When You Are New To The Rainworld Fandom And You Start Looking Up Fanart Of Five Pebbles

When you are new to the Rainworld fandom and you start looking up fanart of Five Pebbles

Every time I think about how Lard Nar actually looks without the googles I get into a stupid giggle fit it’s just so ridiculous and I really wish there was more fan content about it

Additional things I haven’t yet stopped thinking about in regards to this idea:

• @patchworkpoltergeist brought up the subject of possession vulnerability which, fuck yeah, that’s a rad trail someone can walk down if they’d like to. Sounds kinda reverse-Zib if you ask me but I kinda like it. Also, knee-slappingly appropriate username there.

@zombified-queer : I don’t think Irkens have any sort of of spirituality beyond the machine

• The fact that I can’t agree more. The “Day of Da Spookies” transcript very straight forwardly confirms that Zim sees the majority of Dib’s paranormal other beliefs as complete hogwash the same as the classmates. Sure, he’s fought a ham demon and seen Mortos before, but he doesn’t buy hauntings. Him and Skoodge both set out on a whole mission to try and destroy Dib’s belief in ghosts and demonstrate pretty well that they’ve only done a very small amount of what might be called research on the subject. I heavily doubt Irkens widely have any conception of afterlife that is not an ascension/reincarnation path through technology rather than an innate spiritual essence. Something like the Martians’ hologram manuals are about as close to talking to disembodied spirits as he’s ever gotten. Which…. Brings up some interesting springboard to ponder if/how humans can become ghosts but not the off-worlders, or more specifically, the question about the existence of Irken souls.

• All of us knowing that at least for the first several minutes to days, Zim’s initial response to new obstacles/threats has often been obstinate aggression or basically a paranoid breakdown, and how fun either option would be to play around with until he comes to terms with the fact that this is not a problem you can just violence away, fend off, OR hide from.

• The horribly dark comedic value of picturing that damn apparition in some corner of the base giving the stink eye of the century intentionally from Zim’s periphery. End of his rope and frustrated Zim asks him if he doesn’t have something better to be doing and, no, actually, no. He genuinely, literally, furiously doesn’t.

You know even if Zim ever gets a lucky shot and actually kills Dib legit dead, I don’t think it’s gonna feel like much of a victory for him if it turns out the kid was right all along about the existence of ghosts

I’m not sure if Invaders have any solutions on hand for vengeful obsessive hauntings

Also true yet I think even that is underselling it. Disorganized colonizer to Earth, natural terrorist to his own species. I woulda gone with “He’s a walking natural disaster”

Also, me when propaganda works

Taylor art by @tactilescream

Propaganda

Invader Zim: No Propaganda Submitted

Taylor Hebert: - She's the protagonist and main POV character

- She spends the first several arcs going from "insecure teen" to "widely feared supervillain" over the course of a few months

- Her actions are definitely villainous, from robbing a bank, to attempting taking over a city, to putting bugs in the chilli someone was cooking

Not to remind anyone things happen to happen IRL but sorry for the streak of inactivity as of late. Going to be moving out soonish, dealing with a national medication shortage that’s been hitting me most inconveniently, still adjusting to my daytime workload, just, stuff that’s been kinda occupying and hopefully will have been at least greatly worked through by the end of the month. As much as I’ve still been teaming the entire time with the think juice and so much I still have to say and meme about, upkeeping the queue rn is just temporarily a bit less of a recreation and more of a chore. But genuinely thanks for still viewing and spreading my other stuff around. Every new comment and note is a very appreciated little egg of dopamine during this time