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cal-the-sad-gurl · 2 years

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Invader Zim themed Ask

1: What was the first episode you’ve seen?

2: What’s your favorite episode?

3: Favorite Irken?

4: Favorite Human?

5: Favorite Other Race?

6: Any fan characters?

7: Favorite fanfiction?

8: Favorite fanart?

9: Do you write for the fandom?

10: Do you draw for the fandom?

11: Would you be scared if Jhonen found your art/fanfics/blog?

12: Do you like pairings? If so, which?

13: Do you believe there are any canon pairings?

14: OTP?

15: Favorite enemies? (Tak and Zim or Zim and Dib… etc)

16: Favorite Tallest of the four?

17: Favorite thing about Invader Zim?

18: Least favorite thing about Invader Zim?

19: Do you have any blocked tags, relating to the fandom?

20: Do you ever do crossovers?

21: Any parts of show that actually scare you?

22: Any parts of the fandom that actually scare you?

23: Part that made you laugh the hardest…

24: Part that you could relate to…

25: Least favorite episode?

26: Least favorite scene?

27: Do you like G.I.R.?

28: If you could be anyone from the show, you would choose…..

29: Are the Tallest intelligent or not?

30: What do you think an Irkens blood color is?

31: If you could write an episode, what would happen?

32: If all the voice actors and artists were different, would you still want Invader Zim to come back?

33: Do you consider any of the characters your ‘babies’?

34: Do you have any fancharacters that are the result of two canon characters getting together?

35: If you could meet any of the characters, who would it be and what would you say?

36: If you could meet any of the voice actors, who would it be and what would you say?

37: Other than Zim, who is your favorite Irken Invader?

38: Professor Membrane: a good daddy or a neglectful cold father?

39: Favorite quote?

40: Zim’s taken over the planet… Now what?

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 3 years

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They’re ghouls now uh oh

#ZaDr smeet #Enko Membrane #Aaron Moore #tokyo ghoul

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 3 years

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c o p s I’m not dead

#invader zim #ZaDr smeet #Enko Membrane #Aaron Moore #supposetobeonhalloweenbutI'mlazyasshit

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 3 years

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Tried to imagine what my Zim sounded like when he got older, so I edited and tweaked the audio from this interview with Richard Horvitz a bit and thus this shitpost was born

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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This is my first animatic ever and I’m not sure if I should be proud or ashamed

Okay but if Shadow tried to make Red join the dark side instead of Vio you know this is how it would’ve gone down

…I need sleep

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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I found it and I'm not letting go now

More rough zim flash stuff, taking over the world can be stressful sometimes

It’s based on that small comic of Gir giving Zim a thumbs up with some expression changes and in gif form, I would link it here but I can’t find it for the life of me on tumblr for some reason, did the original poster take it down?

Original comic by @drawbauchery, here http://drawbauchery.tumblr.com/search/you+can+do+it+zim

Sorry, I don’t know why that was so hard to find

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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Happy 1 Year Anniversary of Enter the Florpus!!

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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Hi. I wrote a thing.

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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This has been on my mind for years

WAIT IN THE EPISODE “TAK THE HIDEOUS NEW GIRL” ZIM SAID TO THE TALLEST THAT HE THINKS LOVE IS PAIN BASED ON URTH

AND HES ALSO ALWAYS BEATING UP ON DIB

SEE WHAT IM GETTING AT??? HUH HUH HUH

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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I- man this one hurts

you will be feared.

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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Jhonen on Twitch showing off his soundboard

Zim’s having none of it!

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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Well its time to come clean- this is the baby boi in my previous post: Enko Membrane.

#ZaDr smeet #invader zim #Enko Membrane #he looks edgy but hes sweet I sweAr #smeet oc #he def favors Zim over Dib

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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He- he isn't allow to hold his smeet anymore

#invader zim #zadr #Dib #professor Membrane #ZaDr smeet

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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Dib snaps au and decides to help Zim take over earth

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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They literally gave Zim the disconnected Wii remote-

there is so much potential for tallest angst and it makes me sad that ppl dont really take advantage of it

like… theyre zims age! a lot of people talk about the horrors of irk using child soldiers with zim, but nobody talks about their child leaders. have you Ever been in charge of something Really Important? ok now raise the stakes.

these children are in charge of a whole empire. if they fuck up, millions could die. relationships with other planets could crumble. (and irk DOES have those- the irken/planet jacker treaty for one, and the agreeement btwn irkens and inquisitorians. also the past alliance with vort)

like…. no wonder they just sit around eating snacks all day! bc the alternative is Doing Something, and the empire is so impossibly large that its impossible to compartmentalize! you CANNOT predict what one little action could do to the Balance Of Things! like, of course red and purple just sit around and ignore all the shit they need to do. theyre KIDS with ZERO life experience!

and the fact that they were elites plays into this too. it was drilled into them to Shut Up And Take Orders. but now THEYRE the ones delivering the orders? best to just… leave it be.

(and lets be real, the tallest either get NO training for their new position bc of the belief that they intrinsically know how bc theyre Tall And Good, OR the training they do get is specifically designed to squash any desire to Do Stuff so theyre subservient to the control brains and dont do shit behind their backs)

I DIDNT EVEN GET INTO THE CONTROL BRAINS. its pretty much accepted that the brains run the show. the tallest answer to them. what if red and purple DID want to genuinely do something when they were appointed? they were ELITES for fucksake, do yall know how HARD it is to be a soldier? how demanding it is?? now think about how much worse itd be with super militaristic irkens!! these two are NOT lazy- at least, not back then.

what if when they were appointed, they genuinely wanted to DO stuff. but the control brains shot them down time and time again, so they just… settled. accepted its just a power play and lazed around and ate snacks. bc what else were they supposed to do?? why bother thinking up ways to strengthen the military or improve the economy if the control brains wont let them put those plans into action??

hell, maybe they want to change stuff but have no idea where to start because theyre young and the empire is INCOMPREHENSABLY HUGE. high school students have trouble writing a fuckin lit analysis paper, you really think the tallest can bring about any meaningful change??

its just… they handed power to two kids. they had to go through mutilation to be where they are. (the thumbs thing- even if they hid them in their gauntlets, that prospect… had to have freaked them out.) and then they were hit by the reality that they cannot do anything. the greatest position an irken could possibly have is nothing but a lie. good snacks and leisure in exchange for any real power.

like. no wonder theyre jerks. theyre young and need an outlet and werent raised with the be-nice-to-people values humans were raised with. theyre assholes to everyone, zim especially- and i LOVE zim, i love him to death- but despite that, i cant really blame red and purple. theyre just being jerk ass kids, who were never raised not to be jerk asses.

theyre kids. this should not have happened. if theres a horror in zim being a child soldier, then theres a horror in red and purple being child leaders, stuck unable to do anything.

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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Lets bring back Zim!

The petition to Netflix to get Invader Zim back is great but I think we can go further.

Idk who all has been in the fandom long enough to remember Operation Head Pigeons but my fellow fandom olds should know about that whole thing. We basically organized a letter writing campaign where we wrote letters to Nickelodeon asking for the show to be revived. Back then, we specifically chose to write letters because emails or phone calls can easily be deleted and ignored. They don’t make as much of an impact. But it’s pretty hard to ignore physical letters piling up at your studio.

But times have changed. Letter writing will no longer quite do the job when it comes to Netflix, so I propose we begin Operation Head Pigeons II: Netflix Takeover.

Modern times call for modern solutions, so what we must do, fellow Zim fans, is Tweet our suggestion to the official Netflix Twitter account. Be polite but be straightforward, saying you would like a reboot of the Invader Zim series on account of the immense success of Enter the Florpus.

And that’s it, at least for now! I’ll definitely look into other ways of going about getting Netflix’s attention about this but for now that’s probably one of the best ways to do it. Their team will definitely take notice of constant Tweets asking about the show. So here’s a list of what we can do so far.

1. Sign the change.org petition here: https://www.change.org/p/netflix-netflix-reboot-invader-zim

2. Tweet @netflix on Twitter https://twitter.com/netflix

3. Share this post and any other posts that offer information on getting the show back!

Let’s do this, Zim fans. We’re an old, creative, proud fandom and we will make our voices heard. On behalf of Jhonen Vasquez, of Aaron Alexovich, of Eric Trueheart, and of course Richard Horvitz, Andy Berman, and everyone else on the cast of the show… let’s bring our favorite little green alien back.

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cal-the-sad-gurl · 4 years

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Could you make an analysis on Zib, please?

I’ve talked about Zib a few times before. Like quite a few times actually.

A little bit about Zib and Dib’s denial coping mechanism can be just as bad as Zim sometimes.

About how Zib doesn’t regret that he killed Zim at all

The Tragedy of Zib’s character

This one is more about the Ultimate Zim but Zib worms his way in here.

I usually find there’s not much to say about Zib that I haven’t already talked about in detail before.

I feel there’s so much you can say about a Bad End Friend.

But there’s a few things about Zib that I do find interesting.

I’ve mentioned many times that he has lied to Dib when they first met in order to make himself way more powerful then he seems. A lot of lines are blurred between what’s truth and what’s not.

Like this is a carefully constructed half-truth bullshit lie and most of what he says to Dib on his very first impression is just that. Very well constructed half-lies.

Like he said Dib’s head is the standard unit of measurement across the galaxy and the respect of people everywhere............Well........he’s technically NOT wrong..... Because he does have the respect of all the Zims in the Zimvoid but that’s by posing as the number one Zim. I assure you no one in the Zimvoid is using Dib-head as a standard unit of measurement except him. And he technically IS the only somewhat-human person in the Zimvoid.

