#mirken

[dvtchie]

little preview doodle of a Marine/Mermaid Irken AU ive been mass cooking up as comfort for the past few days

please don't use/get inspired off of my designs!!

[goldenkingyo]

Mirken at sea [speed-paint] | IZ

[broadsidemagazine]

Newport: The Short Hot Summer (Newpork Folk Festival, 1965)

PHIL OCHS: The trouble with Newport 65 was that too many people forgot that it was supposed to be a festival. The cops were ridiculously harsh and rude. Many city performers were up tight about how well they would do professionally. And juvenile gossip seemed to be on too many peoples’ tongues. It should have been called the Newport Fuzz Festival. If people don't take it so seriously next year it should turn out to be a whole lot better.

NEWS REPORT: This year’s Newport Folk Festival was the biggest ever with 77,000 paid admissions. Festival officials plan to have next summer’s affair run a full week.

CARL MIRKEN (Broadside reporter): Fanatic screaming erupted when Bob Dylan appeared on stage Sunday night. His black leather sports jacket, red shirt, tapered black slacks and electric guitar startled some in the audience and dismayed many. Sight of the Butterfield Band backing him up deepened their dismay. By his third -- and most ‘radically’ rock and roll -- song, there was loud jeering and cat-calls from some parts of the audience. Then a regular battle between boos and cheers. Bob was obviously quite perturbed, the first time I have seen him so in front of an audience. (It must be said that he had rehearsed with the band for only an hour the night before and the poorly-balanced sound system made what could have been a great sound messy). Bob dismissed the band, exchanged his electronic guitar for his more familiar acoustic one. When a cry arose for him to sing “Mr. Tambourine Man” he responded almost apologetically “Okay, if you want me to.” And he did, and then once again he had the oldtime thunderous near-unanimous applause. All in all, it was a dramatic confrontation.

JACK SOLOMAN (manager): Dylan was out of his own element. Butterfield isn't a performer. He just lays down music.

JOAN BAEZ (performer): Tonight Bob was in a mess. He’s really very good. People just don't understand his writing.

CAROL ADLER (copywriter): This is the most hostile audience I've ever seen. I don’t understand it. Dylan completely knocked them out wherever he went in England.

THEODORE BIKEL (performer): You don’t whistle in church -- you don't play rock and roll at a folk festival.

NEW YORK TIMES (Robert Shelton): While the fresh, enthusiastic thousands of teenagers in the audiences comported themselves in a fashion that pleased Newport and festival officials, the conduct of older members of the folk leadership left much to be desired… A folklorist and a personal manager scuffled on the ground over a fine point of courtesy in the folklorist's introduction.

ALAN LOMAX (folklorist): I had been on stage for over three hours and I was hot and tired. At this point I wasn’t emceeing -- I was talking about the blues. When I came off stage there was Al Grossman and he said to me “That was the worst job of emceeing I’ve ever heard in my life.” And I said “It was no worse than some of the things you've done in your life.” Then he said something like “I ought to belt you in the nose.” I pushed my chest up against his and invited him to try it. I don’t remember swinging but there he was stretched out on the ground. Then he jumped up and grappled me around the waist and we were both down, rolling around. By that time people pulled us apart. That’s all there was to it. It couldn't have lasted more than 30 seconds. But I suppose it's already becoming a folk legend. (Editor’s note: The artist who apparently got a somewhat less than perfect introduction from Mr. Lomax belongs to Hr. Grossman’s stable).

