#like the ones that raised zim

[emeraldspiral]

Thinking about how the retcon of Membrane having robot arms and the way he responds to a cry for help from his child with "Wishing isn't very scientific, son" mirrors Zim having a "cold, unfeeling robot arm" as the closest thing to a parent.

[izpride]

Transparent Icons - GashLOOG

[abysswatchers420]

its almost a little jarring to see aqua teen animated so fluidly

[zadralien]

He wanted Dib to beg for his life.

Dib has become his life.

Ficlet under the cut.

“Fuck, Zim!” Dib reaches up to gingerly press his fingers to his nose and feels the thick blood pooling down past his mouth. “I swear to god, you fucking bug, if you’ve gone and broken my nose again I’ll-“

“-Shut up!” Zim shrieks, pak legs unfurling and clanking onto the concrete. He rises above Dib and encroaches slowly, legs clacking with each step. “You.. you worm! Do you have any idea what you could have done?”

“Dude, it was just some papers. I didn’t even read them for christ’s sake. They’re in Irken, you of all people should know I’m slow at translating that chicken scratch of yours.” Dib looks forlornly at the stack of crumpled papers a few feet away, scattered and likely marked with a spray of Dib’s blood. He turns back to look up at Zim when he snarls, reaching out a gloved claw to shove Dib back hard.

“They’re not for you, they’re Zim’s private papers!” Zim leans further over Dib, tongue curling and spitting flecks of saliva onto Dib’s face. Dib scrubs at his face, remembering how disrespectful spitting is considered in Irken culture. It burns a little.

“I don’t give a shit what they are. I didn’t even mean to touch them! I just wanted to put my crap down.” He meets Zim’s eyes. They’re a deep red and set in a foul expression. “I’m not interested in your secrets. You can keep those. It’s not like I don’t know everything anyway.”

Zim stiffens and Dib’s expression softens despite himself. He runs a tired hand through his hair and steels his gaze.

“You don’t really think I’m that big of an idiot, do you? You’ve just been quietly shoving your fat green head into my life over the last year and suddenly you save my life. I don’t know man, a guy spends his entire life trying to kill you and then just stops you from bleeding out some random Tuesday? That was weird.“ Dib shrugs, looking away briefly.

“That does not mean anything, Dib-worm. You were bleeding all over my base, it was disgusting. Zim had to stop it somehow.”

Dib shakes his head.

“It’s okay, Zim. I know we’re friends. I don’t know why, and I don’t care to know - but I know you’re lost and don’t know where to go. I know, and it’s okay. I’m lost too. We can be lost together. Your leaders, the Tallest -“.

“Don’t.” Zim grits out, quiet in a way Dib has never heard, didn’t know was possible. Physically, he begins trying to reach one hand out to soothe, to touch, to reassure. Mentally, he begs his sister to come collect his corpse once she realises what most likely happened to him. Damn it, he hopes she realises.

He isn’t that surprised when Zim lunges at him, but he wishes he’d had more time to brace before an Irken claw punches into his chest to grab at the material of his shirt. He wheezes a little.

“You do not know what you speak of, you pathetic slime! Do not mistake your loneliness for Zim’s. Zim doesn’t need you, Zim doesn’t need this dust bowl of a planet. One more fucking word and I’ll finish what that disgusting cryptid creature started last year.”

The human swear word sounds weird coming out of the alien’s mouth, but it’s not the first time. He’d only ever heard Zim swear once before - specifically when he got shredded by a cryptid in the woods and, in a blood-loss haze, made his way to Zim’s base to start bleeding out on his frenemies floor. He knows how hard it is to admit how miserable you are on the inside, especially to the people that matter most.

Well, he had made it this far.

“I know you Zim, and it’s okay.”

Zim’s quiet for a moment before he speaks, clenching his jaw.

“Beg.”

“What?”

“Zim told you, one more word. Now you beg for your pathetic life, you insolent worm.”

“I’m not going to - Zim, stop it. You know I’m right. I care about you too! It’s fine!”

Zim snarls, fist clenched, pak legs raising him to his full height. Dib’s heart drops when he sees one leg glint as it lifts itself behind Zim, preparing to strike.

Fuck, fuck, fuck. He might actually die today. Shit.

“Beg!”

“No!”

“Beg!”

Shit. The leg is calibrating.

