Ellie

and then there's the other side of the coin. jean is used to his eating disorder being a topic of discussion by this point, and his fixations with numbers and measurements being scrutinized rather than gently counteracted. cat helps by teaching him to cook, and jeremy and laila try too, but even then he's still surrounded by nutrition facts and labels and calculations to lose himself in. but then cody notices, and they keep noticing, and as subtly as possible they start to find tiny things jean enjoys to brighten up his day. they ask cat what fruits he likes and bring him peaches and buckets of strawberries, snacks without a label to lose himself in or visible numbers to panic over. and they don't force him to have them, but they're visibly elated and encouraging when he does, and when he actually enjoys them. jean doesn't make cody feel like a burden for something they can't control, so cody refuses to do the same. they just want to help, to make sure he eats, and to make sure he enjoys eating.

ur so fucking right i fucked up hold on let me fix it

neil’s SECOND favorite game is “i’m going to say something unhinged as fuck with no context and watch people try to figure out if i’m telling the truth or not.”

neil’s FIRST favorite game is exy.

andrew’s SECOND favorite game is “im going to watch neil say something unhinged as fuck and offer zero input on if it’s true or not (i know the answer) and watch everyone cycle through the stages of grief as they realize that there is literally no way of knowing without asking and they’re scared ask if neil really jumped out of a plane without a parachute once or if he’s fucking with them.”

We're almost caught up processing all of the donations that have come in so far, and we wanted to give you all a snapshot of where those donations are going.

So far, the organizations drawing the most donations (given as percentage of total donations) are:

Middle East Children's Alliance, with 10.3%

the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights, with 9.7%

the Freedom to Read Foundation, with 9.0%

and Sherlock's Homes, with 8.5%

The organizations with the fewest donations so far (again, given as percentage of the total) are:

Fight for the Future Education Fund, with 0.3%

TransQueerPueblo, with 0.6%

There are also several organizations in the 2-2.3% range, including Brave Space Alliance, Bellingcat, the Environmental Integrity Project, and the Congo Leadership Initiative.

While we believe deeply in the work being done by every single organization on our list, we hope you'll consider sending some love (in the form of donations) to the groups that have gotten less support so far.

This year I’m participating in the @fandomtrumpshate auction! Bidding is now open and will run until the first of march!

If you’re not familiar with the concept it works like this: You bid on the auction by putting forward a donation to one of the offered charities. At the end of the auction the person with the highest bid will receive a fanfic from me, based on their prompt.

Neither I, nor the organizers of the auction receive any of the money!! This is just a chance for people to donate to cause of their choosing, and receive a small gift for it!

If you are able please check it out! There’s a lot of different authors and fandoms to choose from! And if you can’t donate repost their post about it so we can reach more people!

I signed up as a fanwork creator, you can check out my offer here:

We're back, folks! FTH is back for be our ninth (!) auction, and there's lots of good work to be done. (What is Fandom Trumps Hate?)

In this post you'll find the calendar for the 2025 auction, along with links to some useful information, including this year's list of supported organizations. (All of these same links can be found in our masthead, but since that's not visible on mobile we wanted to make them easy to find elsewhere.) You'll also find dates for our Crafts Bazaar.

Here is this year's list of supported organizations. We'll be posting more detailed profiles of each of them over the coming weeks. We also encourage you to look at the Auction FAQ (which has lots of useful information for people thinking about signing up as creators, as well as dedicated sections on bidding and on nonprofit orgs.) If you're raring to go, you can look at our bidding policies.

Lastly, in a couple of weeks we'll be kicking off our newly-revived offscreen activism blog @fthaction. Why not give it a follow?

FTH2025 Auction Calendar

Monday, January 20th: creator signups open for both the auction and the crafts bazaar

Sunday, February 2nd: creator signups close; craft bazaar signups remain open!

Friday, February 21st: browsing period begins, crafts bazaar opens

Tuesday, February 25th, 8am ET: bidding opens

Saturday, March 1st, 8pm ET: auction bidding closes

Monday, March 10th: craft stalls close

Wednesday, March 12th: proof of donations due

Wednesday, December 31st: fanworks due

...and if you're thinking the gap between the end of signups and the beginning of browsing period looks long: we have also noticed this! In order to accommodate some back-end changes that will help the auction run more smoothly, we've given ourselves an extra week to get ourselves set up. We've also got some stuff in the works to occupy that time -- we'll say more about that when the time arrives.

This year I’m participating in the @fandomtrumpshate auction! Bidding is now open and will run until the first of march!

If you’re not familiar with the concept it works like this: You bid on the auction by putting forward a donation to one of the offered charities. At the end of the auction the person with the highest bid will receive a fanfic from me, based on their prompt.

Neither I, nor the organizers of the auction receive any of the money!! This is just a chance for people to donate to cause of their choosing, and receive a small gift for it!

If you are able please check it out! There’s a lot of different authors and fandoms to choose from! And if you can’t donate repost their post about it so we can reach more people!

I signed up as a fanwork creator, you can check out my offer here: