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There isn’t en0ugh fanart 0f Dib and Gaz hanging 0ut and being siblings, s0 I drew them having a game night.
I drew actualagentmothman (aka Dib) because I love that blog so much 👽 Dib your hair is great Go check it out and zimhuman as well Such quality aaa
I like the idea that eventually, without admitting to it, Zim and Dib kinda stop trying so hard on their missions and start sticking together in a sort of ambiguous, protective friendship. They’re the best freaks. It was probably one of their freakishly deformed classmates saying that anyway.
Nerd boy staring viciously at the stars. I love Dib's (slightly) new design tho!! I had to draw it.
invader zim but make it a dating sims lol
This is so damn cute! (And so well animated! Animating is so hard.)
two idiots first time holding hands :3
The Last Irken Chapter 6: part three
Please click the images to read! Click here for Chapter 1: Part 1 Click here for Chapter 6: Part 1 Click here for Chapter 6: Part 2 And click here for TLIAU’s chapter archive
We made it! 🙏 Little bit of a time skip at the end, but they made it home safely. This is the first time Zim has woken from a nightmare and someone’s actually beside him. Maybe he can finally rest… 🥺 [The last two pages are meant to be a call back to the end of ch 3 btw]
Just a reminder there will be a short break between ch 6 and 7. I’ll be taking August to sketch the rest of the series and to do a lot of the prep work (panels, speech bubbles, text etc) so I don’t have to worry about that when the time comes. I intend to begin ch 7 around September, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be around. I’ll definitely be posting new doodles and illustrations too! That’s something I’ve really neglected this year.
And if you’re curious, we’re at 149 pages so far!
Thank you for the support! 👽❤️👻
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They say love can break the proudest of spirits
I find it absolutely hilarious that, at my therapy place, there is a sketchbook to doodle in. I doodled some (pretty bad) IZ doodles in it and SOMEONE STOLE IT! Why??? Out of all the pages to steal, you stole THAT?
You stole THIS?
WHY?!
Huh?
I’m still elated over the fact that someone complimented… that… Person, whoever you are, I love you. 💕
This was such a fun stream. Banger music. It’s so cool watching people grow as artists. It’s inspiring.
I love how annoyed Dib is and how full of himself Zim is. It’s so in character. Keep up the amazing work, Bam.
I did an IZ redraw for a doodle I made back in 2019 (which I’m pretty certain was the first doodle I made for my IZ series)
I don’t quite like how the final product came out but alas
This is the funniest thing to me.
i fukcing hate this show
Man, this show/movie was brilliant, as is this analysis.
How Dib “inspired” Zim in ETF or How Zim Learns the concept of Family in a negative way
“My schmoop was no act. I truely felt I had failed the Tallest, but then, you told me about the power of the bracelet, inspiring me. It’s funny, really.”
I wanted to talk about this for a long, long, long, time because it’s my favorite scene ever in Enter the Florpus, but I didn’t know if I wanted to make a comic about it specifically or not. (like I probably will but.. with far more emotion….)
But like… screw it. Because it’s just my favorite thing in the whole Movie and I rewatch it so frequently I could probably lipsync it when I show it to my friends.
I might just be stating the blatantly obvious here, but I really did miss it my first viewing, and I wonder if a lot of others did too? I said I had theories in a bucket for how Dib “inspired” Zim… and if it wasn’t all that obvious to everyone else, I thought I’d share.
“I lost the respect of my Tallest”
I’ve talked at great length about Dib sympathizing with Zim here. He feels almost bad for this alien he’s been hunting for most of his childhood. Like Dib has been uncomfortable the moment he walked in the door and was just trying to ignore the obvious about Zim. Because Zim is his greatest enemy and alien scum. He can’t really be…. sad… because that means Dib needs to admit all the tormenting he put him through in the series and humanize him in a way. It visibly makes him uncomfortable, and Dib does have a moment of weakness expressing empathy for Zim.
