#fandom crafting

[sassy1121]

oh ho I'm very proud of myself. I haven't made a friendship bracelet in like 25 years, but it was like riding a bike.

[mercalityonetsy]

I'M DESPERATE. I NEED SPACE FOR NEW LISTINGS.

EVERYTHING IS 65% OFF UNTIL THE 8th!

[fandomtrumpshate]

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; craft bazaar signups remain open!

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 12th: proof of donations due

Wednesday, December 31st: fanworks 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.

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

happy birthday to one of the greatest fics of all time <3 ( @bisexuallsokka , thank you for writing this masterpiece.)

[gleafer]

All my current Crowley’s Coven art in one post.

They stole his pants, then his friendship, THEN his car keys (errands needed running) and now his angel ex.

[dysfunctional-doodle]

Techno-babble

I HAVE A STICKER SHOP NOW! Check it out! Prices start at $1.65:

⭐️ ROTTMNT/TMNT Stickers! ⭐️ (Wave 2 of stickers coming soon so you can actually get discounts when you buy 10!)

-> Commissions || My Kofi || Tip Jar :) <-

[catscardigan]

Aaaaaand he’s complete 🔥👨🏻‍🚒🚒

73,000 stitches, measuring at 37x49cm (14x19 inch for my American fam)

Very pleased to have finished this in time for the S7 premier this week.

As always, a huge huge thank you to the amazing Linda @skyhighrollins911 for the permission to use her incredible work as my inspiration for this piece.

Just need a bloodied up Eddie to match…..

[pluck-heartstrings]

A mini magma dump! I haven’t been as active since my work schedule changed. But magmas still own my heart, body and soul.

[oldfangirl81]

Painted some of the wooden snakes while watching Leverage.

AroAce Snake

Asexual Snake

Bisexual Snake

Pride Snake

Loki Snake

Hawkeye Snake

[randomness-is-my-order]

i like that mdzs is actually not a tragedy. a tragedy would have ended at wei wuxian’s first life with no one but the antagonists getting some semblance of an happily ever after. but mdzs is unique because it gives a chance of healing and growth after the tragedy, after the heartbreak, after the soul-crushing grief. if wei wuxian had never come back to life, almost every character would have been worse off. jin ling would continue to be an angry teenager who’d become an angry adult while having authority and power he wouldn’t be able to handle. jiang cheng’s thirst for revenge would remain and worsen and become uglier and many more would fall victim to his animosity against perceived demonic cultivators. lan wangji’s mourning wouldn’t ever end. sizhui wouldn’t reunite with the man who’d he once thought of as a father and he wouldn’t reunite with his uncle and he maybe wouldn’t even learn of his true past until much much later. jgy wouldn’t be as easily exposed and lan xichen would remain blind to the wrongdoings of his sworn brother. maybe nie huaisang would still find his vengeance but it would have to be another way, a messier way. in general, the resentment of many people would continue to fester––there would be no reality checks for the cultivation clans as they did during the second siege (not that their collective shitty behaviour was corrected, but atleast there was some reckoning involved.) the history would still be the winner’s and the wronged parties would be continued to be vilified. but wei wuxian does come back and that kickstarts every single character’s journey once again. his resurrection throws a wrench into the complacency of tragedy and makes the characters hope again. i like mdzs because it is about second chances. because it doesn’t succumb to the absolute narrative of ‘why do good people always suffer?’ by giving the protagonists an ending that is not perfect but an ending that is rewarding, despite everything. i like mdzs because it is not trying to sell you a tragedy and deliberately play with your emotions but a story about hope, about betterment, about renewal. the second chance may seem like the one wei wuxian got, but in truth it is a second chance for every single character and some rightfully learn to be better and get better endings while some stick to their ways and for them, even a third or fourth chance wouldn’t be enough. i like mdzs because it tells you that yes, tragedies happen and yes they are allowed to deeply affect you but you can move on some day and you can find happiness again and you can live your life as if you were reborn, even if it’s just metaphorically.

[dabigbird]

I am OBSESSED with the fact that bill canonically wears mascara and eyeliner so here’s some random doodles

[sassy1121]

my kid made me a present that they'd been planning for like 5 years 🥹

ya know, like:

[crowbetter]

Hours of searching for the right yarn colours and planning the pattern, 4300 stitches that took me god knows how long because i took a 4 month break in the middle of them and 2 lost needles but finally it's done. Based on this artwork of the talented @tofupixel

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

professional chinese cosplay-wig makers displays her products (cr: AAAA专业理发彩妆师琦姐)

[zaezz-zaets]

Ladies and gentlemen, and everyone in between! May I present you with... my handmade Albedo noodle stopper figure!

(I really like how he turned out, say something nice 'bout him please please please please please)

[domistique]

some people fundamentally do not understand the separation between the lives of the real life drivers and the rpf blogging community..... if someone says they only like a driver when they're crying they're not betraying the mental health movement or making light of his real life struggles they're saying they like him when he's crying. it doesn't mean they wish him to go through shit irl it means he looks hot when he's pathetic. don't bring your twitter virtue signalling outrage olympics here you're making yourself miserable with your parasocial attachment to an ignorant rich man, just objectify them like the rest of us holy shit