You’re absolutely amazing!!!! I loved the lestappen X trans!male singer readerrrrr
I was wondering if you could maybe add on, maybe like a smau or written part about the fans reaction to them dating
it’s totally fine if you don’t want to or if it’s not like creative enough, I just absolutely loved what you did with the other request… anywaysss, goodbye, hope you have a great day!!
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i will do my best to get fans reactions right! I'm still not too good at smaus but i will try my best!
max verstappen x trans!singer!reader x charles leclerc
synopsis: across your socials, the three of you start posting each other more and more, hard launching your relationship. fans react enthusiastically, for the most part.
author's note: after this request, i will not be taking any lestappen request for a while, but you can request separate ones for charles and max (meaning only one in the request or paired with another driver). i just think that i need to write more variety as a lot of them have been lestappen themed. this is by no means a target to anyone, this is just my decision so i can branch out with different drivers and add different elements. also badly translated french bc i don't trust google translated 100% also this kinda got off track but i think it works?? idk
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other than your canonical outfit/s what kind of fashion sense do you think your bliss character would have ^_^
You have just opened a bag of worms that i didn't think would or should be opened.
Okayokayokay so to keep it simple lets go off of ✨Seasons✨ here so i dont spend hours on this but to keep it simple,
summer - we've got your windows 7 kinda old school internet vibes or as most people call it now, "Frutiger aero" and for those who don't know what that is thinks of themes like;
OLDDD WINDOWS VERSIONS (98, XP, vista)
mp3 players (or if some of yall remember nokia's or the 1st edition iphones)
alot of people associate it with old iphone app icons too such as the photo's app or any old windows icons
main colors are literally the windows xp background nothing more nothing less but keep it glossy and shiny as it was 2007 and people liked it that way ig i wasnt born yet lowk
autumn - personally i dont have many ideas that come to mind based on the actual season besides alot of the more floral aspects of my character becoming more weathered and shifted to a more warmer tone BUT that also gives complete free way to other ideas as a sortve "free space" and thats where some of my favorites start to mesh together;
i genuinely LOVEE street wear YES im performative YES im a sheep but OOOHHH ITS SO GOOD WHEN PAIRED UP WITH OTHER STYLES
i personally think salvagepunk can very easily bounce off of streetwear when done right, especially given the similarities in certain elements with the two (i also based alot of luxor's design off of alot of salvagepunk outfits so there is that :D)
bit of a curveball but with the recent cyborg headcannons ive been seeing alot more steampunk on my tl and esp when in autumn id love to think q's parts would start to rust and maybe as a means of taking care/preserving the quality she would opt to downgrade to more appropriate equipment for the season (go crazy with ideas for anything steampunk related i havent thought too hard on it)
winter - very heavy vaporwave vibes mixed in with space/starry themes more-so on the accessory side (boots, pins, gloves, ect) i think even though she definitely spends alot of time around someone whos literally cold blooded q loves the winter most out of all seasons so he'd fully prioritize comfort over looks, ie;
biiiig fuzzy boots
oversized hoodies and big baggy pants
letting her hair fully run rampant for more warmth
i think as an extra kinda addition his missing texture particles would be alot less frequent as winter is basically low battery mode for the guy LMAO so emotions and thoughts would be on a low while she recharges
THOUGH HOWEVER GRIND DOES NOT STOP AND YES EVERY BIT OF OM NOM MERCH WOULD INFACT COME OUT OF THE WOODWORKS
spring - i think its pretty obvious but im already a huge fan of cottage/naturecore and im very happy that im able to incorporate flowers into my design as i think spring would fully be a season focused on that aspect of q. I'd love to think that her wings end up growing exponentially and without another person around to actually ground him, he'd just fully let his wings grow 5x the size of size of him and deal with the consequences later i do think outfit wise;
pretty much a no-brainer but definitely very bright and elegant dresses (flower girl vibes no doy)
though i do think he'd also be a huge fan of overalls and gumboots, q is far from a germaphobe and would definitely not mind getting her shoes stuck in mud at any point if she had to so i do think that kinda style would be right up his alley
i think funnily enough this would also be the main season where he'd wear the main suit you usually see, just the temperature and the look of spring would really bring the guy alot of happiness and i feel thatd cause her to wear whatever she really feels comfortable in at that moment
as for one last little fun fact i think hair-wise, during summer she'd just straight up tie it up in a bun or tail, spring she'd probably put in the most effort and braid it often, autumn really depends on the outfit honest and winter would have negative style just straight bed-head
alright thats all i can think of i spent an hour on this pandoras box has been closed for now im tagging this cause i feel i deserve it
absolutely mythical tumblr account find holy moly... if you don't mind, could you do music headcanons if you haven't already? If you have, I'd love to see that post!
giggle im glad youre enjoying the soupslop thank you very much for being here your presence is greatly appreciated. i feel like a shiny pokemon. streets call me mythical im so legendary. like. idk fuckin rayquaza or something. thank you!!