“I’m all you have! Kill me and you’ll have nothing. You know it too!”

Zim stops. The leg pauses. His eyes are wide, frightened, conflicted. He chokes out a pained sound, continuing to clench and unclench his fist. He yanks Dib closer by the shirt still tangled in his fist. Dib breathes heavily.

“Beg Zim not to kill you.” His voice is raw, tired. His eyes roam over Dib’s face, carefully categorising and assessing. The stilted pak leg drops back to the ground.

Dib’s whole body un-tenses despite the proximity. The alien’s face turns slowly into a somewhat unreadable resignation.

Dib swallows the lump.

“Please.” He whispers quietly. Swaying, pressing forward.

“You fool.”

[heartfullofleeches]

Creep Reader surviving in an Invader Zim/Grim Adventures est town and the Yan entities that center around them. Once every few months a group of humans are moved overnight into a cozy new home in a friendly new town. With no way out of the fog that surrounds it, the humans are either forced to adapt to their new lives and rolls given to them - or face the consequences and creatures that lure in the shadows. Most succumb to the madness or live in the terror of the unknown - Creep Reader is trying to figure out where to put the new chair made out of human spines their neighbor gave them and having a tea party with their neighbor who thinks she's a real life barbie doll and has a closet full of funky smelling human sized dolls she refers to as past lovers

The horrors find a gore obsessed, desensitized human an absolute treasure and work in their favor. Creep Reader's roll is eventually swapped from underpaid worker to mayor and invited to executions daily like a celebrity getting an invite to fans birthday parties. It gets a little repetitive to have to welcome the new bus full of screaming and crying residents, but they're quite happy with their new life

-

Creep Reader: Hey so- welcome to the town. Please try not to yell or anything or- [immediately gets cut off by a sobbing resident who then picked up by a giant praying mantis in a suit and carried off into the night]

Creep Reader: ....As I was saying - please try not to raise your voices as my giant praying mantis assistant takes all volumes above what I'm at now as a threat toward me

-

[A group of slashers sit at a slumber party, watching the spilling blood of the last victim they slaughtered forms into the first lettor of your name]

Yan Slasher #1: Oooooo, someone has a crush on The Mayor~

Yan Slasher #2, blushing: Nuh uh

Yan Slasher #1: Uh huh

Yan Slasher #2, throwing their knife at a body crawling towards the door: Nuh uh

-

[During a meeting with the new residents the mailman comes crawling through the third story window carries two packages]

Mailman: you can't escape what's delivered to you....

[In the resident's box is a single bullet - one that wad removed from their heart eight years ago as a police chief. They run outside only to be gunned down immediately. Reader opens their to find a teddy bear and a cake saying "Happy Birthday." The mailman turns them to face the window where the same message is written in the recently deceased blood]

Creep Reader: Aw thats so sweet.

[the-bar-sinister]

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[aquaticwolfkuri]

You HATE Me, But I

Hate YOU More!: ch.3

(I deleted the original character.3 cause I hated it, hopefully I don't hate this one and rewrite it lol )

During lunch, Zim watched the new girl closely, and while he was doing that, Dib was watching Zim just as closely, trying to figure out what he might be planning. 

Just then, Zim springs from his table and shoves one of his classmates passing by, causing them to spill their drink all over Plotty’s shirt.

She didn’t scream and she wasn’t even smoking, much to Zim’s displeasure. Had she already discovered the secret to paste? Or perhaps she had some sort of new Irken disguise that protected her from water??

Well, before Zim could think much longer about it, the student he had shoved earlier was actually a jock and they didn’t appreciate being shoved. Zim was promptly beaten before being thrown into the trashcan.

“Plotty, are you alright???” Dib and a few other students go to check on the new girl, but Dib blushes when he realizes that Plotty’s black lacy bra has become visible through her wet white shirt.

“Dib, D-Don’t look!” The girl blushes, shoving past him as she covers up her chest, quickly escaping to the woman’s bathroom with a few of the other girls with her.

Dib spins around and stumbles, tripping over the now fallen over trashcan and toppling over on top of the green boy. Zim freezes, feeling Dib’s hot breath ghosting over his neck, sending a shiver down his spine. He quickly begins to panic as his chest tightens and his face burns up. So what does he do? He screams, shoving Dib off of him before kicking him.

“W-What the fuck Zi-” Zim kicks him again.

