#iz says stuff

[labbynan]

movie tiem

#they r watching jurassic park bcause im sure zim would like it #and dib would b annoying saying stuff like “actually dinos have feathers and bla bla bla” #silly doodles i made while waiting 4 food on christmas #my art #invader zim #zim #zim fanart #dib #dib membrane #iz fanart #zadf

[shadowofthelamp]

Oh shit, it’s the day IZ first aired in 2001, happy birthday to you little weirdos.

#iz blogging #shadow says stuff

[sapphorror]

my top controversial Zim headcanon is that Zim actually performs absurdly well at skool because

1. he's a perfectionist with a compulsive reaction to ANY system of scoring

2. I 100% believe test scores are this guy's forte because he had to become an Invader SOMEHOW and he sure as hell wasn't passing based on the practical

3. He has hyper-advanced alien AI to do his homework for him. like come on.

meanwhile Dib is really only scraping by on raw intelligence and the inherent educational advantage of having a mad scientist father. He doesn't have TIME to study, there's an evil alien he has to stalk and besides, you know what's better than a high school diploma? The Nobel Peace Prize for proving the existence of extraterrestrial life.

#invader zim #zim #dib #zadp #iz posting #natterings #not actually my top controversial headcanon but i believe in working your way up to the cancelable stuff #anyway dib may or may not get more serious with it as he gets older #but at twelve years old i do not believe for a minute this kid gives a fuck about grades handed to him by stupid people #hes probably doing pretty okay at math and any sciences but i dont even want to IMAGINE how he performs on say #literature #he doesnt have time to read a whole BOOK hes trying to save the world here #though naturally if anyone pointed out to him that hey isnt it fucked up the literal alien is doing better in human subjects than you #we'd see a turn around REAL fast #that or hed just spend all his time trying to prove that zims been cheating which #yeah not likely to get him very far

[thiirdchildren]

anime glasses glint

#iz #dib membrane #iz art #WAHOO EXPERIMENTAL THING i say Success #i like how this turned out #Z .ADRS DNI PLEASE i dont want you here #also it was fun to do LOLOL won for me #might do a zim one.. maybe perhaps #background stuff was such a chore i gave up on trying to make it look good #we ball #my art 💯 #invader zim #invader zim art

[leatherbookmark]

our flag means death S2E3: the innkeeper

#our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #shrimp gifs #it was just a very pretty scene i think #i'm laughing because i played around with curves -- as you do -- but then i had to manually bring the brightness down and make everything #more blue again because it's just better that way lol #god i'm having... so many little marbles bouncing around my head like #this post is already tagged with all the spoiler tags i think i can talk in here #the way it started i had No Inkling At All that this would be this kind of setting. so i didn't pay attention to the surroundings or all th #stuff. hell i could barely hear what they're saying because all my fancy schmancy english skills fall apart in the face of your normal soun #mixing. I MISSED THAT IZ AND ED SAID “LOVE” LIKE HELLO #but. but anyway. but. but once it was revealed that This Is All In Ed's Head. that hornigold is ed and everything is ed. man. god. #it's cold and wet and dark (ed likes warmth). ed was washed up on the shore with his face full of sand but THEN he got rescued by someone #who he hated and associated with all the pain and violence AND who then force-fed him soup so he could get better. who had pretty pieces of #glass hanging from his tent (there's no sun but the decoration itself is a promise of a pretty sighs when the rays of the sun hit #just right--) AND you can't forget the sandals. and the play-acting and aoughhhh EEEDDDDDDDD god he's so good HE'S SO GOOD #i dont think i should touch the delightful revenge scenes because they're dark as fuck and idk if the files i have are hq enough #to survive the becurvening. BUT. ed my love!!! i hope this is not where your insanities end

[wazzuppy]

some pictures i got off the wiki gallery and thought were insanely cute. look at them.

