Okay, this is an entirely different fandom from what I usually post about...
But we gotta talk about the whole Yaelokre Cooper and Playwright situation!
Irregardless of whether there were enough bad actors to justify punishing the whole fandom, irregardless of whether Keath is intertwining themselves with their characters too much, I have a bigger issue with all of this.
Where does it stop?
Because people on the internet are always going to be people on the internet. Removing Cooper and Quest from the narrative is not going to stop people s*xualising things from the Meadowlark world, or even Keath themselves. It's Rule 34 of the internet. Everything will be s*xualised, whether you want it to or not.
And so if that's true, which it is, are they just going to cut away more pieces from their story? What if people start s*xualising the Harkers next? Bam, there's an important part of the narrative just gone in some pointless attempt to put a plaster on a gaping wound. And if they start s*xualising other characters? Cole, Clemmie, Kingsley, Peregrine? (Not saying they should, s*xualising child characters is fucked up, I'm just saying some freaks would and probably have). Well, there goes our main characters too.
Now, I'm not saying Keath will do this, I'm not trying to fearmonger or spread paranoia. I'm just saying that this is where this path can lead.
If you allow these bad actors, this small minority of the fandom, to force you into ripping chunks out of your story just to try and stop them, then you are letting them win. This has the potential to not stop here, but instead to rot away Meadowlark from the inside if Keath doesn't get their shit together and realise that they can't just cut pieces of their lore with reckless abandon.
Especially unreleasing songs (And The Hound - Reprise). What, are we going to lose Kid & Leveret next? Kamahalan? Neath The Grove Is A Heart? God forbid, Hearken? Where does it end? You wanted to tell a story through your music, but now you're willing to burn that story and burn that music in some mad endeavour to control something so much bigger than yourself?
Thank you for reading this, and if it seems overdramatic, it probably is. I'm just pissed off and baffled at the lack of foresight as to where this can lead.
