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melodyofthevoid · 1 year

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I posted 7,486 times in 2022

1,035 posts created (14%)

6,451 posts reblogged (86%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@elytrians

@lindendragon

@dana-chan-the-control-brain

@ai-dont-care

@thel3tterm

I tagged 3,318 of my posts in 2022

#melody rambles - 1,069 posts

#ocean idiots - 505 posts

#invader zim - 463 posts

#friend art - 294 posts

#zib - 161 posts

#my writing - 100 posts

#ask meme - 67 posts

#zadr - 66 posts

#yeah - 66 posts

#ref - 55 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#and sometimes the larger a project gets the more unrealistic the expectations on those working on it to the point where no one's having fun

My Top Posts in 2022:

Ocean Idiots Masterpost

Hello hello lore enthusiasts and newcomers alike! I finally am getting around to organizing all of this so here we go!

Lore Slideshow

Art

The-Trashiest-Pada

Merfolk Lore

The Sailor Who Fought Back

If She Fits She Sits

Teef

The Deep Blue

Delta’s Crew

Don’t Starve Ocean Idiots

Family Reunion

Bebe Delta

more bebe

Ab Bab

Ascension and Aftermath

Freya and Argo

April fools Bitches

Squish

Heather is A Bitch™

Entranced

On Deck

Shandzii

Various doodles

Larus

Mariza and Delta

Samira Ref

Mariza Ref

Larus Ref

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HOLY GOD! Ok, this project launched back in... October of 2020 and it’s here. Huge and never ending thanks go out to everyone involved in this project, I’ll credit all those I can. Please know that you all mean the world to me and the fact you did this... I was close to tears man, genuinely. This world, and I know I’ve said it a million times, is my baby, and that you all did this... fuck. It just makes me unimaginably happy. Thank you.

Please give your appreciation and love to the wonderful artists who made this possible, and support them where you can. They all did an amazing job.

@shandzii

@thefurriestofchows

@the-trashiest-panda

@buttonpastel

@snugglecat453

@paujama

@rainbott

@emositecc

@malibubandit

@rollermatsu

For those not on Tumblr but are in the video: Kat, Silverkapa, Pinkie, Squishy squid, thank you.

394 notes - Posted January 13, 2022

After much anticipation, it is here. The official slideshow of Ocean Idiots Lore! Thanks go to @shandzii and @the-trashiest-pada for all the art! Again, if y’all have any questions feel free to ask! I just may take a minute to get to it. Also you know. Spoiler stuff.

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509 notes - Posted July 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

6! Preferably for Mariza and Delta but you can do whoever you want

"I missed you... a lot"

It'd taken a good deal of time for Mariza and Delta's... relationship to even out after Mariza's ascension.

It'd taken the half desperate pleadings of someone far too exhausted to keep up a one sided fight for it to stop, a fire no longer fueled by oxygen left to smolder. Then they were left with what remained, a goddess who didn't know who she was, and a pirate who remembered everything but didn't know where to start.

So they started anyway, because when had they ever planned for anything?

The bottom of the ocean, contrary to the superstitions of sailors who'd never so much as swam a reef, was far more lively than an eternal quiet. Just because the cool depths only contained the echoes of humans didn't mean they were devoid of life, only human life. Though for some that didn't make a difference. It made the perfect spot for a mer and the embodiment of the ocean to sit and watch the world go by, the occasional curious fish swimming around Mariza's torso and extra limbs, weaving in and out as though the goddess were nothing but coral.

"Guess they like 'ya huh?"

Delta laughed as the guppy darted away from Mariza's claws, the goddess unable to contain a small chuckle of her own.

"Well, they know better than to be near a shark. I think they want me to protect them from you."

"Right, because I'm the more deadly of the two of us, you're ridiculous."

"I dunno," Mariza smiled impishly, "Those teeth of yours are pretty sharp."

"Mari. I've seen you bite boats in half. Come on."

Delta whacked Mariza with her fin, enough to push her forward, but no further than that. Of course, retaliation was swift, and those same tendrils that were a fish's playground wrapped around Delta's tail and hoisted her vertical, then in a loop. The cycle continued until both were cackling messes, throwing small handfuls of sand in each others' direction as they wheezed.

"Ha- haha- Can't believe you're this easily winded. Aren't you supposed to be a god?"

"Yeah well- I'm still- still getting used to it. It's not like I'm laughing all that much around Samira."

Ah, that pleasant company. Surely a more jovial presence you couldn't find.

"No kidding. I can't say that I've laughed this hard in a while either. I missed this."

Cold regret seeped into the waters around them. For what it was worth, Mariza tried to give a sarcastic half smile, though it didn't quite reach her eyes.

"Did you now?"

Too late to pretend she didn't mean it now.

"I did. I missed you... a lot. When you slipped under the water... Thought I'd never see you again. But hey, lucky me, right?"

"Lucky that I didn't end up sinking you when you came up and hugged me out of the blue."

"Hey! How was I supposed to know you had all the memory of a brain-dead sunfish left?"

"Brain dead- HEY!"

The bickering continued, but Delta couldn't help the smile that clung to her face each time Mariza let out that laugh of hers, or looked away for a brief moment.

She really was lucky, huh?

It stung she still missed her, sometimes.

1,082 notes - Posted January 20, 2022

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looking-cool-joker · 1 year

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A little wip i have for my ZaDr fic rn. This is only the first draft so there will be plenty of changes, also there is no beta read so far so actually this is a very rough draft

Thank you… Whatever supernatural being is out there, thank you for listening to my pleas. Dib had his hands clasped together, praying as he was laying down on his bed, unable to sleep.

Zim actually gave him a week to himself, which made Dib happy, he could finally get some rest, but as he actually thought about it he sat up and paused for a few minutes as he was collecting his thoughts, “What the Hell?! Zim gave me a week all to myself?!” He accidentally yelled out… At the dead of night… He knew that if he had woken his sister up, he’d be dead before the sun came up.

Luckily for him, no one seemed to hear it, or perhaps no one cared—Either way it caused him to lay back down in panic, ready to pretend to go to sleep if his father checked on him.

Only a week… I guess I should make the most out of it. Dib looked up at his celling, he dreaded how much homework he’d have to do in the span of now and then, but that is a problem left until tomorrow.

Time fled quickly throughout the night, and for the first time in months, he actually got a regular amount of sleep. Yet he went to sleep thinking about his… Plea with Zim and he woke up thinking about it as well.

It was still unusual, even though their bond had gotten stronger over the years, it was still confusing. It made Dib question their status, what were they? Enemies, friends? Perhaps they were a weird mix.

Trying to ignore the fact that Dib Membrane—someone who had vowed to save Earth from an Invader named Zim, whose entire point of being there on that planet in the first place, is to rule over it—Had a small soft spot for that said alien.

Obviously he wouldn’t admit it, he had hardly even realized it himself, if it wasn’t for his sister constantly teasing him about Zim, he’d probably be none the wiser to their change in their dynamic.

But it was apparent to anyone who looked at all into their relationship, their fights became less dangerous, more playful insults, and worst of all, Zim would actually become comfortable with telling Dib his plans beforehand, so that Dib would be there quicker to stop them.

He had never noticed those moments being out of the blue, it just felt natural for him, but now as he thought about it, it was more than odd for Zim.

Back in Middle Skool, Dib was more or less obsessed with Zim, who could blame him? Anyone would probably react the same if an alien showed up at their Skool randomly.

However throughout the last few years, Dib had grown distant, he was too be being pressured by his father, he could understand it.

He knew that his father wanted him to live successfully, he couldn’t fault him for that, he was actual quite happy he got a father like him, although he’s always busy.

The more he ignored Zim the worst Zim got, he was like a parasite, if Dib ignored him, he grew more vicious. And obviously in recent Zim had been furious.

And father like son, Dib was rather busy too.

#invader zim #zim #dib membrane #zadr #invader zim fanfiction #fanfic #fanfiction #iz fanfiction #my fic corner #uh ig thats it with tagging lmao

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homocidal-invader · 1 year

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ok. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Well dang :V

1: What was the first episode you’ve seen? Episode 1 because I intentionally looked for the show to watch it after seeing clips of it online.

2: What’s your favorite episode? Episode 1. It's one of my favorite first episodes of a show ever and I really like how well it introduces everything. I love other episodes of the show of course I just think the first episode did a great job and should get more praise for that!

