OMFG! RL people noticed me!

[teyla]

I'm registered at a site which is a community for German students, with profile pages and everything. You can also join discussion groups. I'm not very active on this site, but I'm in several fanfiction discussion groups, and I have a link to my LJ on my profile.

Now, another student contacted me via the PM function of this site (paraphrasion from the German original by me):


I'm a journalist at the Bayrischen Rundfunk [Bavarian radio station] and I'm currently researching fanfiction. I'm looking for people in the area who'd be willing to give an interview about this subject.

I'd be interested in: what exactly is fanfiction? why do people write fanfiction? who are the people who write fanfiction? are you a fanfic writer yourself? etc.

(And some blah blah and contact data.)


Squee! I can tell a RL person about fanfiction. And he'll listen, not look at me with wide eyes and change the subject! I hope ;). OMG, I'm so excited. A little scared, too, because I'm not sure whether I want to tell a complete stranger "yes, I do write gay pr0n on the internetz" and have him broadcasting that all over the state *gg*. But this is too good a chance to pass it up.

Comments

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Dude! Awesome!

I occasionally get into meta-ish discussions about fandom with my mother (because she has her own fandoms, so she's not totally clueless, although she's not interested in fanfic). I have to be careful not to get too TL;DR on her, though; she's not one for overly abstract discussion. She's about the only person I can even say the word "fandom," to, and not get a blank stare.

This sounds like it might be a lot of fun.

[teyla]

Well, I do have RL people I can discuss fandom with - my sister, who is somewhat of a BNF in Enterprise, and neery, and I also have a couple of friends whom I have trained not to flinch and run when I say TEH GAY PR0N *gg*.

However, getting to tell people ON THE RADIO how awesome exactly fanfiction is, that's something entirely new. I just hope he won't focus too much on the 14-year-old Mary Sue HP writers and turn fanfiction into something cute that lonely teenage girls do when their BF has left them (I just talked to him on the phone, and it seems like he found two HP writers in the Munich area to interview. I'll have to set his head straight after that interview... ;P).