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Girl in the House of Bad Grades

The girl is the ghost who haunts **the House of Bad Grades**, according to the Lawndale legend recounted by Jane Lane in the episode Legends of the Mall.

## Appearances

Legend has it that during the 1950's, a suburban family with two daughters (portrayed by the Morgendorffers in Jane's retelling), had built a fallout shelter in their backyard in case of a nuclear attack.

The intelligent daughter (represented by a '50's version of Daria) planned on escaping the tedium of life in 1950s Lawndale by applying to college, but received little help from her family. Unable to complete her college application due to the noise in the house - her requests for quiet had been ignored - she fled to the bomb shelter to complete the application, but fell asleep. While she slept in the shelter, her family, realizing how unlikely a nuclear attack was, decided to convert the bomb shelter into a new barbecue pit. They poured concrete over its entrance, failing to realize that they had inadvertently entombed their missing daughter. When her family noticed she was missing, they assumed that she had run away to become a beatnik.

Her undead spirit decided that if she couldn't leave the house to go to college, then no one would. An invisible hand is seen changing the homework answers of a resident student, condemning him to perpetual academic underachievement. The ghost gives an extremely sneery laugh to herself over this, and taunts the kids.

Daria was clearly skeptical of the story after hearing of it ("Scoff."), but Jane claims every kid who ever lived there is still living in Lawndale today working minimum wage.

In Daria: The Complete Animated Series, we can read how she vandalised one essay ("£Why did William Jennings Bryan say that "Man should not be crucified on a cross of gold"?"), with: "William Jennings Bryan probly [sic] didn't like to see people get crucified at all 'cause you know it's very painful what with the nails and the hanging in the saw and stuff and doing it in a cross made of gold only made it worse because what a waste of gold that could be made into chains or other jewelry or something. What time's lunch?"
Alternapalooza

An outdoor rock concert that takes place in Swedesville, a town near Lawndale, in August every year. The concert is mentioned in "Road Worrier" and in a poster inside *The Daria Diaries*. The lineup consists of rock bands (with tongue-in-cheek names) that have never been heard of outside the Lawndale area, apparently.

The dates for the poster, August 15-17, correspond to Friday-Sunday, 1997. If Daria came to Lawndale in 1997, then the poster is from the concert one year before "Road Worrier."

## Timeline issues

While *Diaries* places the concert in August, Daria is still in school in the final episode of S1 ("The Misery Chick"). As a result, fans often view either the episode (and "The Teachings of Don Jake") as taking place *out* of chronological sequence with other episodes or that year's Alternapalooza as occuring in a different month.

It can also be argued that "The Misery Chick" and S2 take place in Daria's junior year.

## Alternapalooza in *Daria* Fanfic

* John Lane 7: Lessons of Spring, by Richard Lobinske
* "Meet the Fashion Club," by TAG
* "Searching for a New Hope", by thatLONERchick
Betrayal

**Betrayal** is a song by Trent Lane. He comes up with it when he's driving Daria to Ashfield in Is it Fall Yet?. Daria is miffed by the lyrics, but still helps Trent with one word ("pack").

It is not known if the song was ever finished. As it stands, the song is only a series of lines all with the same rhythm and melody, but it wouldn't be the only Mystik Spiral song that didn't have proper verses and choruses.

## Lyrics

Betrayal, yeah, a stab in the back. Betrayal, yeah, I'm stretched on the rack. Betrayal, yeah, thrown out of the pack. Betrayal... betrayal, yeah. Betrayal... betrayal... betrayal, yeah...

Betrayal, yeah, you ruined my life. Betrayal, yeah, you're twisting the knife...
Deref

## Biographical Information

According to the author himself: *Deref is an Australian, which probably accounts for his weird spelling. He writes mainly in order to exorcise demons who, for the most part, would be better off just going to the gym. He lives in the past because it's cheaper and prefers the fantasy world to the real one since the fantasy world is so much more believable.*

## Fanon and Fan Culture

* An avid traveler, Deref has visited numerous fans in Australia and the United States, thus helping to turn online *Daria* fandom into a true community.
* Deref contributes to the Daria Blandom Blog

## Bibliography of Major Works

* Writes of Passage
* All My Children (with Thea Zara)

## Daria Fanworks Awards

1st Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favorite Overall for *All My Children* with Thea Zara
* Favourite Character Development/Redevelopment/Growth
* Favorite Pre-Esteemsters for *All My Children*
* Favorite Helen for *All My Children*
* Favorite Crossover (tie) for *All My Children*

2nd Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favourite Helen Story for *All My Children #13: Expanding Horizons* with Thea Zara
* Favourite Use of a Background Character From the Television Series for *All My Children #13: Expanding Horizons*
* Favourite Pre-Esteemsters for *All My Children #15: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Jake*

3rd Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favourite Romance – Gay/Lesbian *Writes of Passage - Forest Primeval, Part 2*
* Favourite Jane Story for *Writes of Passage - Forest Primeval, Part 2*

5th Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favorite Jake Story for *Farmyard Funnies*

## The CRAPPIES Awards

1st CRAPPIES Awards

* "Well Duh." Most Heavy-Handed Foreshadowing for "I Will" with Thea Zara

2nd CRAPPIES Awards

* Fanfic Most Likely to Cause Diabetic Shock for "All My Children 16: Summer of Love" with Thea Zara
* Fanfic Most Likely to Abuse Our Tolerance of Mary Sues for "The Many Loves of Thalia Gillis" with Milderbeast
* Biggest *Titanic* of Fanfiction for "The Many Loves of Thalia Gillis"

## External Links

* 2005 Interview with E. A. Smith on Contrarian's Corner (via Wayback Machine)
* Fanfics on Glitter Berries
* Fanfics on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
* Fanfics on Sh33p's Fluff
Daria's present day boyfriend

Daria's present day boyfriend is Daria's boyfriend in the present day.

