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Lawndale High Track Team

**The Lawndale High track team** is the school's track team, run by Ms. Morris. While not shown outside of "See Jane Run", in that episode they were presented as regularly having track meets against other schools and being popular kids at school (when they're winning, at least); their continued success was seen as important to the school and they get favours from the faculty.

Known members include Evan, the recurring background characters Les, Jennifer, and "Chipmunk", and two rarely seen, unnamed black students nicknamed "Track Guy" (a tuckerization of character designer Kirk-Albert Etienne) and "Brown Blouse".

Jane Lane temporarily joined the team and became popular as a result. When she tried to quit, Ms Morris tried to blackmail her into rejoining by threatening to flunk her in Maths - the rest of the track team stood alongside Morris when she tried this. Notably, both Angela Li and the PTA were said to be aware of such antics.

The team won a trophy when Jane was a member. Track teams win trophies at important meets and if they're the overall winner in previous meets, so Jane was in the team for a while - Morris was right, they really did need her!

## Track team in fanfiction

In any alternate universe reworking of "See Jane Run" or story where Jane never left the group, the track team will be present - but traditionally it would only be Evan who'd be a pre-existing character in them, as it was only around 2010 that the 'backgrounder' members started to get brought up (due to this wiki having them!). Evan is primarily an antagonist in these. "Chipmunk" started to appear as well after 2010 after an appearance in "God Save The Esteem", where she was a secondary antagonist.

Multiple AU stories have Jane joining the team when not being friends with Daria. One of the earliest was a 'wonderful life' vision in "The Look-Alike Series" story "It's a Passable Life", where Daria sees that if they'd never been friends, Jane would have joined and remained in the track team despite being it making her miserable. The later "Victory Lane", by Brother Grimace, has Jane as an award-winning member of the track team without Daria to cause her to leave. In "The Spectacular Spider-Girl", Jane joined and quit the track team earlier, without Daria to push her towards quitting.

Jane recounts her tenure at the track team in several of Wouter's comics, in particular "Keeping Track of Fantasies" which revealed that Evan (ten years after the episodes) has since taken over coaching duties from Morris.

In "Lawndale Fighting Championship", Chipmunk (as Siobhan) and Evan are a wrestling tag-team called The Track Stars.
All the King's Horses

**All the King's Horses** is the second part of Turnabout Confusion by Dennis. This novella-length fanfic covers a another week during Daria's junior year two months after the events of We All Fall Down. Quinn and Daria seek to overturn the new social order that has sprung up at Lawndale High in the wake of the original bet. In this second part, the popularity culture envisioned in the first part has, if anything, grown even more cut-throat and is now shown to involve the faculty and administration of the school.

## Notes

Turnabout Confusion began as an Iron Chef proposed by Ranger Thorne at the PPMB, suggesting that two major characters switch place for a day. The story was composed serially at PPMB beginning in January 2008, after Part I's completion in December 2007, and completed in early 2009. All the King's Horses features around 25 different viewpoint characters and is approximately 55,000 words.

## Awards

All the King's Horses was nominated for several awards in the 6th Daria Fanworks Awards, and won the following award:

* Favorite School-Centered (Lawndale High) for *Turnabout Confusion, Part II: All The King's Horses*
Jennifer (black girl)

**Jennifer** is one of Daria's classmates. Her name is known from "Cafe Disaffecto", thanks to a close-up of Mr. O'Neill's seating chart. She's actually one of *three* Jennifers in that class, and the only one that isn't Caucasian; one of the others is Burnout Girl.

She's been seen around the background character "Jade Hoodie"; the two might be friends. "It Happened One Nut" shows her hanging around at the mall with "Kia" and "Bib Overalls", other black girls in her year (though none of those three are ever seen around Jodie...).

Jennifer was one of about a dozen poor schlubs made by their parents to attend the Push Comes to Love course in "College Bored".

She is a member of the Lawndale High Track Team, and was friendly with Jane Lane for a time. Along with the rest of the team and Ms. Morris, she tried to bully Jane into rejoining the team.

Jennifer also has an interest in drama, signing up for The Canterbury Tales' auditions in "Fair Enough".

She's a fan of Mental in the Morning: when Bing and the Spatula Man turned up in "Jake of Hearts", Jennifer followed them on a circuit around the school and looked happy to be near them. In a fourth-wall destroying moment, she actually peeks out from behind Spatchula Man and grins, just like she's mugging for the camera... but the only 'camera' here is *us*. Was she aware we existed?

## Fanfiction

She appears as a Buzzdome employee after graduation in The Angst Guy's unfinished JÖRMUNGANDR; she takes evening classes at Lawndale State University, so she can look after her father (who had a stroke) and younger sister when her mother's at work. She's familiar with Daria, who remembers her as "the tallest" Jennifer with a ponytail (she notes Daria doesn't ask if she was the African-American Jennifer).

In "God Save The Esteem", she appears in the See Jane Run AU as someone semi-popular jock who likes gossiping behind people's backs and is quite confused by Jane's morbid humour.

In The Excellent S's "Lawndale Fighting Championship", as **Jen Austin**, she wrestles in the Track Team crew.
Adrian

**Adrian** is one of the four children of Summer Lane and is the nephew of both Jane and Trent Lane. Jane babysat some of Summer's children and this may have included Adrian.

