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

[coconutswirl.livejournal.com]

Most of my RL friends know that I'm into fanfic, particularly slash. Most of my RL friends are also huge SciFi geeks, roleplayers, and incredibly open-minded. A large percentage also identify as bisexual. Slash and fanfic is not a problem with them. Only a few of my RL friends are fannish, but we swap recs and watch fannish stuff together.

But for the first time in ages I'm dating a guy. I recently told him about my sexual orientation ("queer") which he handlded really well. But Lord altmighty he is not going to find out about my fannish activities. He's not going to understand the entire scene - not unless I spend a large amount of time subtly preparing him.

I'm also keeping quiet in job-related enviroments.