The Angst Guy

The Angst Guy is a Daria fanfiction author.

Beatnik Shaggy's awesome logo for The Angst Guy

Biographical Information

Also known as TAG, The Angst Guy published his Daria stories under his real name from April 2002 until October 2004; he ceased doing so for personal reasons. He is one of the very few members of the Daria fan community who is a published author of fiction. The first person to welcome him to Daria fandom was Kara Wild. (Thank you!) The first Daria fanfic he read was "Daria vs. Predator," by Bob Marley, which he thought was weird but was enough to keep him interested in the fandom.

Declared by Brother Grimace to be pre-eminent among the Angst Lords, but despite this is mostly harmless.

Jodie Landon talks about The Angst Guy (click here)

Fanon and Fan Culture Contributions

Daria Fandom Blog II

TAG operates a blog devotes to discussions of Daria and its fandom and anything else he thinks of. See Daria Fandom Blog II for more information.

Experimentation

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 science-fiction adventure ("Drive") to songfic ("The Ballad of Stacy Rowe") to fantasy ("Scarlett") to almost everything in between. He has written stories in past tense and present tense, first person and third person, ficlets and novels, scriptfics and lyrics, and stories with pictures (HTML) and stories without (HTM). The HTM versions of his stories often have unusual and colorful type fonts embedded within the headers or used as decoration, though not all computers have such fonts downloaded to them. (He uses free fonts only, however, so these fonts can be picked out to view the stories to better effect.) Stories on his website are often updated, corrected, or modified to include new features or information.

513

The number 513 appears frequently in his stories, often as a harbinger of disaster. If you notice the time, a room number, an amount of money, or so forth is represented by this numeral, it is a good bet something bad is about to happen in the tale. Episode #513 of Daria was "Boxing Daria," the last regular episode of the series. The number 13 is similarly used for dramatic effect (e.g., "The Thirteenth Man").

Jane Lane speaks out on the penguin issue. (click here)

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] The joke apparently started in June 2003 when TAG was on an Alaskan cruise, getting e-mail through the ship's Internet system, and Kristen Bealer asked him to bring back a penguin. TAG offered to give her a used one. [Eww.]

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.Brother Grimace thinks that TAG needs to spend time in a hot tub with Ms. Coulter in order to get a true appreciation of her. ("Hey, how wrong could Bill Maher be on the subject?")

Daria Morgendorffer reflects on TAG's reputation (click here)

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.

The Angst Guy as a Character

Many other Daria authors have included The Angst Guy as a character within their own fanfiction. Dr. Mike included him in a cameo position within his work, "Your Honor," a Night Court ripoff. He also dedicated two works named "For Roger" and "For Roger 2" to the author.

Bibliography

African Queen After Birth After the End Almost Strangers in the Night The Amazing Adventures of D-Day and the Mighty Jane And I on the Opposite Shore Will Be And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed Another Damn Mary Sue Fanfic Anything for Jane April Is the Cruelest Month The Art of Seeing As Many Worlds as There Are Artists As She Remembered It in the Long Years After Aunt Kara Backhanded Remarks Bipolar II Brave New World Bus Stop But in Her Heart a Cold December Can't Touch That! A Certain Amount of Depth Change the World Click, Click, Boom Could Someone Turn Down the Sun? Crossing Over darea Daria 2007: The Girl from Hope Daria Dance Party Darialance Darius Dark of Hearts Darkness Dear Whoever Deus Jane Die! Die! You Bastard! Drive Driving Miss Daria The Dust Bunny Project: A Musical Review! Easy A Every Hour Saved from That Eternal Silence Feeding Frenzy The First Time Forgotten but not Gone Fortunate One The Girl Who Walked Home All Alone in the Dark Go Ahead and Dance Gone Guys' Night Out A Hard Days' Night Hal Point Nine Highland Fling History Lesson Home on Deranged Howard I Never Metamorphosis I Didn’t Like If You Only Walk Long Enough Illusions The Impossible In the Beginning Invisible Planet It Slipped Through My Hands, Like a Shadow, Like a Dream The IUF Tale Jane and the Lanes (essay) Jane Lane: Hero in the Making? (essay) Jane Unchained Just Desserts Kill Tom A Knight to Remember

