A/N: And here you have a list of stories I've considered over the past decade, but for one reason or another, I've never written. Read on, and let me know what you think of them.

Disclaimer: Again, I'm not sure I need a disclaimer for this sort of thing, but just in case, let me say again that I do not own Invader Zim or any character canon to it. I just own the ideas listed below.

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Entry 4: Discarded Story Ideas

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Miyuki Resurrection: Inspired by DemonSurfer's Zero Negative, the first Zim/Miyuki story I ever read. At the time it was posted, DemonSurfer had a proposal for a followup story on their profile, where Miyuki somehow gets brought back to life from within the Infinite Energy Absorbing Blob, and she and Zim hook up. I felt it was a shame this story never happened, and considered adopting it once DemonSurfer took the idea down and left the fandom, but never got around to it (probably for the best, as I've since learned I can't write romance well).

Zim's Heir/Zim's Legacy: An idea I had for a two-part story series. Years after Dib exposed and defeated Zim in a climactic final battle, a series of high-tech terrorist attacks against human institutions in general and the Swollen Eyeballs in particular lead Dib into a confrontation with a cloned "son" of Zim's, left in stasis in a fully stocked backup base, set up to avenge Zim if he was ever defeated. Scrapped because of the massive plot hole of Zim leaving all these resources just lying around.

Invader Zim Infinities: Inspired by Star Wars Infinities and Marvel What-Ifs. A collection of oneshots based on alternate history scenarios, like "What if Dib were the Invader on Irk, and Zim was the only one aware?", or "What if Tak hadn't been kept from taking her Invader exam?", or "What if Miyuki hadn't been eaten by the Blob?" or "What if Dib and Gaz's roles were reversed?". Stuff like that, but I just never got around to it.

Danny Phantom/Transformers Crossover Oneshot: A relic from when I actually tried writing outside of the IZ fandom. It was supposed to be this long meeting and philosophical discussion between Clockwork and Vector Prime, but I was never able to scrap together more than a few paragraphs of it, so it was abandoned. Plus, I've since realized that all my attempts to write for other series haven't been that good, so it's probably for the best I never got back to this.

Invader Zim/Cthulhu Mythos Crossover: Some of you might remember a "Scraps and Oneshots" entry where Miss Bitters talks with Nyarlathotep, and I mentioned I was considering doing a full-scale crossover story. Well, I've never gotten around to that, mostly because I just can't seem to get a handle on a plot. Maybe some day, but not for the foreseeable future.

Sequel to Reckoning: Way back when I finished Reckoning, I closed it on a sequel hook, and an open promise that one day, I'd follow up on it. But while I do have a vague outline in mind, I just can't seem to work up the motivation to flesh it out, let alone actually write it. Again, maybe in the future, but not any time soon.

While The World Burns: This was going to be my attempt at writing a ZAGR piece, focused on Gaz and Zim watching from space as the planet's destroyed by Zim's final, actually successful plan, while Gaz reflects on their relationship. However, it never got past the draft stage, as I realized I was just listing a bunch of the ship's biggest cliches, and in a very stilted manner at that. So, it got scrapped.

Dib Switches Sides Story: Another idea that never got past the concept stage, this was going to be one of those "Dib gets so sick with humanity he inexplicably teams up with Zim to destroy it" stories. But then I realized how weak a plot I had, and worse, the basic outline I came up with in my head seemed a little too close to ZADR. Which I will never write.

Songfic Collection: This was going to be a collection of oneshots based on songs from various musicals. Then I realized how stupid songfics are, and that was that.

Nostalgia Critic Parody: I saw a bunch of these in the Cartoon X-overs section, and was going to do my own. But then I realized that I'm an awful critic — I either like something or I don't, I can't really grade things.

Untitled Destiny Trilogy Backstory: This story was going to do double duty, expanding on Zim's rise to power in Jana's timeline as she described it in those stories, as well as letting me play more with my other OC Grimrair. Specifically, I was going to incorporate him and his siblings, Familiar47's other OCs, into the DT future's timeline, and showing what roles Tallest Zim would have given them.

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Fin

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A/N: What do you think, everybody? Should I give any of these another shot?