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Certain kinds of metafic instead take aim at the fandom's perception of fanfiction, in general or about specific tales, or at the attitudes fanfic writers have about their work. This form of writing was once called [http://web.archive.org/web/20080130161159/http://www.subreality.com/glossary/terms.htm '''faanfiction''']. In "[[The Horror of Getting a Daria Fanfiction Reviewed]]," [[Ace Trax]] uses an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Anaconda Angela Anaconda] fanfic to look at the anxiety writers experience when their ''Daria'' stories are reviewed. [[Ruthless Bunny]]'s "[[Melody Powers and the Temple of Doom]]" does the same thing using Daria herself. Both use comedy in pointed ways to deflate the egos of writers who have difficulty tolerating negative reviews.
Metafiction can violate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall fourth wall] by having characters address the reader throughout the tale or in brief asides, or by having fanfic authors appear in the story, manipulating characters and events in ways meant to highlight their particular styles. At times fanfic authors meet their creations, but the ''Daria'' characters get revenge on the authors for abusing the characters in their stories. One ''Daria'' episode that was notorious for its [[Off-Canon Canon#"Daria!"|out-of-character]] fourth-wall violations, start to finish, was "[[Daria!]]," though other episodes included minor examples (e.g., "[[Quinn the Brain]]," when Daria in Quinn's clothing smiles at the viewers, having successfully gotten Quinn to stop acting like a brain).
Not all metafiction is so blunt, however. The jarring that the reader receives can be subtle, too. Consider a story in which Tom berates himself after ''[[Is It College Yet?]]'' for losing Daria, blaming his impulsive kiss for screwing up any possibility of keeping the relationship in the long term. While he does this, he goes about his daily life doing good works per usual, his real sins being insignificant compared to his achievements. This could challenge the "Tom Is Evil" stereotype that pivots around [[The Kiss]], putting that event in better perspective.
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