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An excellent example of ''Daria'' metafic is [[Scissors MacGillicutty]]'s "[[Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?]]" which skewers Mary Sue stories. More precisely, it skewers the idea that all Mary Sue or self-insert stories are terrible by being excellent, although the author himself has reservations about it. The author did intend to invert the traditional Mary Sue trope of having the self-insert character be omniscient, omnipotent, and physically irresistible, and his Mary Sue persona is weak, clueless, and can't even admit his attraction to Daria to himself. |
An excellent example of ''Daria'' metafic is [[Scissors MacGillicutty]]'s "[[Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?]]" which skewers Mary Sue stories. More precisely, it skewers the idea that all Mary Sue or self-insert stories are terrible by being excellent, although the author himself has reservations about it. The author did intend to invert the traditional Mary Sue trope of having the self-insert character be omniscient, omnipotent, and physically irresistible, and his Mary Sue persona is weak, clueless, and can't even admit his attraction to Daria to himself. |
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Another outstanding example of ''Daria'' metafic is [[The Angst Guy]]'s "[[Deus Jane]]" which uses continuity errors and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis#Diegesis_in_film non-diegetic] elements of ''Daria'' the cartoon as objective elements of a world created by a Jane Lane with god-like powers of creation. Thus |
Another outstanding example of ''Daria'' metafic is [[The Angst Guy]]'s "[[Deus Jane]]" which uses continuity errors and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis#Diegesis_in_film non-diegetic] elements of ''Daria'' the cartoon as objective elements of a world created by a Jane Lane with god-like powers of creation. Thus "[[Deus Jane]]" not only calls the reader's attention to that it is a work of fanfiction, but that the original work from which its derived contains numerous technical flaws. |
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