#torque smackey

[iz-rarepair-tournament]

Round 1 Poll 11

[mogai-headcanons]

Dib Membrane from Invader Zim is an autistic gay transmasculine aliengender boy who uses he/him pronouns, and he's dating Torque!

Zim is an autistic bisxual aliengender boy who uses he/him and it/its pronouns!

Gaz Membrane is an autistic demiromantic gothcoric nonbinary person with a special interest in video games who uses she/her and they/them pronouns!

Torque Smackey is an autistic semiverbal bisexual boy who uses he/him pronouns, and he's dating Dib!

GIR is an autistic dogkin scenekidic 2010scringic cringexdcoric blacklightaesic neongoric nyanmemegender sillyaeangender yippeestimlexic arcadeic glitterglueaesic furrean neonaldrichgender neongender tbhgender meowsterenergygender faikepic sparklegender sparklecoric neoncoric rainbowgender fluorogender sparkledoggender gendernuisance weirdkidgender scenix laughgender bitaffectic scenecringautic sceneautiflagic nonbinary person with ADHD who uses they/them, it/its, XD/XDs, bark/barks, fur/furs, fluff/fluffs, cringe/cringes, and paw/paws pronouns!

dni link

[abrthephantomq]

Encoder Zim, Ch 2, pt 2

(You settle into the filthy desk your homeroom “teacher” assigned you. It’s practically falling apart; it wobbles underneath your weight. 

[Note to self: fix the pathetic desk later, so it can hold your wonderful form with ease. Or maybe swap your desk with the Dib’s desk – yesss, that seems like an excellent plan. Let’s do that instead.]

The Dib’s desk, of course, is the one just in front of yours. You’ve long since learned that the humans assign seating based on “last” names. So you’ve long since ensured that you’re in the same classes the Dib’s in; that your desk is always assigned behind his. His giant head might get in the way of you seeing the board, but that’s of little consequence when the humans’ idea of education is so basic you can hand your assignments to GIR and still receive all A’s.)

“Zim! How was your summer, dude?” 

(You turn your head towards one Torque Smackey. The human has grown even more grotesquely shaped over the summer; muscles bulge under his t-shirt. You suppress a shudder and offer him a smile instead.)

Torque! Zim’s summer was just fine. How was yours? 

(You hate the small talk. Humans love the small talk. Not that you don’t love to talk, too, but you love to talk about yourself and your plans and you hate, hate, hate how nosy the humans are. If your mission didn’t require you seamlessly blending in with the dominant species and learning their history – well. 

You drag in air through your clever disguise; humans have stupid appendages called noses, so you have one, too. The air here is so polluted; so thick and heavy, it barely does anything to keep you focused on the words coming out of Torque’s mouth. Not that it matters – you purposely asked him about his summer so you could tune him out and nod along with his rambling, uninteresting story.)

“Oh, dude, wait – something’s different about you. Did you dye your hair?” 

(You tear your eyes away from the door to your homeroom. Turn your attention back to Torque, your claws reaching up to run your fingers through your “hair.” Your smile grows wider.)

Why, yes! Yes I did! My parents agreed that I could dye it blonde, finally. It suits Zim, does it not? 

(You’ve done no such thing, of course. You are a brave Irken Encoder – sent to planets to learn all of their strengths and weaknesses, so that they can be better assimilated into the Irken Empire. You just simply changed the color of the stupid wig, as a test of sorts. Supposedly, humans with this hair color are desired much, much more than humans with other hair colors. You’d considered going red but it clashed horribly with the skin tone you’d chosen for your disguise. You even briefly considered changing your disguise’s skin tone, then decided against it.

You wanted the Dib to be able to recognize you and your brilliant change in your disguise, after all.

Speaking of the Dib – your splorch twists in your abdominal cavity as he steps into the classroom, that wretched human girl Gretchen clinging to his elbow. The human worm baby narrows his eyes at you, and you grin back at him. He looks exhausted; like he hadn’t so much as slept – and his cheek is turning that mottled blue and purple color of a bruise. A mark you left on him, and won’t heal for days. Maybe even weeks!) 

“Of course we’re in the same homeroom…” 

(The Dib’s mouth barely moves as he talks, but your antenna still pick up the vibrations of his words all the same. You cackle at his dismay. He should be honored that you have graced him with your presence, despite his best efforts to sabotage your reconnaissance mission from the night before. 

His best efforts that weren’t even successful, you might add. Because you are ZIM, and he is just some lowly little human baby.

Though, at this age, the human is practically adult-human-sized. You’ve done your research; you know that humans typically continue to grow until approximately 18 Earth revolutions. You, yourself, have even grown some in the handful of rotations you’ve been present on this obnoxious planet. The additional height you’ve gained just tells you you’ve been doing everything right. 

Irkens grow in sporadic bursts, and only when the conditions are exactly right, after all.)

Good morning to you, too, Dib. 

