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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.
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
Another 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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