He was mentioned by Daria via Glenn Eichler, in the February 2012 article "What I Think About Valentine's Day".

Daria won't give us any details about him, "except to say proudly that he does not wear a house-arrest anklet". We know he has the same sense of humour that she does: the two intended to spend Valentine's Day by going door to door caroling "Good King Wenceslas", just to confuse people.

Five years later, in "Catching Up With The Daria Gang", Daria is living alone.
Brian Taylor

*For the author, see Brian Taylor (author).*

**Brian Taylor** is the younger brother of Brittany Taylor in *Daria*, dated as 10 in his first appearances by "The Daria Database". His mother, Vivian Taylor, left the family soon after his birth.

> "*You know how children of divorce often erroneously blame themselves for the breakup? In the case of Brittany's little brother, it's the rest of the family pointing the finger at him.*"
> ― "Oh, the Obscurity!"
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## Appearances and Personality

Brian makes only three short appearances in the show, in episodes "The Lab Brat," "The Old and the Beautiful" and "Groped by an Angel," plus a non-speaking appearance in IICY?. He's shown with braces.

His appearances in the two last episodes sugest he is a brat, as he talks back at his father and is shown running around the house swearing and taunting his family by handling things not belonging to him (and in a way that could break them). "Lab Brat" also shows he enjoys torturing small animals.

This behaviour takes on a more sinister edge thanks to *The Daria Database*, which strongly implies that Brian has been systematically murdering every single pet cat the family has ever had and that they know he's doing it ("cats disappear with Brian around, so family no longer bothers coming up with original names"). We're told this sick bastard "loves electrical cords, duct tape and the whimper of a helpless animal on a hot afternoon".

## In Fanfiction

Brian is one of the characters most often described as "evil" by fans of the series. This perception is strongly reinforced in many of the fanfics about him, which often present him as a dangerous psychopath. Examples include:

* "Young Love," a highly disturbing (and inaccurately named) one-shot by RX-87, which depicts him raping Tricia Gupty.
* "Darkeresteemers" by Shiva, which depicts an older Brian meeting Daria in Self-Esteem Class.
* "Children of the Scorn" by Kristen Bealer, where even in a comedy-drama he almost murders the entire cast ("I was just kidding!")

A rare example of a sympathetic Brian is JoeMerl's "Cats, Cast and Card," which explores his own view of his family and how he's become so violent, and gives him an unusually amiable relationship with Ashley-Amber.
Cinderfella

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

## Summary

A ball at Castle Morgendorffer finds everyone's favorite Lawndale slacker in an unusual predicament, and his "stepfamily" is none too happy about it. The classic tale of "Cinderella" with a new twist.
An Angel Named Mary Sue

Angelinhel's first full-length *Daria* fanfic.

## Summary

Daria has a visit from a being who claims to be "something like a guardian angel" who shows Daria how her actions affect those around her. Daria learns, through flashbacks and symbolism, how her attitude and actions have affected the people around her just as much as their actions helped shape her personality.

## Trivia

* Angel makes her first appearence in this story.

* Greystar's The Man in the Red Shirt also has a guest appearence in this story.

* In 2005, an interview with the author about this story was done by E. A. Smith.

## External Links

An Angel Named Mary-Sue on fanfiction.net
Erin the Head

**Erin the Head** was written by Kara Wild in January 2000 and is the thirtheenth installment of the Driven Wild Universe. Like most other installments, it is written in quasi-script form with three Acts and commercials.

## Summary

Daria's cousin Erin Chambers leaves her husband and stays with the Morgendorffers, under the guise of wanting to learn more about "successful" marriages from Jake and Helen. However, Daria soon discovers her true reason for coming: Erin wants to get together with Trent, whom she met briefly in None in the Family, Part Two. To her own surprise, Daria agrees to help her.
Elsie Sloane

**Elsie Sloane** is the sister of Tom Sloane and the daughter of Angier and Kay Sloane.

## Appearances and Characterisation

Elsie makes only two small appearances in Is it Fall Yet?, where she displays a somewhat cynical and bitter attitude. She shows an antagonistic relationship with Tom, randomly attacking him for "quasi-rebelliousness" and getting accused by him of having "faux-jadedness".

She was the first one of the Sloanes to recover from one of Daria's jokes and start laughing, though her initial reaction (despite her cynicism) was worried confusion.

## In Fanfiction

Elsie's appearances in fanfiction are helped by the fact that she's both linked to a main character and *we barely know anything about her* except she's cynical. That's a lot of freedom for writers!

One take on Elsie is that she's potentially friendly with Daria and is quite scathing, sometimes correctly, of her brother. TAG's "But Now Is Found" has her become the best friend of a younger, alien abductee Daria. In the Falling into College installment "Past Influences", Daria finds she inspired Elsie to buck her parent's expectations.

Another take is to have Elsie as a malicious bastard. In HolyGrail2007's "Spirit of the Game, Nature of the Beast", Elsie is involved in a savage 'game' of sabotage and manipulation with rival rich kids.

A third take is Elsie is under pressure from high society expectations. In HolyGrail2007's Bromwell Bound, Elsie deals with this through drug usage. Atiyatortilla's "Together" has a depressed Elsie suffering under her parent's expectations and emotional neglect, with Tom the family member she's closest to.

In a rare different take, a younger Tom and Elsie resort to any means necessary to get out of visiting Mildred at the Cove in Kristen Bealer's "Last of the Summer Whine".

