless Daria and Tad Gupty in "I Loathe a Parade". The two of them are big fans of Mental in the Morning and followed the DJ's around Lawndale High.

His other friends include "Jackass" and "Beehive Girl" (she joined him and Cap in spraying Daria).

## Shane in fanfiction

Shane surfaced as a midcard wrestler in The Excellent S's "Lawndale Fighting Championship" series, sometimes tagteamed with Rob.

## External Links

Butt-head Two (Shane) at Backgrounders (Wayback)

The Transformed Staff flipbook (Wayback), his page sadly lost

Daria: The Transformed Staff overview at the Daria Fandom Blog
Heartbeat in Iambic

**Heartbeat in Iambic** by Dennis is a first-person fanfiction set in and around the fifth season episode "The Story of D," featuring Sandi Griffin attempting to get a poem published in *Musings* magazine at the same time Daria submits her story. The story focuses on Sandi's inner life as she deals with the consequences of her submission and her hidden writing talent while managing the publication of the Fashion Club's *Fashion Forecast* newsletter.

* Heartbeat in Iambic at Outpost Daria Reborn.
* Heartbeat in Iambic at Archive of Our Own.
* Heartbeat in Iambic at fanfiction.net.
Luhrman

**Luhrman** is a one-shot character who appeared only in "I Don't." His name is often misspelled in fandom (Lurman(n), Luhrmann, Lehrman(n), etc.). Almost nothing is known about him, including what relationship he could have possibly had to either half of the hapless, stupid couple getting married.

## Luhrman in "I Don't"

Luhrman was a member of the wedding party at cousin Erin's wedding, possibly on the groom's side or Erin's (absent) father's side. He was paired with Daria, and the pairing proved marginally apt, because Luhrman displayed a level of cynical sarcasm that approached Daria's.

For example:

Daria - So, Luhrman. Is that your first name or your last name?
Luhrman - Does it matter?
Or this:

(Said to Erin's husband after a display of caveman-like sexism.) "I'm sorry, what did you say you do? I thought I heard intelligence, but that can't be right."
Or the following sparkling exchange:

(Luhrman mumbles something)
Daria - Mmm-hmm. What did you say?
Luhrman - Just a little pointless chit chat. Forget it. Would you like another soda?
Daria - No, uh...
Luhrman - Or shall we just split a bottle of drain cleaner? (Daria stares at him) Please be assured that my remark was intended in jest, and not as an incitement to any type of self-destructive behavior.
Daria - You're not from around here, are you?
Or the fact that he turned down an opportunity to escape the wedding with Daria and Amy, choosing instead to stay and "watch the carnage," as multiple drunken brawls began to erupt.

Luhrman, to Daria's surprise, helped back up her lies to the other bridesmaids. After turning down the offer of escape, he did tell Daria "it's been fun", apparently genuinely; she made similar remarks.

## Luhrman and Daria

The character's matching temperments and interaction has fueled speculation that he and Daria might be a valid couple. Glenn Eichler, when an interview turned to characters being shipped with Daria, stated he liked Luhrman as a potential match.

In the MTV flipbook "It Takes Two to Tangle", it was written of the pairing: "Compatible energy levels (minimal), but they both suffer from over-reliance on ironic detachment. Viva La Indifference!"

## Luhrman in Fanfiction

Luhrman appears now and then in fanfiction, usually as a guest character and quite similar to canon. He is sometimes paired with Daria but not that often.

## External Links

#### Luhrman-centric Fanfiction

* "The Quinn's Cousin Incident," by Peter Guerin (his name is here spelled "Lehrman")
* "Till Death Do Us Part", by The Angst Guy
* "It's All In The Delivery" by InvisibleDan (From the Iron Chef Turning 30)

#### Luhrman-featured fanfiction

* "Alienation Legacy", by C.E. Forman
* "Homeless Daria 3: A College Try Gives Me Blisters", by RX-87
Life in Highland: The Early Years

**Life in Highland: The Early Years** is an alternate universe fanfiction series by Chris Tucker.

The series revolves around Daria and Quinn actually being *adopted* children, originally born from Helen's 'black sheep' sister Elizabeth and abused. Excerpts from the girls' childhood in Highland after adoption.

