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

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, my husband knows about fanfic in general, because I was in a het fandom a while back. He even went to a mini-con type thing with me, and I was pretty well known as a big (het) smut writer.

So quite honestly, at this point he knows about fanfic, and knows that I write it, but I'm 99% sure he still thinks it's het. I think the slash thing would freak him out completely.

No one other than him knows *anything* about my fannish life. None of my friends, my family - no one. They think I go to writers conferences, and that my friends I see in RL from fandom are all like - budding novelists. And to be honest - I dont really try and clarify that point to them too often *g*

Wonderful poll!