#tara says stuff #invader zim #iz #dib #dib membrane #gaz #gaz membrane #professor membrane #enter the florpus #iz comic #they are just the family ever

[strigital]

when you can feel your brain start to slowly and menacingly shift to another hyperfixation, but you're not nearly done enjoying your current one, yet alas, there's no way to stop this wheel from moving onward, so you're on your knees pleading with your brain like:

#i was JUST getting into the swing of cyberpunk 2077 stuff #started reading the book and the outlining of the fanfic has been smooth sailing thus far #been sketchig like a madlad enjoying every second of it #and the daydreams!! while making playlists and sprucing up the pinterest boards!! #and guess what? #like a selfish lover just before we reach catharsis the asshole of a brain says 'nah sis it's bg3' time now #and like #thanks?? but why wouldn't you let the cycle move at a natural pace brain? qe would've gotten there eventually! #*sadly puts Johnnt and V down and looks at Astarion and the Tadpole Havers™* #well i guess it iz what it iz #it do be like that #🧠 🔫 #do y'all also experience this or are you normal?

[lem-argentum]

haz anyone else been filled with the unfathomable sadness for liek the past six months

#lem text #FALLZ TO THE GROUND COLLAPSES. #i have had very little happythoughts to say which iz why i’ve been quieter </3 Eventually i will not be. Maybe #i’ve been thinking sorting out my dash a bit will help so i might clear out my following list a lil soon…!! #it’d only be ppl who don’t interact often n stuff so don’t worry if i am a significant presence to u it won’t affect u. but yeag <3 #ive been wanting to make this more of a private space for a little while so :’-). 💛 #anyway. i hope u all have a good night <) <3 <3 <3

[optimizim]

tell me abt your ocz?? (>_<)//

(first of all woah my first ask! yippee!) (second of all. this got long. i'm so very sorry.)

skutz, skee and poot are their names! i don't have them developed as much as i want to; i've just broken back into the oc-o-sphere after a couple of years of succumbing to cringe culture.

skee is a, hm, xenoecologist? 🤔 it's a really cushy job, even though it sounds scientific. he's tall, impressively so, but flunked out of invader training and sucks at anything that requires a lot of long-term commitment. essentially, his job is to explore planets with No Sentient Lifeforms and log anything interesting he finds; anything that could be useful for the empire. he's kind of bitter about sucking at every job he's ever tried but he's also not self-aware enough to make any sort of genuine improvement in his life B^)

poot is the irken equivalent of a NEET. yeah TECHNICALLY he has a job. he's skee's """"assistant"""". skee is fond of him and since poot livens up the base on whatever planet they're on, he gets to loiter doing barely anything. he's loyal, upbeat, generous, and also INCREDIBLY stupid. he's less xenophobic than most of his fellow irkens but also genuinely not any threat to the empire whatsoever by virtue of his sheer stupidity. talking to him would probably be pretty grating (and you'd feel bad for not liking him because has good intentions 😬)

(there is NO way they'd have a SIR unit. why did i draw that!!!)

skutz doesn't even really know those two even tho i drew them together. he's the one i like to think about in bed before i go to sleep :,) he's yer standard irken piece of shit. short, but "pulled himself up by the bootstraps" and got a job overlooking drones and laborers, where he got to ego trip around people who couldn't really do anything about it. way too cocky and ambitious, he took a "great opportunity!!!" to test out the interdimensional tech that was being developed in his universe. he thought he'd get famous but he ended up getting catapulted into a dimension where irkens don't exist and had to kinda rawdog existing in a universe where he has absolutely 0 influence.

i've been thinking about what aliens he might encounter in this dimension and i like the idea that they'd be VERY nature heavy but not in a way that's disconnected from technology; maybe irkens even used to exist in this dimension but their tech was absorbed into this other empire instead of em achieving dominance. but! that universe is secondary to most of my thoughts about my ocs, and i just like to think about the possibilities there before i go to bed. skee and poot have a muuuch more canon adherent sort of deal, and skutz is easy to adapt for that too.

