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It's been a year of records and record-breaking. Of reaching new fandom spaces and building new community ties. It's been wild. And absolutely fantastic.

When we closed the auction signup window we had 981 offers —nearly 150 more than we'd ever had before. When we re-opened it for 4 more hours, hoping to find another 19 folks (because we wondered what an auction with 1000 offers would look like) you all came through in spades, boosting the auction everywhere and bringing back 100 new offers in 15 new fandoms, bringing us to 1081 offers this year - a 33% increase over our previous record.

And you all weren't done breaking records. Shattering them.

This is the first year that any of our supported nonprofit orgs has received a 5-digit sum. And? TWO of them did.

So. Are you ready to see what our community has done? Are you ready for the numbers?

This year

thanks to all of you

FTH raised…

$67,931.28 in pink sparkle text

$67,931.28!

The breakdown of donations to orgs looks like this -

This brings our eight-year total to

$307,439.14

Huge thanks to our 797 creators offering 1081 auctions in more than 400 different fandoms and subfandoms, and to everyone who bid! And to our 17 fan crafters who brought in $4,127 of that total —60% more than our previous crafting record!

So, what's next?

Contact deadlines:

Creators, be sure you contact your bidders by April 1, and bidders, on your end please respond to their communication by April 15!

Bidders need to provide their creator with a workable prompt by June 30 (unless you've worked out a different timeline together) to ensure they have plenty of time to finish their fanwork.

Once the fanwork is posted, let us know via our form (can you believe FOURTEEN creators have already finished??) and if you’re posting it on AO3 be sure to add it to the Fandom Trumps Hate 2024 collection. If you’re writing a fic for FTH and need help from our Regiment of Fan Laborers, email us! As always, the deadline for completed fanworks is December 31.

We hope that for at least some people, your involvement in FTH will lead to continued action throughout the year. Sign up for our organizations’ email lists, check out their volunteer opportunities, and help boost their signals on social media!

And if you’d like to run your own fanworks auction for a good cause, we can help get you started!

We have a packet of organizational materials we’ve been sharing with other auction organizers since 2017; we’re planning to spend the month of April overhauling and updating these materials to incorporate many of the improvements we’ve implemented since then. If you’re thinking about organizing an auction or fanworks exchange in your fandom to raise money for a good cause, we would love to share those materials with you. Contact us at fandomtrumpshate at gmail.com and we can send you our auction playbook, as well as answer any questions you have about our process.

Your mods (@porcupine-girl, @captainbunnicula, @tiltedsyllogism, @anyawen, @renjunbabygirl, @trickybonmot, and @a-still-small-vox) are going to be going into post-auction hibernation mode (or, for most of us, post-auction deal-with-all-this-other-stuff mode) for a little while. So if you email us, don’t panic if we don’t get back to you immediately! We will start actively monitoring the inbox again by April 15 at the latest.

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If you bid on an auction under the name of Helen (or you think you know who might have), please email us at fandomtrumpshate@gmail.com!

We have tried to get in touch with you a couple of times but your email keeps bouncing!

Everyone else, please remember to get your high bid donations in (whether via the form or email) by 8pm tomorrow, March 19th!

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If we hadn't had all the Google troubles, today would be the deadline to get your high bidder donation in - we've bumped that back to Tuesday the 19th, so you have a couple more days if you haven't donated yet!

We are very excited about the totals we're racking up for MECA and Sherlock's Homes, our top two nonprofits this year, but we do hope all our groups get enough donations to make a real difference.

Some people wait to see which orgs are getting fewer donations before submitting their own; if that's you, here are the five nonprofits on our list with the smallest share of donations so far:

Wildlands Restoration Volunteers 0.5%

Deploy/Us 0.6%

Together Bay Area 1.2%

Life After Hate 1.7%

Violence Policy Center 1.8%

All five of these still have yet to reach $1000 each in donations, which we really hope all our groups will be able to hit during a record-breaking year like this!

( The full list of which nonprofits are getting what share of donations is under the cut! )

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...you can just email us the receipts, along with a written explanation of which auctions they are for. The form is easier and more streamlined for us, but email still works!

We aren't going to be able to reply directly to those emails because we are still in risk-management mode with respect to maxing out our permitted number of daily emails, but we will let you and your creator know when your donation has been processed.

If you do send in your donation proof this way, please be sure to explain very clearly:

which donations are for which auction
how much money you are donating for each auction

This is especially important if you've donated to more than one nonprofit, but it's helpful for us regardless.

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If you were the high bidder on an auction, you should have email from us with a link to submit your donation proof!

If you don’t have one, first double-check that you’re checking the email you used to bid (and check spam folders). Then email us from the email you bid with and let us know the username and auction number of the auction you won. We’ll double-check that there was nothing to disqualify your bid and make sure our records are up to date.