3: Favorite Irken? I like the main character a lot but if I had to choose a second favorite uhhh the Tallests as 1 entity I can't choose one over the other

4: Favorite Human? I like the other main character a lot also but as a second Professor Membrane bc he's funny and I had a mental image of him before watching the show

5: Favorite Other Race? There aren't really a lot of those to pick from :V

6: Any fan characters? Yesssss a few but this particular one I made several comics about

7: Favorite fanfiction? It's NSFW and I haven't actually finished the full series because it's long and I suck at reading! I might consider linking it at another point :V Favorite bc I took some inspiration from it for Est and I enjoy NSFW fics lol.

8: Favorite fanart?

I've got a few really inspirational ones on my computer! I recently made a long comment on the Irken propoganda poster fanart (and made my own fanart based off of it), I like the Corrupted Data 99% one (and made my own fanart based off of it), I like this sketch dump of Tallest Zims bc it's cool and bc of the comment "all I do is lie to myself" which I quote all the time now, this FnF song video that I keep trying to do a full version of because the OP said I could but haven't gotten around to it yet, and a bunch more I don't feel like tracking down lol.

9: Do you write for the fandom? Well I make comics but for fanfiction I've made one, short ZaDr fic but in character somehow

10: Do you draw for the fandom? Yes, here's my art tag for this blog and here's my askblog

11: Would you be scared if Jhonen found your art/fanfics/blog? I've watched his Twitch streams (he might still be doing that every Monday?) and sometimes when he searches stuff up he ends up scrolling past fanart and doesn't acknowledge it lol. So not really, he's not as mean a guy as the fandom seems to demonize him wrongly as. I actually think meeting him would be pretty cool!

12: Do you like pairings? If so, which? I mean aside from ZaDr I like RaPr and basically am open to any if ppl write it in a way I like. Those two I just enjoy in particular.

13: Do you believe there are any canon pairings? Like, intended by the writers? I don't remember any prominent characters dating canonically no lol.

14: OTP? ZaDr. I watched episode 1 and shipped it immedietely after their first interaction XD If that's not a "One True Pairing" I'm not sure what is.

15: Favorite enemies? (Tak and Zim or Zim and Dib… etc) Does enemies to lovers count? Idk I am more of a HELPLESS ROMANTIC type I am only into enemies if it's charged in some way XD Otherwise it sticks out to me less so nothing really comes to mind that easily.

16: Favorite Tallest of the four? I can't choose Red or Purple it changes every day! I like Miyuki and Spork but come on they don't have that much screentime and Red and Purple have far more changes to be funny lol

17: Favorite thing about Invader Zim? ADHD and artstyle

18: Least favorite thing about Invader Zim? that's hard. Even when the show disturbs me I take it as a positive. Uhhh. when ppl in the fandom are judgemental about other people's headcanons in a mean way lol

19: Do you have any blocked tags, relating to the fandom? probably but finding out would mean I'd have to look through my blocked tags! I frequently block people though.

20: Do you ever do crossovers? I had some Gravity Falls crossover sketches back in 2021, and I've done a few crossovers between characters in my own discord servers sometimes, but nothing large/prominent.

...Unless crossovers between zim askblogs count.

21: Any parts of show that actually scare you? Probably not scare but definitely disturb me. I'd need to rewatch it to remember.

22: Any parts of the fandom that actually scare you? I'm very sensitive as a person and have anxiety so people scare me easily!

23: Part that made you laugh the hardest… I'd need to go clip hunting for that! Good news though I recorded myself watching IZ with a friend in 2021 and am slowly editing the clips so I'll find out eventually.

24: Part that you could relate to… Zim very ADHD

25: Least favorite episode? I like all the episodes and I see grossing me out as a bonus bc rarely do things disturb me and it means that it succeeded but uhhhhhh I mean least likely to rewatch probably rise of the zitboy lol

26: Least favorite scene? Sometimes there's fatphobia in the show and that sucks :V

27: Do you like G.I.R.? YES I don't draw him as often as other characters but if you look around my askblog he makes it into tons of the posts lol

28: If you could be anyone from the show, you would choose….. Trying to send me to hell??? Rude.

29: Are the Tallest intelligent or not? Yeah they just don't care lol

30: What do you think an Irkens blood color is? I like it when it's either pink or matches their eye color. I want a rainbow blood smear of irkens after war. imagine it.

31: If you could write an episode, what would happen? I've thought of several fake episode scripts, like where Dib gets suspended for pushing Zim at school and goes to a better nicer school, then ends up back at normal school at the end of the episode because the world is built to hurt Dib, or an episode where Zim gets stuck in his elevator and can't get out bc his PAK legs are too long and his rockets are useless and GIR is useless.

If I could write an episode though it'd probably end up being gay shit tho ngl

32: If all the voice actors and artists were different, would you still want Invader Zim to come back? Well if the writers are the same... hmm, though a lot of what was good about IZ was the synnergy between all the writers, artists, and VAs, like Rikki who voiced GIR also being a background artist, and somehow a bunch of these ppl are still friends 20 years later.

I think it'd be fun to see it even if they totally and completely fuck it up though because then the fandom would tear it apart and it'd be funny

33: Do you consider any of the characters your ‘babies’? Depends on the day but I do love random navigator drone from Florpus. Baby bc Evv is totally based off of them XD Adopted!

34: Do you have any fancharacters that are the result of two canon characters getting together? Fankids? I'd say Wur, even though it's not Dib's biological kid he's still its dad XD

35: If you could meet any of the characters, who would it be and what would you say? Dib's insufferable but I think he just wants someone to listen to him lol

36: If you could meet any of the voice actors, who would it be and what would you say? Probably Richard bc I've seen lots of interviews with him and he just seems really friendly and nice to talk to!

37: Other than Zim, who is your favorite Irken Invader? Damn :V Well we don't really get to meet the other invaders much, do we? Like it's either Skoodge or you just REALLY like a background character lol

38: Professor Membrane: a good daddy or a neglectful cold father? I'd like him to be good but yk all the times he's good it could just be argued it's because his kids are science experiments XD When I write him he's neglectful and cold but more on accident than intentional abuse. He wants the best for his kids but he's just not equipped to deal with their emotions.

39: Favorite quote? I'd need to rewatch the show there's too many good ones lol

40: Zim’s taken over the planet… Now what? Calls the Tallests to tell them about it and they're like..... We're not flying over there!!! Uh... we told you to watch it not take it over!!! uhhhh whatever, good job [disconnects].

Zim would have his fun being king for a day then things get back to normal by the end of the episode lol

#verm1c1de

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wannabecrypt-id · 2 years

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A must-read IZ fic list, you say? 👀👀👀 Colour me interested

Ignorantly, I chug 2 of those Alani Nu drinks unaware they contain 200 mg of caffeine each. Thank you for the ask, I take no responsibility for the response.

🥴🥴🥴

INVADER ZIM FANFIC RECOMMENDATION LIST:

Rating Key:

Explicit Mature Teen General

50k words and up:

Cartography by Word-Spitting-Dragon [ZADR, 33/? chapters, 286k+ words]

“Resisty!Zim AU: When the Irkens start exporting dangerous goods outside of known Irken space, Zim and his fellow R.E.S.I.S.T.Y. members decide to take a look, hoping to expose something they can use to finally end the Irken Menace. But what lies out in the farthest, uncharted corners of space? And could it really help the rebel cause? ZADF eventually ZADR”

>Some characterizations are a bit different than I was used to, but I devoured this fic in 3 days so you know it’s good. Pretty sure it’s discontinued but it’s a satisfying read even so.

Nullified! by HedgehogSquadGoals [ZADR, 30/? chapters, 146k+ words)

“A live alien is better than a dead one! That’s Dib’s theory, anyway. When he discovers a half-dissected, somehow-still-alive alien in storage at his father’s lab, he resolves to bring it to full health and show the world that extraterrestrial life exists (and most importantly, that he's not crazy)! Though, the alien may have a few ulterior motives of his own...”

>I adore this fic. Look me in the eyes. I ADORE this fic. The plot, the characterizations, everything makes me salivate. It’s so good and it’s something I will sit down for 4 hours straight and just reread.

A Love like War I by lestat_wesker [ZADR, 22/22 chapters, 136k+ words]

“If Zim has to fix all the LIES they’ve been shamelessly spreading in Irk about him, he should just stop wasting time in the filthy, worthless, poor excuse for a planet, Urth.

