#I'm irkens

[jimothantheclown]

thinking very very hard about how irken bodies are just a shell and how they are actually just the PAK. like irkens are literally computers plugged into the spines of flesh vessels.

#it's me #I'm irkens #zim kin #irken kin #alien kin #robot kin #?!?!?!

[kovablue]

#invader zim #zim #iz #invader zim fanart #iz fanart #irken #trying to remind myself i'm just doing these for fun #my art

[treel]

I'm back to fill your dash with the goodest of boys. The most marine of biologists. Deemed 'mostly harmless' by the Resisty and 'who?' by the Irken Empire. Giver of sage advice and the first to admit to actually being Dib's friend.

It's Fizzle!

#invader zim #nullified! #irken #irken oc #fizz #fizzle #invader zim oc #see i can still finish a drawing #also i'm still alive #hello

[ink-mar-qin]

For the people who keep asking about them

#no I'm still haven't decided whether to post the comics yet #BUT ONE DAY #invader zim #invader zim fanart #zim #dib #dib membrane #irken dib #irken #iz #zadr #art #doodle

[starpaw0007]

I've had a vision ever since I added this song to my IZ playlist...

always thinking about irken society

#i'm very old school when it comes to my amvs #invader zim #invader zim fandom #iz #iz fandom #invader zim amv #iz amv #amv #invader zim edit #zim #iz irken #the almighty tallest #tallest red #tallest purple

[ckret2]

Once I attended a writing workshop where one of the guest teachers pointed out the kinds of extraneous details that often get left out of stories.

Stories typically don't depict a character using the toilet unless it's somehow relevant to the plot (like if somebody needs to take a pregnancy test or they're drunk and need to puke). You can follow a character around for three days straight without ever seeing them make a pit stop because that's extraneous to the plot.

It's not something anybody, author included, bothers to consider. Readers just take it on faith that bathroom breaks must be happening somewhere off screen, if they even think about it at all.

Anyway, receiving this advice totally backfired on me, and ever since then I've been unable to write a story without being haunted by worries of "but do the characters, like, have opportunities go to the bathroom? Have I had these characters locked in one room for seven hours straight, because if I have and if they've got normal human bladders then we've got problems. Do these characters have sufficient toilet access and if they don't then how would that affect them—"

and that's why I am the way I am.

#(I don't have this problem when I'm writing about transformers or irkens) #about my writing

[askirkenzimstuff]

Would it be worse to be stuck working on a school project with Dib or Keef?

"Send the Armada."

#ask irken zim stuff #invader zim #zim #keef #//It has been a WHILE// #//I'm just busy with a lot these days rip// #momo-roo

[mrehkka]

Any gesture that uses just the first 2 fingers is vulgar to Irkens. Zim was very confused by humans doing peace signs for photos or using finger quotes when talking

Doing this sign from the forehead means the Irken military in particular bc of the forehead symbol the elite soldiers have

Editing to add: Irkens would be APALLED to see any of these gestures used- Zim has just been on earth long enough that he doesn't care anymore lmao if he does this in other Irkens' presence they would smack his hand down so fast AND ALSO Zim isn't wearing any gloves?? This makes the gesture even worse!

#invader zim #iz zim #Irken lore #Irken language #Irken #my art #Irkens have a thing about hands and feet being covered #feet more so than hands #zim eventually relaxes enough not to wear gloves on earth but going barefoot takes him WAY longer #also also #i give Irkens 3 fingers and a thumb #in the show while zim has 3 fingers total which is one less than humans who have 4 fingers total. So if I give dib 5 I give zim 4 #I'm a nerd #I have so many Irken cultural headcanons. gestures. words. you don't wanna get me started lol #fun fact- the reason this gesture is vulgar is bc it vaguely resembles Irken genitalia #much like how the middle finger is bad supposedly bc it represents human male genitalia #the more you know! #am I gonna get in trouble for this? do I need to tag it as something??

[spaceboibrainrot]

My Irken organ head cannon thing I guess?

Tw Organs

there are reproductive parts, don't get mad

Irkens are hermaphrodites to me.

Individual organs as well

#invader zim #iz #irken anatomy #irken biology #I'm sorry but I head cannon hermaphrodite bugs

[the-alien-incident]

Woa, here's Kioo, my irken OC

He's whole purpose is to suffer.

#invader zim #invader zim oc #fanart #irken oc #tai art #t pose? #he's an irken technician #I'm still working on a backstory

[irkendivinity]

i drew Aka for @khaliarart !!!! some parts are a bit messy but i've been working on this all day.. so i hope you like it :3

i also hope this isn't too out of character or anything but i wanted to draw her.. slightly happy..... just a little.. as a treat

i think my favorite one is probably the face of the full body & the tiny little. running aka

#invader zim #invader zim oc #irken oc #not my oc #my art #khaliarart #i'm very proud of this #please enjoy!!!! #gift art

[kounezi13]

irken membranes au au rambling below cut

DIB is an invader here; sneaking around, collecting information, and exploring the unknown, sometimes combat is involved but not often. He was a scientist though, but researching mechas, fauna, and others just isn't enough for him, he needs... more hands-on experiments.

GAZ, on the other hand, is a navigator; basically treating the panel like it's a video game, destroying dangers ahead, scanning for unknown territory, and flying the armada to a predetermined destination. Her headpiece also doubled as a video game console so she can just grab it whenever she wants when she was off-duty. GAZ may like beating people up, but games are her top priority. Let's just say that she was training to be an Irken soldier until she saw the navigator panel.

