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A while back I was talking with someone about the near-impossibility of avoiding romance in fanart and fanfics of that most determinedly anti-romantic show ever, Invader Zim. Anyone and everyone, male, female, Irken, human, hybrid, hermaphrodite, canon and OC gets paired up with everyone else. No possible combination has been left out, and she wondered what we'd see next, "Dib/Shoehorn"?I had a good laugh and promptly forgot about it, or thought I did. Over here they take off their shoes every time they go indoors, and after this conversation, every time I touched a shoehorn, a grin would pull on my face.
Finally I drew this, and ~Tabbykat35 , it's for YOU!
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Reminds me of myself a week ago when i shipped Dib with a Brick wall XD
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Im pretty ok with the IZ pairings mainly because they change the characters personality completely soooo ya... ( awkwardness) I'll go now
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At first I thought that shoehorn was a leg, like the lamp leg in Christmas Story! If I wrote a story of this pairing, I wonder how many people would take it seriously?
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*gasp*R u assuming Dib’s—-GENDER?!
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WTF is a shoehorn?
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From what I remember in IZ, no couple is official.
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Well, slash-ficcers would make any character gay, straight, necrophiliac, a pedophile, emo, lusty, and any other radical personality change in a heartbeat, ignoring the fact that the character is now completely OOC.
Great job, I really wouldn't was to see the buttsecks that would be a result of this pairing.
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THERES NO LOVE IN INVADER ZIM!!! D : <
What's the big deal with so many random pairings!? (I was a hater of zadr from the start and some other pairings with dib are just silly... I haven't found a single one I agree with yet... xD)
I can agree a million times with this picture!!! excellent!!!... 
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This is good. I laughed.
Most IZ pairings I can't stand. Most of them don't make any sense. I don't even like slash. The only pairings I ever liked were Dib and Gretchen, though he didn't notice her, which is why I'm glad we have the freedom of fanfiction, I have stories where they become friends first, and fall in love later, but it's a slow process, and Zim and Gaz to a degree, even if it's not cannon at all.
But I totally agree with you. They pretty much pair Dib with anybody, even Gaz *Barf*, even if Dib's not involved, there's still slash and other weird pairings all over the fandom. It's gets really old. If it's not pairings, it's still alot of the same things (Like Gaz beating up Dib). I wish there was more originality, like Dib having victory somehow.
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Thank you. 
An IZ pairing is a contradiction in terms. (Hey, watch for the stamp! 
The same people who thumb their nose at canon to draw z@dder and invent all these weird pairings are the same people who won't even think about having Dib win over Gaz... because oooh that's not Canon.
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That's what I do not get. I mean, I like romance, but only in limited terms. People fall all over themselves with consistency, romance and cannon. I like cannon only if the people working on the show creates sympathy for the characters. unfortunately, this was too much for Nick. With all the bad things done to Dib, and they only claim it funny. One of the reasons why I don't watch the Network as much these days.
I really like your stories because not only are your stories original, you create sympathy for Dib, which I really applaud you for. we could really use more stories like yours. I'd put a hugging emoticon here, but I haven't figured that out yet.
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Aw, thank you! You'll be happy to know I have a few more to write yet!
When you type : hug : without the spaces it comes out as 
(But a comment like yours calls for a : tighthug : 
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awwwww:hugs:back.
I've been planning my own stories. These are later stories and Zim and Dib are friends. Even Gaz is treating Dib better (long story). Morality is very important to me when I'm writing. I make sure that Dib and Gretchen have sympathy, considering how the kids are treating them, even how they treat Zim sometimes. In some of these stories, Zim, Dib, and Gretchen do win over them.
I can't wait to see what your future stories are like.
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For the disturbing record, there's actually a term for stuff like this: Dib/Shoehorn is a "cargo ship." 
This really is the way I felt when I started doing fanfiction...IZ was the first fandom I was heavily involved in, so I couldn't help but wonder why the heck so many people were doing romance stories. 
Granted, it's basically foreign to the show, but the way I see it a really well-developed character can be used in lots of different ways and still be interesting. After all, the Membrane family dynamics aren't explored a lot on the show, but you make them fascinating. 
Interestingly, some of the best romance stories are often the weirdest pairings too; the fic that finally made me really like shipping was about Keef and Tak of all people. I think it's because the common pairings are so popular they don't need any thought---but someone creative enough to devise a weird pairing is probably also creative enough to pull it off well.
All that being said, yeah, I often think there are too many shipping stories; people tend to elevate it above everything else, or make it completely plotless and totally OOC.
(Sorry to always go on like this, by the way---it just that your points are always so good I feel the need to defend myself.
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That's quite okay; I appreciate a comment with substance to it! I like puns as well.
I don't care much for romance in mainstream fiction or movies either. People fall in and out of love whereas the parent-child bond is forever, but if each and every single movie and each and every single book had a subplot about a lost child who gets found again, how long would it be before we started saying, "Enough already!"
To me, conflict makes the story, and romance is the absence of conflict. To my way of thinking, during romantic scenes the actual story is sitting down to take a rest.
