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

[maddoggirl.livejournal.com]

Major squeeage! I wish someone I knew didn't think fanfic was teh weirdz. Maybe try not to focus so much on the gay pr0n, in case he gets freaked ;D

[dangomango.livejournal.com]

Hah! That is so cool. I dunno if I'd ever do one of those interviews, though, 'cause I'm weird enough in real life without even taking the fanfic thing into account-I'd probably traumatize the poor interviewer!
You'll tell us how it goes?

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's just so cool!! Good luck...

[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.

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

COOOOOOL!!

I so wanna know more about this interview. :-)

Make us look good!!

[housepiglet.livejournal.com]

Exciting stuff! I hope this goes well. Maybe he'll upload the interview? That would be very cool :)

[imagi-nation22.livejournal.com]

OMG that is awesome. Let us know how it goes!!!!