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Do you think Zim will always carry a deep feeling of un-belonging everywhere he goes?
HAPPY ZADRDAY 👽💚😐
I only wish I was the first person to comment ZADR on this.
ok so
based off of a conversation i had with my dad
joke sucks
Eh, close enough.
A sequel to this x
Zim is slowly realising that irken is kind of… Limited, compared to the languages humans use. It’s almost as if it was specifically designed to restrict the things it allows you to talk about.
Makes it kind of hard to form bonds or question your tyrannical government when you literally don’t have the words for it, huh?
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I didn't want to draw on PC today, but commissions are still open for that :3
i just remembered i was going to make a post about this
for the record i loved enter the florpus BUT this still bugs me about the movie (nitpick)
in the show, the sky was always dark - either a dusky bruise red or purple, all of the outdoor shots have that distinctly moody overcast look. it was like an unspoken rule that there was no bright natural skies in the show, and i think that's awesome
the movie settled for teen titans go skies as the default look. wonderful
The OG series had such a unique atmosphere to it. It was a shame to see it get paved over by industry normal lighting and coloring.
Don't get me wrong, ETF backgrounds are beautiful. I found a love for them as a background artist for A Very Tall Problem. But they just aren't unique and they certainly aren't Zim.
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So like, i really wanted to do this with zadr, even tho i had no idea how the meaning of album would relate to them. But oh well, my bestie just said "yep an au" so here we have it :P
Redraw of this album cover:
So, I've seen fics where Zim's PAK malfunctions and allows him to experience suppressed emotions, or think more clearly and become self-aware/realize his mission is fake, or get horny. But going along with that idea I had awhile ago that Irken PAKs are used to medicate them for things like depression or ADHD, what if a malfunction caused Zim to have an overdose or withdrawl? And maybe he doesn't realize that's what's happening because he doesn't know what he has or what medications he's being fed. He's never actually been to a doctor to get diagnosed and prescribed medication. The PAK just does a bioscan, determines what he needs, and feeds it to him automatically, and he never looked into it because he trusts the technology implicitly and doesn't want to know what conditions he might have.
Maybe the only reason he figures it out is because the effects of the withdrawl/OD happen at Skool. One of his classmates takes him to the nurse who calls his "parents" to come pick him up. Word spreads about Zim being sick, it gets back to Dib, and then Dib figures out it wasn't another one his allergies because he recognizes the symptoms because he takes the same medication for the same condition as Zim and the same thing happened to him once.
#if its anything. the irkens in a fic im writing(not s.o.y suprisingly) have paks that can like. pick and choose what actions or thoughts#give them like. dopamine serotonin stuff like that#so obeying irk/tallests and war n shit becomes much more enjoyable when you have nothing else with that same sense of joy to compare it to#duuuude i think when the propaganda itself becomes part of their biology is so compelling . omgggg
Oooh, that's another interesting direction to take it. Like the PAKs are actually drugging them to create positive associations with obedience and probably also causing them pain when they consider disobedience. Sort of like in Portal 2 where the GLaDOS chassis makes the core plugged into it feel an "itch" that compels them to conduct tests, gives them a shot of euphoric bliss that gradually diminishes in order to make them addicted to testing, and shocks them if they try to help a test subject solve a puzzle. This might actually go a long way toward explaining why Zim is so delusional. Like, he has to gaslight himself into thinking that whatever he's doing, even if it's disobeying a direct order, is somehow in service to the empire, because that's the only way he can rebel without getting shot up with Feels Bad drugs.
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There's something about zadf that screams sitting on the roof together at night and looking at the stars and just being able to get away from it all for a moment, even if it's a small one. Sitting on the roof and being able to be a part of the stars, away from expectations. They can just be kids, and the fate of the world is on the back burner.