i have yapped a tiny tiny bit about music hcs here but that post is dogshit and it doesnt include everyone, so please take a more comprehensive overview of the gangs music taste. featuring an accompanying playlist for each courtesy of me and my seemingly infinite amount of free time:
larrys music taste is extremely broad. all over the fuckin place. hes a big indie rock/hard rock/anything ROCK fan, i think thats where a lot of his music taste lies. school of rock fundamentally altered his brain chemistry. biggest alice kooper fan youll ever met. dude will listen to fucking anything but i think a lot of it is alt- hes the baby of the family and has grown up being forced to listen to whatever his siblings like and half these mfs go nuts for a lil alternative beat. iggy please turn off your spotify. yall already know larrys a fiend for techno. the edm calls to him like the green goblin mask. bro listened to the spectre on loop growing up iktr. now if youre looking at the playlist preview youre probably calling me a fucking idiot but trust trust larry is a popstar diva. wendy got her girlypop claws into him whenever barbie princess and the popstar released in 2012. when he was. uh. 0. FUCK im so UNC. larrys the biggest sabrina koopenter fan out there and NOT JUST because he has a fat crush on her. he also happens to be a massive fan of manchild. zara larsson, addison rae, olivia rodrigo, hes HERE for the pop girlies. also. enya. i feel very strongly larry is an enya enjoyer. it makes him cry. hes so jake peralta to me. dont look at the fnaf songs on his playlist he INSISTS it was a phase.
morton listens exclusively to video game soundtracks and lofi beats. daycore anything. i think theyd all be fans of their namesake, even if theyre not necessarily named after them in the soupiverse. but not morton. because fuuuuuuck morton downey jr who gaf about that guy. dogshit music. i cant do morty dirty like that, hes the goat. dude is literally lofi girl. headphones on 24/7 soft studio ghibli beats in his ears. i think hed really like the kikis delivery service soundtrack. town with an ocean view goes hard. play that shit at the CLUB. he listens to a lot of lofi anime soundtracks. i would name some but i don't know any animes. does the cells at work intro count because that shit slaps. theres a specific daycore remix of the gravity falls theme ik hed fuck with. for video game osts ik he fucks with the minecraft soundtrack. not me though it creeps me out. minecraft music is not relaxing and ill die on this hill. it stresses me out. theres this platformer called gris and ive never played but it slaps too. i think morty would be a cosy platformer guy. cosy platformers and farming sims. baller. no songs with words.
wendy listens to 90% female artists. because why wouldnt she. a pop girly and a punk DIVA ik she thinks wendy o williams was the coolest bitch. wendy would live for wendy o williams. she thinks shes an icon. wendy has posters all over her wall of iconic female singers. because shes so fucking lesbian for them. she loves a pop rock legend ik shes a fiend for a lil pat benatar, a lil blondie moment, she wants you to call her please call her PLEASE. avril lavigne was wendys first crush. she loves a pop diva too, the ogs like nelly furtado and the new girls like chappell roan. SHES GOT SHES GOT A WAYYY SHES GOT A WAYYY SHE GOT AWAYYY fucking BARS. lesbians? locked in. study time vs yuri time. all the things she said insert rest of lyrics here. i feel like wendy would definitely be a huge marina fan. like HUGE marina fan. shes a pop girly but wendys roots are in pop punk ik she knows ball. i could also see wendy being a bit of a kpop fan but i have no idea what specifically. is this a safe space to say i do Not like kpop. trust ive tried. i worked retail bro i have the kpop demon hunters soundtrack burnt into my brain and i shut down whenever i hear it.
completely forgot to mention wendy is LOCKED IN on the 2000s barbie movie soundtracks. queen of the waves is her favourite song of all time. hannah montana soundtrack as well. shit is burnt into the neurons.
iggy will listen to anything. anything. and by anything i mean fucking anything and by fucking anything i mean the worst shit youve ever heard. iggy pops music is so astronomically buns i gotta project my hatred of it. iggy koopa would listen to iggy pop and i mean that in a very derogatory way. anyway iggy is literally the average gloryhammer fan ik this man LOVES a lil wasteland warrior hoots patrol. fantasy metal is his SHIT. ROOOOCK STOOOOONE ROCK AND STONE. front row of the wind rose show. ik he runs around at the dragonforce shows. i cant even clown bro gloryhammer was my first concert and it was the best night ever. i also think hed have a taste for indie and alt rock, i got into the real zebos lately and i think hed really fuck with them. i also think iggy is a massive fucking green day fan. a solid 68% of the time you see iggy hes wearing a green day shirt. he loves that shit. unironically listens to weezer. headbanging to buddy holly. ik he headbangs to fucking anything bro why are you dancing thats the fucking fire alarm. god i hate this guy. he showed wendy alestorm and she just about fucking lamped him for that. never disrespect sea shanties like that again.
hey soup why does iggys playlist have so much on it??? this is blatant favouritism. yes it is. and because 90% of this is off my own playlist. the shit taste in me recognises the shit taste in him. except the iggy pop his music is dogshit id never listen to that.
ya like jazz? roy likes jazz. big jazz man. big rock and roll man. any music made past the 70s sucks gay balls in roys book. roy gets hammered and starts very drunkenly singing myyyyyy wayyyyyyy FOR WHAT IS A MAN. WHAT HAS HE GOT. crying in the corner over the aretha franklin beats. i feel like roy is a huge amy winehouse fan. idk i just see it in his eyes. one beer hes sobbing on the floor over her vinyls. he loves amy winehouse. dude probably has an amy winehouse tattoo amidst his sleeve he loves her music. im listening to rupaul and i have fucking myyyyy wayyyyy stuck in my head. fuck you roy. ik he fucks with a lil 2010 club banger though, he'll pretend he doesnt (insert sully being dragged onto the dance floor gif here) but ik hes getting LIT when die young comes on. a lil shut up and drive and hes SHMOOVIN. a lil since you been gone? breaking it DOWN. he loves a lil white girl party banger. wendy has forever altered his music taste. he is definitely not listening to britney or whitney or anything gay like that hes a MAN he listens to. uh. big johnny cash. no abba at all. he is not the dancing queen. probably because he can't fuckin dance. still likes the song though. hes so the multi bear and manotaur lovechild.