Yes, he must leave immediately, and absolutely can’t be followed! He would have blown up this rock already if he had a little more time.

He can’t be followed, under no circumstance! Oh, no, not this time. And his plan must be indisputably perfect. No mistake can be made now. Nothing going horribly wrong is allowed! (Please, not this time…)”

>Such a good concept, such a good execution. There’s also a 2nd part… 👀.Dib and Zim forget about each other, and fate or coincidence or whatever the hell forces them back together. Also check out @/Tr33333’s art for this fic here (1, 2,)

IF YOU SHOULD BEG by hamletmustdie [ZADR, 19/19 chapters, 122k+ words]

“A failed attempt to please the Tallest's leaves Zim's PAK compromised by murderous malware that renders him unrecognizable. Dib is frantic to save him, left alone on a hostile planet he doesn't know - and with only hours to prevent Zim from killing them both.”

>Any fic with Dib in space has me swooning, so this is a must-have. Also! @/Tr333333 has art for this fic as well lol (1) (Basically, if they have fanart for a fic, I’d recommend checking it out….)

Being Tall Isn’t Everything by PAW_07 [No relationship, 12/? chapters, 60k+ words]

“Zim was about to destroy the world, his dying adversary at his feet … yet he doesn't kill Dib. He wants to use that cunningly huge head of his, especially now that they are both so tall. Now, years later, the newest Tallest finds himself in a web of secrets, the past, and the future seemingly tearing him apart. As usual ... this is all Zim's fault.”

>This has to be one of my absolute favorite invader zim fics. It features irken dib, as an amnesiac tallest who can’t remember anything beyond his reign. Oh my god it’s so good. I’m pretty sure it’s discontinued but… *clenches fist* it’s so, so good.

Below 50k words:

Dig Your Own Grave and Then Bury the Hatchet by dearqueer (plushrump) [ZADR, 5/6 chapters, 37k+ words]

“Alternatively Titled: In Which Zim and Dib Makeout and it Upsets the Balance of the Entire Universe”

>Maybe… maybe I’m obsessed with Resisty AUs…? I love Zim in this fic. So good. The notes from the first chapter start as follows, “vasquez can eat my entire asshole.” so, maybe give it a read.

Harder, Better, Faster, Taller by PatchWorkPoltergeist [RAPR, 3/? chapters, 34k+ words]

“Thus far, Elite Red's life had been a work in progress: constant improvement, higher performance, higher rank, and higher stature. The best of the very best. With the start of Invasion Season and Devastis training a new crop of Invaders, Red's plan was clear: Become an Invader. Attain glory. Get snacks. Go solo and never put up with other Irkens' garbage ever again.

It was a good plan. A foolproof plan. And then Purple ruined it. (Except for the snacks.)”

>I adore the writing style. Honestly, if I were you I would check out all of the authors fics. Seriously. Red and Purple are Irken elites, and I wish I could express how much I love everything about this fic lol.

Inside Out by Andystarr [ZADR, 3/3 chapters, 30k+ words]

“It was meant to be a simple information retrieval mission.

If things don't go to plan, Resisty Agent Dib can usually rely on his partner and best friend to swoop in and save his ass. When Dib survives a mission by the skin of his teeth and finds himself with nothing left of his partner but a PAK that he can't seem to let go of, he'll need to look within in order to figure out how to do the impossible.”

>Okay, so I would love to put all of their fics on here but, as I think it would be a bit tedious of you to read through all of that so I’ll just assure you all their fics are masterpieces. This is just my personal favorite, and it’s from the author of Vort Dogs so you know it’s good. It features Resisty AU Dib and Zim, and just… just read it, okay? (Also, listen to the podfic of Vort Dogs. I found and listened to it the other day and I love GeminiWishes’ voice for Zim)

Red Line by DarkAbyss [ZADE/ZADF, 1/1 chapters, 21k+ words]

“During one of their fights, Zim and Dib fall in the clutches of a mysterious alien species that seems to have a twisted liking for experimenting on their captives.

(Warning for Gore, Blood and sensitive images)”

>THIS FIC. The concept is so good. The writing is downright incredible. Yeah, it’s a little gorey so if fucked up anatomical experiments aren’t your thing you might wanna steer clear of this fic.

Analogous Colors by Ryntaia [RAPR, 1/1 chapters, 4k+ words]

“Four snippets of four stages in the life of Red and Purple, from birth to reign.”

>GOOD. Good. Read it.

A Mile in his Shoes by PAW_07 [No relationship, 1/1 chapters, 2k+ words]

“Dib is dead… at least that's what it seems like, yet Zim isn't cackling and taking over the world. He's silent, sad, and … like a boy trapped in another's shoes. Tallest Red can't help but wonder what's come over their once insane soldier.”

>One word… bodyswap. (Also love the tallest’s characters in this fic.)

Currently Reading + Personal To-Read List:

No Return by knockplease [RAPR, Lard Nar/Spleenk, 27/? chapters, 341k+ words]

“There comes a single moment that changes everything. A decision that must be made; and in that moment, one becomes fully responsible for course their lives will take. Every creature blessed with consciousness must face the point of no return.”

>It was so hard to find this fic. Thus far, it is so good and so worth it. I came upon it by dumb luck and obsessive prying into fic authors bookmarks.

Nova by Poludnica_Roksana [RAZR, ZADR, 11/? chapters, 82k+ words]

“After Zim crashes back into Dib's life, unfortunate circumstances force the two to flee to space. With the Irken Empire on their trail, the Almighty Tallest Red at the helm, how long can they really evade them? And how long before dark secrets are spilled?”

>Uhh full disclosure, I have only read the first chapter thus far BUT super excited about this concept. Pumped for some much desired razr as this is supposed to mainly be a razr fic.

Forced Perspective by opalite [ZADE/ZADF, 24/24 chapters, 121k+ words]

“Zim damages his PAK in a lab accident. It’s certainly nothing to worry about... as long as the Tallest send him those replacement parts before it starts seriously affecting his health. Zim’s injury and the resulting increase in his strange behavior inevitably sets Dib off, and his increasing suspicion and paranoia leads to an event that tips the delicate balance of their conflict wildly out of Zim’s favor. One way or another, everything is about to change.”

>I love all the art for this fic so much, I should have made reading this a priority long ago. I have only read the first chapter for this fic as well and it is so good. It is a sickfic though, so fair warning about that.

A Parade of Indignities by RissyNicole [ZADF, 30/30 chapters, 155k+ words]

“After inadvertently learning the truth about Zim's mission, a now fifteen-year-old Dib comes to a moral crossroads. Now, he must make an imperative decision to help Zim after an attempt on his life leaves the Irken in dire need of medical attention.”

>Another sickfic. A majority of those in the IZ fandom prolly already know about this fic. It is still on my to-read list so I’m sticking it here anyway.

Ehhhh I’ll shamelessly plug in my AO3 in case ya’ll wanna check out some of my bookmarks as some of them weren’t mentioned in this list. I might make a 2nd part to this sometime or edit this, but for now I can feel my heartbeat in my calves so I’m gonna crash 😘

(Please let me know if there’s any problem with the links)

#this is mostly zadr just a heads up #but there’s other fics too #if I could shut up this would be a lot shorter. but I refuse #invader zim #zadr #rapr #fanfic recommendation #ask #sorry if anything is confusing just lmk #asks

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shadowofthelamp · 3 years

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This tweet about how there isn’t enough ‘oh no’ horrified realizations in fic about being in love with someone you don’t want to be... it’s free real estate. Messy teenage Zim/Dib, my beloved...

Wordcount: 760

Warnings: Zadr, mentions of mild injuries

Ao3 link

Water dripped from the ice bag on Dib’s cheek as he stared up at the ceiling from atop his rumpled sheets. Zim had sliced him up with those stupid spider-leg things like usual, but it was the punch to his cheek that had nearly knocked a tooth out that really stung, mostly because it was going to leave a shiner for tomorrow.

He couldn’t believe it had been five years. Five long years since Zim had landed shortly before his twelfth birthday, since Dib had become defacto defender of Earth. Zim had greeted Dib’s seventeenth rotation around the sun with a cake that had a bomb in the middle of it. (Not that Dib had actually tried to eat a cake that had been left on his front porch with ‘EAT ME OR DIE’ in messy frosting letters. He’d thrown it in the trash and then it had blown up when it hit the pile of rotting food, leading Zim to jump out from the neighbor’s bushes and laugh at him.)