Again: please make sure you’re checking the right email address!!

Thank you guys for your patience while we ~~spend hours navigating Google support~~ get this sorted out! We think we’ve arranged things so we won’t hit any more email limits, but at this point we’re not going to bet money on it.

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We have all of the high bidder emails ready to send, but we are in email jail. That is to say, we have hit gmail's daily limit. We should be able to send the rest after one more day. Meanwhile, please do continue to hold off on making donations until you receive the confirmation email. More information can be found in this post.

Frustrating as it is to not be able to send emails as fast as we want, what a wonderful problem to have; if we have to be stuck in email jail, we're glad it's only because we have so many enthusiastic participants. :)

n.b. Because we want to prioritize sending out the rest of those high-bid emails as quickly as we can, we aren't going to be replying to any other kinds of email for a day or so. We will reply eventually! (Once Google let us.)

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The closing scripts are running, but remember that it will take some time to close all 1000+ auctions! Even if a bidding form is still open, bids with a timestamp after 8:00:05pm EST will not be considered valid.

More fun behind-the-scenes stuff is underway. We’ll be sending high bid emails out within the next 24 hours, so please sit tight.

In the meantime, many of the stalls in the Fan Crafts Bazaar are still open! Be sure to check the details on each individual stall, though, because some of them did end when the main auction did.

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A few reminders as we head into what is often the most heated bidding-war time:

Google is still being a weirdo in a variety of ways, so check those bid sheets on desktop or mobile browser + app both to be sure they’re loading all bids.
Not all forms will close right at 8pm - any bids that register with timestamps later than 8:00:05 EST will be considered invalid.
Once auction close, sit tight! If you’re a high bidder you’ll get email from us within a day or so, confirming that you are the winner and giving you the link to our new donation proof form. This is a different process than in previous years! Do not send us proof until you get this email.
Don’t forget to check out the golden needle tag to find those hidden treasures without bids - in particular, there are some really interesting offers of specialist expertise that are still looking for someone who needs that particular bit of knowledge
If you find yourself outbid on everything (or have some extra donation budget to spread around), be sure to take a look at the Fan Crafts Bazaar, which is not closing today. Individual crafters can close their stalls at any time (for example, if they run out of stock), but most will be open for at least another week.

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We know how exciting it is to get to 8pm and realize you've won the auction! However, in all this excitement, please don't jump the gun.

We will email all high bidders within 24 hours of auctions closing with a full list of the auctions you've won and instructions for how to submit your donation proof. Please do not contact us with your donation proof until you get this email.

What's more, we've changed the process this year, so even if you're an FTH pro please be sure to read this email carefully! You will need the link in this email to submit your donation proof.

We know it's annoying to have to wait possibly an entire day before being able to proceed, but we need to make sure we've accounted for all the auctions, checked for late bids that need to be removed, etc etc before we can start processing your donations.

If you believe you were the high bidder on an auction and you have not received an email from us within 36 hours (so by 8am EDT Monday), please let us know.

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We’re down to the final 12 hours of bidding! Keep an eye on what you’re winning - this is when bidders get competitive…

If you haven’t bid yet, there’s still time to get a fic, beta, artist, podfic, or other personalised fanwork for good causes.

Check out our golden needle tag to find hidden gems that haven’t been snapped up yet - or go crazy bidding up something you’re in steep competition for. We believe in you!

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We've been alerted by a few people that sometimes bids (their own or others') are not appearing in bid sheets until hours after the bids were placed. It appears that the bids do go through, it's just that some people (but not everyone) can't see them immediately.

This seems to primarily be an issue on mobile, so if you can view the bid sheets on a desktop, we encourage you to do so. If you only have a mobile device, try viewing them in both a web browser and the Sheets or GDrive app; some people are only having this issue in one or the other.

If anyone who is having this problem can tell us whether the tracking sheet we posted earlier today shows bids before they show up in the bid sheet for you, or if signing up for notifications for a bid sheet gets you new bids before you can see them, that would be great info to have!

Remember that even if you can't see a bid until later, we go by the timestamp on the bidding sheet. This may complicate things - you might place a bid that is not, in fact, higher than the current high bid, or you might assume you are winning an auction that someone else has actually beat you on. Right now, this all seems to be on Google's end, and unfortunately there isn't much we can do about that. All we can do is encourage you, as auctions draw to a close on Saturday, to check all of your auctions using desktop or multiple mobile formats.

Luckily, most mobile users do not seem to be having this issue, but we don't know how to predict who will. We will keep you updated as we get more information.

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As of 2pm today, bidding has been open for 54 hours, which leaves 54 more until the bidding forms close at 8 PM Eastern, Saturday March 9th.

Behind the scenes your mods are marveling at the numbers.