CARYL MIRKEN (after the dust settled): The contemporary songs workshop was a high point of the festival, or could have been. It was the most eagerly awaited event and best attended. Large crowds jammed into the area the instant the gates were opened. Co-Host Peter Yarrow in a little speech said the contemporary writers are rightfully folksong writers because the whole folk tradition is with them. But although this was by far the workshop attracting the greatest interest the Newport Board this year seemed deliberately de-emphasizing contemporary songs and their writers. Most conspicuous by his absence from the program was Phil Ochs… Also absent were such of the country's leading topical songwriters as Tom Paxton and Eric Andersen. Also memorable at Newport 65: Joan Baez saluting “Johnson’s marvelous foreign policy” by singing “Stop, In The Name Of Love”... Another side of Pete Seeger: Pete managing to hang in while backing Spokes Mashiyane, the amazing South African pennywhistle jazzman (his music is really called “Kwela” but the closest term we have for it is jazz), along with Chicago blues piano player Lalayette Lee and bassist Willie Dixon. Spokes, who along with Mimi and Dick Fariña was probably the most brilliant performer at this year’s festival was brought to Newport largely through the efforts of Pete Seeger, who discovered him on his world tour a year or so ago… Fannie Lou Hamer: A great human being and a wondrous singer (“Mississippi, land of the tree and home ot the grave”)... Dick & Mimi Fariña holding an enthusiastic audience Sunday afternoon despite a sudden downpour as they sang their “House Un-American Blues Activity Dream”... Mark Spoelstra's new songs… Donovan the import from Britain is certainly much more than just an “imitation of Bob Dylan”. Donovan has his own style; his imagery is clear and meaningful without any trace at Dylan's semantic obscurity. Aside from his music Donovan is the sweetest, most “natural” guy going… John Koerner's parody of the gambler-sheriff song.

(Broadside #61, August 1965)

[drdynamic]

So @icantlose just shared with me a list of slang words for 'mustache' so now I have to share the link with you all, too (also stuck the list under the cut).

Best Friend

Bristle Batons

Bro-merang

Bro-mo

Bro-stache

Caterpillar

Cookie Duster

Crumb Catcher

Crustache

Dirt Squirrel

Double Hamster

Face Fitting

Face Lace

Face Furniture

Facial Fur

Fanny Duster (this one almost knocked me out)

Fellowcro

Flavor Saver

Grass Grin

Handlebars

Lady Tickler

Lip Cap

Lip Doily

Lip Foliage

Lip Luggage

Lip Rug

Lip Sweater

Lip Toupée

Lower Brow

Manometer

Mo

Molestache

Mouser

Mouth Mirken

Mouth-stache

Mouth Brow

Moz

Mr. Tickler

Muzzy

Nose Bug

Nose Neighbor

Old Bullet Proof

Pushbroom Brocha

Ronnie (Irish)

Smoke Filter

Snot Catcher

Snot Mop

Soup Strainer

Stache Tache

Tea Strainer

Upper Lipholstery

Whiskers

Wing

Womb Broom

[sabinastent]

“I delight in what I fear.”

Happy Birthday to the brilliant Shirley Jackson.

Photographed in 1938 by June Mirken Mintz.

[thatgeyaesthetic]

Just a BIT LATE for Mermay by like.. a few minutes. But I finally got my MerZim down on paper (so to speak)

He's modeled after a betafish mostly, but I added a bubble on his back that aids his lungs as he swims. When he leaves the water, it would be incased in a protective pak like thing, allowing him to breath above water.

When Dib first discovered him, he was a cool grey color with tattered fins and pale skin. But with a little attention and encouragement (Mostly them playing cat and mouse, where Dib tried to capture him and expose him to the world) Zim brightened up a lot. His colors came in glaringly bright and he began upstaging other Mirkens easily with his flare. Of course it's /Zim/ so no one cares. So he ostracized from his community, and eventually becomes friends, more or less, with Dib.

(Follow my Twitter for NSFW)

Commission me or buy me a coffee!! https://ko-fi.com/randomfandoms69

[thatdragonzeek]

Eyyy Mirken Zim has a reference now! I'll make Dibs tomorrow, because it's 11:54 pm rn and I have classes in the morning

[dailyzim]

making a come back?

we can only pray

mirken zim by @mochiiwolf @biologystudentdib

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

Hey, did you saw the film theory on Invader Zim on Membrane that Low-key makes sense

NO. IT. DOESN’T!

Okay, maybe this is my personal bias shining through, because I really don’t like Mattpatt sometimes... No. Okay, I have nothing against the guy personally. More frankly, I don’t like his fanbase or the way he structures his videos.