He shifted the ice, the holes in the washcloth between his skin and the bag leading little spots to be colder than others, and heaved out as much of a sigh as he could manage considering his chest was still tender.

On a surface level, nothing had been different about today. Zim had pulled some stupid prank, they’d gotten into a fight over it, both limping back to their respective home bases to lick their wounds. Still...

“Happy day of birth, Dib-shit!” Zim cackled, wig askew on his head and one antennae poking out. He was wearing sunglasses that were taped to the side of his head, and when Dib smacked them off, he scrubbed at his eyes, reflecting every shade of red Dib could imagine from the pulsing overhead sun when they turned to stare at him with a cocky, pink-zippered grin. “Don’t you like your present?”

“Oh, go fuck yourself,” Dib had muttered, smacking at his clothes to stop the miniature fires that had started.

“I would never! However, I knew that you wouldn’t appreciate your cake, so I made something else special, just for you! What better than to conquer this filthy planet on a date that is supposedly important to you, and make you my personal slave?”

“Look, I haven’t cared about my birthday in- you what?”

Zim had made a mass mind-control device that Dib had barely managed to break in the seconds before it was set to go online. They’d been wrestling around Zim’s base after Dib had chased him back to it. Dib probably couldn’t salvage this shirt after that little monster had torn about fifteen holes in it with his claws, at least not unless he wanted to walk into skool looking like he lost a knife fight with the hobo behind the Bloaty’s. Bites and scratches decorated his skin like tattoos, and under the ice gave a throb to remind him of the mean left hook that had burst half the capillaries in his cheek.

There were little glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling with barely-visible cracks winding through them as Dib shifted slightly. He could hear Gaz swearing downstairs at some online game with faint laser noises. She’d offered him a ‘happy birthday’ but no more, which was fine, because normally he didn’t care and hadn’t asked for anything. Dad hadn’t sent a message last year, so Dib didn’t expect anything today either. Low expectations, nothing to disappoint.

It was kinda nice that Zim of all people remembered, even if it was just to mess with him. His fingers curled around the washcloth, now damp as ice melting to water leaked through the bag.

He could still feel Zim’s fingers on his skin, blood running hot, how his own body (nearly twice Zim’s size now, even though the irken was just as dangerous as he’d always been) reflected in Zim’s bright eyes as he pinned the other down, flames dancing as the world melted into nothing but the two of them.

Zim had kicked him off and they’d continued to tussle, but the physicality of the moment stuck in Dib’s throat like a lump of thick, greasy lard, coalescing into something that burnt like inhaling smoke from a tire fire.

He’d liked that. Not just getting Zim at his mercy, or course he liked that, he’d liked that since he was a kid, but the skin on his cheeks was bubbling and boiling with heat that was something new. Something terrifying, something that looked like a sneering grin and glittering rubies.

Oh.

Oh no.

#zadr #zim #dib #iz blogging #iz #shadow writes stuff #invader zim #this belongs on ffnet circa 2010 so I'm proud of it #just that Vibe I remembered really liking when I was 13-15

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dana-chan-the-control-brain · 3 years

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Happy new year everyone 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I know 2020 has been hard for everyone.

And I want everyone to know, suffering isn't a contest and we all suffer in different ways. But I feel I should give my year in Review. Just some things that happened to me personally.

This was an intense, and long and spiritual and emotional journey for me...

I really discovered what it meant to have community, family and what my life means to me.

But I feel I need to get this in writing cause I can remember the year with vivid detail and I will probably forget if I don't get it down.

Do I have to share this publically online to my tumblr account for a bunch of strangers to see? not really.

Do I want to?

Yes. I think so. Just from how so many people on tumblr and real life have touched me.

This is kinda long and no one needs to read this.

(idk how to do a readmore on mobile. But this is where I would add it later. No one needs to read if they don't want to.)

January/February: (and some background on the last five years of my life cause.....well. it's important.)

As people knew, I got way into Invader Zim last summer. I spent most of my waking life working a dead end job at a grocery store. I lived a sad lonely life, going straight home to a single dark studio apartment. With not many material possessions outside of games, my laptop and my tablet to my name. Half of my material loves, such as home furnishings and books were still in boxes from when I moved in. In case I ever had to move again, or get some "big screenshot or copywriter" job in the city.

....

I lived in that city in the same dead end job and apartment for five years.

No friends. No social life. I often refused to make doctor appointments or attempt to establish myself in that city. I didn't even talk to anyone in my workplace.

Work. Go online. Go to sleep.

I lived like that for five years.

I thought it was good.

Even my therapist thought I was doing well.

When I really wasn't. My main character flaw I struggle with is motivation.

I can talk to someone about very detailed plans I have to fix a problem... But I tend to never follow through.

Just because I can describe in detail how to fix my personal problems, it doesn't mean I will do it.

(I have gotten better at this but it's a major struggle)

I might have been a Zombie during the day...

But by night I was pouring my soul into my AU and my analysis.

After being so thoughly ignored or overlooked by the Naruto fandom and the Undertale fandom, I felt like I had finally found my home and was settling into a community there.

I just loved that people loved what I had to say.

Especially my AU.

It's no secret that a lot of themes in my au revolve around found family, grief, and loss.......

Fatherhood, in particular.

What it means to be a father, how much do you need to try when you mess up, how willing should a child forgive their parent, especially those that have wronged you and how much of it is factually accurate and simply a self projection of what children want their parents to be and visa versa... What amount of forgiveness and change is nessasary...is it needed?

....

It's no secret that a lot of my AU is a giant coping mechanism for my Dad's death. Espessially the falling out and growing closer with a lot of my family members throughout the years following his death. (Most of the time I keep it ambiguous to how it relates to my personal life unless I include a readmore that states so outright. I feel my au can be enjoyed by a variety of people in the fandom who don't need to know me as a person or my life story.)

My Dad passed away in 2016 in February and my family still feels the aftershocks to this day.

It's part of the reason I moved to the city, alienated myself from my family and people that loved me and refused to experience life for five years.

My entire world was Zim, and I was okay.

March: When America finally realized and started to feel the effects of the pandemic....

A lot of people got scared.

Me included.

I didn't have any streaming services or access to the news. So I only heard accounts from my mom.

I didn't understand why the store was so dead quiet and empty for a few days, then it went into mass chaos and panic in the span of two days.

It felt like Retail black friday in the worst way. Everyone was packed like sardines. Everyone was yelling. The lines at the registers bled into the clothing department.

I was witness to customers shoving others for toilet paper, being rude to cashier's and just overall unpleasantness.

At the time, I didn't even fully grasp what the pandemic was, and I feel a lot of people at the time didn't either.

I ended up absentmindedly scratching my eyebrow in front of a customer and she screamed and villanised me for it. That they didn't want groceries touched by my "unclean hands"

I ended up breaking down into tears.

The customer behind me gave me a hug and told me I was doing a great job.

But the damage was done. It was the final straw, I couldn't stop crying and I was breaking apart.

Thankfully my Boss (the one who likes me) pulled me aside and asked what's wrong.

It was then that I quit. No notice. Same day. I had to get out of there.

I was planning to move to an apartment with my sister in the summer, but my Mom offered for me to move back in with her temperarily just so I can get out of the city and away from the pandemic.

So I did.

I got scared, broke my lease a month early and quit my job of five years that gave me nothing back.

He told me, "take care of yourself and your family, I won't keep you here, do what you need to do."

So I did.

April-June:

A very eventful few months.

My mom offered for me to live at her place, but for some reason she was acting like I would live there forever. That this wasn't a temporary arrangement, and that I didn't have an apartment set up already.

This was in large part to my sister, who had lived with my mom taking advantage of her for years.

Even though my sister and I were going to move in together, I was just never sure about it cause of how she never packed her stuff or made any effort to find a job.

My mom often acted like I was lazy and not searching and was treating me like... Well, an unruly teenager instead of a woman of 29 years. She acted like I was a failure for returning home when it was her idea in the first place.

I would have just been petrified in the city.

Like usual, I retreated to my au again.... And in the spring, something eventful happened.

In may, 8th 2020:

I was invited by @rissynicole to join an invader zim discord.

Now, I've never really used discord before. I always thought it's interface is too confusing.. and I'm a member of a few other iz discords and I usually don't follow them that closely.

Rissy assured me it was different cause some friends of thiers made it and it was smaller.

Before I knew it, I was sharing memes and getting to know everyone there.

