maybe even space bugs too

sorry didn’t mean to get so dark maybe i’m an alien, earth is hard

[spacegoathours]

✨hiya!✨

💜 i'm Mina (she/her) and i'm 30+ !

💜 Invader ZIM sideblog! likes and some interactions will come from here (main acct)

💜 main OC is Callie, see more about her on toyhou.se! other OCs below the cut on this post

💜 check tags mina arts for doodles, and mina talks for rambles, plus specific OC tags such as oc: callie and oc: laksa for more stuff :3

current-ish OC references!

[zimish0scar]

IT IS FINISHED!! GRAAAGHHHH

Separated thumbnail because I’m proud of it, I would’ve included the separate background for the living room but decided not to

[khaliarart]

Getting back in the groove

[gibblegabber]

ARTFIGHT SOON 👁️👁️

[l-ii-zz]

[ghosts-and-green-aliens]

One of my favorite headcanons has always been Dad Nar and the idea that Zim grew up at Station 9, it's one of the first things I started drawing since I've picked art back up the last few months

We desperately need more of it and I will happily oblige

[patchworkpoltergeist]

Give the headcanon essay on Irken Love!! Gib!!!💖💕

When I think of Irkens and love, I think of the Guante line: Your job is to protect your family. And your family is everyone. Irkens are, at the base, a eusocial species. This isn’t a Control Brain thing, this is something that was at the root of their society and their species before Brains, before PAKS, before technology and space travel. If anything, the implementation of those things made Irkens less of a hive mind, not more. (The Empire, as of now, separates Irkens into individualized spaces, while still asking them to be part of a collective. It... causes problems.)

Irkens don’t have parents, siblings, spouses, cousins, or friends. Irkens have the “Us”.

What someone’s “Us” is depends on the Irken and the Irken’s encoding, but overall, it tends to be the group you’re part of. A Navigator or a Pilot’s Us is a fleet or an armada. A Smeetery Supervisor’s Us is their smeets and the other Supervisors. Invader is such a revered encoding partially because it’s so demanding. Not only do you need to have expertise in several military fields, it’s a job you do alone and that isolation is taxing. (It’s also why the risk of going native is so high--without an Us that’s fulfilled by other Irkens, that Invader naturally goes looking for it elsewhere, which is what happens to Purple in “Final Exam”.) But even if they’re apart from other Irkens, they still have the Us of the Invasion as a whole. They still have an Us, it’s just one you only see like twice a year. For a Tallest, because they’re the only ones with their encoding, their Us is the entire Irken Empire. Not that there’s much choice, they don’t have anyone else. Usually. Red and Purple are one of the uncommon (but not at all unheard of) cases of an Us being formed with just two Irkens. Since they get all the attachment and social bonds they need from each other, it hinders their ability to attach to the rest of the Empire like they’re supposed to. Even then, while their tiny Us of two is top priority, they’re still Irkens and the rest of the Empire is still their Us. The same can be said for all other Irkens: groups within groups are just an Us within an Us.

It’s not so much that the individual doesn’t matter so much as that the individual is simply part of a whole that matters more. Your blood cells matter--if you bleed to death, you’ll find out real quick how much they matter. But a papercut’s different than a stab wound. Losing ten drops of blood is an inconvenience; losing ten pints is a death sentence. Likewise, the loss of one Irken is a statistic, but the loss of a thousand Irkens is a tragedy.

Irkens love their Us the same way you love your wife, not just your wife’s small intestine. You’re glad it exists, you’re glad the intestine keeps your wife alive and healthy, but that’s about it.  A Commander loves their fleet, not Elite Skoodge. A Frylord loves their work staff, not Food Drone Gashloog. A Tallest loves The Irken Empire, not Invader Larb. (This is the trouble with defectives. A defective, at the root, is an Irken that cannot or will not be part of the Us. And if you’re not Us... well. That can only mean you’re Them.)

Does this mean Irkens don’t have individual bonds or friendships? Absolutely not.

It’s uncommon for those bonds to be strong, and it’s unusual for those bonds to last beyond a few years.

Why? The same reason any species makes a lot of babies in the first place: most of those creatures aren’t going to live.

Before the Irkens went to war, they were busy being eaten all the time. If the mortality rate for your clutch, your fleet, or your squadron is going to be at least 50%. When everything wants to eat you, whoever you decided to bond to probably isn’t going to make it through the next five years.

But even if your war buddy gets devoured, who do you still have? The squadron. Who will you always have? The Empire. Investing your love in an individual is foolish, dangerous, and asking for heartbreak, which is why most Irkens don’t do it.

It’s a lousy investment. It’s a dumb investment.

The Tallest are pretty dumb. Zim’s kinda dumb sometimes, too. A lot of Irkens are, really.

