hai!! i go by kit or mayo, i like to play and draw and use any pronouns
im more active on my other socials!! mainly tiktok
i don't go to tumblr land a lot but. im Here now i guess!! there's not much to say about me but like,,, i'll post art here neow i guess! feel free to req but im not very active here so it's not guaranteed it'll be done lolzies!
all my art will be tagged under #art, while fics/snippets will be posted under #fics
my interests include,,,
persona 5, phighting, unstable universe, strength smp, infuse smp, orison, forsaken, bsd, ultrakill, crk, lifesteal smp, the group chat, ratskewer + other things i probably forgot abt
im more likely to post about the bolded fandoms since they are currently my biggest interests!!!!
lifesteal squiddo, artist smp, and what it means to make a base.....
I was looking through some old screenshots from Artist SMP days, through to now, and I think it's interesting to see how my mentality towards Minecraft has shifted throughout the years through the ways that my bases look! of course this is just from a character perspective i'll always love lifesteal etc etc :D
For the uninitiated, artist SMP was a 2020-2021 'lore' server filled with dream SMP fanartists all of whom had never touched pvp in their life. not a soul on that server had a villager trading hall, if you'd asked what one even was, you'd be met with confusion. The pinnacle of our technology was a manual tree farm. if you wanted enchanted gear, you got an enchanting table and guessed how many books it needed. That was all. That was perfectly fine, it was normal. Spawn was adorned with pride flags, rollercoasters and wholesome cottages- i don't think "traps" ever crossed anyone's mind, even though we were all supposed to be at war. if you wanted to fight, you spam clicked with your sword until the enemy ran away. that's all I knew going into lifesteal. I'd loved that server.
So, being thrown head first into the deepest end of the world's deadliest infinity pool, I was very confused and very out of place. i didn't know what lifesteal meant because I had never seen a lifesteal video! i didn't know what was right, what was wrong, what was expected, what had already been done. and you can see that in my base.
it's not even a "base"! It's my home- I had a bedroom, a kitchen, a GUEST BEDROOM just in case my crush ever wanted to stay over, and a dining room with a fireplace and table, just in case anybody ever wanted to come over for dinner. and, writing that out, it sounds crazy! why would anybody ever want to come over for dinner!? on lifesteal!? but I didn't know! to me, or, to lss5 squiddo, it was completely ordinary, because it was all she knew. the only storage was a set of unorganised double chests by the front door- the only reason nobody ever found this base was because nobody wants to hunt for bases on a server without a world border and only 25 players. But I didn't know!
the floor is a fish tank filled with tropical fish. a rainbow pride flag hangs above the dining room entrance. a cobweb clings to the ceiling, not because of a fight, but because it's meant to show that squiddo hasn't dusted there yet. I used to run around with Sildur's Vibrant shaders on, purely because the colours made me happy! I was certainly the only lifestealer that played with those! the only functionality this base held was a singular brewing stand, which it's self was purely decorative- it was only filled with water bottles.
She keeps framed photos of her loved ones next to her bed. allays roam about because she thinks they're cute. and this whole base- this whole home- it's not entirely original. fresh out of asmp, when I was faced with the task of making a base... I recalled my favourite place to be on artist smp.
This isn't my season 5 base, it's a secret underground bunker from artist smp! i wasn't allowed in it, but when nobody was online, I would run around it in secret because i loved being there so much. I went into the backup save file of the map and took these photos for inspiration; squiddo's season 5 base was her happy place from artist smp. and the dining table- it's the exact same one from her artist smp home. a place where it was completely reasonable for your enemies to come over for dinner.
On artist smp, since it was a 'lore' server, it was pretty ordinary for the admins to intervene and just start Adding Stuff like powers. so when that began in season 5, it wasn't out of place for me at all. I didn't realise that for most people, the white house flying around or wemmbu being immortal was quite weird... when lifesteallord started levitating in creative mode in my base, it was just another day! that happened all the time on artist smp! and when the end times came, and wemmbu got super powers and infinite hearts- fighting back seemed obvious for a million reasons, one of them being because... that's exactly what happened on artist smp, too.
