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A fandom auction to benefit progressive nonprofits. Please see our FAQ and contact us via email if you have any questions!
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Fandom Trumps Hate 2025 Calendar

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. (wait, the what? Read more at our 2024 Crafts Bazaar page.)

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

Friday, February 21st: browsing period begins, crafts bazaar announcement goes live

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

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

Monday, March 10th: craft stalls close

Wednesday, March 12: proof of donations 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.

Together, we're going to make sure that there is at least one (1) good thing in the world with the number 2025 attached to it.

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Fandom Trumps Hate is close to happening! This fanwork auction for nonprofit organizations began in 2016 and has since raised over $300,000 dollars for nonprofits! You can participate as a creator, bidder or even both and support an array of nonprofits

As a creator, you can offer fanfic, digital art, podfic, beta reading services, and more. As a bidder, you'll have the chance to receive a gift in exchange for a donation to one of the nonprofit organizations listed in the auction.

Creator sign ups begin January 20th! If you're interested, check out the links below! 

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Calling all NU: carnival fans!

Fandom Trumps Hate 2025 is fast approaching! This fanwork auction for nonprofit organizations started in 2016 and has been going strong since. You can participate as a creator or a bidder (or both!) to support an array of progressive organizations.

As a creator, you can offer fanfic, digital art, podfic, beta reading services, and more. As a bidder, you'll have the chance to receive a gift in exchange for a donation to one of the nonprofit organizations listed in the auction.

Creator signups open on January 20th! If you're interested, browse the links below and keep an eye on FTH's account for updates!

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jojodacrow

Calling all, Dream Team fans!

In 2016 a group of folks came together to create a fanworks auction to combat the fear and anxiety we were all experiencing after Trump was elected and to do something to fight back. Maybe you are feeling the same way this year? If so, join the almost 800 creators who have helped raise over $307K USD for small, progressive nonprofits that are working to protect marginalized people.

So who can participate?

Are you a fic writer? Are you a fan artist? Are you a crafter? Like beta reading fic? Do you have money to donate to charity and want the chance to get cool stuff? Are you three possums in a trench coat who loves to consume fan created content?

Good news! Whatever you like to do in fandom, there is probably a way for you to participate in FTH!

Okay so how's it work?

With out going into deep detail (you can find that here) fans can offer up a variety of digital fanworks, services, or crafted items to be auctioned off to support FTH selected charities.

Who gets my money? How do I know it's going to the charity?

The money you bid doesn't go to any creator or the organizers of the auction. You'll be donating directly to a supported charity.

What fandoms can participate?

While this post is trying to recruit folks from the Dream Team (plus friends) fandom you can submit works from any fandom you are a part of!

Okay! Sign me up!!

Woah, hold on there friend! Sign ups start on Jan 20th! Go ahead and follow @fandomtrumpshate and they will make a post once sign-ups are open!

We hope to see you there!!!

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naritaren

Want to help get the three count over hate (not the faction)? Want to make the bad in the world a bit better by making them tap out? Consider joining in on Fandom Trumps Hate this year!

What is Fandom Trumps Hate? It's a group of fandom creators who come together to offer up fanworks for charity! There are different charities supported, and it is a ton of fun! Donators bid on the items you offer up, and once a donation has been made, you get to work on making your fanwork!

Here is this year's calendar for the auction process!

FTH2025 Auction Calendar

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

Sunday, February 2nd: creator signups close

Friday, February 21st: browsing period begins, crafts bazaar announcement goes live

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

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

Monday, March 10th: craft stalls close

Wednesday, March 12: proof of donations due

I've done this event for a few years, and it's always a good time. I would love to see more wrestling writers and artists get involved and help raise money for a good cause!

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Fandom Trumps Hate 2025 is coming!

Fandom Trumps Hate is ramping up for its ninth year, and I'm hoping you'll join me in participating! Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to be posting about this event, different ways to be involved, and keeping you apprised of important dates as they arrive. To start -- a quick FAQ!

What is Fandom Trumps Hate?

