#Fandom Trumps hate

[adventureofthedancinggirl]

I hate that we’re back here again. I remember participating the first year because it was something I could do, one small action of resistance. I haven’t participated since then because life got busy and I was barely active in any fandoms online for quite a while, but I am planning on participating again when the time comes.

To everyone who has ever been involved, thank you for keeping hope alive.

We're Still Here.

Eight years ago, when the results of the 2016 election became clear, a group of us pulled together what we thought would be a mid-sized fanworks auction as a way to throw some financial support to progressive organizations in need.

Since then, that circle has widened more than anyone could ever have anticipated. Our ever-growing community has done amazing things together, showing up for one another and for organizations on the ground all over the country doing vital, challenging work for vulnerable people.

We’ll still be here next year, but there’s another larger point to be made:

In this terrible time, it is still possible to build things together.

In fact, it is more urgent than ever that we build things together in order to bring the world a little closer to the world we want to live in.

There are people in your community online who need you. There are people in your neighborhood who need you, even if you haven’t met them yet — and if you haven’t, now is the time. We can and will survive, and help one another survive, by showing up for one another.

Take some time to mourn; we will be, too. And then let’s organize.

[worteltje7]

@fandomtrumpshate gift for @theriverbeyond!! no text version below the cut

[thence-we-came-forth]

This is my gift for @kormantic based on their fic for this year's FTH!

Here is the final piece, + some close ups, + an extra portrait

This was such a joy to make, cause even if I knew nothing about Teen Wolf, @kormantic came in with a folder full of references and an encouraging attitude and look at this piece that came out of it!!!

[spiderthread]

@fandomtrumpshate gift for @gilraina of the Emperor and their Tav, Taroe 💜

[lisbeth-kk]

Still grinning 🤭

A Minor Detail

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Chapter 1 is up on AO3 - The Small Print

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Sherlock has found the perfect flatmate for sharing 221b Baker Street. If only there would not be that minor detail in the small print of the lease agreement. Now, John has no other choice but take part in Sherlock‘s scheme.

Thanks again to peageetibbs for beta reading!

@lostinsherlock44

[sightkeeper]

A gift for @rogue-bard who chose me for this year's Fandom Trumps Hate! I had a lot of fun working on this comic for you - thank you so much! :D

This is based on the first chapter of Indy's fic wherein Crowley is a sleep paralysis demon!

[erisenyo]

FANDOM TRUMPS HATE: ATLA OFFERINGS ARE FINALLY HERE!

The listings are posted, ATLA made the top 10 most represented fandoms this year (lets gooo!) and the browsing period is Officially Open, with bidding begining Monday!! (March 5-9)

And there are some truly amazing offerings for this years @fandomtrumpshate charity auction. Click their names below to check them out!!

Offering fanfics, we have...

thesometimeswarrior (@runrundoyourstuff, and works here) offering a 5K word fic! (up to T)

urieskooki (works here) offering a 10-20K word fic! (up to E)

Emerald_Assterick (@emerald-asterisk, and works here) offering a 5K word fic (up to E)

achievingelysium (@queenangst, and works here) offering a 5K word fic (up to T)

bran4ever (@whatsitnot, and works here) is offering a 5K word fic (up to T) AND a 5-10K word ic (up to M)

dagmalafjall (works here) is offering a 5-10K (up to E)

Lillyanne4 (works here) is offering a 5K word fic (up to M)

blackat_t7t (works here) is offering a 5-10K word fic (up to E)

fancastical (works here) is offering 1K words per $5 bid (up to M)

QueenDollopHead (@queendollophead-ao3, works here and here) is offering a 5-10K word fic (up to E)

Erisenyo (@erisenyo, works here and here) offering a 10-20K word fic (up to E)

sulkybender (@sulkybender, works here) offering a 5K word fic (up to M)

MuffinLance (@muffinlance, works here) offering a 5K word fic (up to G)

Haicrescendo (@sword-and-stars, works here) offering a 5-10K word fic (up to E)

bisexuallsokka (@bisexuallsokka, works here) offering a 5-10K word fic (up to M)

Ariel (@edas-boytoy, works here) is offering a 5K word fic (up to E)

TheGayOnTheMoon (works here and here and here) is offering a 5-10K word fic (up to M)

robinwinged (works here and here) is offering a 5-10K word fic (up to M)

AzzaBynes (@azzabynes) offering fan poetry up to 5K words (rated up to M)

Allium-phyrzz (@allium-phyrzz, works here) offering a 5-10K word fic (up to M)

Alondradina (@alondradina, works here) offering a 5-10K word fic (up to T)

Bluestone_Dragon (@bluestone-dragon, works here) offering a 10-20K fic (up to M)

Luna_SelfIndulgentKitten (works here) offering 1K words for every $10 bid (up to E)

Museflight (works here) offering 1K for every $5 bid (up to M)

Nyxelestia (@nyxelestia, works here) offering a 5-10K word fic (up to E)

So many amazing creators and offerings, and just in time for a renaissance, right? :P Find the fanart listings here! And the fan labor ones here!

