Mak @artist-assassin04 - Tumblr Blog

stuck-in-jelly

Never change who you are Hispanic Girl in love with the Fantastical and Terrific

doodlesfromjupiter

My latest obsession

Please look at my drawing I'm actually so proud of it

(Also if any of u could like it in my other socials thatd be great I'm stuggling to get more people to see my art 🥺

aweshua

its kinda sorta really funny to me that people act like zadr is a sin against humanity because Jhonen Vasquez decided that zim was a billion smillion years old for some reason. Like you don't have to agree with everything he says just because he made something furreaking epic and awesome. Just because I liked JTHM does not mean i have to agree with the worldview he expresses in it. As far as I can tell, Vasquez seems to value author intent over audience interpretation, which I don't agree with. To me, if i watch the show and interpret Zim as a child, that means Vasquez failed to convey otherwise within the show (I shouldn't have to go outside of a show to learn necessary context for it). Of course author intent can help guide how we see a character, but if their actual characterization is not in line with how the author views them, then the audience shouldn't be obligated to throw away their own interpretation. I feel that thinking that way ignores that a large part of storytelling is allowing an audience to come to their own conclusions; a creator's role is more or less to give them waypoints. What Vasquez does is like leaving a trail unmarked, and then chastising us when we don't walk it. I don't think it's at all weird that people see Zim as a child. If it looks like a child and acts like a child, people aren't stupid for treating it like a child. Oh and also, the Irken Empire having child soldiers is way funnier. That was my real reason for writing this.