You would think that with 33% more auctions than last year (which, remember, was already our largest year ever), the bids would be spread a little thinner than usual, right?

But that's not what's happening.

The percentage of auctions with one bid halfway through has actually gone up by 8%! That's right, with 33% more auctions, we have 50% more bids! And the percentage that have multiple bids has gone up by 10%.

You guys are ON IT.

Of course, if your auction doesn't have one yet, don't fret! While we can't guarantee every auction will get a bid, we know that a lot of people do wait until the last minute.

To help those people find unbid auctions, we'll be tagging golden needles this time tomorrow.

And as a quick reminder, the Craft Bazaar is open! New stalls were added through March 5, so if you looked before then, you might look again to browse the new crafts offered.

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Auctions are now open for bidding, so head over to the offerings blog and place your bids now! Bidding will close at 8:00PM EST on March 9.

And now that auctions are open, a reminder to creators:

If you gave Tumblr or Twitter as your contact, be sure your DMs are open to anyone, not just followers/mutuals/whatever settings Twitter has these days.

If you gave a Discord handle, remember that bidders who don't share a server with you will need to add you as a friend first, and please accept all friend requests for the next few days.

After the auctions close, you can set everything back as private as you want it -- we always connect bidders and creators via email once we've received proof of donation. But for the next few days if you did not choose email as your contact method please be sure that contact method is actually open! (And if you did put email, please check it!)

To bidders: If you are having trouble getting in touch with a creator, leaving a comment on their auction post letting them know how you're trying to contact them might help. If you still can't get in touch with them after 24 hours, let us know and we will email them.

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Bidding opens at 8am ET tomorrow (Tuesday, March 5th.) We’re excited about it too! There are two quick reminders we want to get out in circulation before bidding opens:

1. If a creator's offering post contradicts one of FTH's policies, go by the auction policies.

We have come across a couple of posts that make statements or offers that directly contradict the policies of the auction (e.g. offering a refund for defaulting on a fanwork.) We have corrected these auctions when we find them (in conversation with the creators themselves), but with over 850 creators we can't vet every word of every post, so there may be posts with similar statements that we don’t know about.

In case of such a conflict, FTH's official policies always override what an individual creator offers. If you see something in an offering post that doesn’t match your sense of how the auction works, you can check our FAQ, our bidding policies, and our org policies, or email us to ask.

2. Bids placed outside of 8:00:00AM March 5 - 8:00:05PM March 9 will not be counted.

While the auction ends at 8pm ET on March 9th, some of the bidding forms will continue to accept responses for several minutes after that. This is an unavoidable consequence of using google forms: the script we run which closes all of those forms is fast, but it’s definitely not instant. This year, which includes nearly 1100 auctions, it will probably take quite awhile for all the forms to close.

For this reason, we want to be very clear about our policy about bidding cutoff:

All bids that register on the bidding sheet up to and including 20:00:05 ET on March 9th will be considered valid. All bids with a timestamp after that will be considered invalid. We cannot predict or control how long any individual bid will take to process; all we can do is to lay out a clear policy in advance and stick to it consistently.

Similarly, some bidding forms will open a bit before or after 8:00AM on March 5. However, no bids placed before that time will be counted (if we find them we will remove them). If your bidding form still is not open by 10:00AM EST, please email us.

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Browsing period for FTH 2024 is now officially open! You can find this year's auction offerings here. Be sure to read our sticky post on the best ways to navigate the tags page, which is the #1 way to find the auctions you want!

We've hammered out most of the errors, typos, broken links, &c, but there are going to be plenty more. That's okay -- one of the purposes of browsing period is to give us time to find and fix those mistakes before bidding opens.

So creators, please do check over your offering post carefully! If you spot an error, please use the edit form to let us know. (You should have received a link from us via email yesterday. If you did not, please email us.) Remember that the edit form will close at 10pm EST on March 4 so that we have time to get all edits made by the time bidding opens!

Over the next few days, we'll be posting compendia of all of the fan labor offers and all of the "other" offers. If you'd like to put together a post that collects all of the offers in your fandom, tag us and we will reblog it!

The auction will open for bidding at 8am ET on Monday, March 5th.

Happy browsing, everybody!

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Hey everyone,

We know a lot of creators are getting antsy because they still haven’t gotten their edit links yet.

Please do not freak out!

Folks who have participated in previous FTH auctions will remember that in years past edits could be made to the Google form responses, and some folks did that. However, MOST edits were done during the browsing period; after seeing their auction post live, creators would email us asking to change a fandom, or a minimum bid amount, or add an item to the 'unwilling to address' section, etc.

A lot of the backend changes we're making are in service of trying to get the posts up earlier so that edits can start before browsing opens - but given the inevitable glitches that arise when making such big changes, it's taking longer than we'd hoped. And that's okay - at worst, we'll be on our normal timeline and edits will happen during browsing.

