Tumblr is rolling out a new reblog/notes system that completely disregards creators. In their new system, they're taking a twitter-style approach where reblogs will have their own notes that DO NOT contribute to the original post's notes.
Because of this, creators will no longer be able to see an accurate display of likes/reblogs/etc. This is completely altering the way feedback and responses to works are going to be received on this website.
If you come across a fan work that you enjoy, please take the extra step to go to OPs original post, and leave your comment/like/reblog there. Or go one step further and send an ask to OP directly to tell them what you liked!
I really hope Tumblr staff reverses course and reverts to the original reblog system for the sake of the large base of creators who use this site to share their works, but until then, please be considerate and make sure the creators here see/feel the love.
Do you create fanart, fanfic, podfics, videos, or any other kind of digital fanwork? Do you have services you can offer your fellow creators such as betaing, typesetting, research, or sensitivity reading? Do you want to use any of this to raise money for progressive causes?
If so, welcome to the 10th annual Fandom Trumps Hate auction!
Some light reading before you go straight to the signup form - even if you've participated before, please check these out!
FTH FAQ
What to expect on the signup form
Which fandoms are on this year’s list (but of course you can write in any fandoms you like)
FTH 2026 Calendar
List of Supported Nonprofits
One change to note: If you would like to offer your fanwork in "Any fandom," the options have changed. We have summarized those changes here.
If you've read all that and are ready to proceed, the 2026 signup form is here!
The main auction is only for digital fanworks - do you create physical fan crafts that you'd like to raise money with? Check out our Fan Crafts Bazaar!
Below you'll find the calendar for the tenth (!) FTH auction.
(What is FTH?)
Our list of supported organizations for 2026 is here. Over the next week, we'll be posting more in-depth profiles of each of these organizations so that creators and bidders can make thoughtful, informed decisions.
You can also 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 also look at our bidding policies. You'll also find the dates for our 2026 Crafts Bazaar, if you're interested in creating or receiving physical fanworks.
FTH 2026 Calendar
Monday, Jan 26th: creator signups open for both the auction and the craft bazaar
Sunday, Feb 8th: creator signups close for the main auction; craft bazaar signups remain open!
Friday, Feb 27th: browsing period begins, craft bazaar opens
Tuesday, March 3rd, 8am ET: auction bidding opens; craft bazaar signups close
Saturday, March 7th, 8pm ET: auction bidding closes
Wednesday, Mar 18th: auction donations due; craft stalls close
Thursday, Dec 31st: fanworks due
We're excited to be back for another round, and we hope you are too! After all, the world needs us more than ever: our donations, our community care, and our joyful and inspiring fanworks. We need one another right now, and FTH is a great way to make that happen.
Guys, I’ve no words. @destielfanfic has returned from tumblr hellpurgatory.
When I thought that all is lost for good, when I moved past grieving, when I accepted the loss, the blog was returned to us.
My deepest thanks to all our followers who worried about the missing blog and kept inquiring, and talking, and supporting us. I wasn’t alone and it made all the difference.
I’m tagging some blogs here to let them know that @destielfanfic is back. Spread the news!
Hi flyingcatstiel :) I found your blog through an archived version of the destielfanfic ficrec-blog - hope it's alright to write to you out of the blue.
I was wondering if you know anything about the beloved destielfanfic-blog suddenly disappearing from tumblr? I think I visited it last week if not later, so it must be pretty recent... I hope it's possible to restore and hasn't been deleted for good 🫣
Also I want to thank you and the other mods for all the work you've been putting into the site. It has been much much appreciated for many years now 💙💚
Hello there and thank you for your inquiry and your kind words! I'm devasted and I've no idea what exactly happened, but the blog has disappeared. This Sunday I did the usual #archive resource reblog and then wanted to reblog one more post and suddenly that was not possible anymore. The blog was not on my dash.
I've contacted tumblr staff and I got their automated response that my message was received. That's the situation right now. All i can do is to hope for the best and see @staff do some miracles and bring back @destielfanfic back from the unexpected exile/hell/purgatory/the empty/orphaned blog graveyard etc.
