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

[skripka.livejournal.com]

A "fan" of mine "outed" me to my brother; I told my not-quite-ex, and when he got mad at me, he "outed" me to my mom. Seeing as how 90% of my output is smutty slash, this has been an interesting year... Interestingly enough, the slash doesn't bother my mom--she's just anti-porn.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Grrr. I am giving electronic nasty looks to both your "fan" and your ex; telling someone else's secrets is not acceptable behavior. That sucks, and you have my sympathy. Also, I promise to kick those people on the shins if I ever meet them in real life.

I'm interested in your mother's reaction. Is she anti-porn for moral or religious reasons or is it an exploitation thing? Because if the latter, I would have thought she'd be OK with stories about fictional characters - I mean, no one's getting hurt. And if the former, I would have thought she'd have a problem with the slash aspect, too. So I find that odd, but I probably just haven't thought the whole thing through properly.

[skripka.livejournal.com]

Well, now, that's odd about my mom. She's old-school feminist, Vatican II Roman Catholic. Nearly as liberal as me; an artist and teacher at a local university. Even drives a Subaru.

I'm pretty sure the anti-porn thing stems from her avowed asexuality, which is tied up in the "OMGSIN" and "OMGEXPLOITATION" from her relgious and feminist sides. I really don't believe she thinks about sex. And I'm honestly not saying that because she's my mom. :)

Thinking more on it, she's not bothered by gay love; she certainly doesn't get why I find it so arousing. She certainly doesn't get my sex drive. I was fairly protected while growning up--it's possible, like the way she still considers me a blonde (which I haven't been for 33 years), that she can't imagine her quiet, book-guzzling daughter as a purveyor and consumer of raunchy man-sex. And woman-sex. And the occasional coed-sex and/or piles.