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deathskrang · 2 days

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when he puts his finger under your chin to move your head towards him before you passionately make out after discussing war crimes

#invader zim #the tallest #tallest red #tallest purple #shitpost #yeah

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deathskrang · 2 days

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the tallests are frat boys who drive cars recklessly. theyre also bimbo popular girls from teen drama movies. they go shopping for clothes and twirl their antennas like hair when talking on the phone. they eat nothing but junk food and smoke weed and slam their bodies on pool tables at parties. they gossip about other irkens behind their back and tear each others clothes and antennas out during fights cause they both wanted something at the same time. they tape shit to fireworks to watch it blow up and almost set themselves on fire every time. they wear sunglasses when theyre hungover. i hate them

#invader zim #the tallest #tallest red #tallest purple #shitpost #i mean this so seriously i never thought anyone else in the whole world would understand the tallest the way i do until i saw this #it made me feel seen. it made my tallest thoughts seem sane.

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deathskrang · 4 days

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The space on the top of an Irken's head between their antennae is for kisses.

#invader zim #shitpost #thats bible

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deathskrang · 9 days

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they went from having normal body proportions to a snatched waist and rounder, larger chest. what unrealistic body standards are being placed upon irken society that we dont know of yet

#invader zim #the tallest #shitpost #bimboification

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deathskrang · 23 days

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Happy zim day (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~

#invader zim #zim #gir #roboparents #i care a lot about this

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deathskrang · 1 month

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#invader zim #tallest red #shitpost #naughty tallests get the scissors.

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deathskrang · 1 month

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22 years ago on 9/11, I was ten years old. Here's what I wrote about it in my journal at the time

#invader zim #shitpost #at a loss for words at this post

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deathskrang · 1 month

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i think about zim and the tallest and their inherently, nearly parasitic relationship to each other a lot.

i think about how all of them are, objectively, mostly blind to this fact as well, zim blinded by the swift and stark obedience that he performs under the delusion that he is doing something for the good of his leaders and his empire, and the tallest blinded by their total arrogance and rage over the fact that zim cannot read any of their cues that he is a nuisance. still, it is so obvious that the back and forth is there.

i know that this particular example probably wasn't purposeful in florpus and was mostly just so the audience could see dib's point and the narrative similarities between zim and him, but i think a lot about zim's silence when dib says, "you know, my dad doesn't appreciate what i do, either" after zim explains how the tallest are not coming to bring him back home. i think a lot about that. the impact and the implications behind one simple sentence from dib. i imagine, to zim, this sort of felt like a slap in the face. the first word besides "my tallest" that's ever explained how zim wants them, how zim, in his own way, almost loves them. and it's a word from earth. it's a word that implies a built in, unconditional caring between human beings. it's a word that zim had just said in a mocking tone of voice to dib moments ago in reference to his plan to replace his real dad. and, suddenly, in a single instance, the weight of the word has seemed to hit him.

i think the saddest part of this parallel is that dib has the understanding that because he and his dad are biologically related, unconditional love is the expected thing, it's the supposed natural progression of things. zim and the tallest, though—they don't have any of that. you could argue that they're barely even acquaintances. there is no understanding of what is supposed to happen with them. there is no built in hope of having them step up to the plate the way dib hopes with his dad. i don't think zim truly understands this, though. as if zim can completely comprehend isolation. isn't that apart of an invader's duty? isn't that what he was trained to do? and isn't zim an invader? isn't he?

after all of this, after all of florpus, long after dib had first used that word, dad, in relation to the tallest, how dib said his dad doesn't appreciate what he does, one of the last things zim asks the tallest as he is witnessing their last moments across that transmission is: does this please you? in other words, do you appreciate what i have done for you?

dialogue wise, this is emotionally wrecking enough, but i think, visually, it is equally if not more disarming and depressing. i really, really, really love the imagery of the scene right before it cuts to the tallest burning in their puppet florpus flames. because it's a silly visual gag, yes, two flailing tallest puppets—but zim talking to two distorted tallest silhouettes, not noticing (or, rather, caring about) the difference between this and their usual way of appearing when they're in a transmission—zim talking to a literal representation of how the tallest have always existed in his head, as two distorted silhouettes, as delusions—that is insanely succinct in describing the true detriment of zim and the tallest's relationship to each other, at least to me.

this is, in my opinion, the most fucked up imagery in florpus, maybe even the entire series to me—and, most likely, none of the invader zim crew meant it to come across quite like that. zim's performance of normalcy in the face of what he is unaware is the tallest's last living moments. the delayed video feed in the transmission, shortly followed by complete and utter panic from the tallest, who were possibly oblivious to the fact that zim had even contacted them amongst their chaos. zim almost seeming as if he is staring at his own reflection in the screen rather than right at the tallest. a physical representation of what their entire relationship has been built on since the beginning—a blurry idea, a vague delusion of a bond that is in actuality no more than a fatal, life long misunderstanding on each end. it's the most palpably gut wrenching thing in the whole film for me, and i don't care that none of it was probably meant to pack that type of punch. it's always hit me hard.