“Y-You won’t kill me that easily, DIB!” Zim shouts before running out of the cafeteria.

“H-Huh…???” Dib holds his side and winces from the pain, not really sure what the green boy was talking about. He hadn’t done anything to the alien, in fact, Zim was the one who attacked him!

Gaz, who had been watching from afar, raised a brow when she noticed the clear blush that had been dusted over the alien’s green complexion.

She puts her game-slave aside and walks with Dib to the nurse's office where he got the bruises Zim gave him, treated.

 

Outside the Skool, Zim hides behind a tree near the track field, breathing heavily.

“W-What was that….that FEELING!? W-What kind of human trickery was that!? Z-Zim’s chest nearly exploded…!” Zim pulls out a scanning device from his pack to check for any physical or internal damage, but his vitals are perfectly fine, so then what was wrong with him??? 

Touching the back of his neck, Zim blushes and nearly quivers, remembering the feeling.

“W-What in Irk’s name is this….??? What has the Dib-Human done to me!?” Zim rushes back to the base, forgetting about the rest of Skool for the day in order to run a few tests on himself.

After Skool, Dib and Gaz would walk home, but this time, Plotty wouldn’t be joining them, So Dib could finally read his favorite pass-time mysterious mysteries magazine on the way home. Gaz watches him for a moment before looking back at her game but she speaks up.

“You know… If you plan on dating that girl, you should really think about telling her the truth.”

“Gaz, if I told Plotty that all those things the other students said about me were true, she'd just think I’m crazy and stop talking to me!” Dib responds, clearly annoyed. 

“I mean, Despite all the bizarre things in this world, why am I the only one singled out for it? Since I was a child, I’ve always been the crazy big-headed kid, but things are finally starting to feel different now, and a girl ACTUALLY likes him!”

“...But she doesn’t know the REAL you…” Gaz says.

“It doesn’t matter. I mean, isn’t that what people do in High Skool?? They lie about who they are until adulthood?” Dib says, but Gaz seems dissatisfied with this answer… but she doesn’t say anything, instead, she changes the subject.

“Zim wasn’t around for the rest of class…”

“Huh? Yeah, I don’t know. He just started hitting me and ran off. I think he was just being weird or something…” Dib says that, but Zim was clearly serious when he hit him.

"Yeah, he was definitely acting weird..." Gaz says, recalling the blush on Zim's face. "Definitely weird..."

[alanaartdream]

Ok ok it is like late and got a lot going on tomorrow BUT I feel like I need to rant something about Timmy’s Turner’s parents here

There a few who are saying it wasn’t just Wanda and Cosmo that started to get out of character at the end of original fairly odd parents (I mean let’s face Tommy

Was getting a little out of character by that point as well)

I do have to acknowledge that there were a few times Timmy’s parents would show some love/care for Timmy but there were many many MANY times in the first seasons where they were not great either

The Negative Timmy Episode was ONE of the first seasons episodes

It wasn’t a WAY later episode because I remember coming home from school and watching it on Australian abc network at the time back in the show’s early hay days

Butch had a bad habit of in some episodes making Timmy’s parents seem to care for Timmy in SOME episodes but in others they were QUITE selfish;

They would care for him when it was convenient for them

Also one of the first time dug dimma dom billionaire (grandfather to Dav in a new wish) was when he was planning to take over a old west camping place Timmy’s dad was bringing Timmy & his friends to for camp and Timmy’s dad seemed upset about it being taken away so Timmy went back in time to find the deed to the place to save it for his dad only for his dad to sell it even

Thought he knows his son went to the trouble of finding it FOR him just goes and sells it to Dug dimma Don like he was never upset about it being taken down and having something else put into it’s place

Also the hold Negative Timmy episode was because Timmy’s parents had to go to parents class because they were found to be bad parents but we only saw them go to that once and never again

Also there was time Timmy wish that Wanda and Cosmo would be friends with his parents because none of other kids at his school parents wanted anything to do with his parents (heck a lot of other adults didn’t want to hang out with them because they were NOT great people to hang out with)

Also in one of earlier episodes were all too happy not to spend any of summer break with Timmy and leave him with a babysitter

They were bad at the start and bad at the end

Also it doesn’t matter how much someone says and acts like they love you it doesn’t excuse times they neglect/ abuse you

