The Angst Guy

The Angst Guy is a fanfiction author.

Biographical Information
Also known as TAG. Previously published his Daria stories under his real name from April 2002 until October 2004; he ceased doing so for personal reasons. One of the very few members of the Daria fan community who is a published author of fiction.

Declared by Brother Grimace to be pre-eminent among the Angst Lords.

Though known primarily as an angst writer, TAG's work runs the gamut of moods and styles, from broad comedy (The Thong Remains the Same) to sci-fi adventure (Drive) to songfic (The Ballad of Stacy Rowe) to fantasy (Scarlett) to almost everything in between.

Penguins
There is a running joke at the forums that TAG regularly engages in sex acts with penguins. In a surprising display of good nature at such a crude insinuation, he plays along with these jokes. [''They're consenting adults! --TAG'']

Ann Coulter
TAG has a horror of the right-wing commentator Ann Coulter. Fellow author Dervish kids him about this on the Daria message boards regularly.

Angst Overdose
Even TAG will admit, sometimes, that he overdoes it with the angst writing, and he has received requests to drop the angst for a while and try comedies even from other Angst Lords. He is a little slow to get the message, but once in a while he makes the effort. TAG's focus on angst writing has created a degree of controversy in the fandom, coming from those who are getting rather tired of it.

Bibliography of Major Works

 * And I on the Opposite Shore Will Be
 * And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed
 * Anything for Jane
 * The Art of Seeing
 * April Is the Cruelest Month
 * Bipolar II
 * But in Her Heart a Cold December
 * A Certain Amount of Depth
 * Daria 2007: The Girl from Hope
 * Darius
 * Darkness
 * Deus Jane
 * Drive
 * Forgotten but not Gone
 * Gone
 * I Never Metamorphosis I Didn’t Like
 * If You Only Walk Long Enough
 * Illusions
 * It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream
 * Jane and the Lanes (essay)
 * Jane Lane: Hero in the Making? (essay)
 * Jane Unchained
 * Mad Dog
 * A Midsummer Nightmare's Daria
 * Nine-Eleven and Counting
 * Nine Point Oh
 * The Omega Jane
 * One More River to Cross
 * The Other Story of D
 * Outcasts from Beyond
 * The Outers series
 * The Pause in the Air series
 * Potential
 * Prayers for a SAINT
 * Pristine
 * Quinnts
 * Scarlett
 * Smoking Mirror
 * Snowflakes
 * Sudden Death Overtime
 * Suite for Cello, Two-Part Invention
 * Summer of the Hot Lake
 * The Thirteenth Man
 * There Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies
 * Though the Course May Change Sometimes, Rivers Always Reach the Sea
 * The Two of Them
 * Uranium in the Drinking Water
 * When the Torrent of That Time Comes Pouring Back
 * Where No Light Breaks, Where No Sea Runs
 * Winter in Hell
 * Wish Upon a Fallen Star
 * You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows