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]

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[tobiascharity.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, most of the writers in my department got their start in fanfiction, so when someone caught sight of a piece of slash fanart taped to someone's planner and yelled, "DUDE, Harry/Draco is totally my OTP too!" there were at least twenty writers clustered in a group chattering about fandom and slash and porn and...it was really quite mind-boggling.

My mother found out that I wrote fanfiction, years and years ago, and effectively banned me from the internet for a long, long time.