WOW and that ended up being a lot but i'm glad its written down somewhere now 👍

#skutz and skee are brothers. from the same genetic stock at least. in my 'canon' they have literally never met though. #literally just from the same vat of irken juice #i have a vague idea for a short female irken spy character but she's not developed enough to say anything about here #and the aliens that skutz encounters in the other dimension have stuff too! #if you have ocs that need friends or anything anon.... you hmu.... #also these paragraphs make it sound like i have more developed but this is genuinely kinda the extent of it #some of this has changed since last time i wrote it down. skee's stuff especially #ill develop them more eventually :^] #invader zim oc #iz oc #original character #oc #oc art

[hazbincalifornia]

I've joked about Dib summoning Stolas to help him get rid of Zim somehow, but I just realized the WAY funnier option is he summons him because he's heard can tell his future (and that Stolas is less likely to smite him on sight than other demons), and Stolas doesn't know how to tell him that he's going to marry and have kids with Zim instead.

Dib: So I'm savior of the world and everybody loves me and his horrible alien parts are floating in a jar, right?

Stolas, who's seeing them making out sloppy style as their kid's sleeping in the other room: ...Well, you seem pleased with how things turned out for yourself!

"I have looked into the stars, and the stars say you're going to realize you're Very Gay at some point in the next five years."

#iz #shadow says stuff

[reynaruina]

What is a favorite fandom headcanon for you?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer within a certain amount of time or at all.*

That I draw/write characters very "canon compliant" 🙃

#ask #it always makes me chuckle when ppl say i write or draw my IZ stuff very cannon like #i'm not trying to at all i'm just making what I wann see #is all in your head loves

[clefairytea]

I’ve been thinking a lot about different ways people engage in fandom and how it’s hard to push away the knee jerk response to consider ways different to yours wrong or cringe or whatever.

And like ok. I think there’s like. You can engage with canon as like a Discussion, like this back and forth where you interrogate the text as it stands. This would be where you write heavily canon compliant fic that engages heavily with the original themes of the text, maybe in ways the source material couldn’t or didn’t. Say like, a Good Omens fic that’s still heavily canon compliant but maybe engages with like, the queer themes overtly or even updates the environmentalism from the original 90s book to fit in with the whole. Existential horror we’ve reached here in 2023. But the book still happened, we’re minimising the amount of new content or characters we create, we work within the bounds of canon as much as possible to try and create something new.

Or you can engage with it as a Dolly Set, where you basically take the whole thing apart and pick the bits you like and rearrange them in new ways that could be completely distant from the original. Like if you took Good Omens and decided instead you wanted to write about them as college philosophy professors with staunchly different approaches. You maybe have Newt or Adam or something appear as students and cute references to canon, but it doesn’t engage much with the themes and ideas of the original. Potentially you even throw in original characters to serve useful purposes, like giving Crowley is a shit ex or something. The focus is much more on playing with the characters and set pieces than specific canon themes.

And you can do a lot of stuff in between (where most fandom stuff falls).

And it’s really tempting if you lean towards one side more than the other to be very dismissive of the other. Like! Above I wrote that first paragraph in first person and the second in second! That was unintentional and clearly my own bias towards what type of content I lean towards! But also they’re both valid approaches and still ways of engaging with canon.

#clefairy squeaks #I don’t know if this is coherent I’ve just been thinking about it #There’s also like. moving tone up or down #Like toning IZ up into an epic space opera #Or toning Breaking Bad down into a sitcom about like…baking bread #And I think a lot of people outside of a fandom will see tone changes and instinctively scoff #especially toning up stuff like yeah it DOES feel silly to see very earnest Eric Cartman angst #But it’s really people playing with the original source material for the most part #Saying what if this took its premise seriously. What if it didn’t #it’s all engagement it’s all reworking and playing with text!!! #Fandom should be play!!

[shadowofthelamp]

No single idea will ever be funnier to me than the concept of Zim and Dib kissing for the first time and Zim's lips smoke and he just starts screaming and running around swatting at his face. That is the absolute peak of humor to me personally.

Broke: They don't kiss because aliens don't care/Zim thinks the mouth is too germy.

Woke: THE LIPS, THEY BURN, DIB WILL PAY FOR THIS (Dib is trying to figure out how to put him out)

#iz blogging #shadow says stuff #lbr they'd both find it kind of hot and keep going but this is for the yuks #zadr

[sapphorror]

Okay but my favorite GIR moments are ALWAYS the ones that imply he's just aware enough of what's going on to know that the thing he's doing will fuck up Zim's day, and he still does it anyway, possibly specifically for that purpose.

