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A blog for staff to post how-tos, tips, tricks, and other fun updates. 

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Clarification on Bullying, Personal Attacks, and Harrassment

We've gotten questions and comments throughout the past few years around when exactly people will face consequences for offsite conflict and how we define personal attacks, bullying, and harassment. Since we're updating the rules to clarify a few other things, we wanted to write a blog post expanding on how the site defines these terms a little as well. We don't take involving the site in offsite conflicts lightly. Expecting people to follow our site rules any time they interact with anothe
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Rep Matters

Rep Matters: Latino History Month

We are celebrating Latino History Month (September 15-October 15) and we've brought our best selections prominently featuring Latino characters. This is an expanded version of our rec list from tumblr here+.  Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston  Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz  Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
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Wizarding Universiade Results

Welcome one and all to the closing ceremonies of the Wizarding Universiade. During this hallowed event-closing tradition, your Arbiters of Chaos will recount information about the universities’ performances in each event, as well as the information you’re all really here for - the announcement of the event’s ultimate victor!  As a reminder: Gryffindor: Universitas Corvi Hufflepuff: Universitas Persei Ravenclaw: Universitas Hydrae Slytherin: Universitas Lyrae
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FROGS 2020 Winners

We announced the winners of this year's FROGS on a +livestream earlier today - thank you so much to everyone who participated in the nominating, reviewing, and voting process, and to all of our wonderful members for participating in the community and posting your writing here.   We couldn't have this amazing community without all of you. ❤️ 💛 💙 💚 Now that we've told you who our winners and runners up are, it's time to reveal this year's limited edition set of chocolate frog cards! If you wa
abhorsen.

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Centers for Magical Disease Control Results

Congratulations to everyone who participated in our Center for Magical Disease Control reviewing event! We hope that everyone is staying safe during the real life pandemic we have going on right now - we do want to clarify that we decided on the theme for the event long before the outbreak started, and we're sorry if anyone was upset by the theme along the way. Please stay safe during this time, and check in soon for some community building events we're going to do to try and help everyone throu
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Rager of the Decade Wrap-Up

There’s glitter all over the ground in the clearing, and some of the centaurs wander aimlessly, carrying their horseshoes in their human hands, clearly having not slept a wink. The rager of the decade has ended, and a new decade has dawned. But wait! Before you go, there are still a few things worth celebrating. 🥳 Over the course of the month, a whopping total of 769 gifts were exchanged in a total of 46 different wishlists. And while this wasn’t a House Cup competition, we love a good
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down-in-flames

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Escape from the Department of Mysteries Results

You’ve solved puzzles, you’ve unraveled riddles, you’ve told the tale of your escape and mapped your way out… but was it enough? Will the hooded figure show mercy on you after you regale him with the story of how you escaped his grasp?   ⌛ Time Room ⌛ It took five puzzles and a drabble (worth a combined total of 65 points) to break out of the Time Room. Completion of the room was worth an additional 50 points. Order of Finish (awarded as 100-75-50-25): Hufflepuff Gryffindor
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Personal Social Media Clarification

FanficTalk staff often use social media to promote or supplement activities that take place on the site (i.e., the archives or forums). All information necessary to fully participate in those activities can be found on either the site itself or our official social media accounts; it will not originate on any member's personal account. Many members of FFT (including staff and prefects) do choose to interact outside the site, particularly through their personal social media accounts. While so
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Clarification on "Safe Space"

We've gotten some questions lately about what we mean when we say that we want our site (including both our forums and our archive) to be inclusive/a safe space, so we'd like to offer a little clarification. When we say that we want to be a safe space, we mean that we want FFT to be a place where people can participate without being afraid that they will be attacked for who they are - especially if they belong to groups who are often attacked, invalidated, or even have their physical safety
abhorsen.

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Archive FAQ

Joining FanficTalk's Archive Why should I join? Well, we're obviously a little biased, but we think we've got a great site here! Our community is full of enthusiastic and engaged members, and our staff are responsive to member input - whether it's concerns, ideas, or questions. If you're a writer who's looking for reviews/feedback in particular, we've also got a lot opportunities for you to get that. See spoiler tag below for details:     Ho
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Finale From the Other Side

Finale From The Other Side We, grumpy cat and sibilant (aka hissing sound), the Communicants1 of the Wizard’s Council, are here to present the official proceedings of the 2019 Ministerial Election. Some journalists have levied accusations of voting tampering against us; we will use this official proclamation to provide the full and unquestionably truthful account of the election process, in accordance with the Wizarding Constitution of 1234. The Wizard’s Council - a mostly c
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The Great Collab Results

From December to May this year, all four Houses participated in a massive writing collaboration, working in different teams with new themes and challenges every two months. After six months of hard work (and many, many words), the Great Collab of 2018-2019 has come to a close, and points have been tallied!    Round 1: New Beginnings A fitting theme for the start of a six-month-long adventure, yeah? For round 1, Gryffindor and Slytherin teamed up to form Team Frosty, and Hufflepuff an
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down-in-flames

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FROGS 2019 Winners

We've announced our winners of this year's FROGS awards on a livestream +here - thank you so much to everyone who tuned in to watch us share the results! HPFT is home to so many talented and dedicated members, and whether or not you were won an award or were able to participate in this year's FROGS, this community wouldn't be the same without you. Thank you so, so much for everything you do. ❤️ Now that you know who won, it's time to reveal this year's special, limited edition set of chocola
abhorsen.

abhorsen.

