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

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

there is no separation of anything for me. ;) But my little sister now has an LJ.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I hope she's not a much littler sister, because that could be kind of weird. (For example, if she starts writing FF and she goes through that Mary Sue phase we all went through at 13. That'd be a tough one to watch a loved one do.) But, in general, that's way cool. Welcome, ashkitty's little sister!

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Hee! My little sister is 26 with a degree in creative writing. I think we're safe. ;)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Then clearly it is your duty, both to fandom and to your sister, to get her writing slash immediately. (And if she is already writing slash, then you should point us to her stuff.) It sounds like good writing runs in the family!

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Alas, she does not write either fanfic or slash! She writes literary fiction, none of which is on the web anywhere. Not that I haven't tried!