heya, folks!! my name is DAMIEN (he/they), i’m 23 yrs old, && i have abt 7+ yrs of rp experience. this is a semi-selective, independent && literate ZIM rp blog from the nickelodeon series && comics, “INVADER ZIM”. i don’t have access to a laptop atm so i can’t add pages / rules / info but here are some basic ground rules for the time being (&& pls feel free to ask abt anything else, explanations, etc.!);
no godmodding, bullying, harassment, etc.
i will only interact / rp with other rp blogs, hubs, etc. personals will be blocked.
i will soon be a college senior so that, along my own personal stressors and issues, will make me pretty slow to respond tbh. v sorry in advance.
length of replies / starters / etc. will vary depending on what the thread requires or what im feeling at the time. you have no requirement whatsoever to match my length (sometimes i get overly excited) or to shorten your response to mine. just do whatever feels right! however, if you provide me with insufficient information to make the rp feel fun && engaging, i have the right to drop threads.
i am multiverse, crossover && oc friendly, provided you have sufficient information abt your oc so i can best understand how to interact w/ them.
pls reblog from from the source. i am not a meme page.
i’ve loved this stupid little space bug since i was like 9 yrs old so im rlly excited to write him (again) && just have fun! i hope to talk to you all soon, have fun out there!!
@dibbthing ; shakes fist!! "GET OFF MY LAWN!" squirms with himself before taking off a shoe to throw at his head.
the CACKLING laughter erupts from deep within his chest, a clawed finger outstretched to point humorously at his arch enemy, the big-headed human of many annoyances.
“just TRY to get me off of your dirty little lawn, dib-stink! invaders fear nothing, & i — ARGH.” the shoe assaulting his head sends him stumbling backwards. he rubs grumpily at the spot above his brow. zim growls towards the other & oh boy, if he had nostrils, they’d be FLARING.
“you think a measly piece of human FOOTWEAR can stop ZIM?? here i am, human! on your LAWN of LAWNS! whatcha gonna DO about it, huh? huh? huh?”
sorry for the low activity. my mental health is at an all time low. this summer has been hard, but going back to school — well , im still just really struggling. stay safe and take care out there , everyone <3
@ebcnylead ; “Now darling I’m leaving for homeworld. Is there anything you need before I’m gone?”
“ leaving ? you are LEAVING zim ?? what could those other rocks POSSIBLY need from you that would require you leave ? if they require your presence, they can contact you through a direct transmission. ” if anyone were to insinuate to zim that it sounded as if he would MISS the gem, he would laugh in their face. however …….
“ besides, they don’t appreciate you, nor recognize your true POWER on that … HOMEWORLD of yours. no, zim believes it would be in your best interest if you were to remain HERE. ”
i don’t have many followers &&. im sick but y’all wanna give this a like for a short starter sent ur way???? quality will be of varying degrees im sure asksjsjsks but ur boy could use a z.im centered distraction u_u
@ebcnylead ; “Now how do we ask for things sweetie?”
“ zim will ‘ASK’ for NOTHING !! i get what is rightfully deserved by DEMANDING for them, as all great leaders do. ” he’s crossing his small arms over his chest DEFIANTLY. he knows what the other is truly asking of him, but as of right now, he refuses to give her the answer she DESIRES.
also v sorry for like…… no ic activity !! c//ovid is no joke :’) but ty for everyone taking an interest in my little space bug, hopefully i feel well enough to have some fun here soon <3
sighs. obviously i/z isn’t rlly a show for shipping && it’s been hard to get into ships after my breakup (that shit took its toll on me) but i am thinking……… abt z/asr ……….. && the wasted s/koodge potential….
Zim’s Use of His Name as a Replacement for First-Person Pronouns
I recently did a small project and went through every single Invader Zim episode script to discover just how much Zim actually replaces first-person (I/me/my/myself) pronouns with his name, and whether he ever replaces first-person pronouns with third-person pronouns (he/him/his). The answers to these questions pretty much lined up with what I remembered about his canon use of his name as a pronoun-replacement, and I would now like to share my findings, and a list of every time Zim refers to himself in the third person, with all of you fine people here on the Tumblr dot coms.
