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

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

"Geechiness". What a FANTASTIC word!

As far as "serious current relationship" and whether that person knows of my deep and abiding love for slash: No, she doesn't, because she's eight, and that's just not appropriate. :-D I know, it's cheating, what with the kid and all.

Also: Did you get my e-mail of last week? If not, nothing big; I'll try to figure out ways to work it into LJ conversations. ;-)

I hope everything's okay. MWAH!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love "geechiness." I actually remember where I first saw "geechy." It was in Donald Westlake's Don't Ask. (And if you haven't read it, you should, because the Dortmunder series can cure all ills. Seriously. Start with The Hot Rock. And I think you'd especially appreciate the lawyer described at the beginning of Nobody's Perfect; I read that first chapter in a bookstore and disgraced myself to the point where I had to leave and finish my bout of hysteria in the parking lot.) "Geechy" was such a perfect word that it immediately migrated to my vocabulary and has been there ever since.

And, hey; kids were supposed to be covered in the next demographics poll! But, OK, you've always been an over-achiever, so I suppose it makes sense that you had to jump the gun.

(I got your email YESTERDAY. My mail server is so, so fucked. ARG!)

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

GAH! Yesterday?! Ugh.

And you say "overachiever", I say "false start". :-D Hee.