A new meta thing.
Drawing inspiration from a chat conversation. I hope you like it.
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Enh. Declaring that it was meta ruined it for me.
Eh, you really didn't need to throw up the metafiction thing up front. But I like this story, it made me smile, and I've upvoted it.
Thinking about it, this concept has been done better (and much less narmily) elsewhere on the wiki. Downvoted.
I generally like metafiction, but something about this one just isn't catching me. It's actually really well-done up until that last "look at me! I'm meta!" section, and I think that the story would stand well on its own without it, but that kinda defeats the purpose of this being a metafiction story. Perhaps make the "RL" reference to the site somewhat more oblique?
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
I agree that the meta element was offputting and definitely overdone, but some sort of reference at the end would have still worked for me. Hm…
Also, I fixed your its > it's errors.
edit: Actually, upvote removed, because it was the combination of the writing and the meta thing that made me smile and earned the upvote in the first place.
He took out the section that was explicitly meta. Thing is, if you know what the metareality is/was, you can still read this as a meta story. If you don't know the metareality, this isn't a meta story. But it's still good either way.
If you're interested in reading the meta bit, go into the history and read one of the older versions.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
I actually liked the meta-ness of it all. Gave me a "Somewhere, all myths are true." feeling. Good without it too, but I definitely liked the original better.
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