[the-huxler]

I DREW EM TOGETHER

[l-ii-zz]

25 years of hyper fixation

✨🥳👽🍰HAPPY BIRTHDAY INVADER ZIM!!!! ✨🥳👽🍰

[pom-corner]

Irken society is just. So deeply fucked up it's fascinating. No apparent labor laws. Being a living table gets you 5 monies a year. You get to be alive for like, a couple minutes before they download an entire species worth of info and propaganda directly into your brain. You only kinda get to have rights if you're tall. Everything is built in a way that's liable to explode and blackout half the planet for a decade if some random dumbass clogs a tube or something. The actual leader of the ENTIRE species is a cluster of robots that will root through your entire life and decide if you live or die... and they are just as liable to be broken by the same random dumbass.

[zimcard-artblog]

Some more Prom/reunion party fits for our favorite (unnofficial freak) couples... excluding whatever Announcer and Rarl Kove has going on. You can probably tell which pair was my favorite to draw and it starts with Miyuki and ends with Spork.

Elite Red and Purple's fits here -> Behold!!!

DYNAMIC RAMBLE BELOW

Miyuki and Spork could be described as young adults with heavy responsibilities, but they seek to relive fun moments. Miyuki, especially considering her unfortunate long life and the forceful removal of her childhood during an era where having a childhood was necessary. Although her circumstances go beyond any normal Irken's comprehension (aside from Rarl Kove due to his punishment to become an eternal servant), she can see how Spork could somewhat understand and even share similar feelings regarding their duty. Spork, who had plans outside the Empire, was suddenly assigned to be her bodyguard under Rarl Kove's request during her ascension to Tallest (and her first taste of freedom from the Control Brains, having some sense of control over herself. Anyways, these two would have lots of fun doing things that don't require them to be the "bigger person" in the room- just let them have fun together.

Zim and Skoodge are kinda one sided, mainly bc of Zim's lack of awareness regarding the fact that Skoodge is possibly the only Irken who actually sees Zim in a positive light. Skoodge does a lot for Zim and not in grand acts of loyalty or whatever, no, mainly just simple acts. He's aware Zim barely acknowledges it, but he chooses to keep going. When Zim does acknowledge it, though, he kinda buffers and has to take a moment to process or "rationalize" (with Zim logic calculations) Skoodge's "ulterior motive". Skoodge is smart enough to know how to navigate a bit around Zim (not 100% but just enough to live comfortably with him as dormmates)

Tak and Tenn are unique as I believe that when it comes to Seniority, it doesn't matter too much unless height is put into consideration or if you have an official title/higher ranking, excluding height. Tenn is supposedly Tak's senior by a few (Irken) years, and they knew each other in the past. Unironically Tak took her Invader training much more seriously since she "looked up to Senior Tenn" which led to a shift of personality, and Tak focused on her own self worth in the Empire. Tenn was held back during training, which actually kept her alive since she wasn't present during Zim's rampage on Impending Doom 1... Tenn still has some nostalgic soft spot for Tak because of their past, and Tak has moved on from that stage of her life- though she does take it a little easy on Tenn (only cause she KINDA feels bad but not that much...)

Announcer and Rarl Kove are not even toxic yaoi, it's just toxic toxic... Announcer seems to exist to spite Rarl Kove not only cause of his face and voice mimicking Rarl Kove's deceased husband, but also that Announcer is a reminder that Rarl Kove's "long life" is a punishment. Announcer (unintentionally) adopts certain perks/details that are unique to Rarl Kove's memory of his late husband such as the ribbons (a signature craft during Rarl Kove's era where ribbons were part of a uniform due to the materials they had) and also Announcer having traits in honor to the Control Brains. He has no "love" for the organics but his "affections" lie on machines. He's officially the Control Brain's "favorite errand boy" whilst Rarl Kove is the Control Brain's "least favorite old thing"... anyways Rarl Kove should turn him to scrap (ANNOUNCER JUST KEEPS COMING BACK)

[kickthebabiee]

whoever wrote the speech bubbles for this promo thingy did an amazing job

[gaelicfoxfire]

I'm SUPER sorry I'm late for this, @spacegoathours I just had a rough situation with stressful family stuff I'm sorry some of the colors aren't right I didn't have time to make this I was afraid if I'll never finish it again, I'm sorry about my rusty boring lines ;-; Hope you like it and Happy Birthday!!! >^<

[spacegoathours]

AWWWWW lookit the cuties!!! This is totally adorable, thank you so much!!! 💙💚

[spacegoathours]

happy bday!

Wahhhh thank you!!

[spacegoathours]

Happy Birthday, I hope its a good one! I'll be sending you good gifts :3

Awww thank uuuu!!

[spacegoathours]

Happy birthday!!

THANK UUUUU!!! 💜

[spacegoathours]

Happy Birthday, Mina!! My very best wishes for you 🥳💖✨✨ be well and have fun in your special day!! 🍰💛

Liiiiiz 🥹 thank you so much!!! 💜💜💜