Illania

23. she/her. Everything is fine.

[ladyillania]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Invader Zim, Wander Over Yonder (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Dib (Invader Zim), Wander (Wander Over Yonder), Zim (Invader Zim), Gaz (Invader Zim), Sylvia Zbornak, Lord Hater (Wander Over Yonder), The Almighty Tallests (Invader Zim) Additional Tags: Crossover, Alternate Universe, No Romance, Canon-Typical Violence, Irkens are Terrible (Invader Zim), Aged-Up Character(s), Older Dib (Invader Zim), Magic and Science, How Do I Tag, Not Canon Compliant, Why would it be it's a crossover Summary:

While on a family vacation that he’d much rather not be on, Dib encounters a strange being in the woods. This being’s name is Wander, or so he claims, and he wound up on this planet by complete accident after falling through a wormhole. He won’t tell Dib what exactly he is, and he dodges every question about his home planet.

As much as Dib would love to dissect this thing and figure out what it is, other things preoccupy his mind. Zim has been planning something, something big, and Dib fears that this might actually be the time Zim’s plan succeeds. If only there was a way to destroy the Irken Empire once and for all…

Meanwhile, the Irkens catch wind of this wormhole and the creatures that fell through it. Specifically, there is one remaining member of a species they destroyed several millennia ago. This species possessed powers beyond Irken understanding, and now, the newest Irken leaders agree that they would love to get their hands on these powers.

[ladyillania]

Fandom stuff to find mutual again because two years have passed and I have changed:

-Still love A3 you can pry my theater boys out of my cold dead hands

-Sk8 the Infinity is my favorite guilty pleasure

-Invader Zim has invaded my brain and won't leave

-Wander Over Yonder because why have one obscure alien kid's show when you can have two?

-Smiling Friends because what the actual FUCK IS GOING ON

-Cult of the Lamb is my favorite video game ever (and one of the only ones I play RIP)

-I always love book recs, fantasy/thriller, especially written by women with strong female main characters

-I write Fanfiction too! Check out my AO3!

[ladyillania]

I finally reset the password lmao

[whosplayerthree]

My ocs are the best. 

[doesn’t post content about them ever]

[shounenchild]

Funniest character creation of all time goes to when the first co-creator of Kim Possible said "Kim Possible. She can do anything." out loud in an elevator and the second one immediately replied with "Ron Stoppable. He can't."

[shounenchild]

Disney paired up two of their most successful content developers and ordered them to craft a story that would be interesting to an ambitiously diverse age group

and the result was these two guys turning around and inventing girlboss x malewife in 2002

[garmonbozine-deactivated2021100]

Harvard researchers discover new ways for you to sound like a psychopath weirdo who nobody wants to talk to

[megamycete]

[ratwarlock]

tell me Will,

[ryanhatesthis]

[bubblysun]

i have been waiting for this to show up in my dash forever

[ktkeen96-deactivated20141121]

ITS BACK

[ryanvallejo-deactivated20150514]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE

[sassafras--manson-deactivated20]

IT’S BACK

[khan2kool]

This has to be up there with the funniest shit ever.

[phobs-heh]

gonna reblog it everytime

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

IT HAS RETURNED TO US

[bog-dwelling-butch]

Wow I have not seen this in years, tumblr classic

[pyrobot1cs]

have I reblogged this yet

[neonross]

what-

[stars-r-falling]

I REMEMBER IT’S BIRTH

[tronmike82]

3 million note post

[takineko]

All these kids are in their 30s by now.

[justadreaminghufflepuff]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame just in case you didn’t have this one yet

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

found a vid of harry styles 'acting' HELPPPPPP

[transformices]

tfw you accidentally say oh my god to gods face

[klondork]

It’s like saying “god knows” and god replies “no I fucking don’t”.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[magic-and-moonlit-wings]

Video caption: Good guy who talks like a bad guy 

“Perhaps you’d like to see my pets. They were ALL … rescues.” 

“And as always, gentlemen, our profits will be … donated.” 

“Oh, I wish I could stay and chat, but I’m afraid I have to take my friend to the airport.” 

[yourheartinyourmouth]

Redeemed villain who can’t let the speech pattern go

[myeclecticdream09]

[thou-creature-of-the-deep]

[cubanpercy]

[what-a-catch-donkey-deactivated]

[lotrlocked]

[rinasaurusrex]

[andthosearesmalleragents]

[lordgolden]

they should invent giving me the perfect job without applying or interviewing

[yuri-puppies]

not to be like, “this is the magic job post that gives you jobs” but literally two days after I reblogged it

[wormspeddler]

this looks so good!

[dovin-baan]

Hey what the FUCK is this audio?