#invader zim #gir #iz posting #natterings #most times its not even malicious #or not like SPECIFICALLY malicious beyond gir being a gremlin who enjoys chaos in general #i think a lot of the time he just wants to secure zims attention and making him mad is the easiest way to do it #(+ i mean zim kind of models this strategy all the time so can he really be surprised girs learned it—) #or sometimes the terrible thing will eventually end up leading into accomplishing something useful #and its easy to say this is just fools luck and totally inadvertent on girs part #but there are rare moments that suggest he mightve a little bit done the thing on purpose and im obsessed with that #that one comics issue where he impersonates dib torments zim for days on end and then wheedles zim into praising him for it #lives rent free in my mind #BUT ANYWAY I ALSO THINK THAT MAYBE SOMETIMES IT COULD BE A LITTLE MALICIOUS #given that gir in his natural state isnt really CAPABLE of resentment or anger or even dislike #and the one time he was able to feel those things he turned on zim in less than 24 hrs #in a way that was clearly very personally motivated (note to self write meta about gir goes crazy and stuff i have so much shit to say) #which suggests to me those emotions probably are there festering on some inaccessible level and yknow #imo a little healthy sadism is a GREAT outlet for that #zim absolutely deserves it

[silkjade]

it’s 3am so please enjoy my favorite painting in the world while i reflect introspectively in the tags thank u ♡

day and the dawnstar by herbert james draper

#— 𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼 #/// #this is meant to be like elevator music for the dash while you scroll past #…………….. #i love selfshipping it's vry fun but sometimes when i think about it too much or rather when i think about any scenario at all #i'm always like i want so and so to do this and this and this but when asked what i'd do for them it's like hitting a blank ) : #and i can’t help but feel as if i’m being…. selfish…. #selfish in the sense that i can so easily accept the love i crave but i don’t know if i'd be able to give the same back? #and this bleeds into my real life becus i suppose i just don't know how to make someone feel loved like... #i’m not even half as affectionate irl as i may seem online & i don’t have a cute or particularly loving personality. #the words i say aren't warm ; ironically they make me sound disingenuous lmao no matter how much i practice my cadence #& idk why it’s so difficult for me to imagine myself doing like.. domestic things for anyone without cringing at the alien nature of it #not becus there's something wrong with that but i just can't see ME doing anything like that and i just think 'what is wrong with me' becus #it's one of the simplest and purest forms of love i think ; \ idk maybe i've just never loved anyone enough like that... #but then i feel so..bad...because the real me is so apathetic boring cold #& not to make things sound transactional but why would someone want to stay if what they invest produces lackluster results ? #like omg ! even i can tell that it's totally unfair i'd feel like a leech #even in the painting above draper the painter says: 'to faint in the light of the sun she loves / to faint in his light and to die' #iz so me yearning 'n then dying from yearning becus i don't know how to express it #like when mitski said '胸がはち切れそうで' 'my chest is about to burst' i felt that #anyways i suppose this was good to get out before chinese new year lolz #i hope u did not make it this far honestly anyways i m going to rb a bunch of random stuff to hide this

[simonstamenovic]

NOT PUBLISHING THE ASK EVEN TJO ITZ PROB FINE but mwah thankz also aware we cld dm u bbut i hit new post n am lazy but mwah mwah mwah

#00 #for full disclosure we also dont like idk have any diff memories btwen the facets we consider ourselves halfsies or idk #at base we feel abunch of kins n then this is stronger stuff we r split between it #pandora says we r all part of it n we protest even tho its all kinda blurred IDK BUT UM <33 #GENUINELY YES itz like not a viable thing #I THINK part of why we feel the need 2 disclose is the lack of like idk not lost #time but... we r all kind of like stuck together #n our presentation iz what distinguishes us the most #like the memory is shared n we dont oftern feel like fully distinct buit this is...? #cvomfortable???? idk idk if yhsy mskrd sense #this body dud nothing but watch tv alone as a child n didnt develop properlie LMAO