Totals Time!

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

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.

Bidders: get in touch with your creators if you haven't already!

High bidders: if you haven't yet replied to your creator, now is the time to do so! Even if you don't have a prompt for them just yet, please get in touch.

Creators: if you still haven't heard from your high bidders by tomorrow, please drop us an email and let us know so we can nudge them for you. (If you've already emailed us on the subject, please do so again!)

Creators: be sure to contact your bidders by tomorrow (if you haven't yet)!

FTH creators: please get in touch with your winning bidder(s) if you have not yet done so! Our official deadline for making contact is tomorrow.

(If you've emailed your bidder and are still waiting to hear back, please sit tight a little bit longer! Odds are very good that you'll hear back soon. We've got a bidder contact deadline coming up on April 15th, and we'll be happy to help you if you still haven't heard back by that point.)

bidders: if Monday comes around and you still haven't gotten any contact from your creator, please let us know! We will drop them a line directly and give them a nudge.

The 2024 Deadline Approaches!

A quick reminder that the deadline to turn in donations for 2nd chance offers, ROFL support, and the Craft Bazaar is tomorrow — Sunday March 24th — at 8 PM EDT.

We can't wait to tell you what you all have done this year. It's absolutely AMAZING. But we're not quite done yet. A bit under 24 hours to go ...

Get involved with ROFL to support FTH creators!

One of our favorite side projects at FTH is the Regiment of Fan Laborers, or ROFL: a group of beta readers, sensitivity readers, expertise pickers, translators and other fan laborers who are on hand to offer FTH creators assistance with their auction fanworks.

We love this project because (like the auction itself) it helps build connections and community between fans. It's also a great way for creators to find out how amazingly helpful fan labor support can be!

There are three ways you can get involved in ROFL:

Where we stand: High bids are in!

The deadline for high bidders to get their donations in has come and gone, so it's time for an update on what the donation landscape looks like so far this year!

MECA and Sherlock's Homes continue to bring in the most money, in that order. Our list of lowest donation-getters hasn't changed much, either - Life After Hate has moved out of the bottom 5 while Never Again Action has slipped down to replace it.

Deploy/Us 0.9% Wildlands Restoration Volunteers 1.0% Together Bay Area 1.4% Violence Policy Center 1.6% Never Again Action 1.7%

The good news is, of these five only Deploy/Us, Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, and Together Bay Area are still below $1000 each!

Remember that if we've emailed you about a second chance offer you have until Sunday, March 24 at 8pm EDT to get that donation proof in.

If you're looking to donate beyond any auctions, we'll be taking donations in honor of ROFL until then as well!

The full list of organizations and their shares of the donations is under the cut.

Bouncing bidder: Helen!

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!

Didn't win an auction but still want to donate?

When someone signs up to offer a fan labor auction, we ask if they'd like to join our Regiment of Fan Laborers (ROFL) - people who are at the ready all year long to provide betaing, specialist knowledge, or other services for creators working on their FTH fanworks.

In honor of these folks who go above and beyond what is expected from a single auction, anyone who wants to donate extra can donate it in honor of ROFL. Just fill out the donation proof form (or email us if you don't have a Google account) and put "ROFL" as the creator. The same rules apply as for auction donations - we need a screen shot of your receipt that shows the organization's name, the amount of the donation, and the date, but all other identifying info can be blacked out. Here is this year's list, if you need a reminder.

If you are an FTH creator, you do not need to donate to the ROFL fund in order to take advantage of ROFL's help with your FTH fanwork. Just email us and let us know if you'd like the link to the ROFL listings! (We will also send the link out to creators periodically throughout the year.) The ROFL fund is just a way for those who are looking to donate outside of an auction to show appreciation for our fan laborers who volunteer extra time to help with FTH fanworks.

Just like with second chance offers, we need all ROFL donations in by March 24th so that we can tally up this year's totals in a timely manner!

Where we stand with donations, March 16

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!

Friends, Romans, Countrymen ...

No, wait. That's tomorrow. Today is Pi Day! Let us show you our donation pie chart!

With roughly 40% of donation proofs received, and about half of those processed (we're plowing through!) the donations to our various supported orgs looks like this:

Interestingly, although MECA is getting the lion's share, we've received heart-felt thank you notes from a handful of other orgs with much smaller slices of the pie who have noticed the uptick in donations and their attribution in honor of Fandom Trumps Hate. Our pooled donations to small orgs DO make a difference!

If you've not made your donations yet and wanted to select an org or two that wasn't getting as much attention as the others, our Environmental orgs are collectively only just receiving 10%, and our Voting/Democracy orgs just 8%. Remember that donations for your winning bids are due by March 19, and 2nd chance offers are due by March 24.

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

...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:

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

Please boost this post -- there are about a dozen people who have already emailed us to ask if it's ok to email in proof, and we want to let them know that it is without (again) flirting with our severe-but-oddly-nonspecific sent-email cutoff.

High bidder emails have been sent!

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.