The way Mattpatt words and structures his videos acts like he’s the first person who thought of this idea, it’s the main contributor to why I stopped watching his videos a long time ago.

He speaks in a lot of rhetorics and strawman arguments rather than just saying what he wants to say. Like “If you don’t believe me... look no further then...” and that’s the one thing I ABSOLUTELY HATE on theory videos.

And some of Mattpatts own theories he doesn’t take seriously, but this is what you get when you base your INCOME off of youtube ad revenue and browse the reddit forums for new ideas. A completely monopolized way of theorizing. (and this is why there are several paragraphs in my current chapter of Tech Support of Zim’s Computer complaining about the concept of youtube entertainment in general.)

Sure, I don’t think Mattpatt will run out of theories... but I really hate the structure of his videos follows along strawman arguments, acting like he’s always arguing with an imaginary audience for entertainment value rather than just say what he wants to say.

That, and people will often cling to theories of someone with good editing software and a youtube channel then Their own opinions.

Something that I learned was incredibly dangerous to do. I learned my lesson with “That Guy with the Glasses dot com” and I don’t plan to act like I know something or am better than someone else cause I agree with someone who said something on youtube once.

I do watch Internet reviews and theory videos for entertainment, but that’s all they are to me. I don’t like to watch youtube videos to give me opinions on how I feel about things. And I seriously think a wide margin of his subscribers lack critical thinking skills at times, as well as a majority of the youtube audience, or from what I’ve seen in the comment section.

However, remember... These are just my thoughts on the matter... My thoughts are not law and I never claim them to be.

Like when I first joined the fandom and posed my GIR analysis questions... I even said:

“I don’t know if the fandom has talked about this in depth or not... I just got here... or if someone put it into this many words before but...”  

Also... the thing that bothers me about his Invader Zim theory...

A lot of Mattpatt’s sources are just..... Wrong...

(for the next few minutes I will be talking about this video, feel free to watch or don’t)

Okay.. “Membrane is an Irken” this has been a popular fan theory since before I even entered the fandom and there are old fics about this. I have read Irken Membrane stories before.

It’s not personally my cup of tea, but it’s fun to think about.

But the straws Mattpatt grasps in his video.... Really upset me because there is some thought to the theory back in the day.. ... Like back in 2002??? but like.... NOW?!

Okay, I’ll pick apart this a little... bit by bit...

He says that Membrane takes a hard stance against anything paranormal.

Kinda... but no.. Membrane never outright denies the existence of aliens. (except in ETF... which he mainly says out of frustration...) This is what Membrane says about “there are no aliens” in the show:

Membrane just says that there are no “intelligent” aliens...None that are able to travel the massive distance to Earth, anyways... If aliens existed at all, (like the cryptoids Dib talks of) they would have traveled the distance to the planet and communicated with them by now.

However, this is a nitpick of a minor issue. One that a majority of the fandom tends to overlook when viewing Professor Membrane and Dib’s relationship in general. 

And I do find it weird that he used this for evidence when he cut out the most important snippet from the full lecture he gives Dib here.... JUST to support his claim... as if he’s intentionally leaving that part out.... hmmmm

However, I can let this slide, because it’s a nitpick and really doesn’t change anything that Membrane is very dissuasive of Dib’s alien-hunting hobbies. (I have a theory as to why and I explain it here in my own way)

The point is, Membrane is dismissive of anything alien... maybe because he’s an Irken...okay, good, yes. fair. 

A lot of Mattpatts claims from then on are pretty solid, and I won’t bunk them with “But in my headcanon/Fanfic verse...”  Because what he is saying is all true.

Membrane denying the existence of aliens even after being taken to space jail doesn’t have much of an explanation and is played for comedy and there are many ways you can go with this, and I am not going to bring up my fanfics or my own headcanons to argue with him here.

Because there is no explanation, and he is going with the “Membrane is Irken” theory... So that’s very solid when he’s talking about Membrane denying the Hallucinations. 

Mattpatt claimed that Membrane wore his face covering at all times and had been dressed this way since he was a child.

I will not deny this. This is true.