About the only movies whose romantic subplots did not give me a craving for fresh popcorn were "The Abyss" (I saw this one a while ago, but I think the theme was love in general, and someone used a wedding ring to prop open an escape hatch) and "Holes;" something had to motivate so deep and enduring a rage against society.
I completely forgot there even was a romantic subplot in "Click" until I watched the DVD, but it made sense there too.
One of the few romance stories on FFN I remember reading was Juanita la Cliker-Rooster's "Untitled Love." [link] I will never know what made me open that one, but I thought it was rather well done.
The keywords are "lots of different ways." People have lots of different ways to relate to each other, as friends, as parents and children, as mentors, as bosses and teammates...
You can ramble to me any time!
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That's a good point---a lot of romance stories lack any kind of conflict, even when they logically should. That same writer who got me into romance commented that she liked IZ romance because it has great potential for love-hate dynamics, but at least half of all stories wind up being "Dib woke up and realized he was gay. Zim woke up and realized that he was gay too. So the two got together and had hawt boi smex and then Dib got pregnant or something, the end."
And yeah, pretty much every movie feels the need to throw a romantic subplot in there, doesn't it?
Hmm, I might try to find the time to read that story (even though my own and others' failed attempts have left me wary of OC-based romance). Heh, I think I have a fic I could recommend to you: [link] I don't know what compelled me to finish reading it, and you'll spend the whole fic wondering why I would recommend it to you, but just wait for the ending. That part, at least, is right up your alley.
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I know which one that is. How are you going about fighting it? If they're anything like the z@dderers, they are relentlessly voracious and think there's no such thing as bad publicity.
I can see how the story I mentioned is flawed, but just the fact that I continued reading it astonished me. You were right, I did keep wondering why on earth you would send me to read such a thing. Thanks, though. The ending was satisfying. They have Dib knifed in the back every day of the week; they can do this once or twice in eternity.
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I'm not really sure how to "fight" that pairing; I can point out the logical reasons it shouldn't exist, but as you point out that might just make its fans defensive and more entrenched. 
I'm glad you liked that ending.
Speaking of which, I really need to finish that second half of "Nobody Asked."
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Logic, I'm afraid, has nothing to do with it.
I would LOVE to see even one more story in which the anti-Dibs get their due. Can you figure out why he ends up dying?
The Dib haters and may-as-well-be-haters have created this mindset; we have to take back the fandom!
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Well, it's usually in the context of "here's what Zim'll do to the world if Dib isn't there to help it." 
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It's really not all that difficult once one gets started. At one time I thought it would be impossible to write Gaz losing, but all I had to do was turn her own strength against her, like martial arts folks do. 
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I've actually got two great Gaz-karma ideas I could do...just no time to do them!
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AAAH! 
(Er, if it turns out you just never get to it, would you mind passing them along to me? 
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I'm sure I'll get to them eventually, don't worry.
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Actually the original individual's gratuitous use of sarcasm pretty much ensured I won't do it. I'll come up with something else for that.
Thanks for the suggestion though. (If one more letter is okay, "Gary.")
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In my stories, most of my character are either Asexual, aromantic or just not interested in romance.
Infact one of the married couples of my universe have no ''intimancy'' as both are pretty much asexual, they only had a child(the child was produced via test tube), so they could have a heir and spawn for their plans of usurping the throne of the main villian.
I think it's too cliche that all the characters of one show are in love, love and sex are becoming overused specially the latter.
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That sounds original! It also has a good strong conflict. (They say the stronger the villain is, the stronger your story will be!
I would be okay with SOME of the stories being about romance/love/sex/lust etc. but for the most part the IZ fandom has become one big mix n' match orgy.
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hehehe, the problem is that my villian is so strong that i can't figure out how are my main charas going to kill him!
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yeah, boys are dumb.
In that case i made an OC that is named Nik, she is a tomboy and has a one sided crush on Dib, Dib sees her a his best, well actually his only friend.
however, the crush only serves for comedic material, it never evolves from being one sided, since Dib has a crush on Zita.
Nik eventually gets over her crush, and starts seeing Dib as her best friend not a potential boyfriend.
Even if both liked eachother, it wouldn't work as Dib TALKS alot and Nik is hyperactive with little patience.
Nik had a crush on Dib, because she thought Dib was a handsome boy(in her point of view)frankly i find Dib cute, but he won't grow to be a handsome man...''looks at Prof.Membrane''
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That first is not exactly the point I was trying to make, but okay...
We don't know if Prof. Membrane is handsome or not because we never get to see his face!
Reading your comment, I can even sort of see why people write so much doggone romance even in IZ. They're sorting out how to tell friendship from love and love from a crush, which is going to be really important to know later on.
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A hot proffesor Membrane?! *faints from the sole idea*
Ok... well Dib doesn't look exactly like his dad, so he has a chance to grow to be a quite good-looking guy, Dib a handsome man? it makes sense seeing that Dib is one of the few Jhonen characters that don't look disgusting or gross.
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Hahaha. This makes about as much sense as any IZ pairing (though I still can't help wishing Dib would notice Gretchen).
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XD
I never ever liked the way he treated her.
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Yeah, boys are dumb sometimes. Even Dib.
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