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Line 1: '''Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?''' is a fanfic by [[Scissors MacGillicutty]]. A shaggy-dog story that depends as much on ''Daria'' fan culture as knowledge of the series, it follows a day in the life of its author, as he chaperons [[Stacy Rowe]] around his native New York, writes a old-style script fic under an assumed name, and then crosses dimensions to [[Lawndale]] where things really start to get weird for him. Due to the black comedy, language, and various themes, this should be considered 'R-rated'. ==Discussion== Despite much initial acclaim, the author now considers this story marred by repetitive exposition throughout, confusing and unnecessary discussions of self-referentiality in art at crucial points, and half-digested analytic metaphysics in the mouth of an impossibly off-canon Daria at its end. After some sober reflection, ''Daria'' fandom agreed, and the story won a [[The CRAPPIES\|CRAPPIE]] in 2006. The author stated he wanted to make revisions, but none have so far appeared. The tale is online at [~~[PPMB]],~~http://archiveofourown.org ~~but~~An ~~the~~Archive ~~author~~of ~~plans~~Our ~~numerous~~Own] and [[PPMB]], ~~revisions.~~ Certain readers (i.e., [[cyde]], [[The Angst Guy]]) disagree with this sentiment, and cite this tale as a masterwork of extreme angst-fic. The depiction of [["Mad Dog" Morgendorffer]] and his poisonous legacy is especially good, with its cascade of disastrous consequences for the Morgendorffer family. The shock ending is very satisfying. A tour-de-force of upended character stereotypes and lurid secret agendas, and an amazing [[metafic]] and [[self-insertion]] as well. ==Ontology== Line 60 ⟶ 62: Note that these are all objective, not products of the narrator's mind, but sense data coming to him. As Quine notes, such a universe is "overpopulated" and a "breeding group for disorderly elements," both cognitively—such as multiple inconsistent Darias and Janes—and morally—witness amoral drug-dealing Daria. The difficulties of following such a narrative consist in having to knowingly suspend many of the tacit assumptions of ordinary sense perception. We do not expect multiple solid entities to occupy the same space, or for a single entity to appear in multiple locations at once. The theoretic difficulties Quine mentions—<i>"How many possible men are there in that doorway?...[I]s the concept of identity simply inapplicable to unactualized possibles? But what sense can be found in talking of entities which cannot meaningfully be said to be identical with themselves and distinct from one another?"</i>—are no longer theoretical difficulties, but real hazards of sensory overload. The only single continuous narrative thread in the final chapter is MacGillicutty's narration of his experiences being so assaulted, and his attempts to cling to a single narrative possibility. Finally, this ontology means not only that all the so-called [[Daria_Multiverse\|Daria Universes]] are actually contained in Daria-501, but that infinitely many others are in Daria-501. Roentgen has shown that the [[Daria_Multiverse\|cardinality of the Daria Universes is <b>&alefsym;<sub><small>1</small></sub></b>]], or the same as the power set of the real numbers. Whether all of those universes are interesting is another question, and one beyond the scope of this article. ==Characters Introduced== Line 65 ⟶ 71: * [[S—]] * [[Jim Ellenbogen]] == Link to Complete Story at archiveofourown == [http://archiveofourown.org/works/2496527?view_full_work=true Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?] == Links to Chapters at PPMB == [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=116507#p116507 Introduction]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=116508#p116508 1. Hauser and O'Brien]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=116510#p116510 2. Yes, We Have No Diet Ultra Cola]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=116626#p116626 3. The First Thing You Learn is that You Always Have to Wait]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=117460#p117460 4. Bureaucratic Scherzo]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=118034#p118034 5. No Place Like Out of Place]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=120343#p120343 6. Fear and (Self) Loathing in Someplace Like Brooklyn]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=120603#p120603 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 1)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=120644#p120644 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 2)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=120782#p120782 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 3)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=120955#p120955 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 4)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=121165#p121165 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 5)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=122128#p122128 Commercial Hell]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=122429#p122429 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 6)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=124634#p124634 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 7)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=128519#p128519 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 8)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=130863#p130863 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 9)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=132563#p132563 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 10)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=132702#p132702 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 11)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=136209#p136209 7. Once at Lawndale (Part 12)]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=138550#p138550 8. The Last Turn of the Screw]<br> [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=139066#p139066 9. No Place Like Out of Place Redux]<br> [[Category: Stories]] [[Category:2005 in fanfiction]]