It wasn't long after I invited my partner in IZ crimes, @paketdimensioncomic who was genuinely wary of iz servers due to a bad experience with the last one they were a part of.

But soon they were sharing memes and laughing with everyone else.

My eyes were starting to open and I was able to connect to fans of my work in an interpersonal way. And I was able to discover new artists and aus I never knew about.

I was also able to meet so many others of the community and invite them to the server myself.

The moo-ping 10 server kept me sane while I was living with my judgmental mother.

Not only that, the summer was very productive for my au.

Drawing was all I did, and it was a huge break from the job as a cashier I had.

Not only that, June came, and with it, me and Ceph's first collab fic:

A result of us just going back and forth in our DMs constantly about Professor Membrane and how he changed in ETF for the better and how much we adamantly stan "trying-to-be-a-good-dad-brane" and how much of his ETF development has to be implied off screen in order for the emotional resolution in the movie to matter.

The only reason I never professed my love for Membrane as a character in the fandom before the fic dropped was.... Well....

Membrane can be a decisive character in the fandom and I was so worried people would hate me if I did an analysis on him, simply because he's not the best parent in the world. (As an understatement)

Ceph and I really encouraged each other to scream our love for the science himbo loud and proud more frequently and so often.... I actually start to see less Membrane hate posts and breakdowns then their used to be.... I like to think it's a combination of Me and Ceph's influence, along with ETF and the Quarterly's painting Membrane in a slightly more nuanced light then he was previously.

I never wrote a collab fic before and it's such a rewarding and fun and unique experience that I don't think I'll ever have again. And I love working with Ceph on our fics so much.

So much so we did it again...

July-August:

I never thought I would be one of those people who writes NSFW IZ fic... But here I am.

The Brainbrane au started.... An au of my au where Membrane and the Computer fall in love and Membrane makes him a body.

This ship was based around the idea where we joked that Membrane and Zim's Computer would have funny interactions if they ever met, under the pretense Membrane thinks Computer is Zim's parent.

Our headcanons morphed and shifted until we just full blown started shipping them.

Just because Membrane and Zim's Computer have overall REALLY entertaining chemistry.

It's a character dynamic never seen in the show or comics (yet) and I imagine thier interactions to be nothing but entertaining banter.

The fic was also born from spite... Making fun of the troupes and cliches that we found personally destestible in some questionable zadr fics.

So an angry ace and a demi-bisexual collab on a porn and end up blessing the fandom with

Compapa headcanons,

Computer being recognized as a more common used fanon character,

The ship of Brainbrane.

The fandom having a crisis of "oh God, not only are we xenophiles we're technophiles too!!!" Or "why you gotta give Zim's Computer an ass"

More android Computer designs

It was an eventful summer.

In the midst of all this, I moved into my new place, got a new job, and I was able to see my friend (who is def my platonic straight soul mate) who lives in Indiana.

She came to visit, showed me how to decorate and how to take care of my body better! Things were looking up! It was great.

September-November:

My job was at a boat store. If was approaching the fall and my hours were being severely cut.

I was getting into a rut of depression again.

I thought things were changing but the same routine I was trying to escape from was the same thing coming back.

But instead of letting it take hold, I decided I was going to do something about it... I was gonna visit a museum and go with my sister. Just... variety stimulation.

Well that didn't happen.

I talked about this shortly in my au itself...but..

My sister had a complete mental breakdown.

She stopped taking her meds, went off the deep end and was in the hospital a total of five times throughout November.

A lot of it was acting out and the perfect storm of environmental factors that made her scream and act out so she would keep going back to the hospital.

It was traumatizing for me.

I just can't explain what it's like. For her and for me to be in that position.

I'm not telling the full story and a lot of bullshit things happened I won't share here.

She got diagnosed with bipolar one and my mom expected me to be a caretaker for her.

I threatened to disown my family and move away out of state.

It was just too much for me to handle.

So much I was a nervous wreck.

I tried to pick up a second job... Cause my sister was in the mental ward so frequently and couldn't pay the bills.

But I was fired within a week cause I was so stressed I couldn't retain the basic information they were training me for.

It was an office job.

My dream.

It could have been.

I was fired from something I really wanted.

I was only there for three days.

I could not retain any information.

I was a mess.

My sister was a trigger, my mom wanted me to live with her. I couldn't live like this.... I had to get out.

I had to get out.

December:

Remember my Indiana friend?

Well the first week of December is my birthday.

My 30th to be exact.

While I did pick up a seasonal position at Target (not my first pick)

I took the first week of December off so I could spend time with her. Cause she agreed, I needed a break from this crap.

Surviving 30 years is cause to celebrate and if I had to celebrate with my sister I would have cried.

I know there was a risk traveling out of state during a pandemic...

But I needed out, I needed a friend..

And I kinda wanted to look at the place since I was considering moving there.

My friend's mom was sick so she avoided me and her daughter and got us a hotel room.

It was fun! I got to swim in a salt water pool, we talked about Naruto, I showed her the iz and su art books I brought, also Computer and Membrane tea.

I also got to meet her other friends and get crunk. And her bf who is super nice and funny!

I had a super fun birthday....

Until her mom told my friend that her grandparents had covid and that was what she had. And my friend got sick within that same day.... As did I.

I owe so much to her family.

I was an entire state away...about a ten hour drive from home.... She let me stay at her house. "The covid house" we called it.

Cause everyone (except the father. He avoided everyone and booked a hotel immediately cus he was an ER doctor) had covid within a day.

I called in, the test results were positive and I had to stay with her family for ten days quarantine before I could work again.

Which would have been fine....

If my tumblr didn't log me out perminately of my old account. @dana-chan325 .... Which really sucked cause I had a constant headache and was too sick to engage with tumblr or much of the fandom. I didn't want to make a new account when my head was in a bad fog and I could barely breathe or smell.

It's not like I saw much of my friend either.... We all slept at different hours and she had more symptoms then I did.

It was just netflix, danganronpa v3 and cry.

I was miserable, but at the same time.... Not?

I really feel like God himself was the one who pulled me off from tumblr, and my living situation.

Maybe a whole extra week feeling like a bobblehead was what I needed.

It gave me some much needed clarity on my relationships with my mom and sis and friend.

Running away to Indiana was not the solution here.

Once I was better within ten days and no longer had a leave of absence, I drove home.

I am glad I fully recovered (but from how I understand it, my dear friend is still ill. I'm praying for her)

I might have gone to work a bit too soon, cause I had an asthma attack after trying to unload a single cart in the span of six hours.

My boss lectured that my speed was unacceptable, and even though I explained the covid situation and breathing problems many times, she threatened that I'd be fired if I'm that slow again.

Que the next few days of work where they put me on register.

Instantly I was sent into a panic remembering the last time I was on the register and how that panic attack caused me to quit.

I even asked if I could go back to stocking, since my breathing had improved. My boss assured me that I was put on the register cause they needed help and nothing to do with my covid thing.

Then as December concluded and the new year began, my boss said that this was the last shift for me cause my position was seasonal and they were letting a lot of people go.

I then asked why I was on the schedule for Sunday, and he told me to ignore it and I'm free to reapply for full-time.

I mean.... They can act smart about it...

But putting your general merchandise stocker onto register after she had an asthma attack and missed working the first two weeks of December due to covid.....

Not a good look.

So once again, I'm jobless once more.

Will probably continue to live with my sister for awhile.

But I do not feel as if it's a bad thing....

I met so many good people this year....

My friend's family even gave me 500 usd to cover my rent since I couldn't work for a majority of December.

I've seen evil and good from humanity this year. I've seen acts of god, good friends and what my real family means to me as well as friends I consider family.

This year really made me look back at the person in the mirror and say,

"I deserve better."

And actually worked for it this time.

Oh and after Christmas I got a horrible yeast infection that burns over most of my body currently.

Very accurate doodle to the pain I'm in right now.

(seriously my body is a fungus.)

But hey, good news, I respected myself enough to go to the doctor about it!!

So that's progress.

I really hope 2021 holds good things for me.

Thank you to the mooping 10 server for always being there and keeping me sane,

Thank you tumblr for liking my au and everything.

AND A SUPER SPECIAL THANK YOU TO @evartandadam and her family for housing me and my dumb diseased ass. Everyone, she is an angel and I can't express how much she means to me. Please check out her art and buy her stuff on redbubble.

Anyways... Byebye 2020.