lemmy my HEAVY METAL DIVA. are you ready to ROCK??? he is! dude gets fucking thrown across the mosh pit and he LIVES FOR IT. FUCK YEAH. METAL. he goes nuts for a lil death metal, dude is headbanging his brains out. metal is My favourite genre <3 lemmys a baller. i think hed be particularly into glam metal, like twisted sister and poison, a lil motley crue. he takes a lot of inspo from the glam metal looks of the 80s for his drag. ik dude grew up on bowsers old kiss albums and the covers fundamentally altered his brain. lemmy also likes literally every other genre of music. he loves a lil club pop banger dude is living for the applause applause applause he lives for the applause. genuinely enjoys rupaul songs. genuinely enjoys drag race songs. let loose by loosey laduca is a BANGER. and both i and lemmy will die on this hill. i think hed also be kinda a jpop fan. bump of chicken fucking slaps bro. ik he fucks with them hard. headbanging to the song they made for pokemon. insert other jpop songs here idk any ive been listening to let loose on loop. also. equestria girls soundtrack. because that shit has no right to be so good. cafeteria song is a BOP.
ludwig only listens to classical music. ONLY. classical music. those sonatas SLAP. he thinks all other genres of music sound like shit. nails on a chalkboard. turn that shit off and put on some VIVALDI. back to bach. she wolfgang on my amadeus til i mozart or whatever. has been tricked by larry into believing the 10th anniversary orchestral cover of the fnaf 1 song is the lost work of a reclusive legendary composer named levayne tombs-stone. he has no idea. zero fucking clue. but ludwigs neeeeever gonna say he doesnt know something, hes never heard of whoever levayne tomb-stone is, itd be embarrassing to admit that. he'll pat larry on the shoulder and say hes glad hes gaining an appreciation of the classical genre, meanwhile larry is fighting fucking demons not to hit him with the five nights at freddys. febby fivebear. ludwigs a physical media snob, he collects antique records and had an authentic old as fuck gramophone. he uses it sometimes, but he does have a more modern vinyl player. it feels less aura farming to use it but he feels like it sounds much better than listening to music on a phone. spotify? who that? he does not know of any music made past the 1900s. latest. a cupcakke song would kill him.
THANK YOU for the question i love questions and im so glad you like my yap!! i post. too much. but hey. more hcs for yall to enjoy. my endless ability to yap is either my greatest or my worst quality. depeneds how much you like me x.
iggy and his cds
would you believe me if i said this was my entire cd collection. unfortunately. it is. im no better than ignatius k koopa. arguably im worse. something something bitches love goblin on my darkstorm galaxy. she gets buddy buddy on my holly.
That’s what we call him right? Not Invader Zib? Hell if I know, we’ll let the tags decide.
Whatever he is christened by his author, enemies, or fans, this titular villain of the Zimvoid is such a mind blaster to me. I wish we had more time with him within the comics. I wish he had been a concept explored in the show. I wish he had a movie. I am having fun with a little hyperbole here, but I truly do find him just as interesting and potentially pivotal of an antagonist as Tak was, if not even more.
Both, of course, were so badly underutilized for sake of the series status quo. To that, Zib was a much bigger threat than Tak, and especially to that of the comics’ own. He potentially changes everything, and somehow absolutely nothing by the end. The TV show always had a more overt tone of cruelty and the macabre floating about its themes. These print issues? I don’t dislike them. It’s still recognizably invader Zim, and the more the merrier, content-wise, but longtime fans can feel that there was this change of essence in the transition. More obviously, in the art, but more subtly, there was an audible softening of that bluntly darker, cynical tone the show was made iconic for. To put it very generally, they lean a little more into the whackiness of this world, there’s a lot more dark comedy to be found in what I’ve seen so far rather than in your face darkness, and in the absence of the ost and voice acting the show accustomed us to, the comics leave a lot more room to be read as you wile. To me, they’re goofier and more episodic in spirit.
This all is not a critique or rating on the comics.. It’s purely, I feel, why Zib stuck out to me all the more jarringly in his context. His reveal was a genuine twist that brought forth stakes higher than arguably any other threat in the entire franchise. He represents a plausible while horrifying prophecy of our main characters if only they made worse decisions. The most interesting of all, for every piece of amazing information he fed to us, he bred dozens more questions about everything than he answered, from Irken machinations, to his ambivalent backstory, to the secrets hidden by the sum of his parts.