Again, he’s not wrong but he is also bull-shiting his way through this conversation and making an effort to impress Dib that he just doesn’t do with the other Zims.

Like he doesn’t care about the other Zims at all in the slightest.

He didn’t even need to drop his disguise as Number One at all, but he saw a Dib and he just had to brag and monologue about his brilliant plan to destroy all the Zims and Irkens because he knew only a Dib would be able to appreciate his greatness. He even says as much.

I really think his need to impress a Dib is greatly increased with who Zib is. Zim in the show, movie, and comics has always had this desire to impress Dib.

Especially in ETF and a few key episodes.

Zim just has an overwhelming desire to impress Dib when a plan comes to fruition. Rewatch “Room with a Moose” and a few other episodes, saying that Dib is the only hooman-monkey that can appreciate the beauty of his plans.

Zib did not need to drop his disguise as the ultimate Zim at all. He could have just thrown Dib in prison but the rest of the Zims but like, he sees a Dib and immediately he wants to talk to him and talk about his plan because he knows only a Dib can appreciate his genius. Both his Zim side and his Dib side.

(I can’t get over 2k and Palindrome pushing Dib closer to Zim Number One like “Take him! Sacrifice to the blood god” )

A Dib pretty much caused Zib to have a bit of a panic breakdown. Not only is the Dib the first human he’s seen since he created the Zimvoid, but he is also a Dib. And no Zim would like his plans, cause he’s brainwashing them all, and they won’t appreciate his genius because they’re not human and they won’t get how far he’s going to destroy them. He knew only a Dib would be able to appreciate this, which is why he reveals himself immediately and starts bragging.

Some are lies and some are truths and some are half-truths. He just deeply wants to impress Dib. Without even realizing it’s his Zim side that feels that way. Because to Zib, of course he’d want to brag to Dib. He’s also a Dib. And no one would understand or appreciate his plan better than himself.

So he reveals himself and tells a lot of things that are bullshit and some aren’t.

He just crafts a perfectly constructed image of what he wants himself to be and what he wants other Dibs to view him as. Just cause his self-loathing is on its max levels.

And I talked about it before. He really hates that Zim is a part of him, which is why he really deny that they’re merged, at least without getting into the technical aspects of it.

I don’t think he entirely lied about his plans.

Like he did lure all the Zims here to kill them off and created a hierarchy where only he benefits. And it’s really only him, because Zib knows no one cares about what he’s doing. If he could get a Dib to care he’d be really less alone.

Which is why he gets so angry when Dib isn’t with him on his plan. Because he thought Dib could understand him but he couldn’t.

And Dib is right in this instance. Zib’s a bit of a psychopath.

Zib has absolutely nothing to gain and nothing to lose from doing this at all. Zib just gets disillusioned with humanity and people in general. Letting Dib in on his plans was more of an impulse. Especially with how he regards and talks about the multiverse when the sheet is pulled out from under him.

Zib absolutely knows what he’s doing is pointless, but he is physically incapable of stopping. Much like a certain Invader with a certain mission. Much like a Determined Big Head boy who never says Die.

He never planned to having a Dib involved at all. But letting Dib in on his plan (along with a few other Zims) was his first mistake.

But the multiverse is a cold, lonely and unforgiving place when you realize what no one cares and whatever you do doesn’t matter across multiple realities.

It’s like peak existentialism that comes with the territory of being aware of a concrete multiverse existence.

It’s hard to say if Zib fusing to Zim’s pack was intentional or not. Just because of how dishonest and un-forward he’s been about his plans and the nature of them up until now.

Zim and Dib both have a real talent for denying the obvious. So who’s to say if the pak-fusing was an accident or intentional. Since he changed his story twice already.

Even Zim says that building the tech with his brain should have been impossible. And while Zim is kinda an idiot and makes poor judgment decisions and is 99% feral in this saga, I’m inclined to agree with Zim here. Because as we remember:

Zim was actually right on that front. Without fusing to the PAK, Zib wouldn’t have been able to build or understand the Zapper at all.

So who’s to say if fusing with the PAK was intentional or not.

Zib acts like he had no choice if he wanted to build the Zapper, but he could have gotten the idea from the Zapper only after fusing to Zim’s PAK.

Who’s to say when or how that happened. Cause while Zib acts proud he “killed” his Zim essentially, who’s to say that isn’t a lie too?

Anyways, I find Zib an interesting character. I feel there’s a lot of potential for him as a reoccurring antagonist.. (but this franchise hates those) I just usually don’t

I’ve talked about him a few times here and there but he only has one comic issue where he shines at all, so there’s only so much to talk about Zib without getting into more personal headcanons and au type stuff.

Sorry for the late reply. It was hard for me to figure out what to talk about with Zib that I haven’t said before.

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