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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 both skewers [[Mary Sue]] stories and [[angst]] 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 invert the traditional Mary Sue trope of having the self-insert character be omniscient, omnipotent, and physically irresistible, as his Mary Sue persona is physically and morally weak, clueless, and can't even admit his attraction to Daria to himself. Angst gets a skewering as, even while the fanfic portrays a well-crafted angsty melodrama, Scissors-the-character is writing it as a deliberate way of hurting and degrading Daria, and both him and other prevelant angst writers are presented as malicious and sadistic.
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.
A more recent example is [[Jim North]]'s "[[Bringing the Angst]]", where Daria goes around spreading angst and melodrama by touch: a parody of the then-prevelant angst fics, highlighting their occasional ludicrousness. The follow-up, "[[Bringing the Cheer]]", continues this with an over-the-top 'cheer' fic version of Lawndale.
==External Links==
The following are examples of '''metafics''' in ''Daria'' fandom.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5530991/1/Bringing_the_Angst Bringing the Angst] and [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5793661/1/Bringing_the_Cheer Bringing the Cheer] by [[Jim North]]
* [http://theangstguy.com/fanfics/deusjane.htm "Deus Jane"] by [[The Angst Guy]]
* [http://www.thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24541 "The Fall of the Angst Lords,"] by [[Gouka Ryuu]] ("faanfiction")
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