December daily: Family and fandom

norah prompts: Is your kid aware of the extent of your fannish involvement? How have you two navigated that? Is the kidlet fannish, and how? What about your partner?

For a while I worried about the kidlet accidentally intersecting with the smutty side of my fannish life, but they're fourteen now, so I'm not worried about it any more. I was reading plenty of smut when I was fourteen, most of it much less life-affirming than fanfiction.

I mean, I think I later discovered that calico was about fourteen the first time I sent her a feedback e-mail that said, "That story you wrote was incredibly sexy!"

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