HHHHHH I wanna talk about small romantic and intimate things I imagine my Zim and Dib doing BUT ALL MY THOUGHTS ARE RELATED TO ZIM BEING DISABLED IN MULTIPLE WAYS AND DIB BEING AUTISTIC. And I feel like I already don't shut up about that but also I wanna post about it sooo bad.
The crazies are gonna have to stay in my brain because I don't want them to break containment or annoy my mutuals. 〒^〒
Because of the way that I dress a lot of people say that I was “born in the wrong decade “but I think if I was actually in the 1950s or 60s I would be a depressed housewife in an unfulfilling marriage who writes Star Trek fan zines to cope.
Look, I may be an idiot, but one of the most life-changing things to happen to me in the past 24 hours was finding out that the best way to put bobby pins in your hair is with the ridges down towards your scalp. 
Answers for the girls were kinda long so they're under the cut
Me <3
1 . when did you discover you were butch, stud or femme?
This is actually a hard one. So I would say this journey for me started around the time I broke up with my ex about 3 years ago. I wanted to explore my own identity as a lesbian a lot more because they kinda tried to push me into identifying differently for reasons I still cannot fathom. So I read a lot, like, A LOT of lesbian literature and poetry and essays and I really identified with the way these lesbians described being femme and concerning butch/femme dynamics. Yea, it was kinda a slow piecemeal discovery but I fully figured it out like around the time I started writing Galaxy Girls.
2 . when did you discover you were a lesbian?
It's a long story that involves abandonment, private school, essentially child neglect, and Mount Lassen. The long and short of it is I walked up a mountain by myself and I came down a lesbian.
8. can you share the story of you coming out?
UHHHHH. No. Coming out was kinda weird for me where I kinda did, kinda didn't. Like I'm out to my parents but we never had like the sit-down "Mom, Dad, I'm a lesbian" talk. So there's not really a story, sorry to disappoint. And even when coming out to friends, I mention being a lesbian in casual conversation so sometimes I'll get "Oh, I didn't know you were a lesbian" reactions and we just move on.
Girlies <3
1 . when did you discover you were butch, stud or femme?
Dib discovered it pretty much at the same time that she figured out she was a lesbian. It was more personal for her, she met other, mostly older, butches and spoke with them and discovered her own identity by asking questions and listening to them talk about their life experiences. From there she got like really into it and picked up a lot of butch and lesbian literature, she'd always been a tomboy and had a weird relationship with her femininity and girlhood even at a young age. So I feel like her finding her butch identity was super comforting since the idea of being butch encapsulated her relationship with gender a lot better than being a tomboy or just masc.
You guys are actually going to read Zim's discovery of her identity as a femme! So I won't say too much because some of the moments are really emotionally impactful (at least for me). Zim explores her sexuality with a more academic approach and discovers herself that way through literature, research, and other writings. She's entering this building her identity from scratch so she's cautious about talking about things that only a few months or a year ago she would have deemed "defective behaviors."
3 . what does being butch/stud/femme mean to you?
Dib sees being butch more as her gender than being a woman. Another part of her feelings around being butch relates to her desire to be with a femme. She desires the closeness and validation of her identity that being in a butch/femme relationship would bring her on a personal level. But also she's had such generally bad experiences with people she doesn't really seek out meaningful relationships despite her desire to be in one.
Zim experiences being femme as this piece of her that she was pretty much barred from because of her upbringing in the empire. Zim repressed her experience of sexuality and gender to fit into being an "ideal Irken" but now that she's free of that she can exist as a fuller version of herself. All this to say she associates her femme identity with her freedom from the empire.
6 . how long do you take to get ready in the morning?
Dib: 20 minutes, 30 if she needs to shower.
Zim: 45 minutes to an hour at minimum, but usually about an hour and a half. She's a high-maintenance girl.
DIB KEYCHAIN IS HERE!!!!!! 4 more to go.. i think to compensate for his vertical height i'm gonna make him 4 inches to make them look the same size (zim is 3.5 but his design has more horizontal width that dib's lacks)