Though he was left evidently alive at the end of his story, I don’t see any chance for him making a return, so he is memorialized as another defeated one-off the writers have brisked past and left behind for good. Therefore, I’m here today to take what we got and present it on the metaphorical autopsy table. I want to really pull apart why this character alone pulled me back into the TV series, really just flay open the bits I can’t get out of my own head and dig harder until we find something or we run out of threads to tug at. Starting with the one already hanging out of my mouth, but
• B.E.F
“Bad End Friend” is a term I learned the meaning of within the last 12 hours or so of writing this, and I’m exuberant over that discovery. It’s a niche trope i didn’t know ive been a giant fan of since I was a child. Summed up, fictional characters from beloved media, typically, animated child protagonists… given the worst case scenario treatment. Their “bad ending”, whether that means a corruption arc, demonic possession, a lovecraftIan tragedy… usually something that’s anywhere along the lines of a fate worse than death to a full villainous turnover. As a treat. The concept is strongly associated with fanworks and AUs of popular media, but just as often this is something that becomes explored in the source material as well. A couple great examples I know would probably be Ice Prince Finn from Adventure Time or what happens in Undertale when you decide you want to run the most depraved playthrough possible. From a more mature story, “Evil” Morty is another validly arguable sample.
Besides a bit of a fondness I got going for certain dark or spooky themes in general, what I REALLY love about canonical BEFs the most is their utility as characterization tools. They’re the “having your cake and eating it too” option! The perfect way for an author to explore certain things about any character without actually committing to well… a bad ending.
Almost always, they are necessarily hypothetical or reversible. If they’re not reversible, they go often hand-in-hand with a little universe tampering to make happen. Sometimes, this means the story goes the way of time travel and branching off butterfly effects. Sometimes it means confirming multiverse theory, which can be the same thing depending on your semantical position.
And Zib crossed off the BEF qualifications by far and away. His implications are extremely dark given any pause think about them, and he’s a living, disturbing tragedy in aftermath. If you want to view a rigamarole about that aspect of his characterization as he appeared in the comics, someone else long beat me to that and I’m enthusiastically recommending a peek at their own work. I’m thrilled to do so and build a little upon that with those extended what-if-wonders.
• Lessons From a Lost Episode
Elephant in the room I haven’t seen someone ask yet, uh..
By show rules, isn’t Zib supposed to be a clear case of the writers committing the sin of retcon? By show I’m including the unaired scripts, including “10 Minutes to Doom”. In that one we had what looked like the potential setup for a Zib case, and it was deconstructed across the whole episode.
In short recap, Dib learned the hard and reckless way about the true nature of what Irken PAKs actually are. This is not an inventory bag, it is not “gear”. It’s the actual Irken entity- at least, the primary component.
Detaching it from the organic shell essentially caused a temporary split into two instances of Zim, desperately trying to connect back together under threat of obliteration.
Like let me be very clear about this,
The PAK is an autonomous instance of Zim’s consciousness, and it’s the main one. We’ve seen it act to save his life when his body has been out cold or flatlined, and he doesn’t appear the least bit disoriented or confused once “he” wakes and jumps back into the action. There’s no known separate computer assistant AI or security autopilot in there. That code, that program, IS Zim. As Long as the PAK is active, he is capable of staying fully conscious and able to react to what’s happening around him, and that’s what we’ve been seeing, his own actions.
Zim proved me right when Virooz tried to replace him and detached the PAK. Take note of his phrasing after the chair event™.
“I” activated the protocol. Immediately after Virooz ran off with my shell.
“I” Voluntarily chose to do so.
I don’t remember it playing out like that in “10 Minutes to Doom”.
Attaching to a new host wasn’t the first reflex. Dib was not the least bit aware that that he has literally holding the actual Zim captive in sense, and the latter was fighting like a cornered animal to escape him. Failing that, alongside the distance between him and his original body growing fast, he made a last desperate gambit, and he willingly connected himself into Dib’s body.
I can see why he thought this was better than nothing, no matter how repulsive the notion might have been. If he couldn’t fend Dib off physically, he could incapacitate him in some fashion by trying to overtake his will. Maybe give the shell a better chance to catch up, maybe in the longshot hope of being able to pilot dib in order to become whole with the correct host again. And you can say he succeeded, at least in dominating bodily control away from Dib, but at the cost of his already tenuously held sanity. This could be because of the interference of Dib’s own mind still resisting to fully submit, or malfunctions because of the biological incompatibility; however, the thing that Dib mentally becomes is only the basic idea of what “Zim” is. Instead of remembering it needs to reunite with its shell ASAP, the PAK mistakes Dib’s body for its own and goes through the manic motions of following the Invader mission. And it does this, weirdly enough, with almost no regard for blowing its cover.
When things are set right again, Zim’s later words near the episode ending revealed that he knew that was an unsustainable state.
Such a risk was not just accounted for, he was actually banking on it if that clock had hit zero. If Zim had truly lost, if he was really doomed to meet his end on this nasty rock in the middle of Nowhere, Space, then by every damned circuit in his being, he was going to take down this insolent fool boy and as many other humans possible with him. A dying act of vengeful rage.
• The Exceptional… Exception
Now, wouldn’t all of this be the definitive reason for Zib’s existence to be an aberrant impossibility? Yes, but actually no. Fun thing about multiverses is if something doesn’t work in one setting, you can just tweak a few dials and suddenly you have a world where the impossible becomes possible. But that’s a pretty cheap answer, isn’t it? So, what exactly was that crucial difference?
What happened in Zib’s timeline that went down so, so divergently from the events of 10 Minutes to Doom?
Because the only one who was in any position to explain it for us was Zib himself, and he’s proven to be one of the most unreliable of narrators. It’s as @dana-chan-the-control-brain already spared no effort to demonstrate, when he does tell us something about his past, his story is pocked with contradicting half-truths or outright lies. Ergo it helps to break down each recount of events to pick out the real facts.
