The New Irk Times

Hiya there, my name is Zim, and my pronouns are They/Them! You can check out my main blog @zimthesilly!!! I made this blog to yap about Invader Zim, which will include both canon and fanon material.

🛸Things that I may post about🛸

🐷 My favorite characters, episodes, etc.

🌮 Easter eggs (like bloody GIR, hidden JTHM references, and so on and so forth)

🐷 The comic series

🌮Both vintage and modern merchandise, advertisements, etc.

🌮 Videogames and other media where the cast appear (i.e. globs of doom)

🐷 Fan content, like fan restored episodes, fanmade series like A Very Tall Problem, fanfiction, fanart, aus, etc.

🌮 People involved in the series, movie, etc. including Jhonen Vasquez, the voice cast, etc.

🐷 Ships (both popular and rare pairs) that I do and don't like

🌮 My headcanons and theories

...and so much more!!!

🛸Blog Rules and Notices🛸

👾 This blog is owned by an ADULT! I'm 21-years-old as of now. If that makes you uncomfortable, please don't interact here.

👻 This blog is for all ages to interact with, however I may sometimes post headcanons, jokes, etc. that may be considered inappropriate/NSFW. When that's the case, I will age restrict those posts. If you're under 18, please do not interact with any posts labelled as sexual content on ANY of my blogs.

👾 This is not a safe space for pro/anti/com/darkshippers. If you feel the need to use a specific term to make your shipping opinions sound less toxic, I do not care to interact with you. This rule does not apply to selfshippers/yumeshippers.

👻 You can interact if you're uncomfortable with ZaDR, but if you genuinely wish harm to people who ship it I do not feel comfortable interacting with you. I will talk about that ship here, as it's a comfort to me.

👾 Other/main dni: Maps, necrophiles, zoophiles, people who are bigoted against any race, sex, gender, sexuality, religion (unless it's genuinely harmful or a cult), etc., people who force any radical belief or opinion on others, blogs that post frequently about politics or traumatic news like wars

If you do not follow these rules, are a bot, or make me uncomfortable for some reason I can and will block you without hesitation or warning.

🛸Check out my Invader Zim mega archive!!!🛸

Every possible piece of IZ media that I can archive will be there. I update it pretty frequently, so keep your eyes peeled!!!

I'm actually trying to work on a solution for this problem. Unfortunately, it's kind of difficult to do because the comics always appear as a good resolution on my pc but when I finally think I've fixed it and I check it on my phone, it's back to looking like it's had a go in the deep frier. If you or anyone else who sees this has any kind of advice, please let me know because this has had me bamboozled since the beginning of this project.

I should be disappointed... but I'm actually quite happy about this, because this is the first and possibly last time I will ever get a chance to pioneer the dedicated Invader Zim community on a specific social media.

I will be making a community, as well as primarily IZ related posts. Not only that, but there's a section where you can make your own website. So, I will be using that as practice to learn about how to create my own website for when I finally get around to making one of my own.

While I usually operate under the alias of thenewirktimes when it comes to things dedicated to canon IZ media, I will be operating under the same name as my main blog @zimthesilly.

I currently have an IZ themed profile on FriendRewind, if you'd like to check it out, you can find me here:

I'm so excited to know that I can actually bring the Invader Zim community to a social media that seems to be either widely unfamiliar with it or not quite invested enough to bring it there themselves. Not only could this bring more people to the fandom, but more people may join FriendRewind itself if they know that there are others who share an interest with them.

Do you perhaps know if a re edition was announced? I tried to order them from the official page, but couldn't find information.

Again, thanks for helping keep the fandom alive!

I'm so glad my archive has helped you!!! It makes my day whenever I learn that another person has been able to enjoy Invader Zim because of my work. 💕

Unfortunately I have no idea if there will be a re-edititon. I have found a rumor that there may be a new comic series in the works but take that with a grain, or perhaps even a whole shaker of salt... So far some people are saying websites have a placeholder for it, but I cannot prove that. If this is somehow true then that may imply a re edition in the future, but again I am unsure if this is true or only a hoax. 😔

The only solution I can think of right now is trying to see if anyone is selling the comics used and happens to have worldwide shipping, but that may be difficult and expensive. Perhaps it will become easier to obtain them in the future?

You see, I'm hoping to archive all of the flash games as well and upload an emulator for both pc and Android. However, I've never emulated a flash game before without using flashpoint archive, let alone on mobile. If anyone knows of a good way to do this, a good emulator to use, how to export game files from flashpoint, etc. please either reply to this post or send me an ask.

