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particularly glad now that I was able to participate again this year.

To say that we’re beyond devastated and at a loss for words barely scratches the surface of what we’re feeling in the wake of the U.S. election, and it’s been a struggle to figure out what to say and how to speak with impassioned clarity when we're muddling through fury, heartbreak, and fear. So what we did was go back to our 2018 "thank you" post to all of our creators, bidders, signal boosters, and supporters to reflect on the beginnings of MTH and where we can go from here.

When Marvel Trumps Hate was created, it was made with the hope that our name would outlast Trump. We would fight to eradicate the hate that he and his ilk have sown and continue to spread and not only survive but also thrive in spite of it. That Trump would be re-elected six years later by a bigger, more emphatic margin, with the Republicans taking the House and Senate, is a damning indication of the state of the U.S. today and a result that is of extreme concern for everyone in the U.S. and around the world.

In many ways, it’s dispiriting that not only have a lot of things not changed since MTH was founded, but they’ve also become actively worse and more dysfunctional. But the difference between 2018 and 2024 is that while our anger hasn’t gone away, our rage is now accompanied with a better, more clear-eyed understanding of what’s broken and what actions need to be taken. We know what needs fixing—and what works.

What works is community. We may not be able to put our trust in certain systems and people in power, but we can lean on and take care of one another. We have to and we will. How do we know this? Because you’ve all shown that since the beginning. We were reminded of it when reading our 2018 post and thinking about the past six years of MTH. Like we said in our closing message at the end of this year’s auction, it’s easy to feel defeated, but time and time again, we’ve learned that the most important thing is to show up even if you’re unsure of what impact you can have as just one person. Every year, that’s what you all do.

Hope doesn’t come from nowhere. We have to create it ourselves. And while there are dark days ahead of us, what we have to hold onto as we march forward, what lights our way, is the knowledge that you’re doing just that. This year’s auction is proof of it.

This year, 180 "Marvel"-ous creators came forward to offer 293 auctions. They offered 360 unique platonic and romantic relationships and character-centric options (if we include "all ships/gen"-inclusive relationships, this number is even higher) across 40 universes within the Marvel multiverse.

This spirit of inclusion goes beyond trying to encompass as much of the Marvel fandom as possible and can be seen in our auction and charity results too. Every one of 293 auctions was bid on, and every one of our 30 supported charities received donations. As ever, we’re in awe of your commitment to supporting all our creators and charities.

As for the crowning achievement, the culmination of our efforts, the grand total we raised this year is…

Wow. This is the most we’ve ever raised in a single MTH auction (other than our Spiders Georg 2021 auction), and you shattered the record for the highest amount donated to a charity AGAIN, with $9,420.62 going to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) too. This is all the more impressive considering it was accomplished by the second-to-smallest number of creators and auctions we had. It goes to show that no matter how small you are, you can pack a punch if you team up.

You can see the effort of our teamwork and the breakdown of the donations here (to enlarge the image, click here and hover to see the donation amount per charity).

We’ve also listed the amount raised per charity on our 2024 auction results page.

Creators, we couldn't have started this auction without you. Your commitment to the event, whether you return every year, made a surprise welcome return after a break, or are new and took what we know can be a scary jump into the event, moves us. It’s hard putting yourself out there, and we applaud you for it.

Bidders, your willingness to duke it out helps us raise as much money as we do. We’ve seen some wild things though what always astonishes us the most is that most donations are small ones including a lot of those crazily high winning bids—so many of them were the result of people pooling their five dollars together! This has been consistently the case since MTH began and is a testament to the ripple effect you can have if you’re part of something bigger than yourself.

We also owe our success to our amazing signal boosters. There can’t be an auction without any participants so to every fandom community Tumblr and Discord mod and every individual who shared our posts and encouraged their fandom friends to sign up and/or bid, thank you so much. Together, we reached hundreds of fantastic creators and bidders from all corners of the Marvel fandom, many of whom we didn't know and some who were hearing about us for the first time (and some who made the leap after sitting on the fence for years which is awesome).