Version 1: This is an alternate version of dib who defeated his complementing Zim (logically sensible) and went on to achieve all of the success and respect he sought after in his timeline (absolute bullshit). He kind of gestures and only implies about what has happened to his body while explaining that he came to his current understanding of Irken technology by studying it through Zim’s lab (a partial truth). He lets slip in passing that he has in fact fused with the PAK in order to learn how to alter and reprogram its coding, lessons he has applied to Number 2 in order to have a brainwashed pawn (also apparently true).
Version 2, when cornered and red handed: This is an alternate version of Dib who managed to specifically stop Zim's mission (Again, makes sense) but somehow could not convince the world of his findings or his warnings about the Irken Armada (*VERY eyebrow raising). Frustrated with the people’s lack of cooperation, he decides he has no choice but to physically merge with Zim’s PAK post-mortem (concerning and evidently mostly accurate), dominate the Earth himself, and enslave humans to help him in his efforts (highly troubling and probably true). The construction of his EMP super-weapon is successful, but ultimately led to the creation of the Zimvoid when the device was field tested (self evident, absolutely horrifying).
You know what I noticed was missing from both of these accounts? Exactly how his Zim was defeated. Which honestly could have been some beyond useful wisdom to pass along to the main Dib??? More than anything else? I’m not going to fault our boy for not pressing that matter better under the awing circumstance; however, there’s an implication I’ve been reading between lines.
When Zib mentions “defeating” his own Zim, he’s talking about something different than ours.
When our Dib has always talked about “defeating” Zim, he’s meant incapacitation and capture. Throughout the show he explicitly wants to present Zim before an audience alive and whole. Yeah, he fantasizes about other people torturing or disassembling him for study, but HIS role was supposed to be reaping the fame for an undeniable, ground-breaking discovery. Conspiracies and cryptids are all this kid breathes and lives by! And as long as pop culture has always been fascinated with the paranormal, and he has to know this full well, people keep bringing forward hoax after hoax after scam. I mean there’s a freaking current one or few still going IRL about this exact topic. Dib would want no room left for being dismissed as another one of those con artists.
Nonetheless, I actually doubt this is the reason Zib couldn’t get through to the scientific community. A genuine alien lifeform, even a dead one, could still be confirmed by any basic medical examination. The world thinks Dib is too crazy to listen to, but his father is still Professor Membrane. In "10 Minutes to Doom" OUR Dib got as close as having Membrane literally analyzing a PAK, or at worst, preparing to. “Ultimate Dib” gets his hands on the same thing and pulls a move I’d expect from an HP Lovecraft Protagonist instead.
We’re assuming way too much to what these two Dibs have in common, because this ^^^ is really what made the Zimvoid an outlier in the multiverse. That world didn’t only have a very different, more threatening Zim from the main timeline, it had the Dib who proved even more formidable, cunning, and ruthless, even before the fusion.
He didn’t obtain that PAK ala the “10 minutes to Doom” accident, it’s a personal trophy. This is extra strange remembering that capturing an Irken is realistically more easy than killing one. They’re seriously more tenacious than kudzu and will even fight back in PAK form alone. I’m convinced that whatever sort of final showdown made the Ultimate Dib the victor, there are two optional endings on the table.
Option 1: There was not a body even left intact enough to bring in to research. Maybe Dib’s fault, maybe an accident, maybe even Zim’s own luck running out and his incompetent antics finally swallowed him (and possibly GIR). This theory assumes that the PAK was the only sort of remains to come into Dib’s recovery/possession.
Option 2: Curiosity Killed the cat,
but satisfaction brought it back.
Or, the one I personally headcanon. Dib… all Dibs, I assume, don’t just hate the Irken species. They are mesmerized by them, and all that they represent from his perspective. Firstly, the epic villain he gets to roleplay nemesis to in order to feel his own worth and importance. Secondly, an unknown wonder from beyond the boundaries of the cosmos. He’s not really a ghost buster or a Men In Black agent at heart, but a scientist, like his father. Underneath his contempt for Zim’s plans to destroy the world is a genuine and appropriately childish awe for alien presence, especially for Zim’s technology. His silent, dopey smile when Tak’s ship ended up in his backyard said more than words ever will..
Earlier in the show, a great deal of Dib’s time and effort was spent on trying to infiltrate the lower levels of Zim’s base. Sneaking into the house was hard enough, but the computer security can’t be bypassed like the gnomes. Not even by Zim himself unless he really is all himself. Perhaps you’re starting to sniff where I’m going with this one when I refer back to “Bolognius Maximus”. I’ve another reference that’s a little more on the nose, and a lot more… dark.
Were an expired Irken husk before you, you too might take your victory and cash in then. Still, who knows what sudden impulse may run through the head of a less humble version of yourself, one some could call greedier, obsessive to a fault, a screw or two loose, yet, a hell of a smart cookie. Smart enough to see it for what it actually was, the keys to a whole world of discovery that went so many layers deeper than they could ever imagine. It’s possible the Ultimate Dib already learned beforehand the same hard lessons about the PAKs that our own did, and took that understanding toward not repeating the same mistake this time. What happened to Zim? I think he was murdered in cold blood, body, and entity. “10 Minutes to Doom” showed us a fight between 2 brains clinging to one body, struggling until one overpowered another, but that’s not what this is. Through whatever means of science were available to him, this Dib has probably tried to “disarm” the technology by either erasing Zim’s consciousness out of it altogether, or by forcing the autonomous code into a kind of dormancy. His intentions were to render it back to its basic hardware without losing its precious knowledge and usefulness, something like the brain-filled tank that was wired into Skrang’s head. Zim’s PAK doesn’t cling onto his body like a parasitic teratoma this time; it’s merged in a literal sense with his nervous and circulatory system. As well, he has fooled the device’s ability to detect and reject a foreign host shell, the exact same way he deceived the the base’s security AI. If an Irken biology is what these measures authorize to command them and their secrets, then he had the tools on hand to give them just that- in an atrocity I like to call
the darker harvest.
