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Zim on his way home after stealing some kid’s heart (literally)

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Swap AU becauze why not

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They’re arguing again

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Its finally raining again!

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random iz fandom things i love

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dib and gaz being membrane's clones (tbf this could be canon, it's a bit of a schrödinger's cat situation), however trans girl gaz is just a part of my belief system

alternatively, the "professor membrane is a runaway irken who defected from the empire and dib and gaz are unaware of their irken heritage" theory from back in the day, love that one

ALTERNATIVELY that one crack-theory/au from back in the day where tallest miyuki didn't die/faked her death (???) and had a thing with membrane and gaz and dib were the result (irken/human hybrids). this one was wack but i love it a lot

incel dib, 4channer dib, xenophile dib, unemployed leeching off daddy's money dib, dib being a weird disgusting loser freak as an adult in any shape or form is just canon to me

headcanoning everyone in the show as autistic, extra points if in addition dib develops aspd as an adult (while zim has npd)

"broken pak" fics

dib and gaz competing membrane's love and thinking the other sibling has it "easier" only to start becoming closer as they grow up and realize that membrane was a bad father and that they both deserved better. the "this is my sibling, they are annoying, i never hugged them or told them i loved them once in my life however i would die for them and they mean the world to me DON'T tell them i said that"-esq dynamic is my go-to interpretation for an older version of these two

zim having hearing issues

irken dib aus yesssss especially if dib is also defective but specifically in a "why do i need to listen to what the empire tells me? its stupid!" and his defectiveness doesn't pose as much of a problem for him because he is quite tall

"mopiness of doom doesn't end" aus where dib continues with "real science" to make his dad proud and zim is so fucking depressed and keeps trying to get dib to chase after him again, eventually settling for just annoying dib and that's how they become friends (these fics/fanarts are hard to come by but i adore them)

subtle explorations of zim's height complex (him feeling uneasy/uncomfortable when dib grows taller than him, him starting to wear shoes with higher heels as his classmates all outgrow him, him continuously feeling out of place everywhere)

the interpretation that zim subconciously knows how defective he is and how much everyone hates him yet represses any introspective thoughts under 50 layers of delusion and denial because confronting reality would hurt too much

"tallest tell zim" fics BUT SPECIFICALLY ones that center of dib's reaction to finding out the truth about zim's mission and zim's true status in irken society "what do you mean i wasted my entire childhood on a exiled space mcdonalds runaway with delusions of grandeur what the fuck", i don't see a lot of these but MAN are they always juicy

portrayals of how dib simultaneously has hero/savior complex and pretty low-empathy

zim breaking earth gender roles

zim and dib realizing that they don't need anyone's approval and fucking off into space together

everyone assuming dib and zim are just gay and that's why they are like that (and them being extremely offended at this assumption)

zim and dib both being the other's sexual awakening

zim being a prude, i like when fan stuff keeps this characterization in mind

all of them experiencing homophobia in hi-skool. this includes gaz, the only reason she doesn't get bullied is because people are scared of her. zim and dib scare everyone as well but those two are way easier to point and laugh at. zim is confused by homophobia. lgbt headcanons: all of them are aspec however zim is demisexual (and in denial, he thinks he's aroace because that's the irken ideal), dib is aro and bi while gaz is bi and ace)

dad nar (lard nar being zim's father figure while smeet zim was still working as a science drone), he's very proud zim grew up to be the biggest thorn in irk's ass without even trying

zadr stuff where zim attaches himself onto dib the same way he attaches himself onto his tallest

any fandom stuff that explores zim's dissasociative episodes

zadr where zim outlives dib

zadr where dib outgrows zim (dib is way more self-aware than zim is in canon, i like when fanstuff explores dib maturing and realizing just how pointless their feud really is and that zim is a pretty tragic figure who's extremely similar to him)

zadr zadf and zade, all at the same time, if these two don't have a homoerotic frienemy-esq relationship where they are not officially together and still hate each other but are somehow besties and friends with benefits, then what's the point

fanstuff where gaz is trying to be the glue that's holding the family together after dib becomes more and more aggressive and done with membrane's shit over the years, i like that the fandom agrees that gaz is family oriented and just wants a support system, she's extremely parentified by membrane and i love when fandom stuff explores this (my dismissive-avoidant attachment style queen)

a bit of a controversial take but i actually quite like gaz being all cute and moe in ship art, i think it's sweet, i enjoy the reading that she's just extremely emotionally distant but desires close emotional connections and would be more soft if she had them

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zim being good with kids! look at the way he treats gir and his other robots, zim taking care of gir will always make me soft. i love all familial explorations of his and gir's relationship, that little robot is zim's baby brother, darling son and emotional support dog all at the same time

headcanon that pre-pak irkens used to have insect-like wings

outing myself here but i quite like how irken anatomy/biology tends to be explored in smut fics, the popular headcanons go hard (pun intended)

probs more that i can't remember rn

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Pointless picture of Zim getting the first massage of his life

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~I missed you~

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Ggghhkhhkgkrke ... Tak art!!!

