#button duo

[peearrdee]

c!Wilbur is the kinda guy to say “in another life I would’ve really liked doing laundry and taxes with you” and c!Eret is the kinda guy to say “lol that’s gay <3”

#button duo #c!wilbur #c!eret

[residenthesitant]

photos from our mini dsmp photoshoot at connecticon! im so happy w how these came out :D

@spr0utsies as revivebur, casual_goatberry on insta as ghostboo, and me as red banquet eret! i’m so happy with how the dress came out, it’s easily my favorite and the most complicated cosplay i’ve ever made - i’ll post closeups and more details of both it and royal retribution later.

@theeretblr

#dsmp cosplay #dsmp #eret #eret cosplay #dream cosplay #ranboo cosplay #dream smp #dream smp cosplay #connecticon #connecticon 2022 #ctcon #ctcon 2022 #cosplay #eret fanart #red banquet dsmp #red banquet #will update with our dream's socials when they get it to us #button duo #wilbur soot #ranboo

[somehowmags]

my part for the @mcytblraufest big bang! i drew this for @enby-chaos's fic i leaned in and let it hurt, which is a buttonduo botw au! i will reblog this with a link to it aksjdffhlaksdfh

#eret #the eret #wilbur soot #mcyt #dsmp #dream smp #fanart #my art #buttonduo #button duo #girl i never wanna draw a background again LMAO

[trenchcrows]

happy new year to my @mcytblrholidayexchange @somehowmags :] some art and a small bit of story/dialouge :D sketch thing under cut

"Please, I-" the brunette falters, "I know you can help..."

She stares in what appears to be disinterest. the sun filters through his golden crown.

A glowing hand gestures for him to bring the red-head closer.

they hold a hand to clammy forehead, the room goes dark. like one of the fabled ghasts of the nether stole their fire back. Eret recites some kind of foreign stanza, Wilbur can see the wrinkle form above the king's shaded glasses as though in a trance.

Moments pass by.

Dots of light fade in and out of sight all around Eret's head.

The candles have returned to their previous burning state.

A soft breath of air tumbles from dry mouth.

Wilbur, looks into his son's open eyes.

Finally.

He did something right for once.

#i hope this is all ok!!! #had some fun with the dress with this :D #cawcaw motherfucker #my art #mcytblrholidayexchange2023 #eret #wilbur soot #fundy #dsmp eret #dsmp wilbur soot #dsmp fundy #dsmp #dsmp fanart #eret fanart #wilbur soot fanart #fundy fanart #button duo #i... wait what is wilbur and fundy's duo name do they have one? #royalty au #my writing #happy (almost) new year!!

[craftycalico]

YEAHHH!!! GET YOUR COLLEGE EDUCATION KINGS

#crafty.calico #button duo #wilbur soot #eret #dsmp #dream smp lore #c u in UT

[elmmni]

okay we all know eret’s based for being angry but you know what shes even More based for? telling wilbur he has to Show that he was sorry. telling him he has to Prove It. and then throwing away their Own crown in a final apology to wilbur and everyone theyve hurt. because eret is speaking from experience here. they know that the real path to forgiveness is through actions, and that path is a long one, and flimsy apologies wont cut it and she is making Sure wilbur understands that. 

#eret supremacy #wilbur soot #eret #button duo #eret teaching wilbur about actual redemption thank you king <33 #mcyt #dream smp #she speaks?

[raineyraven]

yknow this is a thought that has been rattling around in my head for a long while, so i figured i may as well share it.

almost everyone is very well aware that the dream smp is a very morally grey narrative. we all know that, there are no perfectly righteous or purely evil characters, etc etc.

the thing that's been grating on me of late is that the fandom reactions to significant lore events don't really.. reflect this knowledge. hear me out.

ever since the red festival i've felt acutely aware of this. one of the longest-running debates in this fandom was who was in the wrong for tubbo's execution. techno for pulling the trigger, tommy and wilbur for not helping him. i saw post after post after post debating it the rest of that year. and i heavily disliked it. seeing people watch these characters have to improvise with an unpredicted circumstance and react to it imperfectly, reacting how their characters would be expected to, and then deciding to label some as right and some as wrong. to put them on those levels of morality, rather than viewing it through the morally grey lens the narrative has pushed. again, it just grated on me. treating these characters' decisions and actions as either wrong or right instead of treating them as decisions that move the narrative in fascinating ways and give us a window into their character.

i. dislike. when characters are made to embody either good or evil and have their flaws made respectable and palatable and easily overcome instead of more.. human i guess? it doesnt work for me, thats why i love the dsmp like i do. it's so human.

my brain started revisiting this train of thought after the c!wilbur and c!eret stream in may. the fandom reaction to that was.. a lot. again, post after post i saw opinions on c!eret did worse and c!wilbur's apology didnt make sense, or c!eret was right to be angry at c!wilbur for villainizing them, or any other number of thoughts that stem from the view that one of these characters are right and the other is wrong, that some actions and words were morally justified and others weren't.

very little did i see posts stepping back to look at this conflict in its purest form: a part of the narrative. talking about how fascinating it was that wilbur decided to apologize to eret now, how eret finally admitted how his words had hurt her. every discussion i saw was riddled with the question of did eret really deserve an apology from wilbur, was eret in the wrong for forcing a better apology out of him, who hurt the other more and who really deserved an apology from the other.

