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I've been thinking about making some irken propaganda posters FOREVER!!! I really like this kind of stuff hehehe maybe I'll do more :33

There's a version in English under the cut!

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ill beat u up

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Yo! I'm in Artfight this year. I skipped last year because of my injured hand, but I am back!

I haven't picked a team yet because I want to choose based on what other people choose, but go ahead and drop me a early follow if you want. I uploaded a ton of new characters, Omori, ponies, Est, mostly ponies. There's a variety in there!

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Alt ZaDr Week Day 4 - RAWR! <3

Ain't no way my very first gay month post are these two dumbasses I love it ansjamsn

I'm a bitch who's weak for love and cutesy stuff so count on me to make these idiots super cutesy every single time >:3

Also fun alt 'cause I refuse to Y2K something without a glittery gif version!

Also I found out through making these that Blingee was over???? The end of an era I WAS SO FUCKEN SAD

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i know it’s just typical tv show technical nonsense babble but i cant stop thinking about that line from future dib. the implications are too funny. do irkens also have access to windows xp too?

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Showtime !

Commission for @khaliarart !! 💜

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I'm still in the process. I'm in a big process! But I had some help with the music today. The music isn't the same as in the show or the movie, but this music is also nice for immersing yourself in the game. Better with music than silence :0 I also added animations for collecting items. And Dib can move on a slant. Not just left-right and up and down.

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sup 💥💥💥

PayPal only btw

Payments should be made in full before commission is started. I allow refunds up until the first WIP is approved.

I will work with you to help guarantee your satisfaction, so one major alteration is free but each additional major alteration will charge +$5.

Additionally, each additional character will be charged 50% the base price of the piece (background price not included).

Props are free of charge! This applies to things like tools, phones, handheld weapons, and other items the character can hold. Items like couches and desks qualify as a background.

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Woah woah, r-iz-f! Ur blowing my mind over head. Zim being manipulative has never crossed my mind before and now I'm seriously rethinking everything i know about Zim, cuz my respect for him just quadrupled! Is he always acting dumb with humans and the Tallest, and is he still erratic and hot tempered at times? Cuz I'm having trouble finding the differences between when he is being real or being manipulative. I'm so impressed by this blog I bow to ur superiority 🙇‍♀️

Zim is naturally impulsive and has little to no common sense on his own, but he’s smart enough to know how to weaponize his own personality. He’s basically got a 20 in intelligence and like a 3 in wisdom. Intelligent enough to figure out how to undo a time slowed explosion, but not enough common sense to consider the fact that he’s still in the blast radius of said explosion.

When Zim is manipulating someone, he turns his personality up to 11, acting impulsive and dumb to a much more comedic degree. To the point where no one can take him seriously. He doesn’t put on a completely different act, he makes his usual personality a lot more intense. Which makes it hard to tell when he’s put up and dropped the act at times, both in-universe and out.

Generally, if Zim seems to take a sudden nose dive in intelligence out of nowhere, gains something or attempts to gain something through this, and then acts a lot smarter/more competent afterwards, he’s putting on a deliberate act.

When speaking to the Tallest or most humans, Zim doesn’t bother with this. I don’t think Zim ever really tries to manipulate the Tallest in this way (which makes sense considering who the Tallest are relative to Zim and Zim’s own respect towards them). He bargains with them more than a few times, but I can’t think of any moment where he deliberately attempts to manipulate them.

For humans, Zim just doesn’t need to. Humans are already easy enough to fool without manipulation tactics. There are some exceptions, but most of the time Zim doesn’t seem to bother with it. It just isn’t needed when dealing with (most) humans.

That being said, here’s a bunch of moments where I think Zim is purposely manipulating things. It’s not all the moments, but it’s a good amount that shows exactly how Zim tends to do this sort of thing.

1. The First Real Encounter With Tak:

Like I’ve mentioned before, Zim purposely acts stupid to make Tak believe that he’s not a threat and leave without harming him, purposely interrupting Tak and not understanding to a word she says (even though he very clearly IS listening judging by how he questions Tak about her plan, almost dropping the act when doing so).

2. Hobo 13:

During the final battle in Hobo 13, Zim gets grabbed by Sergeant Hobo 678, who attempts to push him out of the ring. Zim then suddenly interrupts the Sergeant with the line: “Perhaps you’ve trained me too well”, confusing and distracting Sergeant Hobo 678 for the few extra seconds needed for Zim to drain his power. That was on purpose. Zim played up the incompetent act for a few seconds to confuse and distract the Sergeant, which did its job and bought Zim enough time.

