zimena: Snooker player Mark Selby (Default)
So, it seems I fell out of doing some of the [community profile] snowflake_challenge prompts, but this one caught my attention. Strangely, I find it quite hard to put what I want to words, but let's try:

Challenge #7

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.


Okay, some wishes:

I would really love some snooker drabbles or fics.

1) Mark Selby/Ronnie O'Sullivan rivals-to-lovers theme.
I just really love them both, and seeing them together would make me happy. Perhaps a bit angsty, with neither wanting to yield to the other. Yet, they also slowly start to realise that they get each other in a way nobody else could.
Happy or hopeful ending, please.

2) Mark Selby/Iulian Boiko, age/experience/power imbalance.
Iulian said in a podcast from 2023 that Mark was his snooker idol growing up. I'd love a dark fic where Mark realises this and chooses to manipulate it to his advantage. Yes, as much as I love Mark, I also love him as the fictional bad guy, sorry (not sorry :)).

Also, icons:

3) Icons with Mark Selby, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Iulian Boiko, or Judd Trump. Those four are my main favourites, in that order. Michael Holt or Wu Yize could be cute, too. Also, Stephen Hendry from when he was younger and had the longer hair would be extra cute. I love artistic icons, text on them, frames, decorations, but please do not make the picture itself unclear.

4) Just to show that I can think about things that aren't snooker, I'd also love icons of things like: the sea at night, the moon, something related to witchcraft or tarot, cats, fantasy-style weapons like swords or daggers, Castlevania-style whips, nice quotes, anything about vampires.
zimena: (Misc - Doll-like woman)
I said in my post for the new year that I wanted to post more actively on here... and I'm almost failing that task already on the first day of the year. However, there's the [community profile] snowflake_challenge, so at least I have a post to write for that.

If you want to see what changed since last year, I also did this exact task in 2024.

Now, then, here's today's task:

Challenge #1

Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Some things remain the same, others change from one year to the next. I'm still the same Zimena, in my 40s and from Norway. I've been in the habit of getting fiercely into things - mostly sports and/or individual athletes - ever since I was a kid. However, I never really knew about the concept of "fandom" until... I don't know when, probably since my 20s or so.

As you can probably guess, sports RPS is my fandom home. I used to write football slash for many years, but nowadays I don't really follow football anymore. Still, the vast majority of my fic collection is football-related, and written between 2006-2015. Since that time, I've written much less. I was into cross-country skiing for a couple of seasons, which resulted in some fic, though.

As for non-RPS fandoms, my main one was probably Genshin Impact. The game was a major part of my life for about two years, and I have some favourite characters there - Alhaitham and Neuvillette being the most important ones. I also ship Cyno/Alhaitham, and Neuvillette/Wriothesley. Oh, and yes, Diluc/Kaeya as well, though they faded to the background when my focus shifted towards the newer characters.

I was also quite into Baldur's Gate 3 for a while, with Astarion being my favourite character. I never wrote him as much as I would have liked, but I always enjoy reading about him - especially exploring his past and how far Cazador's control truly extended. Or, on the possibly less dark side, I enjoy the idea of Halsin/Astarion, too.

Nowadays, I'm fully back to being obsessed with sports again. Snooker is my life at the moment, and my favourite players are Mark Selby and Ronnie O'Sullivan. Yes, in that order, now. And yes, I know it might seem a bit unusual to love both, but I absolutely do. I'll be honest, I'm prone to rambling about the sport quite a bit, and I'd love to hear from you if you're into it as well. Doesn't matter if we're on opposite sides, either, as long as we have a good tone of communication.

...of course, when I'm heavily into something, wanting fic about that is the logical next step. Hence, there are a couple of snooker fics on my journal already, and hopefully there might be more in the future.

Sometimes I post my fics to AO3, and I'm [archiveofourown.org profile] Wicked_Northstar over there. The true archive of my fics is on this journal, though. I used to post here for many years before I even set up my AO3, and I've never found the courage or interest to upload all the old stuff there.