## In Fanart

Quiverwing created the first artworks featuring Elsie, all based on a popular series.

Since then, TonyOrk and CreepyDan have also created artwork of Elsie Sloane.

The most recent depiction of Elsie was done by Wouter.
Dark Kuno

**Dark Kuno** was born and raised in the US state of Alabama.

Was an avid fan of MTV and remembers sneaking out of bed at midnight at the age of 5 to watch the channel's premier via satellite. As the channel grew ,his love for animation of all types naturally ensured his rabid dedication to everything put out by MTV Animation, especially Liquid Television. Liquid Television begot Beavis & Butt-head, which begot Daria. And the rest, as they say, is history.

As a fellow high school outcast, shunned and belittled for his intelligence, Daria struck a very strong cord in him. A random whim while on Fanfiction.net sent him to the Daria section of the site, where he dove into the cornucopia of fanwork there. An off-hand reference in an author's note led him to discover PPMB where he eventually posted his first work of fan fiction (in any fanon).

He spends his days (as he has for the past decade) answering calls as an Internet & Web page tech support rep for one company or the other, playing WoW, spending entirely too much time at PPMB and FF.Net, as well as writing & sketching.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

Author of Two Halves.

Primary active staff member of the Best of Daria Fan Fiction Community at Fanfiction.net.

## Fanfictions

* Two Halves ([ PPMB], Fanfiction.net) - An Alternate Universe series, retelling the original story with the addition of a new Morgendorffer sibling... Daria's Twin brother Alex.
* Full Metal Pragmatist (Fanfiction.net, PPMB) - A 1-shot crossover with Fullmetal Alchemist
* All Nighter (PPMB, Fanfiction.net) - A 1-shot canonesque piece about an unexpected problem keeping Jane from getting a good night's sleep.
Blood Oath of Patriots

A dual story and sequel to Cafe Disaffecto ("call it Episode #104 ½") by Galen Hardesty that interposes Daria's new Melody Powers story with Mr. O'Neill's attempt to restart the coffee house.

The 'real world' sections are written in scriptfic, as was the fandom standard in the early days, while Melody Powers' story is written in (lurid!) prose.
Every Dog Has Its Day

**Every Dog Has His Day** is a song by Mystik Spiral. It was performed at  Brittany's party in the episode Groped by an Angel.

It features lead vocals by  Trent, enhanced by barking and howling from the rest of the band.

It was offered as a download by Reburb. They state: "A collaboration between Trent and Jesse (Jesse's comment, 'I really like dogs,' gave Trent the idea). An anthropomorphic lament, drenched with confusion, anger, and painful barre chords. Debut performance at a high school party for a cheerleader which really ruined their credibility for a while. There were pigs in a blanket, though, so it wasn't a total washout."

## Lyrics

you put me on a short leash
and threw away my hydrant

you ate up all my kibble
now my coat's no longer vibrant

my nose is dry and chapped
but this puppy's here to stay

scratch my belly baby, every dog has its day
rrrrraaaaaaawooooooooooo!!
rrrrraaaaaaawooooooooooo!!
Gina

**Gina** was a popular girl in Daria's ninth-grade classes at Highland High. While her clothes may change, she was recognisable by her distinctive quiff and her oblong earrings. She's friends with the equally popular Kimberly. She's also dating Todd Ianuzzi, a notoriously violent older criminal.

As a sentient human, Beavis and Butt-head nauseate her: she refuses to work with them in class and was enraged when their idiocy ruined her hair along with the rest of the classroom ("Fudge Factory") and when once hit on ("April Fools!"), she gave the above putdown.

In "Spin the Bottle", she was part of a game of spin the bottle at a party. The two buttmunches crashed it and she remained only because football player Tommy promised it wouldn't put at either Beavis or Butt-head. She faced the horrific possibility that the bottle was going to point at both of them but she was saved when Tommy cheated, causing her to become enamoured with him. Don't tell Todd!

## In fanfiction

Gina has rarely showed up but when she does, it's in her roll as Todd's moll. In LongSnakeMoan's "Of All The People That Won't Be Missed", Gina Miller is *not* happy to find Todd's hooked up with Jane Lane and her online shit-stirring is a source of conflict between the murderous couple; Todd says Gina was someone "I banged when there was nobody else to".

## Trivia

She goes unnamed in comics and episodes with Daria in, but a name she has nonetheless.

It's only in "Virtual Stupidity" that she gets explicitly named as Todd's "girl". There, she helps him in his criminal activities.
Disco316

**Disco316** (sometimes written **Disco 3:16**) is a Daria fan from Wisconsin who has been writing stories since September 2008. The name Disco 3:16 came from his first and most successful fantasy professional wrestler, an amalgamation of Stone Cold Steve Austin and Disco Inferno. As a fan of the Pet Shop Boys, he name-drop or lyric-dropped them wherever possible.

Ryan Mickelson is an original character created by Disco316 based on himself, which he uses when, according to the author, he feels "lazy". Attempts at shipping Ryan with a canon character, usually Quinn or Stacy, have predictably failed miserably, to the point that the author has made it a running gag on the Scenes That Should Not Be threads.

## Fanfics

If you're looking for random obscure references, look through just about any of the Works below. They may be too obscure to notice, but they're there.

* 1776+222 (Give or Take)
* Acts of Cupidity
* The Brain and the Beauty Redux
* Coming Second
* Daylight: Falling From Grace
* Daylight: The Fugitives
* Divaween
* A Double-Blind Trial
* Fundamental Daria
* The Handoff
* In Vino Veritas
* Once Upon a Time in Lawndale
* Project Runaway
* The Quinn Show
* Rainbow Disconnection
* Snuffed Animals
* Whose Whine Is It Anyway?

