#boarder au

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ANOTHER ONE

My other AU, Boarder, is now updated to chapter four at 28k words! We’re getting into the real juice of this AU now, so it’s a better time than ever to catch up if you haven’t checked it out yet :DD

AU synopsis below the cut!

Though he never found the proof of aliens he was looking for as a kid, Dib Membrane never gave up. And on a solo station orbiting Earth, he's finally handed the proof he's been searching for on a silver platter.

But when a stupid mistake strands him with that violent alien further away from home than he could've ever imagined, Dib will have to learn how to survive and coexist with him long enough to show that proof back home. That is, if he even wants to go home..

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Í DARÉ ASK AGAIN

and by ask I mean say that

YOUR PLAYLIST ROCKS I HAVE TONS OF THOSE SONGS IN MY LIST AS WELL AND IM ORETTY FUCKING SURE HALF OF THEM ARE FROM THE YT ANIMATIONS MWEHEHEEHEH

(btw imma still keep it thank youuuuuu)

Khkhk thank you for the enthusiasm and interest!! :DD And yes yes a good many of them have YouTube animatics that I initially got them from (Spaceships by Art Sorority my beloved, Nothing Left to Lose my beloved)

This second ask is also a good opportunity to say that I realised after initially answering you that the full doc is actually full of spoilers for both of my main AUs lmao so I’ll post parts of it up to the current updated place in either AU, then add to it as I add new chapters ^3^

I can’t promise a date when I’ll get to that as I’m leaving the country for a vacay in two days but!! I’ve got it noted down in a reminder so I’ll get on that when I’m back! :D

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Hello, I have very shit memory and I don’t know if I asked you but um do you have any songs I can add to my invader zim /ZADR playlist?

OH BOY DO I

For an immediate answer, here’s my Spotify Invadercore playlist (Invadercore made by theothernamewastaken if you’d rather search it up than use a link). That’s ten hours, 177 songs of bug antics for ye.

Now, mind, this is the playlist for my AU timelines. The first 2/3 or so are in chronological order to my timelines (yes plural), so include character arc themes, AU themes, scene specific tracks, stuff for supporting cast, etc. Plus a few joke songs or unsorted ones near the bottom, so if a few seem really out of place then that’s very likely why.

Now if ye want a specific answer with some of my top bug song recommendations, here’s a few I come back to time and again and have animatic ideas for:

- What’s Going On by Elio Mei : A theme for my Zim’s whole childhood on Earth, up to the start of my primary AU, Treading Open Water. A really fun and emotionally raw song that to a T encapsulates how I write his inner struggles.

- An Unhealthy Obsession by the Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra ; Stalker’s Tango by Autoheart ; I Love You Like An Alcoholic by The Taxpayers (and several other songs of this ilk) : I have a whole myriad of obsession songs ranging from these variety, applicable to their early lives, up to more healthily mutual (as healthy as these two can get lmao) for the end of the AU.

- Alright by Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards : A really really good track perfect for any AU that gives them a growing pains period where they’re treating each other more like friends and finding comfort in that, but fighting that feeling and fighting officiating that. Which iiiis most of my AU! :D Especially on Zim’s side. A song very specifically about loving someone’s company but hating that you do.

- Beautiful & Brutal by Plested : The title is pretty self explanatory lmao. Same same but different to Alright, this is a track about being wholly aware of the negatives of this dynamic you’re a part of but wanting to stay anyway. See also- Red Flag by Natalie Jane, though that one is specifically for my Boarder AU.

- Final Bow by Us The Duo : One of my Zim arc songs for the very end of the AU, with the ‘you’ in this song referring to the Tallests and the Empire as a whole, for his whole relationship with Irk and Irken society. Specifically, about how he’s come to grow past it and knows how much better off he is without it.

- Emperor’s New Clothes by Jan : My main theme for my interpretation and writing of the Irken Empire, and a theme for my Tallest Et (yes Et like ET like extraterrestrial khkh). The lines throughout this song apply to certain Irken OCs of mine that are to be present in the part two of my AU, but the song as a whole can just generally fit Irken society and its relationship with its leader(s).

- The Red Means I Love You by Madds Buckley : A relationship song from Zim to Dib for my AU Boarder, but a good song for them regardless for their more violent and fucked up tendencies :)

And there ya go!!

I could go on and on, I’ve got a 50-ish page document where I just lay out all the songs in chronological order and dissect the lyrics as applied to my AUs lmaaaoo I’ve literally prepped for this kinda question. But these are some of the big songs I’ve had set for a while that have strong ties to how I write these chucklefucks. I hope you like a least a few of these, have fun listening! :D

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╰•★★ Space Idiots ★★•╯

Added two whole ass chapters to my Boarder AU story on AO3, which you can read here! Boarder is an AU taking place entirely off-Earth, after Zim trespasses onto a station Dib is working on and things go as bad as you'd assume. It's all about space adventure and danger and drama and a whole lot of bad decisions.

These three chapters are already sitting at just under 20k words so if you love slow burn and long reads with a dash of constant peril, I think you'd really like what I'm putting these idiots through!