#woah 🥹

[hyunpic]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HYUNJIN 🖤

[abstractdogwolfthing]

(Use she/her on Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️)

I missed her so bad :(

[anemoa]

[metomomo]

TVXQ at MAMA 2023- Winning the Inspiring Achievement Award

They won an award for all their great achievements throughout the years! They gave their speech in Japanese and were very thankful for Cassiopeia and BigEast!

“この賞はいつも応援してくださっているカシオペアとビギストの皆さんと共に成し遂げた賞だと思います”

[cupiidzbow]

ummmm i like him so muchhhh 😚😚😚😚

[bandzboy]

this is txt's november schedule and you wanna look at me and say this isn't wrong? like my head can't comprehend how humans are supposed to do this type of schedule

[astonmartingf]

I just listened to Sabrina Carpenter's new album short n sweet, and Good Graces really made me think of your fic 'Good riddance op', especially the part that goes "Break my heart and I swear I'm movin' on with you favorite athlete"

YOOOO! i'll let you know,,, you're the reason i listened to the new album!!!! and ngl it's on point with good riddance, thank you so much 🫶

[greyrain23]

GREYYYYY ⌯˃̶ᗜ˂̶⌯ 💞 hai i just believe you and sunday r soooo cute ‹𝟹 #sunreymybeloveds ! so so sooo this is my attempt of you guys in the snow ehe >3< currently shaking in my boots as i send this so . . hallo :3c

( now tht i see it off m ipad you guys r way more far back then attended ?! melts in embarrassment.. )

XIXI!?!??!

!?!?!?!?!

！！(゜ロ゜ノ)ノ

THIS IS THE CUTEST OMGG 🥹😭😭😭🫶🫶🫶

Actually in tears rn whatttt I love this aaaaaa

🥹🥹🥹🥹 THANK YOU!? THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WORD BESIDES JUST THANK YOU

[ms-scarletwings]

I am sorry to bother you but I have to say, I feel Dib got treated too harshly most of the time. It's the point of the story yes but at times it just feels flat out sadistic for no reason.

It's why the Gargantis Array comic storyline sucks to me, it was just two issues of buildup to make Dib a gross fat joke and humiliate him across space. Jhonen just really seems to love torturing Dib more than anyone and it's rarely even deserved.

Oh, this is the opposite of a bother, friendo!

I actually have a lot of reading to still do on the topic of the comics. I’m woefully only really up to good knowledge about issues 46-49 and a lot of bits of pieces otherwise. If what you’re saying rings true, that is sad to hear, but pretty interesting still. I’ve always in the back of my head been a little afraid that Dib’s karma could be flanderized to the point of making him a butt monkey. Especially when we all know that’s supposed to be Skoodge’s job! (waka waka)

As for the show, honestly? I think they managed the balance just fine. It’s not so much that the show was specifically cruel to him, but that sadism broadly was one of its central themes and there were no efforts made to exclude Dib from that. And why should they have? He’s not an innocent woobie, and in fact is actually in the seat of a very ambitious antagonist against the real main character’s goals. Arbitrary events of misfortune and pain were the bread and butter of the series back then, and almost no one was spared. Jhonen (who cameoed himself in the show just to choke on a fish and die for a joke) also from what I hear injected a lot of his own qualities into Dib, so I imagine it probably IS very entertaining to him to give the boy the works.

From what I have seen of the comics, that looks like a much finer line to tow. And this more of an off the cuff ramble, but you know what I think??? I think they made Dib a touch way too sympathetic actually. There’s so much more focus on just him and Zim’s side antics, and the more time you take Dib off world and away from the rest of the Earth side characters, the fewer reminders they give you about how many of his problems are majorly self inflicted and how much of a disturbance he can be to society. And, for better or worse, a less dark overall tone in the comics means that the moments of overtly black comedy are going to stand out a little more against the modernized background by contrast.