Adrian is frequently seen with his sister, Courtney. It is not known if Adrian's last name is "Lane" or if he uses his father's name as his last name. Furthermore, it is not known where Adrian resides in the birth order of Summer's children, or if he's younger or older than Courtney; they seem to be close in age, possibly twins.

"The Teachings of Don Jake" reveal that Summer's children keep running away from her. When Summer's spoken or written, she seems more irritated than concerned about this.

In *The Daria Diaries,* two postcards from Adrian and Courtney can be found among the collection of postcards on several pages: one from Amish Country in Pennsylvania and one from the Petrified Forest, Arizona. The first included "If you hear from Mom, tell her to chill. We'll call her in a couple of weeks" and the second included: "We're saving up, and we'll probably be home for some holiday. Say hi to Mom."

Adrian and Courtney run off again in "Lane Miserables," heading for Casa Lane. Summer snaps at them both times she talks to them, including accusing them of "drag[ging] me to the last place on Earth I want to be".

## Trivia

He was named first in *Diaries*, then in "Lane Miserables"—both of these are written by Anne D. Bernstein, an example of non-televised canon seeping into the show.
Lawndale Elementary

**Lawndale Elementary** School was a logical addition to the Lawndale setting for the
*Daria* series, and it has been independently created and used by many fanfiction authors. A partial listing follows of stories making use of this locale (which was never named in the TV series). The entries are in no particular order.

* "My Life," by Sam Lincoln
* "Good Morning, Lawndale High," "The Kids Aren't All Wrong," and "Ineffective Proposal" ("fifth-season" episodes of The Look-Alike Series), by Canadibrit
* "Smoking Mirror," "Tiffany in Wonderland," and "Wonderlane," by TAG
* "Community Service," by Mick
* "No Picnic," by C.E. Forman
* "Desperately Seeking Stacy," by Crazy Nutso
* "Outbitched," by Peter Guerin

A fairly detailed description of this primary school appears in the fanfic "On Guard," by Kemical Reaxion. Daria is sent there to shadow the school's crossing guard, James Crumwall, during Career Observance Day. The crossing guard works on the corner of Ridgeway and 4th streets, an intersection a few blocks east of the school. The principal of Lawndale Elementary is Cynthia Burns.

The school's mascot is, appropriately enough, the Lemming. A sign on the lawn in front of the school reads "Lawndale Elementary" with the words "Go Lemmings!" in italics underneath.

The halls of the school are decorated with colorful paper, each classroom door decorated with a different theme. Some doors are decorated to represent children's classics such as "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Green Eggs and Ham," while others are simply adorned with numbers, letters, and shapes. One door is decorated with paper fish.
Principal McVicker

'*Principal McVicker* is the principal of Highland High in Highland, where Daria attended ninth grade with Beavis and Butt-head, in the TV series *Beavis and Butt-head*. He is voiced by Mike Judge.

A bald, rotund man of unknown age, having to be responsible for Beavis and Butt-head destroyed his mind: he commonly had a horrified expression, sweated & shook constantly, would keep stuttering and uttering "uhhhh!!" mid-sentence, and was taking unidentified pills. A divine being has stated he had hair and a happy persona before he met them, and thanks to timeline issues (see Trivia) that means they ruined him *within weeks*. Every so often he'd have a scheme or opportunity to get them out of school (and sometimes to injure them and, in "Wet Behind the Rears", simply humiliate them), but something would always ruin it - in "April Fools!" he was forced to *not* expel them after realizing they'd then spend *even more* time being annoying.

Daria was one of Highland's honor students, and in "Citizen Butt-head" McVicker gave her and the others pre-assigned questions to ask a visiting President Clinton; Daria would ignore this and ask her own question. As far as we can tell, he never found out she did this as he was primarily focused on the two buttmunches. "Boxing Daria" has her say she started "writing violent revenge fantasies just to get a reaction" at age 15 and her teachers got called into school - McVicker would have seen her parents about this.

He came to believe that either he or the demented duo were going to kill the others, and was ecstatic when he thought they'd died in "Beavis and Butt-head are Dead"... only to have a heart attack when they turned up again. Sadly for him, he did *not* die and still has to deal with them. *Forever*.

In the "Miserable Life" alternate universe, where Butt-head was never born, a happy, calm McVicker leads a Christmas caroler group that includes a happy, socially-involved Daria. They may have more interaction in this world.

## Trivia

"It's A Miserable Life" blamed Butt-head for baldness in the year 1995, when the show had been on for four years under a 'sliding timescale'. *Daria*,however, had chronological progression and appears take place across her tenth to twelfth grades, putting *Beavis and Butt-head* as her ninth grade... which means McVicker lost his hair and mind almost *immediately* after Beavis and Butt-head went to his school!

In the DVD feature "Taint of Greatness: The Story of Beavis and Butt-head Part 1", Mike Judge said McVicker's voice was based on a real person from his childhood.

He seems to have died at the end of "Beavis and Butt-head are Dead"; however, he's back to life again in the 2011 revival of the show. His final appearance is in the episode "School Test" where he is arrested for attempting to help Beavis and Butt-head with their standardized tests out of irritation.
Steve

**Steve** is a fanfic security guard at Lawndale High, and made into a shared character.

Steve first showed up as a shared character in RX-87's Armored Cynic Daria, acting as a power-armoured guard engaging a mecha insurgent group. He then appeared peetz5050]'s Daria-as-musician alternate universe "One Little Thing", acting as guard for Daria's band equipment (and headbutting O'Neill).

