Snowflake challenge 2026

[zimena]

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Hi. I'm Zimena. I used to be more active with the online journaling back in the day, and I'm always telling myself that I'd like to get back into writing here regularly. It would be very nice if this challenge could give me the needed kick to get the year started on a good note.

I'm a sports fan in general, and by extension that tends to lead to taking an interest in certain countries and languages if I have favourite athletes from there. Even though I don't play any sports myself, I follow my favourites passionately and tend to get deeply absorbed with whatever sport is the most important to me. For the last few years, that has meant - and still means - snooker.

As for fictional fandoms, they're mostly of the gaming variety. From "modern" games, I used to be heavily into Genshin Impact, and maybe Baldur's Gate 3. However, I'm also old enough to have a big space in my heart for the old NES and SNES games. You just can't beat some of them for playability. (I've just discovered Uncharted Waters: New Horizons, and I'm hooked!)

Sometimes I might think of fic about people I admire, but these days it rarely comes out of my fingers. That's also something I'd like to start fixing in the year ahead. We'll see, though.

For now, that's a bit about me. Looking forward to meeting some new people via this challenge. I'm always happy to make new friends!