So: no links to edit your posts have gone out yet.

You didn’t miss it; it’s just not there yet. They are coming. We will make another post when we start sending them out so you won't be left wondering. Also, keep in mind that while browsing opens on the 29th, we accept changes to auction posts until the night before bidding opens - so you'll have until next Monday evening (March 4) to make changes.

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Four hours ago we re-opened signups, wondering if we might find 19 more creators to bring our total number of offers up to an even 1k. We asked you to reblog far and wide, see if we could get in front of new eyes. You guys came through in spades.

We asked for 19. You gave us 100, for a grand total of 1081 auctions, including 15 in brand new write-in fandoms, so maybe that flurry of reblogging worked in reaching new audiences.

Thank you. Seriously.

And now, sit tight while we run scripts and generate forms and posts. You'll get an email shortly with links to view your offer and a form for submitting edits.

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We think everyone who has seen our posts and wants to sign up has done so ... but we wonder if we can get enough new eyeballs to find 19 more creators (or more) in the next 4 hours because although we've already set records with signups this year, we're very curious to see what a Fandom Trumps Hate auction with 1000 offers looks like.

With that possibility in mind, we've decided to re-open the signup form through 4:30 PM Pacific. Signal boost like crazy and see if we can reach new corners of fandom before time runs out on this bonus window. Whether we reach 1k signups or not, the form will be closing again at 4:30 PM Pacific.

Signups are OPEN. Briefly!

Fandom Trumps Hate is a fanworks auction raising money for progressive nonprofit organizations. You can learn more about us here.

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Thank you so much to everyone who signed up to offer a record 981 auctions! This completely blows away our old record by nearly 150! You will receive an email in the next few days with information on viewing and editing your auction post.

Remember that browsing opens February 29th and bidding runs March 5-9. We'll be posting all relevant links here when the time comes.

If you make physical fan crafts, you can still sign up for the Fan Crafts Bazaar! We'll be leaving those signups open until March 5.

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Our FTH participants have shown us year after year that they are passionate about the causes we support. Your passion and care for those in need is truly inspiring!

In case our selected nonprofit organizations don't cover all the issues people care about, we also allow you to write in an organization of your choosing to support with your FTH auction. Your mods will research and vet these organizations before the auction goes live to make sure that they are real, reputable organizations, and that their mission is in line with our values. We use online research and tools like Charity Navigator to assess organizations. We don't allow write-ins for fundraising campaigns such as GoFundMe pages, where money is sent to private individuals with no accountability.

At this time, several people have written in Care for Gaza as the beneficiary of their auction. After doing our research, we have decided not to accept Care for Gaza as a write-in. We were unable to find any public information about how donations are spent. They may very well be doing good work, and relief for Gaza is certainly a cause we care about, but this group simply does not meet the threshold of accountability for us to officially support it.

We have selected Middle East Children's Alliance for an organization that is active on the ground in Gaza. You can read about their activities on their website. We chose them because they are well-regarded and proven effective, while also being small enough to feel the impact of our support.

As always, you are welcome to write in the organization of your choice, including other organizations giving aid and support to Gaza. We are delighted to support any progressive cause that is important to you, provided we can verify the organization.

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fthmods - Totals Time!
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fthmods - Where we stand with donations, March 16
fthmods - If you're having trouble using our donation proof form...
fthmods - High bidder emails have been sent!
fthmods - if you're still waiting on an email from us...
fthmods - Bidding is now closed!
fthmods - One Hour Left!
fthmods - After the auction: Please wait for our email!
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fthmods - Auctions are open for bidding! And a reminder to creators
fthmods - a couple of important announcements before the auction starts
fthmods - ...and we're live!
fthmods - Update on Auction Posts
fthmods - Signups are closed. Again. And thank you!
fthmods - So, we had a thought ...
fthmods - Signups are officially closed!
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Totals Time!

$67,931.28!

$307,439.14

So, what's next?

Contact deadlines:

And if you’d like to run your own fanworks auction for a good cause, we can help get you started!

Bouncing Bidder: Helen!

Where we stand with donations, March 16

If you're having trouble using our donation proof form...

High bidder emails have been sent!

if you're still waiting on an email from us...

Bidding is now closed!

One Hour Left!

After the auction: Please wait for our email!

Less than 12 hours left to bid in FTH 2024!

Possible Google Sheets glitching

We are HALFWAY through the bidding window!

Auctions are open for bidding! And a reminder to creators

a couple of important announcements before the auction starts

...and we're live!

Update on Auction Posts

Signups are closed. Again. And thank you!

So, we had a thought ...

Signups are OPEN. Briefly!

Signups are officially closed!

A Word About Write-In Orgs

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