This is the prequel series to A Work in Progress (Subject to Revision).

## External Links

Life in Highland and subsequent discussion at PPMB
Scenes That Should Not Be

In the fall of 2002, The Angst Guy introduced a competition thread on the old version of PPMB: write the worst possible scene for a *Daria* fanfic. This popular pastime grew until it became a regular feature on PPMB (and on SFMB for "Sex Scenes That Should Not Be"). Some of the most dreadful but hysterical bits of fanfic writing ever known have appeared in these threads, which continue to this day. The Angst Guy admits that he started the contest because he was depressed at the time and wanted to read something funny, and he is quite pleased that this peculiar form of therapy has worked.

Message-board threads in this vein often have variations on the "Scenes That Should Not Be" title, but they are still instantly identifiable. Sometimes writers put entries in these threads that turn out to be hugely popular, later expanding the tidbits into longer tales, but this is (thankfully) not usually the case.

## External Links

* Tidbits on Glitter Berries: Look down the column until you find "Scenes No Daria Fanfic Should Ever Have," then click on one of those.
* Scenes No Daria Fanfic Should Have: The INDEX!: Compiled by ThatLONERchick, it lists all the threads back to the fourth one (as such, there is some overlap with the Glitter Berries collection).

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Napalm Kracken

*Daria* fanfic author and artist. First began watching *Daria* in the fall of 1999. Has an encyclopedic knowledge of Daria minutiae and thick glasses.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

One of the longest continual member of the now defunct MTV Daria message board during it's existence.

If not the first, one of the first writers to use 'Anne' as Daria's middle name.

## Works

Napalm has written Daria Disenfranchised, the Beautiful Day trilogy and Highland Blues stories. There's also the Life of Daria series that was posted on fanfiction.net back when script stories where still accepted.

## Daria Fanworks Awards

5th Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favorite Dramatic Comedy (tie) for *Welcome Back Daria*
Nick Gaston

## Biographical Information

Nick Gaston, aka "Ranchoth," has been a Daria fanfic author since 2003. He is known for meticulously researching story details that no one would care about anyway, taking his sweet time getting things done, and for throwing in with doomed sides in "shipper" debates.

Ranchoth has produced a number of "photoshopped" pieces of fanart, and has collaborated with Richard Lobinske on several original works of fanart.

While not presently an Angst Lord, and has not to his knowledge ever even been considered for such status, Ranchoth *does* like to think of himself as a Marquis of Vaguely Unsettling Implications.

People on at least three different, totally unrelated message boards have a habit of accidentally calling him "Rancloth." He has absolutely no idea why.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

* Currently maintains "Slasher Fics", aka *The (Mostly) Non-Smutty Slashfic Page,* which should be at least semi-self explanatory.

* Around early 2003, Nick briefly mentioned an idea he had for an AU story featuring a Jacob "Jay" Lane, on an incarnation of the Paperpusher's Message Board. TAG replied that he had a similar idea he'd been working on, and that if Nick ever posted the "Jay" story, he'd start on "Darius." Later in 2003, Ranchoth gave up the "Jay" idea for "adoption" on the PPMB, where author Beth Ann was able to use it as a basis for her series "Age Old Question"—which, true to his word, sparked TAG to officially start "Darius," which itself would later inspire Richard Lobinske to begin his John Lane series!

## Bibliography of Major Works

* The Lawndalenationale
* Durango
* REALLY Guilty Pleasures
* In Darndest Night...
* The Diogenes Group
* Panzerfibbed
* Crisis in Infinite Lawndales
* A Devil Named 'Fred'
* It's a Living
* Janissaries
* Inauguration
Little Green Riding Hood

A story by Kemical Reaxion. The third story in Kem's "Barely Tales" series. Other stories in this 3-part series are The Artist Formerly Known As The Frog Prince and Cinderfella.