## Daria Fanworks Awards

2008 Daria Fanworks Awards:

* Favorite Overall (tie) for The Quinn Show
* Favorite Use of a Background or Supporting Character From the Television Series for Daylight: When the Ball Dropped (Charles and Stacy)
* Favorite Crossover (tie) for The Quinn Show
* Favorite New Author

2009 Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favorite Movie Parody for Once Upon a Time in Lawndale
* Favorite Holiday Story (tie) for Acts of Cupidity

## External Links

* Disco316's works on Outpost Daria Reborn
* Disco316's page on FF.net
Fireworks

**Fireworks** is the third and final "episode" of C.E. Forman's Lost Season Two (of The Lost Seasons series), written in October 1999. Like all of Forman's Lost Season episodes, it is written in quasi-script form with three Acts and commercials.

## Summary

The story is a flashback episode about Helen and Jake's hippie days, told by Jake during a July 4th rainstorm. The time period spans from fall of 1968 until Helen and Jake's wedding in June 1975, but focuses mainly on the years at Middleton College. Jake tells the tale of how he went from a fresh, inexperienced graduate of Buxton Ridge Military Academy to a full-fledged hippie, thanks to Helen's influence. The bulk of the narrative revolves around Jake's attempts to woo Helen.

## Trivia

* This episode introduces the characters of Sebastian, Mook, Keenak, Serenity, Ryvre, Yuna and Little Flower.
* Several of Forman's hippie characters have made cameo appearances in other fanfiction, including Keenak, Mook, and Serenity.
* Jake and Helen's first meeting is a homage to the comic *Preacher*: the protagonist's parents meet the same way.
Betting on Delusions

*Daria* fanfic author and fan.

## Written Works

* 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"
Gregor Samsa

## Biographical Information

**Gregor Samsa** has been dubbed by critics as among the blandest authors produced by the Daria community, his stories rarely daring to challenge convention. This apparent normality appears in sharp contrast to his extraordinary backstory as a young man who awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to discover himself now inhabiting the body of an enormous bug. After adjusting himself to typing with six spindly legs rather than the opposable thumbs he once possessed, Gregor began to generate a steady output of fiction, his oeuvre moving seamlessly from staid comedy to political hectoring. In this he was roundly ignored by the online community, and rightly so. It is believed that Gregor writes as a distraction from the existential horror of confronting his lost humanity. His writings deserve to only arouse pity.

Gregor Samsa currently resides in a Prague apartment with his parasitical family. Gregor's family denies such accusations, insisting that as an insect he is the real parasite, and that besides, they're not the one whining about the days they could walk on two legs.

Gregor was elevated to Angst Lord status by Scissors MacGillicutty for his work on cyde's **Out With Her Eyes** iron chef challenge.

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

* Being the first non-human to write fan fiction, thereby inspiring a wave of writers that have included such luminaries as Doug the Dugong and Charles the Horned Ibex.

* Rejecting angst in favor of a new genre of emotionless fiction, personified in such stories as 'Daria Goes To School' and 'Jake Passively Accepts His Life'. Gregor's approach to writing has subsequently been questioned in such essays as 'Bore; What is it Good For?"

* Successfully referring to William Wordsworth and Sylvester Stallone within a single story.

* Creating a clever pastiche of Ulysses which without altering a single word of the original text changed its setting to Lawndale. Despite this innovation, Gregor was somehow sued for plagarism. The verdict is presently unknown, with Gregor hoping that his legal strategy of claiming it was all 'a misunderstanding' will allow him to escape punishment.

## Bibliography of Major Works

* *Ulysses* (with James Joyce)

* *Daria Goes To School*

* *Daria The Cynic Who Somehow Became A Conservative Jerk: A Comedy*

* *The Waste La(w)nd*

* *The Love Song of Jake Alfred Morgendorffer*

## The CRAPPIES Awards

2nd CRAPPIES Awards

* Biggest "What the Fuck?" Ending (tie) for "To Mother A Morgendorffer"

## External Links

* Fanfiction on Contrarian's Corner (via Wayback Machine)
* Fanfiction on GlitterBerries
* Fanfiction on Outpost Daria (via Wayback Machine)
Battle Royale: Beyond Blunderdome

**Battle Royale: Beyond Blunderdome** is a crossover between *Daria* and the Japanese franchise *Battle Royale* (specifically the film by Fukasaku Kinji).

A school trip turns nightmarish as the Daria cast is forced to participate in a Government-inspired 'game'. The rules: Kill each other off until only one remains! (DeMartino is very, *very* happy to force the kids to do this.) Daria, Quinn, and 'transfer' student Tom Sloane unite to have a hope in hell of getting out alive.

Lynn Cullen appears from the "The Look-Alike Series", here a psychopathic antagonist who enjoys the killing.

## External Links

Beyond Blunderdome at Outpost Daria Reborn
Freaking Friends

**Freakin' Friends** is a song by Mystik Spiral, apparently dedicated to  Daria and  Jane.

Lyrically, it's typical of  Trent's habit of stringing rhyming couplets together with only the slightest attention to meaning.

Musically, the song is both monotonous and all over the place. The vocal and rhythm guitar part mostly stays on one note, on the other hand, the bridge features a mellotron that would feel at home in a sixties psychedelia song, followed by a guitar solo that belongs in an eighties hair metal song.

