#i could write qnd entire essay on irk and their sense of time & language btw ourghhh

[paranormal-dipshit]

i think a lot od people forget that time is not a universal thing, we're dealing with an alien planet and culture that would realistically be far off from ours

our sense of time is simply a mesurement. so irk would most likely never develop measurements of time that fall close to ours. my personal headcanon is that for every 1 earth year is 13.7 irken years because thats simply how their calendars work. the time mesaured itself has some space gravity weirdness warpyness but mostly it is very very similar.

so in my stuff, it starts at augest 26th and zim is 16 (birthday is march 20th) while dib is 15 but has a month or so to turn 16 (birthday is september 22nd). so in irk years, zim is 225.2 and dib is 218.2. my irk divides age groups in multiples of 30, so they would be in the same age range on irk

theyre the same age.

lowkey zadr so funny bc you gotta pull some crazy shit like ‘irkens age relative to the planet theyre on’ to have kid!dib and kid!zim dating then adult!dib and adult!zim dating in the same timeline

like if you take the “Zim is a kid in the show” stance then child zadr seems so weird the second you age up the characters at all. Cuz it takes so long for irkens to age the equivalent of one human year (aka dib would be 22 by the time Zim ages ‘one’ year)

or if you take the opposite stance, you can’t have zadr and the show at the same time (which is sad bc the show so good??? hate leaving it out of anything)

fuck I worded this so badly I probably pissed off the antis and the zadrs im sorry