Medea42

Biographical Information Medea42 is a freelance as a perfume designer and writer. She graduated cum laude with a BS in mass communications from Minnesota State University, Mankato and later abandoned attempts at pursuing an MFA at the same school. She lives in Minneapolis, mainly for its arts scene. She has scads of interests, including bellydance, yoga, herbalism, and classic literature. 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. Her professional specialty is in occult writing, particularly focused on Wicca, and frequently subvert elements of the way she experiences or sees alternate realities work their way into her fiction. She has published several articles on occult topics since 2000.

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.

Later in Fandom M42 has collaborated with divergent fanfic writers Ruthless Bunny and with Thomas on separate projects. While she was invited to partake in the Daria After Dark project, she was unable at the time to overcome her personal hangups in writing erotica at that time. She has never actually left Daria fandom, but disappears for extended periods of time as her real life writing projects and business endeavors sometimes consume her.

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. External Links Websites http://www.dianarajchel.com http://magickalrealism.etsy.com Blogs http://fatchic.net http://magickalrealism.com Fanfiction CV

General Fanfiction The "L" Word http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385536/1/The_L_Word Written prior to the famed HBO series, this fic explores Daria's limited emotional vocabulary and projects an ability to handle romantic or other emotionally complex feelings for two or more people at a time. Sew What http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385520/1/Sew_What Based upon her own experience in high school, where handmaking anything was viewed as a sign of poverty. Bait and Switch http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385497/1/Bait_and_Switch Plotted after the style of canonical Daria episodes, this is a what-if scenario if Daria and Kevin were forcibly set up on a date. Inspired by the pilot released on the first official Daria DVD. Underrated http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385612/1/Underrated One of the few attempts to make Jake and Trent look competent. The execution is not entirely successful. Giving a Damn http://www.fanfiction.net/s/386335/1/Giving_a_Damn A Daria/Quinn pairing post Is It Fall Yet, where Quinn attempts to branch out in her relationship with Daria on an intellectual but still depth-limited manner. The Slacker Within http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385556/1/The_Slacker_Within A crossover with the classic myth Pygmalion and a blatant self-insertion/Mary Sue, this brings Trent into the world of non-cartoon with an alternate universe Medea42 in the character of Di. A companion fic was written to fit with the Trent vignette series by Ruthless Bunny, called The Slacker Without. The Story of My Muse http://www.fanfiction.net/s/225464/1/Story_of_My_Muse Intended as a meta-magical exploration of the creative process, particularly the reality of illusion, as M42 experienced them in her creative processes writing about Trent Lane. DeMartino's Decision http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1622478/1/DeMartinos_Decision Possibly the most interesting and most ignored character of the Daria cast, M42 writes a possible background for Tony DeMartino in light of his gambling addiction, his veteran status and why he chose to teach. Trent's Lyrics Notebook http://www.fanfiction.net/s/154981/1/Trents_lyrics_notebook Co-written with Ruthless Bunny, this is one possibility about the lyrics of Mystik Spiral's songs, based on a channeled collaboration between Trent and Jesse. Common critiques of this work were that it was entirely too good to have been written by Trent and Jesse. Hidden Values http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385524/1/Hidden_Values A flash fiction, or ficlet as is the parlance among fanfic writers, with an exchange between Jodi and Andrea. Trent Vignette Series http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385583/1/In_the_Trent-ches http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385529/1/Beyond_Between http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1617288/1/Shut_Shut_Shut_It_All_Out http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1626662/1/Slow_to_Town http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1610184/1/Snow_White_Gone_Bad http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1884745/1/Requiem_to_a_Theme http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385540/1/In_a_Nutshell http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385589/1/Trent_Miserables http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385585/1/Trents_Equation http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1632149/1/Tilting_at_Windmills http://www.fanfiction.net/s/385587/1/The_Van_Ride http://www.fanfiction.net/s/418878/1/Monique_Monique http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2003167/1/Life_of_a_Criminale http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4169744/1/Voluntary_Simplicity http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4190646/1/Meet_the_Monster