Hey so I think it'd be cool if we could all stop lining up to pile thanks on the person who bought the TTS artbook and acting like they're a hero for posting pictures from it when they have zero stated interest in archiving, and their intentions are far from generosity or building community.
Idk guys I just think that saying you hate Cass so much that you don't even want to share art of her is frankly not nice behavior, and actively cropping her out of the pages you've already photographed is just... pretty petulant and small-minded!
Even if you absolutely love Eugene and Rapunzel, are understandably thrilled by the new art, and dislike Cass yourself, I'd also encourage you to not see this as a "yay my team won" moment and more of a failure of media preservation and a loss for the TTS fandom as a whole.
Anything in that book that hasn't been posted publicly is effectively lost media, but ftr, I want to emphasize it doesn't actually matter whether the book contains new or previously-unseen content- it's just a spiteful, petty attitude and I don't like seeing people cheer for it because they're treating Cass vs. Eugene/Rapunzel as a war or game they won points in. I know if the roles were reversed, New Dream fans would be outraged.
Refusing to even acknowledge Cassandra's presence in the book and explicitly wanting to erase her is an insult to the fandom and imo, disrespectful to the many crewmembers, artists, and writers alike who put a ton of work and love into her character. This art book was a gift to them to commemorate their efforts.
And in all honesty, it also reads to me as incredibly ungrateful/disrespectful? Spending almost 4 thousand dollars on a prized book when you have no actual interest in so much of the content within it??
Here you have a former crewmember who parted with their crew gift because they were going through hard times, and you only care enough about the work to pick through it for your favorite bits and dismiss everything else that the crew chose to celebrate? And when someone points out the value of archiving the book, the response is to tell them to just spend more than what most people spend on their monthly rent to buy their own copy- when, of course, there are no other copies available at this time and there is no store that stocks these even for the price of $3.6k.
I also don't want any mealy-mouthed "uhm weww it's their book 🥺👉👈 we should be grateful they're sharing anything at all!" replies when I would bet (certainly hope) that everyone who bid on the auction (myself included) did so at least in part because they dreamed of sharing the art book with the fandom after so long. It's a sad outcome to this little saga.