Within this theory, there is not as much room to wonder exactly what became of Zim’s organic remains.
But where Dib fucked up was, for the second time, in his ignorance to the true nature of what he was even playing with. That was a mistake that even the mighty Elder Brains of Judgementia lost themselves to; How much more vulnerable was the weak, human mind? Though Zim can be devoured, he can never be digested. In that fact was born this aberration against nature, sanity, and humanity alike.
"Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects… don't have politics. They're very… brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first… insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but… I'm afraid, uh…
I'm saying… I'm saying I - I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over… and the insect is awake."
- Seth Brundle, The Fly, 1986
By fusing what is half-mad and what is utterly mad, neither being was cured, only assimilated into the birth of a new madness. The madness of the creature that snickers behind the curtain in the Zimvoid. I rightfully fear that lonesome thing, but not I think as much as I pity him.
• Dejavu, or Re:Plagarism
One more thing about the Zimvoid arc I find curious is the way it makes you question more and more just how much of the aberration is actually still Dib, and how much of it is Zim's infection haunting him. He does nothing with all of his intellect, his resources, and his time in the void doing anything but surrounding himself in everything he claims he despises. He decries alien tyranny in one breath while lording over a homemade, cruel dictatorship in another. He calls for eradication of the very race who's technology and physiology he has thoroughly appropriated. He laments feeling unable to protect the Earth from the Armada alone, yet sneers literally through Irken teeth to insult humans as inferior and of no value to him any longer. Our Dib spent the whole damn show longing for the support of other people, but Zib pushes away potential allies in his arrogance. His broken timeline never became a Dibvoid instead because while only half of his mind can't stand Irkens, both of the souls inside him remember that they loathe and look down upon a Dib, deep inside.
The corruption goes as far as even subverting his own creativity. None of Zib's plans are wholly original. His anti-Irken weapon was already a concept blueprinted inside of that PAK before the merge. Our Dib has several times shown a propensity for some DIY ingenuity, sometimes dipping a toe into the supernatural. Zib entirely calls upon, scavenges and regurgitates Irken designs with a few modifications or upgrades.
The Dib Virus, I think is his most uninspired creation yet, for it's original form was always something inside of Zim, even if the latter himself was not aware of the fact. Like all else, it is a weapon he has plundered, customized, and turned around on everyone else for his own selfish ends. This brief point I will end on one  more reflection. The one kind of help Zim ever allowed at his side were the likes of GIR and his own creations. Unable to connect and cooperate with his peers and own kind, his ego preferred to be around those defective machines he related to- drones to be owned by him and always loyally at his beck and call. A slave to admire him unconditionally is the only companionship he's ever been willing to admit to desiring.
And what was Number 2's purpose again? What role exactly were the arena combatants auditioning for, when you think about it?
it's almost June and I feel like summer tends to be an exciting time for a lot of people! In case you are wondering what are some things summer will bring to you here's a Mamma Mia! Themed PAC for ya.
Minors DNI as one of the piles is a little PG. Please don't. Listen to me. Don't interact!
Here are the piles!
Pile I
Pile II
Pile III
Pile IV
Ready? Let's go!
what pile did you pick?
pile 1 with Ms. Meryl
iconic pile 2
the beautiful pile 3
pile 4 bc the tensionn
Voting ended onJun 3, 2023
Pile I
Song channeled: Waterloo
"I was defeated you won the war." "Finally facing my Waterloo."
There's an energy of waiting and release. I'll explain. You've been waiting for something to happen, you've been making moves in the past and nothing came out of it. So now I'm sensing you're just defeated and decided to let go of it. You have learned you can live without this thing happening. And it's when you let go that it happens. Or for some of you, something better comes out of it.
Letting go is a powerful thing, it can bring new things, it gives you peace of mind. And although it's painful sometimes, the sense of release is better than anything else.
So basically, this summer I see you becoming more chill with others and with yourself. You're done waiting and expecting things from people and opportunities, you're done. So you're letting go, learning how to breathe and that will be rewarded.
Things I'm seeing could happen: meeting a promising connection, learning a new skill, getting a job offer, learning how to love yourself.
Hope it resonates! 💕
Pile II
Song channeled: Dancing Queen
"you are the dancing queen, young and sweet"
"you're a teaser you turn em on"
I'm seeing you wanna have fun this summer. I mean, you chose this dancing pile, so it makes sense.
And I'm not here to blow your fun away. But i am.
So you want to go out and meet new people, get into that hot girl summer mindset. Maybe you've had a boring year or your experiences with summer have always been dull and not special.
I'm seeing someone scrolling on social media, looking at all the fun things people are doing on vacation, wishing that was them.
Well, I'm here to tell you that may not be you. And that's ok.
You're not at that point yet and that's fine. You can't expect to go out and meet people in a place where you know everyone. And if you can't afford to leave that place then it's going to be very difficult doing that.