I'm working on my deep dive on the pilot episode again, if anyone's wondering why it's taking so long, this is the kind of stuff I have to research. It took me over an hour to write this single page... I suppose this is what I get for doing a nearly frame-by-frame analysis. The best part? I'm not doing this exclusively for the pilot episode, that's only one tab in my google doc. I'm going to be doing this for the entire series, the movie, the comics, the games, etc.

I haven't answered them but I still get asks about that post and I'm admittedly still not over the fact that someone directly told me to kill myself. I'm not in that bad of a place but what if I was? Is it really worth risking someone actually listening and taking their own life over a ship?!

Yes, I fully understand why some people are uncomfortable with ZaDR, but those people who ship it don't portray it as some sort of an age gap. It's always portrayed as Zim and Dib being either the same age or very close to the same age and typically with then both being legal adults. If they are somehow minors, they are always portrayed in an appropriate way unless that individual shipper chooses to make it problematic when it typically is not.

YOU are forcing it to be pedophilia because you're saying "oh, you're wrong they ARE different even if you say they're not in your own au you're still a pedophile" you are FORCING it to be that way. You're forcing it to be an uncomfortable age gap and then saying "oh but ZaDF is perfectly fine!!! It's fine for a 12 year old and a 30 year old to have a co-dependant relationship in real life as long as it's not romantic!!?" are you listening to yourselves?!?!?! That is NOT okay, that's far more similar to pedophilia than ZaDR ever could be unless someone specifically portrayed them that way.

Now, I'm not saying adults and minors can't talk at all. I think it's fine if they chat online sometimes or if a minor goes to an adult for advice, especially if they can't trust their parents due to abuse. I'm also not saying that ZaDF is problematic, it's a perfectly healthy ship unless it's portrayed in the way ZaDR antis do. However, there's a specific age gap where that is and isn't okay. If they're only a few years apart (i.e. like 4 or 5 years) and they're online only that's fine, but saying a 12 year old should go hang out with a grown ass man in real life without his parents present is actually insane.

So, you want to portray ZaDF like that but if someone portrayz ZaDR as a healthy relationship between two legal people of the same age suddenly it's pedophilia and your ship isn't? And you're going to harass them, give them threats or straight up try to talk them into FUCKING SUICIDE over that??? You need to do some thinking about your own morals because this is just disgusting.

I personally have lost a friend in the past who was pushed to suicide by antishippers, it was in another fandom and out of respect for her, I will not mention the ship in question as I don't want to make her trauma public even if she's not here anymore. However, the reason I mentioned this is because this is the kind of thing antishippers can actually cause and it's insanity.

If I receive any more asks about this, I will not answer them nor will I give these people the attention they want. As I have been doing I will report the ask. Hiding yourself by being an anon will not protect your account from being reported or possibly terminated, just in case you weren't aware of that.

Normally I don't use vulgar language on this blog in the same way I do on my main, but I'm tired and grouchy so I don't care. Fuck google and fuck the corporate big cheeses who push the propaganda that piracy is the same thing as robbing a mall. No, it is not the same thing. As I've said many times before, piracy is no different than using the photo copier at a library. You haven't taken something, you've simply made your own copy. How on earth is this any different at all from photo copying? It's not! There are petitions to make piracy legal for this exact reason.

I admittedly would love to send Google an email about this, but I know exactly how they're going to respond. They're just going to tell me it's my fault and that I should buy the content instead of "stealing it". Again, piracy is not theft, piracy is preservation. I genuinely do not understand how people can be so cold as to say "only those capable of affording media deserve the privilege of enjoying it!!!". What if someone is almost homeless and is just lucky enough to be able to have a phone? Don't they deserve to enjoy their favorite media without choosing between buying some comics or eating that day? I don't care what anyone says, the anti piracy act is an act that is harmful to people in countries where this media is not available and is harmful to those less fortunate than us who can barely afford to eat 3 times a day.

You can't look me in the eye and tell me "yes, I think only people with money who live in select countries deserve to enjoy the media of their choice!" this is just the corporate society's way of attempting to control our freedom and the things we do and don't interact with based on our income and our place of living. I can't believe we live in a world where not only is this a problem but it is so incredibly fucking normalized. I know things like copyright protection are important to prevent someone from using protected media commercially or making harmful things with it, but to dictate who can and can't enjoy it is extremely unfair.

Yes, I will be uploading every piece of media to the archive and have already uploaded the entirety of seasons 1 and 2 as well as the pilot and Enter the Florpus. Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure if I can fix the censorship issues but if I manage to find an uncensored version of an episode which has been censored in the archive, I will replace the file.

Thank you so much for pointing this out and thank you for attributing this to the archive, even if it's only a single recommendation. It means the world to me that others care about this archive just like I do. I must admit that the censorship issue did not initially cross my mind, but I will do my best to look into it. If I for some reason cannot fix this issue, the important thing in the end is that at least a full version of the episode has been archived.