#cc: mapicc

[lifestealtwt]

Mapicc - Oct 26, 2024

bro fuck this team

[mcytblrconfessions]

now don't get me wrong, i love mapicc, but after my friend once jokingly said he "descended like jesus christ into my room and took away my rights to feel sexual attraction to anything" after i came out to her as asexual (specifically erassexual if that helps explain her wack ass comment), i can't exactly bring myself to watch a mapicc video without imagining him being crucified like jesus christ.

[lsblrconfessions]

I swear lifrsteal edits to smth to me that I can t even explain cuz like . I won't have a thought of lifesteal for DAYS but then I stumble upon lifesteal edits of like duality (mapicc n ro) or smth and suddenly I'm on all fours staring at my screen like a feral animal

Anyway all fhis to say keep doing wtv ur doing lifesteal editors ^_^ those edits make my brain go grghsb ragghh and I appreciate that

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[evil-mcytblrconfessions]

hi same person as the dream mask :clownpierce: anon we now have a screenshot of a lifesteal chat message that's just Mapicc saying ":cash:" because when I brought it up we realised :cash: isn't an emoji

so we made it one

:cash:

(same anon as from this post)

[colorblindmess]

" mapicc goes outside to breathe in the air mapicc goes and mines for some tools and armour mapicc goes and speaks to his allies his. yeah. his. "

just a little self indulgent trans mapicc fic :3

[paper-rips]

EXPANDING THIS OFFER

i'm open to songs that remind you of any of the following (specifically them in Lifesteal):

duality duo

havoc duo

pride duo

funhouse duo

and i'll even throw in drawing requests !! give me songs I'M BEGGING, WIELDING MY STYLUS LIKE A HUNTING KNIFE PRESSED DIRECTLY AGAINST YOUR THROAT GIVE ME SONG RECS THAT REMIND YOU OF SILLY BLOCK MEN AND YOU RECEIVE A DRAWING OF YOUR CHOICE IT'S THE OFFER OF A LIFETIME I SWEAR (preferably lifesteal fanart but u can ask for anything as long as it's for a fandom i'm involved in) PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEAAASEEE

AND pspspspsps Spoke and Clown doodle based on that time in season 4 when they were mining out a place to put a new End portal and Spoke gave Clown potion effects ("do you feel watery ??"). yk. js for extra motivation. do it. songs. pls. any genre. ANY. if u think an mlp song applies to your favorite block men duo THEN IT COUNTS.

/nf /lh btw i js rly like Lifesteal

TRADE OFFER: i receive song recs that give season 4!duality duo vibes, you receive Mapicc. look at him. you wouldn't deny this guy right. you couldn't. you shan't.

[coffeegnomee]

It fascinates me that in this entire conflict with Flame we have this battle between c and cc mindsets and motivations that are so interconnected that the story only exists through the blend of both. 

MAPICC: “I don't care bro. He can't just get away with anything he wants to because he’s Flamefrags. I actually don't care” 

It is so cool how it’s BOTH:

“the villain of the server can’t just get away with anything he wants because he’s the villain” 

AND 

“Flamefrags the person can’t just get away with anything he wants because he’s Flame” 

One is a fully justifiable, and even honorable, story motive: to stop the evil rampage of the evil villain, 

the other is a respect and learning moment for a real person to learn that you have to work with others and not steamroll because you think you have the right to whatever your idea is. 

It is so fully both of that at the same time. 

Flame does it too, he met the story as a story; he said specifically to Zam in DM’s that he’s leaning into a character with blowing up spawn. 

But then when it comes down to it, it’s his video and he just wants to make it, and he's willing to hold the whole server hostage to do so.

He takes both to be true, though he disagrees that the second reason is any justification to oppose him, which is the whole point to what Mapicc is doing. Mapicc is trying to teach him that his actions have consequences and you have to embrace them WHILE doing your video, not separate your video from your actions.  

And that, on a greater level, lifesteal is never about just you, it’s about who you team with and about the server as a whole. Every interaction matters. 

And Mapicc fully embraces that actions have consequences and that he’s going to get shit for blowing things up because now people can say of him, “Mapicc can’t just get away with anything he wants because he’s Mapicc”. He thinks he's in the right, and flame deserved it, but as they walk around the destroyed castle he reflects saying, “yea and then when I cancel the duel I’m the dickhead. Well I mean, no what I did-” and doesn't finish the thought. But he gets it.