When a Lawndale security guard is needed as a brief walk-on, it tends to be Steve: example would be brief cameos in ST91's "Jay Lane", EntracedCat's "Loud Esteem" (a crossover with Nickelodeon's *The Loud House*) and in a chapter of round robin "Daria Rocks".
Metalmouth

**Metalmouth** is the name given, by Lawndale High students, to a metal shop teacher of urban legend status. At least, for most of the episode we thought he was just a legend...

## Story and name origin

According to Trent Lane, Metalmouth was a metal shop teacher, who had the tendency to grind his teeth at every student's stupid comments. Because of that, he eventually lost all his teeth and, because he was a teacher, could not afford dentures.

Being a shop teacher, he built himself a set of steel dentures, to the horror of his students (which gave the teacher his nickname). However, that horror quickly turned to laughter when it was seen the teeth could pick up radio transmissions, particularly Cyndi Lauper's rendition of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (that seems to be the only thing they picked up). He was laughed out of the school by the students, never to be seen there again.

However, it was said he extracted revenge by attacking student couples in the woods, biting on their car doors while they were necking inside the cars. His dentures would be found embedded in the door of at least one car. Because of that, concludes Trent, "We don't want to be caught out here by *these* woods. Especially at night."

Curiously, Metalmouth's teeth are found on the passenger door handle of Helen Morgendorffer's SUV at the end of the episode. Was Helen necking with someone in the woods before she came home? Or did Metalmouth attack her car for other reasons?

In the episode, the character has the appearance of Anthony DeMartino and his class has the appearance of Kevin Thompson et al, playing on the canon character's tendency to be irritated by his students. The real Metalmouth doesn't look like DeMartino... or *does he*...?

## In fanfiction

In fanfiction, Metalmouth's first big appearance was as a mad scientist supervillain, and a secondary threat in TAG's "A Hard Days' Night" (with numerous 'off-screen' battles with Andrew Landon).

He had a burst of fanfiction appearances in 2010, most likely because The Angst Guy used Metalmouth as his forum avatar and writers became inspired/disturbed by it. "Anthony DeMartino Just Wants To Have Fun" by Smijey reveals Metalmouth's true identity as DeMartino and record of murders. He also got his own Iron Chef, Terror of Metalmouth, which among other ficlets had him crossing over with two of Jim North's other slasher-villain stories.

"Mecha Ensign Daria" also ran with DeMartino as Metalmouth; in this sci-fi story, the dentures are a budget equivalent of a mecha that does wrong.

## Trivia

* He only appears in "Legends of the Mall", where his story is told, as well as the ones for the Rattling Girl of Lawndale and the Girl in the House of Bad Grades. Unlike Metalmouth, these urban legends are not then shown to be true.

* Helen's car is replaced with a different model of SUV after this episode.

* Metalmouth's attack is a parody of the urban legend of a necking couple hearing about an escaped killer with a hook for a hand, driving off after a noise spooks the girl, and discovering the hook embedded in the car or hanging from the door handle, *torn off just as the killer was about to get them.*
LongSnakeMoan

**LongSnakeMoan** is a Daria fanfic writer known for the twisted and macabre, as well as fluff.

## Stories

* It Felt Like A Kiss, a dark take on Nathan and Jane
* Of All The People That Won't Be Missed (Natural Born Killers crossover)
* No Esteem - (starting here in thread)
* You Want It Darker (spinning off Catching Up With The Daria Gang)

* LongSnakeMoan's Fluff Thread - running series of short fanfics
Post-canon

*Daria* fanfiction or fan art that shows the series characters after the conclusion of *Is It College Yet?*. Most stories in this vein concern the *Daria* cast's time in college, marriages, childrearing, and beyond. Other stories can be considered Nextgen, dealing with either the younger children seen in the show (i.e. Tad and Tricia Gupty and Link) or the projected children of canon characters (such as Heather and Damsel Morgendorffer from The Heather/Damsel Chronicles).

Post-canon fics are sometimes used to explore different genres to the original show, including more fantastic ones, without having to fully go alternate universe: "Politricks are not for Kids" by Brian Taylor (political humour), "Drive" by The Angst Guy (hard sci-fi). Others explore either Daria's college life or the possible adult futures of the main cast ("Reunion" by Hyrin"), or to carry out shipper pairings in adulthood ("Reunited and It Feels So Good" by Person).

And others show a character's life going drastically downhill after Lawndale High for the purposes of angst! (lots of TAG fics)

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Important examples of post-canon fanfiction series include Richard Lobinske's Falling Into College series and Ruthless Bunny's "Bed and Breakfast Man".

Several examples of semi-canon post-canon exist, created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis: "Daria Morgendorffer's Greatest Retail Regret", "What I Think About Valentine's Day", and "Catching Up With The Daria Gang".