Fandom Trumps Hate (or FTH for short) is a massive cross-fandom auction of fanworks for charity. Contributors sign up to offer a digital (or sometimes physical!) creation, and bidders agree to donate an amount to selected charitable organizations. Over the past 8 years, they (and the hundreds of creators and bidders who have participated) have raised over $300,000 for dozens of organizations doing important work in fields including LGBTQ+ rights, housing insecurity, voting advocacy, racial inequality, environmental issues, and more.

What kinds of things can be in the auction?

Anything you can imagine and create! Most of the auctions are digital content, but there is also the Craft Bazaar for physical items. And even within the digital offerings, there's a ton of variety -- fanfics are one of the more popular, but there's also fanart, fan labor (such as beta-ing, region-picking or expertise-picking, coding, etc.), podfics, music, gifmaking, and more!

What are the key dates I should know about?

  • Creator signups are from Monday, January 20th to Sunday, February 2nd
  • On Friday, February 21st, the auctions will all be posted for bidders to peruse before the bidding period
  • Auction bidding is from Tuesday, February 25th at 8am EST to Saturday, March 1st at 8pm EST

Is auctioning off fanworks even legal?

I mean, technically everything in fanwork is a bit of a legal grey area, loosely protected by fair use. The key here is that the creators are not "selling" fanworks, nor are bidders "commissioning" the fanworks -- no money ever goes from bidder to creator, only from bidder to charitable organization. Instead, these fanworks are gifts to thank the bidders for their donation.

I have another question?

I'll be making a few more posts with more information, but please feel free to drop me an ask or slide into my DMs, and I'll help as best I can! You can also check out the @fandomtrumpshate tumblr for more information, or reach out to them via email at fandomtrumpshate@gmail.com.

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Have you been having a hard time lately?

Were you sliced in half by a bamf lady with wicked legs?

Are you looking at eighteen months in the clink for stealing some wanker’s car?

Doing the world’s most dangerous job interview where the only other woman present drowned on the first night?

Are you a princess who’s been kidnapped and is currently being held hostage?

Did you get shot in the eye by an environmental megalomaniac?

Have you gone bald from the stress of dealing with the people mentioned above?

Then have we got the event for you!

@fandomtrumpshate is an online fanworks auction, designed to raise money for progressive nonprofit organisations that help and support marginalised people.

You can offer any type of fanwork that can be delivered digitally, including:

* written fanworks (fic, poetry, remixes, etc.)

* digital art, which includes but is not limited to gifsets, manips, moodboards, etc.

* podfics

* fanvids (including fancams)

* fan labour, which includes but is not limited to betaing, Brit/Japan/America-picking, or offering specialist expertise.

Want to create something in a physical format? Then stay tuned for the Fan Crafts Bazaar coming soon!

Don’t feel like creating something this time around? That’s totally fine! You can bid on an offering during the bidding period, or simply share the info with your friends.

Important Dates:

Monday, January 20th: creator signups open

Sunday, February 2nd: creator signups close

Friday, February 21st: browsing period begins

Tuesday, February 25th, 8am GMT-5: bidding opens

Saturday, March 1st, 8pm GMT-5: auction bidding closes

Wednesday, March 12: proof of donations due

Hop on over to the FAQ and bidding policies and follow this blog for kingsman-specific updates!

If you have any questions, drop me a line as I have participated as both a creator and bidder!

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Our Stance On Gen-AI

This year, for the first time, we've had a couple of reports from bidders that the FTH fanworks they received were produced using generative AI. For that reason, we've decided that it's important that we lay out a specific, concrete policy going forward.

Generative AI tools are not welcome here.

Non-exhaustive list of examples:

  • image generators like Imagen, Midjourney, and similar
  • video generators like Sora, Runway, and similar
  • LLMs like ChatGPT and similar
  • audio generators like ElevenLabs, MusicLM, and similar

Participants found to have used generative AI to produce a fanwork, in part or in whole, for their bidder(s) will be permanently banned from participating in future iterations of Fandom Trumps Hate.

Why?