Thank you all. We’re so touched by the massive number of people who donated above and beyond their pledged amount, creators who took on multiple auctions and offered multiple winner slots, and bidders who accepted their second-place wins with such eagerness. We also had people make donations in the spirit of MTH even though they didn’t win an auction, which was beyond generous. This year, we saw a record number of people doing that (even someone who was no longer part of the Marvel fandom but wanted to support what we were doing), especially in the wake of the U.S. election, and it made us very emotional to see such compassion.

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for helping us turn our seventh Marvel Trumps Hate auction into such a fantastic experience. We cherish every single message of love and support that we received and continue to receive on our Discord server and through DMs, Tumblr messages, emails, tweets, etc., and they as well as your generosity have buoyed us since September and the past two days in particular.

If you'd like to stay updated on all of the 2024 Marvel Trumps Hate fills, follow us and/or check out the "mth 2024" tag on our Tumblr. You’ll also be able to find works posted on AO3 in our Marvel Trumps Hate 2024 collection and links to fills in our Discord server, which you can join to brainstorm prompts, chat about fills, and find out about other fandom events.

And with that, MTH 2024 has officially come to a close. Thank you once again to everyone who volunteered their services, time, money, and platforms to spread the word. We hope that these results have bolstered your belief that you can make a difference as well as your determination to stand back up after being knocked down and defiantly say, “I can do this all day.”

Because we have to. For those of us who have suffered, for those of us who are in the most danger now, for those of us who have died at the hands of the evil and cruel in power and are no longer with us. For all of us who are still here. Because we all deserve to be here, safe, cared for, and alive.

So let’s get back up. Let’s get to work.

Yours in solidarity, Your 2024 MTH mods

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Loki with those he cares about.

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well, this fucking sucks.

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Kinda wild how I consistently feel like 30% less insane every time I chop my hair from Bad Shaggy back to Good Short and yet I keep going “but do I actually have a Gender Thing though”

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OMG IT'S HALLOWEEN :O

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Hercules is the most visually creative of the Disney Reneissance films. If not any Disney film ever.

The three Fates sharing an eye.

Hades’ flaming hair. 

The various designs of the mythological monsters and titans.

The diverse faces and body types of all the minor characters.

It’s a very visually engaging movie.

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ohhh,, abigail marston.. and that guy is there too ig

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✦ GIFTOBER 2024 (+ @mcuchallenge) | Day 22/31: REACTIONS

- She’s (Sylvie) already been pruned. So assume I do set you free.

- Hang on, wait. What’d you just say?

- What? Assume I do set you free.

- The Variant. She’s gone?

- Yeah. Not before she took out two of ours.

BONUS

When Loki knows the truth, that Sylvie is safe.

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@giftober 2024 + @mcuchallenge prompt Day 18: Gift.

Loki 2x06

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this seems like an insult to the phantom

The phantom of the opera has the same genre of autism as Elon musk

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please god, take that man’s pain, double it, and put it on ao3

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Trying new things with art is genuinely terrifying ✨

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finally doing Marvel Trumps Hate again this year!

100indecisions

See 100indecisions’s existing works here and here.

Preferred contact methods: Twitter: mari_shepard Tumblr: thelightofthingshopedfor Discord: 100indecisions Instagram: 100.indecisions

Preferred organizations: - Innocence Project - International Rescue Committee - Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) - Palestine Children’s Relief Fund - Rainbow Railroad (See the list of approved organizations here)

Will create works that contain: Queer stuff, fix-it fics, canon-divergence AUs, hurt/comfort, angst/whump with a happy ending, dark themes

Will not create works that contain: Major character death, character bashing, unhappy endings, Loki being a really bad guy, Steve being a jerk, Sylvie being erased/demonized

– Craft or Merchandise –

Auction ID: 1092

Will create works for the following relationships: Loki-centric - Any Universe

Work Description: This listing is for a Loki keychain or pin decorated with the Pride colors of the winner’s choice. I have a few different listings on Etsy: one is a Loki emoji pin, one is a big keychain, and one is a little pair of stud earrings, so any of those are options, with any of the color/flag examples shown there. It’s also be possible to make hook earrings, and I’m happy to experiment with other flags I haven’t done yet, remake options that are currently sold out, or figure out something else to reach a good value with items you like. Every $13 you bid is good for another keychain or pin of your choice–for instance, if you win with a bid of $39, you would get three pieces in whatever style you want (say, one silver keychain in bisexual colors, one gold chrome keychain in genderfluid colors, and one emoji pin in pansexual colors). Groups can also feel free to get multiple items through pod bids this way. If you live outside the US (or if you’re organizing a pod bid and want me to ship items to your members individually), I’ll ask you to pay shipping costs over $5 USD.