Observations
1) Zim uses I/me/my pronouns the vast majority of the time he refers to himself. He uses his name in place of a pronoun to refer to himself in 18 out of 27 full episodes, or 21 out of 46 segments (but see #5 below). He says his name in a couple more instances than that but not in place of a pronoun. Technically, ‘I am Zim!’ is not an instance where he is replacing an I/me/my pronoun with his name, any more than me saying, 'Hi, I’m KidK’ is such an instance. Really, when Zim says, 'I am Zim!’ he is reinforcing the fact that he uses I/me/my pronouns regularly and the fact that he likes to say his own name, without suggesting he replaces pronouns with his name as often as, say, Elmo the Muppet. I therefore didn’t count instances of 'I am Zim!’ as pronoun replacements, but have made a separate list of them for the sake of interest.
2) Zim replaces 'me’ with his name as the object of a sentence rather than replacing 'I’ as the subject. The only exceptions to this in the entire run of the show are 'Zim needs no vacation!’ from “The Frycook What Came From All That Space” and ‘Zim needs no meat!’ from “Tak: the Hideous New Girl.” A more typical usage is lines like 'There is none so worthy as Zim!’ or 'Victory for Zim!’ Also, Zim only uses the possessive 'Zim’s’ once–'No one takes Zim’s mission!’ in “Tak.” In all other lines when Zim wants to say something is his, he says 'the [thing] of Zim’–or, much more often, uses first-person pronouns 'my’ and 'mine.’
3) Zim really really very does not speak like Elmo. He tends to replace one first-person pronoun in a sentence with his name and leave the rest intact, rather than substituting 'Zim’ for every first-person pronoun in the line. For example, in “The Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom,” he says, 'I break free and now I have to go back to rescue that little rat that left Zim to rot?’ Even this kind of sentence reinforces the fact that Zim uses I/me/my regularly and Zim-as-a-pronoun as a more infrequent thing to add emphasis or drama.
4) The other way in which Zim is not like Elmo is that he never, ever replaces a first-person pronoun with a third-person pronoun. Using the same example, notice he did not say, 'Zim breaks free and now he has to go back to rescue that little rat that left him to rot?' (Zim did use ‘he/him’ for himself when he pretended to be a future version of Dib and thus needed to speak in third person about himself to keep up the ruse; these instances are not included in my count/list because that was playacting and not pronoun-replacement. He also uses he/him and she/her to refer to other people, including other Irkens, but that’s a subject for a different kind of post.)
5) Several of the times Zim refers to himself by name that I’ve included on the list are edge cases and may not be true pronoun replacements. These are noted in the list.
6) Zim starts referring to himself in third person more about halfway through the show’s run. He does it a few notable times in episodes 1-15 but all the episodes where he does it a lot are from “Hobo 13″ on. In fact, there are a few episodes where Zim does it a lot, and then in the others where he does it it’s only once, maybe twice. The episode segments where Zim refers to himself by name in third person the most are “Hobo 13,” “The Voting of the Doomed,” and “The Frycook What Came From All That Space.”
7) The first few instances of 'I am Zim’ aren’t just random exclamations, but places where Zim telling someone his name is a natural part of a conversation. It’s not until “Hobo 13″ and beyond that Zim starts yelling 'I am Zim!’ for no apparent reason other than to assert that he is, in fact, Zim I guess.
And now without further ado, below the cut is a list of Every. Single. Time. Zim refers to himself in third person in the series, broken down by episode, with a bonus list of every 'I am Zim!’ at the end. In every other instance besides these listed times, when Zim refers to himself, he does it with a first-person I/me/my/myself pronoun. Yep. He sure does know what those are, and uses them very frequently. Use this information however you like.
i don’t have many followers &&. im sick but y’all wanna give this a like for a short starter sent ur way???? quality will be of varying degrees im sure asksjsjsks but ur boy could use a z.im centered distraction u_u
i love z.im v much && i enjoy his constant yelling / screaming way of talking, but i was rewatching some eps && rlly enjoyed him just. talking. fairly casually. like in the “planet jackers” episode he still had his hyperactive shrill but he also just talked && idk it was an interesting rewatch since more often than not he’s just. LOUD.
