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Listen to me. Change the narrative. Keep writing your own story. You got this. Just keep going.

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HAPPY LOKI'S BIRTHDAY 🎉💚

Time for my brag (yes I bring this up every year, yes I will continue to do so, my life is full of crap let me have this), because it was yours truly who proposed this date to Agent of Asgard writer Al Ewing. He told me it's not NOT canon, I posted that on the 17th, he reblogged it saying 'Yes, happy Loki's birthday!' and so this is the day the fandom celebrates. You're welcome 😌 now go eat some cake or stab a sibling or something (or share my picture)

📷: coy_photographics

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We’re going ahead and we have art now! LOOK AT THEMMM

Presale price is $15 per pin plus shipping. If you want to get Loki, Sylvie, or both, let me know!

I’m trying to get together enough people for a group commission of a TVA version of this @anbpins Loki pin (that is, Loki from the show in his TVA outfit) and a matching Sylvie. With 20 people per pin, pins would be about $15 each. TVA Loki would face right so he could also be paired with the Mobius currently in production, shown here. If you’d like to get TVA Loki, Sylvie, or a set of both, let me know! We’re about halfway there so far. Shares are really helpful, especially if you know anyone who might be interested.

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she is: Baby

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I’m trying to get together enough people for a group commission of a TVA version of this @anbpins Loki pin (that is, Loki from the show in his TVA outfit) and a matching Sylvie. With 20 people per pin, pins would be about $15 each. TVA Loki would face right so he could also be paired with the Mobius currently in production, shown here. If you’d like to get TVA Loki, Sylvie, or a set of both, let me know! We’re about halfway there so far. Shares are really helpful, especially if you know anyone who might be interested.

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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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