Metafic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metafic is a noun meaning (countable, fandom slang) A fanfic with metafictional elements, focusing on fan fiction, fandom, or creators.
Meaning
(countable, fandom slang) A fanfic with metafictional elements, focusing on fan fiction, fandom, or creators.
More Meanings
- (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.
Example Sentences
Depends. The blatantly obvious Mary-Sue-as-Metafic/Parody can be great, or it can be tiresome.
This fic is considered a metafic, a fic about fanfiction and fandom, and usually metafic is satirical like this one.
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.
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.'
Word Forms
- metafics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include badfic, deathfic, hetfic, songfic, fanfic, darkfic.
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