Metafic about SPN meta

[cimorene]

(You probably know, even if you're not into the show, that Supernatural last season introduced a prophet, who receives visions of the real-life actions of the protagonists and has written a best-selling series of books about them, including fan communities, Wincest, and most recently, cons. And if you didn't, now you do.)

This is touched on not infrequently in fanfiction, but there's an ongoing series that's a pretty good example called Fourth Wall by libraryofsol that takes it father than usual (while being pretty funny, so that's also a rec if you're into such things, even though the rec is not my point at all).

So in this story, Sam goes back to the internet to check up on the Wincesters, and is butthurt because he's become unpopular in fanfiction, with Dean/Castiel shipping having become more popular.

"Great, fabulous. So, according to the internet, I don't deserve to have sex any more. Not even creepy, incestuous gay sex with my brother."

"It's not that bad," Dean protests.

"Not even creepy, incestuous gay sex with my brother," Sam repeats. Because it's worth repeating he thinks.

(This is, in fact, what happened last season - for meta on the subject, see for example esorlehcar.)

Next, Dean tells Castiel about the slash about them and Sam's hurt feelings, and Castiel, with typical solemn curiosity, demands to be shown the Dean/Cas fiction. Next, Dean, feeling sorry for Sam because he feels left out, starts looking for any fiction at all about him. What he finds is that the newest trend is Sam/Lucifer (this is also true of actual fandom, although it might now be the second-newest trend after Sam/Gabriel--if that's a trend? I saw it come up as secondary pairing a few times at deancastiel). Sam is even more upset by this, and then Lucifer starts baiting him about it in his dreams. Next she explores wingfic (Dean's and Castiel's opinions), and then it gets even more meta: Chuck calls and asks them to stop reading the fanfiction:

"Is he writing about us reading porn about ourselves?" Dean expression is a complicated mess, like he's not entirely sure whether to be amused or horrified, or some sort of entertaining mixture of the two.

When it's phrased like that Sam's not entirely sure either.

"I don't know but if we keep doing it he's probably going to end up insane."

Now, this is what I really want to talk about: when the meta gets layered! Because that is both awesome and funny. The canon creators started a potentially recursive infinity of fiction-meta-fiction when they put the fanfiction in the canon. Why not take it even farther?

Like an AU where Dean, Sam, and Cas are actors on the tv-show Supernatural (typically in this kind of AU the characters they play are named after the actors - whatever, that works for me) which still has fanfiction about itself on the show, and also, of course, there is RPS about them. (Or the show Dean & co are in is like an SPN RPF show, about actors making the show Supernatural, and they talk about RPF against the backdrop of their characters on the show discovering RPF by accident after the episodes of the characters' show where the characters' characters talk about fanfic!)

Or an AU where SPN canon as it stands is actually a series of books written by Dean, and Sam and Cas are his brother and friend who find the fanfiction about them-in-his-books-where-they-are-hunters-with-fanfiction-written-about-them.

...What? I'd read it.