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

[lapillus]

My answer re: signifcant other was for my last one. And oddly, one I broke up with over 15 years ago who found me again via my slash fiction. Most of my real life friends are fannish and know about slash in varying degrees with some variations in comfort with it although nobody has run away screaming form me because of it, at most its just not a topic we dicuss.

My parents know, including slash, although I haven't shared anything NC-17ish with them I have shared one of my less explict stories and they have seen almost all of my vids, including all the slashy ones.

My coworkers all know or have had a chance to find out I'm fannish. Several have seen my vids, one was having fun showing the slash ones to her husband and while none of them are into the same mode of fandom as I, I have had regular discussions of fannish books and shows (including OZ and general happy squeeing over Beecher/Keller stuff). That being said I don't generally bring it up as a topic of conversation at work except to say that I'm off to another con. *g*