And boy do Timmy’s parents do that a lot

Also let’s be real here Butch doesn’t always stick to his story plots and he gave a lot people working with him for both Danny Phantom and Fairly odd parents a hard time

Just the way the show likes to gloss over the abuse/ harassment/ neglect in some episodes like they’re jokes makes alot people kinda blind to it

Like Invader Zim there’s a lot stuff that just not fly in cartoons today will surprise you

If Timmy’s parents would be raising Timmy in today’s society they wouldn’t of had Timmy back until they DID a lot of parenting classes not just one and going to a lot of therapy and Timmy would’ve had to stay with his grandparents from his mum’s side of the family and no one would let that sorry excuse of

***But oh Timmy’s parents do CARE and love him

They just don’t know to be good parents or they’re just trying their best****

They would honestly have to prove that they were willing to learn to be good parents before they even got to have Timmy back

And cocker would’ve been fired as a teacher & sent to the loony bin and or made to go to therapy I mean it looks like in a new wish he’s no longer allowed to teach because of what a nut job he’s turned out to be

A lot people who are trying to defend Timmy’s birth parents are doing exactly what Butch does by downplaying the neglect Timmy’s birth parents while glossing over it with episodes acting like they do

If the show wasn’t shown in a sitcom fashion it would be kinda dark in places

And being dumb ignorant doesn’t excuse you for being neglectful and abusing

Anyway it’s about midnight here and I really need some sleep goodnight

[fipindustries]

🔥uhhh children's cartoons

OH BOY DO I EVER HAVE SOME FOR YOU!

but honestly i dont think i can express it any better than my boy guillermo del toro:

 he went on to detail what he despises about certain lazy proclivities in commercial animation, notably how characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior.” He added, “[If] I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose — oh, I hate that shit. [Why] does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think it is emotional pornography. All the families are happy and sassy and quick, everyone has a one-liner. Well, my dad was boring. I was boring. Everybody in my family was boring. We had no one-liners. We’re all fucked up. That’s what I want to see animated. I would love to see real life in animation. I actually think it’s urgent. think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.”

for all that people praise shows like gravity falls, she-ra, owl house, adventure time and all the other cartoons of this generation for pushing new ground, telling new daring stories and furthering lgbt representation, they are all guilty of what del toro descrived and i have grown tired of it with the years.

i genuenly believe that cartoons in my childhood were weirder, more fucked up and less prone to fall into these pitfalls. i dont think any other cartoon now a days has managed to capture the down to earth, real as balls chill slice of life feel of hey arnold, or the distorted, disjointed, herky jerkyness of ed, edd and eddy, or the deeply perturbed darkness of invader zim.

except perhaps gumball.

gumball is a masterpiece.

[cha0s-boyy]

synth for @kandiravefur

[ID: a cartoony digital drawing of an anthro mouse from the hips up. it is thin, and has no notable bust, human-like shoulder length hair, some scruffy facial hairs, and thick eyelashes. its fur is pale pink, with slightly brighter pink hair, black roots on its hair, and cyan eyes. it is wearing a dark purpley-pink and black hoodie with gir from invader zim on it, and has multiple star-shaped earrings. it is smiling and has half-lidded eyes, and is posed leaning back, with one hand raised, palm-up. the entire image has a slight pink filter on it. /end ID]

[windex-for-blood]

Deadpool and Wolverine is very much a movie about nostalgia and losing touch with your past, and that comes across in the music choices. There's multiple instances of millennial-favorite emotionally wrought (perhaps overwrought) songs being paired with the big moments ("Bye Bye Bye" choreographed to skeleton-assisted murder, Like A Prayer interspersed through the last 20 or so minutes of the film, "Iris" for the literal turning of a corner), as well as "The One That I Want", the kinda-gayest song from the kinda-gay musical Grease for a pretty-gay stab-murder fight. There's no interview with the musical producers yet, but it's a safe bet that the track listings line up with the meta themes of the movie; to wit, the "shutting down" of Fox's Marvel adaptations, which signifies the end of an era for people who were growing up in the early 2000's, so it's fitting that the music they were listening to around that time, especially if they were the kind of moody teens that Fox's "black leather and rainfall" superhero movies tended to play well with.