### Other Examples of Post-Canon Fanfic

* "Ghosts of Christmas Future," by Crusading Saint

## External Links

* First March 2005 interview with Glenn Eichler on DVDaria, in which he speculates on life at the Morgendorffers' home after Daria leaves for college
* April 2005 interview with Glenn Eichler on DVDaria, with more speculation on life with the Morgendorffers with Daria gone
* June 2005 interview with Glenn Eichler on DVDaria, with speculation on life for the show's characters in 2005
* May 2006 interview with Anne D. Bernstein on DVDaria, with speculation on life for the show's characters in early 2006
* Past & Future fanfic collection at Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine).
Micka

**Micka** is a young Australian fan author whose works tends towards the macabre.

## Biographical Information

Micka is well known for not being well known. He occasionally will write a story, then vanish into obscurity for a few months. In fact, between October of 2005 and May of 2007, he had only made 72 posts on the PPMB under his 'Micka' account. He also maintains, but has yet to post with, an account on the SFMB using the alias 'KB,' a reference to his AOL screen name of Kinetic Booger.

He is 22 years old and lives near Brisbane, Australia with his mother and younger brother. He works in management at a Red Rooster restaurant and enjoys drinking bourbon and playing various computer games and RPGs in his free time.

He is generally fairly quiet, even in his social life and does not talk about himself nearly as often as his girlfriend, HelpfulSkittlesExplosion talks about him. In fact, most of what is known about him came out in this way. This, unfortunately, means most of the knowledge about him is sexual in nature or about various attractive features. He is sometimes referred to as a 'perky emo goth' due in part to his generally jovial nature and his penchant for he macabre and disturbing in both his stories and choices in entertainment.

Micka is overall fairly good natured and easy going and has never been involved in any major debacles, although he admits to having a firey temper when provoked. He does occasionally get involved in debates and feuds in SFMB2but usually then it is only when someone else draws him into the fray. Otherwise, he rarely talks even there unless called out or in some way brought into the conversation.

Quote: *"i dont even know what to do if asked to say anything about myself other than "lurks"* (IM conversation, 10 April, 2007)

## External Links

* "Dega Street"
* "Musings"
* "Requiem"
* "Taking Tea in Dreamland"
Mike Judge

**Mike Judge** is the creator of *Beavis and Butt-head* and one of the people behind Daria Morgendorffer with David Felton and producer John Garrett Andrews. Other notable works include *Office Space*, *King of the Hill*, *Idiocracy*, and *Silicon Valley* (we won't mention *The Goode Family*).

He got started in 1991 when his original "Office Space" short was picked up by Comedy Central following a Dallas animation festival. Then, in 1992 he developed "Frog Baseball", a short featuring the characters Beavis and Butt-head, which featured on Liquid Television and led to his big hit.

According to Judge in the 2006 *Mike Judge Collection* DVD's *Taint of Greatness* feature, MTV sent him a development note early in *Beavis and Butt-head* "[that] it'd be a good idea to have a female character who didn't necessarily like [Beavis and Butt-head] but kinda tolerated them". He agreed and during the same documentary, he said "maybe Daria" was the only character in the show that wasn't flawed and laughed at. He has credited Felton for coming up with her look ("like Lynda Barry") and with the character, with Andrews creating the original design; Glenn Eichler said in a DVDaria interview that "Mike Judge named Daria after the girl he called "Diarrhea" in school"; and Andrews has told Huffington Post that he ended up sketching the original Daria design as "Judge was not at that time, by his own account, comfortable drawing female characters" at the time. "It was Mike who suggested referencing Darlene from Roseanne. Pretty but plain was the goal."

For the Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection DVDs in 2005/6, Mike Judge was interviewed about the show. He said that the concept of Daria was suggested to him by MTV, "a female character who didn't necessarily like Beavis and Butt-head but kinda tolerated them", and he agreed with this.

Judge was not involved in the *Daria* spinoff show. In a 2004 interview with *The AV Club*, Judge said (with noticeable frustration) that he cut out of the *Daria* spinoff: "Next thing I knew, they were just doing it, and I wasn't crazy about some of the people they hired. I think they were trying to show that they could do something without me. A normal network would never do that kind of stuff, unless you were a real asshole to them. I feel like Beavis And Butt-Head helped a lot of these people's careers, then they do this series without even consulting me on it. But I heard the show is pretty good. I think Glenn Eichler was a good choice to write on it. I've honestly never seen more than two or three minutes of it."

During the revival of *Beavis and Butt-head* in 2011, Judge was asked by press, fans, and *Quentin Tarantino* if Daria would appear in the show. "I should do more Daria, I guess," he told New York Magazine in October 2011. Sadly the show was cancelled before she could appear, though she was referenced during a music video segment in "Drones" (where Beavis thinks Daria killed herself and has to be reminded "she just moved"). At the 2011 New York Comic Con that he liked the character a lot and 'maybe' should do more with her.
Invertedverse

**Invertedverse** is a shared world created by Shiva from a short scene that should not be.

The Invertedverse is one in which the the roles that the characters in Daria played in canon and at least some or all of their character traits are not merely reversed but turned inside out and on their heads. Examples include Daria is obsessed with fashion and popularity, Quinn is a misanthrope, etc.

The series main thread and bible can be found here], and it lists all the current Character inversions.

## Stories in the series

Most of the following are listed in publication order by several authors, while there is a rough chronological order it doesn't always pan out that way.

* Inverted, by Shiva and marks the birth of the Series.

* Everybody's Got A Price, by The Excellent S.

* Compagnon's, by Shiva.

* Sakred Triangle, by Shiva.

* What-a-day..., by OverlordMikey.