However, isn’t bringing up Membrane’s childhood kinda put a hole in your own argument?

MEMBRANE WAS A CHILD.

He had been shown to have childhood memories in the comics and the show.

Irkens don’t really have a “Childhood” per say, at least not in the way that humans do. They are a smeet, then elite, then Invader..

If he’s claiming that Membrane came to earth as an Irken SMEET....How, why, and when? 

That kinda raises more questions than it answers.... What are you proving by bringing up Membrane’s baby pictures on Earth exactly? It kind of works against your own argument? 

Saying that they’re Irken because they all have the same hair.... that’s just stupid... and he’s citing the Invader Zim wiki on this .... oh boy.

Yeah, Like before I watched the show I thought Dib and Disguised Zim were the same character or brothers...

But I don’t think character design here is a solid enough reason in this case... At least not when it comes to the hairstyles... That’s a stretch.

“Hmmm Membrane’s hair forms an M shape... What could the M stand for? Mirken?! SUSPICIOUS!” (this is just a joke)

Also... the lack of ears thing... He did say it would be hard for Membrane to hear if his headpiece was covering his ears, but not necessarily... The entire thing is a headset and he is the man of science, he can really do whatever the fuck he wants cause Science is like magic in a show like this. So if Membrane wears a headset that doesn’t obstruct his hearing at all, I can buy it... Also.. it’s equally possible his ears got blown off in a chem lab accident or he’s legally deaf and that headset acts as a hearing aide and HELPS him hear... 

Actually, I always noticed how in Membrane’s original design from the show, the headset looked a lot like a hearing aid. Specifically one with a head clip, It’s one of the things I first noticed about his design in the show.

And it’s just something I always assumed because he’s a scientist who deals with explosions in his face on a daily basis... (in fact he experiences one in episode 2B) So on first viewing, I thought that his headset served as a hearing aid as well as prescription glasses and a communication device. 

I’m just throwing out possibilities because the “lack of ears” is also kinda a stretch.

Mattpatt complaining about “lack of nose” however... Okay, yeah I’ll give him that one. It’s a character design choice that is a little odd for Professor Membrane, but it does fit with the Irken theory, since a majority of human characters, in fact, all have noses. So, Yes the “lack of nose” does fit more into the Irken theory. 

However.... Florpus anime Membrane DOES have a nose...

Meant to be drawn in a more semi-realistic artsyle, you can clearly see the bridge of his nose here.

And he looks very similar to anime Dib... Sooooo... Shrug-city... 

It’s likely that Membrane not having a nose in the show is simply a stylistic choice than anything else. Basically, the bridge of the nose is there... we just don’t see it.

Especially since Nightmare Membrane has a nose as well..

Membrane is like Home Improvement’s Wilson. We will never see his face, and that’s part of the gag. The man probably sleeps in his labcoat honestly...

I also find the voice pattern thing a bit of a stretch. Membrane and Zim are just eccentric characters who yell to emote or emphasize a point or emote stronger. And Membrane’s inflections are never the same as Zim’s.

Remember, no other Irken TALKS like Zim. Professor Membrane doesn’t really go around screaming: “I AM PROFESSOR MEMBRANE” either..... 

If anything... it just kinda proves both characters have auditory processing issues or hearing problems more then anything.

And there is a lot of screaming on this show.... Screaming from Dib, screaming from Membrane, Screaming from GIR, screaming from Zim... Screaming is funny... and characters scream so much that the characters with their mouths wide open is somewhat a staple of the show.

This is more because of Johnen Vasquez’s voice direction...

Especially since no other Irken really talks like Zim..

Zim’s manor of Speach is strictly a Zim thing and not an Irken thing.

Professor Membrane’s manner of speech is simply a Membrane thing and not a human thing.

I will give Mattpatt that. That a lot of tech in the show looks similar to Membrane’s. I feel this is mostly a stylistic choice, but it really does fit in with the Irken theory. 

Like that Zim just so happens to use the same operating system as Dib is played off as a joke. But it does add some small credence to the theory here... I need to point out when he does get it right... some pats on the back.