But, that being the case, where in the sugar-dusted FUCK was "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence? That was, for better or worse, the song of middle-school for 2003, and that band was just as essential for the emotional development of aught-raised goths, scene kids, emos, queers, and especially girls processing a break-up that felt like they'd never be able to love again despite the relationship in question only having lasted 4 months as Invader Zim merch or their first vandalized picture of George W. Bush

Amy Lee would probably kick my ass for saying so, but there is no Evanescence boom period without that scene of Jennifer Garner preparing to murder Daredevil by training in an oddly-furnished apartment. "Bring Me To Life" AND "My Immortal" DEBUTED on Daredevil: The Album, and it is no coincidence that a bunch of thirteen-year olds who were checking out copies of Born Again and Man Without Fear from the library fell for those songs so hard. That specific song is basically hard-coded into the DNA of people watching Deadpool and Wolverine as adults, and it's a grave injustice that it was not used as the music for the drive back to Paul Rudd's giant skeleton, or indeed the fight scene where Elektra finally got to perform the indiscriminate goon-slaughter that she never got a chance at before.

[youngersiblingstournament]

Younger Siblings Tournament Bracket Reveal

A few things I want to mention before I reveal the bracket (and make the post really long because all the matchups will be listed in text):

Seeding of fictional characters in tumblr polls is inherently subjective. I did try to make it so that more popular characters/media would (most likely) face off against each other in later rounds, but I may be overestimating or underestimating the popularity of some characters/media, especially ones I'm not familiar with. There are some round 1 matchups that are probably a closer match but none of them are between the strongest candidates... I think.

The more niche characters will probably get obliterated in the first round as per Squimbus' Law. This is a tumblr poll and I do fully expect more popular characters to sweep, but that doesn't mean you can't encourage your friends to give your niche faves a fighting chance.

Also there are some matchups I literally just thought would be funny. Please don't take this too seriously.

I'm sorry BNHA fans.

(Preliminary Patch Notes 3/14: Swapped brackets 2 and 3, and brackets 19 and 21.)

[Image description: A 64-person tournament bracket labeled "younger siblings tournament" with a smiley face. The top-left quarter is labeled "quarter A" and color-coded red, the bottom-left quarter is labeled "quarter B" and color-coded green, the top-right quarter is labeled "quarter C" and color-coded purple, and the bottom-right quarter is labeled "quarter D" and color-coded gold. The starting brackets are labeled 1-32 and are as listed below. End ID]

Quarter A:

Ritsu Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Ame (Wolf Children)

Malo (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) vs. Cat Valentine (Victorious)

Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs. Fern (Adventure Time)

Skeletor (Masters of the Universe) vs. Shuri (Marvel)

Ryotaro Nogami (Kamen Rider Den-O) vs. Princess Luna (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Lilo Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch) vs. Sir Agravain (Arthurian Legend)

Dewey Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle) vs. Siobhan "Shiv" Roy (Succession)

Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) vs. Razputin Aquato (Psychonauts)

Quarter B:

(9) Maya Fey (Ace Attorney) vs. Louie Duck (DuckTales)

(10) Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Saburo Yamada (Hypnosis Mic)

(11) Noelle Holiday (Deltarune) vs. Krel Tarron (Tales of Arcadia)

(12) Melinoë (Hades) vs. Han Yoohyun (The S-Classes That I Raised)

(13) Abel (The Bible) vs. Hiro Hamada (Big Hero 6)

(14) Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons) vs. Greg (Over the Garden Wall)

(15) Dante (Devil May Cry) vs. Alisaie Leveilleur (Final Fantasy XIV)

(16) Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia) vs. Kofuku (Real Life)

Quarter C:

(17) Luigi (Super Mario) vs. Genji Shimada (Overwatch)

(18) Yukio Okumura (Blue Exorcist) vs. Saki Tenma (Project Sekai)

(19) Fleabag (Fleabag) vs. Emerald Haywood (Nope)

(20) Sam Winchester (Supernatural) vs. Jiang Cheng (The Untamed)

(21) Nico Di Angelo (Percy Jackson) vs. Gaz Membrane (Invader Zim)

(22) Manny Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) vs. Jimmy "Saul Goodman" McGill (Better Call Saul)

(23) Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) vs. Sunny (Omori)

(24) Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Mugman (Cuphead)

Quarter D:

(25) Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) vs. The Knight (Hollow Knight)

(26) Vash the Stampede (Trigun) vs. Ruby Rose (RWBY)