(And if you're not in the ATLA mood--there are SO many fandoms represented in the event, I bet your current hyperfixation is in there :))

[wargoddess9]

My @fandomtrumpshate 2024 piece for the lovely @tawnyontumblr is finished! She wanted a scene from her fic Love In the Garden. https://archiveofourown.org/works/47532868/chapters/119791600

It is a fantastic read! Please check it out!

[discordantwords]

Unremarkable

It's an unremarkable day. John has a date. Sherlock has a case. And both Mycroft and Rosie have just been shoved into the boot of a car.

A 2024 Fandom Trumps Hate gift for @podfixx!

Chapter 1 of 5 is now posted!

[khorazir]

“Celebrimbor in Eregion”

My third – of four – Fandom Trumps Hate 2024 contributions. This one is for Elrohir (@aowyn) who graciously bid on my services.

[massivespacewren]

Stony 1872 AU or maybe just a random cowboy AU? I drew this for @puzzlebean for the @fandomtrumpshate charity auction, finished it, and then forgot that I could also put it here on social media. This was drawn with reference. Always fun to draw nice AUs! Thank you @puzzlebean!!

[fandomtrumpshate]

Announcing: the FTH Playbook!

Ever since our first year, FTH has actively encouraged people to run their own auctions, freely sharing our organizational materials as well as a brief guide to using them.

This year, we decided to get (very) serious about overhauling those materials. We've made a lot of back-end improvements over the years, and we wanted to share them with others who might be considering organizing their own events. Even more so, we wanted to offer the very best guidelines and explanations we could, based on our (at this point) several years' experience.

It's taken several months and a lot of effort, but we're proud to unveil it now: our step-by-step guide to organizing and and running your own benefit fanworks auction.

In this folder, you will find:

an auction narrative (a step-by-step overview of all of the stages in running an auction, broken down into individual tasks and with recommended timelines)

templates of every form and spreadsheet we use to run the auction, which you can copy and adjust to your needs

individual step-by-step guides for using each of those forms and spreadsheets

In addition to the link in this post, you can also find a link to the playbook on our tumblr page.

The world is overflowing with urgent causes that could desperately benefit from some financial support. If you've been sitting at home wishing you could do more, here is your chance. Here is the sign that you can do it.

Also, please reblog to spread this far and wide! We want to be sure this playbook reaches every single person who might find it helpful.

[sunshine304]

FTH Fanbinding: "Concord" by Deastar

@youhideastar won my FTH auction and gave me a great gift: She wanted me to bind her CQL fic "Concord" including the thorough author's commentary she'd done. I was so happy when she chose this fic because I'd loved it so much and had pondered doing a fanbinding of it at some point anyway. 😄

Now that the book has finally arrived (spending two days in the air even, I guess, at least when one looks at the tracking info 😆), I can show it off here!

I tried some new stuff on this bind and also some things that I'd only done once before and that definitely need some, uh, perfecting. 😅 But overall, I'm very pleased with how this book turned out, as it's pretty close to what I'd imagined when I started it.

The fic is set in Cloud Recesses and Dea and I agreed that the colour blue should be prominent in the design, as it not only fits the setting, but also is of significance in the story itself. As the rules and traditions of the Lan sect also are quite important, I wanted a very clean, simple style for the case, a bit reminiscent of traditional Chinese bindings.

I did the title as a cut-out and used Japanese transparent paper for some extra flavour. The paper shows up inside the book as well early on and I liked the recurring motive of it. I'm also really pleased how well the hot foil came out on it! I was a bit scared that it might rip or something, but it's quite sturdy, after all.

I thought about doing a faux stab binding with red thread to get even more of a traditional feel, but then decided against it as I'd wanted to use two different blue book cloths and I felt that it might get too busy. Instead, I used the red ribbon as a nod to Wei Wuxian.

The little cloud illustration is used several times in the typeset and I like how it comes out in the title. I didn't even mess up this title, yay! (Mine's got a few tiny blotches but uh well, better mine than Dea's!)

