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

[ladysorka]

I answered "everyone knows", but that isn't quite true - people I work with don't know, etc. Well, they know I'm a geek (it'd be hard to miss the action figures on my desk), but the full extent.

However, my immediate family and most of my friends know - but there was no outing required, not that I remember. I mean, when I was 13, my mother would leave me notes by the computer that said things like: "I bookmarked a Janeway/Chakotay I think you'd like." and said fic would be NC-17. She doesn't do slash, but she knows I do and has no problem with it.

My little sister writes anime het and yaoi.

My Dad things we're all a little nuts, but can cheerfully go on about someone we're related to who died in 1689 for hours, so we ignore him.

And most of my friends I either met through fandom or some other sort of geeky activity.

So, yeah. Not really an issue.