Every Time I Think About How Lard Nar Actually Looks Without The Googles I Get Into A Stupid Giggle Fit

Every time I think about how Lard Nar actually looks without the googles I get into a stupid giggle fit it’s just so ridiculous and I really wish there was more fan content about it

All I could think about after that third visit

Can I just say My Singing Monsters was absolutely cooking when they came up with Magical Nexus cause I’ve only gotten like 9 critters on this island so far, and it’s like warm honey to my ears

#Not even sure she’s defective like a lot seem to think

That’s the other thing adjacent to one of the hills I’ve made my mission to die on. “Defective” in this context actually doesn’t mean anything concrete. An Irken is effectively defective only if the Tallest and the Control brains decide to say they are defective. I’m sure the most upset Tak ever brought their society was her failure in ridding them of Zim, which, is a boat she shares with many other upstanding Irkens and allies. Sure, she fled her station on Dirt, but the empire’s leadership clearly has about half a dozen more important things to care about. Even at Zim’s trial, escaping Foodcourtia twice wasn’t something brought up as relevant to the question of his verdict.

Two things about Tak this fandom keeps forgetting:

1. She’s officially not an invader

2. As far as Irken morality goes she literally did nothing wrong

Rainworld 5 Pebbles animation but it’s that Smiling Friends scene of Charlie punching that one demon (Jeremy) in Hell.

Too late. I’m already storyboarding it.

Additional things I haven’t yet stopped thinking about in regards to this idea:

• @patchworkpoltergeist brought up the subject of possession vulnerability which, fuck yeah, that’s a rad trail someone can walk down if they’d like to. Sounds kinda reverse-Zib if you ask me but I kinda like it. Also, knee-slappingly appropriate username there.

@zombified-queer : I don’t think Irkens have any sort of of spirituality beyond the machine

• The fact that I can’t agree more. The “Day of Da Spookies” transcript very straight forwardly confirms that Zim sees the majority of Dib’s paranormal other beliefs as complete hogwash the same as the classmates. Sure, he’s fought a ham demon and seen Mortos before, but he doesn’t buy hauntings. Him and Skoodge both set out on a whole mission to try and destroy Dib’s belief in ghosts and demonstrate pretty well that they’ve only done a very small amount of what might be called research on the subject. I heavily doubt Irkens widely have any conception of afterlife that is not an ascension/reincarnation path through technology rather than an innate spiritual essence. Something like the Martians’ hologram manuals are about as close to talking to disembodied spirits as he’s ever gotten. Which…. Brings up some interesting springboard to ponder if/how humans can become ghosts but not the off-worlders, or more specifically, the question about the existence of Irken souls.

• All of us knowing that at least for the first several minutes to days, Zim’s initial response to new obstacles/threats has often been obstinate aggression or basically a paranoid breakdown, and how fun either option would be to play around with until he comes to terms with the fact that this is not a problem you can just violence away, fend off, OR hide from.

• The horribly dark comedic value of picturing that damn apparition in some corner of the base giving the stink eye of the century intentionally from Zim’s periphery. End of his rope and frustrated Zim asks him if he doesn’t have something better to be doing and, no, actually, no. He genuinely, literally, furiously doesn’t.

You know even if Zim ever gets a lucky shot and actually kills Dib legit dead, I don’t think it’s gonna feel like much of a victory for him if it turns out the kid was right all along about the existence of ghosts

I’m not sure if Invaders have any solutions on hand for vengeful obsessive hauntings