Two different recordings exist, a complete 2:36 song with three verses, choruses, brigde and guitar solo, and an excerpt from a live performance heard in Is it Fall Yet?. The complete version has a music video, included as its own track on the complete DVD box set and made available for viewing on Reburb. Reburb praises it as "Mystik Spiral's most ambitious song yet, an opus of sorts, clocking in at least 2 minutes. Jesse's solo will really knock your socks off, if you wear them, which he doesn't."

It is the only Mystik Spiral song that exists in a complete version, and in-universe, it is the only song Mystik Spiral has recorded in the studio. Trent answered two questions about the song and video in the  IIFY chat room:

"05:36:59 PM> MODMSG everchic182:hey trent, how was it making the mystic spyral video

05:37:13 PM> mtvtrent:It was okay, but I'm directing the next one myself

05:37:19 PM> MODMSG ytheworldsux:trent? are you guys gonna put out a cd?

05:37:33 PM> mtvtrent:Yeah, it is a 15 track cd and we only have 14 left to go "

## Lyrics

When the aliens come
When the death rays hum
When the bombers bomb
We'll still be freakin' friends

When the whip comes down
When they nuke the town
When dead clowns can't clown
We'll still be freakin' friends

(Chorus)
Freakin' friends,
Freakin' friends,
Till we come to bad ends,
We're freakin' friends.
Freakin' friends,
Freakin' friends,
Till we come to bad ends,
We're freakin' friends.

When the 'skeeter bites
Lightning hits our kites
When we miss our flights
We'll still be freakin' friends

When my number's called
When my garden's walled
When my tires are bald
We'll still be freakin' friends

(Chorus)
Freakin' friends,
Freakin' friends,
Till we come to bad ends,
We're freakin' friends.
Freakin' friends,
Freakin' friends,
Till we come to bad ends,
We're freakin' friends.

I was halfway down the plank
Had a stick against my flank
Then you pulled up in the Tank
Rock on...
(Guitar solo)

When we're parched with drought
And we can't catch trout
When my voice gives out (cough)
We'll still be freakin' friends

When the razor cuts
When they torch the huts
When I hate your guts
We'll still be freakin' friends

(Chorus 2x)
Freakin' friends,
Freakin' friends,
Till we come to bad ends,
We're freakin' friends.
Freakin' friends,
Freakin' friends,
Till we come to bad ends,
We're freakin' friends.
Freakin' friends,
Freakin' friends,
Till we come to bad ends,
We're freakin' friends.
Freakin' friends,
Freakin' friends,
Till we come to bad ends,
We're freakin' friends.
Daria & Jodie

**Daria & Jodie** was a proposed revival of the *Daria* TV series in 2018, that was shopped around to streaming services by MTV.  The revival was described as a "re-imagining" of the series which would center around the title characters Daria Morgendorffer and Jodie Landon.

The new series was first disclosed in an article from the AV Club website written on June 21, 2018. A further article from C21Media.Net indicated that the title was a working title. It was announced as a trio of productions from MTV Studios, which included revivals of *Aeon Flux* and *The Real World*.

The creator/helm of the new series was announced as Grace Nkenge Edwards, a writer's assistant and story editor for such shows as *Ugly Americans*, *Broad City*, *The Unsinkable Kimmy Schmidt* and *Inside Amy Schumer* who previously taught screenwriting at Columbia University.  (Twitter:  @gracyact)

The MTV press release stated that 'Daria & Jodie' would be a 'reinvention' as opposed to the term 'reboot'. From the release:

*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.*

According to MTV Network president Chris McCarthy, "The story [Grace Edwards] wants to tell of Daria is different, it's about Daria and Jodie and two close friends taking on the world today and what's happening in our culture at large....she is a huge fan of Daria... What made Daria pop for us is because we love the franchise and Grace Edwards has a point of view and angle she wants to tell."

McCarthy stated that a streaming series more flexibility and allowed deeper storytelling than a traditional cable network would have allowed.

On 13th June 2019, a press release revealed that the planned 'reinvention' had been replaced with a sequel show, *Jodie*, with the eponymous Jodie as the lead.

### Links

Viacom's Post rises at MTV - Accessed August 13, 2018.
Variety: Tracee Ellis Ross to Star in, Executive Produce ‘Daria’ Spinoff Series at MTV (13th June 2019]
Aaron Solomon (ben Saul Joseph) Adelman

*Daria* fanfic author, noted as the inventor of the online film hoax, *Daria the Movie.*

## Bibliography of Major Works

* Behind the Looking Glasses

* Blackout

* Daria 2: The Curse of the Misery Chick

* The Daria Fanfic Cliche Drinking Game

* Daria in Oz

* Daria the Movie

* Loose Lips

* Mission: Irrational

* The New Nightmare series

* When Hell Froze Over
CAP

Fanfiction author of "Horrors at Bay" and other tales. CAP (a.k.a. Caesar Augustus Plutarch on FF.net) has a fine feel for family relationships and family difficulties in his writing, with memorable characterizations. He also adds a well-handled conservative touch to his work, unlike the generally liberal political attitudes expressed by many other *Daria* fanfiction writers.

## Bibliography

* Daria in Pink
* Horrors at Bay
* Jacob Morgendorffer, Esq.
* Jeffy's Choice (Contemplation)
* Kevin's Halloween
* Little Sister (Age Trade)
* Place of Refuge
* The Road Not Taken By Tom (requires the Rosetta Stone)
* Salmon

## Daria Fanworks Awards

4th Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favorite Jake Story (tie) for "Horrors at Bay"
Derek

## Biographical Information

Derek is the fandom's resident expert on railroads. He is so obsessed with them that HelpfulSkittlesExplosion teasingly refers to anything involving trains as "Derek porn".

## Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

#### **Celebrity Jeopardy: Daria Edition**

Derek's major contribution to Daria fanfic has been the "Celebrity Jeopardy: Daria Edition" series, a cross-over with *Saturday Night Live'*s "Celebrity Jeopardy" skits. In each fic, three contestants attempt to win on Jeopardy, but always lose in the most ludicrous manner possible. The first fic, "Breasts of Burden", featured characters from *Daria*, with Alex Trebek as the host. Later fics in the series ("Homo-erotic Necrophilia", "You Taste Of Bun", and "Decomposed Dicks") have featured other fanfic writers as contestants with Derek as the host. Because of this, Angelboy (who frequently appears in the series) sometimes calls Derek "Trebitch" in chat. Angelboy has also taken on the role of being a total pain in the neck for the host, a la Sean Connery in the *SNL* skits.

#### **Lawndale Online**

Derek is currently involved in creating the new Lawndale Online website, primarily as a coder.

## Bibliography of Major Works

* Celebrity Jeopardy: Daria Edition 1: Breasts of Burden

* Celebrity Jeopardy: Daria Edition 2: Homo-erotic Necrophilia

* Celebrity Jeopardy: Daria Edition 3: You Taste Of Bun

* Celebrity Jeopardy: Daria Edition 4: Decomposed Dicks

* Drunken Cynic

* Fashion vs Darwin

* DariaCore

* The Cynic Dysfunction

* The Fanfic Hack Song

* Landon Massacre

* Sandi Flaunts It
Aunt Bernice

**Aunt Bernice (Lane?)** is the aunt of Jane and Trent, living in Middlebury. She's known for her monstrously ugly hats... which Trent blithely mentioned on a flight to the Lane family reunion in "The Teachings of Don Jake", unaware Bernice got on the same plane to it that they did.

Bernice got her revenge by seeing Jane and Trent needed a ride, slooooowing her rental car to them... and then speeding off.

Bernice is seen at the reunion, she is awake at 7 AM, in time for croquet, still grumpy.

She is voiceless in the episode, while the two women who do speak are unnamed. (Not counting Jane's grandma.) Bernice is seen in the background talking to one of them.
Dee Dee

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**DeeDee Miller** is the wife of Lee Miller, the owner of the *Princess Fairy*, introduced in the episode, "Just Add Water". She is mostly bored with her marriage and hits upon passengers such as Jake (who is quite freaked out) and Mr. O'Neill. The latter turns out to be a mistake, as Ms. Barch quickly pushes her overboard in revenge.

Her surname was given in "It Takes Two to Tangle", where Dr. Millepieds rules: "This marriage is a vivid illustration of what too much time on a boat will do to your inner ear."

DeeDee is voiced by Renee Rudick.
A Desperately Needed Ending (to "Depth Takes a Holiday")

**A Desperately Needed Ending (to "Depth Takes a Holiday")** is a ficlet written by Kara Wild in April 1999.

## Background

Wild wrote "A Desperately Needed Ending" right after completing her first Driven Wild Universe installment, Rose-Colored Lenses. It was an attempt to soothe the frayed nerves of Daria fans after the airing of "Depth Takes a Holiday," a third-season episode that departed dramatically from the show's realistic tone.

## Summary

Daria wakes up in the hospital and learns that "Depth Takes a Holiday" was, mercifully, a dream. Unfortunately, the reality that led to the dream was far worse.

## External Links

A Desperately Needed Ending (to "Depth Takes a Holiday")
HolyGrail2007

**HolyGrail2007** is a Daria fanfic writer most famous for the genderswap saga Finn Morgendorffer. His work tends to focus on the less popular, more easily demonised male characters.

His work includes:

* Bromwell Bound: That One Fateful Summer, focusing on Tom Sloane's last summer before college

* Finn Morgendorffer, where Quinn is a handsome and callow jock named Finn

* Pigskin Caduceus, where Jeffy discovers an intellectual side
Generation Gap

**Generation Gap** is a post-canon alternate universe story by Richard Lobinske inspired by an Iron Chef challenge from Prince Charon: what if Helen was Daria's grandmother?

A week after her high-school graduation, Daria is told about her real mother, Anastasia, born when Helen was sixteen as the result of her tryst with the stunt car driver mentioned in "My Night at Daria's." Daria had been delivered to Jake and Helen by people claiming to be from Family Services, who said that Daria's mother and her adopted family had died and no other "appropriate" blood relatives could be located. Because of the many questions that Helen had never been able to answer in the years since, Daria changes college majors to study Criminal Investigation and Forensics, then begins her own search for what happened to her mother.

Tied for "Favorite Post-Is It College Yet?" story in the 4th Daria Fanworks Awards
Dennis

Dennis has been active in *Daria* fandom since 2001, and started posting fanfiction in 2007. Among his most notable works are the GTS series of six stories and two related ficlets, called interludes, and Turnabout Confusion, a two-part, novel-length story that was composed as a serial tale on PPMB.

## Bibliography

Series

* GTS
* Turnabout Confusion
* The Griffin Variations

Fics

* Across the Violet Sea
* Heartbeat in Iambic
* One Step Forward
* Tom's Eye View
* Calling Calliope
* Lie! Lie! My Darling!
* Mata Dari: for Round One of the 2010 March Madness fanfiction competition
* Pluck'd a White Rose
* A New Set of Rules

Ficlets

* Indivisible
* Diary of a Mad Cat Lady
* A Twisted Little Corkscrew
* A Family Deal: for the Finals of the 2010 March Madness fanfiction competition
* Daylight: Remember When the Music

Works in Progress

* Shadows of a Timeless Song (parts of which have been posted to PPMB)

## Daria Fanworks Awards

4th Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favorite School-Centered (Lawndale High) (tie) for *Turnabout Confusion, Part I: We All Fall Down*
* Favorite Character Development/Redevelopment/Growth (tie) for *Turnabout Confusion, Part I: We All Fall Down*
* Favorite Weird Idea (tie) for *Turnabout Confusion, Part I: We All Fall Down*

6th Daria Fanworks Awards

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

## Other Honors

Winner, 2010 March Madness Fanfic Competition
Alexandria's Genesis

**Alexandria's Genesis** is a rumoured mutation, turning people into long-living “perfect human beings” marked by purple eyes, extremely fair skin (that does not get sunburned), dark brown scalp hair (but no body hair), and other beauty traits to go with their strength and vitality. Rumours of this online go back to at least 2005 and a number of New Agers insist it's a genuine condition.

