Zesty, She/Her, adult. Contestshipping writer (@Zestyzigzagoon on Ao3). Asks open, always happy to chat! 🌹
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Idk if you want help but if so maybe these?
electivire = Ellie?:)
Gyarados = Yara
Torterra = Terra
Garchomp = Garfield (or maybe he has a dog called Chomp :)
Gastrodon = Astro
Drapion = idk sorry 😞
Froslass = Classic Lassie
OOH WAIT I love Ellie for Electivire 🥺 if I do need to write his horse's name anywhere, I think that's what I'll go with- thank you so much!!! These are all great, but Ellie is just such a sweet name. I love the idea of cranky-ass Paul [affectionate] with this big ol' gentle-giant draft horse named Ellie. What a lovely name, thank you!
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me trying to name horses based off of people's pokeani team members
#paul. fighting for my life.#naming it after chimchar feels... in poor taste given paul's canon situation (which I am tactically ignoring for his sake).#we don't need to worry about that in this fic 😭 this is AU paul who sucks less and in different ways ❤️😌#Electrivire is what I'd consider his star pokemon I think? but that's not easy to work with name-wise.#but neither are any of the others. I might just strategically not name his horse lol.#I have a lot of the others figured out.#Rosa/Roselia (Roserade) works fine. I've had May's horse figured out for a long time too. not really a spoiler at this point#and Misty's easy. I've got options (Star=starmie. or I could just have her name it horsey=horsea lol)#Dawn- pip=piplup. Zoey- maggie=mismagius. etc. but Paul. dude. what the hell 😭😭😭#electrivire??? gyarados??? garchomp? metagross? dude. nothing here is good lol.#I'm just not naming his horse if I don't have to. idc. that's a problem for a few chapters down the line anyways.#and Ash's horse HAS to be Pika or something. I don't care if that's an actual horse name or not. I can't *not* do it.#an energetic wiry yellow buckskin with the black dorsal stripe and ear tips. it works. pikachu is weirdly easy to turn into a horse.
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holy shit wait, happy first birthday to Chasing Sunsets!!!
#my beloved little passion-project-turned-entire-life-oops❤️🐎🌅#you know. sometimes I feel like I should be further along with it than I am but 65k in a year is pretty good. and that's just CS.#in total I think from june 2024-25 I wrote... adding it all up in another tab... 101k I think. jesus christ.#yeah I'm definitely not mad at that lol#it comes down to ~8k a month? which sounds about right. I try to post at least one thing a month and it's usually 6k-9k#so that checks out. but back to CS.#I have many thoughts about this fic and what it means to me and how it's taught me to truly write for myself.#because like. it's objectively kind of an out-there AU. it's not *weird* by any means but it's not a super common au either#especially in this space. I've never seen it for pokemon in general actually???#and I went into posting it very convinced that it would just be my fun little self-indulgent unsolicited cowboy hour.#and it is.#but it's also that for several other people and that's just really nice. this thing that I thought was kind of a random au-#-is something that people seem to actually really enjoy and I've gotten a lot closer with friends because of it#and I just have FEELINGS ABOUT IT ALL.#write whatever makes you happy and then find the people who that thing also brings happiness to. do it ✨#and their stuff probably brings you happiness too and you get this lovely little happiness loop with wonderful people.#🎉🎉🎉#I love my other fics [especially MAM(R)] but chasing sunsets is my Thing™ you know??? and it's just nice that I've had-#-one whole year of people enjoying my Thing™.#and I'm sure at this pace that we'll be here for the second and third anniversary of cs too lol but I just had to chat for a second today!
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your story doesn’t have to make sense right now. neither do you. just put a guy on a horse and make him sad.
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hey!! i have a question i want to ask you through dms if it’s okay!!
Sure!
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Befriending an artist who you deeply admire probably never ceases entirely to feel totally bewildering and surreal.