These are very good points and does follow through with what he’s trying to prove by the end of the day.

(even if Membrane was lying about the destruction of all mankind with the beans thing, but that’s a minor nitpick here) 

But his entire paragraph comparing Membrane’s tech to Irken tech is a really good one. Props there.

This whole paragraph about there being only Tall or short irkens cause their society is height based and there are no “medium-sized” irkens....cause they were “dealt with”

Okay.

....

Sure Mattpatt. Let’s just entirely ignore the existence of the Frylord and this entire character even though you mentioned it in the synopsis at the start of your video... Showing that Taller irkens are in positions of power against the shorter, also... Zim is a tiny irken... there are many Irkens that stand taller then Zim.

Being tall in Irken society is a rarity, and Almighty Tallest Purple said that he and Red “became” the Tallest. How? We don’t know, but we do know at one point the current Tallest looked like this:

How do Irkens get that Tall? Body modifications? Maybe... it’s never explained, but considering the Frylord is super big and probably eats a lot of snacks might have something to do with it. We don’t know.

It’s safe to say that being Tall in their society is a rarity and Tallests are either born or made special from the cloning chamber from the get go.

Not to mention, Membrane is Taller than the current Tallest are already...

 and you said earlier in the video that Membrane would have gone to Earth as a child...

When he was no taller than a wrapped Christmas box of socks...

So why would Membrane take refuge on Earth at this point? Mattpatt says that Membrane was sent on a mission to Earth because the Tallest felt threatened by his rule...

BY MEMBRANE’S RULE?!?

HE’S THE SIZE OF A CHRISTMAS BOX OF SOCKS!

What do they have to be threatened by? 

Because... Mattpatt DID bring up Membrane as a child earlier in the video... meaning Membrane came to earth when he was about the same size as Zim.

SO THEY HAD NOTHING TO BE WORRIED ABOUT AND HAD NO EVIDENCE TO BELIEVE MEMBRANE WOULD GROW TO BE TALL ORE EVEN VIEW HIM AS A THREAT

You bunked your own argument. Congradulations.

Membrane conquered the world through his inventions. In a way, sure. Membrane Labs does own a lot of stuff. But he doesn’t own everything. A majority of the Corporations that keep the population stupid usually don’t have anything to do with Membrane Labs and aren’t affiliated at all. 

But this does fit into the “Membrane is an Irken” theory so I will give him that one.

However, Membrane being an evil corporate dictator is a hot take I never really appreciate at all and I can never get behind it.

It hits too close to home in the real world, and I always like to view Membrane as a self-made man and a World loving hippie at his core who just wants to make the world a better place, much like his son, but he actively does something about it. (which can also be why he encourages Dib with real science so much cause he knows Dib wants to save the Earth as much as he does)

Just calling Membrane a capitalist billionaire that doesn’t care about the little guy kinda seems disingenuous towards his character for me. 

Especially when Membrane in “Ten Minutes to Doom” created a machine (foodio) that completely end world hunger... which was in BETA in the unreleased episode...

 but by the time the movie rolls around... Foodio exists... past his BETA, meaning that he’s probably no expensive than a common household microwave and can materialize food from nothing:

Yeah. Membrane completely ended world hunger off-screen. thanks. (something no capitalist would ever do...)

Membrane also does appearances for charity (in the comics), and often takes funding for sponsorships when he is low on funds and he had to find a cure for pig mouth. 

Sure “Membrane conquered the world” fits the Irken theory...

But I never appreciate that take on his character and that is admittedly, very personal bais. 

I just wanted to say my peace a little bit here about how I 100% don’t vibe with the “Membrane capitalist/billionaire scum” especially since he ended world hunger...and invented a cure for the un-common cold.

Works for the theory, so good on Mattpatt for that one, but I personally don’t vibe with it.

Mattpatt compared Zim and Dib’s head shape as something to argue... Like because Dib has a similar head shape to Zim... that Dib has to be an alien... Okay... But If you look at the Invader Zim artbook (which I own)

The show has a very distinct look on how they draw characters’ heads. It’s a very distinct stylistic choice and there are pages upon pages in the artbook describing the style and how it looks in motion, and many revision notes to the Korean animators.

