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

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Until tonight, the only person who knew for certain was my twin sister, dawnglider - we just kind've both noticed we were reading stories on our comps and kind've came to a tactit understanding, which bloomed into open discussion. (I think dawnglider might have initiated this, actually.)
However, I saw a kind've friend (someone I know but don't see much of and yet we are friends when we see each other) tonight, and we were talking about writing, and she just brought up slash - she assumed I knew what she was talking about. So now I don't know - do I give off slash vibes?
As for the rest of my friend, I've kind've hinted around the edges - I make comments in my LJ periodically that if you were into slash you'd pick up on. Also, I have it listed on my user page as an interest. And I've skirted around it in conversation with some of my friends. No-one else has picked up on it, and I'm not going to sit them down and explain it to them (although I'd love to be able to talk about it with them, and rec fics, and get fic recs, and post about it in my LJ etc) because it would be weird, and could remain weird. I'm not going there, it's too risky.
My parents would think it was odd, I think - they already think fandom is a bit pathetic.

[moonblade85.livejournal.com]

That's really funny! Me and my twin sister, merelyn are both massively into fandom and slash. We both got into it at the same time, and have always been really open about it, teasing each other about the pairings we're into etc.

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Well, we're open with each other, but the rest of the family? No way. That way lies disaster!