Bill "ohnoheshere" Black was the servers antagonist. we'd been great friends, but through some lore shenanigans, he also ended up with infinite hearts and explosion powers. does this sound familiar... anyway, through pure bad luck, I also ended up with that suite, and had to fight him. so when it happened on lifesteal, lss5 squiddo didn't see anything odd about it because it was all she knew; i didn't know it would make people upset, i'd only ever known it to be something fun- something people got exited to witness, to be part of. but lifesteal was different...
throughout season 5, she still learned what lifesteal was. even if outside of her own base, she caught glimpses of the real world. how nobody would slow down to help her, how nobody would hesitate to kill her, how other peoples homes seemed to be a lot different to hers. how this server seemed to be a lot less carefree than what she knew. how angry people were to witness something that had been encouraged and even forced upon her before. so then comes around season 6...
The FOCUS base is very different to the season 5 home.
It's long, mined out hallways are decorated with wood and logs. Farms fill the walls and a villager trading hall is the primary feature. this time, she's teamed with two people who care about her- it's a home and the hearth is warm. the dinner table is still set, but this time only for three people. it was built by 4cvit primarily, and so is both functional and easy on the eyes- but the bright colours, the knick-knacks, and most certainly the shaderpacks, are gone. Asides from in... the bedroom.
looking back, why did this base even have a bedroom? bases don't need one, and your respawn point should be well hidden. but a quick left-turn from the dining room meeting room reveals a room entirely different from the rest of the base. it's green, orange and blue- themed after the teammates colours- the walls are adorned with plant life, candles hang warm and bright in the air, a writing desk sits nestled in the corner of the room, paired with a hanging sign that reads "FOCUS 4 EVERRR'. the walls are decorated with the powerpuff girls, except for 4cvit, who is squirtle, because he didn't want to be a powerpuff girl. Once again, it holds no functionality whatsoever- but that spark of joy and whimsy that squiddo learned from artist smp, although now a little more buried, a little dimmer than before, is still there. there isn't a doorway on the overworld leading straight to it and it isn't the whole base, but squiddo wanted somewhere cozy where her and her team mates could feel safe. not just a base, but a home. it's small, comfortable. it's very reminiscent of artist smp, a world she maybe belongs in but can never go back to. but on this season... squiddo is crushed, and she learns the truth of this server.
there is no ashswag to win over. there is no superpowered wemmbu to defeat. it's just blood forever :P
after FOCUS is forced to disband by the end of the world- and although they disband as best friends- squiddo is once again, alone. she understands lifesteal more now. you don't have dinner parties with your friends. if you want to survive, you have to think fast- you have to be the best of the best. you have to have a reason to be kept alive or you won't be for much longer. people don't like it when you fly, they don't like it when you do magic tricks, they don't like it when you surprise them with impossible things. it scares them, it unnerves them, it ruins their fun. squiddo understands this. she understands that she is scum. and she becomes very very sad with the world... the home which she grew up in is gone forever, the placed she carved out for herself cannot exist any more, and now she must beg to be kept alive.
enter season 7
all of her frames of reference are gone. wemmbu, ashswag, 4cvit- they are nowhere to be seen. and the naivety that she could survive on love alone is all but diminished. and yet... she still tries!
The VLC base has functionality. A trading hall, an XP farm, a turtle farm for turtle master potions (which squiddo has now learned the importance of, the hard way) but before anything, squiddo got straight to work decorating it, desperate to have somewhere that felt safe- like home. no doubt yearning for the comfort of the long-since vanished season 5 base, back when everything used to feel normal. crystals sparkled on the walls and leaves tumbled from the ceiling, and a happy ghast drifted through the halls. she might have even turned on shaders, once.
and she is punished for it. Team Apocalypse finds it on the day of her wedding, and blows it up while she is at the altar. her pet happy ghast is slain. she hadn't even spoken to them before. and so she runs away...
