#oh hecc

[harkthorn]

oh hecc

[ms-scarletwings]

So there was a note under my post about Zim hovering a finger over the self destruct switch on his first day on Earth that just cracked open something in my mind.

Cause…Oh. Oh hecc you, @murhuedur. You actually touched on like, my favorite thing about this character, period. I really like this take, I do. It’s a good one. I ponder, still,

In my own opinion, it’s actually genuine confidence and arrogance, but Zim’s delusions of grandeur are as a thin rubber band. They can stretch out to wild lengths and remain malleable enough to bend around truth as he wills,

But there’s a hard limit out there eventually, and should reality require him to stretch his cognitive dissonance just too far, it’s a violent snap-back to full clarity. I don’t think he’s faking it or always lying to everyone else about what hot shit he is, because I think he fully believes those lies about as fast as he can speak them, even if he will later realize he was wrong after a cosmic punch to the face.

Like, Zim’s smart, but smart people aren’t inherently rational ones. Within Zim, the tallest, hell, maybe even Skoodge, there’s sometimes this very short-sighted flippancy about what is objectively true/false that peeks out every now and again in their psychology. I mean, humans sometimes do this too when it’s convenient to their interests, just, obviously not to goofy cartoon character levels if they want to function in society.

Zim has whatever this flaw is and cranked up to 11, maybe as a side effect of his PAK defects. Sometimes it gets him into DEEP shit, but it’s also his biggest mental shield. Zim has like no fortitude against spiraling into a full on depression or a justifiable panic attack over the smallest concession of being an absolute failure to his race. That weaponized denial that makes him so dangerous to himself and others also keeps him together and motivated forward. But it’s not largely a conscious lie he’s telling himself. It’s genuine faith he’s trying to manifest into matter through sheer force of his will.

His dogmatic mantra, “I am Zim” and what it means to him is a statement he holds on such conviction it overpowered and hijacked the ego of 3 control brains at once.

If I were inserting him into DnD he’d have the wisdom stat of a stale poptart and a 20+ thrown into charisma. He’s faking it without even understanding he’s faking it.

But were he completely detached from reality, he’d be WAY more likely than even now to accidentally get himself killed. While a narcissistic level of self esteem is what lets him ignore and selectively unhear inconvenient truths, the adrenaline of immediate life or death danger is what grounds him back in the real world. You notice over time that as self-sabotaging as he normally is, he seems to act his most rational and competent when he’s suddenly put against the grindstone and self preservation HAS to jump into the driver’s seat. He basically survives his day to day on a tightrope between a falsely glorious narrative of himself, and his perceptive anxiety both tugging him to land on either side of the fence when something big happens.

In “The Trial”, he wastes very little time on his expected bullshit or his confidence in being able to just win over the approval of his judges.. by virtue of being his awesome self. He spent most of that ordeal on the verge of a heart attack, squirmed to find an escape, and actually tried to DENY causing the death of two Almighty Tallests (reminder that he usually owns up to his atrocities with downright offensive pride). He understood the full gravity of an existence evaluation and how cooked his goose was. As soon as the situation resolves and he’s no longer in that danger, it’s right back to full trust of his status as an invader, and in Red and Purple as his biggest fans. When his disguise starts to slip in front of Skool kids he knows are dumb as a bag of rocks, he can silver tongue his way around that without skipping a beat. Losing his disguise in front of a bunch of alien-obsessed adults? Uh oh, pants-shitting terror, this is potentially game-over levels of bad, immediately gtfo of here. Stand there, chest beat, and scold the obviously rogue duty-mode Gir all day until the second it actually tries to kill you and you suddenly have to realize you’re not the one holding the cards anymore to save your own life.

The other way this quirk of his really shows through is in his selective memory. Zim has this skill to repress down and push away unpleasant experiences that I think some of us can only dream we had. I love it because it’s equal parts a comedic and analytical goldmine.

Tak, who actually posed a legit threat to his entire mission and tried herself to chip through that massive wall of denial he’s shielded in- same Tak who’s powerful af ship was stolen and desecrated by Zim’s arch nemesis… she’s not just an afterthought in his mind after that mess. He’s literally pushed that one out of his thoughts altogether in the comics. Like she, and Skoodge, who he can’t fucking stand, might as well have never even existed, even while GIR’s trying to remind him. That time he played around with time travel and it was one of the biggest clusterfucks he quickly lost control of? The bologna incident he stooped so low as to ask dib to help him with? You must be thinking of someone else. Nope. Not a thing. Lalala, can’t even hear you. This is also what makes it no wonder he deeply struggles with actually learning from certain mistakes.

From an outsider’s eye this behavior of his is baffling. It makes him look actually insane or at least obnoxiously obstinate. And I think both assumptions are half right, because this is clearly not the result of mere stupidity. Those truths are simply wayyyy too discordant with his view of himself to devote surface memory to, or too uncomfortable, unless and until, of course, you confront him with them in a fashion where that rubber band has to snap, that bubble pops, and he instantly sobers out of that complacency.

