Context:
My friend and I are doing an rp where Dad-Nar and Professor Membrane are dating. We also came up with the idea that some aliens can pretty much smell whether you're a dom or a sub.
for being a member of an aggressively militarized, evil, bug-like, cyborg alien race that is completely incapable of natural reproduction,
Zim is bizarrely…
And I mean weirdly…
Paternal.
Like, there is only one dynamic/circumstance in which I’ve ever seen a softer side of him or a shred of empathy for another creature rear its head and it’s consistent across the show, movie, and comics.
Now, I’m not saying this lunatic maybe desperately needs a spare smeet or similar thrown his way yesterday ago,
DISTRACTIONS
sometimes its the drive to help and save our friends that pushes us to learn and to succeed. unfortunately its normally ''unethical'' to replicate that in a classroom setting.
I ONLY JUST FINISHED THE LAST PAGE HERE, THE FIRST TWO WERE LITERALLY FROM LAST YEAR, N A FEW MONTHS APART. LOOOOK AT MY EVOLUTION. im very proud of this and bled REALLY HARD FOR THE LAST PAGE. PLEASE ABSORB THIS.
Headcanon: Membrane actually was a professor when Dib and Gaz were little, but when Dib began to show more of an interest in the paranormal than the "real" science he wanted him to engage with he quit his university job to create "Probing the Membrane of Science" in order to counter the misinformation that programs like Mysterious Mysteries were poisoning the minds of children like his son with. Membrane constantly calls out MM and prominent "conspiracy theorists" like the guy from the Dib's Dilemma comic on his show, either passive aggressively or directly by name, and dedicates segments or entire episodes of his show to debunking them. But these people and their audiences always dismiss his debunking as being part of the Agenda to Hide the Truth.
Membrane is also secretly jealous because he thinks Dib listens to/looks up to the MM host more than him, unaware that Dib talks pridefully about his dad being THE Professor Membrane all the time. Membrane constantly throwing shade at MM on his show is part of the reason why the MM host dislikes Dib and wants nothing to do with him. He feels like it's Dib's fault his program gets attacked all the time by Membrane and his supporters.
Although MM's audience is quite a bit smaller than PtMoS, there is a vicious fandom rivalry between their respective viewers. A small percentage of MM's viewership are people like Dib who just want to enjoy the show in peace without being hassled about it and are not anti-science or without skepticism. But because Membrane's behavior on his show actively encourages his audience to think they're superior and that MM and it's audience are worthy of scorn and derision MM's viewers are constantly under attack, which fuels their sense of persecution and drives them to become anti-science reactionaries.
Yet another 2 cents on Sizz-Lorr, never forget his polite little "Uhhh, sorry about that" to the human class when he broke in to snatch Zim.
Like, he broke in, snatched Zim, left, REALIZED HE CAME OFF AS RUDE, dropped Zim, DROPPED ALL THE WAY BACK DOWN, and then politely apologized for completely destroying the skool ceiling.