Yesterday I got a fever because I got food poisoning, but I didn't want to stay in bed so I did this practice with Dib and Gir!! Animating with a fever wasn't my best idea... djdk anyway, seeing it finished reminded me that once I asked for feedback for my animation reel and someone told me that I should exaggerate the poses more, and that anonymous person was so right because my poses are really weak!!!!
I had to share with the class but I just noticed that fucking scene when Zim and Dib meet is the same as when Bella and Edward meet 😭😭. Look at this shit y'all. I'm not wrong, you can't tell me I'm wrong.
While I highly doubt this was ever intentional by the show’s creators - the Membrane family members really all map so well into a demonstration of, like, how conditional Autistic acceptance in mainstream society can be and how even other folks on the spectrum can beat down on other Autistic folks considered less ‘acceptable’.
Because with Professor Membrane's single-minded life-long obsession with science and his absolute fumble in any sort of meaningful emotional interactions
It’s very easy to read him as autistic. But he’s ‘one of the Useful Ones’. His scientific Special Interests and workaholism are directly beneficial to society. And thus, despite him being obviously odd by IZ!earth standards, he became a beloved and admired public figure.
Meanwhile, Gaz’s special interest - video games - is not one that makes her more productive or a ‘useful asset’. But loving video games is still considered close enough to normal that, while she seems to be somewhat of an Outsider to her peers, it doesn’t seem that she’s Actively Bullied.
And then there’s Dib. The one who’s special interest is not socially acceptable and makes him seem ‘weird’ and ‘creepy’. And plus, while Gaz’s coded-Autism-symptoms mostly seem to make her kind of an antisocial loner, Dib’s manifest in a way that is a lot more actively ‘obnoxious’ to others. All of these aspects make him more of an active target of bullying and social ostracization - and even his weird autistic sister and weird autistic father try to push him into being more ‘Normal’.