Ratings: Gen

Can pods bid on this auction? Yes - Podbids welcome!

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– Craft or Merchandise –

Auction ID: 2046

Will create works for the following relationships: Steve Rogers-centric - Any Universe Sam Wilson-centric - Any Universe Bucky Barnes-centric - Any Universe

Work Description: This listing is for a Captain America shield necklace, keychain, or pin repainted in the Pride colors of the winner’s choice. It’s the same as the listings on my Etsy, so any examples shown there apply here as well, and I’m happy to experiment with other flags I haven’t done before. (I also have smaller shield charms, not shown, that could be used for necklaces or hook earrings.) Every $13 you bid is good for another necklace/keychain/pin of your choice–for instance, if you win with a bid of $40, you would get three pieces in whatever style you want (say, one necklace in bisexual colors, a rainbow keychain, and a rainbow pin). Groups can also feel free to get multiple items through pod bids this way. If you live outside the US (or if you’re organizing a pod bid and want me to ship items to your members individually), I’ll ask you to pay shipping costs over $5 USD.

Ratings: Gen

Can pods bid on this auction? Yes - Podbids welcome!

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– Beta Service –

Auction ID: 3022

Will create works for the following relationships: Loki-centric - Any Universe Sylvie-centric - Any Universe Loki/Any - Any Universe Loki/Sylvie - Any Universe Loki & Thor - Any Universe

Work Description: This listing is for copy-editing/beta-reading services on a fic or multiple fics, with the amount of your donation determining the word count and level of editing. Every $20 is good for 2500 words of heavy line-by-line editing (your teachers/professors/beta readers always hand back your papers/fics with lots of corrections), 5000 words of medium editing (your papers/fics tend to be pretty solid but your attention to detail isn’t great), or 10,000 words of lighter proofreading/beta-reading (you’re fairly confident in all aspects of your writing but you want a second set of eyes to catch things you might have missed). In general, I’m happy to read for continuity, grammar/punctuation/clarity/general proofreading, and US slang/idioms for non-US writers. I’m probably not a great person for beta-reading porn-I can certainly still edit the mechanical aspects, and I can say “hey I’m imagining this and I can’t figure out how these people are physically doing this” or “these characters started on a bed but now they’re on the floor with no mention of how they got there,” but I wouldn’t be so good at saying whether something is hot/sexy or realistic. (On a related note, if you’d like a sensitivity reader for asexual-spectrum identities, I would be good for that.) I’m actually willing to beta-read things other than Loki fics, but I would enjoy beta-reading a Loki fic the most, and I’m definitely the most familiar with MCU Loki so that’s also where I’m likely to be the most helpful. I’m willing to read pretty much any Loki ship, but please check my DNWs. My qualifications: I have a master’s degree in English, I taught English composition as a grad student, and at this point I have about 15 years of professional editing experience on one level or another-which of course doesn’t even include the beta-reading I’ve already done for free. I’m also including my AO3 as a writing sample, essentially.

Ratings: Gen, Teen, Mature, Explicit

Can pods bid on this auction? Yes - Podbids welcome!

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The auction runs from October 20 (12 AM ET) to October 26 (11:59:59 PM ET). Visit marveltrumpshate.com during Auction Week to view all of our auctions and to place your bids!

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@giftober 2024 + @mcuchallenge prompt Day 10: Cheering/Clapping.

Loki 2x06

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you belong to each other...♡

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The way he looks at her frozen figure… He wants to kiss her so badly, the same vibe from 1x06 when he wants to kiss her again before she sent him