Like he was happy to win, once and for all… but it’s not really at all how he imagined. (we saw his imagination play out in the glorious anime intro)
You know, my dad, doesn’t respect what I do either
Dib is relating his situation to Zim’s and it’s the only time one acknowledges that they are actually pretty similar. He even uses the same exact word of… “Respect.”
He is directly comparing HIS DAD to ZIM’S TALLEST
This is the best and worst thing Dib has ever done.
Because Zim didn’t really understand what Dib’s Dad means to him.
He even labeled the clone (Clembrane) “Dib’s Master” in the tank. And pronounces the word like “DAAAUAAAHHHDDD” and just thinks his job is ground him forever and make him pudding (food?).. because he doesn’t know what it means. (Even in Future Dib when he was imitating Dib he called Dib’s Dad “Membrane” because he was just unfamiliar that Dib refers to Membrane as “Dad” )
Zim does not know what Membrane means to Dib at all.
So when Dib expresses empathy for Zim’s situation, that his leaders aren’t coming and don’t respect him, and relates that to his own family situation…..Zim just doesn’t ignore that sentiment.
“He thinks I’m crazy like the rest of the world, the world I just saved without anyone even knowing”
Zim listens.
I am for certain the zoom-in on the bracelet is meant to foreshadow future events, but I do not think Zim has the mind to betray Dib at this moment.
Dib compared his Dad to his Tallest and things are starting to click for Zim!
No wonder Dib was trying to stop him at every turn, annoy him and consistently ruin his plans. HE WAS TRYING TO GAIN THE RESPECT OF HIS TALLEST TOO!!!
Membrane is Dib’s Tallest.
Zim knows that he is defective and his leaders think him as crazy. Zim already knows all these things about himself which is why he tries so hard, and because Dib compared that situation he is beginning to understand why Dib tries so hard as well.
Which is why Zim even bothers to kidnap Membrane and lock him in prison in the first place:
“If you’re so worried about the Florpus, just get your DAD to help!”
He knows what his Dad means to Dib now, and uses that as a huge gloating point over him. (The way he instantly broke into Dib’s house to gloat about his plan. After his schmoop he is SUPER SUPER proud about this one and wants Dib to acknowledge what he did was truly amazing) He is doing exactly what he imagines what a “no-win” scenario is like, and for him, it’s a scenario where Dib takes away his Tallest and locks them up somewhere. Because he figures without Dib’s Tallest, Dib won’t try as hard to stop him, because there is no Tallest to gain the approval of. (and that is so sad)
And who knows what would have really happened…
If Dib didn’t decide to completely repress his feelings of empathy towards Zim in favor of approval and recognition from the whole world and his Dad. Hoping to completely take advantage of Zim’s mental state to actually show the world that he won. Because Dib was upset that he did save the world, without anyone knowing. Dad’s keynote is the place for him to show the world what he did and have his Dad look at him as not crazy. (I still stand by this is one of the most awful things Dib has done. Understandable, yes. But terrible.)
He reached a hand for empathy out at Zim, and Zim doesn’t think it was EVER sincere, because Dib follows his sincere sentiment with completely selfish motivations.
Which makes this moment:
Make way more sense. Dib’s complement isn’t sincere, because his empathy wasn’t sincere. Zim pretty much had to betray Dib if he were to not die. Dib really put Zim in a pretty bad unwinnable situation. Zim just can’t believe the hand of empathy Dib reaches out to him was ever genuine at all. Even for a brief moment, because why would it be. Of course, Dib would just use him to expose him.
But I’m getting ahead of myself….. what…. exactly about Dib’s speech triggered Zim’s “inspiration”
“The keynote! Dad’s announcing the new Membracelet tomorrow! The whole world will be watching!”
“If I could somehow take control of Dad’s Keynote Stream….”
“…I could expose a real alien, you, Live in front of the entire planet!”
“I believe you, Dib. I’m sorry I ever doubted you.”
