#auctionposting

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.

A second art book has hit the building LMAO

I'm so mad b/c I knew this would happen- the absolute pea-brained bidding on the first one set $3k+ as a new baseline for anyone looking to sell theirs, when the book is absolutely not worth that much.

It's worth noting that there was a 2nd bidder on the original who bid 3.3k, and a credible-looking bidder at 1k, so it's not impossible someone would be willing to buy at that price.

I do think it's legit ftr, and it's most likely someone who just never opened their gift. The other more interesting (and optimistic) possibility to me is that maybe there were extras from production? Like when you order merch or custom printing, manufacturers tend to work in round numbers, and this looks brand new. In that case I wonder if more might trickle out? Though if someone was sitting on like, even 2 or 3 extra books idk why it'd have taken so long to start selling unless they just... forgot.

So the listing for the second book was marked as sold, but when I check the original listing, I see a banner saying that it was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available. 🤔

It's also been pointed out that the quantity seems to now be listed as 2, when I'm 99% sure it was only 1 originally? I'm wondering if perhaps the seller mistakenly listed the quantity as 2 at some point, and after one sold they quickly ended the listing.

The other possibility I can see is that they weren't satisfied with the offers they got, so they ended it to relist it as an auction, though this seems less likely.

I don't think it's impossible that they'd have 2 copies (production surplus, potentially) but the lack of another listing and them taking this one down makes me think the quantity is an error.

I also see people saying it's scammy, and while the timing is definitely odd, I'm not sure what the angle would be?

I'm surprised (and amazed), actually. I thought they'd slink off and we'd never hear from them again.

This is a big win for media preservation, so I'm happy about that. Having said this, I hope people don't rush to kiss their feet and praise them for doing... the right thing and bare minimum that they should've done all along.

They've been nothing but nasty and rude, tagging polite and friendly asks from Cass fans as "entitled harassment", and if there wasn't an uproar from the majority of the fandom, I doubt they would have changed course.

This applies to anyone in the fandom for me, personally. If you call Cass an OC [derogatory], a sexy lamp, a creator's pet or Mary Sue or whatever else, and I know you hate her character, then I'm not going to accept your lip service when you turn around and say something halfway decent through gritted teeth to save face.

So bidding on The Auction is now up to 5k, and I'm squinting, I think there's some tomfoolery going on here lmao. I've bought and sold a good bit over the years, and the extremely steep jumps in price remind me of shill bidding or the occasional kids/teens who go on bidding sprees w/ no intention of following through. (I've had this happen on my items before, along with nonsensical/meme number offers.)