Poll: When fan fiction meets real life, what happens?

[thefourthvine]

In America at this time of year, we get extremely used to answering invasive questions from total strangers. So I thought I'd conduct a poll that could yield potentially interesting results.

Basically, I'm curious about how you handle the interaction between your real life and your fan life; as someone who just recently invited a real-life, pre-fandom friend to view this rather fannish LJ, I find this a topic of relevance right now. And it's sure less depressing than all the political polls I've been reading.


[Poll #370787]

Comments

[erjika.livejournal.com]

(whee, poll!)

Only about four of my female friends know I'm into slash and fan fiction and really know what that means (acceptance ranges, but it's all tolerated). Strangely, nearly all my male friends know I like slash, and they're all totally cool with it! Okay, so they make fun of me sometimes, but they really have no problem with it, which I found surprising yet great.

My mum and dad have accepted I like gay films. But I don't think they'd be able to wrap their minds around me slashing, and more importantly, writing about it.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

That's excellent, that your guy friends are cool with it; I would expect that (guys are much more porn-positive just in general), but I know from other people that that doesn't always happen.

My big concern with my mother and father is having to explain it to them. In detail. And having them ask their usual "we love you, and we want to share your interest, and by god we will share it, no matter how alien it is to us" questions. And then, because of my father's health issues (brain cancer), there's a 30% chance I'd have to go through the whole thing again the next day.

So I'm sure they'd be able to accept my slash habit; I even think they'd be able to cope with me writing it. But I couldn't handle them reading it, which they would definitely want to, and I sure couldn't handle explaining it to them daily.