History YMMV / GodSaveTheEsteem

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The fic's version of Stacy is particularly popular, with her developing multiple split personalities and involuntarily switching between them.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The first episode ends with a flashback to Daria's kindergarten years paralleling the one from ''Boxing Daria''. Instead of chewing Daria out for refusing to get along with the other kids, Jake and Helen tell her there's nothing wrong with being different and someday she'll meet more people who are perfectly capable of loving and accepting her just the way she is. D'aww...

* HoYay: It is Daria fanfiction, after all. The first time Jane meets Daria, she (jokingly) asks if she wants to make out and she's completely obsessed with Amy.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: "The Battle of Lawndale High" in ''Anarchy in the Lawn-D'', where one almighty all-in brawl between jocks, punks, nerds, queen bees and everyone in between resulted in the downfall of Li's regime.

* MoralEventHorizon: Li has passed well beyond this line when she sends the jocks to essentially kill Daria for [[spoiler: exposing the grade-fixing scheme.]]

*** Ken Edwards gets a minor moment here where he manages to evade [=DiMartino=] (who collapses due to being out of shape and a smoker), Tommy Sherman (whose prosthetic legs fall off furong the pursuit, and Coach Nikahd ([[HonorBeforeReason who won't follow him into the boy's room because she's female]]).

* DoubleStandard: Amy calls out Daria for not saying anything after Daria notices (without talking to anyone) that the relationship between Erin and Brian is going south. This is after Erin comes to Amy and asks for advice on how to properly cheat on someone with your boss, advice which Amy freely gives. Amy is never once called out on this.
** To be fair, Amy's advice is basically "break up with him," so at least she did ''something'' about the situation. Daria just found it amusing, until she's forced to see the consequences of it first-hand.
** Argubly there's a double standard about the affair itself, since all the blame seems to fall on Andrew ([[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming and even Brian and Michele]]) [[TheUnfairSex but not]] [[SympatheticAdulterer Erin]]. The only person who thinks she's responsible is Jodie, who gets called out for it. Heck, Erin gives a BitterWeddingSpeech where she basically blames everyone else there for all of her problems. She seems to imply that Andrew coerced her into the relationship, but the reader never really saw enough of their interaction to get that impression beforehand.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "The Battle of Lawndale High" in ''Anarchy in the Lawn-D'', where one almighty all-in brawl between jocks, punks, nerds, queen bees and everyone in between resulted in the downfall of Li's regime.
** The exposure and capture of Ken Edwards is pretty awesome in its own right. Daria tricks Edwards into revealing his true colors, and several people throughout the school work to impede him. When it seems like Edwards will escape, Barch charges through a window and tackles him in the ground in quite an epic manner.
** Daria standing up to her grandmother and choosing to stay at Lawndale High.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The first episode ends with a flashback to Daria's kindergarten years paralleling the one from ''Boxing Daria''. Instead of chewing Daria out for refusing to get along with the other kids, Jake and Helen tell her there's nothing wrong with being different and someday she'll meet more people who are perfectly capable of loving and accepting her just the way she is. D'aww...
** Then there's the parts where Tom & Jane comfort Daria when she begins to crack under the pressure of dealing with her BigScrewedUpFamily.
** Daria choosing to stay with that big screwed up family instead of leaving them for a prestigious boarding school (paid for by her wealthy grandmother) could also count as this.

** Argubly there's a double standard about the affair itself, since all the blame seems to fall on Andrew ([[VictimBlaming and even Brian and Michele]]) [[TheUnfairSex but not]] [[SympatheticAdulterer Erin]]. The only person who thinks she's responsible is Jodie, who gets called out for it. Heck, Erin gives a BitterWeddingSpeech where she basically blames everyone else there for all of her problems. She seems to imply that Andrew coerced her into the relationship, but the reader never really saw enough of their interaction to get that impression beforehand.

* LesYay: It is Daria fanfiction, after all. The first time Jane meets Daria, she (jokingly) asks if she wants to make out and she's completely obsessed with Amy.

** Also, a background character named Aleesha says that she's willing to have a one-night stand with Daria, [[IncompatibleOrientation who declines]].

* DoubleStandard: Amy calls out Daria for not saying anything after Daria notices (without talking to anyone ) that the relationship between Erin and Brian is going south. This is after Erin comes to Amy and asks for advice on how to properly cheat on someone with your boss, advice which Amy freely gives. Amy is never once called out on this.

** Argubly there's a double standard about the affair itself, since all the blame seems to fall on Andrew (and even Brian and Michele) [[TheUnfairSex but not]] [[SympatheticAdulterer Erin]]. The only person who thinks she's responsible is Jodie, who gets called out for it. Heck, Erin gives a BitterWeddingSpeech where she basically blames everyone else there for all of her problems. She seems to imply that Andrew coerced her into the relationship, but the reader never really sees enough of their interaction to get that impression.

** Argubly there's a double standard about the affair itself, since all the blame seems to fall on Andrew (and even Brian and Michele) [[TheUnfairSex but not]] [[SympatheticAdulterer Erin]]. The only person who thinks she's responsible is Jodie, who gets called out for it. Heck, Erin gives a BitterWeddingSpeech where she basically blames everyone else there for all of her problems.

** In the fic's equivalent of "Is It Fall Yet," Jane is much more open to Alison's advances. [[spoiler:Which makes things a hell of a lot worse for her when she finally comes to the realization that idle curiosity is all it was.]]

** To be fair, Erin's advice is basically "break up with him," so at least she did ''something'' about the situation. Daria just found it amusing, until she's forced to see the consequences of it first-hand.

** Erin Chambers, a cousin of Daria's and Quinn's seen only once in canon, gets a whole lot more exposure and development in this series, including a kinky affair with her boss, a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech memorable outburst at her wedding]] and a subsequent brush with alcoholism. As a result, this has become possibly the most popular depiction of the character in Daria fanfic history.

** In the fic's equivalent of "Is It Fall Yet," Jane is much more open to Alison's advances.

* LesYay: It is Daria fanfiction, after all. The first time Jane meets Daria, she (jokingly) asks if she wants to make out and she's completely obsessed with Amy.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "The Battle of Lawndale High" in ''Anarchy in the Lawn-D'', where one almighty all-in brawl between jocks, punks, nerds, queen bees and everyone in between resulted in the downfall of Li's regime.