We understand that there can be contentious debate around the use of generative AI, we know individual people have their own reasons for being in favor of it, and we recognize that many people may simply be unaware that these tools come with any negative impacts at all. Regardless, we are firm in our stance on this for the following (non-exhaustive) list of key reasons in no particular order:

negative, unregulated environmental impact

  • Over the years, you may have noticed that we’ve supported multiple environmental organizations doing important work to combat climate change, preserve wildlife, and advocate for renewable and sustainable energy policy changes. Generative AI tools produce a startling amount of e-waste, can require massive amounts of storage space and computational power, and are a (currently unregulated) drain on natural resources. Using these tools to produce a fanwork flies in the face of every environmental organization we have supported to date.

plagiarism and lack of artistic integrity

  • Most if not all generative AI models are trained on some amount of stolen work (across various mediums). As a result, any output generated by these models is at worst plagiarized and at best extremely derivative and unoriginal. In our opinion, using generative AI tools to produce a fanwork demonstrates a lack of care for your own craft, a lack of respect for the work of other creators, and a lack of respect for your bidder and your commitment to them.

undermining our community building impact

  • One of the best things to come out of the auction every year—we can't even call it a side benefit, because it's so central to us—is that bidders and creators form collaborative relationships which sometimes even turn into friendship. Using generative AI undermines that trust and collaboration.

undermining the value of participating as a creator

  • Bidders participate in Fandom Trumps Hate for the opportunity to prompt YOU to create a fanwork for them, in YOUR style with YOUR specific skill set. Any potential bidder is perfectly capable of dropping a prompt into a generative AI tool on their own time, if they wish. We hope all creators sign up with the aim to play a role more significant than “unnecessary middleman.”

In general, we try to be as flexible as we can in our policies to allow for the best experience possible for all Fandom Trumps Hate participants. This, however, is something we are not willing to be flexible on. We realize this may seem unusually rigid, but we ask that you trust we have given this serious consideration and respect that while we are willing to answer clarifying questions, we are not open to debate on this topic.

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Our Stance On Gen-AI

This year, for the first time, we've had a couple of reports from bidders that the FTH fanworks they received were produced using generative AI. For that reason, we've decided that it's important that we lay out a specific, concrete policy going forward.

Generative AI tools are not welcome here.

Non-exhaustive list of examples:

  • image generators like Imagen, Midjourney, and similar
  • video generators like Sora, Runway, and similar
  • LLMs like ChatGPT and similar
  • audio generators like ElevenLabs, MusicLM, and similar

Participants found to have used generative AI to produce a fanwork, in part or in whole, for their bidder(s) will be permanently banned from participating in future iterations of Fandom Trumps Hate.

Why?

We understand that there can be contentious debate around the use of generative AI, we know individual people have their own reasons for being in favor of it, and we recognize that many people may simply be unaware that these tools come with any negative impacts at all. Regardless, we are firm in our stance on this for the following (non-exhaustive) list of key reasons in no particular order:

negative, unregulated environmental impact

  • Over the years, you may have noticed that we’ve supported multiple environmental organizations doing important work to combat climate change, preserve wildlife, and advocate for renewable and sustainable energy policy changes. Generative AI tools produce a startling amount of e-waste, can require massive amounts of storage space and computational power, and are a (currently unregulated) drain on natural resources. Using these tools to produce a fanwork flies in the face of every environmental organization we have supported to date.

plagiarism and lack of artistic integrity

  • Most if not all generative AI models are trained on some amount of stolen work (across various mediums). As a result, any output generated by these models is at worst plagiarized and at best extremely derivative and unoriginal. In our opinion, using generative AI tools to produce a fanwork demonstrates a lack of care for your own craft, a lack of respect for the work of other creators, and a lack of respect for your bidder and your commitment to them.

undermining our community building impact

  • One of the best things to come out of the auction every year—we can't even call it a side benefit, because it's so central to us—is that bidders and creators form collaborative relationships which sometimes even turn into friendship. Using generative AI undermines that trust and collaboration.

undermining the value of participating as a creator

  • Bidders participate in Fandom Trumps Hate for the opportunity to prompt YOU to create a fanwork for them, in YOUR style with YOUR specific skill set. Any potential bidder is perfectly capable of dropping a prompt into a generative AI tool on their own time, if they wish. We hope all creators sign up with the aim to play a role more significant than “unnecessary middleman.”