I look forward to what I can accomplish for myself this year.

#danachan's posts #personal stuff #new year post #tw: covid #tw: yeast infection

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artworkbycrt · 4 years

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ZaDR Week Day 2 for @zadr-revival 's ZaDR week!!

I'm so excited to finally participate in an event like this. I always miss them! I missed the first Day for this one too, but I'm gonna try and do them all even if they're late

This one is more ZaDF, but it's a How To Train Your Alien Dragon AU lol

I thought since Dib is Mexican I would make him a Mayan warrior rather than a viking and make Zim totally responsible for all the potential alien-influenced architecture and what not in that time period.

Dragons and their bonds with people are a normal occurrence in this AU, but Dib sees this one and is like "Yeah, that's not a dragon." He's the only one who knows this one is a friggin' alien, no one believes him since he is the big headed boy who makes weird things (made his glasses).

This was too much fun to make though, I used it as an excuse to pull me out of some of my artistic comfort zones.

Happy zadr-revival week!!

#zadr #zadf

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hazbincalifornia · 3 years

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Mark my word Shadow, I will learn how to hack and commit federal crimes to beat and destroys these assholes destroying other peoples lives over fictional characters

I swear to god, being a Zadr shipper 'radicalized' me to just how little this shit matters just as much as being an english major whose professors fawned over short stories with extreme agegaps portrayed as romantic, or rape scenes, or necrophilia, or novels with incest, or extreme violence, or- you get the gist.

Anyway, some rando came on my Zim nsfw twitter (that only posts about the characters aged up past 18, for the record) a couple of months ago that said 'why do you feel comfortable getting off to children' and my response was 'you do realize I've retweeted necrophilia and gore porn on this account, right? I feel like we should start there for bad content' and they just fuckin... never responded. Because what is there to say? Clearly I'm an actual necrophile then? It's always about the sex, not the violence, because sex is icky and warps people's brains but everybody knows violence is bad in fiction so there's no point arguing that.

I've dealt with people calling me a pedophile before for porn I created when I was the same age as the characters. They moved the goalposts at every point I made about why they were wrong until they devolved to immaturely insulting me and just insisting that I admit they were right even though they had no ammo left.

None of these people care about actual children or victims. Many people who engage with 'problematic' fiction and porn are using it to cope with or recontextualize their own trauma- or simply understand that it's just fiction! I've seen people hurt so badly by this, that friend mentioned in the tags especially. It's easier than putting in the effort to hurt actual bad people, because the people you can take down are the ones who don't have power. You can't cancel Stephen King for his scene where a bunch of children have an orgy, but you sure can cancel Fan #94 for their icky well-tagged incest fic and feel like you've done something worthwhile.

I'll just end with a link to the trashed bathrooms thread about trying to feel powerful and one about how being an anti is going to ruin your experience in fandom, but know that I am both bubbling with fury for the people this has legitimately ruined the lives of and exhausted that it's still happening at all.

#asks #anonymous #discourse #I suppose

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intheticklecloset · 4 years

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Satisfied (Invader Zim)

Ironic that I really want to write for other fandoms but this is what my brain decided to come up with yesterday. Ah, well! After a long writing hiatus, I hope you enjoy this new Invader Zim fic!

Fandom: Invader Zim

Shipping: Mostly ZADF, some ZADR

“Zim?” Dib relaxed his hold on his pencil as he looked at the alien. “You okay?”

Zim shifted his position for what must have been the tenth time in the last few minutes, paused, then looked back at the human. He cleared his throat. “I am suddenly struck with a very strong desire to be tickled.”

Dib grinned. “Oh, really, now?” He set his homework aside entirely and began to crawl the short distance to where Zim sat with his own stack of math papers. “I can help with that.”

Zim barely had time to set aside his things before Dib was on him, digging fingers into his sides and forcing squeals of laughter from him as he fell back onto the floor. Dib quickly straddled him, still grinning, letting his fingers poke and prod and produce laugh after laugh from his not-quite-boyfriend. “Let’s see if we can’t cure this mood you’re in, Zim,” he teased. “Tickle, tickle, tickle~”

To his surprise, instead of protesting, Zim merely let the teasing work its magic on him, making him laugh even harder and squirm a little more, his blush a light blue and his smile radiant.

“Oh, what’s that?” Dib asked, moving up to the Irken’s ribs without any trouble. “No begging this time? You must reeeeally want to be tickle, tickle, tickled to hysterics, Zim!”

Zim said nothing in reply. He merely laughed and lifted his arms up slightly to make access easier for the human. Dib’s grin became a smile. Zim wanted to be tickled this much? Well, he’d make sure to make the experience a good one.

“All right, then,” Dib said, moving up to his underarms. “Here we go! Tickle, tickle, tickle!”

Zim’s laughter went up in pitch slightly and he kicked a leg, but never protested in the slightest. His blush was darkening by the second, but he never brought his arms down to stop Dib. He simply lay there and let himself be tickled and teased.

Dib was suddenly struck with an idea. He climbed off of Zim. “Roll over onto your stomach. I want to try a couple things.”

Zim did as he was asked, still smiling wide. Once settled, Dib straddled him again and began lightly tracing around the Irken’s Pak, which glowed as pink as his uniform had once been. Zim’s laughter became crazed, unstoppable giggles, and his squirming intensified. He clenched and unclenched his fists but never said a word.

“Ooh, ticklish here?” Dib teased, keeping up the gentle tracing. “Look how much you squirm! This must be really sensitive, huh?”

Zim whimpered, giggled, but never asked Dib to stop even though it was clear to the human that this was truly a “bad spot,” as Zim liked to call them. Finally the boy let up, instead skittering his fingers along the Irken’s lower back, observing with interest how his squirming stopped almost immediately, but his giggling never changed.

“Hmm,” Dib mused aloud. “I wonder what happens if I tickle your hips while you’re like this?” Then immediately he shot down to do just that, enjoying the sudden shriek of laughter it pulled from Zim, followed quickly by desperate attempts to bring his arms down. “Aha! Can’t push me off when you’re like this, now can you, Zim? How does it feel? Does it tickle?”

Zim whined and erupted into a new wave of laughter that somehow felt at once more genuine and more desperate than Dib usually heard from him on this spot. “Aw, what’s the matter? Is it too much? Does it just tickle sooooo much?”

The alien made a sound like he was starting to protest, but then cut himself off.

“What was that, Zim? I don’t think I quite caught that.” Dib reached under Zim to the front of his hips and dug in relentlessly, grinning wide when Zim’s laughter reached new heights. “Anything you’d like to say, Zim? Or should I just keep tickling you here mercilessly?”

Zim let out a desperate scream of laughter, then quickly fell back into hysterics, pounding the ground with a fist from the intensity of it. Or in an effort to keep from pleading; Dib wasn’t quite sure which. He laughed. “Wow! This is really, really ticklish for you, isn’t it? What are you gonna do, Zim? You can’t get away from me. I could keep tickling you like this alllll day!”

The Irken let out another strangled sound that sounded like he was trying not to speak, and Dib felt a rush of excitement. This was it. He had him. Zim was completely helpless; there was no way for him to get out of this situation. Dib couldn’t help but grin wickedly. “Aw, look how ticklish you are, Zim! You can’t get away from me at all!” He dug in even more, using his thumbs to knead into his lower back at the same time, and the Irken shrieked and flailed his arms desperately. “You know what, Zim? I think we’ve reached a golden opportunity here. I can make you do anything I want right now, and you’re in no position to refuse me.”

Hearing these words only seemed to make Zim more desperate. He squealed, tried to push himself up to roll over, but quickly lost the strength and went back to pounding the floor. Still – amazingly, Dib thought – he hadn’t begged for it to stop yet.

But he would.

“Let’s get this out of the way.” Dib lifted Zim’s shirt up with one hand while still tickling with the other, exposing the Irken’s green back and sides. It was all he needed to put his plan into action. “Only one thing will get me to stop tickling you senseless, Zim.” He readjusted himself so he could easily lean down while still maintaining the upper hand. “Let’s see if you can figure it out.”

With that, Dib resumed his relentless tickling of Zim’s hips while at the same time leaning down to blow raspberries along the alien’s sides.

Zim.

Lost.

His.

Mind.

In the past, the side raspberries alone had been enough to send him into hysterical laughter; they were one of the most ticklish things Zim had ever experienced. But those coupled with unstoppable tickling on his worst spot?

The Irken lasted about five seconds.