[lesbianralzarek]

i desperately want to believe that the person who made this thought it was good music

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

the ray charles replicant is undergoing a severe system malfunction because of how sexy that crêpe looks

[wickedwonderlandd]

For the love of God do NOT unmute

[dear-ao3]

ID: comment that says “this is the best fanfiction I have ever read. I felt so many things. I ran around in circles. I banged my head on the table. I had to restrain myself from throwing a potato across the room.” the first three words are lowercase and the rest are in all caps /end ID

[ladyillania]

This would be the absolute best comment to receive ever

[winterandwords]

I'm not sure I can express this sentiment strongly enough, but I'm going to try via the medium of large bolded text.

Write what the fuck you want.

Write what makes you happy. Write what makes your soul sing. Write what fucks you up and makes you cry. Write what comforts you. Write what distracts you. Write what you want to read. Write what you want to watch.

Write what you want to dream about tonight.

Write what you can't get enough of. Write what you're completely obsessed with. Write what wakes you up at 4am and drags you out of bed because you can't stop thinking about what your characters are going to do next.

Write what turns you on, if that's your vibe. Write characters you're in love with and characters who inspire you and characters you want to be friends with and characters you fucking hate but oh my god they're so much fun.

Write about things you would sell your soul to do in real life and things you would never do in real life. Write about things that are happening right now and things that happened a thousand years ago and things that might happen in the future and things you wish could happen.

Write to get a publishing deal or to sell your books yourself or not to sell your books at all. Write for your friends or for strangers or for the people who reblog your posts on Tumblr and send you songs that remind them of your characters.

Write for yourself.

Fuck any system that tells you there's only one right way to create or one valid way to share your writing. Your story, the way you tell it, has so much value. Make people smile or piss people off or do both of those things because art is divisive and fascinating and beautiful.

Start writing. Keep writing. And write what the fuck you want.

[primeministerofantarctica]

there's a big difference between "things i want to read about in fanfic" and "things i want to happen in canon"

[shut-up-merlin]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but be nice to fanfic authors. Reblog their stuff. Tell them you liked it. How you felt when reading. What school assignment you didn’t finish because of how captivating their story was. Don’t just scream to your friends about it. But tell them.

So many wonderfully talented people out there don’t get the praise they need. If their work brought you joy, make their day better by telling them it did.

[niuniente]

Long ago I wrote a fic. Posted it under a different name without telling anyone in the fandom group I was active in. Watched how the online fandom group loved the fic and had a conversation of it in a positive spirit with each other - what did they like it, theories of this and that, how nice it was to get a new fic into this small fandom etc. - but did they leave feedback to the fic? No. I think it was only one person who commented the fic from the group.

I know the fan group liked the fic because I saw the outside comments. But, if I hadn’t seen them - like readers don’t - then I’d think the fic was not worth of my time and no one read it, or read it but didn’t care about it as it clearly was not worth of any comment.

We’re not telepathics. We don’t know. Tell the creators. They want it and appreciate the feedback. If we didn’t want you to interact with the stuff we create, like comment it/share it/reblog it/etc. we wouldn’t post the stuff online for you to see.

[kyraneko]

It occurs to me upon reading this that we don't have conversations like this in the comments to the author's fic---so much of fandom is interacting with each other about media we love, but in the fanfic comments section the conversation is almost just commenters talking directly to the author, and maybe the author talking back.

Nobody launches a metacommentary thesis for other readers to debate about in the AO3 comments, or has long comment threads gushing to each other about their favorite character's interactions; it's like the tendency to give the author space while we go play with their creations, a relic of our past when we weren't supposed to exist, has extended to fic authors who are themselves playing in the same mud we are.

We act like it's bad manners to love a fic in front of an author, in the ways the fandom that writes fanfic loves a fic.

And that shouldn't be the case.

They're one of us too.

[kedreeva]

I have had one or two fics where readers engaged with one another in the comments and I can say with 100% surety that it was REALLY COOL to see!!! Even if they weren’t talking to ME, they were talking about the thing I made where I could see it and that made me feel GREAT. Absolutely loved it.

[waterlilyrose]

I write fanfiction and let me tell you: comments about the fic and what you like about it make the hours of work all worthwhile. Literally there is nothing else going for me right now. I get up, go to work, come home, go to bed. To get a (1) in my inbox instantly makes me happy and I'd be nothing without it.

[longlivefeedback]

I wish it was more common in fandom culture to do this! Alas, squeeing with your fandom friends through Ao3 comments just isn't quite the same as over something like Discord it seems 🥲

Nevertheless, I want to encourage readers to consider copy + pasting screenshots or the text of their discussions into the comments! I know it's extra work, but I've done this before and the author absolutely loved it 💕

Also, bumping the LLF Comment Project template which is a tone neutral way for authors to invite their readers to comment and let them know it's ok to have reader-reader interaction in the comments.