## Summary

On the way to deliver her mother's briefcase, Daria meets up with the Big Bad Wolf...sort of. When Jane gets involved in the story, look out! A parody of the classic folktale "Little Red Riding Hood."
Jak981125

## Biographical Information

Jak981125 (almost always called "jak" for short) is really Joe Kerner, an American *Daria* fan from the western suburbs of Chicago. He is Roman Catholic, a Beatles fan (as is shown by his fanfiction), and a non-shipper where Trent is concerned.

## Fandom

jak has been a *Daria* fan since 1997 and a member of the Paperpusher's Message Board since 1999. He is one of the more notable socially conservative members of the fan community.

When *Daria* was on the air, jak was often a ruthless critic of MTV and their treatment of the show, going so far as to write song parodies ridiculing the network, which he felt catered to stupidity. He was also known to badmouth the MTV *Daria* message board, classifying it as a haven for teeny boppers.

He is known for having a love-hate relationship with fellow PPMB member nonamejane.

## Fanfiction

Jak is a Daria fanfic author, who specializes in Mystik Spiral and Beatles crossovers.

* A Hard Dazed Night
* Mystik SPIRAL (The White Fic)
* Mystik Spiral's Lonely Lawndale Band
* Our Drummer's Rusty Van
* Shabbey Road

## External Links

* Fanfics on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
* Fanfics on Glitter Berries
* Fanfics on The Contrarian's Corner (via Wayback Machine)
* Fanfics on fanfiction.net
Stephen Pierson-Wells II

**Stephen 'Pee Wee' Pierson-Wells II** is one of Tom Sloane's friends from Fielding Prep, debuting in fanfiction.

## Appearances

Stephen made a larger appearance in Shiva's series Ethan Yeager in Lawndale when he met Ethan during a trip to The Cove and was renicknamed 'Steve' by him. Later he encountered Sandi Griffin during a trip to the Zon and slowly began to build a relationship with her.

He was given a physical description of being short but handsome with golden blond hair and steel grey eyes.
Round Robin

A serial fanfiction story begun by one author, then added to by other authors chapter-by-chapter or section-by-section, until the story reaches a mutually agreeable ending. Each chapter is usually contained within a post on a message board like PPMB or SFMB. Writers add to the story either at whim, when a good idea strikes them, or in designation rotation. There is usually no overall editor or moderator, so the story can progress with startling turns and twists in plot, sudden losses of major characters, equally sudden additions of new characters, and wild changes in setting.

"Daria's Popular" is perhaps the oldest round robin, begun in July 2005.

## Examples of *Daria* Round Robins

* "BDLE" on SFMB
* "Daria's Popular" on PPMB (collected here)
* "Everybody Loves Jane" on PPMB
* "Evil Daria Vignettes" on PPMB
* "Evil Daria Vignettes II" on PPMB
* "Evil Daria Vignettes III" on PPMB
* "Fandemonium" on PPMB
* "Justifiable Teachercide" on PPMB
* Mecha Ensign Daria
* "The Round Robin" on FF.net
Skyler Feldman

He is canonically **Skyler Feldman** but the fandom spelling of **Skylar** is so ingrained that should we wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er.

Feldman is a student of Lawndale High, seen in "Pinch Sitter". Skylar is wealthy — his family has a boat — and seems to be stuck up and impressed with himself. He considers himself a good match for Quinn because "I know that plenty of guys want to go out with you, and plenty of girls want to go out with me."

He's the date that forces Quinn to find a substitute babysitter for the Guptys. He takes her to Chez Pierre and suggests that as the two most datable students in school, they should go steady. Quinn accepts, but has no intention of changing her dating habits and plans to break up with Skylar in the fall because his parents' boat won't be of as much use then as Taylor's parents' ski lodge. Skylar is *not* happy to find this out, nor that she was actively planning on dating his best friend Eric *simultaneously with him*.