And THAT’S what makes lifesteal so interesting.

It’s not just an unscripted story, it’s other people continuing their lore during your lore, because of your lore, which messes everything up and doesn't lead to perfect stories being told. 

It’s a never-ending, ever-building conglomeration of difficult stories, real stories, actual shit going down, and pushing thorough it anyway. In a word: Resiliency. 

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And then suddenly it’s not EITHER of those two above options, resiliency is necessary as the dual conflict of above boils over into a story about self worth and communication. Not about a video, not about a villain arc, the barriers of character break down, the story of the server which was once wrapped up in the easy rebuttal “It’s minecraft not real life” starts to crumble and suddenly it feels all too much like a real life problem stuck within the veneer of a character, forced to play out because it is in the context of a game, unable to be resolved until the person himself battles against his inner self.

And our villain is stuck under the thumb of someone else, despondent, weary, and just wanting to give up. Anything to end this endless agony that boiled from one mistake, one weak moment in listening to the devil on his shoulder, and has now brought real sorrow and massive stress. 

He talks of Wemmbu having leverage against him, a mysterious hold that keeps Flame from having any leverage in return. What looked like one type of character has boiled into something far more 3dimensional. 

And suddenly I’m getting flashbacks to the greatest story lifesteal has ever told. 

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FLAME: “How can I control another man’s decision that like, he just logs on and starts blowing stuff up. Bro. what can I do” 

ZAM: “well, [laughs] telling him that’s he’s griefing your video! Tell him that he’s griefing your video! It’s so obvious!”

FLAME:” he wont give a fuck!” 

ZAM: “HOW? He obviously cares. He obviously cares” 

FLAME: “he does not give a fuck bro” 

ZAM: “You can just talk to your teammates, did you know you can just communicate with them? That is something that you can do that we cannot.”

[…] FLAME: “its not that easy” 

ZAM: “but it should be. It should be, Flame” 

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ZAM: “they’ve been going against your motives this entire time? How is that not betraying? How is that any different?” 

FLAME: “bro they have leverage bro” 

[…] ZAM: “flame the way you’ve described this is that you’re being betrayed constantly by your teammates, your teammates are constantly going against you, always. And now you’re like scared of them as well, […] The way I see it is you’re having a communication problem, I don't know” 

FLAME: “I can’t do anything with somebody else’s problems” 

ZAM: “but it’s not someone else’s problem. It’s your problem […] you teammates are being terrible to you, your teammates are mistreating you” 

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FLAME: “where the hell am I going? There’s nobody left that’s gonna want me on their team. And that's my fault” 

ZAM: “that’s not necessarily true. You just have to look […] you don't have to betray them, you could just leave the team on good terms”  

FLAME: “that doesn’t exist” 

ZAM: “[conceding] fair”

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FLAME: “okay tell me what- in this scenario, put yourself in my shoes.” 

oh he’s BEEN there. He has been there. Don’t worry Flame. 

Standing up to your purple teammate is never easy. Especially when you’re so attached to the third teammate in the group. Hopefully Zam and Pangi can give helpful enough advice, but then again did Planet and Bacon and Branzy’s advice give the best conclusion to that relationship? Was communication possible or was the only possible response upholding a boundary and leaving to show how serious he takes it? Putting his foot down and standing up for himself? Is it possible to do that without breaking apart the team while still being serious about what is going on? 

And then there’s Mane saying “flame said that?” “Dumbass flame :sob:” “we already said we’d stop after he asked LMFAO” 

Where this will lend up, I don’t know. But this is the most interesting lore lifesteal has had in such a long time. I’m getting so many flashbacks to how it felt to watch s4 and I couldn’t be happier. 