It's not; it was made up in 1939 (as a secret society bent on world domination) by pulp fiction writer Norvell Page. It was then incorporated into the back story of Aqualad's origin (in the February 1960 issue of DC Comics' AQUAMAN) as an Atlantean symbol of being cursed. Finally being utilized, in 1998, by *Daria* fanfic writer Cameron Aubernon to explain her Mary Sues. *How* it became a rumoured real mutation is unknown, and it greatly confused the writer herself.

Aubernon said on her tumblr it was "a projection of my personal gender identity and body image issues", as well as "simply a bad mashup of Daria, Art Bell, Twilight, witchcraft and Cylon skinjobs adopted by New Agers and others who should know better, but don’t and won’t."

Violet eyes ARE real, but only on albinos, and are only paired with very light, yellow hair or white hair, and extremely fair skin that is easy to sunburn. Albinos with this eye color can also gain weight. The real purple eyes are extremely light purple, mixed with a little blue and red. Albino model Nastya Kumarova has purple eyes.

## External Links

* Snopes article on Alexandria's Genesis
* Purple Eyes, the fanfic description of how Alexandria's Genesis works, and further ideas from 2001
* Aubernon on writing it
From Now On, Please Keep It Real!

A 1999 essay by Michelle Klein-Häss, **From Now On, Please Keep It Real!** was a reaction to the fantasy episodes "Daria!" and "Depth Takes a Holiday".

Reflecting contemporary fandom views, Klein-Häss argues that the fantastical episodes could have been from any show and that the humour in *Daria'* strongly "relates to real life, particularly for girls and women". She cautions that "gimmicks" give the impression writers are running out of ideas.
Behind My Eyelids

**Behind My Eyelids** is a song by Mystik Spiral, the A-side of their first single according to Reburb and The Daria Diaries. It is written by Trent and Jesse and released on Plush Records. The Diaries reproduce the single's sleeve (a picture of Trent with his eyes replaced by tombstones), a review from Smudge Magazine and Trent's original handwritten lyrics.

## Lyrics

as lashes close
i see my woes
spread out like a carpet of bugs
in absence of light
pass visions of night
and shallow graves left halfway dug
behind my eyelids
is a world you cannot see
a place that's just for me
behind my eyelids
you watch a tear
it trickles clear
and glistens on my skin
my liquid pain
oh, would profane
please baby
let me in
Aloysius

**Aloysius** is a Daria fanfic author, best known for the "Scarlett the Fairy" series, where Scarlett is a fairytale being in absurdist adventures.

## Stories

* Christmas Present
* A Mess in Lawndale
* Dreams and Reality
* Fashion Angels
* Just a Normal Lawndale Day
* Lawndale's Weapon of Choice
* A Minty Move-in Day
* The Night Helen Saved Christmas
* A Fistful of Scarletts
* A Visit to the Church
* The Mis-Adventures of Scarlett the Dark Fairy
* Daria, in "X-ed"
* A Tale of Three Tired Tropes

The Scarlett the Fairy Series

* Scarlett the Fairy
* Scarlett the Fairy Goes on a Picnic
* Scarlett the Fairy and the Halloween Party
* Scarlett the Fairy Meets Santa Claus
* Scarlett the Fairy's Twelve Days of Christmas
* Springtime for Scarlett the Fairy
* Scarlett the Fairy Goes out for a Pizza

* Scarlett the Fairy and the Snowball Fight

Hell is Crossed People

* Hell is Crossed People--The Story
* Scarlett the Dark Fairy Meets the Crossed
* Crossing the Shelter

The Runaway Series

* The Runaway
* The Identity Game

Tales of the Ringbearers story

* A New Ringbearer

## Trivia

In any story Aloysius writes in which Kevin Thompson and members of the Lawndale Police Department appear together, expect Kevin to be Tasered at some point.

For 2009, he received 6 nominations in the 6th Daria Fanworks Awards, including Favorite New Author.
Ethan Yeager in Lawndale

**Ethan Yeager in Lawndale** is an alternate universe fanfic series by Shiva that was inspired by a lack of gay male stories in Daria fandom. The change involves the aftermath of the episode "That Was Then, This is Dumb" in which the Yeagers are convinced by Jake Morgendorffer to move to Lawndale to expand their hemp business, and Ethan Yeager comes out to Quinn and Daria the day of the move, setting events into motion that change the dynamic of Lawndale in a big way.

Ethan gets accidentally outed by Quinn and the person other students come to in order to discuss gay rights and identity issues, even though he wishes that people would see past that and get to know the person.

## Trivia

Supporting characters appear from Roentgen's Fielding stories; Stephen Pierson-Wells II and Tom Sloane's extended family from "God Save The Esteem" The suggestion for 'Red Lion' to serve as Rex Attor came from ST91 on the Paperpusher. Ed 'the Head's last name Parker comes from the Lawndale Fighting Championship series.

