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Dibsthe1 — October 2, 2003
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Pencil drawing. I took my time with it, probably an hour. Now I can see where it's off model, but when I drew it I hadn't been an IZ fan for long, and I had something else on my mind.My father had just died. Instead of crying right away I drew this. I kept thinking, I used to wonder what losing a parent feels like. Now both of us know.
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I was right. I always imagined Dib would be this hurt from losing his mother. So sad.
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aw.... my friends cuosins dad commited suicide. he jumped off a bridge.... I can't imagine.......... aw..... U need a hug and some waffles........ here *huggies*
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-.- I feel this way quite often now.. everyone is dying right and left on me...
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Mm. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope things don't continue this way for you any more.
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Well, other than my close family (mom+dad+aunt) no one's left to die, so yeah.
Everyone who's related to me is in Germany being... german.
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This seems like an old picture, I'm guessing, but it's a tearjerker.
It's simple yet it portrays a very sublime message and I just felt terrible for you and Dib.
And I do agree with your argument that Dib probably does cry after the cameras are off..even though it /is/ a cartoon, he's a very deep charachter.
I kind of know how you feel; I lost my grandmother to cancer. I know it's not really the same prospect as loosing your father..but, yea.
Wow. I'm talking intellectually. Yay for me!
But anyway, great picture. Definite favorite.
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Aw, thank you so much! 
As the title suggests, it's about four years old and one of the very first drawings I ever did of Dib. I drew that instead of crying, so I did put a fair amount of emotion in it.
Actually I've found out since then that he does cry on camera in one episode, "The Frycook That Came From All That Space," Just as the scene fades out after Zim is abducted by a much bigger alien, he lowers his head and tears up. [link] That pic is collecting wonderfully compassionate comments.
Thanks again.
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Geez.
When you feel, I mean really FEEL, for an animated character, you're believing that the character is real, even if only for that moment. That is an animator's ultimate achievement.
Unfortunately, some people scoff at any display of emotion that isn't "tough," such as anger. Fewer still get it that animation is a legitimate art form. And even fewer, apparently, can summon up any compassion for DIB.
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Yea, I noticed when he cried. I was like, "What the hell? Dib is crying? D'AWWWWWW!" And my friend started laughing at me. Haha.
Yea, Zim gives it plot, Gir gives it laughs, and Dib gives it heart. Exactly. ^^
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Aww I feel sorry for you
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Thank you. There is no easy way through it, is there? My father had been ailing for quite some time beforehand.
My last surviving grandparent died when I was 6, and as both my father and mother were the youngest of large families, I'd started going to wakes and funerals quite often by then.
But here's nothing quite like losing an immediate family member. Thanks again.
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awwww, i hated the episode vindicated, i just wanted to jump into the tv and give dib a big hug SO BADLY!!! then my brother laughed when dib screamed at the end, LAUGHED! i punched him in the chin and left a bruise and i wasnt alowed to play the computer for a week! >
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Alot of people in my family have died.But think, he's happy now.
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Thank you very much.
Yes, I'm sure he is. Shortly afterwards I wrote a story for my mother about how my father found his way to heaven and had St. Peter admit him and issue his robe, wings, and halo, and then was joyously reunited with his birth family and old friends.
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Alot of people in my family have died.But think, he's happy now.
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Oh, my....the whole thing, both the picture and especially the story behind it is so very sad. ;_;
Hugs for all. ;_;
The picture is very nice, though. It's got a kind of...I dunno...bold appearence, I guess. It looks really sharp, but it's actually very soft. I can't explain it very well, but it's a really good thing, don't worry. 
I'm very sorry to hear about your father. I never knew my dad -- he hasn't bothered with me at all until just recently. He's still alive, though. I can't even begin to imagine what it must feel like to lose a parent. The closest thing I've ever seen up-close and personal was my friend's reaction to losing her dog just last week, and that was bad enough. For what it's worth... (hugs you)
Dib should cry more often. I just don't get it -- why is it deemed so wrong by society for a boy to cry? It's a very odd paradox. Then again, he's probably afraid that he'd come across even "weaker" than Gaz already makes him out to be. Did that make any sense? I tried to explain it, but I've noticed I can't explain things very well.
I don't know about Dib, but I know I certainly cried for him at the end of Vindicated.
No amount of my cupcakes can show you how I reacted to this, but I'll give them to you anyway. ^^ (gives you a bunch of cupcakes) I can see that you're doing better, though. I hope things continue to improve in your life. Hugs.
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Aw, thanks! Hugs back
I can't explain why our society refuses to allow boys to cry, no matter how much they may need to. I think I get what you mean, but if I got it wrong correct me. If Dib ever cried in front of Gaz she'd be like a shark smelling blood, I am sure. Dib undoubtedly cries in his lonelier moments, when the camera isn't looking. He's got plenty to cry about, and all that tension's got to come out somehow. He IS just a kid, after all, something a lot of fanfic writers tend to oh so conveniently overlook...