* Inspiration, by Shiva.
Adam

**Adam** is a student in Daria's class at Lawndale High. His name can be seen on Timothy O'Neill's seating chart in "Cafe Disaffecto". He is a tall student and one of the few black teenagers at Lawndale High; he always wears a long light button-down jacket with rolled-up sleeves, usually amber in colour, and has cornrows with beads tied to the end.

Usually when seen, he's quite calm and passive, though (like any sensible student) he was bored stiff in O'Neill's class in "The F Word". Like many students, he wore school colours for Val's visit and had a blue version of his jacket. In "I Loathe a Parade", he was seen in the company of his classmate Jenna; they're likely friends, or may have been on a date.

He is mentioned in "Pierce Me" as someone who'd asked Quinn out on a date - Quinn says that she hopes a caller was not Adam because she was going to cancel with Adam to go out with Simon.
Steve Taylor

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**Steve Taylor** is Brittany Taylor's father, as well as the father of Brian Taylor. He is seen in the Taylor family portrait in "The Daria Database", and also in the episodes "The Old and the Beautiful," "Groped by an Angel" and "Art Burn." His ex-wife (and Brittany's mother) is Vivian Taylor and his current wife is Ashley-Amber Taylor. He is an ad executive (as revealed in The Daria Database) who met Ashley-Amber when she was a spokesmodel for a beer company.

Steve's personality is crude, boorish, and irritable. He seems especially impatient with his son Brian, though he seems to favor Brittany, throwing her a party and giving her an expensive present in "Groped by an Angel." (He had apparently thrown Brian a party recently too, but seemed bitter about that fact.) One of his hobbies is sports shooting and mounting trophy animals.

He collects a lot of art from Gary's Gallery, including one of the reproductions Jane made in "Art Burn" - he cheerfully admits getting the real art would be too expensive and so uses "a great gallery that's got a bunch of hacks churning out copies. They're really pretty decent for the price." Hearing *Steve Taylor* note her art had gotten lazy gave Jane the impetus to quit the job.

## In Fanfiction

Steve is often portrayed negatively in fanfiction, given his obvious lack of parenting skills and generally unpleasant behavior. One exception is Kristen Bealer's "A Monster in the Unmaking" which is about him realizing what he has done wrong in his life.
LaneBay

**LaneBay** was a website run by Jane Lane from 2000 to 2001. "Since Mom and Dad often forget to pay the mortgage, it may be the only way I can hold onto my garret."

Quoth Jane:

"Now you can acquire great art without messy human contact. The internet is all about anonymity -- yours as an art buyer, mine as an artist. Wait, that didn't sound right, but let's move on for now.

"I want you to have some first-rate art. So I'm bypassing the critics, dealers, and curators and creating a site to showcase my own work. After all, if Van Gogh'd had a home page, maybe he wouldn't have suffered such complete neglect and cut off his ear just for attention. Or if he did cut it off, at least he could have charged for the live video feed.

"As a special bonus, you have the opportunity to purchase fine works not only by me but by members of my talented family. Once they caught wind of my e-commerce endeavor, they paid me the ultimate compliment by horning in on the act. It's great to be the youngest."

The site promises "a surprise fee for shipping and handling."

You can buy:

* "Uber-Tuber Art: Limited Edition Potato Prints by Jane Lane": One of this is just a normal potato, which she claims was too beautiful to cut ("Lack of imagination-deadening "artist's vision" makes this piece conceptually compelling"). Another is "Daria Brooding". "My friend Daria was so unnerved by her undercooked french fries that I felt the need to grab a potato that very minute and capture her extreme emotional state. It was a baked potato -- too hot, ouch! -- but after the blisters healed I recreated the scene from memory with a fingerling."

* "The Way of the Clay: Amanda Lane's Ceramic Creations": She forgot to put a hole in a vase for the flowers to go into and the spirit vessel can't contain anything liquid. But it's microwave safe!

* "Boulder Statements: Photographs of Celtic Rock Formations by Vincent Lane": Vincent expresses a discontent with how he went through constant discomfort (including sleeping a night in Glasgow airport) to take these photos while his buyers are "staying nice and dry and avoiding the onset of pneumonia. (But it was worth it, really!)" One is just a photo of a pebble in a Bed & Breakfast driveway.

* "Scrawling For Dollars: Trent Lane's Rock And Roll Doodles": doodles he made on paper plates and napkins.

* "Hands Across The Checkout Counter: Central American crafts imported by Penny Lane": "You can't undo centuries of oppression or erase the devastating effect of smallpox, but you can do your part to support a non-hierarchical village-based industry!" She then admitted one item was made by wealthy American women who'd emigrated to Costa Rica, who were "not particularly oppressed at the moment (most play cards and lie around the pool all day) but surely victims of sexism at some point".

LaneBay links to commercial sites run by Summer Lane and Wind Lane.

## External Links

Wayback link (may not always work,try clicking Stop as soon as the page loads)
Mrs. Dickie

**Mrs Dickie** was one of the teachers at Highland High. She was a science teacher, though in later episodes Mr. Van Driessen would be teaching science instead.

Dickie was a serious teacher driven to despair and anger by having to teach Beavis and Butt-head. In "Scientific Stuff", she forced them to do another science project, this time partnered with Daria Morgendorffer (ignoring Daria's protests).

In "Citizen Butt-head", she was amused at the idea of killing the demented duo and in "Beavis and Butt-head are Dead" she was one of the teachers celebrating their 'deaths'.