and she runs, and she runs, and she runs, looking for somewhere new to call home for now. she adorns her shield with a sunflower, sews a floral pattern onto her cardigan and builds a giant sunflower at spawn; trying to convince herself and the world that she is still happy, still has that joyous spark from before, but it's gone. she understands the world now and she does not belong in it. the dream of having a comfortable, warm, cozy base was stupid. the dream of living somewhere colourful and bright was naiive and impossible, long gone. she runs and she runs and she never looks back because without love, no place will ever feel like home. she won't be safe anywhere; she'll never frame photos of her loved ones by her bed, she'll never fill her home with pets, she'll never light a rainbow of candles and she'll never get the time to finish decorating before it's found and she's killed. and she will never have that dinner party with her enemies. why would you do any of those things on lifesteal?
i don't even know where my respawn point is any more. I think it's underground in a cave, buried behind some andesite wall. there isn't even a torch in there...
HELLO!! not sure if ur requests r open,,,, but if i may.... can i request shuriken fluff hcs!!
Don't Forget to Kiss Me or Else You'll Have to Miss Me
Internet Findings: Don't worry, they're open! Here's some Shuriken fluff your way dear patron of the aquarium :) [END SEARCH]
π - Was he there? Or no wait, there! Blink and you'll miss him, you have Shuriken as your partner, and boy is he fast! And hard to catch too... Should probably tell him to quit sneaking up on you as a small prank.
πΏ - Shuriken loves to be sneaky and quiet, his whole thing really, so imagine your surprise when he actually prefers that you see him. At least for a bit, he'll try and show you where he's at for meeting up together and going on a date.
π - Speaking of dates, dates with Shuriken are exploring, checking out the nooks and crannies of Crossroads while the dusk settles over, neon lights from shops cascading down into streets as Shuriken smiles wide. He wouldn't trade the vision of you by his side for the world.
π« - If you catch him while he's working, be prepared for Slingshot and Vine Staff to playfully tease him, talking about how the two of you are lovebirds while he's waiting a table or two. He'll get in their cases about it later, right now he's determined to make sure you have an enjoyable experience, and come back again... Hey, not his fault you give him a mood booster at Slingshot's.
π - He calls you babe, baby, sweetheart, and surprisingly likes to call you his partner in crime. It's sweet, and he always looks at you so lovingly while he calls you them.
πΏ - Gives hugs a lot, and kisses you on the cheek before he dashes as a playful gesture. When he's feeling particularly bold, he'll kiss you on the lips before running off, laughing all the while from your previous spot.
π - Likes finding trinkets and stuff for you, anything that reminds him of yourself is an immediate grab for himself. Will hand you anyway he finds with a small smile on his face as he hands you the little bauble he collected.
π« - Would wear something matching with you, like bracelets. "Keeps me lighter than air, and faster than the wind." Shuriken would say as he dashes and jumps through the streets. He sees it as a good luck charm just from his partner.
π - Cheering him on while he's in a phight makes him feel like he can sneak around more, the shadows on his side as he deals silent blows to the enemy team with a glint in his eye. He might even show off just a slightttt bit, doing a more dramatic backflip as he springs from a wall.
πΏ - "I call this trick... 'The Shadow Flip'!" Shuriken whispers excitedly in the corner of a round, hiding against walls as he uses the darkness to his advantage. He knew you were watching and cheering him on to do his best, and that's all he needed to win this match against the opposite team.
π - When it comes down to it, Shuriken has a great appreciation of nature, often being outside if he isn't in the darkened corners of the Crossroads. He'll breathe in the nature's air, feeling a deep sense of calm wash over him as he relaxes for just a moment.
π« - "Come and relax with me, sweetheart." Shuriken smiles your way, different from the playful smiles and joking grins, this one felt so much more real. He couldn't wait to spend this time with you, feeling the grass beneath him and the sun shine on his face. It felt like true peace, maybe this is what Katana was taking about, all he needed was someone to enjoy it with.