Finally, the non-fandom things: I'm always happy to connect with new people, so feel free to add me if you would like to get to know me. My journal is not purely a fandom space - I also post about my personal life on here, and I also enjoy getting a glimpse of yours, too. I enjoy getting to know you via what you write; perhaps even making friends if we connect in that way.

Other than that, I wish you a happy 2025, full of reasons to make you smile. And happy Snowflake Challenge Month, too.
zimena: (Nature - Night sea)
Today's snowflake challenge is an easy one.

Challenge 9: Rec us your newest thing.


Now, I could have gone with Baldur's Gate 3, but that feels a bit too obvious. I'll be talking about that a lot as I go either way, so you don't need me to make a separate post just to recommend it.

Perhaps I could go with Jethro Tull's album "Heavy Horses" from 1978, instead. I had mentioned it in a recent post as well, but here is the full link to the Youtube video. I've been listening to this a lot since I first became aware of it, and I still find it incredibly good, even though it's as old as me.

zimena: Snooker player Stephen Hendry (photo from 1990). (Snooker - Stephen Hendry focus)
The challenge for day two posted really late. I remember waiting for it and checking the community incessantly because I wanted to do the challenges as they posted. Then, when it was suddenly there, I was in no mood to post anymore. And so, I fell out of doing the Snowflake Challenge as it posted after a mere one post. That can be a goal, to fix that for next year.

Speaking of goals - challenge 2:

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


My goals here )

So, with the goals out of the way, let's see about my fannish wishes for challenge 3:

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


My main fandoms are sports RPF, Genshin Impact and - very newly - Baldur's Gate 3, so my wishes are all related to those things. Here are five things I would love:

Five fannish wishes )
zimena: (Nature - Moon)
I've thought of doing [community profile] snowflake_challenge several times in the past. However, it always ended there; with just the thought of joining the fun. This year, I want to take part, and I'm excited to see all the challenges, and find out which ones will appeal to me. That said, this is the first one:

In your own space, update your fandom information! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


First of all, hello and happy Snowflake Month to old and new friends. I'm Zimena, in my 40s, from a town on the southern coast of Norway. I'm currently mainly into Genshin Impact, and might possibly get into Baldur's Gate 3 once I've had more time with the game. My journal is not purely a fandom space, though. I'll be happy to connect with new friends this way, and I tend to post about whatever matters to me at any given moment. That mostly means sports, music, languages, games or random little things from my personal life.

My fandom home is sports RPF. My older fics are almost exclusively football slash, but nowadays I don't follow football in the same way anymore. I still tend to think slashy thoughts about sportspeople I admire, though - skiers and snooker players, mostly. I hardly ever write anything truly explicit, but I might touch on some controversial topics at times - unhealthy and dangerous relationships, abuse and emotional manipulation, to name a few. In short, my mind can be a rather dark place, and I tend to like fictionally hurting the ones I love most - be it athletes or game characters. I tag and/or use fic headers to the best of my ability, though.

My AO3 is [archiveofourown.org profile] Wicked_Northstar, but I also post fics to this journal. In some cases, I might even post them exclusively here, if I get too shy about AO3 for some reason.

My current favourite ships are all from Genshin Impact. I'm a Cyno/Alhaitham shipper, and I also got into Neuvillette/Wriothesley after Fontaine released. My first Genshin ship was Diluc/Kaeya, and I admit that I still have a lot of love for them, even though they're not at the forefront of my mind anymore.

If you were going to argue with me about anything of what I like, I'll just kindly show you to the door over there. I'm in my fandoms and on DW to have fun and make friends, not to argue or participate in any sort of fandom or shipping war. On the other hand, if you find something you like in my journal, or if you realise that we have something in common so that you would like to get to know me better, I'm always happy to hear from you. Yes, that applies even if you come across one of my old posts - it's never too late to leave a kind comment.

Happy 2024, everyone!