The Almighty Tallest MEMBRANE here is constantly on calls and researching, currently working on how to get to the fourth dimension without getting sensory overload. Very straight posture but he still looks really scrawny and weak so I gave him an optional cape for a much more imposing silhouette.

The story here is that since MEMBRANE is always on call all the time, GAZ got tired of being brushed off by him and went to DIB to complain about it. Why DIB? He's the only one here she ever talks to, all the other Irkens are either just snobby, frightened, or dumb, her words. When GAZ headed to DIB's room to rant to him about it, he looks at her, perfectly conveying the phrase "are you kidding me?" They [yadda yadda yadda] and now they're both planning to leave Irk/Armada to see how long it would be before he notices both of his smeets are gone.

To prevent their father from noticing the voot pathway on the holographic map, they flew into uncharted territory. So yea, they basically float around in the space for a few months because them, occasionally trade with space merchants for materials, taking shifts because Irkens do need sleep for top performance. Then one day, DIB spots a backwater planet, one with living organisms on it, seemingly disconnected from the cosmos network. The perfect hideout for a stupid plan.

It's Urth, they landed on Urth.

#invader zim #nerd ramblings #professor membrane #dib membrane #gaz membrane #invader zim au #irken #ok i think i'm gonna draw their human disguise later #and maybe zim and gir too.... #doodles #iz

[strawowoberry]

KOA DRAWING DUMP FRON MY PARTNER AND I'S RP (and outside of it)!!!! CUZ I'M A KOA ENTHUSIAST AND I LOVE THIS LIL GUY SO MUCH FJDHSHDHD he deserves so much love and recognition and attention literally sobbinb

I KNOW THEYRE NOT I JUST WANT HIM AND DIB TO BE BROTHERS IM INTERNALLY SCREAMING HE NEEDSW LOVEEEEEE 😭😭😭

#invader zim #Koa #irken oc #dib #iz #dib iz #iz dib membrane #dib membrane #iz dib #invader zim dib #irken #iz irken #AGAIN HE NEEDS LOOOVEEEE #i'm sorry i've been gone school is such an ass #and i've been giving all my time to this guy 🥺 #willow is already dib's brother and I love him too just #my heart has literally been taken over by koa

[somerabidraccoon]

(obviously in the present of the show they reproduce through artificial cloning but I mean like, originally)

#I KNOW some of these answers technically mean the same thing like self-insemination would require hermaphoditism but #i hope you see what each option is getting at #I'm no scientist I'm just using the terms and methods that i know of 👉👈 #go easy on me nerds #invader zim #iz #irken hc #invader zim headcanon #this has been in my drafts for months. strangely nervous about posting this. #possibly cause of the h-word‚ even though I'm using it in the correct scientific context and not directing it towards a person #still. if there's a different‚ less contentious word i could be using PLS tell me #mby I'm just overthinking it

[thsc-confessions]

"THSC is so fun to create for because it’s just so whimsical. Create the sweetest, most tooth-rotting fluff. Create the most nonsensical goofs. Create the grittiest, darkest stories. Hell, do all of the above’"

"To the people worried about making stuff that’s too dark/silly/fluffy/etc. or are afraid to just get started, I’ll tell you this much: finally biting the bullet and just letting myself indulge in making stuff for THSC is what got me out of my shame-induced creative funk. My skills have massively improved over the past three years and my motivation and energy have spiked so high that I went from not having energy to do anything to not having time to do everything I want to do."

"Don’t feel bad about being nervous (I still find myself getting embarrassed from time to time), but if you want to create and share stuff then by all means do it! (Or at the very least make stuff for yourself in private—nothing wrong with keeping stuff to yourself, but just keeping things in your head and not doing anything with it will just make your brain want to explode lol.)" submitted by @the-irken-pony

#yeee! #I feel like everyone who wants to create content for this fandom but is doubting themselves should read this confession #if you wanna create then create! #it's okay to be nervous #but by all means if you wanna do it then get out there‼️ #my family is waiting for me to come downstairs rn and I'm taking forever SO #WHOOPS #LAST CONFESSION FOR NOW I'LL GET TO THE REST ONCE I GET BACK😭😭 #mod dave #thsc #thsc confession #thsc confessions #@/the-irken-pony

[sidetable-drawer]

Most fandoms misinterpreting characters completely drives me crazy and gets really annoying, but the one that legitimately makes me laugh is how there's quite a few members of the Invader Zim fandom who view Tallest Purple as "the nicer Tallest" or "the motherly one".

This is the same guy who had an Irken thrown out of the airlock for not remembering what Zim did during Operation Impending Doom I (not only that but the wrong guy was thrown out and Pur didn't care), had a smeet locked up for "knowing too much", and ordered the Comms Officer to blow up an ice cream truck for no reason. If anything, Purple might be even more violent than Red since he has absolutely no restraint whatsoever.

#actually pur might be even more of a loose canon than zim especially since he's in a higher position of power #invader zim #i'm pretty sure the 'purple's the nicer one' thing came from people getting him mixed up with pleakley #(and i can say from personal experience that his voice actor is a total sweetheart) #but yeah 'motherly purple'....actually just the thought of purple having to smeet-sit would only end in tragedy #he is the irken equivalent of one of those bratty spoiled teenagers on those stupid reality shows