#if you want to ship c!tntduo go right ahead and dive into that fan made content

[hamletteprinceofdenmark]

Even though I will be making fun of Wilbur for saying “psycho competitive” for the rest of time, I do want to emphasise that what he actually said was that c!tntduo were in a “psycho competitive relationship that can be construed to be romantic but it's not explicit.”

That’s not actually shutting down a romantic interpretation of their relationship. In fact that is acknowledging the romantic undertones. What I would interpret that as - and I agree with cc!Wilbur if this is the case - is that you can certainly read c!tntduo as romantic but that that is hardly the most interesting or rich angle to analyse them from.

Personally, what makes c!tntduo so engaging to me is how they have this incredibly complicated history with each other, hate each other, love each other, and still choose over and over again, to connect. They are irrevocably entwined as self made foils for each other. They have chosen again and again to deliberately mirror each other, in action, in dialogue, in theme, despite everything they both do and don’t agree on.

For me, c!tntduo is about them being all levels of fucked up together. Persuing a serious romantic relationship would be super bad for both of them actually. They’re not healthy together. But they do need each other. They can’t escape each other now.

That’s where the appeal of the duo lies. Which, at least to me, is a far more interesting character study and exploration of what people can mean to each other than whether they kiss or not.

#dream smp #tntduo #c!tntduo #wilbur soot #quackity #also cc!wilbur is not the be all and end all of your fandom experience #if you want to ship c!tntduo go right ahead and dive into that fan made content #y’all need to understand what death of the author actually means #what ‘canon’ is - especially in a murky medium like the Dream SMP - is actually like - fully irrelevant to your enjoyment of the product #as long as you’ve got clear understanding and boundaries on what is fan made content vs content creators content #- and that content creators are free to do their own thing and don’t ‘owe’ fandom storyline’s/character beat’s/interpretation’s #that it is still very much their own creation #but that fandom can have its own space that can also be a lot of fun #like - you guys can have so much fun and so much less anger and misery over things #save that emotion for shit that matters #don’t let being too online ruin your day #my meta