#content smp

[eggsandramem]

so ink, huh? ✒️🌧️

anyways, design notes!!!!!!!

GOD CSMP IS RUINING ME :WITHEREDAWAY: /VPOS

that first part to the finale on rats pov got me GRRGHGHR.... THE DEFILE MOD IS SO <333,,, yummy tasty grghhrg the csmp lore as a whole makes me explode too

for Rat;

🐀 - The little rat pattern on the bottom of the maid dress are based on a sweater i really like!! they're super cute, and i thought they fit

🐀 - Had to add the extra rats hehe,,, including an oc of mine for self indulgence :swagzauc: (the fella by rats' boot,,, simplified version of my oc Squeakers!)

🐀 ^ - To add onto the rats, i also gave them inkmorphisized forms!! they get ink whimsy too. as a treat

🐀 - I wanted to incorperate the focus items in the mod into both of their designs somehow, so i gave rat a charm of the Sun Effigy!! funky tail charm,,, but shinyy,,,,

🐀 - The horns are more rounded than sharp due to how they look in the pixel sprites! :D

and for Lux;

🖋 - I decided to add a big tear in her right wing, to add onto the fact that her arm got pretty much chopped off by mouthpiece. lux herself mentioned after i shared a wip that it could also be torn because of how she always dies to fall damage and. i can see it LMFAOO😭😭😭

🖋 - The horns in the inkmorphisis form are more sharp than soft, more because i couldnt figure out how to make that same shape i gave rats' horns fit with the moth antennae,,, it still looks a little weird but fuck it we ball </3

🖋 ^ - On the topic of the horns, ive also given them the small little nubby bits to *kind of* resemble a wardens horns, with their little glowy nubs!! just as a nod towards the 'furniture' mod she made :3c

🖋 - I turned the eyespots in her normal design into the Totem of Uncleansing eyes!!!! like i mentioned in rats' notes, in wanted to incorperate the focus items in the mod into their designs, and i thought putting the totems on the eyespots would be super neat,,, :D

🖋 ^ - Unlike the other eyes on the wings, the eye over the torn wing isnt removed, but is rather put into more of a side-viewed/facing position! i didnt want to make it look like a strange, weirdly cut off eye, so yahoo :3

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RAHHG I LOVED MAKING MY OWN DESIGN INTERPERITATIONS FOR THESE TWO.... I NEED TO MAKE MORE EVENTUALLY BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHEN THAT WILL BE BECAUSE MY MOTIVATION IS AWFUL,,,, FOR NOW? HAVE THESE TWO.... hwat is their duo name..... ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ ◅

[saphflare]

Me deciding to reread the lore posts on Arathain's tumblr since they recently posted Seams and completely forgetting everything from them when I read for the first time:

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But yeah... I did somehow forget that the Mason murdered Lux multiple times while raising her as a kid and also apparently missed the one before where he kidnaps a child (who might be Astronyu?) after murdering their parents/caretakers then proceeded to induce religious trauma in them...

[juneification]

DCOTR4T OEOAS EPELSSE I LIKE ORION HES COOL BUT PELASEEEE KET MY SILLY LITTLE GUY REST HIS DAUGHETR JUST DIED… HIS HUSBAND DUDD…. !!

[hazebellum]

More designs lets gooo

I know, I promised Diansu too, but I'm not satisfied with the way I draw him, so ye, I'll try again later But now I have Winsweep and Nox! They're a lot of fun to draw. I'd love to do some creepy sketches with Winsweep lol And yes, I got the idea for the meme when I got the Chandelier cover by Toad playing xd

[sweetnsourhearts]

y’know what I have? A theory about Lux’s missing anchor that’s what.

When Lux was perma-killed her anchor wasn’t with her stuff, and while in reality that’s because back slots aren’t treated as a regular inventory and don’t get dropped on death, I have thoughts about it.

We all know how Lux got the anchor, from an underwater version of herself who told her that she had also received the anchor from another Lux and that one day Lux would pass it on as well? We aren’t really told what happened to Nautilux, just that their world was destroyed by Rat, so I propose a theory that when a Lux with the anchor gets perma-killed that is when they gift the anchor to the next recipient before completely dying.

I mean, it makes sense doesn’t it? There’s not a nothing chance that Nautilux was killed when her world was destroyed and it would explain where the anchor went when Lux died.

Idk. Just a thought

[wysteriamagus]

watched Winsweep's latest video, his pov of the finale. These are just my thoughts :]

I only now noticed that Blake is constantly being referred to as a puppy/dog by Lux and Rat. Idk there's gotta be implication there.

Blake's the one constantly referring to their rivalry as a war, even if it's really just him against Rat from the start, which yeah makes sense. But I'd also wanna add that the way Lux's death sinks in for him is reasonable in the sense that it's war. No one wins in a war, no one ever does. It feels like you win when you see your enemy lose something, but in turn everyone is losing something.

