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[[Image:boxeddaria1.gif|thumb|200px|right|The source of their power?]]
The term '''Angst Lords''' refers to those ''Daria'' fan authors whose works are consistently or especially dark, pessimistic, or tragic (i.e., [[Angst|angst]]). Despite an ongoing belief that a writer is ''designated'' as an Angst Lord, the reality is that a specific writer is in fact ''recognized '''as''''' such by others of that ilk for their specific works, which need not necessarily be limited to the area of fan fiction. (An example of this is the former fanfic critic [[CINCGREEN]]; were he still active in the fandom in this capacity, he would probably have been recognized as an Angst Lord).
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{{quote|What is a home without Plumtree's Potted Meat?<br>Incomplete.<br>With it, an abode of bliss|James Joyce|Ulysses}}
<br><br><br><br>So it isn't that Gregor has a can of Plumtree's Potted Meat, but rather that he is depriving someone else somewhere of the bliss that could be theirs but for that can. And if that isn't angst, what is?
=='Sometimes Unicorns Have To Die...'==
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<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>In the following discussion that began on the nature of writing angst-based fiction, Angelinhel (addressing questions posed within another post) responded with the following:
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<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The phrase has a minor place in the lexicon of some fanfic writers as a symbolism of angst, or of angst in their works.
==Violence?==
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