3. The Pilot Episode:

(Pilot) Zim manipulates (Pilot) Dib in an almost identical manner as with Sergeant Hobo 678. During the fight against Dib, Zim suddenly asks Dib “Wait a minute. What planet is this?”, to which a very confused Dib replies “Earth”, and Zim responds with “Yep, it’s the right planet” before swiftly jumping right behind Dib and shooting him in the back.

Zim pulled out the incompetent act mid-fight, completely threw Dib off his rhythm by doing so, and then immediately dropped the act and got a free shot on Dib when he was distracted and confused.

I get that the Pilot isn’t exactly canon, but it does show that this little, overlooked part of Zim has been a part of him for a VERY long time.

4. Rise Of The Zitboy:

I’m not sure if this scene counts as Zim manipulating someone like the other examples, but it shows that he knows how to subtly get people to do what he wants and understands how people work.

When trying to hypnotize Dib (who’s trying to keep his eyes closed to prevent being hypnotized by Pustulio), Zim says “Oh you’ll open them. You’ll have to breathe sometime” (referring to Dib’s eyes), at which point Dib opens his eyes out of pure confusion over what eyes have to do with breathing, getting hypnotized because of this.

Apart from being a pretty good line, it doesn’t make much sense for Zim to say this, even with his lack of knowledge on humans. Zim is an ex-scientist and is heavily implied to have been either a biologist or geneticist, so him believing that human eyes are used for breathing just doesn’t seem right.

Unless he’s deliberately saying this because he knows it’ll get a confused reaction from Dib and hopefully get him to open his eyes.

5. The Second Planet jacker Fight:

In the second Planet Jacker fight, Zim dons armour and lets himself be beaten up to provide a distraction for Gir cutting open the planet dome. During all of this, Zim acts as obnoxious as possible to keep the focus on his, playing up his egotism and acting like he’s the real winner of the fight the entire time.

We know that this is an act because up until that point, Zim had been acting relatively tame, not even close to as egotistical or incompetent as he was in the final fight. Zim’s line of “Sure. Why not” right before the fight might also be more proof that he’s getting beat up on purpose, with that line being Zim acknowledging that his plan involves him being beat to a pulp and accepting it right before fully committing to the plan.

6. Most interactions with Gaz:

If you watch the earlier episodes of the show, Zim doesn’t actually fear Gaz. He never has. He ignores every threat she makes and considering Zim’s canonical strength, has every right to. He goes easy on Dib for a reason.

Basically every moment in the series where Zim “fears” Gaz or shows any real respect to her is an act, meant to make sure that Gaz never actually knows about Zim’s real level of competence. Gaz believes that Zim is an incompetent moron that will never take over Earth because he constantly defeats himself, and while some of that is true, a lot of that is very clearly false. Gaz just constantly believes that Zim is incompetent because Zim keeps manipulating her into thinking that he’s incompetent, faking fear of her to keep that act up.

As for why Zim does this, just look at Enter The Florpus. When Gaz sees just how competent Zim actually is, she teams up with Dib. Even if Gaz doesn’t pose a physical threat to him, that’s still a second person going against his mission. Like Dib, Gaz poses basically no threat to Zim’s well-being, but does pose a threat to his mission.

7. Most times where Zim interrupts people with repeated “No”s and “Who are you”s:

I don’t have a list of how many times this happens or in what episodes, but whenever Zim constantly interrupts people by yelling“No!”, “Who are you?!” and other similar phrases, he’s doing it on purpose, either to make himself seem crazy or for other, similar reasons.

The sole exceptions to this is Zim yelling “What!?” In Mortos Der Soulstealer and Enter The Florpus. He genuinely couldn’t hear Dib in those moments.

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Theory:

Here’s a small detail about Hobo 13 that explains a lot:

When any trainee is put in genuine, life threatening danger, they’re teleported to a holding cell before any real damage can occur.

So the trainees on Hobo 13 are never in any truly life threatening danger. If they’re ever put in a situation like that they’re automatically teleported to a holding cell (and presumably given medical attention if they have any injuries. Can’t run a successful boot camp if no one ever survives).

But at the same time, there are people betting not on Zim’s injuries, but on his DEATH. With bets on things like whether or not he’ll be blown up, eaten, or even chopped in half.

