2000 May 3, pam, “metafic vs. actorfic Re: HAD question - "actor-fic"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[1] (Usenet):
I agree. I *hate* it when metafics (like "The Round Files" and any number of other excellent stories) get lumped in and condemned along with actorfics (like "Homewrecker" or "The Murder of Tea Leoni" or whatever it was called). The two are *completely* different!
2002 April 13, Stephen Ratliff, “ASC Awards Digest 263: Voyager: Multiple Pairings”, in alt.startrek.creative[2] (Usenet):
This is a fun metafic, in which the crew finally takes revenge on the real source of all their problems.
2002 April 17, Stephen Ratliff, “ASC Awards Digest 292: Alara Rogers Award for Best Author”, in alt.startrek.creative[3] (Usenet):
It's the ultimate "metafic" more about us writers out here than anything else.
2004 March 23, ASCAwards - Sara, “ASC Awards Comment Digest #155: TNG Picard Pairing”, in alt.startrek.creative[4] (Usenet):
This story is a complex study of a marriage under stress, but it\'s[sic] also a fun metafic in which Geordi starts a Trek fic writing group and Deanna gives plenty of character and plot counselling.
2008, Roberta Grandi, "Web Side Stories: Janeites, Fanfictions, And Never Ending Romances", in Internet Fictions (eds. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, & Sirpa Leppänen), page 35:
In metafics, Janeites make hypotheses on the sources of inspiration for the novels, wonder how the world would have been without Jane, and imagine a TV talk show where Austen herself interviews her characters.
2013, John Lennard, Reading Tamora Pierce, 'The Protector of the Small', unnumbered page:
These four types of fic are most numerous, but there are many others, including, for example, modernisations placing Kel and/or other characters in a contemporary setting, metafics allowing one or more adult characters to read the novels, […]
2014, Veerle Van Steenhuyse, "Oh, the Angst! Emotional Immersion in Jane Austen Fan Fiction", in Words, Worlds, Narratives: Transmedia and Immersion (eds. Tawnya Ravy & Eric Forcier):
A few days later, the fan who sparked this discussion added her own voice to the debate with a metafic (that is, a fic about fandom) called 'The Girl Who Did Not Know Angst.'
2016, Layanne Malluhi, "Fanfiction and the Transgression of Fandom Communities", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, unnumbered page:
This fic is considered a metafic, a fic about fanfiction and fandom, and usually metafic is satirical like this one.
Noun: "(uncountable, fandom slang) such fan fiction collectively"[edit]
2000 May 2, lee burwasser, “Re: HAD question - "actor-fic"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[5] (Usenet):
The difference between this kind of "metafic" and objectionable "actor-fic" is that the metafic is still concentrated on the characters and the fictional world, with just a bit of the actors/real world (or other characters/other ficworld) stirred in for added interest, and usually humor. Objectionable "actor-fic" is fiction about the actors in the real world.
2000 May 3, pam, “metafic vs. actorfic Re: HAD question - "actor-fic"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[6] (Usenet):
I sincerely hope that no one *ever* feels hesitant about posting a good metafic here.
2002 April 11, Becky C., “Re: A question about Mary Sue stories...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative[7] (Usenet):
Depends. The blatantly obvious Mary-Sue-as-Metafic/Parody can be great, or it can be tiresome.
2016, Layanne Malluhi, "Fanfiction and the Transgression of Fandom Communities", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, unnumbered page:
User umqra1895 comments that the author “poke[d] fun and [paid] homage to the wide fanfic universe” with this fic, which is essentially what metafic does.