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

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Does anyone in your real life know about this fan fiction/slash/smut thing?

I've told my mother and sister about the "smut" thing, but not the "fan fiction" thing. I don't see anything particularly strange about being interested in gay sex, but gay sex between TV characters? That's embarrassing. I'm working on that.

Most of my friends who know about slash are slashers themselves - that's how we met.

I wouldn't even consider going into a relationship with someone I didn't feel I could tell about slash. It's a fairly big part of my life.

I'm assuming you got my 2nd email the other day.