But the thing is, with the logic of Hobo 13, none of those things can actually happen to Zim because he’ll be teleported to a holding cell before anything major happens.

So in order for these bets to be possible, Zim must be disconnected from the teleporting system. In other words, if Zim is put into life threatening danger on Hobo 13, he won’t be teleported. Zim has no actual protection, unlike every other trainee there.

And there’s a good chance that the Tallest are not just aware of this given how Purple starts the betting, but are probably the reason that Zim won’t be teleported in the first place. They’re royalty. A simple request to Sergeant Hobo 678 or whoever is in charge is all it would take.

And I think Zim is aware of this as well.

This would mean that Zim didn’t just take the position as team commander because he wanted to be in charge or because he didn’t want to have to take orders from people that he doesn’t know or respect (although those were definitely factors), but because it would keep him out of the most danger. The commander can’t decide to leave Zim behind or sacrifice him for the rest of the team (which would most likely kill him because he doesn’t have the teleporter as a failsafe) If Zim IS the commander.

Think about it some more. Zim was a part of the Irken military and his entire race views shorter Irkens as inferior to the taller ones. So following that logic, it would make sense if shorter Irkens in the military were given the most dangerous jobs, even suicide missions if the need arose. After all, they’re considered to be less valuable overall than the taller ones. Shorter Irkens are viewed as expendable. Zim is shorter than average. By cementing himself as the commander, Zim prevents whoever else would have become commander from taking advantage of his shorter height and by that logic “lower value” and sacrificing him for the good of the team.

Hell, we even see proof of shorter and lower value soldiers being seen as expendable in the Irken military in the comics, where Commander Poki sends Zim, the shortest Irken there, on a suicide mission:

Think about what Poki just said. They want Zim to sneak to the opposite side of an enemy base and set off a small explosion to lure the enemies in the area to the back while the Irkens attack the (now unprotected) front. After those explosives go off, person that goes and sets off these explosives will be surrounded and swarmed by enemy forces alone while also being completely cut off from the other irkens because they’re on the opposite side of the battlefield with enemy forces in between their current location and the Irken military camp.

In other words, whoever sets off those explosives is going to die. And Poki picks the shortest Irken there to do it because he’s seen as expendable.

So Zim has EXPERIENCED being used as an expendable soldier, and he knows that his shorter height makes him a target for that sort of thing. So he’d probably believe that it works the same way on Hobo 13 while also knowing that if he’s ever in danger, the teleporter won’t save him.

It’s just a shame that not counting Zim, there was only one other Irken in the entire team, so Zim never actually needed to take any of this into consideration. His paranoia would have been completely justified in an all-Irken environment, ie: the type of environment he’s used to, but isn’t needed in this particular scenario.

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IM NOT DEAD!, JUST BUSY MAKING "ART" (the stupid flipaclip had an error with the layers in 0:12 i hate it)

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read something funny in the Invader Zim book I just bought-

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If you want to be an expert too and learn tons of stuffs here's where I learn Zimthings

This is a playlist of interviews I collected. I also archived them all so if any links aren't working the URL should still work in the wayback machine. They're in order of when they were recorded, so you got some really old ones in here

I've got 2 books, some information you can only find in here!

Then there's of course the DVD commentaries. Not entirely sure how you find those since I got em on accident!

Rewatching Zim is really fun as an expert on the show now. Every single episode I can spit off random facts about deleted scenes, a story a voice actor told about a line, animation quirks, hidden Easter eggs, anything and everything. Very cool

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There used to be a lot of rumors about “The final episode of the show would’ve been called Invader Dib” And the truth about that is that it was just a joke in the office of an idea that was never ever discussed and they never wrote any ideas down for it. They might’ve done something completely different for it

Rewatching Zim is really fun as an expert on the show now. Every single episode I can spit off random facts about deleted scenes, a story a voice actor told about a line, animation quirks, hidden Easter eggs, anything and everything. Very cool

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Rewatching Zim is really fun as an expert on the show now. Every single episode I can spit off random facts about deleted scenes, a story a voice actor told about a line, animation quirks, hidden Easter eggs, anything and everything. Very cool

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I like this old headcanon I had that Zim isn't actually a standard for how gross irkens are, his PAK and SIR unit are just defective so he didn't properly adjust to the Earth's environment and as such gets sick by EVERYTHING