It's alright to have a chill moment at home, you don't need to be out and about everyday in order for your summer to be exciting. You can meet people other ways, and you can get to know the people you already know better. Deepen some existing connections. Your deep desire of getting everything new is putting you back. You need to appreciate the things in your life before you get new ones. Including people.
Things I'm seeing could happen: finding a good friend, shadow work, journaling, exploring and finding new places in your city, picnic dates, taking care of animals.
Hope it resonates! 💕
Pile III
Song I channeled: I've been waiting for you.
"You're something I'd been pleading for"
"And finally it seems to me, my lonely days are through"
Great energy here, pile 3. A lot of you have done the work and been introspective and learned how to love yourselves. I'm so proud of that. Some of you spent hours wondering why your FS wasn't here yet and used that to solve some issues within you. Some of you wondered why you didn't seem good enough for this new position, and you did the work and got where you needed to be.
Whatever this thing you wanted was, you've done the work in order to get it. So you will get it. This summer it seems like the universe is giving you a break and granting you a wish. I'm so happy for you guys!
Things I see could happen: meeting a soulmate, getting a new job, getting a pet, buying a new house, leaving home, traveling somewhere you were dreaming of.
Hope it resonates! 💕
Pile IV
Song I channeled: Our last summer
"Walk around the Seine, laughing in the rain"
"Memories that remain"
You guys will probably travel somewhere small, like a town no one has ever heard of. This might be home for some of you and you'll be going back after a while. I'm seeing this summer will be quite transformative. I'm seeing it will be peaceful and quiet, but that's exactly what you need. Although not uneventful. I'm seeing some drama might happen with old friends. But nothing major. Maybe you'll get a crush on someone or see your old crush again and remember.
This summer is full of nostalgia and old memories. You'll rethink a lot of your goals and values and discover yourself a little more.
Things I'm seeing could happen: meeting a new crush, making a song, fighting with friends, rekindling a romance, losing the v (iykyk), lots of firsts... (Iykyk), flower picking, reading, writing a novel.
If you're a minor reading this why would you do this to me, i told you to leave at the beginning like get off the internet and live your life.
It's the 45th anniversary of Star Wars, and Stiles can’t help but think of you. Based on Glimpse of Us by Joji.
Pairing: Stiles Stilinski x Reader (past relationship), Stiles Stilinski x Malia Tate
Word Count: 540
Warnings: hurt/no comfort, angst, mentions of death, sad stiles :(
A/N: hi. i know it's been so long. im so sorry i just cant write on a consistent schedule idk why i like to think its my depression lol but here is a little angsty drabble that ive been working on for a while but i just never got around to finishing it until now. the pacing might be a little bit of... it honestly feels kinda rushed to me, but i hope y'all like it nonetheless <3
Masterlist
Stiles knew it was unfair of him to feel this way. Malia was a wonderful girlfriend— she grounded Stiles when he was being erratic and she was a master at cuddling. Despite her indifference for Star Wars, she always watched it with Stiles because she knew how much it meant to him.
He knew he shouldn’t feel like this, but he simply could not help it.
“Stiles!” Came his girlfriend’s voice. “Come look at this!” He walked over to where she stood and looked at the magazine she held out to him.
“Happy 45 years of Star Wars, babe,” Malia said with a smile. It was a Star Wars-themed magazine with exclusive behind-the-scenes photos from the original trilogy. Stiles had already browsed the magazine online, but he didn’t say anything to his girlfriend. It was the thought that counted, right?
His lips quivered in their forced upturn as he took the magazine from her outreached hand and thanked her, but as he casually flipped through the book, his heart couldn’t help but clench in pain. Star Wars had always been his and your thing— the two of you spending your movie nights watching anything Star Wars related, which often turned into heated debates and nerdy inside jokes.
His eyes caught on a screen cap of the iconic Episode V scene where Han and Leia finally confess their love for each other, and his jaw clenched as the familiar burning of tears tingled behind his eyes. He will never forget you lying in his arms, the visible pain in your eyes as you bled out. He will never get over the fact that you had died by his hand, regardless of the fact that it was actually the Nogitsune that stabbed you, not him. It was still his hand, still his body.
The Nogistune was especially cruel, hearing Stiles’ internal pleading as he begged the Nogitsune to spare you. He heard Stiles’ scream as the blade entered your body and left it with a swift tug. He allowed Stiles to take over for a brief moment, just to see the life fade from your eyes.
I love you, he had said, tears flowing steadily from his eyes.
I know, you whispered, your soft smile quickly turning into a grimace from the pain.
He had wanted to say something, say anything to keep you alive, but for the first time in his life, his mind was empty, all of the thoughts scattered away. And he was helpless, as he clutched you in his grasp as you took your last breath.
He rapidly blinked away the building tears and took a deep breath before closing the magazine.
Star Wars was always your thing, but he couldn’t tell his girlfriend that. Instead, he flashed Malia a thankful smile, and wrapped his arms around her, inhaling her scent that was just a little too sweet and a little too fruity.
