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"ZiM… If you and I didn’t have to be enemies—if we didn’t have such different ideals and goals—do you think we could’ve been good friends?"
For the first time, Dib heard a genuine laugh—an actual burst of amusement from ZiM.
Well… from his ZiM."You? Friends with ZiM? Even without a mission to fulfill, I wouldn’t befriend a filthy Earth monkey like you!"
"Ugh… forget it. I knew it was a stupid idea."
"Enough! What’s wrong with you, worm? You’ve been acting weird ever since you came back from the punishment dimension."
"I know..." Dib said, sounding frustrated, before turning away and walking off without another word.
O: In an attempt to finally get rid of Dib, ZiM creates a device meant to send the human to a dimension of doom—one where crystals rain from the sky and the heat is blistering.
But, as always, his plan has a minor flaw, and instead of landing in a place meant for his doom, Dib wakes up in ZiM’s lab again. Only… it’s not his ZiM’s lab.And the weirdest part?
This version of ZiM is surprisingly nice, calling him nicknames that aren’t nearly as insulting as he’s used to.Series
- Part 1 of Unfamiliar
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After an incident at skool, Dib discovers that somehow, a strain of Irken DNA has infiltrated his bloodstream and begun to overwrite his genetic code. His body is slowly becoming more and more Irken-like, and the only way to reverse it is to form an uneasy alliance with Zim before it's too late.
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- Part 1 of Invader Zim: The Irken Infection
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When Dib saw Zim better his human disguise, he realizes he has to REALLY think of an actual plan to stop Zim, or else he's gonna take over the world. So after lots of thinking, he gets the best idea ever!!If he can't defeat the enemy...WHY NOT FRIEND THE ENEMY?So, he decides to try to friend Zim. But OF COURSE HE'S NOT GENUINELY FRIENDING HIM! With this alliance, Dib will try gaining Zim's trust and then, gather proof that Zim is a space monster.
But will this work?
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two dudes sittin in a space ship five feet apart cause its a slowburn
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Dib ended up watching one of those "three a.m. summoning" videos, discovering how unrealistic and bland the majority of them were (mostly just grown men yelling at plushies or drinking fake potions). He decided to make a REAL summoning video to clown on them that very quickly rose in popularity.
After he saw how many people liked the first one, he made another. And another. Continually making viral video after viral video.
Only problem? He's actually going out all alone and putting himself in danger, and while the views and ad revenue are nice, it's getting progressively harder to hide the bruises and other injuries he's getting from summoning and then subsequentially escaping from all these creatures. Especially from a small, nosy alien who knows nothing.Dib is a 3a.m. Youtuber with real content (and no free giftcards giveaway), and it's starting to wear him down. No one knows it's him doing this, but it's getting harder to hide all the injuries he's getting from it. What will he do when Zim finally confronts him over all the new scars and bruises he's been showing up with as of late?
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Beneath the Mycelium Veil by ConfettiDonut (EclipseofMoths)
Fandoms: Invader Zim, Gravity Falls
03 Jul 2025
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When Dib turned 18, he made a deal with his father: he would give up his paranormal research, go off to university, and work at Membrane Labs; in return, he would never have to worry about money ever again. It’s been a few years now, and Dib has completed his side of the deal early. Now he’s stuck working in a sterile, boring laboratory studying whatever it is his father assigns him.
Things come to a head, however, when Dib is knocked overboard while on a marine expedition and is subsequently rescued by an eccentric pair of old men. Soon enough, Dib finds himself spinning a web of lies that leads him to a sleepy town known only as Gravity Falls.
All to study mushrooms of course. Or at least that’s the reason his father thinks Dib is so keen on exploring this small town in the middle of nowhere. No other reason…
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Zim damages his PAK in a lab accident. It’s certainly nothing to worry about... as long as the Tallest send him those replacement parts before it starts seriously affecting his health. Zim’s injury and the resulting increase in his strange behavior inevitably sets Dib off, and his increasing suspicion and paranoia leads to an event that tips the delicate balance of their conflict wildly out of Zim’s favor. One way or another, everything is about to change.
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Over a decade after the Florpus Hole incident, Dib and Zim have settled into a strange friendship that's taken them off-world and into the depths of space, debunking myths and defeating monsters (for a reasonable price, of course). After a close call for Dib in a previous expedition, Zim has picked up the perfect odd-job: low risk, high pay, nothing that would jeopardize his traveling companion's wellbeing, not that he's worried about it. Unfortunately, Zim's inability to read the fine print leads to a crustacean-themed catastrophe. With Zim's PAK malfunctioning and his life in danger, both human and Irken will have to confront past traumas if they want to make it off the planet alive.
