I'll just be over here, arriving to this post super-late and agreeing with everything you've said. (And in response to the debate that followed your comment, I'll simply say this: I'm a writer, albeit not a prolific one at all, and respect to the characters I know/recognize and their canon is always of utmost importance to me. However, I've never had any issue reading this fic, and I've certainly reread it, too.) I also very much enjoyed the other fic you mentioned at the end. I think these two are the only ones I bothered to save and label lovingly as "metafic" amongst my many favorites.