Yeah, I study ninjutsu myself. I don't even want to imagine what would happen if any of my trainers ever found out! Or any of the people I train with. It makes me shudder just thinking about it!

 

Wow, your guys parents don't try to tell people. My parents found out because I was reading before I got my laptop.

They will be driving someone home and I'm there to or something and they'll start "well Darius spends all his time reading *me hits/kicks/coughs/ferventheadshaking* and then he'll finish very lamely with something like, various things on the internet.

None of my friends know except for when my mom get piss drunk and told my girl-friend and her friend. I don't think they got it though, I covered it up pretty fast. with something like "Fanfiction? Oh yeah I had to read some of that for a project on internet affecting children" or someshit like that.


On another note, I think Dwitty has posted more in this thread than he has in all threads combined.

 

Never thought about it that way. Perhaps it can be used as a neat pick-up line. "May I show you my ff.net account?"

 

I've been reading fanfiction for 5 1/2 years now so my mom, aunt, uncle, other aunt, other uncle, and all of my cousins know. All my friends know. 3 of my friends read fanfiction themselves although none to the extent that I do (their parents won't let them spend the hours I do on the computer), and 7 of my friends love the Harry Potter books. I've mentioned it to a few teachers, and this year I mentioned it in Health and English class. Fanfction is a regular topic of discussion with me and my friends, and only my family have ever made fun of me for it.

 

O.O my GOD, Darius! You can count!? You managed to subtract my number of posts in this thread from my total count! I'm so proud of you!

But seriously, yeah, you're right.

 

I counted on my fingers.

 

Darius: ah, of course, I should have known. How else could you count into the 30s?

 

Remember Folks, Three Can Keep A Secret If Two Are Dead.

 

Not sure if my parents know, and even if they did, they probably don't care. My younger sister reads, and writes (Slash, sadly), and I know my parents know she reads/writes. My best friend reads and writes, and agrees with some of my dislike for some pairings (and hates Slash in particular). Other various people have found out I read it, by seeing it on my computer when they hang out, ask why I read it, then promptly continue onto doing other various things on my computer.

So yeah, quite a few people know, but no one really cares enough to dissuade me from reading/writing.

 

Just about everyone I was in close contact knew at my old school. My family knows, and my older sister reads it (even though what she reads rarely ventures from the "slasher" side of HP). Now that I'm in the middle of nowhere again, though, most people know I read fanfiction because I tell them, other than that, they have no clue.

I don't bother to explain further. I might have told my boyfriend, but I don't really remember. I don't actively worry about people finding out, though. The people who I might have actually cared about making a big deal out of it, I am certain won't.

 

I started reading fan fiction because I knew a guy that read all the time when we were stuck in class, but I never bothered to tell him I picked it up because we weren't that close. MY family knows I read it, but probably has no idea what it is. If they ask me what I'm doing on the computer, I say "reading", if they ask for details I tell them "Harry Potter". It never comes up with friends and I don't tend to speak about myself unless prompted.

 

My mum,dad, sister, ex girlfriend and best friend and his wife know. Not WHAT I write outside of HP, but that I write. Ive given them a brief discription of DLP as well. Best friend said he thought dropping by IRC would be ... amusing.

 

You know, the topic's never come up really. I make no attempt to hide that I like fanfic or HP in general, and everyone knows I'm constantly typing something or other. Maybe my family hasn't caught on that the two are related, or maybe they have, I don't know. My Aunt teaches storytelling and poetry (graduate and undergraduate level english courses) at the Ringling School of Art and Design, and she's helped me a bit with developing my writing style.

My family lost hope for me years ago so if I told them "I've written six hundred pages of HP fanfic/300,000 words" they wouldn't be too shocked. I've been a reader forever, played D&D since the late eighties, became a DM for several years, played in five or six different LARP games, and am working on my own piece of original fiction with my aunt. That and I wen't to college for engineering, my calculator has more buttons than my parent's computer. The "oh no, my son's a geek" barrier is long gone.

You think telling people that you read/write fanfic is hard? Try explaining a LARP to the uninitiated; "I spend my saturday nights dressed in rags pretending to be a down-on-my-luck werewolf fighting against people who pollute and wreck the planet. What? Of course I'm not crazy! No, we play rock-paper-scissors to simulate combat. BTW, people from Kenosha cheat at rock-paper-scissors! Great role players but don't let them trick you..."

 

Yeah. I don't try and hide it. Truthfully, my parents wouldn't care either way. They really haven't made much of an effort to stay involved in my life since I was around 14. Divorce, etc. Usual.

Eh. Had a lot of freetime, read Harry Books, wanted more, searched the web. Started off at mugglenet, and pushed forward to harrypotterforums.com (or something like that. Haven't visited in years.)

Found fanfiction and DLP, and never looked back. I had a lot of time to kill anyway. I was a member of a few clubs (Secretary of PHilsophy, President of Chess Team, etc.) Anyway, came home with nothing to do. Watched movies and read Harry.

I don't hide it, and if someone asked me what my hobbies are I would tell them.

 

The whole telling people thing definitely isn't what I would consider as something on my to-do list insofar as I know that I would never hear the end of it from my friends. However I believe that some of them have enjoyed all six books (sadly the last one is included in that statement) because the off-handed Harry Potter "plug-in" comments are just far too specific for them to have passively read the first couple years ago (as they would have everyone believe).

But, as for people that already know, the list is short, extremely short, as in my sister and parents. I forget how the cat leaped out of the bag with the parents but my sister actually discovered it about two months after I did (I was searching for what the name to book five would be and if I could sneak a look at the pending covers when I stumbled upon cygnus' fanfiction website)and I was on her laptop to do a project when the parents were robbing me of the pc when I saw a ff.net window open (something I had only glimpsed while reading "I am Lord Voldemort" via cygnus' website).

On the other hand, most of my friends know that I frequently read comic books (and we have set up a very conspicuous trading circle open to all) and probably wouldn't really say much. Maybe this thread has given me the erm...audacity to breach the subject with a select few. But...maybe not.

That's my two cents.

 

My uncle, who is staying with us, always does that. So does my mom...too bad they can't read the small print well. When they ask what I'm doing, I just reply "Reading some books/stories." They think it's something educational and give me a pat on my shoulder before leaving.

My bro knows, in fact he got me into it. My good friend knows, she thinks it is stupid and weird...

Other than them no else knows, and I hope that it stays that way.

Btw, I've always wondered if someone from my school was on this site....that would be scary.

 

doubt it. 2500 people. Across globe. Odds of 2 in your school? Slim to none.

Maybe in places like NYC or LA, but when you get that big, who cares?

 

My mom knows that I read stories on the internet, but only because I left a story on the screen when I was making a snack upstairs and came back down to see her reading what was on the screen. She has no idea I write though.

My close friends know that I write stories, not necessarily fanfiction, but just stories in general. I've actually sent some of my work to let them edit it a bit and just to get general feedback. The names are edited and everything so they won't know that I'm writing fanfiction, I don't think I'd like for them to know. I know for a fact I would get totally laughed at and they would never drop it.

But one of my friends writes as well, since I caught him writing a draft in his notebook once and asked him what it was. Didn't tell him I was an author as well, just told him I've read fanfiction.

 

My parents know - caught me reading it. Same for some of my siblings. The only admonition was not to let it take time away from my studies.

My friends who read fanfic know I do too - however, they're all in other fandoms, so I don't have to worry about someone I know on here! I mean, one writes pokemon, one writes Deltora Quest, one writes BtVS (I think), one's into PotC fandom, and I'm not so sure about three or four others. I definitely don't go around telling people, though.