(27) Sensei Wu (Lego Ninjago) vs. King Clawthorne (The Owl House)

(28) Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

(29) Jinx (Arcane) vs. Caduceus Clay (Critical Role)

(30) Damian Wayne (DC) vs. Alluka Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

(31) Hop (Pokémon Sword and Shield) vs. Mirabel Madrigal (Encanto)

(32) Rhyme Bito (The World Ends With You) vs. Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Round 1 is ongoing! Matchups are linked (or if you prefer to scroll through the matchup posts, go to the "younger siblings tournament" tag on my blog)

[realian]

"Dib and Dipper would be friends" sounds like an annoying fandom take but as someone who considers myself one of the very few Invader Zim understanders, I think they would actually have a genuine friendship. Dipper is a good kid and Dib is kind of a good kid but also a little bit of a freak. Dipper could fix him. they also both coincidentally managed to raise the dead (but they said they were sorry about it so it's okay).

[emeraldspiral]

Invader Poonchy, except instead of Zim convincing Dib another classmate is an alien to get him off his back, Zim convinces Dib that HE’S an alien.

Dib wakes up in Zim's lab with an implant that suppresses his memories, so Zim is able to convince him that he’s an Irken who was sent to help him with his mission, but through his own stupidity and incompetence he damaged his PAK's memory drive and erased everything. Dib asks why they look nothing alike if they're supposed to be the same species and Zim claims it's because Dib is wearing a holographic disguise. Zim whips out a device and presses a button which he claims drops the disguise, but is actually controlling the implant to alter Dib's perception so he sees himself as an Irken, kinda like Keef with the squirrel. Dib asks why Zim has control over the disguise and Zim says it's because Dib can't be trusted with it and should never be out of disguise outside of Zim's base anyway. He claims that Dib's "base" is in the Membrane house where he's passed himself off as the Professor's son, so he has to be in disguise virtually 24/7 and can never drop the act.

Zim sends Dib out with no idea who he is or how to act normally beyond what Zim tells him is "normal" for him. Dib is extremely anxious and uncomfortable with lying, but does his best to "pretend" to be an ordinary human boy with a gigantic head and an obsession with hideous imaginary beasts who no one likes or takes seriously. He's extremely bad at acting like himself, but his classmates are stupid, his dad doesn't pay attention, and his sister doesn't care, so nobody suspects anything. Dib however, is actually self-aware about how bad he is at lying and improvising and it kinda annoys him that humans are so gullible they let him get away with it. Like, "Wake up people! I'm so obviously an alien? Are you even trying to not be destroyed?"

Furthermore, while he initially believes Zim about his persona being a total loser with stupid, lame interests that everyone rightly scoffs at, he ends up discovering the "fake" paranormal stuff he was only supposed to pretend to investigate to maintain appearances is actually real and kinda cool actually. He also starts to feel sorta bad about lying to his "fake" family after Membrane shows him a tiny bit of affection by patting him on the head and telling him to have a good day before sending him off to skool.

Torn between his loyalty to the Irken Empire and a newfound craving for paternal affection, Dib breaks and "admits" to Membrane that he's an alien. But he doesn't want to invade the earth anymore, he wants to stay there and study its strange, amazing creatures, protect humanity, oppose Zim in his efforts to destroy them, and be raised by Membrane as his son. Membrane dismisses this "confession" as Dib just being insane. Dib tries to prove himself by stealing the device Zim claims controls his "holographic disguise" but when Dib attempts to "decloak" in front of Membrane, Membrane says nothing's changed and worries that Dib's delusions have gotten worse if he's now hallucinating that he sees himself as an alien.

Dib finally realizes he's human after all when he stares at himself in the mirror, unable to understand why Membrane can't see his "true" form and after feeling himself up a bit realizes that his ears are real but his PAK, the thing that's supposed to be keeping him alive, isn't.

Dib locates the implant in his ear and destroys it, then goes to Zim's house, pretending to still be under the influence of the implant. He claims to have some intel on the unveiling of Membrane's latest invention, which they can turn against humanity, and ends up luring Zim into a trap that's shielded from sending or receiving transmissions so Zim can't call for help.

