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Pollard's position was that he certainly did not intend to make such an argument, and any interpretation contrary to his intention is an incorrect interpretation. He has declined further comment about the story, but still hosts it at Outpost Daria. Pollard, however, has written no fan fiction since completing "Sins of the Past."
==Tired characterization in ''Daria'' fan fic==
===Tom is evil===
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Since the arrival of [[Tom Sloane]], there have been fans that did not care for the new character designated to be Jane's boyfriend. After [[Daria Fandom Lexicon|The Kiss]], the dislike of some Daria fans for Tom Sloane boiled over to outright hatred. Perhaps part of the hatred was in the way that Tom cheated on Jane and perhaps part of the hatred arose from the fact that a Daria/Tom relationship put a big dent in the hopes of Daria/Trent relationshippers to match Daria with her earlier crush. Part of it might have been pure disappointment in Daria, too, as she had claimed such a high moral standard before.
As Tom Sloane's character was poorly defined, serving no other purpose than to be Jane's (and later Daria's) boyfriend, some fan fiction writers created a Tom Sloane who either through malign indifference or through design allowed the events of The Kiss to happen.
In such fanfiction, Daria and/or Jane must contend against the machinations of Evil Tom.
Recent interpretations of Tom Sloane's actions suggest that Tom acts the way he does because either a) he's totally clueless as to the real world consequences of his actions, or b) he manages to justify what he does in the service of some intrinsic or extrinsic "greater good."
===Daria is omnicompetent and damn near omnipotent===
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Works of fiction like [[Nemo Blank]]'s "[[Retrograde Girl]]" actually had an amnesiac Daria become a successful model once away from the "[[manstopper glasses]]" (term by [[Brother Grimace]]), orange T-shirt and boots. Other characters had Daria win a beauty contest or forced Daria to wear sexy clothes to compel her to realize how attractive she really was. The belief that Daria could be very good looking if she'd just try is still so strong that an [[Iron Chef]] challenge was issued in 2006 which required Iron Chef writers to work with the limitation that Daria makes herself over, but ''doesn't'' become more beautiful.
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It could be argued that the most logical reason for Quinn giving up her intellectual facade in the episode (signified by Quinn darting out into the hall, where she tells a waiting Daria, "You win, all right?") is that Quinn recognizes in Daria what Daria has always recognized in her: ''that each has qualities about that the other has chosen to emphasize, yet are still evident to anyone who notices.'' (Helen, as well as any boy whose name begins with T, could be said to have noticed that Daria is attractive but has chosen to deliberately downplay those looks, while Daria, [[David Sorenson]], and [[Sandi Griffin]] are all aware of Quinn's innate intelligence (and the fact that she does not try to capitalize upon it in favor of her looks).
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