with grace & style

my first lps custom and its that monkey that oversees zim’s house. he now guards my zim comics

thyme to work more to make the most money for my money vault

i have beef with this awful 2” blindbag figurine of dib. here are my reasons:

- came with a shitty little stand which i LOST so now he can’t stand on his own AND has an unfortunately placed peg hole in his back

- ugly as sin, mainly due to the quality but it BUT ALSO it does not help that jhonen vasquez’s old art style is difficult to translate to 3D without it looking awkward as fuck

- it’s directly modeled after dib’s most commonly used official art from the TV series, pose and all. BORINGGG

i’ve always found it personally ideal to never engage with creators (unless its something prompted like a Q&A) but in light of a controversy that occurred in a niche fandom i lurk in this idea has only made this more true to me

just don’t engage. this goes quadruple in cases where the creator has demonstrated time & time again to be problematic or otherwise troubled in some way.

step two: absorb interpretations of the show via said fan content at that time. so spooky. so emotional. so dramatic. arguably traumatic. more so than a silly (albeit dark) children’s cartoon outta be, even if it’s to be taken seriously.

step three: skip ahead 10 or so years later

step four: seek out the same fan content again for retrospective/nostalgia’s sake

step five: be retroactively disturbed at the nature of that era’s fandom content and its implications