There are lots of pages on the artbook describing in detail the differences between the main characters’ heads, what to do, and what not to do.

It’s a difficult style to replicate, and Dib having a big head was mostly a joke from the showrunners to the showrunners, cause they kept drawing Dib’s head slightly bigger to make him look more appealing.

A majority of the audience doesn’t really notice because all the children in the show have big heads. All the kids are like 3-4 feet tall and have huge heads. 

Also... Dib’s head is far more rounder then Zim’s in the comics and the Movie... comparing their head shape as an arguing point, when Dib’s head shape changed midway season 1 when the designs got slightly more streamlined is just... bad form..

Dib and Zim’s heads never really look the same from the early episodes as they do later on.

Comparing this character design similarity just because of the artstyle is really stupid.

This is the most infuriating thing about the video... because Mattpatt disproves his own argument with his own footage not a few seconds earlier. 

He claims that Gaz sarcastically mentioning she has a squeedly spooch is a canon fact...... but ... hmm.. Mattpatt... can I rewind the footage of your video, please?

Where’s her squeedly spooch?

IS IT BEHIND HER CLEARLY HUMAN ORGANS?! I DON’T SEE IT?

And this isn’t just a stylistic choice... here’s a picture of another human’s organs for comparison.

Mattpatt literally disproved his own argument and ignored the fact that we saw an X-ray of Gaz’s organs in the very same episode...

Gaz doesn’t have a squeedly spooch and she literally was being sarcastic.

and the whole thing is disproved very easily.

Everything Mattpatt says in between those two points, about Dib being taken aboard an alien ship as a baby, and that there is no mother, and the Clone theory... That is all good stuff and this is what the theory video should have speculated and focused on, because there is some digging to be had here... I feel he focused a lot on the wrong points in his video...

And this is the most outrageous point he makes in his video. It’s the thing that pissed me off the most... and lead me to write this essay in the first place.

He claimed Eric Trueheart himself confirmed the clone theory and had story plans where Dib would discover his clone origins.

HE DID NOT!

IN FACT, Eric Trueheart himself published Volume One of the Invader Zim script book AND THIS IS WHAT HE SAID:

Eric neither confirmed nor denied the rumor.

But for Mattpatt to blatantly say that Eric said that Clone Dib was a planned thing by the screenwriters?!

He is BLATANTLY putting words into a Screenwriter’s mouth! Something that you should NEVER do.

Because it is 100% a lie.

He had no source for this claim. He probably just read the same rumor on the wiki and has no source.

This is the reason why I don’t trust videos like Mattpatt. The truth is often stretched for entertainment value, or information is just made up to prove “they were right” about whatever the topic of the day was. He doesn’t even bother to cite the source he got “Eric Trueheart’s word of mouth” from... because it was wrong.

Sorry if this whole thing is more hostile than it intended to be... But Mattpatt was looking at the ENTIRELY wrong evidence for this show....

Irken Membrane is a fun theory... but Mattpatt picked the entirely wrong topics and points of discussion, even to the point of hiding the truth and straight-up lying to his audience about his sources.

It’s kinda like saying “Birds eat ghost peppers because they’re part dragon and dragons can handle spicy food”

While, yeah, Birds are descended from dinos, it’s kinda missing the full story there and it’s not the reason why birds can eat spicy food.

Irken Membrane is a fun fan theory... do what you want with it. I am not here to dissuade Irken Membrane headcanons...

I’m just here to encourage critical thinking, and perhaps NOT put words into content creators' mouths when there is no credible source for it just because it benefits your argument.