In general, we try to be as flexible as we can in our policies to allow for the best experience possible for all Fandom Trumps Hate participants. This, however, is something we are not willing to be flexible on. We realize this may seem unusually rigid, but we ask that you trust we have given this serious consideration and respect that while we are willing to answer clarifying questions, we are not open to debate on this topic.

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Our Stance On Gen-AI

This year, for the first time, we've had a couple of reports from bidders that the FTH fanworks they received were produced using generative AI. For that reason, we've decided that it's important that we lay out a specific, concrete policy going forward.

Generative AI tools are not welcome here.

Non-exhaustive list of examples:

  • image generators like Imagen, Midjourney, and similar
  • video generators like Sora, Runway, and similar
  • LLMs like ChatGPT and similar
  • audio generators like ElevenLabs, MusicLM, and similar

Participants found to have used generative AI to produce a fanwork, in part or in whole, for their bidder(s) will be permanently banned from participating in future iterations of Fandom Trumps Hate.

Why?

We understand that there can be contentious debate around the use of generative AI, we know individual people have their own reasons for being in favor of it, and we recognize that many people may simply be unaware that these tools come with any negative impacts at all. Regardless, we are firm in our stance on this for the following (non-exhaustive) list of key reasons in no particular order:

negative, unregulated environmental impact

  • Over the years, you may have noticed that we’ve supported multiple environmental organizations doing important work to combat climate change, preserve wildlife, and advocate for renewable and sustainable energy policy changes. Generative AI tools produce a startling amount of e-waste, can require massive amounts of storage space and computational power, and are a (currently unregulated) drain on natural resources. Using these tools to produce a fanwork flies in the face of every environmental organization we have supported to date.

plagiarism and lack of artistic integrity

  • Most if not all generative AI models are trained on some amount of stolen work (across various mediums). As a result, any output generated by these models is at worst plagiarized and at best extremely derivative and unoriginal. In our opinion, using generative AI tools to produce a fanwork demonstrates a lack of care for your own craft, a lack of respect for the work of other creators, and a lack of respect for your bidder and your commitment to them.

undermining our community building impact

  • One of the best things to come out of the auction every year—we can't even call it a side benefit, because it's so central to us—is that bidders and creators form collaborative relationships which sometimes even turn into friendship. Using generative AI undermines that trust and collaboration.

undermining the value of participating as a creator

  • Bidders participate in Fandom Trumps Hate for the opportunity to prompt YOU to create a fanwork for them, in YOUR style with YOUR specific skill set. Any potential bidder is perfectly capable of dropping a prompt into a generative AI tool on their own time, if they wish. We hope all creators sign up with the aim to play a role more significant than “unnecessary middleman.”

In general, we try to be as flexible as we can in our policies to allow for the best experience possible for all Fandom Trumps Hate participants. This, however, is something we are not willing to be flexible on. We realize this may seem unusually rigid, but we ask that you trust we have given this serious consideration and respect that while we are willing to answer clarifying questions, we are not open to debate on this topic.

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Supported Nonprofits for FTH 2025

Every year, we put together a focused list of small, progressive nonprofits that are making the world a better place on a very small budget. When you participate in the auction, you have a chance to help those amazing organizations out while also enriching your fandom!

This year's organizations work toward a range of causes: resisting censorship, journalistic integrity, civil rights, disability rights, reproductive rights, human rights, humanitarian aid, environmental protection, and creating leaders for democracy around the world.

We'll be posting more detailed profiles of each of these organizations over the next few weeks.

Umbrella: LGBT Orgs

As we've done for the last four years, FTH is once again offering one “umbrella” category. This year our umbrella category is community organizations serving and supporting vulnerable members of the LGBT community. You are welcome to support your own local grassroots organization. We are also highlighting the following exemplary organizations working in communities where the need is especially acute:

As always, we have an option for participating creators to support an organization that's not on our list. You can read our policy on outside organizations here.