In the 2011 revival, she's in the background of *Copy Machine* but replaced as a speaking character by an unnamed, easily-irritated brunette teacher voiced by Laraine Newman. In an interview with Rolling Stone on the revival, Mike Judge remarked, "We have one new teacher that's in a couple of episodes, a female teacher. I never felt like we had a good female teacher character."
Potential

*Daria* fanfic by The Angst Guy, written in response to an Iron Chef challenge to write a story in which a minor Daria character was given a major role and kept in canon, with Daria herself in a subplot.

In the story, Ethan Yeager, the son of Helen and Jake's old student friends, returns to Lawndale and Quinn begins to fall for him and vice versa. The *reason* Ethan is in Lawndale, however, will force Quinn to face darkness if she wants to stand by them, and face an unexpected betrayal.

Two sequels by other writers - Redemption, by Atimnie; Vengeance, by Bacner - have been written.
Randy

**Randy** was a cadet at Buxton Ridge Military Academy and joined at the same time as Jake Morgendorffer: he was sent there for putting his fist through a wall. He was Jake's only friend, at least in Jake's early days, and he said the violent cadet was "a good pal to have". Randy went AWOL after four years and Jake was severely tempted to go with him. ("The Daria Diaries")

## In fanfiction

Randy has a major role in Kristen Bealer's "Shake, Shake, Quiver and Quake", set during Jake's penultimate year at Buxton Ridge.
It Really Makes You Think

**It Really Makes You Think** is a *Daria* podcast run by ex-fanfic writer and pro-comedian Jill Friedman and an array of guests.

Each episode is a lengthy review of the episode, its context, and related issues (plus jokes!). It started in 2018.

The name comes from the recurring line in "The Misery Chick", said by people rattled by Tommy Sherman's death.
Outpost Daria Reborn

**Outpost Daria Reborn** (ODR) is the current continuation of the old Outpost Daria that was run by Martin J. Pollard. Outpost Daria was closed for the final time in June 2013.

On June 20th, 2014, NeonHomer went live with Outpost Daria Reborn. It is the most current version of the old Outpost Daria with updates being made as they come in.

## Temporarily Off-Line

On August 3rd, 2020, a user from Paperpusher's Message Board (PPMB) had posted that ODR had gone offline. Likewise, NeonHomer himself found that the site went offline. A quick investigation found that an email that was supposed to be sent from the hosting provider never made it, and they had upgraded the site to a new server, which required updating the DNS entry. Once this was discovered, the info was quickly updated and ODR was back online by the next day.

## External Links

* Outpost Daria Reborn Main Page
* Outpost Daria
* Paperpusher's Message Board Main Page
GTS

**GTS** (an abbreviation of "Girls Together Sarcastically") is an ongoing fanfiction series by Dennis. This is post-canon series set in Boston and starting during Daria's junior year of college. The series revolves around the titular band, initially formed by Daria, Jane, and Quinn, and eventually supplemented with fourth member Sandi Griffin, who moved to Boston after leaving college, as they struggle to balance, work, (in some cases) school, and their ambitions for the band. At the same time, they have to manage the clashes between the disparate personalities in the band.

The series consists of six full-length stories, running from between 6,500 to 13,000 words, and two shorter "Interludes" of under 2000 words:

* GTS 1: Imperfect Circle
* Interlude 1: Dude Look Like a Lameass (TW: Unintentional Transphobia)
* GTS 2: Modern Girls and Retro Rock and Roll
* GTS 3: Clashing Colors Everywhere
* GTS 4: Closets Are for Hang-ups
* GTS 5: Ebony Sisters and Manager Misters
* Interlude 2: Impersonal Venus
* GTS 6: She Ain't Easy, She's My Sister

Additionally, the short story That I Can Depend On can be considered an unofficial prequel to the series.

## Notes

The series title is a reference to the work of Frank Zappa and the all-groupie band he assembled and produced called the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously). Each fic is an altered version of a song lyrics (often, but not always, the title lyric from the song).

The continuum in which these stories are set has been designated as universe Daria-41183 of the Daria Multiverse.

* GTS at fanfiction.net.
* The main GTS page at Archive of Our Own.
Losers No More

**Losers No More** is a serialised story by Shiva on the PPMB, the first arc of which was completed on Nov 2013.

It is a serial born out of three one-shots in which Grove Hill students Graham Alexander and David Bentley reconnect after Daria and Jodie's infamous visit and transfer to Lawndale High two months later to escape bullying at the Hills and to make a serious attempt at improving themselves. They begin to make connections with Daria and Jane along with several other intelligent students and find themselves slowly adopting Daria's approach to life in Lawndale.
Garrett

**Garrett** is either a relative of Brian Danielson's or part of the friends of the families, as he shows up at the wedding in "I Don't" as a chaperone for Quinn. He may or may not be related to Luhrman, who he noted was hitting it off with Daria.

He was immediately smitten, telling Quinn "you're just about the loveliest thing I ever saw." ("Thanks.") When she was away from the reception, he tracked her down to where she'd been cornered by the wedding's priest and his speech about "love". A clearly aware Garrett implied he knew what was really going on - "With all due respect, Father, I wonder if maybe you're not the one with the confusing emotions" - which led to a violent fistfight. Garrett lost and was consoled by Quinn after.

