what’s the best ZaDr, and non ZaDr Invader ZiM fic you’ve read?
Admittedly i still haven't found "MY" ZADR fic that i can deem the best...
...yk?
Non zadr so far its gotta be Dib's Impromptu Lesson in Irken Medicine by geneticCarnage. I love art that actually gives me reasons why it's in the medium it chose to communicate a story to me. This story would have been impossible to tell if it wasn't written.
And on top of that it gives me the same edgy eerie indescribable feelings and vibes invader zim and its characters always gave me, it feels really ic for me and the concept is really fucking cool imo. I could practically imagine the thing animated too...
Tho like i said, with zadr, i havent found "mine"... one that i feel bested my personal standards and i did not expect in some way lol... i think writers from another ship (batjokes) shaped the way i saw fanfics as a whole, because wherever i turned i found the best fucking fic from apparently the best fucking writer that's ambitious and cinematic... but not so much as to not be heartfelt and fun and cool or literally tested the boundaries of what i thought people could do with written formats and ARGGHFHB
every now and again id find one that would blow me away and even change the course of my entire life. so.
Ive had quite a lot of trouble finding fanfics i truly can deem the best with other ships and fandoms after getting used to that... I probably held such high standards for fics already... so...
I gotta say one iz/zadr fic ive DEEPLY connected to and satisfied me (and actually really blew me away too personally!) is Secrets of the Trees by MyShipsHaveCannons!! It still only has two chapters sadly so i dont know how to compare it to others to truly say its the best for me just yet. But hot damn.
Then there's the obvious choice... bamsara's series...
But like, i think "my" zadr fic is probably a long multichapter enemies to friends to (perhaps ambiguous) lovers portrayed as a journey on self discovery/strongest bond formed in the unlikeliest place by having seen each other pull through the worst, overcoming kind of fic where its Zim and Dib centric and they're kind of the only person the other has from beginning to end
I haven't looked enough into those because everytime i do it feels like either the writer is forcing them together and things dont happen organically... or i still dont connect to the thing anyway for one reason or another (probably because of nitpicks) and want to rip my hair out bc of it
Its very hard for me to please my own tastes idk












