God Save the Esteem/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: "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.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: 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 Big Screwed-Up Family.
 * 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.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: The fic's version of Stacy is particularly popular, with her developing multiple split personalities and involuntarily switching between them.
 * Steve the security guard, an original character for the series, has garnered a large following due to his slacker behaviour and general disinterest in doing his job.
 * 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 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.
 * Les Yay: 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.
 * In the fic's equivalent of "Is It Fall Yet," Jane is much more open to Alison's advances.