“Stop! Stop, stop, please!” Zim shrieked desperately, hysterically, trying everything he could to roll over and get the human off him. It was no use. He was pinned firmly, and Dib – as promised – was being relentless. “Please! Dib! I c-can’t--!” For a moment all he could do was laugh and laugh and laugh, the unceasing raspberries absolute ticklish torture on top of the hip tickling. In that moment, he knew exactly what Dib was trying to do. What it was that would make him stop. But despite his desperation, defiance flared up in him.

He’d made the human say it over and over, easily.

He would not be so easily dominated. If Dib wanted him to say it, he’d have to work for it first.

But that didn’t mean he couldn’t beg with other words in the meantime.

“Dib!” He squealed as another raspberry landed on his side. “Dib, please, it tickles too much!”

“Oh, you think this tickles?” Dib teased in a low, menacing voice that sent a shudder down Zim’s spine. He gasped, knowing exactly what was coming next and wishing he’d kept his mouth shut. Dib chuckled. “Tickle, tickle, tickle.” Raspberry. “Tiiiickle, tickle, tickle!” A slight shift of hands so he was now digging into the most sensitive spot on his hips.

Zim very nearly screamed with laughter.

“NOHOHOHOHO!!” He cried, his squirming becoming struggling as his hot spot was targeted. He wanted so badly to roll over and push Dib away but he was far too weak to do anything of the sort.

“Oh! What’s this?”

“SHUHUHUHUT UP!!”

“Is this a bad tickle spot?” Dib laughed at Zim’s desperate flailing, knowing with absolute certainty that this was it. He had him. It was just a matter of time now. “Ooh! Tickle, tickle, tickle!”

Zim felt like he was going to explode, he was in so much ticklish agony. He hadn’t even known it was possible to be tickled this intensely. But Dib’s fingers digging precisely into the most sensitive part of his body coupled with the unrelenting teasing and raspberries was pushing him very quickly to the brink of his endurance. He was reeling from how easy it had been for Dib to get him to this point, despite having been tickled by him several times in the past.

All it took was one tiny, secret spot.

“PLEHEHEHEHEASE!!” Zim screamed, mirthful tears coming to his eyes as he begged for mercy. “Dib, stop, please, it TIHIHIHIHIHICKLES!!”

“Oh, I don’t think so, Zim. Now that I’ve got you right where I—”

“AVOCADO!!”

Dib stopped suddenly, shocked into silence, frozen to the spot. He’d done it! Finally! He’d forced Zim to say their safe word, after all these months!

After a moment he regained his bearings and realized he was still straddling Zim, so he climbed off and sat next to the panting, gasping, giggling form beside him. Dib grinned, waiting for his now more-than-a-friend to recover.

A couple of minutes later, Zim’s gasping faded away, replaced instead with a slight shaking of his body as he finally rolled over onto his back and faced the human.

“Zim,” Dib asked for the second time that afternoon, “are you okay?”

“I will recover,” Zim said softly, still catching his breath. “Congratulations, Dib. You found my death spot and made me say our safe word.”

“Death spot?” Dib tilted his head. “Why did it take me so long to find it?”

Zim waved his hand tiredly. “I’ll tell you later.”

The human watched Zim with slight worry. “Was it too much? Did I go too far?”

Zim considered the question, then shuddered. “It was too much for me to handle. That is why I said ‘avocado.’ But you pushed no personal boundaries. I am not upset with you for making me give in.”

Dib relaxed a little. He leaned down so he was hovering over Zim, making the alien flinch. “No more,” Dib promised, smiling. “I just want to do this.” He kissed Zim gently and pulled away after only a moment, aware that the poor Irken was still trying to regain his bearings. That death spot must really be something, he thought to himself.

“So, is your ‘very strong desire to be tickled’ satisfied now?” he asked, smirking.

Zim laughed. “Yes, it is very satisfied, Dib.”

#tickling #ticklish #tickle #tickle fic #fanfiction #invader zim #satisfied #zadf #zadr

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warriorrazor · 4 years

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Invader Zim Space Explorers AU

(Hello! This is my Invader Zim AU that I’ve finally gathered enough confidence to post. This AU is very self indulgent and open ended, but maybe it’ll make some of y’all happy as well. I wish I knew sooner that there are similar AUs to this one, however I hope to make this AU as original as possible and really make it my own. Established ZaDf and maybe potential ZaDr? Anyway, let’s get on with it.)

The Summary:

After the whole Enter the Florpus fiasco... nothing much changes for a while. Dib and Zim continue to fight, Zim continues to try to take over the Earth... however, Zim is now unable to get in touch with the Tallest, possibly because they’re still in the dreaded Florpus hole. During this time, Dib over time is able to piece together that Zim is basically a reject from his own planet, and has been exiled under the guise that he’s been given the title of an invader. Zim figures this out soon after, but is in obvious denial of it.

After these realizations, Zim and Dib begin to fight less. In fact, they start talking a lot more. They sit together at lunch a lot. Dib’s attempts at exposing Zim lessen, as well as Zim’s nefarious plans to take over the Earth. Dib even sometimes invites Zim over to his house. After a few attempts, Zim accepts the invitation, much to Dib’s surprise. They often play video games together, Gaz even sometimes joins in. Dib and Zim have went cryptid hunting a few times. At one point, Zim allowed Dib to enter his base (after making sure Dib had no way to take pictures, of course.) GIR was overjoyed.

After they both graduate from high skool, Dib explains to Zim that he has no plans to go to college, much to his father’s dismay. He basically has no plans for the future, besides maybe becoming a cryptozoologist. Zim, in a sudden moment of faith, admits to Dib that he really has nowhere to go, and is in the same boat. That’s when they both agree to leave Earth and explore the depths of space.

The two of them have no one final destination in mind. They travel through different galaxies, making and meeting both friends and enemies along the way. To keep supplies fresh, they often stop at intelligent alien planets, and take different quests and missions (although this doesn’t always go well, Zim being an Irken and all). They’ve had some near death experiences, but have so far thankfully avoided death. Of course, they haven’t completely abandoned Earth. Once a month they’ll return to spend a day or two with Gaz at home, and check up on Zim’s base.

So... what about the Irken Empire? Well, that’s a big unknown right now. Zim can’t establish a connection with the tallest, and both Zim and Dib aren’t planning on paying Irk a visit anytime soon. They can only pick up clues that have been learned by other alien species. All they’ve heard so far is that the Irken Empire is currently having a moment of weakness, and that the Resisty has been becoming more powerful... perhaps Dib and Zim will discover more in the future.

What of Professor Membrane and Gaz? Well, Membrane has been trying to work on becoming a better father, but has been just as busy in his lab. He does his best to visit his kids whenever he (very rarely) has free time, and always tries to visit on major holidays. Gaz is pretty much in charge of the house now, though Membrane sends her money to keep the lights working and such. Gaz has now upgraded her Game Slave to even better consoles, and regularly competes in competitive video game competitions, where she usually absolutely decimates her opponents. When she’s not busy with a tournament, she’ll sometimes join Dib and Zim’s space adventures (albeit for a shorter amount of time).

*****

If you’ve made it all the way down here or even read a part of this, thank you so much! I would absolutely love to know what you think of it, or even how I could make it better. Literally any comments/questions/asks/additions are highly appreciated!

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Some additional details that vary in importance:

Zim is still technically loyal to the Irken Empire, and finds himself angered hearing about the Resisty. Dib, on the other hand, super doesn’t mind

Dib has a bit of a messiah complex, which was built from feeling like he was the only person that could protect Earth from Zim

Zim and Dib very often get into arguments and fights (that’ll never change) but they’re never apart for too long

Zim becomes a bit more emotionally literate

Zim sometimes even allows Dib to pilot the Voot... not for long, though

Dib is in his 20s

Dib has had a few life-threatening scuffles. Thanks to Irken medicine, he doesn’t have too many scars, however his most noticeable one would be a rather large skin graft on his left forearm. Zim has offered to reduce its appearance, however Dib feels it’s pretty badass

Do NOT separate them, unless you want a PAK leg through the skull

Zim has taught Dib a few words and some basic phrases in Irken, as well as some other common alien languages

Zim, mainly noticing that Dib is becoming older and his appearance is changing, has worried many times about Dib’s weak, fleshy human skin and his laughable lifespan. Perhaps... there could be something Zim could do about this...