But while Dib is keeping Zim hidden in preparation for a grand reveal, he finds his dad, who it turns out has been looking for him as well. Membrane calls over some men from the psych ward and they strap Dib into a straight jacket and haul him away screaming "No! I'm not crazy! I don't think I'm an alien! But I've got a real one in captivity right now! Come on! Please! Just let me show you! He's right behind that door! He's literally ten feet away!"

Zim cackles maniacally at Dib's misfortune, then realizes he's still trapped. He says "Oh well. Someone's got to come by and open this door eventually, right?" Then it cuts to Zim's skeleton covered in cobwebs still in the trap some indeterminate amount of time in the future as the final gag of the episode.

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i need more facts about Alien because the more i learn about them the more motrified yet intrigued i become

Alien's spit is in fact acidic, but only when they've ingested/rubbed baking soda into their gums first. Without that added factor it is completely normal and safe. They have memorized the exact typing of your door knob for the countless times they've melted it to get in. In the heat of the moment they may spit at a rival, but they will book it once their face starts to boil because the human sludge grosses them out.

Alien's parents are former government agents. They couldn't have children of their own, so when the child was found they opted to take them in and pulled some strings to make it look like the normal adoption of a weird kid. The reason they insist on calling them Allen is because they're worried it might raise suspicion - despite feeding their alien obsession because they spoil their only child. If Allen became aggressive due to their protectiveness over you they would try to cut you out of the picture.

Though they don't know it because they've never interacted with another of their kind, kissing near their eyes is a more intimate gesture than lips. They still get alarmingly flustered without this knowledge and will either scream or flee because of the overwhelming feelings the first couple of times

Alien is actually in college and also works at a movie theater. Because it's family owned and closed on certain days of the week they're allowed to mess around as they please so long as they clean and lock up. If you mention never seeing an Alien or Predator film you're not allowed to leave their sight until you see at least one. Say you've never seen Invader Zim and that's your whole life until you finish the entire series.

Rubbing alcohol gets them more wasted than drinking alcohol.

When they start breaking in to steal your belongs Alien leaves those glowy star stickers in places you'll never find them to mark their territory - after finding out humans don't claim their land like dogs. Under your mattress, the very top of your fridge, ceiling fan if you have one. They serve a double mentioning as Alien was an extremely anxious child and couldn't fall asleep in a room without these stickers in them... Due to this fact you may find them sleeping in one of the areas they hid one in. If it's big enough for two they'll drag you in for a nap and fall right back asleep no matter how much you scream (with all the alien films they've watched, screaming actually helps them sleep)

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ZIMPAI STORY PART 6: A CONFESSION OF OBSESSION 🥺👉👈

(YALL THIS IS GONNA BE THE LAST PART FJDJFDJ CUZ I HAVE TO END THIS WEIRD STORY BEFORE I BURN ANYONE ELSES BRAINCELLS AGAIN)

(AND THIS IS GONNA BE MY THING FOR ZIMDAY/IZDAY LOL)

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“LIEEESSS!” The alien desperately screeched out loud on the top of his lungs (or whatever aliens had). Dib raised an eyebrow in confusion, distracting him from the overwhelming sadness he was trying to hide. “I…uhhh- didn’t say anything…?”

Zimpai blinked and tried to regain his composure. He slowly took a step back and tried to escape. Dib-chan tilted his head, and his hair bone scythe hair cowlick thingy turned into a light bulb as a thought struck him. “C-could it be…”

Just as the big headed boy opened his mouth to let out his undeniably kawaii anime voice, Zim-kun began to run and covered his nonexistent ears.

“Z-Zimpai has…a…a…”

Dib-Chan’s delicate pretty voice suddenly became deep and sounded like he was a macho and buff man. “CRUSHY WUSHY LUSHY USHY BLUSHY CRUSHY ON MEEEE!11!1!1!1!11”

The yell was so loud and ear piercing that the whole ground collapsed while everything around Dib got pushed away by 999999999 kilometers.

This was so powerful that even Gaz became flabberGAZted by this and was more concerned than ever. “TAK- WHY THE ACTUAL HELL DID YOU MAKE THE ANIME BEAM DO THIS???”

Tak, despite her messy hair and being literally yeeted away by an incredibly long distance from a pathetic lover boy, was still smiling smugly and just shrugged. “I had the most tragic villain story from the most stupid defective Irken of destruction demolishing a vending machine. His stupid lover obviously has to be as insane as he is.”

