Medea42

Contents [hide] * 1 Biographical Information * 2 Early Fandom History * 3 Essays * 4 Other Projects * 5 Bibliography of Major Works * 7 External Links

Biographical Information
Medea42 works freelance as a perfume designer and writer. She has a BS in mass communications from Minnesota State University, Mankato and abandoned attempts at pursuing an MFA at the same school. Neither well-known nor unknown in Daria fandom, every so often someone points to her as an underrated Daria fanfic writer. She is best known for her Trent vignette series, where she writes Daria episodes from character Trent Lane's point of view.

Early Fandom History
M42, or Medea as others persistently refer to her, first appeared in fandom after the airing of Is It Fall Yet? She had been a fan of the series from its inception and was amused by her college friend's comparisons of her to the sarcastic but usually insightful heroine. Unfortunately, Disrupted cash flow led to disrupted cable and so she wound up missing large chunks of the show, only to become rather obsessive with it upon renewing cable. Her first encounters with fan fiction as a genre, and with fandom of any kind, came when she went on the Internet in an attempt to extend her Daria "high." As events in her personal life took a winding road, she spent time in Daria fandom, committed to trying something fun on the Internet after several years where her computer was a constant tool to research and work hunting. She began writing fan fiction in general because it gave her a break from the constant demands and pressures of writing in graduate school, and because she thought that the views of Trent in particular as "love interest" left a lot unexplored, not just in terms of Trent, but in terms of the Daria universe. M42 was a regular poster to Paperpusher's Message Board and contributed fanfics to various Daria fan fiction sites, including Fanfiction.net, Outpost Daria and Crazy Nutso's Rubber Room. Currently she only posts fanfics to Fanfiction.net.

Essays
To date M42 has written one essay, for a short-run Daria zine. The language of the essay compared fan fiction's literary status to the status of pornography. M42 had been publicly conflicted about her own writing of fan fiction for some time, because she writes professionally and felt she might be violating some boundaries given her personal feelings about seeing her own work posted all over the Internet without her permission. While she has since resolved this issue within herself, she acknowledges the iffy legality but recognizes that there is no harm done so long as no one mistakes their personal interpretation for the show itself.

Other Projects
M42 has stated on Paperpusher's Message Board that she intends to write around 50 Daria fanfics. She first make this commitment in 2000, and in 2008 she has posted around 27. She has also written for Witchblade: the TV Series and one very adult Dexter fiction. She drifts away and towards this long-term fan fiction writing project, based on her involvement in other projects in her life. Along with running her own business, she writes for multiple blogs and engages in local community projects.