In "Love is a Way Too Many Splendored Thing", Quinn writes: "A really sweet guy, especially when he punched that minister in the eye."
It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream

Alternate-universe *Daria* fanfic by The Angst Guy. Daria Morgendorffer is born mentally retarded, and as a result the good things she accomplishes in her life go undone, and chaos and disaster spread. Amy Barksdale and Jane Lane also appear. Alternate versions of Spare Me (*Beavis and Butt-Head*), Esteemsters, Cafe Disaffecto, and The Teachings of Don Jake are key parts of the story.

The depiction of Helen Morgendorffer was considered controversial in this story; see the notes at the end for details.

The title of this story was taken from a line in a translation of *The Odyssey* by Homer (book XI, line 204), where Odysseus unsuccessfully tries to embrace the ghost of his dead mother.

## External Links

* "It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream" (Wayback)

* Fanart of the fic by SRA
Princess Pasta

## About

Princess-Pasta AKA atiyatortilla is a fanfic writer and artist who also sometimes, not often, cohosts The Lawndale Lowdown fancast with ognawk. Daria cosplayer and Queen of never finishing anything (ever). Avid participant in random Iron ChefChallenges. May have won some Daria FanWorks Awards but who can really remember?

Total list of fanfics (both finished and incomplete from newest to oldest):

#### **Fanfics**

* Skeletons
* High School Never Ends
* Meetings
* Standstill
* Freakin' Friends Forever
* Lost And Found
* Harmonize
* SOS
* Beneath The Surface
* Up In Smoke
* Pack Mentality
* Is This Adulthood?
* Break (Daria the Unreliable Narrator)
* Freefall
* Three Devils

* Ideas Thread I
* Ideas Thread II

(If you're looking for something that's not listed, it's probably deleted. RIP.)

#### **Artwork**

* Art Thread I
* Art Thread II
* Art Thread III
* DeviantArt
Gwendolyn L. Spelvin

*Daria* fanfic author, came to the Daria fandom scene in 2016 with the debut Daria fanfic novel Daria: Sophomore Blues.

## Biographical Information

Gwendolyn L. Spelvin is a Creative Writer and Master Propagandist. She writes a lot of satire on her own site Articulate Madness, as well as video game reviews. Her day job is writing original short stories out of the fanfic medium under an assumed government name. In her free time, satire is her life.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

In addition to the aforementioned works, Gwendolyn L. Spelvin is working on a Daria fanfic novel featuring other characters in the Daria universe.

Gwendolyn L. Spelvin also created the character, Malik, within her works. He is a physics major, self-proclaimed nerd who plans to moonlight as a kung-fu translator if he can't use his degree.

## External Links

* Articulate Madness The Official Website
* Fanfic Published Works Daria Fanfic sightings
Saving Hope

**Saving Hope** is an alternate reality story by Richard Lobinske inspired the idea of Daria attending Hope High School, the alternative discipline facility in Highland.

The story begins with Jake driving Daria and Quinn to their new school in Lawndale, similar to the opening of "Esteemsters".

While Jake drives, Daria thinks back on the time she spent at Hope High after being sentenced under a "zero-tolerance" policy for taking a pistol away from Beavis and Butt-head. There, she was quickly bullied and had to learn how to physically fight back. After she witnessed the death of a fellow student, she was finally released after a successful lawsuit filed by her parents.

The story ends with meeting Tom Sloane at the entrance to Fielding Preparatory Academy.
On Guard

The very first work of fan fiction by Kemical Reaxion. It is a stand-alone, on-canon piece written in script format.

## Summary

Principal Angela Li announces that all students at Lawndale High are required to participate in Career Observance Day, a mentoring program where each student spends a day with a professional in his or her chosen field. Quinn has chosen to work as a live mannequin in a clothing store window. Daria and Jane decide to shadow Trent for a day, but their choice is vetoed by Ms. Li and their mentors are instead chosen for them. Daria is assigned to spend the day with James Crumwall, a crossing guard for Lawndale Elementary, while Jane is forced to work with interior designer Gloria Rothfelder.
Psychotol

Psychotol has authored Living dead girls, Daria's Braincut, Roofies Roulette, Tit For Twat, The Naked Truth, Brittany's Possession, Queen of the Machines, It's All About The Mission, and has contributed to BDLE and authored its sequels Reunion and Morgan V Morgendorffer. Psychotol's works tend towards the techno-thriller genre, and stories authored by him commonly concern much information and discussion of technological and scientific theories and works, military doctrine, and strategic & tactical ordinance. Some topics that appear repeatedly in Psychotol's works are lobotomies, masochism, forensic science and rape.

There are rumors that Psychotol is a female and hails from the UK, as reported by folks who claim to have met her. However, these stories remain unsubstantiated.

## External Links

Psychotol's works at Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
Smileyfax

Daria fanfiction author, previously known as Molekiller and Smijey, whose work appears on Fanfiction.net and PPMB. Smileyfax's work ranges from comedy to drama, near-canon to fantasy, and often use EGG-streamly offbeat concepts.

He generally has not produced series: an exception is the alternate universe "My Best Friend", a series of highly disturbing angst stories, and a string of ficlets ("Mr T Meets Daria") where Daria Morgendorffer is overly obsessed with Mr T.

## Daria Fanworks Awards

5th Daria Fanworks Awards:

* Favorite Supernatural or Fantasy Non-Horror for Box to the Future
Les

**Les** is a backgrounder, appearing semi-frequently throughout the show; he almost always wears a yellow V-neck jumper, and has lightly tanned skin. His name is known because he's in Timothy O'Neill's seating chart in "Cafe Disaffecto".