Cause sometimes I look in her eyes and that’s where I find a glimpse of us
And I try to fall for her touch, but I’m thinking of the way it was
Said I’m fine and said I moved on
I’m only here passing time in her arms
why the fuck do stores the around me never restock the hand baskets
this bad boy is the perfect size for a quick trip to the store, perfect for maneuvering myself around people with no sense of personal space in public spaces, perfect for nabbing while people stand around contemplating how to do a three point turn with carts in the entranceway, perfect for adding inventory space when I thought i'd just get three things and now i'm getting eight, perfect for walking at the incredible speeds of over three steps a minute without having to worry about the inertia of a wheeled hunk of steel, perfect for rounding corners that people seem surprised exist in every aisle, perfect for a lightweight arm workout for free if you do it right, perfect for a quick on hand helmet should zombies attack, it's just the best.
look i'll take these as a good second but they seem to only ever be used as the only option wherever theyre used and then either people somehow forget that theyre dragging them around because they no longer immediately see it and it just gets in my way more than a regular car,t or they stop dead in their tracks and gawk at me for using the carry handle and get in my way - regular carts need to be an option for bozos who cant handle new shapes
this is an annoying ass compromise you know I dont wanna use that front bottom basket for anything because since ive got a smaller cart no one gives me any god damn space to maneuver over to it and that bottom back basket is perfect for small things I wanna just quickly drop in but oh no it's got the biggest bars for the smallest space so things that fit perfectly in it just fall right the fuck out half the time so I guess I wont use that either?????
peak design. iconic. great size and shape. EXCEPT! theres a fucking seat in my shopping cart! and a slant to accommodate the seat! wanna put groceries there? too bad theres fucking LEG HOLES for your shit to fall out of! wanna put something kinda tall and/or square in your cart? too bad theres a fucking MATH EQUATION for a cart shape! but what about lil jimmy who cant walk around the store? he doesnt wanna be in that thang! it fucking hurts! I remember it hurting! from when I was bebe! thats how much it sucks to be stuck with steel bars shoving into millimetre thick plastic and up your fucking ass!
in this essay about the failures of capitalism relating to shopping carts, community, agency, utility, leisure, gender, family structure... eh you get the themes.
this bad boy says "yes hello, I am about to spend 500$ at minimum because I'm a pro at shopping, or this was the only option"
I want one of these tbh but dont wanna buy one I want it to just be a thing that destroys capitalism via people realizing that they can share them, and share umbrellas, and share books and tools and whatever at libraries, and ride sharing can be sharing instead of undercutting taxi services by paying drivers basically nothing, and maybe if we can share cars we can share the bus and maybe if we can share the bus we can share trains and may e if we can share trains we can share basic necessities like food and water and have free health care and like maybe destroy the 40 hour work week and the scheduling of shifts done by management instead of people working jobs they actually want to do when they want to
...
just put the god damn baskets back you could hire me to carry them I'd be willing to do it I could even do this crazy thing where I use one of these bad boys:
like woahhhh the technology exists to move these things back to the front of the store! OR YOU COULD USE A DAMN SHOPPING CART TO MOVE THEM THEY WEIGH LIKE 20 GRAMS EACH COME THE FUCK ON I JUST WANNA USE A HAND BASKET YOU ALREADY HAVE SHOPPING CART PUSHERS HELL YOU COULD EVEN JUST STOP HAVING PEOPLE LEAVING THE BASKETS AT THE REGISTER YOU ALREADY HAVE PEOPLE WALK AWAY WITH CARTS COME ONNNNN
season 2 review and recap from the rewatch episodes 1-4
1. when she was bad
essentially this is what buffy wanted to act like in s6 but had to suppress it and if her friends did the wjole- ok never mind. but i think this episode is so interesting when it comes to her dealing with the beginning of her loss of innocence and having to deal with her mortality. anointed one set up was ok. it was an ok episode i just like that cordelia is now a bigger character and i liked her talk with buffy.
favourite: buffy smashing the bones then sobbing into angels chest. got me in the feels
least: hank talking to joyce about buffys detachment after her trauma
hm: buffys little dance on xander to that song???? fire
8/10
2. some assembly required
i literally forget this episode already but it was good. again cordelia was kidnapped. again buffy saved her. i like this theme honestly. IT WAS KIND OF SAD IT HAD A SAD ENDING
favourite: on a personal level, i loved angel finding cordelia in a dumpster asking where buffy was really good scene
least: the fact that i cant remember what happened
hm: cordelia telling xander how grateful she was and him totally dismissing her before asking willow why he cant get dates
8/10
3. school hard
GUYS YALL ALREADY KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT SCHOOL HARD OK THIS IS THE EPISODE ive seen it a bunch, i think its kind of stupid in a great way the two plots are pta meeting and spike??? the introduction to a character. kind of hilariously insane though because THIS IS JUST SPIKE THOUGH
favourite: countless things i love but lets just say im gonna have to pick buffy and spikes "do we need weapons for this" precursor to the battle. i mean come on
least: the suggestion that spike is going to have sex with sheila (but it gets turned around) also the veal line. ew
hm: spike and drusillas entire interaction IN FRONT OF THE ANOINTED ONE SO ICONIC AHHHHH. also spike killing that evil kid was awesome
9.5/10
4. inca mummy girl
the parallels between ampata and buffy were insane and its not my favourite episode but it was ok. very xander centric and inthink they were cute. willows costume was crazy
favourite: oz. whenever oz was doing something he killed it. seth green was born to be oz
least: there was a lot of iffy stuff in this episode culturally... like it could be worse but idk. not my cuppa
hm: jonathan almost getting murdered LMAO and also cordelias exchange student knowing english the entire time he just doesnt respond to being harassed haha