Blake constantly sees his way as the only way too. He thinks it's the only "good way", never once does he see his actions as actually worse than better.

Small detail that I found interesting, Rat chose Winsland as the battle ground. Blake wanted it to end at Market.

AND DAMN it ending with him saying "Why do I feel so empty?"

While one of Rat's last lines before the vid ended was "But now I get it, I'm a monster."

smth smth about loss and realization. How even after experiencing loss that hit hard, they realized different things after it, but both are (in the sense) consequences of their actions until now.

[hazebellum]

HELLO??? THIS IS SO GOOD?!?!

Content SMP finale ANALYSIS

Winsweep called himself the "nuclear option" and that is very true. Honestly both him and rat are incredibly destructive on content smp but Blake especially Represents War. War poses itself as necessary, it kills indiscriminately, it is the tool of the powerful, just like him.

We have seen the ways that Lux has slowly become more violent. She originally was against using charter weapons but that changed. They said "Violence is your mother tongue so I’m going to speak to you perfectly fluently" and she was right, she has learned that language too well.

I loved the rat v win fight bc they know each other so well. They predict each other's moves, how they fight, after years of rivalry they know each other intimately, they look at each other and feel nothing but hate while trying to ignore how much they see themselves staring back.

Rat and Win are obsessed with each other. They CANNOT stop fighting and to me the most satisfying end would have been Blake getting so wrapped up in fighting Rat that he stayed in the border to fight him to the bitter end ultimately destroying both of them in the process.

but we don't get that satisfying ending. Because Blake Is War. Lux sacrifices herself to ensure Rat lives. It is the worst possible outcome because Lux was the one who deserved it the least. At this point none of them were saints but even Arathian said she was never the target.

It is very interesting to my that Rat and Lux kept saying that it was Blake's funeral. To me they were not only saying that he was going to die but also that once he was dead no one would mourn him. The rain falling over his corpse would be the last time anyone would cry for him.

it is ironic then that it was not Win's funeral but Lux's. But Lux had many funerals, Rat built a grave, Nox surely mourned her and even Winsweep built her a genuine grave. Her death was not her funeral and she will be remembered fondly by most of the server despite her faults.

While fighting Blake, Lux also said that she made it rain because he didn't deserve to die in the sun "that is only for honorable people". Every other player killed by a charter weapon died in the sunlight, Implying that even Diansu was more honorable than Win. And she's right.

Her hate for win is fueled by how he permanently killed two players. She hated Rat for doing the same thing before they became allies. But Lux herself also used a charter weapon. Though Diansu was far from innocent when she killed him he died honorably while she lost her honor.

After killing Diansu Lux became much more willing to use the charter weapon, she was corrupted but unlike Win and Rat who are driven by power, vengeance, and a need for destruction, she still had a good heart. She wanted to believe Win had changed, she was willing to let him live.

Though the rain as she dies indicates a dishonorable death everything else about that scene betrays the idea. She may have been corrupted but she died honorably to save her closest ally. War never kills those who deserve it most. Her death is not satisfying, it is not righteous.

In the wake of Lux's death rain takes on new meaning. It is stormy and dark because the light (Lux) is gone. As Win and Rat stand at her grave it starts to rain, it is a reminder that they killed her, she may have chosen to sacrifice herself but it was Their feud that killed her.

[mrfoxdeer]

Just finished Doctor4t’s the 3 hours and 20 minutes Content SMP video. In other words, just got done getting run over by an emotional steamroller! That was insane. Incredible. Awe inducing. Soul crushing. I could go on. I laughed a lot and really enjoyed it, but the ending? I cried. And then I just stared at my screen after the video ended. Wow.

[juneification]

Guys be honest am I cooked.

[foreststarflaime]

To those poor unfortunate souls who have been following me for minecraft related reasons lately: I post most often rn about final fantasy 7 but not to fear. You will have to pry my beloved silly little block people cinematic masterpieces away from the cold dead hands of my rotting withered corpse and I have keep inventory ON thank you very much

[lycoris707]

a new creature has appeared!!!!

still minecraft tho :P

version without ink dripping under the cut vvvvvvv

but first, my thoughts on Rat's video:

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

anyway, about the actual piece

tbh I don't know much of her lore due to the fact that I've mostly watched csmp through Rat's videos, so I didn't know what creature to make her (most I've got is like, the wet cat allegations and moth association due to the moth lantern thingy from the end of aforementioned video)

so I decided to go off of what inklings remind me of, which is the warden. and the warden for me is associated with axolotls

so here you go! I've actually been working on another piece ever since I saw Rat's video (which I might as well call the real minecraft movie at this point lol), which was like a day after it got released. but it's been giving me so much trouble I think I might restart it again

[pjkfunnyguy]

[renekoyuki]

op did you finish the vid? are you also crying on the floor or just me?

hello content smp fandom, i dont even know your lore n shi, i saw the new vid, saw the sexy evil robot guy and was obligated to draw him

(no spoilers btw, i didnt finish this vid yet- /srs does he win? :3 /j)

[bloody-little-duckling]

/spoiler warning

This is a poem I wrote instead of paying attention in English when I was writing this I tried to account for the fact that different people have different takes on what the relationship between C!Lux and C!RAT was so that’s why it’s so ambiguous in nature. Feedback is welcome and encouraged!