i could not help but think back to tubbo's execution after that stream. morally grey characters, morally grey decisions, viewed through the lens of sorting out who's right and who's wrong. who deserves what and how much do they deserve it. what moral box can we put this character into next.

and i've seen this pattern with so many other conflicts!! tubbo's decision to exile tommy, techno betraying pogtopia, doomsday. the narrative places absolutely no blame or condemnation on either side of these conflicts, it doesnt label either as wrong or right, so i guess people just. draw their own conclusions on it? it's weird to me, this need to discuss and debate the rightness and wrongness of these known morally grey characters and their morally grey actions and decisions. which one is better than the other, which one deserves to be listened to and the other condemned, which ones deserve to fight for forgiveness for the rest of their lives and which ones get to recieve it straight away. obviously, i'm not saying people shouldn't have opinions on these topics, i suppose just the constant insistence on subjectivity rather than objectivity when discussing controversial lore events like these irritate me.

i don't particularly know what i hope to achieve with this. i'm certainly not trying to attack anyone who's done this, just expressing my not understanding. it's just a weird way to discuss a morally grey story to me. i'd like to know if anyone else shares this sentiment, or if i'm just spouting nonsense. i don't think i am. this habit in the fandom has been frustrating me since i joined it in august 2020.

#fandom critical #jeez first time ive had to use that tag #i really dislike being critical on main but i had to get my thoughts out somehow #anyway #discourse #dsmp #dream smp #dsmpblr #c!wilbur #c!techno #c!tubbo #c!tommy #c!eret #button duo #clingy duo #oh and also! this isnt just a dsmp fandom thing #i remember seeing discussions around who was at fault for vi and powder's arguement from act 1 of arcane #and that also grated on me in a similar manner

[kaz-oooo]

The fuck you mean the Eret and Wilbur pairing (platonic and romantic) only has 600 fics on ao3! This is criminally underrated!!!!! That’s like .7% of DSMP fics.

#wilbur soot #eret #DSMP #button duo

[qtubpol]

anyway button duo divorcecore with Fundy as their kid-

#i may be deranged #dream smp #dsmp #dreamsmp #c!eret #c!fundy #c!wilbur #c!wilbur soot #button duo

[toxictitties]

Canon

#eret #wilbur soot #traitor duo #traitorduo #buttonduo #button duo #incorrect quotes #ig? #dream smp #dsmp #mcyt

[chronophobica]

i still need to watch the vods but these are the vibes right

#dream smp #wilbur soot #eret #button duo #buttonduo #dsmp #dsmp fanart #doodle

[w0lfyfl00f]

Wilbur: I love you. 
Eret, not paying attention: What was that? 
Wilbur: I said I’m selling you to the zOo-

#eretbur #traitor duo #button duo #dsmp incorrect quotes #dsmp #incorrect quotes #dream smp #eret #wilbur soot

[xavalav]

shuffles in with a blanket. m doin my part 👍

uh. could i get. sleepy c!eret. cozy c!eret. or uhhhh buttonduo my beloved. whatever you want king

the buttons.. they're duoing so eepy....

vote for royalduo and i'll draw you something

#eret fanart #wilbur soot fanart #button duo fanart #button duo #we do a little answering asks #xav art #fuck it ask game time #pluto :D

[somehowmags]

so the desert/utah represents cwilbur's freedom from the narrative. he's been playing the role he thinks the story needs this entire time- general washington, the tragic anti-hero, the sweet woobified ghost, a menacing pixie nightmare girl, and then finally the disgraced protagonist seeking out redemption. he wants so badly to be a three act protagonist- alas, he is in a improv group roleplay. he's trying to play by the rules of the story where those rules do not exist by the nature of the medium. the apology streams help break him of this because nobody acts the way he would expect them to in a story. eret demands a real apology and change from him. niki is distant. fundy straight up tells him they will never reconcile. he only hurts tommy more and tommy tells him so. all of this compounds until the finale, where he stops seeing himself as a character and starts seeing himself as a person. this is why he leaves minecraft, the stage for his play, and appears in the real world, finally free from the narrative.

so why then c u in ut? why tell this to eret of all people? because he hopes that she too, will be free from the narrative. the narrative that he put on her: the tyrant king, the traitor, his own personal judas. but also, the narrative she helped make: she betrayed him, said the iconic line, moved the story from a lighthearted play conflict to a story, a narrative. "you are not the villain"- he hopes that one day, she too will leave the stage, and join him in the desert.

#dream smp #dsmp #analysis #dsmp spoilers #wilbur soot #eret #the eret #buttonduo #button duo #chatters #anyways that's My interpretation of it #people have probably said all this before lmao #i still refuse to believe hes from utah. im choosing to believe he was fucking with us. sorry bitch you're british forever

[peearrdee]

#dream smp #button duo #eternal duo #c!eret #c!wilbur #c!foolish

[netheritenugget]

If he's your narrative foil, why is he falling into a pond trying to make up with me despite how we've hurt each other and the people around us, just like I did? 🤨 😏

#the eret #dream smp #wilbur soot #button duo