Why a “Daria” fanfic?
There is after all so much dialogue in this that you could have used almost any characters you wanted to. Well, I have several reasons and I’ll just share the two most important with you: First of all I think the show deserves it. It has set out to be (and it has succeeded to become) one of the “deeper” TV-shows of today. This fanfic is my tribute to that aspect of the show (hence the name of the story), where I try to take up questions that can’t be discussed in 21 minutes worth of air time on a TV-show. Second: This subject is kind of sensitive, and I think that the world of Daria fans is one of the few crowds I can actually reach. People here seem intelligent enough to at least not misunderstand me completely, and civilised enough not to flame my ass to a crisp even if they would happen not to agree with me. (Let’s just say I have some previous negative experiences with both of these phenomena…) Didn’t Daria’s depression move kind of fast? I’ve heard that these things usually take