Life Is Good Like a Circle in a Spiral Like Angels' Visits, Short and Bright Like Father, Like— Luuuv Story Mack Daddy Mad Dog Making the Breast of It Meet the Fashion Club Memory Lame A Midsummer Nightmare's Daria More Than Just Lost The Morgendorffer Code Natural Charms Next in Line Nine-Eleven and Counting Nine Point Oh No One Lives Forever Nothing Happens for a Reason The Nothingness of Being Nuthouse The Omega Jane One More River to Cross The Original Underground Government-Suppressed Version of Brother Grimace’s Classic Daria Fanfic, "The Sun Will Come Out, Tomorrow" The Other Story of D Outcasts from Beyond The Outers series Pander Bare The Pause in the Air series Polly Andry Rides Again Potential Prayers for a SAINT Prisoner of Hope Pristine Quinnisqatsi Quinnts Rita Is Better Than Helen or Amy! Scarlett The Secret Life See Jane Spike Self-Insertion Small Worlds Smoking Mirror Snowball in Hell Snowflakes The Sound of Muzak Special Delivery Stacy and the Lamp Stacy in Hell Sudden Death Overtime Suite for Cello, Two-Part Invention Summer of the Hot Lake Terrible Tales of Tiffany The Thirteenth Man There Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies The Thong Remains the Same Though the Course May Change Sometimes, Rivers Always Reach the Sea Three Ways of Looking at a Tiffany Blum-Deckler Through a Scooby Darkly Tiffany in Futureland Tiffany in Wonderland Till Death Do Us Part True Lies The Two of Them Unto the End 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 Wonderlane You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows

Daria Fanworks Awards

1st Daria Fanworks Awards

• Favorite Drama for "Gone"
• Favorite Melodrama for "Smoking Mirror"
• Favorite Jane Story (tie) for "See Jane Spike"
• Favorite Science Fiction (tie) for "The Thirteenth Man"
• Favourite Use of a Background Character From the Show for "Scarlett" (unfinished)
• Favourite Weird Idea for "Smoking Mirror"
• Favorite Holiday Story (tie) for "Nine Point Oh"

2nd Daria Fanworks Awards

• Favorite Overall for "Illusions" with CharlieGirl and Angelinhel
• Favorite Melodrama for "Darius"
• Favourite Quinn Story for "Pause in the Air #8: April Showers"
• Favourite Character Development/Redevelopment/Growth for "When the Torrent of That Time Comes Pouring Back"
• Favourite Science Fiction for "Drive"
• Favourite Supernatural or Fantasy Non-Horror for "Illusions"
• Favourite Non Fiction Essay for "Jane Lane: Hero in the Making?

3rd Daria Fanworks Awards

• Favourite Supernatural or Fantasy Horror for "Pristine"
• Favourite Supernatural or Fantasy Non-Horror for "Uranium in the Drinking Water"
• Favourite Weird Idea for "Anything for Jane"

4th Daria Fanworks Awards

• Favorite Dramatic Comedy for "A Hard Days' Night"
• Favorite Romance - Gay/Lesbian for "Pause in the Air 10: After Birth"
• Favorite Jane Story (tie) for "Always Beside You"
• Favorite Quinn Story for "Invisible Planet"
• Favorite Science Fiction for "A Hard Days' Night"
• Favorite Supernatural or Fantasy Horror for "Always Beside You"
• Favorite Weird Idea (tie) for "Guys' Night Out"

The CRAPPIES Awards

1st CRAPPIES Awards

• Most Unbelievable "Real" (Canon) Dariaverse Situation for "Smoking Mirror"
• Fanfic Most Likely to be a Favorite of the Fashion Club for "Daria Dance Party"
• Fanfic Most Likely to Make You Start Drinking (or Make You Start Again) for "Where No Light Breaks, Where No Sea Runs"
• Fanfic Most Likely to Make Ms. Li Call You a Fascist for "Where No Light Breaks, Where No Sea Runs"
• Fanfic With the Most Gratuitous Mentions of Daria Fans or Fanfic Authors for "The IUF Tale (Or, Total Disaster in a Nutshell)"
• Biggest "What the Fuck?" Ending for "Gone"
• Most Out of Character Jane for "See Jane Spike"
• Most Out of Character Jake for "Darius"

2nd CRAPPIES Awards

• Most Unbelievable Alternate Dariaverse Situation for "Deus Jane"
• Fanfic Most Likely to Make You Start Drinking (or Make You Start Again) for "Darkness"
• Fanfic Most Likely to Make Ms. Li Call You a Fascist for "Sudden Death Overtime"
• "Wha... Huh?" Most Incomprehensible Storyline for "Drive"
• Visual Most Likely to Cause the Reader to Gouge His/Her Eyes Out for "Mad Dog"
• Biggest "What the Fuck?" Ending (tie) for "Darkness"
• Most Out of Character Daria for "Darkness"
• Most Out of Character Jane for "Deus Jane"
• The Ultimate in CRAPPIE Crap - Fanfic Most Likely to Make You Run Off Screaming Into the Night for "Poly Andry Rides Again"

External links

• The Daria Fandom Blog II
• The Angst Guy's fanfic website (just the index for same, nothing special)
• Unfinished Tales of Daria, TAG's website for stories he hasn't yet finished. (The website isn't finished, either, but what the heck.)
• Interview with TAG on Contrarian's Corner, conducted by E. A. Smith
• "Doodles"