How The Amnesia- A Machine For Pigs Playthrough Started: Hee Silly Pig Masks Everywhere. Lol Look At

How the Amnesia- A Machine For Pigs playthrough started: hee silly pig masks everywhere. lol look at this painting of a naked lady making out with a goose. No sanity drain? Infinite lantern? Have the devs gone soft this time?

How it’s going:

Actual question, what on earth was Skoodge even doing in Zim’s basement this entire time?

Canonically he reveals himself in a lost episode when he finally got bored hiding out down there and overheard there were shenanigans about to happen that he could join in on.

But he’s explicitly been there since Hobo 13.

…..

That was Season One. There’s been like 18 episodes between that and the series end. Valentines Day, Halloween, Minimoose’s birth, AND Christmas has passed in the meantime. Wtf has he been up to down there while also being undetected by Zim and Gir. Earth Tv? Space Tv? Stealing out of the pantry like a little mousey boy? Crawling through the walls looking for cheese and eavesdropping on Earth drama????

Not a week goes by where I don’t imagine how funny it would have been if Zim and Gir were out of house for a while and Dib just catches Skoodge casually wandering around on one of his spy cameras. Just

“Holy smokes Zim really let himself go” and then watched the round bastard do fuckall for like 3 days

Thought @onenicebugperday would appreciate this but so I had been working as a pest control technician for mosquitoes over last summer. Obvs that much time outdoors lets you come across a lot of critters, and I decided since i haven’t had that job anymore since November it’d be fun to put together a little highlight reel of the other bugs I came across on the clock.

First off we got an impressive katydid

A quite photogenic snail

My favorite local wasp species, a cicada killer

A much more common and large red wasp

Local hanging thief. Absolutely badass looking robber fly who somehow got into the office building

Another robber fly encounter, this one was busy having a snack on a red wasp it has caught

BMSB that I would usually not like to see, but this one was literally in the middle of molting into the adult form and I loved how it looked like a forbidden peppermint

What I am going to guess is a very handsome stag

And of course, my actual target. Mosquitoes are certainly no uncommon sight but I managed to catch this one freshly emerged out of the pupa and that’s kinda neat

(Asian tiger to be specific, not native here but they sure be flourishing)

Addition: Canonically, Irkens use all caps. “ZIM” would be the literal translation of his name from the native script- how his civilization would address him. There’s no case changes in the Irken alphabet. Ergo, this is totally something he picked up after living on Earth.

Freaking love the idea of him trying to use/adapt to English case changes but not fully understanding the rules yet. I feel like he either only lower-cased the I (possibly guessing this only applies to vowels in names) OR he mistakenly believed at one point that “i” is our uppercase form of the letter and got into a habit writing it that way at Skool.

Or you know maybe he’s just quirky like that this is ZiM we’re talking about.

So I usually write down the name of our favorite Horrible Bug Boy as ‘Zim’ because it’s the simplest and easiest for my muscle memory. And I understand why some folks go for 'ZIM' since it is used in some official media. But I also think it’s important to acknowledge that neither ‘Zim’ nor ‘ZIM’ is how our favorite terrible Irken spells his own name. 

It’s ZiM!

You can first kinda see it on the drawing he did in ‘Bestest Friend’ 

But it’s more obvious looking at his message for his past self in ‘Bad Bad Rubber Piggy’, which is longer and include a sample of ZiM writing in both upper and lowercase

He can use regular non-dotted uppercase 'I', as seen in the word "TIME MACHINE" but the 'i' in his name is dotted lower-case 'i'. Meanwhile, the 'M' is exactly the same upper-case 'M' as in 'TIME MACHINE'.

His proper name is ZiM.

Every Dredge Aberration (2023), Part 12

Serpentine Mackerel

Encyclopedia #145

Aberrant form of snake mackerel

Description:

It lashes out with its fangs, and tail. A hissing rises from its mouth, and then from the water around you.

Comment: What I enjoy about this one is not the way that the dark forces have warped it away from its natural form, but accentuated its original unique qualities. For an example, take note of the intimidating look of a real snake mackerel. Good eating I bet, either way.

How to catch: Funny thing, for requiring a trip all the way out to Devil’s Spine, this fish actually has a relatively poor value to inventory space ratio. Unless the wiki has been misled, its base price has been written at $50, matching the same value as the three headed cod which can be hunted right out of little marrow. Consequently, the method to get one of these for your own encyclopedia is not much different either. Haul or trawl at coastal depth, the time of day not mattering.

Tattered Mackerel

Encyclopedia #146

Aberrant form of snake mackerel

Description:

A tangle of ribbons stream behind this fish, its form converging around a shadowy head. A strip slides away, retreating to the depths.

Comment: Still wondering what trick of survival these strands are playing. Are they meant as distractions, detaching in the jaws of prey in order to save the main head? Or, could they be an aberrant way of spawning more fiends, fleeing to grow and mature anew?

How to catch: ^^^, with the obvious sidenote that this is the more valuable variant.

Defaced Skate

Encyclopedia #147

Aberrant form of pale skate

Description:

Bones replace cartilage and erupt through soft skin. A frightened new form begins to emerge.

Comment: Speaking of bones, that right there is the sort of imagery which rolls a shiver down my own. Fantastic job.

How to catch: This critter only dwells in the hearth of the Spine’s volcanic waters. Bring a suitable net or rod and start your search by dawn’s bright.

Rapt Shark

Encyclopedia #148

Aberrant form of ghost shark

Description:

A grinning maw turned upwards to the sky. Wing-like fins, ready to take flight.

Comment: A worrying foreshadow, very very worrying indeed. A creature in all visual ways meant for the depths, away from light, yet threatening to jump beyond the surface. Another one of deep’s warnings for what kind of new world it plans to replace this one with. More interestingly is that rapt was the adjective decided most appropriate. A clever double entendre that I hope did not go unappreciated.

How to catch: If you ditched your abyssal rod(s) before you arrived at Devil’s Spine, this where bad news arrives to tell you that you’re far from through using them. Ghost sharks feast at nearly the darkest depths, and are not picky about the time.

Twisted Shark

Encyclopedia #149

Aberrant form of frilled shark

Description:

Three tails that twist and turn. Three unite behind the head. Thrice the body that must be fed.

Comment: A delicious rhyme, whether intentional or not. An aquatic realization of the ancient three-fish motif, allegedly seen across many of the world’s major religions.

*other note- purely measuring by price proportional to inventory slots required to hold one of these, THIS is actually the single most valuable renewable catch in Dredge, beating out the other aberrant sharks and even the pale grasper at a whopping $50 per cargo square.*

How to catch: They lurk the Spine’s volcanic waters, only able to be brought in by hook and rod.

Grasping Snail

Encyclopedia #150

Aberrant form of volcano snail

Description:

Bony fingers extend though a membrane of mucous, feeling for a target. The frantic eye locks with yours.

Comment: An odd reminder in an odd place of the evolutionarily relation between gastro and cephalopods. What are you but another timeline’s vision of the nautilus?

How to catch: If you are of the same mind as me, this catch may quickly become more nuisance than wanted after you’ve discovered the species. Like the untainted volcano snail, they have a surprisingly poor value per slot, and take up a whole 4 units of space within a crab pot. They can be caught in traps placed down to 10 meters deep.

@animangacreators challenge 25 ✧ graveyard challenge ↳ favourite undead character