Line #9 Webcomic/DarASuperGirlyTopSecretComicDiary


1	->''"Only Science Can Save Her Vagina!" That's the title of my autobiography.''
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3	''[[WordSaladTitle DAR!]] A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary'' (story behind the name [[http://www.darcomic.org/2008/02/17/darigins/ here]]) was a [[NotableSliceOfLifeWebcomics Slice of Life Webcomic]] drawn by Erika Moen before she ended it in 2009. As Erika changes a lot as a person during the six years she did the comic, the comic also changes significantly too. Here's the story:
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5	Meet Erika Moen, 21-year-old college student. [[QueerAsTropes Gay and loving it,]] except for the fact that her mom doesn't like it, [[AllLoveIsUnrequited her crushes always break her heart]] and her on-again-off-again girlfriend keeps breaking up with her. Everything changes when spends seven months in France and [[IfItsYouItsOkay meets Matt]]: they have a fling together, only for Erika to fall in love with him. After graduation, Erika moves to Portland, gets into a soul-sucking job, and tries to cope with a depression. Matt comes to visit and, on a whim, she and him get married. Erika becomes a full time artist (and loves it), and they all live HappilyEverAfter. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Really.]]
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7	Despite this, most of the strips are humorous, such as the continual fart jokes, jokes about sex toys, and the randomness of Erika's relationships with her friends.
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9	The "sex toys" stuff has been spun off into its own strip, "Oh Joy Sex Toy," which concerns reviews of adult toys as well as more general sex-ed topics. Per Administrivia/TheContentPolicy, it would prefer us to not link it, so please Google-search the title if you want to see what she and Matthew have been up to since then.
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12	!!''DAR'' contains examples of the following:
13	* AscendedFanBoy: Matt was a fan of her comic who suggested meeting her when she took a trip to Europe. Seems he's now her official number one fan.
14	* ArtEvolution: At the beginning... you could tell that it was drawn by a struggling student. Not at all bad, but rather sketchy and stiff. Erika is now known for her fluent, energetic style, showing just how far her art has come.
15	* ButchLesbian: She enjoyed considering herself one, toting buzzcuts and tattoos. Though she also loved wearing the occasional Pineapple dress.
16	* HappilyMarried: [[http://www.darcomic.org/2008/11/06/specialwed/ "We're special wed."]]
17	* IfItsYouItsOkay: Up until she met Matt she never thought of herself as liking guys. It caused her to have an identity crisis in the fact that being a lesbian was what she identified as, she didn't really see herself as a bisexual, and "lesbian with one exception" sounded overly complicated. Then she sort of just said "Aw screw labels, I'm gettin' laid."
18	* LesbianUntilGraduation: [[http://www.darcomic.org/2007/12/11/dykewithboyfriend/ Erika is a LUG]].
19	* JournalComic: Started off as mostly just a way for her to draw little artsy doodles while in college, but after a while became a great outlet for her.
20	* TheLadette: Erika. [[http://www.darcomic.org/2007/08/13/pizzadinner/ Very much so.]]
21	* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: A [[GenderInvertedTrope gender inverted]] example: [[http://www.darcomic.org/2008/03/04/superpower/ There's a reason why Erika was born with a vagina.]]
22	* NoBisexuals: When she hooked up with Matt, her lesbian friends kept thinking that she turned straight, while some were upset that she didn't "become" bi. Some were '''[[http://www.darcomic.org/2009/12/08/queer-marriage/ very]]''' upset. [[http://www.darcomic.org/2009/06/23/identity/ She now calls herself "queer".]]

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