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The Magical Menagerie Recap

The Magical Menagerie Hello, magizoologists! Last month, you embarked on a mission that tested your endurance and pushed you to the very limits of your creativity - our magical menagerie reviewing event! Many of you may have gone in as novices, but you all came out as experts. Everyone who participated definitely would've gotten an E or an O on their OWLs and are trying to figure out whether Hagrid is teaching the NEWT classes decide whether to take NEWT classes. And after such a
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FROGS 2018 Winners

Hello, all! It's time for us to announce the winners of this year's FROGS awards! If you didn't catch our livestream from earlier this evening, you can find it +here. First off: thank you to everyone who nominated, reviewed, and voted in this year's FROGS awards, and congratulations to everyone who was nominated, whether or not you won. HPFT is home to some incredibly talented people, and we can't express how glad we are to be part of this community. We hope you enjoyed this as much as we
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Holiday and Diversity Writing Challenge Winners!!

Last month we ran our first ever prize based writing competition with a theme of Holiday and Diversity!  We had 9 entries!  Here are all the entries! And the World Went On by mannoy/malfoy  Chai, Dancing, and a Friend in the Wee Hours of the Morning by 800 Words of Heaven  First Lit, Last Burning (M) by MuggleMaybe in the dawn, we shall enter the splendid cities. (M) by Aphoride Overhauling Hogwarts by Nykizta Peppermint (M) by sapphicsunrise
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How Does FanficTalk Staff? (and how do I join?)

How Does FanficTalk Staff? (and how do I join?) Every month, the FFT admins post an application for all site staff/prefect positions on google forms. Once a member puts in an application, we keep it on hand for three months - so, for example, an application from March might be used to fill a staff position in May. All full staff members are involved in the decision-making process. Outside of existing staff making lateral moves (e.g., Muggle Liaison to Professor), we don't make any bump
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Thank You, Rose!!

ROSE APPRECIATION BLOG!!!!!   @toomanycurls PicSpam by RoxiMalfoy My Dear Rose…    I've thought a lot about what I wanted to say to you in this. In the beginning, I couldn't even begin to find the right words. But I've also had the pleasure of seeing first-hand over the past few weeks just how BIG of an impact you've had here on SO MANY people in this community!!! Two weeks ago, I only knew you from my own personal experience. But now, I've had the opportunity to share
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Certified Author Status

New and edited chapters submitted to our archive must be approved by an auror (archive validator) before they're made visible to the public, to ensure that they follow our archive's site guidelines. Every so often, we evaluate author accounts to determine whether to grant them Certified Author status (or CA status, for short). Being a CA allows you to bypass the queue and post your chapters directly to the archive; it requires a lot of trust not only in your intentions but also in your abil
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All About Activity Streams

Most of us are accustomed to activity streams (or newsfeeds) from popular applications such as Facebook and Twitter.  We have something akin to that here at FanficTalk.  Since it doesn't work identically to more-familiar applications, let's run over some information about it. What is an activity stream?  Simply put, it's a stream or list of activity that occurs on the forums.  Each activity has certain properties (what type of activity it is, time it happened, whether it was posted by someo
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Status Updates

One of the first things new members want to figure out is how to get in on the fun of posting status updates. Enabling Status Updates Navigate to your profile Edit your profile Toggle on the "Enable status updates?" slider Click Save Posting Status Updates From your profile page, type in the "Write a public message on your own feed..." box and then hit "Submit Status." From another member's profile page, type in the "Write a public message on
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Member Groups & Ranks

Here at FanficTalk, we have both member groups and ranks.  Ranks are based on your content (posts, statuses, and blog entries) count.  Member groups determine what you can see and do around the site, with the major difference (aside from staff/prefects) being which common room you can see.  You can be in more than one member group (Professor and Gryffindor, Prefect and Slytherin, etc.), one of which will primary and which will dictate which color your name appears around the site.  A person's pr
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Glossary of Common Terms

There are several terms and acronyms which are often used either in the fanfiction world in general or on FanficTalk specifically.  If you're not familiar with them, it can be confusing and intimidating to see so many people tossing them around.  If there's a term missing you think should be included, contact a staffer so we can add it to this list. Beta/Beta Reader - much like an editor, a person who reads and helps make corrections to your story along the lines of grammar, punctua
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FROGS 2017 Winners

Hey, HPFT! It's 2019, but I'm reorganizing some things and realized that we weren't really regularly using the staff blog back when we did our first FROGS awards in 2017... so I'm posting them here, too. You can find the original topic +here and our youtube livestream +here.    
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