Literally god forbid he ever stops being defective in this way or is given the ability to reckon with the reality of his situation and his history all at once. I’m not even just talking about his job or banishment. I’m talking about his entire life. This chaotic, flexible, incoherent mindstate is the only branch he’s holding onto from dropping into a much more horrifying chasm beneath himself, the depth of which we can only guess. I straight up have no idea what he would do or what could happen to him if he could, even for a moment, rationally comprehend his every action, memory, and empirical truth all at the same time. Seriously, leave that Pak’s Gordian Knot be, or I imagine there could be an HP Lovecraft type of breakdown in the making.

#By the way this is probably one of the most important differences between him and Dib, and what makes Zib so… way he is.

[crowmanic]

It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[thebekashow]

Hey Bob can I have a kiss

He forgor he was allergic to cats ._ .

He'll have to go take some medicine

[sodaliterock]

Gecc

[mouse-romance]

The whole asexual vs hyposexual diagnosis is kinda outrageous. So basically if youre fine with being ace, youre asexual, and thats it. But if youre freaked out about being ace, you have an illness that needs to be cured (???) As if there werent any emotional/psychological factors in this society that could produce stress over being ace culturally or interpersonally. It really rubs me the wrong way.

[post-cal]

|| can't wait for my day off, I'm going to draw ALL THING

[welcxmetxthechaxs]

'Jeez who's sounding the alarm out here?'

[askmafiabobvelseb]

Bobba, I just realized we both have something in common..

Yippee :3

"Just.. hang in there."

[inkz123]

Just a teensy bit more and i'll be done with the art rafflessss👏👏👏

I know ive taken so long with em, but i wanna post them all together consecutively, is that the word? Uhhh like one after the other, one each day yea yea

I'm bout 90% done with the last one out of the three, so for the winners of the raffle, expect them to be posted sometime this week, and thanks for being so patient qwq🙏💕

[pumpkinpie59]

a messy sketch w/ color from a scene i have in my head cONSTANTLY

lotus brings an injured leonardo home with her to nurse him back to health

at first her only focus is making sure he’s comfortable and that he’s healing, but once he’s in a good enough place where he’s able to sit up easier … well …

a kiss is looking real tempting now

[denalilunamoonsshenanigans]

(I have been thinking nonstop about this au Denali. I adore the idea of Fawn and how they just live their life.

Fawn would be genderless as mewtwo are but definitely uses she/her pronouns. In her mewtwo form, She'd only refer to herself as Fawn but in her human form, she adopts the surname of Mortem.

She has a companion in the form of a Houndoom, who she raised from an egg she found. She calls him Cerberus.

I have contemplated what she would do in her human form, if she would do anything. She may just be nomadic, only going into towns as a human if Cerberus needs care via a pokecenter. (She also will typically make her hair a bit shorter so it isnt dragging on the ground as she walks)

Her mewtwo form is about 6 feet tall.

That's all.

I may explore more pokemon Denali or it may be a different universe. I dunno yet.)

[cormiemochi]

I took a dip back into traditional art to make a traditional gift badge for the heccin’ amazing @sleepysquamata with lots of little details!! I had such a blast making this for such an awesome friend and person, they truly deserve a whole ton of love and appreciation aaaaaaa!! <3

[nompunhere]

Hi! I was reading your fanfics with Or/o and Ti/so. Btw, I love your works, especially with those two.

In one of them Ti/so jokingly mentioned that if Or/or missed him that much he could hunt him down next time.

Sooooo is there any possibility, any chance that you'll write fanfic this scenario?? 👉👈 Just asking! 👉👈

Ah, yeah, that's how ya get me to talk, ask me about two characters I cannot ✨shut the phuck up✨ about

But thank you! The support is much appreciated <3 and hmmm... you know, I have a lot of ideas for them spread across the docs, but I dunno if I have anything for that in particular, funnily enough. Let's see here..... *starts flipping through pages*

We gotttttt the poly ship fics, the climbing and honey ficlets in the next installment of Bug Bites, the body swap fic, the random ""fluff"" fic(let)s, the BV resurrection fic, the walking in the cold animation idea, the poly ship doodle ideas, the poly ship + BV family portrait idea, whole buncha stuff with each of the two separately.......

Oh, here we go! Predatory Instinct AU, there's a note here at the bottom of the O/ro-and-T/iso section, says T/iso will sometimes intentionally trip O/ro's hunting instincts when he can see the beetle getting antsy (wait I just realized that's a pun fjsnfgkgdhxbfn,, one for the wrong bug lmao) and make a game out of getting O/ro to chase him down. So that's a fun little thing I might write someday, hope that works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ otherwise I might just have to come up with a new fic idea, since it's been planted in my mind,,,,,,

What's Predatory Instinct AU, you may ask? Uhhhhhhhhh good question! ...Bye- *runs*

[togetherhearted]

After ages I went back to Twst.

I wanted to give it another chance.

Truth is,the game isn't giving me the login bonuses 😅