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- Part 1 of Every Star Another Sun
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Dib notices that Zim has been a lot more aggressive towards him for the smallest of actions but he doesn’t know why.
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After several years Dib's questions are finally being answered by an annoyed Zim. And then Zim learns what a 'friend' is.
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Dib taking his personal issues out on himself via self-harm, but also mostly him moping and thinking about all the sucky stuff in his life
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goated. sorry dib ¡¡¡
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When the Tallest reveal the truth about Zim's mission, he doesn't take it very well.
But what happens when everything goes from bad to horrible?Series
- Part 1 of Truthseeking
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AhISKhdbjskfbjskfv,smbfwhefiuhfhsf s,bsdkfsdfbhbfhmsdfmshdbf
Long story short, I loved this fic :3
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Connection Error by Violintrees
Fandoms: Invader Zim, Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
21 Jul 2025
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Over the past two decades Cyberlife's IRKdroids, androids designed to look like green aliens, have become an important part of society and the economy. Revitalizing the city of Detroit where Cyberlife is headquartered and creating greater inequality than ever in human history. Now in 2038, they are starting to break from their programming, killing their human owners and escaping their encoded jobs. Called 'Defectives' by Cyberlife, these IRKdroids threaten to destabilize the status quo. Detective Dib Membrane with the Detroit Police Department and a prototype IRK800 android named Zim have been assigned as partners to investigate the growing crisis of Defectives. How will the pair navigate this mystery, the threats of the city, and the rivalry they have formed with each other?
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Months after the voot exploded, and life has yet to get back to normal for Dib and Zim. The day after graduation, Zim is invited to a party while Dib opts to stay home to begin work on something important.
He was not expecting Professor Membrane to show up at his door.
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- Part 7 of A Song of Defects and Failed Experiments
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Not All is Forgivable by Silverfire12
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It’s been a year since Dib moved in with Zim, and a year since the voot was rendered inoperable by the Tallest. Growing more and more anxious to get the voot up and running, Zim grows more and more frustrated with trying to fix it.
And from frustration, comes mistakes.
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- Part 6 of A Song of Defects and Failed Experiments
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After a month of Zim missing hiskool, a fifteen-year-old Dib decides that enough is enough and he’s going to go find the invader and stop whatever plan he is definitely concocting.
What he finds, however, is something he could never have imagined. What is one supposed to do when they find their greatest enemy an emotional mess? When you learn that said enemy has just suffered the same rejection that you have time and time again?
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- Part 1 of A Song of Defects and Failed Experiments
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very very cute and good :>
also they/them minimoose LET'S GOOOO
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Mad World by iamwriting
Fandoms: Invader Zim, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee (Comics), VASQUEZ Jhonen - Works
03 Nov 2017
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Group projects are the worst- especially when you're partnered with your alien nemesis. But when Dib uncovers disturbing ties between his reoccurring nightmares and the homicidal maniac they are researching, he is thrown into the most dangerous battle of his life. Will he ignore Zim's cryptic warnings and instead follow the guidance of Nny, a new ally with a hidden agenda? Or is he in too far over his head? And who is that kid in his nightmares...? (Complete!)
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After the suspension of Dib's membership to Swollen Eyeball's organization, Zim offers a trip to an unknown planet filled with adventure, space anomalies and a reprieve from Earth's stressors as a graduation gift and an escape. Dib accepts in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, both of them are dumb danger magnets, and Dib goes through dealing with fairies, drunken bar fights, space pirates, way too emotional talks and more as he gets sense that Zim has been keeping something from him for a very, very long time. Oh, and the Irken Empire is out for blood. So there's that.
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An Irken by the name of Zim crash lands on Earth to escape his home planet, Irk, with his robot SIR unit, GIR. He has to blend in with the rest of the humans during his stay, and along the way, makes both allies and enemies. Will Zim be able to blend into society well enough and be able to hide from the Irken Empire, much less, The Almighty Tallests?
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At age 16, a mark appears on Dib’s left wrist. He hadn’t been expecting that. He assumed he would be like his dad, going through life as a lone wolf, entirely devoted to his work. However, this mark changes everything. Once he finds the person with an identical mark on their right wrist, then he will have found his soulmate.
He enjoys imagining what his soulmate will be like. However, once he actually meets them, he’s not only crushed, but furious. What do you do when you meet your soulmate, but you don’t like them? Worse yet, what if they aren't even human?