## External Links

* Ethan Yeager in Lawndale (chapters 1 to 10) at FF.net
* Part 11 at PPMB (requires "Rosetta Stone")
Brad

**Brad** makes his only appearance in "Daria Dance Party". He and his brother Brett goes to Cumberland High but attend the Lawndale High dance portrayed in the episode, where they try to woo Daria and Jane - Brad being the one to open negotiations. They have some success until they reveal themselves as Upchuck's cousins. Brad was more bothered than Brett when Daria and Jane fled from them.

(This makes Brad and Brett highly significant: the first and really only time that Daria and a guy show mutual interest with no problems!)

They seem close to their cousin "Chuck", turning up to see his DJ act & hang out with him afterwards. They also knew who Daria meant when she called him "Upchuck" and showed no reaction to it.

Brad had been reading a book on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

## In Fanfiction

* Darkness, by TAG - Brad and his brother have a small but important appearance
DJW

Comedy author who wrote the Open Windows stories and The Dammitall Run. His AU centers around Season 5 and includes Tom Sloane's good friends, Clovis Lee-Daniels and Wasabi. The stories surprisingly mix witty comedy with martial-arts action, or in the case of The Dammitall Run, car chases and crashes.

DJW is English and in his early 20s (although he was once mistaken for 40, much to his annoyance). He rarely posts outside of the creative writing section of PPMB and even there his posts are sporadic at best, this is due to him being prone to writer's block that can last for months on end (6+ months is the current record). However, these periods usually end in sudden bursts of creativity. His fic writing is currently on a "done when it's done" basis due to various other things taking up his time, but he doesn't planned to quit yet.

He is an avid comic book fan and is prone to go off on long rants about them if people are not careful. Usually the mention of Squirrel Girl is able to calm him down and divert his train of thought in these events. He attempted one or two fics involving superhero-related themes in *Daria* before (i.e., the Steel Jaguar God Battler Oxidiser X series), but these have both wound up in limbo along with most if not all of his pre-Open Windows fic (the mere mention of most of this is enough to make him twitch).

## Daria Fanworks Awards

3rd Daria Fanworks Awards

* Favourite Comedy (tie) for *The Dammitall Run*
* Favourite Crossover for *The Dammitall Run*
* Favourite Movie Parody for *The Dammitall Run*
* Favourite New Series for *Open Windows*

## The CRAPPIES Awards

1st CRAPPIES Awards

* Wha... Huh?" Most Incomprehensible Storyline for "One Night is All I Ask"
And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed

Reinvention-style *Daria* fanfic by The Angst Guy. It was written in response to a PPMB thread listing the "Top Ten Things That Never Happen in *Daria* Fanfics," in an attempt to defy as many of these conventions as possible.

In the resulting alternate universe ending for S5, multiple characters struggle through a brutal twenty-four-hour period of unforeseen challenges and many are going to be shattered.

Sixteen years later, YouthofOz wrote an unofficial sequel, "You Know You've Done Something Wrong".

## External Links

And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed at The Angst Guy's story website
I'm a Teen Holiday

**I'm A Teen Holiday** is a song by The Holidays, heard in Depth Takes A Holiday.

The band that Halloween, Christmas, and Guy Fawkes Day wish to start is described as having a "hiphop-punk-electronica vibe" by Cupid, but there is nothing electronic in the song. Trent helps the group out on guitar.

In-universe, The Holidays are much more successful than Trent's other group, Mystik Spiral. The crowd goes wild and the group gets parties booked up for the next year. Nevertheless, Trent goes back home to play with Mystik Spiral.

## Lyrics

So I'm a bleeding holiday, there's more to my life than that, I say I got normal dreams, normal desires, want to drive a normal car with normal tires, yeah! I'm a teen holiday and it sucks! I'm a teen holiday and it sucks! I'm a teen holiday and it sucks! I'm a teen holiday and it sucks, yeah! Oh, yeah. (growls into mike)
'Shipped Out

'**Shipped Out** was written by Kara Wild in June 1999 and is the fourth installment of the Driven Wild Universe. Like most other installments, it is written in quasi-script form with three Acts and commercials.

## Summary

In this early anti-'shipper fic, Daria struggles over whether to tell Trent how she feels about him, until she learns that he has a new girlfriend. Should Daria accept this new person in Trent's life, or find a way to make him jealous?

## Trivia

This fanfic introduces the character Barry Bukowski.
Great Prairie State University

College to which Brittany and several other Lawndale High cheerleaders are heading after graduation. The college is mentioned only in *Is It College Yet?*

A line by Lisa, cut from the DVD of IICY?, reveals that every *other* place they applied to rejected them; Great Prairie can be assumed to be a crap college.

In real life, "Prairie State" is an unofficial nickname for Illinois.

### Great Prairie in fanfiction

In the 'D-404' reality of the Daria Multiverse, Great Prairie is located in East Peoria, Illinois, and is the site of Brother Grimace's fic Spirit Stick.
Agendas

**Agendas** is a fanfiction by Roentgen, told through the diary entries of an increasingly tormented teacher.

An elaborate augmented reality game, Civic Reflection, is trialled at Lawndale High by the new Civics teacher, Ben Tyne. The idea is to 'encourage' the students to become good, involved citizens (as long as it's in a specific way). "Daria M.", Tyne records, just isn't engaging and doesn't seem to get the game.

Soon, a ferocious battles of wills breaks out between Daria and Tyne (at least that's how *he* sees it) that disrupts the entire game, as he tries to force her to engage and she does, in all the ways he doesn't want her to.

## Trivia

Roentgen revealed later in the thread that this is a real game for schools.