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

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

All my friends know, though some think it's cool and some prefer never to speak of it beyond, "so you're writing again? That's cool!" The '(sometimes underage) (sometimes gay) wizard/mutant/slayer/superhero' part is what throws them. They're okay with the porn, but the "why don't you write your own characters" thing is prevalent.

The only people I don't want to know are my employers. Which means of course that I shouldn't even be answering this now.

Oops.