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

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Well, and it's so much easier (for me, at any rate) to make friends via slash than in real life that eventually one's social life ends up being mostly fandom-related. But do you find it difficult to keep the two separate? I'm forever telling people about this great story I read, and then realizing that a) that was fan fiction and b) this person is not a fan fiction person.

Ooops.

[laylee.livejournal.com]

But do you find it difficult to keep the two separate?

No, not really. Most of my friends are big huge geeks ayway so we've always go pleanty of fanish stuff to talk about. And I can always squee about a great story on LJ or the Yahoo Groups I'm a member of. I think it's because the fandoms I pursue in fic aren't always the same ones I share with my friends so I can keep a certain amount of distance between the two.