And there’s another elephant in the room that kind of gets to me, personally. As well as I can put it well, the art style change kind of really affects the lens he can be viewed through. Maybe more than most people want to admit. And I’m not dissing the rounded down, brightened up change, it’s not a better or worse direction from the show… but it is a different one with different strengths and weaknesses.

Like, look at Dib’s early season model sheets for a base of reference.

Now compare him alongside the comic and Florpus interpretation of Dib Membrane. OBVS I am simplifying a ton here, there’s a ton of room for more range than these examples.

I’m not here to say he’s a better or worse Dib visually, he’s still Dib to me! But is notable how comic Dib actually breaks a ton of the “rules” of what kind of character they wanted Dib to be. To put it one way, they sanded down some of his edges and he’s not as apparently “skrungly” as he used to be.

What I like about the change is that it actually gives the better impression of him actually being the lil dorkass kid he’s always been. He’s got a slight aesthetic shift that shows off his unique interests and it definitely sets him apart from Zim, who actually retained most of his own show design. He’s still got some funny lookin’ qualities and he’s so much more endearing

One of the downsides of all that, however, is probably that he’s so damn endearing and as a default.

I dunno if you ever watched Little Shop of Horrors, amazing musical btw, but, it’s supposed to have this whole tragic ending where the main character’s, Seymour’s, long chain of mistakes catch up with him and he meets his demise. In the movie, they casted Rick Moranis for the character, and he played such a puppy-eyed, adorkable Seymour that it made audiences suddenly too bummed out to even appreciate the dark ending. They hated it so much that the crew actually just changed the ending completely so that Seymour gets a consequence-free happy ending with everything he ever wanted. Even though he’s literally a serial murderer of sorts. You were always supposed to feel for him, but not to the point where watching him fail just makes you feel horrible.

I think Dib works kinda like that on a meta level.

If there’s any ruling on what goes over that invisible line when it comes to handling his character, I think Florpus Gaz nailed it right on the head. Dib is never supposed to just utterly break under the weight of his world. Can he sometimes crack? Yeah totally, especially in the “brink of madness” sense. Or if it’s funny. The golden rule is not to give him more than he can handle, and Dib CAN handle a lot of bullshit. He may be a frustrated lil squirt but he’s been at this for a very long time, and it’s hype af watching how he’s not slowing down even in the face of that. Dib and Zim’s biggest POSITIVE shared trait is the strength of their spirits against a world that is ultimately callous and cruel at every turn to them.

Every second you write Dib where he’s wallowing in despair or feeling sorry for himself is a second you come closer to that line and it’s what you need to dish out in wary moderation.

So I guess the TL:DR of what i think I’m getting at here is… it’s all about perspective.

But I really should read more of the comics.

[osaemu]

WOOA BIG MILESTONE ! thank u soso much for all the support i've recieved on here since i joined , sending u guys lots n lots of love MWAHH <3 !!

[screampied]

This is my very first time doing this with one of my fav writers so I’m a bit nervous! But I just wanna say I love your content and whenever I get a notification from you I get so exciteddd!! I lub you so so much! Mwahhhh!! ^o^🩷

omg don’t ever be nervous to stop in my inbox !! 🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙋‍♀️ i love replying to u guys <3

AWWWWWW :(((( thank youuuuu smmm for reading ofc, not a problem ilu too babie 🫶🏽

[goldenhypen]

y’all ,,,,,,, I HAD A DREAM I MET JAKE 😭😭😭😭 and when i woke up i was actually relieved ??? 😭😭😭😭

[exc-lsior]

oh hell ya sol, splitting the displacement scarf and incorporating it into everyone’s tracksuit is rad as hell!! please let this work!!

[irritablepoe]

i might be miserable, but my hair looks so fucking good rn (ignore the little frizzy hairs tho)

pic under the cut :D

[kuiinncedes]

i watched wickeddddddd

[djarindroid]

Guys I went to Rome, saw the Sistine Chapel in person and straight up just stood there and cried