I may never get tired of drone videos of sheep herding. They are mesmerizing to watch and full of so many characteristics of flow. Like a compressible fluid, the herd squeezes together as it passes through a gate, then spreads and decreases density as it reaches the pasture. (Video credit: L. Patel; via Colossal; submitted by Florian T. and Matevz D.) Read the full article
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Cup of cat
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Artist & Sculptor:
Yoshitoshi Kanemaki
“空的時刻 勿忘死亡”
H122 cm x W27 cm x D23 cm
楠木上色
2013
Get you a boyfriend that puts his head in your ribcage <3
People will be like “oh I love gay podcast characters” but won’t even listen to the ROOTS (welcome to nightvale)
nothing like hearing this on the very first episode of the show and knowing shit was about to go down
there’s something about reading the tags on this post that really gets to me because so many people are talking about how this podcast was their first exposure to a gay character that wasn’t played off as a joke and instead how powerful it was to see Cecil completely unshakable in his immediate love for Carlos. some people even talked about how they used to listen to this with their parents and how their parents actually became more understanding for their own coming out because of it. I know it’s a podcast that most of us listened to when we were 13 and haven’t caught up to in years and but it’s really refreshing to see how much that representation meant to people then and still now :)
Alright, I'm happy NV was such a big deal for many people, but you know what the funniest thing is? I've listened to about 200 episodes, and have a better understanding of who Carlos is as a character now, and how he looks...
But when I first heard his description, well, I imagined him with a jaw the size of a brick, greasy hair, and his teeth were I think the reason for that- see, I haven't really seen a military cemetary before, or if I have, it was not the first image that came to my mind.
When I looked up what a military cemetary looked like, I corrected my image from "oh god his teeth are in a tragic state" to "his teeth are good, just very far apart from each other".
I just honestly did not know what to take seriously in this show, and also what Cecil meant by all of that. Of course it became clearer later on, but I didn't know if it was going to go in a serious direction at all. I'm happy it did, even though I have hundreds of episodes worth of catching up.
heart-shaped things are the backbone of society
It’s because of that one plant in ancient Greece, Silphium, from which the heart shape comes from. It was used as a contraceptive. Shame it’s gone extinct.
I’m serious. Look it up.
That’s what I would have called it too.
People who get heated about kid/Irken ships never really made sense to me. Because Zim (and this applies to most Irkens) is like a foot tall, has a high-pitched voice, flips out and throws tantrums and generally shows the emotional maturity of a child, AND he GOES TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND ATTENDS CLASSES WITH KIDS, but I’m supposed to believe that because the lore says he’s 1000 years old (like every bad anime cliche ever) that I should see, and treat this alien cartoon villain like he’s a fully grown adult?
Y'know, I just don’t get it. But that’s just me. I’m not here to start shit, I’m just saying what I think.
I tried to let this pass.
But I have a lot of feelings about this.
People need to stop assigning and assuming a human age for Zim because it automatically makes it weird and destroys the premise of the show.
It’s not about ships.
I will explain.
A 30-50 year old infiltrating a middle school to learn more about humans and fights daily with a 12 year old boy.
The premise is instantly made creepy, uncomfortable, and undigestable.
I never found that many jokes of “old man Zim” that funny. Johnen and Richard are just obviously messing around with it.
In the Nightmare Begins The Tallest commented on how much the Invaders were growing this year. There was a huge scene about it. Just to emphasize how small Zim is when he shows up and how much emphasis thier culture places on height.
The way the Tallest discuss the Invaders height, it means that ALL the Invaders are still in the PROCESS of growing.
They are still growing and haven’t reached thier full height yet.
And I do see people arguing:
“assigning Zim as a child-coded is neurodivergent adult erassure!”
Okay, yes. Zim does have adult disguises, he has a house and sometimes his plans involve adult things that a child wouldn’t be able to do.
But this is because he’s an alien.
Zim was talking five seconds after he was hatched, even before the PAK download the history of the irken Armada into his brain.
Societal norms and expectations that humans are expected at certain ages are not the same for irkens.
Zim wouldn’t have attempted to “woo” Tak in Tak the hideous new girl if he didn’t believe that they were on the same level of maturity. He believed her to be a human child, and if he was a fully grown adult irken, he would not have attempted this in the first place.
Zim is different than a character like SpongeBob.
SpongeBob is clearly defined as a very young adult with the boundless bright optimism of a child’s heart.
SpongeBob has a sizable house, goes to drivers school, and has a job. His relationships usually involve navigating the adult world without loosing that child’s lens that makes the world special.
There was an episode in season one where SpongeBob took Pearl to prom. But only at Mr.Krabs request and SpongeBob did reminisce about his own junior prom like it happened a few years ago.
And honestly an adult Friend of the parents taking their child to prom is a pretty common occurrence. (It’s an embarrassing thing to do on the parents part but it is a thing that happens.)
SpongeBob is clearly a “young at heart” character.
The premise of Invader Zim deals with fate of the world consequences that boil down to schoolyard fights.
