I suppose it was only a matter of time

[ratherastory]

So my "anonymity" over here in fandom is officially at an end. After indoctrinating some new friends this weekend, it turns out that one of them knew another fan of SPN, who in turn apparently has read my fic.

And so now I have a RL friend who's a friend of this LJ.

ACK!

*waves to B*

Uh... yeah. This is what I do in my spare time. *cough*

Why IS it that it's easier to explain/justify porn than h/c? I don't get it.

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[bellatemple]

You think that's bad? I know for a fact that at least two of my uncles have found my journal. Every now and then I go "aw crap, Uncle Mike is probably gonna read this."

Though if he does, he keeps nice and quiet about it. . . .

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Haha oh crap. Dude, my sympathies.

My mother knows I write fanfiction, but I have told her outright that she is NEVER going to read any of it, and I think she's secretly relieved. ;)

[bellatemple]

I think I'm helped by the fact that I've been doing this long enough to have lost most of my shame. One of my best friends actually was a huge help in working out structure and parallelism for a fic I worked on five years ago, because I wouldn't shut up about working it out. The Anonymous BFF, who frequently comments on my journal, actually asked to borrow SPN so she could figure out what the hell all my stories are about (though she also harasses me to work on original stuff). My immediate family all knows (and my older brother and I have spent years swapping fic ideas), and one of my aunts wanted to read my fic but refused to do it on the computer (she used to write Star Trek fic for mimeographed zines. She's hardcore).

Uncle Mike is fascinated by trends in social networking, and Uncle John (the other one I know has seen this thing) is a futurist with a deep fascination for the shifts in communication and popular culture, so I think they both are mostly just sort of academically interested in a vague way.

I don't tell people at work about it, though. Well, except that one guy. But, yeah, I do try to keep my professional life separate, anyway.