I painted the edges with metallic watercolours - the second time I tried painting edges, but this time with several colours and trying to do a little illustration as well. Big thanks to @zhalfirin who quickly answered my question about how to get the paint to actually stick. 😆 I'd read several posts about how awesome water colours are for foreedge painting, but none mentioned that this kind of paint just rubs off again (I am no artist and have no knowledge of different kinds of paint). Zhalfirin told me to mix in glue and also wax the edges afterwards, which I both did and I think it's fine now. At least my fingers didn't turn blue. 😅

I really love how the shading came out on the head/tail; it could've been better on the foreedge and it looked great while the paint was still wet. Steep learning curve, this thing. I also died trying to sand the edges and I didn't get them completely smooth, but at least smooth enough to work with. That also needs some more work, I guess.

First time I sewed endbands with four different colours! I think they came out quite well! I also forgot the second row of dark blue on Dea's book and had to unravel half the endband again when I noticed at the very end... 🤦‍♀️

Nice marbled endpapers. For the title page spread, I used part a very famous Chinese painting, as it not only reminds me of the Gusu mountains but also, again, is very traditional. I played around with the colours to give the picture a bit of a bluer tinge.

The typeset itself was very straight-forward. There's the fic without commentary, and then the second part with it. I used a grey background for the comment parts to make it stand out from the actual story.

I had lots of printer issues with this fic (my copy actually had even more issues because the printer treated every page as an image for unknown reasons and therefore it not only took forever, it's also a tiny bit blurry. Hmpf.) and the greys tended to have a bit of a blue tinge, which was not my intention. But at least it works with the overall theme, I guess! 😅

I also did an extensive Appendix with all the meta links mentioned in the commentary as well as cut scenes and a little "praise for the author" section.

Last but not least, I decided to try making a slipcase for the first time! DAS_Bookbinding on youtube has good tutorials on that and I used one of them. It worked well on the first try. The second try, I used sturdier cardboard and should've added a few millimetres to the width, because the book didn't fit - the ribbon got stuck and I feared that it might get damaged. So I had to redo the case and then it was perfect.

I used wallpaper as cover material. 😄 The one you see on the outside? That's my living room wallpaper, a light blue with a lovely pattern and soft shimmer to it. My camera unfortunately is refusing to get the colour right.🤷‍♂️

The assembling process went well, for the most part. I'd forgotten to shorten the endpapers a bit which I only realised after I'd started casing in my copy. I carefully separated the textblock from the case again and then, in a moment of complete mental blackout, tried to cut the wet paper. 🤦‍♀️ That didn't go well. I managed to salvage it, mostly, and of course didn't repeat the mistake with Dea's copy, but ugh. 😆

This was a super fun project and I'm very happy with it! Thank you again, Dea, for your faith in me and your super generous donation! 💙

Materials used:

Printed on Clairefontaine DCP 100g

Case and endpapers:

booklinen Colibri cornflower

booklinen Paradise aqua

marbled paper 120g

transparent Japanese paper

Hot Foil (Memory Keepers)

Slipcase:

fleece wallpaper Newroom Nisa lightblue

fleece wallpaper grey glitter

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

Here is my first of 2 gif sets for Fandom Trumps Hate 2024.

@helloliriels asked for a gif set for her fic What If I'm Not , co-written with @fluffbyday-smutbynight .

Bonus:

Made a bonus gif, because I felt like only 2 gifs wasn't enough. 😅

[calaisreno]

The Disappointed Optimist's Guide to Sharing a Flat with a Madman

Chapter One: Look on the Bright Side

Chapter Two: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

This is my Fandom Trumps Hate story for @lhrinchelsea, who was generous enough to bid on me 💕💕💕

Summary: Despairing over his horrible living situation, John Watson has a small bit of luck when he meets Victor Trevor, who is trying to get out of his lease. Taking over the lease will mean moving in with Sherlock Holmes, but compared with his current horrible flatmates-

Seriously, how bad can it be? A couple of brats who mess up the flat, make fun of him, and eat his food. Or a bloke who doesn’t talk and sometimes plays the violin.

He can stick it out for two months...

[lilrobinbird]

Atuat using bloodbending to help Hei-ran breathe after her poisoning in Agna Qel'a

Drawing for @atuats-sidechick inspired by a scene from their fic I drew this earlier for them for the fandom trumps hate charity auction

Bonus dancing bald naked Atuat from the sketches of different poses I sent to Ariel to choose from for the final drawing

And lineart :)