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==Summary==
[[Image:Daria FIB Stance 3a.jpg|thumb|left|Daria by Drocem]]
The series is primarily about Daria during her college years, the continued lives of [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] & [[Jake Morgendorffer|Jake]] back home, [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] at [[Pepperhill University|Pepperhill]], plus the Lane family, including [[Trent|Trent's]] relationship with [[Lindy]], Quinn's friend from [[Governors Park]]. The series assumes Daria and Jane graduated from [[Lawndale High]] in spring 1999.
Besides Jane, who attends Boston Fine Arts College (and who had dated [[Mack Mackenzie|Michael "Mack" MacKenzie]] for a while), the people in Daria's life include [[Michael Fulton]], her fiancee and her freshman dorm roommate, [[Karen Myerson]], who had joined Daria and Jane in sharing an upstairs apartment in a pre-Civil War house in South Boston before they later moved on to different places. Along with college, Daria has worked as a transcriptionist for a history professor and as a part-time copy editor/proofreader at the [[Raft University Press]] and later with the school paper, the ''The Mast''. Jane worked as an arts and craft teacher at Boston Children's Hospital. Karen works for the Franklin Park Zoo and Michael for the National Park Service at the Freedom Trail as a liaison to a [[Bromwell]] archeology professor.
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The author has stated that his college experience and relationship with his wife has provided much of the inspiration for the stories, though they are specifically not autobiographical.
The series' optimistic tone was conceived as a balance to the number of angst-based stories commonly written when the series was started. At the same time, the few post-canon fanfiction stories tended to either use a simple stereotype for Daria's
While some readers have commented that the low-key, real life approach is one of appealing aspects of the series, other readers have suggested that there should be more drama or hardship inserted. The [[Angst Lords]] are not the only ones in the latter category; [[Kara Wild]], a proponent of the "realism" approach that favors only limited angst, has stated that the characters seem to get beyond misfortune too easily. (However, [[Brother Grimace]] has stated on several occasions that the series is one of his personal favorites, and enjoys the low-key approach that the series follows.) To this point, the author has resisted increasing the angst dosage, which gives more impact to the times when things do go badly (e.g., in "[[A Matter of Priorities]]" and "[[Broken Star]]").
Post graduation, Daria moving to St. Augustine, Florida was a nod to the the author working on a research project near that city while developing and writing the early stories in the series. Many ideas were developed while driving to the area and some of the early stories were written during overnight stays in the town.
==Characters==
[[Image:FIC Quinn Model Sheet Colour Final 1.jpg|thumb|right|Model sheet of Quinn Morgendorffer at Pepperhill from "Falling Into College" illustrated by Drocem]]
[[Image:FIC_Mack_Colour.jpg|thumb|right|Model sheet of college freshman- Mike Mackenzie from "Falling Into College" illustrated by Drocem]]
[[Image:FIC Mike Vance Model Sheet Colour.jpg|thumb|right|Model sheet of Mike Mackenzie from "Falling Into College" illustrated by Drocem]]
[[Image:FIC Karen Colour.jpg|thumb|right|Model sheet of Karen Myerson from "Falling Into College" illustrated by Drocem]]
[[Image:FIC Daria Michael Fulton.jpg|thumb|right|Model sheet of Micheal Fulton from "Falling Into College" illustrated by Drocem]]
[[Image:FIC CC Colour.jpg|thumb|right|Model sheet of Cecelia "CC" Czernicki from "Falling Into College" illustrated by Drocem]]
[[Image:DerekModelSheet.jpg|thumb|right|Model sheet of Derek Adler from "Falling Into College" illustrated by Drocem]]
'''Canon'''
* [[Daria Morgendorffer]]
* [[Quinn Morgendorffer]]
* [[Helen Morgendorffer]]
* [[Jake Morgendorffer]]
* [[Mack Mackenzie|Michael "Mack" Mackenzie]]
* [[Sandi Griffin]]
* [[Stacy Rowe]]
* [[Charles Ruttheimer III]]
* [[Claire Defoe]]
'''Original'''
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* [[Fran Lawrence|Lawrence, Fran]]
* [[Karen Myerson| Myerson, Karen]]
Secondary:
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*September 2012: Paula and Sammi undergo ''in vitro'' fertilization. Paula will carry Amy's child for her.
*April 2013. Andrew Lane in Lawndale Elementary School science fair.
*June 27 2013: Sammi Rudolph gives birth to David Lincoln Rudolph-Trainer.
*June 28 2013: Paula Trainor gives birth to Paula Samantha Reese
*July 2013: Helen retires from the State Bar Association.
*July 23 2013. Karen and Derek's son Clive, born. Named after Clive Saunders, the soldier that pulled Derek from the wrecked Humvee.
*Fall 2013: Jake and Helen move to Lake Berryessa, California, to the east of of Napa Valley.
*November 2014: Daria laid off from San Marcos College
*May 5, 2015. Quinn and Q's daughter Francis (Fran) Helen Morgendorffer born.
*Summer 2015: Daria remakes her old agreement with Helen to write and submit something every week.
==Links==
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*[http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=15 French translation by Mr. Orange at PPMB]
*[http://admingoldman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Daria/fanficandartl.html here] at [http://admingoldman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Daria/ Lawndale Sun Herald]
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*[http://archiveofourown.org/series/54861 here] at [http://www.http://archiveofourown.org/ Archive of Our Own]
Note: Websites are updated at owner's convenience; some of these sites might not contain the latest installments of the series
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