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Fandom Trumps Hate 2025 Calendar

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. (wait, the what? Read more at our 2024 Crafts Bazaar page.)

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

Friday, February 21st: browsing period begins, crafts bazaar announcement goes live

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

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

Monday, March 10th: craft stalls close

Wednesday, March 12: proof of donations 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.

Together, we're going to make sure that there is at least one (1) good thing in the world with the number 2025 attached to it.

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Coming Soon: FTH 2025

Happy new year, everyone! Even if a lot of things about the future are looking grim, there's lots to look forward to, including the good work we can do together.

We'll roll out this year's auction calendar and supported organizations in the next few days, along with some more information about and plans for @fthaction.

In the meantime, you can help us get ready in two ways: 1) Spread the word around your fandom! The more fanwork creators we have in a given fandom, the more fun the auction is for folks in that fandom.

2) Help us figure out what new fandoms to add to this year's list. As always, you can sign up to create fanworks for literally any fandom at all; still, it's easier for everyone if that fandom is included in our dropdown. So if you think something is going to be popular in the coming year, let us know in the notes!

We're looking forward to running the auction for again for our 9th year, to raise money for great causes via your fandom talents.

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Coming Soon: FTH 2025

Happy new year, everyone! Even if a lot of things about the future are looking grim, there's lots to look forward to, including the good work we can do together.

We'll roll out this year's auction calendar and supported organizations in the next few days, along with some more information about and plans for @fthaction.

In the meantime, you can help us get ready in two ways: 1) Spread the word around your fandom! The more fanwork creators we have in a given fandom, the more fun the auction is for folks in that fandom.

2) Help us figure out what new fandoms to add to this year's list. As always, you can sign up to create fanworks for literally any fandom at all; still, it's easier for everyone if that fandom is included in our dropdown. So if you think something is going to be popular in the coming year, let us know in the notes!

We're looking forward to running the auction for again for our 9th year, to raise money for great causes via your fandom talents.

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Coming Soon: FTH 2025

Happy new year, everyone! Even if a lot of things about the future are looking grim, there's lots to look forward to, including the good work we can do together.

We'll roll out this year's auction calendar and supported organizations in the next few days, along with some more information about and plans for @fthaction.

In the meantime, you can help us get ready in two ways: 1) Spread the word around your fandom! The more fanwork creators we have in a given fandom, the more fun the auction is for folks in that fandom.

2) Help us figure out what new fandoms to add to this year's list. As always, you can sign up to create fanworks for literally any fandom at all; still, it's easier for everyone if that fandom is included in our dropdown. So if you think something is going to be popular in the coming year, let us know in the notes!

We're looking forward to running the auction for again for our 9th year, to raise money for great causes via your fandom talents.

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Quick reminder:

Please DO NOT use language like commission, buy, or sell, either in your posts advertising your auctions/the auction at large, OR when you post your finished work!

Using this language can get your work removed from AO3, and in general it pushes the auction into a legal grey area we do not want to be in.

These fanworks are gifts to thank your bidder for donating to a worthy cause. They aren’t commissions, and nobody is buying or selling anything. This keeps the auction out of legal trouble – but just as importantly, it helps us preserve the integrity of the auction in the eyes of the fandom community. Neither we nor the creators ever see any of the money. If people don't realize that, they are sometimes hesitant to participate, and the language of commission makes it much, much easier for them to misunderstand.

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Quick reminder:

Please DO NOT use language like commission, buy, or sell, either in your posts advertising your auctions/the auction at large, OR when you post your finished work!

Using this language can get your work removed from AO3, and in general it pushes the auction into a legal grey area we do not want to be in.

These fanworks are gifts to thank your bidder for donating to a worthy cause. They aren’t commissions, and nobody is buying or selling anything. This keeps the auction out of legal trouble – but just as importantly, it helps us preserve the integrity of the auction in the eyes of the fandom community. Neither we nor the creators ever see any of the money. If people don't realize that, they are sometimes hesitant to participate, and the language of commission makes it much, much easier for them to misunderstand.

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