#invader zim zim

[mcnotok]

Favorite alien blorbos

[kitsupine]

☆dibs lost and its zims fault☆

[your-favorite-humanbeing]

ATTENTION TO ALL IZ FANS!!!:

Sonic shoed ZiM.

[mr-arfvoil]

Who up deading they fandom rn?

[pe0pleall3rgy]

Projecting my misery onto him.

[spaceboibrainrot]

sorry if this seems rude, but isn’t zim confirmed to be an adult? i’m just trying to confirm the ages of zim and dib, and zims age isnt really confirmed in the show

jhonen vasquez has said Zim is older than any human currently alive but Zim is intended to be seen as a kid.

The show Bible calls him a kid

In the ETF scene where Zim is human he's a human kid

Zim is intended to be seen as a kid and a lot of people who worked on invader Zim make stuff to encourage ZaDr which they wouldn't do if it was an adult and child

Zim is intended to be seen as an equal to Dib the same age, size, power, ways of thinking, etc.

If you see Zim as a kid that's accurate, if you see Zim as an adult that's also accurate.

[inbarfink]

There’s just something about the fact that Zim reads as So Autistic. Like, both in the sense that it’s easy to map his experiences as an alien secretly living on earth to Autistic experiences:

A lack of understanding of social cues and conventions

The Anxieties of feeling like you have to fit in some arbitrary social standards or Something Bad will happen

Unusual sensory sensitivities

Pickiness about food

General alienation

Even the whole ‘fully grown alien disguised as a human child but he’s so immature he basically acts like a child’ shtick can really resonate with a sort of Growing Up Autistic Feeling of… being both far too mature and childish for your age at the same time.

And also in the sense that even in the context of comparing him to other Irkens...

He has problems with volume control

And possibly audio processing

And definitely with emotional regulation

And is extremely impulsive 

And uses very unusual wordings and turn-of-phrases 

And experiences sensory overloads.

And these aren't even Alien Things. That's just Zim being Zim. So he can be read as a metaphor for being Autistic and also as just having the Irken Equivalent of Autism

AND ALSO

His human arch-enemy Dib also has SO MUCH AUTISM VIBES

Like being single-mindedly obsessed with a special interest from a young age

(The part where his interests alienate him from his peers at school and he only finds companionship with an assortment of fellow weirdos of various ages he met online is something I find especially relatable for my own experiences)

Also having problems with reading social cues 

And a tendency to rant and info-dump

AND ALSO ALSO 

There’s also Gaz

Who is ALSO single-mindedly obsessed with a singular subject

And it’s something that always gives her something to do with her hands

And avoid eye-contact 

Which she generally prefers to avoid

And also seems to dislike any sort of physical touch

And either expresses her emotions in a way that is terribly understated or overstated

And it could also apply to their dad too, who’s been obsessed with science stuff from a young age

And also doesn’t seem to do so well with social interactions

Outside of just, like, me looking back at my Autistic-but-unaware-of-it middle-school ass imprinting on this show and being like “oh yeah, That Makes Sense” - it’s also kinda darkly hilarious how this show is basically about two autistic boys who just fucking hate each other to death (plus one of the boys' extremely autistic and extremely dysfunctional family). I mean, in the real world Autistic Solidarity is so incredibly important, obviously. But Invader Zim, a show that was everything to me as a lil autistic teenager is all about that sweet sweet Autistic Hostility.

[unreliable-at-best]

[alienposse]

Boy kisser

[orbitpilot]

Pilot Dib & Zim

[skyglowfading]

Why was this in my old ibispaint files 😭😭😭

[kissymatch]

i love emojis also thats gir because i gave up on drawing him byebye gir rest in pieces

how are we feeling about this artstyle give me criticism babes so i can improve

(Rendering is lazy sorry TEEHEE)

[your-favorite-humanbeing]

Big headed ZiM and long necked ZiM sharing their evil alien invation plans by telepathy.

[mr-arfvoil]

Please remind me never to draw again. Ever. Ice cream looks pretty good though!

[pe0pleall3rgy]

My sillies….

[spaceboibrainrot]

I refuse to acknowledge that Zim is taller than Dib

I refuse to believe this.