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

[moonblade85.livejournal.com]

My social situation is unique I guess. I have a group of close friends. About half of us are all into fanfiction and specifically slash. So very often when two or more of us get together conversation descends into fandom chatter. The half that aren't into have a range of irritated tolerance towards it. I have told a few of my other friends, but only those that I knew would be cool with it. Oh, and my parents know strangely enough. They are befuddled (especially because I'm a lesbian who reads slash) but they are used to it with me. We don't talk about it though.