History Fanfic / GodSaveTheEsteem

** Murdoch, the school district's attorney is appalled upon discovering Li had cameras in the school's toilets and forces her to remove them, [[RealityEnsues or she'd get arrested for filming child pornography.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: "Ken Edwards radiated slime and creepiness like Chernobyl radiated... er, yeah. Daria even spotted ''Upchuck'' looking unnerved, and Upchuck had come to school with two pimp canes that day."

Has a prequel, ''[[http://dariawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Moving_Pictures Moving Pictures]]'', revolving around Helen and Amy's childhood. Later chapters are also punctuated by short "Meanwhile, Sideways in Time" segments, featuring an AlternateUniverse where "Dire Daria" is a punk but everyone else is normal. The main fanfic also has pages on the Daria Wiki, found [[http://dariawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=God_Save_The_Esteem here]].

* {{Adorkable}}: Even as a punk, Jake still has shades of this. It's truly exemplified by his war cry of "Those rubber thingies hurt!" when [[spoiler:he's hit by runner bullets during the massive punk riot throughout Lawndale in the climax]].

* BiTheWay: Aunt Amy.
** Despite some initial curiosity, however, [[spoiler:Jane]] learns the hard way that this most emphatically does ''not'' apply to her.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Steve sent away the students he was meant to tutor in geography as he figured the school wouldn't want him to teach them the wrong stuff.

This ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' fanfic contains examples of:

What happens if you [[SettingUpdate move the setting about a decade and a half forward]], into TheNewTens? [[NewAgeRetroHippie New Age Retro Hippies]] aside, Jake and Helen are going to need a new counterculture phenomenon to dive headfirst into. That phenomenon: HardcorePunk.

* SettingUpdate

* LampshadeHanging: At one point Daria notes that a good number of Quinn's gang aren't really punks, but members of other subcultures like {{Goth}}s.

* UnknownRival: Cindy to Sandi and the rest of the popular girls.

-->--'''Jake [[JakeRoberts "The Snake"]] Morgendorffer'''

* GenreSavvy: Jane in ''Dance Noon''.
-->“You realise when this has a violent, chaos-filled resolution, we’ll be involved whether we want to or not,”

* LoliCon: Creepy one-shot substitute English teacher Ken Edwards is upgraded to a major character after he takes over Mr. O'Neill's class when the latter is promoted to principal.

** "Is It Fun Yet?" features a cameo by [[TheWire Superintendent Rawls of the Maryland State Police.]]

* TheStoner: Shaggy and Burnout from the Maleficent Eleven.

* {{Adorkable}}: Even as a punk, Jake still has shades of this. It's truly exemplified by his war cry of "Those rubber thingies hurt!" when [[spoiler:he's hit by blanks during the massive punk riot throughout Lawndale in the climax]].

** The Morg

** Subverted to Hell in "Dance Noon" when one of the misogynistic punks slaps Daria. Everyone around, including the other punks, treat it as seriously as the situation deserves.

* SpringtimeForHitler: One of the "Meanwhile, Sideways in Time" segments involves Dire Daria's failed attempts to get fired from the Okay to Cry Corral.

* WouldntHitAGirl: Robert, which is why he rushed to fight the other jocks in Daria's defense.

A wildly popular ''{{Daria}}'' fanfic series by Charles RB that grew out of a joke post in a discussion thread about what the show would be like if it were set in the present day instead of TheNineties.

For all her vaunted unconventionality, one thing about {{Daria}} that was very typical of teenagers in the 1990s was her parents: a pair of over-stressed working professionals who had, of course, been hippies in their youth before inevitably selling out.

** Subverted to Hell in "Dance Noon" when one of the misogynistic punks slaps Caria. Everyone around, including the other punks, treat it as seriously as the situation deserves.