Back with our main character idiots here, Dibby boi realised what he has done and sobbed, “Z-Zimpai my pookie…! I didn’t mean to hurt you like thisss…!!” (he obviously did lolll)

From 999 something kilometers whatever that number I typed earlier (oh wait I can copy and paste but oh well) away, the green space cockroach creechur growled, “GRGRGRRR YOUUU…!! YOUUUU!! WHEN YOU YOUUU!11!1!1 YOUUU MADE ME MAAADDD GRGRGRGRHDIEJDEKJ” (bro this space boi couldn’t hear dib a shmillion times even when he was 1 inch away from him but now he can-)

(wAIT I SHOULD MAKE LESS BRACKETED TEXTS SORRY-)

Instead of apologizing again, Dib got mad at Zim too because it would be too out of character if the boys didn’t fight each other here as it was still an ENEMIES to lovers arc after all.

Deeb Doob Dob Dib’s voice became all buff again as he himself became buff too, electricity surging all around him. He then ascended from the ground, T-posing and let the mysterious anime power carry him towards the alien.

The alien boi zimmediately tried to become as buff as Dibby boi did by casually grabbing a machine that was 69 420 times his size in his PAK and blasted himself with it, causing his scrawny-looking green arms to develop more and more muscles and become as buff as Dib was.

The boys just stared each other down, eyes glowing while T-posing in front of each other.

Dib-chan then broke the silence that lasted for 10 hours by saying in a small and cute voice while still in that buff state

“…Z-zim-kun I… I… l-love y-you…”

Zim then reverted back to his cutesy smol chibi shape and responded with a little “B-baka!!” even when Dib didn’t finish the sentence.

Surprised by that, the big headed boy also reverted back into his original pathetic form and giggled, “I love you….your mom!” He laughed even more and smirked. Zim was taken aback and felt his heart— whatever aliens had shatter into smithereens. Was this really how Dib felt…? Was it all just a silly little game…?

Before Zim could take get out his PAK legs to absolutely destroy and obliterate the human, Dib laughed once more and threw that one love letter to Zim, smacking his face and not the back of his bald head this time.

“Nahhh! Just kidding, and uh- happy birthday, I guess…” Dib looked away quickly as the butterflies returned in his stomach. Dang it— he forgot how cute his crush looked despite how stupid he was…

“Ehhh- birthday?? Invaders don’t NEED pathetic Urth birthdays!”

“Yeah, yeah— but today is still special, y’know? It’s the day you set your little alien foot on this planet!”

Zim tried not to smile at his beloved nemesis remembering AND writing some letter to him for this day. But then…

“WAIT! How did you know it’s today?? We met at the disgusting skool one or two days after I landed on this filthy planet!!”

Dib smiled and responded, “I’m a paranormal investigator! Of COURSE I know the exact day an alien comes here!”

“You were a creepy stalker from the start, Dib-thing… even before becoming those… yhaaan-deers…”

“You’re creepy too, y’know!! And you were so weird too! In fact- everything was so weird earlier… nothing new, I guess!” Dib chuckled.

Zim coughed and shifted his eyes away from Dib, yet getting closer beside him. “…Yeah. Very…strange…”

Dib-ch- I mean DIB noticed this and leaned closer and closer to Zim and….

HELD HIS HANDDDD!1?1!?!1?11!1! SO SCANDALOUS!! THE END-

(Just kidding :3)

…he affectionately smooched the bug boy’s cheek! This gesture was so sweet that even the usually cold Gaz let out an “awww!” along with every other bystander around them!

The gay boys finally completed their enemies to lovers arc….

…until the cartoon resets again and everyone forgot what happened !

The end uwu

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KFKDFKDKDKD HELP ITS ACTUALLY OVER AHHFJDJDDJD

THIS STORY HAS BEEN… SOMETHING! LOLL IF U ACTUALLY READ THIS, OR EVEN READ ALL THE WAY FROM THE START- I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR ALL UR SUPPORT AND STILL STICKING BY DESPITE THE SLOW UPDATES AND THE LOW QUALITY WRITING AND PHONE DOODLES!

Honestly, I’m gonna miss this story, so maybe I’m still gonna make things for it in the future like doodle comics or more writings but after the reset! Anyway… again thanks so much for reading this if u did and have the bestest day or night! Don’t let the buff boys haunt you XD

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