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

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

My fandom/fic/slash life is strictly separate from all other slices of the life-pie. A few RL people know that I have "HoYay" filters on when I watch TV or movies, and they're tolerant--even amused.

I have some fear of being outed for writing smutty slash, partly because I work in an oh-so-politically-correct, public-sector environment where it could be embarrassing to the point of job-loss.