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]

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[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Poly, so "dating" doesn't really cover it, but the answer I gave is kinda closeish, in that I have at least one partner who qualifies as such.

I've always been really open about sexuality related stuff, and have had pictures of my genital piercings online and readily accessible for years, for example. I have been at parties where people from my work, including my then-boss, have ended up somehow at the computer looking at my piercing photos. So the slash thing's not something I bother to hide, and just about everyone knows about it. The guys at work were teasing me about it just today in fact (though it degenerated into a Trek vs Anime geekwar pretty quickly -- ah, computer nerds). My dad's read some of my PG-13ish Master and Commander stuff, too. And my LJ pre-dates my interest in slash, so many of the people who read it are RL friends and acquaintances.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

(I've been meaning to tell you that I love your new themed icons. Particularly this one and the "swing every way" one.)

See, now, I could not imagine having my boss look at pictures of my genital piercings, but it sounds like it worked out pretty well for you. (And yay for geeks. Is it just me, or are geeks just in general likely to be more accepting and open - albeit likely to turn everything into a Geek Debate - than your average person?)

And I'm always fascinated that there are people who incorporated slash into their pre-fannish LJs. You folks are wonderful. (Of course, slash was the only reason I was even willing to consider getting a LJ. I was the Wariest Livejournaler there for a while; it practically took a Christmas special about the magic of livejournal to get me to start one.)

Oh, and my apologies for the paucity of poly-appropriate relationship choices. I was in a trio for quite a while myself, so I know the irritating difficulty of trying to find something suitable on a list like the one above, but I couldn't figure out how to put in every possible option yet still keep it short enough that people would take it. So thanks for picking the most suitable choice; that's pretty much what I hoped the polyfolk would do.