He does not have another speaking role, although some people theorize he is Quinn's second date (other than Corey) in "Daria Dance Party".

In a "Love is a Way Too Many Splendored Thing", Quinn says: "His family owns a boat so he's the perfect match for me…at least until Labor Day."

## Skylar in Fanfic

Because of his perceived smarm and egotism, Skylar is often used as a villain in Daria fanfic—most notably in "Sins of the Past" by Martin J. Pollard, where he rapes and beats Quinn to punish her for using him.

The Angst Guy went against the grain in "And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed", making Skylar a sympathetic character who Quinn is considering going steady with for real. Skylar also appears in Shiva's Sexy Daria as a love interest for Daria who wants to join Drama Club. thatLONERchick went further in "A Question" by having Skylar break the fourth wall and question the rumors of being being either insane or a psycho killer.

For fics that treat Skylar as just some guy, The Excellent S's Lawndale Fighting Championship has him appear occasionally as a wrestler in battle royals and multi-person tag matches. In chapter 23 of "God Save The Esteem", Skylar caused Cindy's rise to social hegemony when he got the other boys to consider who they should try dating.
Mr Orange

**Mr Orange** is an author and translator of Daria fiction, and one of the foriegn language moderators at the PPMB.

## Biographical Information

A native-born French speaker, currently residing in Montpellier, France.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

A regular beta reader with a high tolerance for grammatical mangling. He is also part of the Daria Fanworks Awards staff.

## Bibliography of Major Works

In collaboration with Mathilde, he has translated Richard Lobinske's Last Summer to French and has started translating Falling Into College.

* Last Summer translation at Fanfiction.net
* Falling Into College translation at PPMB
Highland High

The high school in Highland, Texas, and the setting for much of MTV's *Beavis and Butt-head* show.

Highland High was where Daria Morgendorffer attended ninth grade with Beavis and Butt-head, Cassandra, Stewart, and Earl. We know that Daria was an unpopular brain here; insulting notes have been stuck to Daria's chair (and once on her back) in some issues of the *Beavis and Butt-head* comics, implying she was bullied; and in "Boxing Daria", she says her parents were called in during ninth grade because she wrote "violent revenge fantasies". In the alternate reality of "It's a Miserable Life", she had a boyfriend (Martin) at Highland High.

Among Daria's teachers at Highland High was Mr. Van Driessen, Mrs. Dickie, Mr. Herrera, an unnamed Home Ec teacher, and Coach Buzzcut, and it was run by Principal McVicker. Van Driessen taught a surprisingly large number of subjects (even subjects that previously *had* other teachers), and so did Buzzcut from time to time.

The episode "Incognito" indicated there were problems with violence at the school: Van Driessen had confiscated guns off kids and people were only mildy phased by *gunfire in class*. Daria was there when classmate Earl was the target of a shooting.

Highland High was visited by President Bill Clinton as part of his "Youth: The Next Generation" drive. Daria was one of the smarter kids chosen to meet Clinton and ask him questions. ("Citizen Butt-head")

The school has a swimming pool and the cafeteria has a regular Taco Day. The football team's main rival is a school called "Tech". Several times it's done charitable work alongside Clark Cobb's Christian Businessmen's Association, which Daria had been drafted into. The school paper is called the Highland Herald; Daria worked as the fashion reporter ("because *I'm* a *girl*!") for a while.
Guys' Night Out

Easily one of The Angst Guy's most comically outrageous fics, **Guys' Night Out** is an Dariaverse crossover tale and time-travelling sex comedy.

Darius Morgendorffer and John Lane have discovered the inter-dimensional wormhole behind the Good Times Chinese restaurant and are using it for fun and profit. Their machinations are discovered by Tom Sloane, who, in his own words, "came looking for Neanderthals and instead discovered the Mad Scientists' club." Rather than fight about dating one another's sisters (Tom's reason for coming over, as Darius and John had been dating Elsie Sloane and Tom began dating Quinn in revenge), the three join forces and head through the portal in search of adventure - landing in Middleton College in the late 1960s.