The parallels to Zim’s plan and Dib’s speech are for more evident then you could ever imagine.
And it makes way more sense that when Membrane gets involved in killing off GIR’s robot brothers (and Maria) That this line is really the one I think about way too much:
“DESTROY THE MEMBRANE FAMILY”
Not just Dib. His whole family. He acknowledges them as a unit and a team. Saw how Membrane had Dib’s back through the thick of it all. GIR is terrible, Mini-moose ended up working with the enemy, Clembrane’s programing for wanting to be “Dib’s Dad” overrides orders from his Master, He had to FORCE his Tallest to come to Earth (again) He sees Dib’s whole entire family as a not only a threat to his mission but angers him in ways he can’t understand or describe. The Tallest would never work with him and have his back in the way that Dib’s Tallest does.
Zim’s desperate need to be acknowledged by the Tallest in the same way that Dib’s Dad does for him is…. heartbreaking.
Not only that but for Dib to acknowledge him but have his family acknowledge him too.
Because the Membrane family is closer than ever before and it’s all Zim’s fault.
And I really mean that. Every single part of the Membrane family becoming “better” is a direct result of Zim tampering like the hurricane he is.
Membrane spending more of an effort to come home for mealtimes and request that Gaz be “more patient” with her brother is because of a direct result of Dib’s obsession with Zim. Witch only intensified due to phase one of Zim’s plan.
Membrane having Dib’s back throughout the majority of the Florpus climax, and I think realizing that he was “wrong” in some of the ways that he has treated Dib in the past and how he’s handling it currently.
Zim’s Florpus really gave Membrane full freedom to express things that he felt afraid to say or just didn’t really know how to convey properly.
Zim’s Florpus really gave him the freedom he needed to get things off his chest he’s been wanting to say to Dib for awhile. Considering how he told Gaz that giving up the paranormal would be like giving up videogames. He does know on some level of what it means to his son, even if he thinks it’s nonsense. (I might talk about that on its own… but Membrane can be a controversial topic in this fandom.)
But every little facet of the Membrane Family development, Gaz and Dib, Membrane and Dib, it is just all Zim’s fault that they become closer than ever before, as shown in the shot when Dib is at the dinner table.
TLDR:
SOMEONE HELP THIS MISERABLE SPACE GOBLIN!
Doodle request— Sad bug being comforted by Dib?
Cuddling make him feel better
yis but not on this account D’:
reblog if you were on 2019 invader zim tumblr i wanna test something
HAPPY ZIM HAPPY ZIM
For some reason, Zim reminds me of Stitch from Lilo and Stitch)
Yes!!! I love Lilo and Stitch!!! They are so cute ❤️❤️
Zim is like Stitch, smol and smashing everything he sees haha
THIS IS SO BADASS LOOK AT IT
Hi hello.
So I really really like @bamsara's Invader Zim fic series "Galaxy Days" and being an animator gives me too much power. So I was like "hey what would the intro title sequence to the first part look like as a cartoon lol"
And then I made this.
I would have gotten it done sooner if I was doing 50 things at once and got a new job. But not even my tablet fritzing out on me today was gonna stop me finally finishing it.
There's stuff I could have done better but this is the way that I did it.
I really like your writing a whole lot, Sara. jsyk.
I found really old Invader Zim fanart I did 😭
I hate this lmao
finally a way to take down Invader Zim
NOOOO AHAHAHAHA
Yeah your little foreign friend isn’t invited to the yearly dinners anymore Dib
I’m gonna make a fanfic don’t test me
Season 2 of the Food Service Drone AU
Zim gets fired from h00ters and finds a new job.
Season 1 under the cut:
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YAYYYYY! I’M SO PUMPED!
