metafic

English

Etymology

meta +‎ fic

Noun

metafic (countable and uncountable, plural metafics)

1. (countable, fandom slang) A fanfic with metafictional elements, focusing on fan fiction, fandom, or creators.
   • 2008, Roberta Grandi, “Web Side Stories: Janeites, Fanfictions, And Never Ending Romances”, in Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, Sirpa Leppänen, editors, Internet Fictions, 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.

   • 2014, Veerle Van Steenhuyse, “Oh, the Angst! Emotional Immersion in Jane Austen Fan Fiction”, in Tawnya Ravy, Eric Forcier, editors, Words, Worlds, Narratives: Transmedia and Immersion:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:metafic.
2. (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.
   • 2000 May 2, lee burwasser, “Re: HAD question - "actor-fic"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[1] (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.

   • 2002 April 11, Becky C., “Re: A question about Mary Sue stories...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative‎^[2] (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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:metafic.