A few months into the bond, Lando and Oscar are happily settling into their new normal. It's a bit mental, navigating full moons, race weekends, and rumours in the press, but pack life is good.
Then the messages start. Someone thinks Lando belongs somewhere else, and their obsession means they'll stop at nothing to "save" him from the werewolves.
Healing from Spa by recording this cute and funny fic by @wanderingblindly featuring oblivious Lando convinced Oscar is a vampire (no other logical reason why he can't stop looking at him, is there?!) and Max F and George trying to be helpful.
Had a brilliant time recording @merceyca's podcast style stories full of banter and light-hearted jabbing with my favourite people @meems-toanend, FanFixation, tofuraven and Pensieve Podfics.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
The full story is now available as podfic. Brilliant dark and delicious dramione story written by @wrathful-wrackspurt ❤️🔥
Gorgeous cover art by strandsofsaturn.
Summary: Draco is back at Hogwarts for his eighth year, burdened not just by his past and his choices, but also by the Black family secret he now carries. He finds something in Hermione Granger's presence that feels a lot like peace... but might just be his ruin.
This was a big year for FTH -- our tenth auction, and a big year in one other important way, too.
This year, we've got two big numbers to announce.
This year, thousands (yes, thousands!) of us showed up to share our time, talents and goodwill with one another and raise some money for our most vulnerable neighbors and the organizations that support them. Together, we supported the fights for trans rights, for immigrant rights, and for the rights of the disabled; we helped fund local journalism and local clean-energy advocacy; we helped feed the hungry, in Gaza and in our own neighborhoods around the world; and so much more.
Together, we raised....
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Warning: Fabulously glittery number incoming!
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But that's not all.
We knew there was no way we'd quite match last year's annual total -- everybody was motivated the recent election, and the damage of the new presidential admin was still in its early ramp-up. Still, we were hoping that enough folks would show up for FTH 2026 that we could raise a combined ~$70K, and push us to a major ten-year fundraising milestone.
As you can see, we blew way, way past that this year.
That brings FTH's ten-year fundraising total to:
That's right, over the past decade, as a community we have generated over HALF A MILLION DOLLARS in donations to progressive nonprofits!!
Yes, actually. We triple checked. Holy shit?!
Below you'll find the breakdown of how this year's donations were distributed across different organizations (this breakdown doesn’t include employer match donations, which is why the total is a little lower):
Advocates for Trans Equality - $17,313.86
Disability Law United - $4,019.01
Environmental Integrity Project - $4,049
Fight for the Future Education Fund - $3,388
Freedom to Read Foundation - $8,689.54
Gaza Soup Kitchen - $20,362
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism - $5,306.27
Greenlight America - $2,732
In Our Own Voice - $3,052
National Immigrant Justice Center - $16,675.24
Never Again Action - $5,452
Open Secrets - $2,706
Vote Beat - $2,067
Other organizations: - $1,548
Umbrella: anti-poverty direct aid orgs
Echo Food Bank - $1,623
Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty - $293.43
Peninsula Poverty Response - $772
Sisters PGH - $1,653
St. Louis Park Emergency Program - $565
Womens Daytime Drop-in Center - $910
Other anti-poverty direct aid orgs - $4,266.17
So what's next?
Now is a great time to follow the @fth2026fanworks account. We'll use that blog to share any auction fanwork that gets posted to tumblr.
We urge you to keep up with the organizations you supported this year (and the others on our list!) Follow them on social media, subscribe to their newsletters, whatever works best for you. It will enable you to keep an eye on the good work you’ve helped support, and to find out quickly when these orgs need some extra help, financial or otherwise.
And if you’re looking out at the world and feeling the itch to do more, here are some possibilities:
Follow @fthaction, the meatspace activism wing of FTH. We relaunched FTHA last year with some reading lists, an individualized activism bingo card, a couple of AMAs with some talented organizers and activists on our dedicated FTHA discord server, and some stories from folks on tumblr, talking about how they themselves got more politically active. We're still figuring out the best and most useful things we can do this with project, but we'd love your thoughts and we hope you'll join us for the ride, on tumblr or on our discord server (linked above) or both.
Organize your own auction! We’ve put together a detailed playbook that contains as much information and as many resources as we can provide for getting an auction off the ground, including detailed guides. Almost everything in the playbook is fully public; there are a few forms that are access-locked because google has stupid ideas about sharing forms, but we’re happy to give you access to those, too: just drop us an email.
As usual, we the mods are pretty wiped out and will need to take some time away from our screens to recuperate. But also as usual, it's completely worth the effort. We're so deeply inspired by what we've accomplished together, and by all of y'all who keep showing up, year after year, to be lights for one another in dark times. We'll see you again next year.
Go forth and bid on your chosen creators! The offerings blog is here. A few notes:
Read the instructions at the bottom of the offering post for bidding instructions.
The top of the post has a list of what orgs each creator is supporting.
Do not make any donations until you receive an email from the FTH mods stating that you have won. We have no way to reimburse donations that are made in error.
Bidding closes at 8pm Eastern on Saturday, March 7.
Watch this space for Golden Needles, an auction tracking spreadsheet, and other announcements during the bidding period!
Great news! We have gotten through (almost!!) all of the final details, and the 2026 Offerings Blog is now open for browsing. Creators, it's time to start promoting your auctions to your friends and followers! Bidders, it's time to peruse your fandoms and start getting excited!
When you get there, please see our post about our cool new navigation feature, creator directories! We will also soon be posting some tips about how to navigate using our tags.
Still haven't really learned to tumblr, so this is a bit late (3 chapters up now).
I love reading about hopeless gay men pining and having all consuming crushes on someone very off limits. And lots of understated flirting. So obviously I'm lowkey obsessed with this story by the incredible @likearecordbb 🥰
(I think my last ask didn't send so here I go again:)
Thank you so much for all the podfics you've shared with us!! I honestly don't know what I'd do without them 😭
You'd probably be a bit creeped out by the amount of times I've fallen asleep listening to your voice, but being able to listen to my favourite fanfics while cleaning or cooking really helps me with staying on top of my day-to-day tasks and I'm so thankful for that!
Hi!
This is my first tumblr ask, how fun!
Haha, not creeped out at all, I listen to podfics all the time, incl at bedtimes sometimes, so is completely fine. I love that I get to keep you company during these tasks and help you sleep tbh.
We're blessed with so many incredible stories in this fandom, and being able to record some of my favourites and making them more accessible is my way of giving back a little, since I can't write or draw at all.
Thank you for letting me know that you enjoy the podfics, it's makes me very happy to hear ❤️
I'm very excited and a bit nervous about taking on this beautiful story by @cr0ftisprocrastinating. It's one of those stories that I still think about years after I first read it.
Posting on AO3 and Spotify. No schedule but hopefully at least weekly.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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