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sketch dump! i think i added too many tags :3
A kid with glasses
The Video Facial Discussion
Dib sat in front of his computer. He checked the time again, 3:37 PM, or 15:37 as they insisted upon measuring it. Honestly Dib actually did kind of prefer using military time as a system of measurement. It did result in notably less confusion than the standard everyone else went by. It helped to further reduce confusion when you worked the same hours that Dib did. In fact over the past week, Dib had spent arguably just as much time awake at night, as he did during the day, perhaps even more. He felt close to a breakthrough, though he wasn’t exactly sure on what. Regardless the time had come for another one of his progress reports, or “Verifiable Factual Debriefings” as they insisted upon calling it. Honestly he never quite understood all of the insistance of this repetition of these acronyms. Everywhere he seemed to look it was “VFD” this, “VFD” that. If they could figure out some way of phrasing it as a VFD they did. He honestly didn’t understand why they couldn’t just call it a video-conference or something. If anything, at this point the insistence on the VFD was more debilitating than anything else.
Regardless of his thoughts on their over reliance of the same acronym, they were due to call him in exactly 5 minutes. He wasn’t to get on the frequency earlier than 15:42. Well in 3 minutes now. He supposed that time could really get ahead of him when he wasn’t thinking about it. In fact it seemed like 2011 had just been a bust year for him. Dib hadn’t unrooted anything major conspiracy-wise, He hadn’t tracked down anything supernatural that was out of place or dangerous, and he hadn’t unveiled any secret plots by their enemies or even found any of their hiding allies. All in all, 2011 had been quite the terrible year for Dib. He still was no closer to unraveling the murders of the early 2000′s, or even finding out what happened to Zim.
He checked the time again, 15:41. He supposed he didn’t really have much time left to wonder about where Zim went uninterrupted. It wouldn’t be long before he had to get on the channel to discuss his progress with his superiors. And it was 15:42 right now, and just like that as he joined the channel the entire group of his superiors, all six of them appeared onscreen. Except that they didn’t really. All he could see, just like always, was their faces covered entirely in shadow. It was never any different.
“Agent Mothman. What is your status?”
It was technically the lead in rank asking him. He was always the first to ask, and it was always this exact same question. Dib knew best that he had to respond. “I haven’t found anything particularly new, revealing, or dangerous during my work here.”
Another voice spoke up,“Jeez then what did you even find Dib?”
This voice Dib actually recognized as his own sister Gaz’s voice. He could see her silhouette on his screen as well. It’d been a while since they’d been together in person, Dib wanted to say about 7 years or so, and her hairstyle hadn’t changed much in that time. “Like you’re one to talk Gaz. I’ve never seen you pull your attention away from a videogame long enough to make your own discovery.”
“Mothman. These attacks against your sister aren’t appreciated. You know exactly why she isn’t assigned to fieldwork like you are.”
Did mulled this over, it was about the 15th time they’d told him this in this year alone. Gaz was found unsuitable for fieldwork because she simply didn’t care enough to be out in the field in the first place. Instead they sorted her into the higher ranks with the idea that she’d be better in those positions because she wouldn’t have to actually do much. Then if anyone tried to pull her away from what she was doing, then she’d show them her scary side. He supposed this tactic worked well though.
“Mothman. Why are you even still out there?”
This came from the third voice, yet another man’s. Dib didn’t particularly like this man. In fact of his six supervisors, Dib only particularly like two of them, and they’d been rather quiet this time. Dib would have to admit though, he did know them best of all his supervisors, excluding his sister, though that relationship wasn’t exactly a good one. Gaz only really tolerated his existence at best. Those two however, in fact funnily enough they were married as well, he felt were they only people above him who respected him. In addition, they were pretty much some of the only surviving members from when he originally joined who hadn’t gone crazy, missing, evil, dead, or all four. Though his current leader was technically one of those.
“I’m on to something big here. Just give me a little bit more time.”
There was an audible sigh from the fourth voice, one of the supervisors he actually liked. “Dib, you’ve been searching here for the past 8 months. What really makes you think that this ninth month will be so much better?”
“It’s got to be, I can feel just how close I am to this one.”