#invader zim #invader zim au #invader zim zim #invader zim dib #invader zim gaz #invader zim space explorers #invader zim alternate universe #invader zim space explorers au #honestly not sure where im going with this au #but hey i guess thats part of the fun #if i actually go somewhere with this i might make a masterpost

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dingdongrumba · 4 years

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22 and 32!

22. Which of your ships have the best chemistry?

Oh no this question is so unfair sdkfjSDKFSDF of course I think all my ships have excellent chemistry hhhhHHHHH would it be a cop out answer if I said komahina? sdkfdjsSDKFJSDF

though you know what other ship has a really good chemistry (even though I don’t like it as much)? Sonia and Gundham, they just have something really good going on there lololol

32. Share five must-read fics.

FUCK, THIS QUESTION DSFKDJGDFK

Sadly I barely read fics anymore *sobs* but I do have some recs!!! I’m gonna include some from other fandoms as well so maybe if someone else is into them they can read those too lol

Fair warning this will all probably be explicit bc that’s all I ever read sdkgsjdDSFKJDS

1.- deadboy.tv by starsinew

ok, fuck, it was one of the first komahina fics I read and GOD ITS JUST HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT MADE ME GO SO FERAL YOU GUYS DON’T EVEN KNOW I SWEAR SDJFSDFDFK Just mind the tags bc its not a vanilla fic at all lmao

2.- Theoretical friction of lucky stars by starsinew (again lmao)

OKAY I JUST FINISHED THIS SO I MIGHT BE EXAGGERATING but GOD I loved this a lot. You know how to know if it’s good? when you’re reading mundane interaction between characters that aren’t even the ship of the fic AND YOU’RE ENJOYING THAT AS WELL. Like Hajime and Komaeda don’t fuck for most of the fic and you know what? I was having a blast anyway, and that? that is hard to pull off sdkfjdkgr

3.- a small favor, orphaned

this is an ouma/gonta fic and I’m putting it here solely bc hhhHHH size difference and gonta going feral hhhhhhhhHHHHHH

4.- Jealousy by LoopyLiesey

I love this fic SO MUCH mainly for two reasons 1) JEALOUS HAJIME IS MY LIFE and 2) the way the humiliation kink is handled is???? just amazing????? its so good oh my god

5.- Between friends by SilentAuror

This one is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Johnlock fic (John Watson x Sherlock Homes) featuring one of my favorite tropes ever: “uuhhh no homo bro” sdkfjdsSDKFJSDK basically John and Sherlock start doing some Not Very Bro things under the pretense of just “helping a friend out” and GOD I LOVE THAT If you’re into that definitely recommend 10000/10

6.- The interstellar series by CatlynGunn

OKAY HERE AN EXTRA ONE

This one is a ZADR fic (eeyyy any IZ fans around here?) and it’s my favorite one ever. This is a long read, since it’s actually a whole series and it amounts to 345k+ words dfgjdfgkfKDSFJD but if you like zadr I think it’s definitely a must read. It has a lot of really good OCs which???? is something I literally NEVER SAY???? and also an incredible plot???? and smut??? and even the things that have nothing to do with Zim and Dib are so interesting and that’s honestly so hard to pull off. trust me, when I say I DO NOT READ FICS WITH OCS I am very serious and this story still managed to become one of my favorite stories just like, in general, ever.

#hooo boy #komahina #sdr2 #nagito #hinata #fic rec #zadr #johnlock #Anonymous #answered

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defectivepak · 5 years

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The thing about ZaDr is that a large chunk of those who ship it do not ship a child Dib with Zim. Most of the people that do this are minors, think that Zim is a child, or both. The majority of ZaDr shippers use an adult Dib, usually in his twenties.

A lot of antis like to say “YOU SHOULDN’T BE THINKING ABOUT A CHILD CHARACTER IN THAT WAY!” but the thing is, no one is? People age. That’s... just a normal thing people do. That’s like saying “You can’t date that person because they were a child once, and that makes you a pedophile.” Many, many different forms of media will depict their normally child characters growing up, getting married, having children, and no one bats an eye about that. Because it’s not wrong. There is nothing different in imagining it yourself, instead.

Antis will reply to this argument with “Yeah, well Zim is so much older than Dib while he’s still a child!!” The thing about that, is when you’re dealing with characters of different fantasy races and species, especially those who age at different rates than humans do, you can’t use the same logic on these pairings. And no, I’m not talking about the “human that looks 8 but is actually 8000” thing that anime likes to do. I’m talking about an alien/fantasy beast that looks and acts like an adult.

Lets say, hypothetically, you’re watching a show/reading a book where an alien and a human meet, circumstances irrelevant. The human is 25 on Earth, an adult. The alien is 23 on their planet, but in Earth years, they’d be in the thousands. They’re both adults on their planets, and I doubt anyone would care at all, and there would be no discourse. However, this also means that while the human was a child, the alien was probably still an adult. Aging is different for the two parties. What if their ages were the same, the human being 25 Earth years, the alien being 23 of their own years, considered a mature adult, but the alien was only 9 Earth years? Would that still be considered wrong? Where do you draw the line in interspecies relationships in sci-fi/fantasy?

Take Steven Universe, as a popular example that most people can easily understand/relate to. In the show, there are two human + alien ships, one even going so far as to have a child together. The aliens are known to be thousands of years old, while the humans, though mature adults, are vastly younger. In reality, Rose would have still been an adult while Greg was a child, as with Pearl and Mystery Girl. Does that mean that these ships are pedophilic? What if we had seen Greg as a child in the show? What if Rose had met Greg as a child at some point in the show? Is that what makes it different? At what point in time the two meet?

The thing about that is, in regards to ZaDr, those who ship using adult versions of characters do not depict Zim having any feelings for the humans while they are children. 9 times out of 10, Zim shows no interest until they are the same age/around the same age as he would be on his own planet. (Using the same example as before, lets say Zim is 23 on IRK, hundreds/thousands of years on Earth, and he shows no interest in Dib until Dib is 25, considered an adult on his own planet, Earth). He’s not interested in a child. He shows no interest in a child. He’s showing interest in someone he once knew as a child, who has now grown up and is the same age/near the same age as he is. I see this as similar to two people knowing each other as children, and then going on to love one another once they’re grown. They weren’t attracted to one another while they were children, but once they had matured and learned, they start to see one another differently. Obviously that example isn’t spot-on, seeing as we’re dealing with a human and an alien who age at different rates, but there are similarities.

On top of all of this, antis like to cling to the tweet Jhonen made about Zim being an “old man”. Sure, you can take it how you wish, and say that this means he’s considered an old man in general, on both Earth and his own planet, but in reality, the tweet can be taken a variety of ways. Jhonen could easily be joking about how the year length difference between Earth and IRK makes Zim an “old man” because he’s hundreds of Earth years old. Knowing Jhonen, taking what he says, especially his tweets, as jokes is probably the best route to take. Of course, I can’t claim to know exacly what he meant, but neither can you. Not only that, but Jhonen is known for changing his mind, or straight up saying things in order to cause a stir in the IZ community. He thinks that it’s funny to watch as people quarrel among themselves trying to decipher exactly what his newest vague tweet meant for the lore of the show. Nothing in IZ lore has ever been 100% certain, and using a tweet to demonize and accuse innocent people on the internet is kind of an outlandish thing to do.

I’m not going to say that “fiction doesn’t effect reality”, because I believe that it does. I’m also not going to say that I like to see a child Dib being shipped with Zim, because of how vague things really are. However, I don’t believe that shipping fully consenting adult versions of characters is morally wrong, nor should shippers be attacked for doing so. As far as I’ve seen, antis are far more aggressive and cruel than the majority of ZaDr shippers, who usually just want to enjoy what they’ve made and share it with like-minded others.

There’s nothing wrong with feeling squicked about certain ships. If you dislike ZaDr yourself, but aren’t aggressive towards those who do/understand why others may like it/aren’t accusing shippers of being pedophiles/etc, this post isn’t about you. You have done nothing wrong and disliking something does not make you a bad person, just as liking something doesn’t. I feel that the entire “ZaDr Discourse” thing has gotten wildly out of hand, and a lot of antis are using their stance to act as if they hold the moral high ground. In reality, the situation would benefit greatly from an “agree to disagree”, at least. We’re all IZ fans, we’re all watching the same show. You’re not morally superior for having a “ZaDr Shippers DNI” banner on all of your posts.

#zadr discourse #discourse #zadr

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