Citations:metafic

Noun: "(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 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.
 * 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"

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.