A goodbye to…..

I still don’t know what you are to me

an acquaintance

a best friend

a partner

a daughter

a lover

my greatest enemy

my greatest ally

even though I do not know what you are to me I know

what I did for you

what I would’ve done for you

what I will do for you

I sold my soul to the devil for you

I protected you when the whole world was against you

when you were stripped of your arm and left raw and open like a gaping wound

when everyone called you

selfish

bad

evil

Claimed you were a betrayer

I stood by your side, stood in front of you, protected you.

But in the end I couldn’t save you

I was too slow

too weak

too self-assured

I wasn’t thinking

I couldn’t have known

you would pay for my sins with your life

you died

you died

Covered in ink and blood and shrouded in darkness

You died

I wasn’t expecting it couldn’t have known when you rushed into our cage where me and him fought

when you gave me a talisman

when you drew your anchor blade and fought him with me despite

how I begged

how I pleaded

how I yelled

for you to leave to run

as time ran out

as you turned your blade on my and threw me from the cage and took my place

as I screamed your name

as you repeated you were sorry

as the cage crushed you and I was left surrounded by enemies that claimed your death was on my hands as they laugh or looked on with disinterest

as I screamed and cried

as I dragged your limp body home

as I buried you among the chrysanthemum and spruce trees that you loved I realize that I was a monster that didn’t deserve you

my anchor

my light

my life my everything

and that I would never be able to tell you what you meant to me how much I loved you my

acquaintance

best friend

partner

daughter

lover

greatest enemy

greatest ally

I say goodbye to you and I promise that those responsible for your demise will pay

Already I Tire of living without you breathing without you but I must continue so that those who wronged you may pay but after we can be together

my anchor

my light

my life

my dear lux

to you I say goodbye.

[saphflare]

Small hc I have is that players that are the owners or at least the "origin" player of servers can mess not just with the code of their world in modifying weapons or mechanics, but can also cause permanently changes to code within players on the server, including themselves, whether intentional or accidental. And to some extent, this ability transfers to other players designated as admins depending on how much power they are given.

Anyways, so when Rat got flung 7 million blocks out into the world border, he was in so much pain from not dying that he impulsively reached into his own code and disabled the part that allowed him to feel pain. The issue is I imagine normally "modding" is done in a workshop setting that would have like equipment and safeguards against things like this. So he wasn't exactly safely doing it or in a setting that allowed him to experiment carefully like the other mods he done. So while he stopped the pain (aka the damage tilt) and it was useful to not be constantly in agony while getting back, when he tried to revert it after he returned, he realized he didn't really know what he did and it kind of messed up a lot more things than he initially thought it did.

And that basically was Rat damaged most of his sensory abilities, though primarily it was his sense of touch that was messed up, he also found a few other oddities in his sense of taste, sight, and hearing (no sense of hunger, salty things were sweet & vice versa, music did not sound right, etc.) Luckily those last ones weren't too life-threatening necessarily, and I think it would be funny if he could scarf down spicy food without feeling a single thing, while he saw Astronyu and Lux dying over the same dinner he was casually inhaling.

I know nothing about coding and how exactly you might fuck up something that you don't know what happened to the base code stuff. But whatever Rat did he fucked it up good because reasonably he didn't exactly have clarity of mind while doing it. So since this isn't an easy fix, he makes a quick supplementary code to help alert him if he was low on health or hunger. Since he is well aware of why the sensation of pain is needed in ppl as much as he liked not feeling any. While he has some success in creating mimicry modifications to help him bring back or fix some sensations, he hasn't exactly figured out how to bring everything to how it was. And he decided to forgo with coding back his sensory ability to feel pain, since those attempts weren't going well.

But hey, he is surviving for the most part and he has people looking out for him :)

I like to imagine this also inspired him to look into messing with internal player coding, which culminated in the Defile (aka becoming ink blob stuff) mod.

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Slight bonus round

(also TW for self-neglect/harm)

Rat is terrible at taking care of himself even before this incident and he is kinda worse off after the 7 million block incident. But Lux and Astronyu find ways to help make sure he is listening to his supplementary reminders and you know taking care of himself. Until of course, Lux is dead and, more often than not, Rat just stops trying. Stops listening to Astronyu trying to help and often lets himself die to respawn. It's more efficient that way and well it isn't like he feels pain, he just locks himself in his room or workshop and sets his respawn there whenever he needs to just keep himself there. And at least, he keeps himself busy in there alone, and it is okay, as long as he ignores the sad way Astronyu looks at him each time he comes out after locking himself away for so long.

He is living in some way, at least.