Hey y'all, I'm watching Invader Zim again cause it's my favorite show and very nostalgic for me, and I love it a whole lot. Anyway, I know it's a show where they didn't put much thought into many of the details, but I'm a person who likes to overthink stupid little details. Now, on to my point, one thing that always stuck out to me for no reason was the sticky note that started it all.
It's clear that someone felt the need to mark some mystery planet just beyond the Irken map, whether or not they meant to mark Earth or some other planet vaguely to that side is debatable, but why mark it at all if there was nothing of interest out that way? You wouldn't. However, you would mark a mystery planet if you thought it was important. Perhaps some foreign intel from another species gave you clues that there was something useful over there, or maybe you were catching odd signals out that way. What's more is with the way Red and Purple talk I don't think that note was left by either of them, if they knew something they wanted to explore was out there they would never have sent Zim of all people, and they talk like they don't think any planet exists beyond their map and are genuinely surprised that Zim found one. If I had to guess, I'd say it was left by a previous tallest who never got around to sending anyone out there and went unnoticed after that until Red and Purple needed a convenient excuse to send Zim as far away as possible. After all, we know Zim caused the death of two tallests in his lifetime alone. It's highly possible they had left unfinished business behind.
Basically, this was a long-winded way of saying that I think the note that marks earth was always interesting.
It's okay babyfish, I'm here for you
nobody calls me babygirl on here it's always 'fish'
My mom: I had such high hopes for you
Me: you make it sound like I'm already dead
Mom after a laughing fit: no but like you're not going to college
Me: I wont be a cliche forever in student debt
Mom: it's the American way!
Me: I don't like Americans!
Mom through both our laughter: HEY IM AN AMERICAN!
Me also through laughter: IT WAS A JOKE YOU BOOTLICKER!
Mom: it doesn't bring me joy
*much more laughing from both of us*
Our house could be a standup comedy show some days I tell you hwat
My cat looks like a superhero
This man does not love his son and you cannot change my mind.
If asked his response is just "emotions aren't scientific"
All things considered Dib's Dilemma is objectively pretty low down on the scale of ways in which Dib has been psychologically tormented over the course of canon, but I'm not sure if anything has ever made me feel so genuinely distressed about it, because the entire thing is Dib practicing genuine empathy from a place of personal experience towards someone who never has and never will do the same for him.
Something both Dib and Membrane seem to have in common is an almost pathological need to maintain their version of the Truth™ no matter the personal consequence—they cannot make concessions or compromise their views even for their own direct benefit. Only that's exactly what Dib does here, and it is genuinely just so maddeningly backwards to watch this kid go to bat for a father who has never once validated him or protected him from ridicule, specifically because he knows how unbearable it is to be constantly disrespected and disbelieved. He proves Professor Membrane right at his own expense, because it's the thing he wants most in the world and he loves his father too much to withhold it the way it's been withheld from him.
And what REALLY fucks with me is that Membrane understands exactly how significant this is (perhaps because it is exactly the thing that he's never been able to bring himself to do). He understands the sacrifice being made and still he will not do the same. I literally cannot overstate how much I hate it when this man is self-aware.
It's just homestuck again
yall i realized i forgot to post this to tumblr but happy belated 4/13
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I have come up with this wonderful idea.
The dick dealer! Lmao.
How the fuck did I learn to read morse code in a matter of days by rereading homestuck?
I took French for half a year and only actually learned how to count numbers up to 9 and have a hard time with anything past 3 unless I sing that fuckin Hamilton song
Da fuck brain, da fuck?
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