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

[zillah975]

I answered "other" on the "who knows and how'd they take it questions." Most of my friends know I write LOTR fanfiction. One of them, and my guy, know I write smut. The rest of them may think I write smut, or they may think I'm kidding when I laughingly mention staying home to write pr0n. The guy knows I write boy/boy smut; the pal knows I like boy/boy smut. None of them know I write RPS, and I don't think they think the fanfic is smutty. Which, unless you count RPS as fanfic, it isn't.

Oh, and my mom knows I write boy/boy relationships in a collaborative writing community, but I've never actually told her it was smutty.

They all seem to think it's a good hobby. :)