Writing! \o/

[jasmasson]

I am writing! 🥳

Since breaking my duck with Yuletide 2023, I have written 7 fics (2 anonymous at the moment) in Master and Commander, Batman, Star Wars, Bridgeton, and original.

I currently have three WIPs I have actually posted the first parts of and am reasonably certain where I’m going with them…

My AO3 stats are amusing to me. Works in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, *crickets* 2023, 2024.

I have also signed up for yuletide and hlh_shortcuts 2024. Given that I haven’t written in Highlander for more than 25 years, and have never written in the fandoms I’ve offered for Yuletide, this should be fun 😬.

I’m going to challenge myself to a mininanowrimo of 200 words per day in Nov. I’ll join mini-wrimo on lj if they do a 2024 one🤞, or I’ll just challenge myself.

What are you writing in? Perhaps you could join one of those 👆challenges…

Comments

[zimena]

Hi. I came here via your consent issues bingo card, because you had some interesting prompts on yours. I'm mildly considering getting one for myself as well, but I haven't decided yet. Either way, it's always fun to see people who might have similar fic likes, even though I'm not familiar with your fandoms. Let's be honest, I'm not familiar with a lot of fandoms, really. Either way, would be fun to get to know you, if you want?

[jasmasson]

Hello! Good to meet you. The card does look interesting, doesn’t it? You should definitely get one and see if it sparks a bit of inspiration! 😉

I checked out your page; I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone online interested in snooker. I’m British and of a certain age so I’ve very much enjoyed snooker in my time; Mark Selby is my current favourite player! Your profile seemed a bit anomalous to me because I wasn’t aware snooker was at all a thing in Norway - am I mistaken; how did you come to it? 🤔

[zimena]

Oh, wow, really? Another Mark Selby fan? You don't even know how much my heart fluttered just reading that sentence. I love him so much now... which is wild, considering I used to be the absolute opposite of his fan for many years. (I was a Ronnie fan first. And I still love him a lot as well. No, falling for the rival was not something I planned to do, and I even fought it for a good few months ;)) Suffice to say, Mark is amazing and lovely, and a fantastic player to watch. Plus, I really admire and appreciate the personality he shows in his interviews, and his honesty about his mental health issues.

Seriously, I could go on for another two (or twenty) pages about him. My absolute number one favourite sports person right now.

You're right that snooker isn't "a thing" in Norway. I mean, not in the same sense as winter sports or football or team handball, which are the "popular" sports here. But also, Eurosport has been showing it for many years now, and I got used to it being on there. In the beginning I didn't keep track of when tournaments would be on, and I didn't really know anything about the players or anything, though. So I guess it's a sport that slowly got me, until I started following it more intensely.

Snooker is such a very UK thing, though. I love that it seems to be part of your "childhood sports" there - like, a sport that was just always there, that you'll know at least something about, regardless if you're into it or not. You're lucky that it's in your "culture", so to speak. I always find those sorts of differences so interesting; how there are some things that just become part of the "collective experience" of growing up in a certain place. And that's not just sports, of course, but also all those other things that are just obvious to you based on them being just naturally part of life from early on.

... but I'm rambling a lot already. I'll stop here, and go to add you instead :)

[jasmasson]

It’s really interesting how different cultures have different shared childhood experiences, isn’t it? I think it’s something that we’re losing, though, in more modern times. In snooker’s hay day in the UK we only had 4 channels so most people watched it. Now with so many entertainment options for us there won’t be anything similar any more! I remember the ‘famous’ black ball world championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor. A massive thing; I actually mostly remember being sent to bed because it went on so late and I was young 🤣. My parents recorded it on VHS!

On the other hand, though, the advantage of so many sources of entertainment now means things are experience more widely - so someone in Norway can experience snooker, for example!

What are your shared childhood memory experiences? 😁