I genuinely don't know if any of these colours go together at all LAKDKFJWANJ

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BUG! BUG! BUG! SPOTTED!

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Do you think authors sometimes don't realize how their, uh, interests creep into their writing? I'm talking about stuff like Robert Jordan's obvious femdom kink, or Anne Rice's preoccupation with inc*st and p*dophilia. Did their editors ever gently ask them if they've ever actually read what they've written?

Firstly, a reminder: This is not tiktok and we just say the words incest and pedophilia here.

Secondly, I don't know if I would call them 'interests' so much as fixations or even concerns. There are monstrous things that people think about, and I think writing is a place to engage with those monstrous things. It doesn't bother me that people engage with those things. I exist somewhere within the whump scale, and I would hope no one would think less of me just because sooner or later I like to rough a good character up a bit, you know? It's fun to torture characters, as a treat!

But, anyway, assuming this question isn't, "Do writers know they're gross when I think they are gross" which I'm going to take the kind road and assume it isn't, but is instead, "Do you think authors are aware of the things they constantly come back to?"

Sometimes. It can be jarring to read your own writing and realize that there are things you CLEARLY are preoccupied with. (mm, I like that word more than concerns). There are things you think about over and over, your run your mind over them and they keep working their way back in. I think this is true of most authors, when you read enough of them. Where you almost want to ask, "So...what's up with that?" or sometimes I read enough of someone's work that I have a PRETTY good idea what's up with that.

I've never read Robert Jordan and I don't intend to start (I think it would bore me this is not a moral stance) and I've really never read Rice's erotica. In erotica especially I think you have all the right in the world to get fucking weird about it! But so, when I was young I read the whole Vampire Chronicles series. I don't remember it perfectly, but there's plenty in it to reveal VERY plainly that Anne Rice has issues with God but deeply believes in God, and Anne Rice has a preoccupation with the idea of what should stay dead, and what it means to become. So, when i found out her daughter died at the age of six, before Rice wrote all of this, and she grew up very very Catholic' I said, 'yeah, that fucking checks out'.

Was Rice herself aware of how those things formed her writing? I think at a certain point probably yes. The character of Claudia is in every way too on the nose for her not to have SOME idea unless she was REAL REAL dense about her own inner workings. But, sometimes I know where something I write about comes from, that doesn't mean I'm interested in sharing it with the class. I would never ever fucking say, 'The reasons I seem to write so much of x as y is that z happened to me years ago' ahaha FUCK THAT NOISE. NYET. RIDE ON, COWBOY.

But I've known some people in fandom works who clearly have something going on and don't seem to realize it. Or they're very good at hiding it. Based on the people I'm talking about I would say it's more a lack of self-knowledge, and I don't even mean that unkindly. I have, in many ways, taken myself down to the studs and rebuilt it all, so I unfortunately am very aware of why I do and write the things I do most of the time. It's extremely annoying not to be able to blame something. I imagine it must be very freeing. But it ain't me, babe.

Anyway, a lot of words to say: Maybe! But that might not stop them from writing it, it might be a useful thing for them to engage with, and you can always just not read it.

Also, we don't censor words here.

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TAK

I realized that I’ve somehow never drawn her digitally till now, so I had to fix that immediately

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[More old art.  This went with my fic Penumbra]

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A uh... slightly belated Christmas present for my amazing friends @iodotsys and @banana-zim based on the overture iodotsys created for their IZ AU, Insane In The Membrane!! Enjoy~ :3

Here's the original overture so y'all can check it out!

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don't open the door it's not worth it

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(NEW?) TUMBLR TAGGING PSA:

heads up, folks! it looks like - EVEN AND ESPECIALLY ON YOUR CUSTOM BLOG VIEW!!! - tumblr only counts the first twenty tags! on a post! after this, the post won't show up in that tag, not even on your blog

so if you have a personal art tag but you put it at the bottom of the post under all of the #switch #nintendo #mario #bros #64 etc etc etc bloat tags, it doesn't work.

please put your most relevant tags first! having an art tag that doesn't have all your art posts in it is basically useless, after all

there used to be a saying that tumblr search only counted the first five tags on a post, which is why crosstagging for reach was pointless. tumblr has since updated to count twenty tags - at a cost. any tags after #20 apparently do not show up in that tag on your own blog.

i found this out because i was looking at someone's cool mario 64 art project, and because they put the tag for the project at the very bottom of their tags, the final post NEVER showed up in their tag for the project when i was browsing it ON THEIR BLOG (very different tumblr behavior than it used to be years ago!). i did finally stumble on the final post of the project, thankfully, and realizing what happend, i started counting. tumblr counts the first 20 tags, but tag #21 and all after are useless.

psa!

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tfw human bf