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

[rowanfairchild.livejournal.com]

My husband is kind of an art snob. He knows I *read* slash, but he doesn't know I *write* it. Therefore, he doesn't know my pseud, about my LJ, etc. Frankly, I just don't want to deal with the ridicule. He knows about my thing for gay porn though, and is cool with that--hell, he'll get gay porn for me. It's the *fan* thing he has issues with.

And just in general, I've kept separation between fanlife and "RL" -- I don't think my business clients or my fairly conservative family would be cool with it. Friend-wise, I've been subtly rearranging my friendships over the past 5 years or so -- most of my "RL" friends now *are* fan-friends.

[ineke.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yeah, my boyfriend knows about my predeliction for gay porn, but as for the writing of slash?

OVER MY DEAD BODY.