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people are like 'oh I make moodboards for my fics on pinterest' and I think I'm doing it wrong but nobody can stop me
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good news i'm the most fuckable person at this vehicular manslaughter
#REAL. CRYING#I think someone wrote a fic about this actually???#I feel like I read a fic about this a few years ago lol brb#YEAH OMG Hit and Stay by theonewhohums on Ao3 😭😭😭#Drew kind of asks himself out in that one but the fact remains.#..........and a friend of mine gifted me a secret santa fic where drew got hit by a car.#Visiting Hours by Emeraldsands#why is he so roadkill-coded 💀. Love that this is somehow unanimous.#thank you for sending this. absolutely hilarious 😭😭😭
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You guys are going to be so mad at me when I get chapter 12 posted lmao. I am working through 11 for the sole purpose of being able to post 12
#Chasing Sunsets#spoilers but vague so not really-#hopefully you'll all forgive me for it by the end of 13 😌.#I've got things just about set where I need them (barring any accidentally long chapters that need to be split)#and all I'm saying is that I hope people saw the slowburn tag going into this lolllll#Spoiler-free spoiler that you can read into as you please: Drew's cowboy hat is about to become the number one enemy of the state.
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I know that slide by the goo goo dolls is definitively NOT about contestshipping but this section tells me otherwise
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I love making fic playlists. Here's a song that I only put in here for one specific lyric, the rest is irrelevant. Here's a song that's so accurate that it's kind of weird. here's a sad song. here's an even sadder song but it's a bop. this song has nothing to do with anything, I just want it there for vibes. I don't remember why the next one is even here. here's a bunch of songs my friends introduced me to. here's Slide by Goo Goo Dolls because the bridge makes me feel like a caged tiger but in a good way. I forgot what the rest of this post was about, let's talk about this song now. hi. everyone go listen to this pls and thank you
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Chapter 11 is officially (re-)under way!
#Chasing Sunsets#we have horrendously hungover and uncharacteristically bitchy May and benevolently malicious Gary and conflicted-as-usual down-bad Drew.#and Ash. who is just... Ash lol.
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"Fandom can't just *move* from this increasingly non-viable platform, we've built everything here!"
Child, we have moved before. I have slumped from the ruins of one platform to another. From geocities and IRC to livejournal and AIM, to tumblr and discord.
It has happened before, it will happen again. The cycle begins anew.
#PREV!!!! EXACTLY!#I need to donate to Ao3 once I have the means for it. the work they do for fandom as a whole is genuinely unparalleled.#also re: fandom moving. I would follow my fandom friends to an undisclosed location in rural montana at this point tbh#we will use trained carrier pigeons and send our fics through pigeon mail.#platforms die. fandom and the human spirit does not.#that said- the instability of some online platforms is why I download fics and put them in my lovely little spreadsheet.#fandom moves and I'll be all packed when the time comes.#fichub is a great downloading/export tool for FFN! definitely recommend
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Real image of me getting back into Chasing Sunsets mode. also an answer to the question of 'how would a zigzagoon wear cowboy boots?' (the answer: with its stubby little raccoon legs pathetically dangling inside of the empty boots like when you lift up a wet cat. bonus below)
#how to get into writing mode- step 1: do something time-consuming and dumb that is quite notably not writing.#step 2: listen to your fic playlist and end up with come on get higher by matt nathanson stuck in your head. again.#and once that's out of your head then it'll be a week of cowboy take me away by the chicks. neverending loop.#step 3: ?????#step 4: profit#Chasing Sunsets
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Do I actually want to write this fanfic or do I just want to wallow in the delicious daydream like a pig in the mud?
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you're basically home to me dude but it's not a big deal at all. don't worry about it
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Hello! A new oneshot is here :) https://archiveofourown.org ❄️🌅
sliiiiight spoiler under cut:
Me writing the last little bit of this fic: wow, I'm really letting May be the one to get in her feels about her crush this time. I'm giving Drew a break for once, aren't I? Good for him, he deserves it.
The break in question: getting a snowball accidentally pelted at his face like it's an MLB tournament and then experiencing clinically significant blood loss in the snow (but at least he doesn't have [overt] depression this time)
#IIHYITF#I will say. I feel like I rushed the ending but 1.) we're at over 12k in one sitting. something had to be rushed at some point 😭#and 2.) I was doing that thing where perfection was getting in the way of progress. and sometimes you just need to accept-#-that it's not going to be perfect but it does need to be posted. and you just have to call the shots and go ahead with it.#I can always edit it later if I want to but I was hitting a wall and sometimes you just take that and go anyways#or else you'd never post literally anything. or maybe it's just me idk
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