This is not an adult in a child’s world.
This is a child alien soldier with an extremely different culture in another child’s world.
Zim can do things and go to places outside of the realm Dib can cause, well, he’s not human. Age milestones don’t apply.
So why do people like to assign a general concept of human age for Zim when it destroys the fun of the show?
Ships.
Ships ruin everything.
Some people will not admit they feel sexual attraction to a cartoon character that is a mass of triangles.
But here’s the weirdass thing about humans… People are often attracted to personality. There is a long list of psychological reasons and attraction of fictional characters in media, especially animation but it’s a complex topic I don’t have time to get into right now.
Ships in this dumb fandom come down to a matter of preference and what squicks them out or not.
But I have real strong feelings about people assigning Zim an age by any human definitions.
He’s an alien.
Let him be an alien.
I’d argue that the actual problem is that people care too much about what other people headcanon. The joy of a cartoon like Invader Zim (to me at least) is it is a great world for fandom because so much is left ambiguous and can be explored in fics/art etc. People keep trying to argue about something that doesn’t matter. Different people have different headcanons and see things differently. It’s like a playground. Nothing is that serious as long as it makes you happy. If you don’t like how one kid plays house you can play with the other kids who play spaceships or something. Or maybe you go off alone and play with your imaginary friends because the other kids don’t like you. Ok, nevermind, I tire of this metaphor but I think it makes sense.
Anyway, I certainly have my own preferences but if I see something I don’t like I just don’t interact with it. Even if Jhonen wasn’t a troll I wouldn’t really care what he says about iz. Many galaxy brains went into creating iz. Even if it was Jhonen’s own little comic I really don’t care because Death of the Author is a thing and this is all supposed to be fun. My motto is that canon is only valid if you like it. Also aus are a fun thing.
I understand why people get so upset about this show. I think I have a different view of it than a lot of people. I didn’t really know what it was until maybe a year ago. My parents were really weird about what I watched and I think they had something against Nick. When I watched iz I kept forgetting it was a kids show bc of the cynical tone. I usually don’t like nsfw stuff around shows that were dear to me as a little kid. So I get the shipping anger. But you gotta accept that people interpret things differently. It’s not that serious. I find zadr comforting and fun. Other people may find it gross because of their headcanons.
I mean I honestly agree with both of you to an extent. When I first watched the show I never even thought about the ages. I lean towards what op says about Zim seeming so childlike. I agree with Dana it’s silly to me to assign a human age to an alien. I get why you say that Zim having an age ruins it for you. I think some people find the premise funny of “lmao Zim is just such a stupid butt that he throws hands with a 12 year old.” I think Jhonen just thinks it’s funny so that’s what he says now. But you think it’s creepy and that’s understandable. Also dhjshshsh I’m glad you mentioned Tak because I’ve been thinking about pointing that out. If people take this age stuff so seriously it digs a grave no matter what.
I honestly don’t care what people like in iz. I have my headcanons and other people can have theirs. I personally love reading analyses even if I don’t agree with everything. The only thing I care about is that people treat others with respect.
Dhjsjjd I’m going to regret posting this on main but I typed my garbage argument for like a hour so :p
I promise my blog won’t turn into iz discourse.
Jk I promise nothing and I’ll post what I want. Why does anyone still follow me?
I agree with all three of you. Let’s just all have fun, not attack anyone, have our own headcanons, ships, opinions. If something squicks you- totally understandable! If something squicks me- I’ll block the tag, and ask people to tag it if they fail to.
Fandom is a really cool place, and I’d really like it to be a place where the most serious beef people have with each other is whether a character has a flip phone or not. (actually happened)
Well said, my friend.
I have long struggled with whether or not it’s acceptable or not to ship in the Invader Zim fandom (boy, I sure worded that good), but I figured that it’s best to keep it simple, enjoy the show for what it is, and to just let people have their ships so long as they aren’t gross or harmful.
It doesn’t matter whether or not people like, say, ZAGR the way I do. What does matter is having fun with our horrible fanfiction and enjoying the show for what it is.
That and getting to the bottom of this flip phone debate. TELL ME!
You know, I used to think that people who ship gross/harmful stuff shouldn’t be allowed to. But first off, what is considered gross/harmful? It’s all rather subjective, isn’t it? And people won’t stop doing it because they get called out. So my strategy is just avoiding stuff I don’t like. I’m not a prosecutor, or a judge, and I won’t attack people for having different opinions on fictional characters.
As for the phone debate- it was about Aziraphale from Good Omens having a phone- he’s kind of an old-fashioned angel, and in the canon of the show he has an old phone, but from what I remember some people had Very Strong Opinions about it, and since Neil Gaiman, one of the book writers, and the show director, is here on Tumblr, all hell broke loose. I was not involved, but it was funny to see it.
Yeah, same here.
Ah, so that’s the story! That is pretty funny.
For a second there I thought I’d have to defend why I think Dib would use a flip phone purely for stylistic choices.
tsk-tsk-tsk...
Isn’t it obvious? The only type of phone that Dib would use...
