#morgendorfer

[svpionymph]

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[madmadammollz]

I forgot how much I love Daria.

[trashioncoreprincess]

If you know this punk boi please let them know I need to speak to them!

[elfrizzbee]

Oh Daria, don't be shy. Show me your boobs.

Jane Lane

[theteastainedpages]

Jake Morgendorffer: Why don't they just put Marmaduke to sleep?

[hard-boiled-babe]

[toxicrants]

You know what I just realised is so fantastic about Daria? She's not just this cookie cut out of what awkward teenagers were supposed to be like. She genuinely had these ridiculous standards that even she couldn't live up to and she tried to take the moral high ground but most of the time found that living this perfectly sterile life is hard, because the people around you are constantly shaping who you are and the mistakes you make.

She wasn't another 'look at how cool it is to be nerd' person who eventually gets recognised for being something great after years of bullying. She ends high school the way she began, knowing that the world will always find comfort in 'preppy' and 'pretty',  two things of which she is neither. However, she learns that being smart doesn't automatically make her the best or most moral person in the room. That as people accept her for her faults, she has to accept others for theirs. 

More importantly she makes the mistakes we'd make. She falls for her best friends brother even though he's a lay about and comes to accept that he's no good but still holds on to a small fantasy because why the fuck not? Why can't we have our fantasies from time to time? When she likes Tom she's angry with herself, she doesn't know how to make the relationship work. Even I thought she became a bit of a bitch around that segment but that's okay because nerds can be bitches. 

MTV successfully made a humanised version of a female nerd, living out the real life problems of coming to accept the fact that she wasn't perfect, she couldn't live up to her own standards and that sometimes just because you fit in doesn't mean you're degrading yourself. They didn't ham it up with 'how special and individual' she was or how being a nerd girl is just one long 'coming of age' joke the modern media thinks it is. They showed her for what she really was. A depressed, cynical girl who didn't know what to make of the world...

and that's why it's so good to watch. 

[hulu]

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