[lifestealzine]

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[foxhands]

silly sketches of STC's main cast for @immolxtion-stxtion :P as an apology for not doing my state-mandated literary analysis of STC yet

some design notes under the expanded text

some of my own takes on stc:

mapicc has monolids! i really, really love the look of monolids (funnily enough, as a non-monolid asian myself) and i think they suit mapicc's punk aesthetic well because i recently saw an asian punk model on ins and their appearance was incredibly striking

snakebite holes leave quite visible scars- maybe a little unclear in my illustration, but those are scars on roshambo's face, not piercings. i also think roshambo has long hair- he's incredibly ethereal, morute sort of vibes

parrot is also asian (the actual cc is mixed wasian iirc). this was my haircut when i was younger as a silly note

spoke's neck tats are cybersigilist inspired, but i honestly don't have a headcanon that feels right either. you can get enamel extensions put onto your canine teeth to give the appearance of fangs; i think spoke would absolutely do that ~~cs he is gay~~

[aipurjopa]

★ INTRO POST ☆

I’m Ai aka Purjopa

she/her

I draw stuff 👍

Main blog: @purjopa (except I don’t post anything there but when I submit asks or reply to stuff it’ll be on that blog because this is technically a sideblog. All my posts will be here though)

How I Tag

Art tag: #purple’s art

A side note about my art tag: tumblr broke a while back so there’s two of them yet they look identical. One of these two tags is missing half of my old art while the other one has everything. Not sure why, keep that in mind!

Text Post Tag: #sketchy.txt

Reblogs: #reblogs!

Not art: #not art

Spoiler tags: #[media name] spoilers

Ex: #unstable universe spoilers

Main Interests

Mcyt: Unstable Universe, Lifesteal, Hermitcraft, Life Series, (ex)DSMP

I often draw: Parrot, Wifies, Spoke, PlanetLord, Mapicc, Kenadian, Wemmbu, Zam, Squiddo, Ashswag, Reddoons, Grian, Scar, Pearl, Impulse, Mumbo, and Tommyinnit.

Nothing mcyt related that I draw is intended to be ship art (so please don’t tag it as such either) unless I’ve specifically used a ship tag on the post/specified it’s ok (ex: if it’s swagdoons art I’ll tag it as swagdoons and also lifesteal shipping). If it is ship art, it’s between the characters and not the cc’s!!

Rhythm Games: Project Sekai, Bandori, Enstars

My Favorites: Airi, Akito, Saki, Aya, Hina, Ran, Souma, Tori, Esu, Hinata, Yuta

Other Games: Sky Children of the Light, Genshin Impact, Minecraft, Honkai Starrail

Other Media: Frieren, How to Eat Life Series (by Eve), Skip to Loafer, Spy x Family

Other tags I commonly use

#🌌: Havoc duo (parrot and spoke) stuff

#words per second: unstable universe protagonists (wemmbu parrot spoke)

#🌀: FOCUS (squiddo, 4c, mr.cube)

#swap au: my prsk swap au (the one with runaways)

#vivid street: next gen! : my next generation vbs au (featuring chasing x destines, my ocs)

#long lived au: my frieren inspired prsk au

#mid week supplementals: doodles/not colored pieces

#sketchy sketches: my old tag for doodles/wips

#video: [video title] - [cc name]: title of the video that i’m talking about (usually when i show clips/screenshots). i’m like really inconsistent about using it tho…

#[abbreviated cc name] live blogging: when i’m watching a stream/video and posting abt it as i’m watching

#[series name] spoilers: spoilers for the current running season of that series

[lifestealupdates]

Lifesteal Season 6 Week 4 Recap

We're one month into Lifesteal Season 6! As per usual, major spoilers under the readmore, ccs should be blocked but if there are any with secret accounts please leave now.

Team Mice Breakup

We've had the first team breakup of the season! After Kaboodle antagonised Manepear by placing posters that said "Fuck You Manepear" around spawn, he blew up the Mice's base. Reddoons blamed Kaboodle for this, and when he and Hannah met Kab at spawn, he killed her, calling it "A transaction for the time I wasted on this team" (paraphrased). The Mice are now officially disbanded, with Hannah no longer trusting Red, and Woogie having left a few weeks prior. Ironically, the reason Mane knew of their base location was actually partially Hannah's fault for having her second layer on, and partially Leo's, for building a giant farm on the surface nearby.

In the direct aftermath of the betrayal, Kab and Red had a very long argument (in lore, not a real argument) on twitter.

Consequences

As a result of being betrayed by Red, Kaboodle locked herself in an obsidian box, where she can't hurt anyone and no-one can hurt her. This stream was the first part of a series called 'Consequences' that she will continue in September. Kab also has an alter-ego that can leave the box, so she can continue to participate in events.