It was time for her husband to speak up this time, “Look Dib, in all honesty it’s been really quiet here for a long time. We haven’t had any major incidents since” ----sssshcckck
At this point Dib’s screen went to static, and after fiddling around with the machinery for a bit he got the signal back. At this point most of the members just nodded at his return, assuming he more or less understood where the conversation had been going. Dib then held up a small rectangular box with a black screen and held it in view of the camera. “Why don’t we use these anymore? They are way more reliable than using the internet, and they’re more secure as well.”
It was the first guy again this time: “Agent Mothman, we no longer use the Farnsworth devices since the understanding of them was lost. Without agents able to replicate them, we can’t use them unless all members were able to have access to one. Since only a limited number of them were ever produced, as well as the fact that several of them have fallen into enemy hands as well, just serves to make them highly impractical overall.”
“Well Mothman. Do you actually have anything important to tell us or has this entire checkup been a waste of our time?”
It was the sixth of his superiors. Dib hated this one almost as much as he hated the first one. He never had anything nice to say to him, though none of them really did excluding the couple, and he always said it in such a cruel tone too.
“You guys were the one to assign me this checkup in the first place you know. And no, I haven’t found anything important enough to report back either.”
It was the same man who replied this time: “Well then Agent Mothman this call is over. And there won’t be anymore in the future unless we decide that we actually have a use for an agent as useless as you, because from this point on, your on your own.”
With that there were four clicks and everyone except the couple hung up on him. “What, Wait! You guys can’t just leave me like this! Man, I really hate that guy.”
Another sigh from the woman and then she spoke up: “Dib you know you can’t say that about your superiors.”
“I know, but he can really be such a jerk sometimes.”
It was the man this time: “Dib you can’t let him bother you. You have to be a professional agent. They debated just outright calling you back in and leaving you as a teacher of the new recruits.”
“I’m trying the best I can! You know exactly how powerful our enemies are and just how good they are at hiding. We wouldn’t even have the membership problems that we do have if they weren’t this good!”
“Dib what did I just say about being professional. I know that you’re a new agent, and me and my wife have been plenty patient with you and your progress. Unfortunately the council has not been, and you’re lucky that we managed to convince them to just let you go off on your own. And that wasn’t an easy argument to win either. Consider your freedom from the council, as well as your new freedom to investigate this as you see fit an early Christmas gift from us.”
“But I don’t have access to any of our equipment or resources anymore. Who am I even supposed to contact in the event I actually discover anything!?”
It was the woman who answered him this time. “Us. You know exactly how to contact us, in addition to where we live. If you find anything that you think needs to be reported, then call us.”
“Thank you. Are your kids going to get involved with the organization anytime soon?”
The two answered together with a firm “No.”
“I don’t mean to be rude, I’m just saying that I wasn’t much older than your kids are now when I first started in VFD. And they are going to join eventually. It’s kind of fate at this point to join VFD. I mean they could join alongside you guys now, it’d be more or less the best experience they could get.”
The woman sighed again before she answered. “Look Dib, I get that Dipper and Mabel are old enough to join, and we really do want them to. We just want them to do that when they are ready to join. We don’t want to just rush them right into. Anyways we have to go now. Bye Dib.”
With that the conference ended with a final click. Well he’d just been fired, and he was left with only two real contacts left. He couldn’t even call his sister since she insisted he didn’t know her number, since after all “Being your supervisor is bad enough already Dib.”
Since he no longer worked for VFD truly he didn’t have to worry about any of their restrictions they’d given him impede him. Without these restrictions he could finally go where all of his investigations seemed to point him. “Well it looks like I’m headed to Gravity Falls, Oregon now.”
Omht xdt fv jsh ytrm hojxhn, fqjykzw gjtu juhix.
My dtiys entry for @greenspace.ants on Instagram
It was a pleasure to do this for her, she was super nice!!
Here's the original
Enemies to lovers? Nah enemies AND lovers
doenst have a canon age btw so dont freak out (and yes evan the 160 age. It isnt canon it was fake) 😐