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]

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[lm.livejournal.com]

Er. Elaborating on the "What's your most serious current relationship?" question.

I'm somewhere between "dating seriously" and "together for eternity." It's kind of complicated. I'm in a triad (a three-person relationship in which each person is seeing the other two--in my case, generally all three see each other together) and we've been together for three years, and we've pretty much decided that we can't live without being connected to one another. We don't see each other all that often, so I'd hesitate to say we've got a marriage-type thing (besides the fact that "marriage" is something we've never wanted, because it implies exclusivity, and while we're fidelitous to each other in the sense that we're loyal, it's an open relationship and we're free to see other people, provided the triad always comes first, priority-wise) but I wouldn't say we're just dating seriously, either, because it's a thoroughly committed relationship, and more to the point, we've never really had what most people would define as a "date" to begin with.

Damn. Who ever guessed such a simple question would require such a complicated answer?