[shandzii]

Hey hey hey so I dunno if this was covered already and I missed it, but what if Zim was banished to the waters near the city? Like, none of the other Merkins (Mirkens? Merliens?) wanna be anywhere near the polluted waters so they're just like "mmkay zim go there". Or basically he's banished to the shallows because this child needs to be placed in the kiddie pool and think about what he's done

Yep I had the same idea :D

in the show, he actually saves the Earth from destruction a couple of times. The au version of that is him cleaning up the place bit by bit. He wants to live comfortably and make it presentable for his leaders if they stop by :V

[lapaluu]

miksi näissä boltseissa on hiekkaa

9.12. en oo kirjottanu oon ehkä.ollu vähän allapäin ilman syytä. tai ehkä kun ei oo ollu rahaa ostaa lääkkeitä niin on satunnaisesti puolittanu annoksen

noni heti ku alan kirjottaa vaikkei ollu mitää asiaa niin kirjotan en tiedä pitkäänkö

näin tänään vahingossa jannen metsätalossa se näytti hauskalta nyt kun kirjotain ei ookkaan enään ikävä mutta äsken oli haikeella tavalla tai sitten ei millään tavalla kuitenkin oli ikävä vaikkei mistään syystä tai siis en tiiä mitäsiinä ikävöisin mut haluisin kertoo sen sille kun haen viulun.

tänä aamuna en tykänny kun mirke hipsutti mua puoliunessa.

carolinan kotona on parhaat energiat vaikka vihaan sanaa energia ja siitä tulevat konnotaatiot täällä on sillä jollain tavalla puhdasta

pakko keskeyttää leffa kun haluan sanoo että huomaan kokoajan etten pysty keskittyyn lainkaan luen tekstit mut en lue mitä niissä sanotaan kun en pysty keskityyn vaikka asia ois kuinka mielenkiintonen. ehkä se on se lukeminem? miten silti pystyn kirjottaan näin? sillä tavalla keskityn en tiiä.onko se sitä, parempi sana uppoutuminen.. kun katon tätä vaikken keskity niin silti unohdan missä.oon. käy näin usein ei oo uus juttu mutta keskittyminen puheeseen se on pahin se on entistäkin vaikeampaa. kokoajan vaikak yritän kuunnella niin putoan kärryiltä enkä tietenkään kehtaa sitä sanoa. kun se tapahtuu niin yhtäkkiä eikä se kestä kovin kauaa ehkä puoli minuuttia kerrallaan ja sitä on nyt tapahtunu useemmin. joskus jopa 5 min välein ehkä no en oo laskenu. täällä on kylmä. enkä keksi syytä miksi se keskittyminen herpaantuu koska en juuri ajattele silloin myöskään mitään ainakaan mitään tiettyä vaan sekaisia ajatuksia joista ei saa kiinni. eikä siihen yleensä välttämättä liity päihteiden vaikutuksen alaisena oleminenkaan. itkettää vähän saattaa joutua elokuvasta ja holidayn trailerista. sataa lunta. oon carolinalla ilman carolinaa ku se on eliaksella. annika ilpolla ja määki haluun poikaystävän mutten tommosta koska ne ei oo poikaystäviä vaan tyhmiä ku ei tajuu kuinka herkullisia saaliita mun ystävät on.

sataa lunta, pissahätä ei lähde, silmiä kutittaa viäki, toivottavasti mirken vatsa ei oo enään kipee ja sen sängyssä ei saa käyttää ainakaan sukkia

[spaceboymp4]

he's part fish now :] (would that make him a mirken?)

[goldenkingyo]

Some Zoar stream doodle requests from the other day

[elddansurin]

Third iteration of the supercontinent map, and I still have no name for said continent. I have, however, decided that it’d have a landmass of approximately Europe and Australia combined. Aphelion overall is smaller than earth, so considering the context, it really is a supercontinent.

Biggest change here is moving Uir to be much closer to Grenvel. Ironically, this was more or less the position I had in my original map, but this time rather than placing it arbitrarily, I needed to way to justify how the nokai got there despite knowing fuck all about boats. Answer: you can sail from north Grenvel to south Uir in less than a day.

I also renamed like half of the countries because it brought joy to my heart to do so.

more nerdery below:

Fast facts about all of the countries!!