And it all gets very bad for them from that point.

Tied for "Favorite Weird Idea" in the 4th Daria Fanworks Awards.
Nextgen

A type of fanfic, named for *Star Trek: The Next Generation*, the setting of which took place one generation after the original *Star Trek* TV series. In a **nextgen** (or TNG) *Daria* fanfic, the stars are characters who are now, or were in the original series, younger than the major series characters (Daria, Jane, Quinn, etc.). They are, in essence, the "next generation." The story is usually set after Daria and Jane have graduated high school, allowing the younger characters to take their places. Some nextgen stories feature the future children of Daria or Jane (or other characters) in their own adventures, years after the original *Daria* setting.

## External Links

Examples of nextgen *Daria* stories follow.

* "Anything for Jane," by TAG
* "Art-I-Fact," by Wouter
* "Cause and Effect," by Tananda
* "Cry for a Shadow," by Alpacca Jo
* The Heather-Damsel Chronicles, by NightGoblyn
* "Inheritance," by Wyvern337
* "The Mirror Image," by M. Tsukai
* "Misfit Love: Twenty Years Later," by Danny Bronstein
* "Summer of the Hot Lake," by TAG
* "Unca Trent's Advice," by Brother Grimace
* "What I Needed After All," by MotocrossHottie089
MTV Animation

**MTV Animation** was an animation production company founded by Abby Terkuhle. It was the production company for virtually every animated production from MTV between 1991 and 2002, including *Daria*.

Terkhule founded MTV Animation as he wished to give MTV a distinct visual look and he felt that modern animation was the best means to the end. Terkuhle would become the president of MTV's new animation department. When Liquid Televison introduced the world to *Aeon Flux* and *Beavis and Butt-head*, MTV Productions was in charge of producing the episodes.

All episodes of *Daria* were produced through MTV Animation. During its run, Anne D. Bernstein was head writer of the department. *Daria* itself had no such position.

According to Josh Cagan, MTV Animation was like the "Wild West" during 1997. It was staffed by people who had never worked in television or by production assistants from MTV. As a result, the animation department was very open to new ideas; it was very easy to pitch ideas and there were no bureaucratic channels to navigate. The production of shows could be rather ad-hoc as a result and was known to be low budget: Mike Judge, when talking about *Beavis and Butt-head* for the *Do America* DVD, said that the show didn't have an art director until the film, so until then they'd never considered colour palettes from scene to scene, and art director Yvette Kaplan said "everything was overlapping... we never had the luxury of one part finished" before another was done. (Even *Daria* itself would jab at this, with Daria and Jane ripping the piss out of the cheap animation they were given for the hosted segments of Sarcastathon 3000 and Top Ten Animated Music Videos.)

However, beginning in 2001, the move at MTV was to move toward contracting outside sources for animation. MTV Animation would close down on October 9, 2001, and "Is It College Yet?" would be the last thing produced. The shutdown seems to have been an abrupt decision, as TV Guide article on "College" mentions the in-production Mystik Spiral spin-off (even though MTV Animation had closed at the time).

MTV Animation made a brief return in 2011 with new *Beavis and Butt-head*, *Good Vibes* (originally pitched to Fox), and an in-production show *Worst Friends Forever* by Thomas Middleditch, with Judge producing. (Daria fans in 2011 noted the pitch for *Friends* - "revolves around besties Sandy, Brittany and Coral, who hover on the outskirts of popularity in their high school" - wasn't too far off *Daria*) Low ratings killed the first two shows and Middleditch remarked in 2012 that Worst Friends was "done" and "not in my hands". (Mike Judge remembered Middleditch from the failed project and pushed to have him on *Silicon Valley*, so it worked out well for him.)