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

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

anyone in my Real Life: a decent number of people, but i wouldn't say "most". i do believe in separation of life and fandom, but that's hard to maintain. :-) i think what it is, really, is that a decent number of fans have come into my Real Life, and there's a few people in Real Life who are aware as well.

how did they take it: i was going to choose "fairly well", but i don't know that there was temporary geechiness. basically i think the position of my non-fannish-but-aware friends is "sure, whatever".

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

(Btw, I love that icon. I have a whole bunch of "fangirl" images saved against the day that I learn to make icons, but, really, I think that picture is better than any of the ones I have. Yum.)

It really is tough to maintain separation of life and fandom. Sometimes my parents will ask me what I did with a day off, and I'll think, Jesus, did I do anything non-fannish? Um. Is "computer stuff" vague enough? But I've always been a big person for boundaries between different parts of my life, too.

And yay for your non-fannish (much better term that RL, incidentally, as so many of us have fan friends that have crossed into RL) friends, who seem pretty blase.