Les is in Daria's year and in some of her classes. In "Cafe Disaffecto", he is seen with a friend (who was a Middleton College student just last episode) and both were fans of Daria's Melody Powers story. Les punched the air when it ended.

In "See Jane Run" we learn he's a member of the Lawndale High Track Team. In this episode, he was friendly with and supportive of Jane while she was a successful team member - when she quit, he joined Ms. Morris in trying to pressure Jane into returning.

He's a fan of American football and has been seen at Lawndale Lions games. Les also has an interest in drama, signing up for *The Canterbury Tales* auditions in "Fair Enough".

When Mental in the Morning first turned up at Lawndale High, Les is part of the crowd that goes to see what the fuss is about; while everyone else is cheering, however, Les is standing at the back, arms folded, looking amused (by the DJs or everyone's reaction?). ("Jake of Hearts")

In "Antisocial Climbers", Les seems to listening in on Daria and Jane's snark as the blizzard comes in and someone is found missing, and does not seem happy.

In "Dye! Dye! My Darling", a boy with his hairstyle is chatting up Cindy, but it's not clear if this is him or not. It's *definitely* him flirting with "White Sweater" in "Fat Like Me" though: bit of a ladies' man (or trying to be), our Les.
Michele Landon

**Michele Landon** is the mother of Jodie, Rachel, and Evan Landon, and wife of Andrew Landon. In The Daria Database, she was 42 (eight years younger than Andrew).

## General

Michele was formerly a Senior VP at "US World," but during the time frame of the series she primarily stayed at home to care for her infant son, Evan, a situation she considers a "temporary hiatus". She expresses barely-restrained irritation about this, wanting to put Evan in daycare and randomly letting slip that he was "unplanned", and in "The Daria Database" is said to nurse while reading *Wall Street World*.

Most of what we know of this character comes from a brief mention in The Daria Database. However, during "Gifted", where she is introduced and has her longest appearance, her behaviour is shown as highly defensive and judgemental, specifically in the way she takes Helen Morgendorffer's most innocent statements and well meaning assumptions as personal insults directed at her ethnicity. ("Why do you *assume* I'm in favour of welfare?") Later, it is revealed she regards Helen and Jake as kooks. However, in "Of Human Bonding", she gets on quite well with Daria as they both loathe Terry Perry Barlow.

Both she and Andrew push Jodie into overachieving and ignore & overrule any protests she makes ("The F Word"). However, she's more willing to give Jodie a break than Andrew and will overrule him in Jodie's favour, which in the case of Grove Hills was to jab at Andrew for making her give up a career ("Gifted", "Is It College Yet?").

The relationship between her and Andrew is under strain. She once referred to him with annoyance and contempt when he was networking in "Of Human Bonding", where the two also publicly feuded over her desire (and not his) to put Evan in daycare as soon as possible. In the MTV flipbook "It Takes Two to Tangle" , it's said their marriage is at risk because of "competing delusions of executive grandeur".

## Trivia

* Michele's first name is spelled with one "L," per The Daria Database and It Takes Two to Tangle.

## In Fanfiction

* In the Legion of Lawndale Heroes continuum, Michele became Mayor of Lawndale after Andrew resigned from the position upon becoming a member of The Elite. (The LLH Special "A Legion Halloween" confirms that Michele is in fact the new mayor.) It is also noted that (as of present) Michele does not know about Andrew's entrance into The Elite, his receiving metahuman abilities, or Victoria Todds, his new mistress.

* Ruthless Bunny's "A Change in Plans", set during IICY?, has Michele and Andrew discuss their daughter's life, her college prospects, and her experiences in a majority-white town. They also are dismissive of Mack due to his working class background.

* Michele appears with a non-speaking role in Wouter's Dariarotica story Big Sister's Great Adventure where she's not too pleased about Rachel having signed up for the cheerleading team.
Jodie (TV series)

**Jodie** is an upcoming sequel and spinoff to *Daria*, starring Tracee Ellis Ross (who also executive produces) as an older Jodie Landon. Newly graduated from college, Jodie comes into her own as she enters the workplace and takes her first adult job in tech.

Grace Nkenge Edwards serves as creator and head writer.

## Announcement

In 2018, MTV announced plans for a 'reinvention' of *Daria* called *Daria & Jodie*: "The iconic animated franchise is reinvented through the eyes of heroine Daria Morgendorffer and one of her closest friends Jodie Landon. These two smart young women take on the world, with their signature satirical voice while deconstructing popular culture, social classes, gender and race."

On 13th June 2019, it was revealed that they were instead going with plans for a Jodie-centered spinoff, the first of several planned *Daria* spinoffs.

Ross told *Variety*, "Being able to give voice to fresh, feminist and unexplored stories of young women excites me. We will feature a diverse cast, comprised mainly of unapologetically smart and ambitious young female characters who are vulnerable and flawed and interesting and funny….‘Jodie’ will be the first adult animated show in almost 20 years that will star a black woman. It will be a smart, funny workplace comedy full of commentary about everything from gentrification to sex to tech to call-out culture."

## External Links

Variety: Tracee Ellis Ross to Star in, Executive Produce ‘Daria’ Spinoff Series at MTV