I have no regrets shipping these two in the slightest. This, along with Professor Membrane X Tallest Miyuki are the only ships I have within the Invader Zim show. Nothing else works for me except those two ships.
I ship datr just because angsty goth girl and dorky emo bf is the dynamic I want in my life. But I think pretty much all of the main ships in the Invader Zim Fandom are ok.
I've been getting less and less into homestuck but the thing that always bothered me about how people portrayed Roxy as this flawless girl who did nothing wrong despite almost blowing up Jane, sexually harassing Dirk, and how she see the carapaces as stupid and babies them. Idk she was the drunk joke for a very long time in comic and fandom until her quitting was taken seriously years later by like a newbies in the fandom. Ages ago an anon called Roxy a mary-sue and i kinda have too agree particularly after Janes birthday were she took over and got a bunch of tasks and powers like the orb, bringing Calliope back, killing HIC, also i think her getting over her alcoholism was written poorly
Homestuck is gay but invader zim is even gayer Dib Membrane x Tak aka DATR is a better ship than davekat
If Rose had done dirty in writing and character after getting together with Kanaya, then Roxy had it worse when it's revealed she's the secret leader of the Alpha Kids and not Jane. It's a surprise no one calls out her neediness for love and attention as weird. It's not on the same level as Eridan's, but it is still one if she was desperate for a gay guy and was willing to look past questionable incest from ectobiology. It also doesn't help that at the time Shelby was part of this, Roxy was her favorite character and she had made her OC, Calliope, be important against Caliborn. Thus, shipping them together and forcing Hussie making Roxy more important than she already was.
Nobody questions why Roxy needs to make the Matriorb for the trolls if that said trolls aka The Condesce, was the one who made her homelife shit that she had to defend her and the Carapacian's life, just like how Dirk is stranded on an island to defend himself from her drones. Just because her sister/mother Rose is lesbians with Kanaya, doesn't mean she KNOWS her. She had a better reason to genocide the trolls apart from Jane in Homestuck^2.
Dib and Tak Romance is better than Davekat.
They are one of my fave IZ ships, with Zim/Gaz being obvious top.
I feel like the Invader Zim fandom is pretty much dead but I've seen a ton of stuff on this lately which is insane because I thought you guys crawled back into your dark Hobbit Holes after the movie came out but shrugs!
Now typically I'm not a huge shipper, not as much as I USED to be, but I still do enjoy the occasional one between canon characters if I see it happening. But one thing I'll never understand is why ZaDr, ZaGr, ZaGIr (not sure what the Zim x GIR one is), TaGr, TaDr (etc) are so popular? Not to mention the LARGE age gaps between irkens (specifically Zim and Tak) with Dib and Gaz
Jhonen himself has stated that Zim is like, an old man in human years. He found the trope of an old man beefing with a child to be funny when he was younger so he put that into IZ (if I can find this I'll link it somewhere, it's 5 AM right now and I don't feel like doing it 😭) and we can SAFELY assume the same with Tak. They can be the same age, either being a little older or younger than the other. It doesn't really matter.
Any ship with GIR feels wrong. He acts like a child, I see him as a child, I don't think anything could make me COMFORTABLE with ships that have him in it.
I feel as if the only actual ships that would be right are The Tallest (despite some seeing them as brothers. I don't think they're brothers but you can prove me otherwise if I'm wrong) and ZaTr?
The Tallest need no explanation. Have you seen them?
ZaTr can be much more controversial but I heavily feel like they'd be kismeses or enemies to lovers (somehow, someway).
OUTLINE!!!! (Click both of these for better quality)
ITS BEEN A LITTLE SINCE I POSTED ANY ART..AND WELL IVE SEEN ALOT OF PEOPLE LIKING MY OLD ART AND COMPLEMENTING IT SO…SO FINALLY I HAD THE COURAGE TO POST THIS ART I JUST FINISHED!!!
(Also tak’s question and explanation mark dose not have hearts beside it UGH JUST REALISED THAT)
SO IDK…I REALLY DONT KNOW I GUESS JUST DONT TOUCH OR YELL AT !ZIMS! ENEMY???? Okkkk Zim🤨🤨🤨
ANYWHO ITS 3 AM AND I..I AM INSANE AND I TOLD @laazytoaster THEY WOULD HAVE ART TO WAKE UP TO….SO..
(Also yes that is Gaz’s name knitted on Tak’s jumper why do you ask?)