#fth 2022

My contribution for @fandomtrumpshate. The lovely @tate-lin requested angsty moshang <3

🎄'IN SPITE OF MYSELF' - mystrade art by helloliriels, a Fandom Trumps Hate gift for @johannadc in honor of this gorgeous fic! 🎄

My third (of three) 2022 @fandomtrumpshate pieces: a cover for the marvellous The High-Functioning Sociopath Who Walked by Himself by @chriscalledmesweetie

In its first five years, beginning shortly after the 2016 election in the US, the FTH auction raised a total of $138,000. Our first year and 2020 were big; some of the non-election years, not quite as much. Out of those five years, our fundraising record was $32,732 in 2020. And we were pretty happy with that, because every cent was going to help amazing nonprofits that are doing difficult and important work.

But this year. This year.

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This was the year that all of you blew it out of the water.

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This year, the total amount raised was…

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Get ready for it…

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Are you ready?

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I'm not sure you are...

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[Image ID: Glittery pink text reading "$53,355.78"]

You read that right. Over 1.5x and $20,000 more than our previous record!

This brings our six-year total to an astounding $192,146!

From the amazing fandom ambassadors who helped us spread the word about FTH in their fandoms, to the 626 creators who signed up to offer fanworks (in over 400 different fandoms and subfandoms!) to the hundreds of bidders, to the 30 people who donated a total of $4000 in honor of ROFL, in addition to or instead of donating in exchange for specific fanworks… you all made this happen. We’ve never had a year like this before. But we hope we’ll have some more like it in the future.

We hope all of you amazing, wonderful people will stick around for future years, to help us keep helping those organizations who are fighting the good fight.

Because yes, we will most certainly be back again next year!

In the meantime, your FTH mods are going to enjoy a couple of celebratory drinks, and a couple of long naps, and then get back to refueling for next year (and catching up on all the non-FTH stuff we’ve been neglecting for the past few months.)

But if you don’t want to wait that long—if you’re feeling energized and inspired by what the fandom community can accomplish, if you’re upset by what you see on the news or outside your window and you want to do more to help, right now—here are some things you can do:

1) Stay connected to our supported organizations.

Every organization on our list has an annual operating budget under $10 million. Several of them operate on less than $1 million per year. We picked them not only because they do amazing work, but because every additional dollar really matters to them. So we encourage you to keep donating throughout the year, if and when you can. Some of these organizations also need the help of volunteers, either to contact political representatives or to show up and assist with the work on the ground. If you have the wherewithal, consider doing these things! If you can't volunteer or donate beyond FTH, get on their mailing list or follow them on social media and signal-boost their work whenever you can.

2) Organize your own auction or fanworks-for-donations exchange.

FTH is a huge operation in many ways, but we’re still limited — in some ways, we’re limited because we’re huge. Single fandom auctions are faster and easier to organize, and are much more streamlined. FTH is also focused almost exclusively on the US — and even here, there are hundreds of worthy organizations that don’t make our list.

If there’s a cause that’s important to you or your fandom, and if you think you could get a couple dozen creators to sign on to raise money for a good cause, let us know: we can help you get started! We have a package of materials we’ve shared with the organizers of dozens of other smaller events, and we are happy to share them with you — just drop us an email at fandomtrumpshate at gmail. We also have a brand-new channel in our organizational discord where organizers of auctions and fanwork exchanges can swap ideas and advice.

We also hope you'll keep up with the vast wealth of wonderful fanworks that will come from this auction (some of which have been posted already!) We've created an Ao3 collection for FTH 2022 fanworks (you can also check out the FTH parent collection, which has the collections for every individual year) and you can follow @fth2022fanworks, where we'll be reblogging completed fanworks as they come in.

Below the cut you'll find exactly how much we raised for each organization.

We'll see you all next year, when hopefully we can keep breaking records together!

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Summary: Harry Potter has a crush on his roommate--like, a BIG one--but he can't say anything to him, can he?! Naturally, he does what any early 2000s young adult would do and asks the internet for help, and gets a lot more back than he expected. Featuring: a big, queer found family, an enigmatic not-so-little creature, and lots of Instant Messaging.

*the word count is double on Ao3 because the second chapter is the story again with no images, only text!*

The luminous @cavendishbutterfly put in a (generous, lovely, unbelievable) bid on my offer of a drarry fic for @fandomtrumpshate 2022. They asked for a fluffy And They Were Roommates scenario with “2000s internet vibes” and I couldn’t have been more pleased to try my hand at it. Thank you to @softlystarstruck for being my eternal alpha and sweet love, and Achilles_Angst for wrangling all my commas and being generally lovely!

Stiles is a struggling writer. He spends his time watching his neighbors, learning tidbits about their lives while trying to find inspiration for his latest novel. During one of his late nights, he catches sight of Derek Hale coming home covered in blood. Stiles, assuming Derek must be a serial killer, decides to follow him and catch him in the act. Instead, he finds something he wasn't expecting.

A gift for the wonderful @tierfal for FTH 2022~ I had so much fun working on this and talking with you has been an absolute joy :D