(The human rolls his eyes, dislodges himself from Gretchen’s grip, and walks up the aisle – right towards you. Except the human doesn’t get in your personal space, like you expect him to. He doesn’t loom over your desk, glaring at you and hissing some nonsensical threat. He just… collapses into the seat in front of you, turns his back to you, and puts his head down.

Indignance crawls through your throat tube, robbing space in it for air. How dare the Dib ignore you!)

[Note to self: Make Dib pay for his INSOLENCE.]

[pankomako]

i dont ship anyone in invader zim. i dont believe in zadr. but if you forced me to ship someone in that show i'd go with dib x torque smackey tbh

[fall-out-boytoy]

this is probably my favourite page in all of the IZ comics

- the running gag of the president being called presidentman

- the spelling of fitness as phitness

- zim loudly declaring his plan while waving an alien-looking gun

- dib just as loudly declaring he will stop zim, not even bothering to point out "would a normal skoolchild want to disintegrate presidentman's head? and where did he get that gun from anyway?"

- torque sitting in zim's desk and declaring, just as loudly, that he will take the phitness test

- zim and dib being almost totally unfazed by the above

[skool-kidz]

TORQUE SMACKEY INTRO

he/him 19

im on the hi skool football team but i was held back in 9th graid i dont like to talk about it. you can ask me questions about phitness through im pretty good at it

Tag: #torquechops

[jarlsthegreat]

Invader Zim Incorrect Quote #20

*Everyone is standing around the broken coffee maker*

Ms. Bitters: So. Who broke it? I'm not mad, I just wanna know.

Everyone:

Gretchen: ...I did. I broke it.

Ms. Bitters: No. No you didn't. Dib?

DIb: Don't look at me. Look at Zim.

Zim: What?! I didn't break it.

Dib: Huh, that's weird. How'd you even know it was broken?

Zim: Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken.

Dib: Suspicious.

Zim: No, it's not!

Torque: If it matters, probably not, but Zita was the last one to use it.

Zita: Liar! I don't even drink that crap!

Torque: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Zita: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Torque!

Gretchen: Okay let's not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, Ms. Bitters.

Ms. Bitters: No! Who broke it!?

Everyone:

Zita: Ms. Bitters... Dib's been awfully quiet.

Dib: rEALLY?!

*Everyone starts arguing*

Miss Bitters, being interviewed: I broke it. I burned my hand so I punched it.

Ms. Bitters: I predict 10 minutes from now they'll be at each other's throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick.

Ms. Bitters:

Ms. Bitters: Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

[artistictiliqua]

Finished comic page commission for @zib-zussy-indulgence of their dead by daylight/invader zim au! Thank you for commissioning me!! This was a lot of fun to draw!

[snackleggg]

The best thing to me about Dorque is that Torque is the quiet calm one while Dib just has an internal burning ball of rage ready to be released at any time and I just have the mental image of little goth boyfriend trying to pick a fight while big soft jock boyfriend drags him away. I love it

[iz-rarepair-tournament]

Click for larger image/higher quality!

But yes, it took a lot of fiddling graphic design is my passion but I managed to get a visual bracket made, but it's uhh not the best so I'll definitely explain it. I couldn't quite get the names to all fit in so I used icons instead, and basically, whatever line you see the icons sitting on is the line they go with. So as an example, at the top left, Tak/Tak's Ship go up against Purple/Membrane, and whoever wins that will go onto the line to the right, at which point they'll go up against Zim/Red. I think it'll become visually clearer once we get past the initial round, but I'm so sorry for this clutter, aa

This is seeded but I let a website choose the match-ups so if anything seems unfair, well. I'm sorry :')

Due to the weird number of pairs, we're gonna start off with a sort of preliminary round of just 6 polls for those pairs you see on the far left and right sides of the bracket. The winners of those polls will then go up against whoever they're matched to on the bracket, at which point we will have a huge round 1, then round 2, etc etc until we eventually arrive at a winner

The preliminary round will consist of:

Tak/Tak's Ship vs Tallest Purple/Professor Membrane

Professor Membrane/Mr. Dwicky vs Tak/Zib

Ms. Bitters/Countess von Verminstrasser vs Zib/Zimtwo

Sizz-Lorr/Mr. Dwicky vs Tallest Red/Announcer Irken

Professor Membrane/Tallest Miyuki vs Tallest Red/Professor Membrane

Jessica/Letty vs Zim/Professor Membrane

Following that, there will be polls for:

Zim/Tallest Red vs a winner from preliminary round

Tallest Miyuki/Tallest Spork vs Zim/Prisoner 777

Dib/Zib vs Gretchen/Zita

GIR/Mimi vs Gaz/Keef

Dib/Lard Nar vs a winner from preliminary round

Dib/Mr. Dwicky vs Dib/Skoodge

Dib/Gretchen vs Dib/Professor Membrane

Skoodge/Keef vs a winner from preliminary round

Dib/Keef vs a winner from preliminary round

Professor Membrane/Zim's Computer vs Zim/Tallest Purple

Dib/Torque Smackey vs Keef/Chammy Wamboo

Tak/Tenn vs Gaz/Gretchen

Tak/Skoodge vs a winner from preliminary round

Lard Nar/Prisoner 777 vs Bill/Count Cocofang

Dib/Gaz vs Dib/Tallest Purple

Dib/Tallest Red vs a winner from preliminary round

PHEW. Hope that clears it all up, sorry again for the trainwreck of a bracket but I wanted SOME kinda visual at least. And I'll update the bracket and likely keep it on the masterpost as time goes on. But yes, those are the ships.

