Zim And Gir Have To Go Off World For A While. Important A-plot Business. Eats Up Quite A Few Days Of

Zim and Gir have to go off world for a while. Important A-plot business. Eats up quite a few days of Earth time.

Naturally, Dib notices their absence and takes this as the perfect opportunity to make another break-in attempt at Zim’s base. Gets past the gnomes with one of his magazine doohickeys or science gizmos. Stops cold in his tracks after landing in the living room. There’s a heavy, colorful fog lining the ceiling in ghostly wisps. A foul, akrid odor clings to the air.

Sitting on the couch, covered in cheesy crumbs, open bag of space-Doritos beside him, is Invader Skoodge. Dib has never heard of or seen Skoodge. The guy is open mouthed and staring blankly at the Monty Python sequence playing out on the TV screen. He doesn’t seem to notice the new presence until Dib gives a confused “Um….”

The line of drool that was threatening to reach Skoodge’s shirt retreats back into his mouth. He turns slowly and stares hard at the intruder for a second of focusing. “Oh…” He smiles and greets with a “hey guy” and a half-hearted wave, and then he sinks a bit deeper into the sofa with a complacent expression.

“Bloopin” is playing in the background during this whole thing.

Invaders are listed left to right, top to bottom

Specific Track Recommendations, IMO

The Marrows: Wolfstack Lights, Opening Screen Theme

Gale Cliffs: Storm Stone Salt, Hull is Other People

Stellar Basin: Harmonium Over Matter, Bethnic

Twisted Strand: Lowlands, Vox Zombius

Devil’s Spine: Infernal, Sultry, Khan’s Heart

Doing anything besides resting at night, especially on open water, especially at high panic: Dark Sailing, Fluke’s Fathoms

The Pale Reach: The Sea Does Not Forgive

Docking, general travel vibes: Hope is an Anchor, Undulata, The Surface, Submerigo Viol, Oceana Lonissima, Elagiac

Listening to Sunless Sea OST while you’re playing Dredge hits so different. Gettin absolutely lost in the brine tonight. Oh my god.

Frightsome realization brought to me by the beginning of the Planetjackers episode.

Zim’s telescope, all the way from Earth, mind you, couldn’t just search for and fix onto other known planets in the Empire’s range, couldn’t just find the base of the local irken spy, but was in fact able to lock onto the current, exact position of other invaders themselves.

Every single one of them is wired into a database to the point of being able to immediately check one’s encoded job and identity from a quick scan. Of course they’d have the technology and the foresight to have PAKs constantly log and update intergalactic GPS data to their fleet databanks. That’s how Sizz Lorr dropped in on Zim at the Skool. That’s how the guards black-bagged him in order to bring him to Judgementia for his trial. Hell, it probably might even be part of how Tak found him.

Every irken invader, if not every Irken soldier, can be tracked and observed at any time by the empire. Some form of cracking this network may even be the method through which Zim obsessively checks in on the Tallests and where The Massive’s been lately.

But more worryingly, for Irkens at least, this would mean that permanently deserting and evading the empire is effectively impossible so long as there exists some Irken authority willing to put in the effort to chase you down. There is no corner of the universe where their criminals could find a lasting peace of mind. It also adds some more potential context behind their ubiquitous loyalty to their leadership, or why to Zim’s perception, there is no third option after success or being as good as a dead man.

The more and more the show reminds me about Irkens’ fixation on snacks and bottomless appetites the more grateful I feel that they were not designed as a carnivorous species.

Frosty puppy deserves a tasty little treat every now and then

Awww he gives hugs too

So excited to see me home :))

my new weird dog :]