I'm tagging some other active destiel fanwork blogs here, follow them for exciting destiel posts. And please reblog this post to get the message out to our followers about sudden disappearance of @destielfanfic blog.
This is devastating. I'm not as active in the Destiel fandom as I once was but this is like the Library of Alexandria burning for our fandom. All the archived fic that has long since been deleted but was lovingly preserved by the admins. I'm sure they still have records of that fic but gosh all the work that went into that blog over the years.
@flyingcatstiel is there anything we can do here to help you? Can we start some campaign to put pressure on tumblr to help? I just hate this has happened. :(
Hey all, no hard feelings but anyone I see talking negatively about dranart I'm just gonna go ahead and unfollow. Some of y'all need to learn how to enjoy fandom again.
Friends, this has been an extraordinary year for the auction. We know how and why this happened: like in early 2017, everyone is scared and upset and looking for a way to do something meaningful.
And—just like in 2017, and every year since—hundreds of us have stepped up to support our most vulnerable neighbors and the organizations working to protect them.
Except this year, we did it on a scale we've never done before.
Last year, our donation total was an incredible $67,776.28
This year's donation total...
are you ready for it....
(you're not ready for it. we weren't.)
This year's donation total is:
Yes, you're reading that right. $127,204.11
We're flummoxed too—and deeply grateful to everyone who has poured their time and effort and money and love into participating in the auction this year, and into the fanworks that will come from it.
If you're curious about how those donations were distributed across the different organizations, here is the breakdown (this breakdown doesn't include employer match donations, which is why the total is a little lower):
Bellingcat: $2,636.19
Congo Leadership Initiative: $2,842
Crips for esims for Gaza: $4,762.60
Disability Law United: $3,835.39
Environmental Integrity Project: $3,712
Fight for the Future Education Fund: $3,108
Freedom to Read Foundation: $7,139.50
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism: $6,473
Hope for Ukraine: $12,613.93
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda: $3,626
Middle East Children's Alliance: $13,572.43
National Network to End Domestic Violence: $4,999.95
Never Again Action: $4,555
News Literacy Project: $3,745.16
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights: $10,072.56
Umbrella: organizations serving vulnerable LGBTQ people
Brave Space Alliance: $2,558
Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $2,636
Sherlock's Homes: $7,780.77
TransFamily Support: $5,387.01
TransQueerPueblo: $2,949
Other local LGBT organizations: $10,696.71
Yes, you're reading that right again. Three orgs AND the cumulative Other local LGBT orgs broke five figures.
We're especially delighted because, for the first time, the umbrella category worked the way we've always hoped it would! As you can see above, significant numbers of people used the umbrella category as a way to connect to an organization local to them.
As we learned through people's comments on the donation form, some people donated to organizations they were already familiar with (and in some cases had already donated to, or even volunteered at); others used this as a reason to learn more about their local organization and support them.
We'll share more about the "other umbrella" donations over the next few weeks—some more detailed stats, as well as the names of some of the local orgs that people donated to—and we'll invite those of you who connected up with local orgs to share your stories. We love that so many people took this chance to support groups working in their own community, and we hope that we can keep that going next year and beyond!
And speaking of the future!
Now is a great time to follow @fth2025fanworks. 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 support, 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 this project in the weeks between the end of signups and the beginning of browsing period, sharing some reading lists, an individualized activism bingo card, and an AMA with activist and organizer Kat Calvin. (We also did a test-flight AMA with ourselves, talking about the auction.) We'll probably need some time to recover from this year's auction, but we'll be back soon with more resources to share, more AMAs, and more tools for exploring all the different forms that meaningful activism can take and for figuring out which ones are right for you.
Organize your own auction! We've put together a detailed playbook that contains 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.
Over here at FTH headquarters we are all in need of a long nap. But we'll be back in a couple of weeks, as promised, to share more about the umbrella orgs and to dig back into @fthaction to see what's possible.
Looking forward to a whole bunch of new fanworks!
<3 your FTH mods