Now give me some time to get the polls prepared and then I'll start posting them :D We'll do week-long polls for maximum engagement.

Fun fact, Dib has the most unique pairs in this tournament at 11 different pairs! (slaps his back) this bad boy can fit SO many rarepairs in him

[mogai-headcanons]

Dib Membrane from Invader Zim is an autistic transmasc gay aliengender boy who uses he/him pronouns and he’s dating Torque Smackey!

Zim is an autistic bisexual aliengender boy who uses he/him and it/its pronouns!

Gaz Membrane is an autistic gothcoric demiromantic nonbinary with a special interest in video games who uses she/her and they/them pronouns!

Torque Smackey is an autistic semi-verbal bisexual boy who uses he/him and he’s dating Dib Membrane!

GIR is an autistic dogkin scenekidic 2010scringic cringexdcoric blacklightaesic neongoric nyanmemegender sillyaeangender yippeestimlexic arcadeic glitterglueaesic furrean neonaldrichgender neongender tbhgender meowsterenergygender faikepic sparklegender sparklecoric neoncoric rainbowgender fluorogender sparkledoggender gendernuisance weirdkidgender scenix laughgender bitaffectic scenecringautic sceneautiflagic nonbinary person with ADHD who uses they/them, it/its, XD/XDs, bark/barks, fur/furs, fluff/fluffs, cringe/cringes, and paw/paws pronouns!

queued!

[el-pada]

hehe dorque go brrrrr

i don’t know how to explain the au, but its sure is one

[sanseru]

Wow, finally adding some scp interactions in my S C P A U after ages- dunno why it took me so long to draw any interactions but its here now!

[thefurriestofchows]

warm-up doodle

i like how torque is like the only person who tolerates dib. like he never tells dib to go away or anything he just lets him talk while torque does his thing

and he tends take dib’s attention away from a certain other totally-not alien human

also torque and dib look a lil different since i wanted to doodle some high school designs rip

[fall-out-boytoy]

Tell me about the hypnotic pimple episode

*singing* Riiiise of theeee Ziiiitboy!

First off - this episode is the only IZ-related thing to name a TvTropes trope! The trope's rather predictably about when someone gets a pimple and everyone treats it as something horrible. It's just called "Rise of Zitboy", though, which gave me problems with remembering the actual episode title for a while.

Secondly, I just have to bring up the bacon in the soap :D

- Zim had to take off a wrapper. GIR went to a LOT of trouble to get that bacon in there

- remember how gir almost always has a pig (live or rubber) with him? what if...

- Richard Horvitz has said that this is his favorite interaction, iirc :D I can see why

- He's also put actual bacon in an actual soap bar at one of the invadercons and showed it to Rikki Simons (who was horrified)!

Acne Blast Man is hilarious (and gets a callback in Tak's ep, it's playing in the background during a scene) :D

Gaz just totally ignoring Zim is excellent, and when Zim just gives up on her? even better!

Zim also turned "bad horror movie idea" into "actually kinda scary" really fucking fast. "Release him, Smackey. He is part of the collective now." like what the fuck??

"Oh, you'll open [your eyes]. You have to breathe sometime." There are a few possible explanations for this!

- Irkens breathe through their eyes - er, excuse me, ocular implants. Personally I hc their PAK breathes for them, but this is a neat hc nonetheless!

- Zim thinks humans breathe through their eyes (and their nose is just for smelling? maybe irkens' antennae are for hearing and smelling, but they breathe through their PAK?). Seems likely, given zim's previous lack of knowledge on humans

- Neither of the above; Zim was just trying to be confusing (and working).

Also, during the climax, when Zim and Dib are just...like...hyperfocused on each other,,,,, I feel like that's how they are almost 100% of the time and we just can't see it

This also happens in the pilot! (They're actually in a crowded lunchroom there)

Also also, Zim really just..took Dib's feedback and forgot about it, huh? I'm pretty sure he didn't plant attack gnomes underground, and Dib suggests tunneling under Zim's base in The Girl Who Cried Gnome, so it's still gotta be a viable option by then.

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

When you suddenly remember your a bit of a gay disaster around your attractive teammates...

I’ve gotten rather interested in @snugglecat453’s Invader Zim DnD AU! It’s very cute and has a story called ‘Dungeons’ on AO3 attached :3

The general theme here was that the boys needed to read the map but were getting cold. Without thinking, Dib enchants his cloak to temporarily get bigger....only to realise the mistake. Silly boi