The ending of V was indeed sheer agony for a Dib fan. The poor guy needs a friend, needs a friend SO BADLY, but when he finally does find one he gets knifed in the back like that! One of the more prolific writers on FFN, one who seems to like Zim if anything more than Dib, still found V a particularly painful episode to watch.
It wasn't so much Jhonen's doing as those backseat drivers, the network execs. They thought the series couldn't possibly be "funny" (guess who pulls the wings off flies for a hobby?) unless it was an unending, over the top, overdone horror for just one character, a role which fell to our favorite paranormal investigator. Dib is Jhonen's favorite character and the one he identifies with the most, so the longer the series lasted, the unhappier he got with the way it was going.
Jhonen and the writers had great plans in mind for later seasons, plans that they really wanted to put on TV, so they bit the bullet, humored these uncreative, sadistic, kitten-roasting, puppy-kicking sickoes, and made each episode so horrible for Dib that not even the whiniest exec would be able to gripe that it wasn't "funny." 
Well, we've all seen the results. 
Moral: You can do something you don't believe in for someone you trust, or something you believe in for someone you DON'T trust... but never do something you don't believe in for someone you don't trust!!
Aww, thanks for the cupcakes!
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I'm sorry to hear about your father.
And this picture is also very sad. Well done, too. Dib seems to need a very good hugging.
So, more hugs for you and Dib:
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Awww! Thanks! That's so sweet.
It happened a year and a half ago. I had moved to another province a few years earlier and come home to visit after my mother phoned to tell me my father wasn't doing well. While I was home he left us. I didn't cry at the funeral home or at the funeral, or in front of any of my family. Instead I called a very close friend in the city to which I had moved and cried long distance. So I also know what it's like not to be as close to one's family as one could be.
About a week later I was back with this friend and we were watching the movie Gladiator. I was seeing it for the first time and the end really hit me hard, but at least this time my friend could comfort me in person.
When we watched Return of the King last weekend Theoden's death brought back memories, but I didn't get as choked up. So yes, I'm recovering, thank you.
Thank you for your comment!
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Um, I'm not sure if this went through so I'll try it again. My apologies if it shows up twice.
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This is so sad. You would never expect to see Dib cry. But probably, in the world that wasn't written about, he does. And that's a sad thought. Well, somehow seeing him crying makes it even more emotional, because you wouldn't expect it. And what you wrote about it is even more moving. And now I just want to give you and Dib a big hug.
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Aw, that's sweet of you! Thank you very much.
I had come home from another province when my mother told me my father wasn't doing well, and while I was home he left us. I didn't cry at the funeral home or at the funeral, or in front of any of my family. Instead I called a very close friend in the city I had moved to, and cried long distance. So I also know what it's like not to be as close to one's family as one could be.
This was a year and a half ago, so I can once again watch death scenes in movies without getting as choked up as I did then. Yes, I'm recovering, thank you.
Among your poems that I read were Off My Knees and Father, and I'm sorry that your experiences were such unpleasant ones.
Dib has never cried on the show, but considering the things that keep happening to him, one has to wonder if he does so after the camera stops. (I'm sure he did after Vindicated. That ending was so vicious and uncalled for. )
If you enjoy reading fanfiction, I post IZ stories on the website fanfiction.net under the same name. My stories try to be on the more realistic end of the spectrum, so I do allow him the release of crying.
Thank you very much for your comments!
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*hugs* But I'm glad that the worst of it is over.
Personally, my dad is still around, he's just never in his life communicated with me. But the majority of my friends and people around me have either lost a father or have other serious problems with their father. And it just struck me as kind of weird that it is so common. It really makes me wonder, and it really makes me kind of upset that it happens to so many people I know. I don't really understand it, so that's what Father was about.
I have never read fanfiction before, but I have been thinking about starting, because I want to know how people write! So I may just check yours out!
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Thank you!
It's unfortunate that so many people have serious problems with their fathers. I think that's because it's primarily girls who are encouraged to think of themselves as future parents.
I post my fanfiction under the same name. Most fanfiction makes Gaz much worse than she is in the show, which is what got me into writing my own, actually. I wanted to show that such abuse is not quite as much fun on the receiving end, and I will eventually be writing in an appropriate comeuppance.
If you do decide to check the site out, most fanfiction is, bluntly put, awful. So I'd like to recommend a few names which are associated with better fanfic than most: Senri, thejennamonster, Red Crow, Maran Zelde, Dust Traveller, Lael Adair, Delphinbella, and Dibmagician. I hope you find something you can enjoy!
Thanks again.
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Aw, I feel sorry for you. I almost lost my father, he is in a hospital in New York. He almost died of cancer.
Very nice drawing, I love Invader Zim.
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Thank you.
God bless you and your father. I hope he recovers.
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