Is a touch-tone telephone!
my goodness robots are hard to draw.
Dados Glados.
This is the face of a broken Irken who had his childhood ripped away from him before he could properly experience it
and this is the face of a nosy ass bitch
LMAO
You sometimes look at someone and wonder: what is going on inside their head?
It’s childhood trauma!
The Parthian shot, an ancient military tactic where archers on horses would feign retreat and then turn their bodies while at full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_shot
360 noscope irl
It took me 3 watches to realize the door is cardboard and this man is not just freakishly strong.
I assure you this is a standard interior door, usually only exterior doors are solid.
You can see the inside of the cardboard though.
This isn’t a real door, it’s a prop from a movie or TV set.
it has a paper honeycomb for rigidity, and that’s how interior doors are made for modern construction in the USA.
y'all have never kicked a hole in your bedroom door in a flurry of teenage hormonal rage and it shows
If I kicked my bedroom door I’d more likely break my foot than the door.
I always thought people punching through doors or shoving people through doors was just from the movies. Doors in my country are generally solid planks of wood, a polymer of sorts, or metal.
American homes are made extremely cheaply and aren’t built to last.
Steam from hot showers seeps into wall which are not treated to handle moisture, and mold grows in the walls.
Almost every wall or floor is made out of plywood.
Flimsy roofing that can withstand a run of the mill heavy storm, but not much more than that.
Weak foundations that wouldn’t hold up at all if it weren’t for how light and plywood-y the overall house is.
Not every American house is this shitty in all of these ways, but the vast majority of them are, and almost all of them have at least one of these problems. Even rich people’s homes.
Read this article.
Then watch this video.
Are we just ignoring this original post was about the OP looking for Elf Pussy or are we just totally past that?
It’s already been answered that there is no elf pussy here, so why dwell? 🤷🏾♂️
I was so confused when I saw all those jokes about holes in walls my whole life. Where I live houses are either made with either bricks or concrete. The only wall which would be punchable through are ones that were added to a building after completion
America walls and doors are just fake. => America is fake???
I mean, for half of my life I thought America and England were the same thing- to the west, over a body of water, they speak English, they make movies... Was I right all along? Does America not exist, and the Earth is, in fact, the shape of a football? But FOOTBALL DOESN’T EXIST???!!!
Okay, so, I was thinking about MAG160 and the entities coming into our world and it's all properly horrifying and all that but. Like. In the long run? This is not going to go how the entities think its gonna go.
Long post sorry.
Because, basically, they've all been using the fear of the unknown, not the unknowing, to terrify people and I don't think they realize that.
Like, if you're in a cave and you're getting crushed and having yourself a proper freak out about it and then SOMETHING GRABS YOUR LEG, you're gonna get so much more scared.
But, if you're in a cave and getting crushed and having a proper freak out about it and then something grabs your leg AND you know that there's this fucking, creature or whatever the fuck that's feeding on your fear? Oh, well then you get pissed and kind of go "oh it's YOU" and, I don't know if the situation gets less scary, exactly, but the fear becomes, like, more manageable.
So the entities are gonna have to work their asses off to get some real terror out of people and bam! Back at square one.
Because humans are, like, stupidly adaptable and also once we know what we're afraid of, we start making it less scary. We joke about the NSA agents watching our house and the slowly increasing inevitable destruction of the ecosystem by our own hands and stuff and we're scared sure, but more than that we're pissed. And finding ways to work around it and change our situation so we can still live our lives.
If you know the source of your fear, you can address it and that makes it that much more manageable.
And, on top of that, they're EVERYWHERE now. Which means they are very quickly going to become routine. Which is also going to cut down on how scared people are of them.
At the end of the day, all these terrifying supernatural situations are terrifying, yeah. But the most scary thing about them is we didn't know why they were happening. And now we do. So we can adapt to them. And that makes them way less scary.
Yeah. At first I was confused as to what the Beholding was meant to be, because I know knowing more about something usually makes it less scary, or at least more manageable!
Now I know it's also about surveilance, and Knowing Too Much For Your Own Good, but I still stand by "knowing is most of the time better than not knowing, I want to know!", which, I mean, I might be pretty Eye-ligned.
Process so far of my Jane drawing! Not so much looking forward to the next part, i’ve gotta say.
[cryaotic voice] And so it continues…..
Next WIP! this one’s a closeup and I’m starting on the hole part, so trypophobia warning, proceed with caution. No worms yet.
Getting... Wormier in here! Get it?
i wish it were socially acceptable to just, mid conversation, say “ i don’t want to talk to you anymore” and then just leave
Is it not?
Those damn snakes in the garden again!?
my activity looks like a kitty cat ;-;
omg it happened again
Catctivity.
When something is broken, the best way to fix it is not to destroy it and start over. By destroying it you are adding unnecessary steps and destruction. And there is no guarantee that the new product will sufficiently replace the old one. Especially not in essence, and definitely not molecule for molecule. Sure it may be better. But it does not fix the original flaw.
The Them @ Adam