-Grenvel has long been the center of trade among the Vesian world. They have centuries-long alliances with Uir, Ypsilan, and Amasa and have frequently gone to war to defend their trade interests and their respective sovereignty. The native iroth have the largest population of the six races and are the most common immigrant race throughout the continent. As for the land itself, it contains the Jaws of Aphelion, the largest and highest mountain range in the world. Grenvel is also the largest forested landmass, being mostly covered in temperate rainforest.

-Uir has no central government and no form of military. They are completely undefended and ultimately a comparitively “primitive” society. They have also never been involved in a single war. Uir’s relationship with Grenvel has always been civil, as the iroth decided they didn’t want to invade a glacial shithole. Grenvel’s enormous navy has historically put a lot of effort into obliterating anyone who tries to invade Uir. Despite being remote and kind of a shithole, Uir has the most massive deposits of arcane minerals in the world, so it is the most important port of trade in the world (via Grenvel, of course).

-Ypsilan is almost entirely desert, and is one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet. Life here is highly specialized to deal with extreme heat and lack of water, including the native kurai. South mainland Ypsilan has the largest aquifer in the world, and thus the largest oasis. However, the entire body of water is just chock full of dissolved cyanide salts. The plants, animals and people living over the Bitter Aquifer have adapted to be completely immune to cyanide and are likewise highly toxic themselves. Despite sharing an emormous border with Valbara, the Bitter South has never been successfully invaded due to invaders dying of cyanide poisoning.

-Amasa is a densely tropical and swampy region, with the majority of the native sephid population living in the eastern archipelago. While Grenvel has the world’s largest navy, Amasa had both the first and most dangerous navy, being the first race to invent (and perfect) water craft. They are also the exclusive keepers of the knowledge of sea fire, a liquid incendiary that cannot be extinguished with water. Historically they would shoot capsules of the liquid onto enemy ships via slings, then they would spear the burning sailors who leapt into the sea. In the modern era, they turned to firing sea fire grenades out of cannons, and they still harpoon everyone who abandons ship. That said, they have virtually no land-based military and have repeatedly been invaded by Kenor through the northern plains.

-Kenor, particularily the jungles of northern and central Kenor, is the birthplace of the original ves. The central rainforest is tens of millions of years old, and the heart of the rainforest has gargantuan trees that grow several stories high and dense enough that the forest floor exists in almost complete darkness, complete with bioluminescent fungus as tall as regular trees. The native mirken, most visually similar to the common ancestor of all ves, live in highly populous cities that blend seamlessly into the rainforest. Historically, Kenor has been very fixated on invading and/or colonizing Amasa for access to resources, particularily because Amasa has no interest in trade, as Kenor really has nothing that cannot also be found in Amasa. They also have long running antagonistic interactions with Valbara, and most of their wars have been on the northern border.

-Valbara is the largest country, shares the most borders with other countries, and has antagonized every single one of them. At one point, Valbara manages to sweep up most of the continent in a loose and very tenuous empire, but that falls apart in about a century. They are very prone to invading their neighbors, and have a strange focus on expanding their borders rather than pillaging resources, hence why they continually attempt to find more efficient ways of invading Ypsilan, known shithole. Their longest running political beef is with the Grenvellan kingdom of Itas, the only part of Grenvel on the mainland. They have been, more often than not, unsuccessful in taking over that particular piece of land.

BONUS: my naming inspiration.

Valbara, Kenor (previously Kenorlan), and Uir were named after supercontinents. Ypsilan was previously Kalahar, from Kalahari (waterless place). That was too on the nose, so I went with what my brain misremembered “epsilon” as. No significance. Amasa, likewise, is a sound my brain made that I liked. Grenvel was named after the Grenville Orogeny, which I spent some time studying. Plus the geologically significant name seemed very appropriate for a geologically-minded people. 

[mrmeadart]

A juju moon goat. These critters roam the spiritual mirken plains entrancing who looks into its eyes with its paralysis moon stares. 🌱🌛🌚 #inkdrawing #penandink #penandinkdrawing #surrealism #creaturedesign #surrealcreatures #blackandwhiteart #goatart (at Penryn, Cornwall)

[thatdragonzeek]

Here take this doodle of Mirken Zim