Multishipper

my part of an art trade with @poopcola i hope you like it :^0 gir left the flash on

the worst best gift

my part of an art trade with @dib-stink

this was really cute 

:(

Guy who likes music

Is he an alien

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

i have nothing to say

Pick up the Zim!

Which one will you choose? 🤔

Squee "What makes you say that?"

Nny "The years I spent in service to the moose wall as a flusher were a HIDEOUS NIGHTMARE, but I did enjoy this grandiose sense of invulnerability.

Now that I’m relieved of duty so to speak... I don't know. There's this crushing sensation of dread that I can't shake. I feel it throughout my entire body. It's difficult to describe.

Every part of me is breaking down. It's beyond the mental and physical exhaustion I've grown accustomed to. Either I've been reduced to a hostage of this reality and its indifferent whims or the waste lock is trying to reenlist me or-"

Squee "Nny, I have no idea what you're talking about. Just... You're not going to drop at 30. You might live triple that. You just need to take better care of yourself."

Nny "Is it worth the struggle?"

There's no undoing the things I've done. Not even a reality reset can wash my hands clean. I soaked them in blood the minute after they were. It seems a fatal crash is imminent, whether I’m in control or not.

What if nothing ever changes for the better? What if I never change for the better? Am I INCAPABLE? What if I never manage to leave that house for good. I’m never going to form any kind of meaningful or long lasting relationship; platonic, romantic or otherwise. Is it already too late for me?

Am I doomed to be-- THIS until I die alone, on top of a pile of decay and poor life choices in that god-forsaken shack? I'll have no one to blame but myself."

Squee “That's never going to happen. I'm not much, but you have me.”

Nny “Only for a few more years. Soon you’ll graduate high school and move away. I want you to!--

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Look at poor Squee, talking Nny through a spiral like a champ. Excuse the excessive dialogue/ melodrama. Unfortunately more ahead. I'm 'm trying to power through it ><. Didn't expect drawing a conversation held over the phone would be so awkward to illustrate, but I'm dedicated now. It actually feels more natural, this dialogue taking place over the phone as opposed to face to face. Maybe? _shrug

I promise to at least make the next few strips of drawings a little more interesting.]

(Also, I know the difference between its and it's I swear!! How do I screw that up when I write ahhhhhhhh!)

yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

I feel like a lot of people just don't know how to do it or are intimidated by the prospect. I was too, actually, and I couldn't find any good guides on how to do it (beyond basic formatting) and most guides boiled down to "just describe what you see and important details!" I really wanted to add alt text bc accessibility is important to me, but I would always get kinda stumped on how to do it.

But then I saw this image, I think in a discord server, and I immediately started doing it. It kinda broke the ice for me

Thinking about how Irkens have both an organic brain and a brain in their PAK, but it seems like the PAK's brain can survive separation from the host body and attach itself to other lifeforms or even a chair and be fine, but the organic brain will start to shut down without the PAK. And it doesn't seem like it's just a matter of the brain dying because the rest of the organs that support it are failing. Zim actually seems to lose memory and cognitive function the longer he's separated from the PAK in 10 Minutes to Doom.

What if the reason is because Irkens are just as susceptible to brain diseases like dementia as humans, but because their lives are artificially extended there's more time for their organic brains to decay. So the PAKs are needed to serve as an auxiliary brain to maintain their cognitive abilities beyond the point where their organic brains would be able to sustain them.

An Irken who loses their PAK can plug themselves into emergency life support to keep their vital organs functioning, but will still lose cognitive function the longer they're separated. How long an Irken can last that way is highly variable because brain disease can begin to afflict an Irken at different ages and advance at different rates.

If an Irken is still fairly young and their organic brain is in good working order, they could potentially live for a normal human lifespan on auxiliary life-support, but would more than likely just get a new PAK that would copy the memories stored in their organic brain. For an older Irken, getting a new PAK wouldn't help because it'd be making a copy of a brain that's already gone bad. At best, one could copy a brain that's suffered mild loss of cognitive ability to keep themselves alive, but they could never regain what they'd lost unless they managed to get their original PAK back and recover its data.

If an Irken's brain disease has already reached a critical stage they may have anywhere from a few hours to mere minutes of lucidity before mentally declining and slipping into a coma after losing their PAK. Once comatose, brain death occurs in 24 hours if their PAK is not reconnected.

For Zim specifically, I headcanon if he were to lose his PAK but get himself plugged into emergency life support within 10 minutes, he could maybe last another 5 minutes before going comatose. This is actually abnormal for an Irken his age. He's one of the unlucky ones who developed brain disease at an age that would be considered young even by human standards, so at his current age his brain has already decayed so much there is absolutely no way a replacement PAK could save him.

Wanted to give them some fancier robes :3c

eyebrows are hard, man

what was that

some dibs