Purpleduo

Vitalasy rejoined the server for 100 Minecraft days earlier this week, for his last Lifesteal stream before he goes to college. During this stream, Subz rejoined the server permanently, and for the rest of the week has been hanging out with Reddoons.

The Peace Trials

The challenges for the mace continued (and later concluded) this week. Multiple people took part in trials based around friendship, culminating in a final trial where they were asked to kill Squiddo to prove their dedication. As multiple players refused to kill them, the Keepers of the Mace (4C, Squiddo, and Cube) had to decide between themselves who was the winner. The winner was revealed by 4CVIT onstream to be Clown but no other server members know this. 4C requested that no-one speaks about this on their socials until the winner reveals it himself. Clown, a little while after this, then proceeded to kill Squiddo and 4C.

Mapicc

Mapicc's experiments on Zam have continued, despite him paying Zam four hearts for the now finished castle build. He is still convinced Zam is secretly evil. He wants to know Zam's base location but has so far failed, and is considering dropping the stalking arc.

[lifesteal-headcanons]

*bows dramatcially*

I bring you Filipino Mapicc

(the character not the cc guys)

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[mcytblrconfessions]

mapicc's an aromantic or aro-spec in a butch femme kinda way to me

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[lsblrconfessions]

Sometimes life gets incredibly busy and I can't keep up with lifesteal streams, or anything Minecraft adjacent actually ( especially since MOST PEOPLE STREAM AT 3 AM at my time zone, and three to five hour long vods goddddd ). Anyways It's crazy reading livetweets from my mutuals cause???? wdym???? Zam's writing signs again??? 4cvit is stalking Zam???? BACON CRASH OUT????? WEMBU IN GENERAL??? ZAM AND MAPPICS WHOLE THING???

like ohhh kay this lifesteal shit is Serious I'm out 😭😭😭😭❌❌❌‼

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[evil-mcytblrconfessions]

I have covid and some other mystery sickness at the same time and I am projecting both onto mapicc

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[scarletiswailing347]

discliamer since i havent really done that for these kinds of posts and i feel like this one is worded in a more demanding way than i usually do: any post of mine regarding what the ccs "should" do is less me actually wanting them to do what i say and more me speculating on the kinds of actions that they could take, not cause i think im smart or tactical or anything but because this is my idea of what fun is

im watching the tower vod rn and i think the only real way to deal with minute and jumper at this point in the server is to. not

like it probs wont be satisfying to the PlayersTM considering the kind of ppl they are (proactive, confrontational, plays along with the spirit of the server, self-focused morals) but considering the kind of ppl minute and jumper are (reactive, avoidant, prioritizes survival even if it means not great content, normative morals) i think its the only real way to engage with them when it comes to this kind of recursive conflict

like everytime they confront one another it keeps circling back to this moral debate regarding the ethics of killing ppl on fucking Lifesteal of all things and i highly doubt its ever gonna stop (at least for this season) considering none of the new members have really been traumatized the lifesteal way, i dont mean regular smp trauma like war and betrayal and all that jazz cause theyve already got that, i mean Lifesteal trauma: the realization that everything is a cycle, that good and evil doesnt matter, that feeling of hope shattering over and over again, that realization that in the grand scheme of things your ideals dont matter and the only thing you can truly hope for in the server are teammates and allies that wont backstab you, and that even then thats a tall order

so back to Not dealing with jumpertech, i dont mean forgetting what they did, i mean actively avoiding them, acting irrationally scared of them even when theyre being civil, fully putting them in the role of big scary villains, basically still putting what they did at the very forefront but acting like its an insurmountable trauma, planting doubt in their status as heroes, continually being the aggressors just cements in their minds that yes they are the heroes and that yes they are doing the good things

like whether the PlayersTM like it or not this is an unstoppable force vs immovable object kind of situation except the unstoppable force has more to lose by virtue of having a goal that can easily be tided by the immovable object

and i do think they can pull it off, they can lose a fight and lose so much that it breaks their spirit, like jumpertech have both been in kings, they both know how determined at least zam and mapicc are, surely it would be really offputting to see someone youre so used to seeing never giving up to do just that