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

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A Quick Tour of FFT for Beginners!

Hello and welcome to FFT! We're so happy to have you!  We'd like to give new members a quick tour of our site! Before being able to post anything visible to other members, you need to be fully validated by our staff. To do so, please start at the Welcome to FanficTalk+ thread and read our rules and guidelines+. After you confirm that you've read them and agree, a staff member will validate your post and you'll be free to post across the forum. Once you do, we'd love for you to introduce you
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The Crofter and the Snake, by Oregonian

I'm pleased to share this Golden Ink winner spotlight! Today, we're honoring Howard and Joel as the deserving winners of Best Friendship: The Crofter and the Snake by @Oregonian (picspam by me!) When our protagonist Howard Sutton arrives at Hogwarts, he isn't looking for friendship -- in fact, he's looking for a way out. However, when he meets Joel Hussong through Hagrid and his love of magical creatures, he finds a friend that h
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this is falling, falling in love, by belgian quaffle

Welcome back for another Golden Ink winner spotlight! Writers are forever finding new, creative ways to tell a story -- through letters, diary entries, or in more modern times text message and social media format. Unexpected narrative styles make for fresh, fun storytelling, like that in this year's winner for Most Creative Story: this is falling, falling in love (but not actually falling because we don't do that here, al) by @belgian quaffle (picspam by me!) Our n
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Final Bulletin: Camp FFT Wrap-Up

Hello everyone, and welcome to the final bulletin for camp FFT  For those who may have missed it, last month your activity coordinators hosted Camp FFT. Members signed up to be placed into cabins and cabins worked together to complete activities across two rounds of BINGO cards. Activities ranged everywhere from reviewing a new to you author, participating in drabble tag, or leaving comments in someone else's WJ. The goal of this activity was to have fun and bring some old forum topics back
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The Outsider by Pixileanin

I’m here at last to shine a light on 2024’s Golden Ink Award winner for Best Page Turner: The Outsider by @Pixileanin. Pix is one of those writers who, when you read her work, makes you want to be a better writer.  This story, despite her insistence that it’s a dumpster fire, is a prime example of that. First of all, if you can’t stand the idea of Hermione falling for Draco (or vice versa), this is the Dramione tale for you!  Poor Hermione has met with the worst possible fate (or so it
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blue skies, by Archer Rose

blue skies And we're back to celebrate another one of our Golden Ink Award Winners! ✨ This week, we're focusing on blue skies by @Archer Rose, which has won not one, but two categories: Best Slowburn Romance AND Favorite Lead Character  This story follows Lavender Brown and is part of the Jasmine & Tea Leaves universe but can be read separately.   After the war in the Wizarding World, Lavender moves to Paris where she hopes to start over and leave the scars of not ju
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Paper Rings, by Ronsgirlfriday

PAPER RINGS I’m excited to highlight another winner from our golden ink's 2024 awards. The very deserving story to cover this month is Paper Rings which was the winner of best short story. ❤️ What people are saying about ‘Paper Rings’ - A funny, charming, and original story that follows Ron and Hermione into the "future". The epilogue brings you back through the story through a new lens, and I just love how complete it makes this novelette feel in the end   picspam
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More Than Words, by inmyownlittlecorner

We’re back again with another Golden Ink Award winners Blog post! This time we’re celebrating this year’s Favorite Lead Pairing featuring a grump & sunshine pairing in this Harry Potter Muggle AU! ? Ted Tonks/Severus Snape  in More than Words by @inmyownlittlecorner 2024 Golden Inky Winner for Favorite Lead Pairing   Here’s what someone within our community had to say when nominating More Than Words: “I'm super into a positive 'opposites attract,' story an
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Mouse, by WriteYourHeartOut

Welcome to our second blog post highlighting the winners of this year’s Golden Ink Awards! ? Today, we’re highlighting the winner of Best One-Shot, where narrow minds and spiteful words don’t stop our protagonist! Mouse by @WriteYourHeartOut 2024 Inkys Winner: Best One-Shot Here’s what one nominator said about Mouse during this year’s (anonymous) Inky’s noms: “this is a very charming little piece with themes of bravery and prejudice told through susan bones' e
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Witchful Thinking, by PinsandKneazles

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts highlighting the winners of this year’s Golden Ink Awards! ? We begin with the fic that won Best Slow Burn Romance - and you know it’s a slow burn, because 27 chapters in, the two leads can still barely stand to be in the same room as one another (and it’s been a heck of a journey just getting them into the same room in the first place!) But we know they belong together because they were SO good together before. I speak, of course, of Al P
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The Golden Ink Awards Results 2024

welcome to the the golden ink awards blog! ✨✒️ firstly, a huge thank you to the community for making these awards possible, everyone who nominated and voted. congratulations to everyone who received their well deserved nominations and we are very excited to announce the winners and give out the graphics to our brilliant winners. we're very proud of the quality on the archives this year and the increasing diversity in fandoms which have been read and nominated this year.   categori
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2023 Sparkling Star Awards

The results are in for the Sparkys, where you nominated and voted for fellow FFT members for their contributions to our little community beyond the realm of fic-writing.   Shout-out to the finalists across all Sparkys categories:   And congratulations to the winners! We had seven categories:   MOST AVID REVIEWER 1st: @Goatspeed 2nd: @Oregonian         MOST PROLIFIC GRAPHIC ARTIST 1st: @inmyownlittlecorner 2nd: @prideofprewett
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2023 Golden Ink Awards

~~~ Here we are, with another Inkys season in the books (pun intended)! Before we get to the winners in each category, a huge thank-you to everyone who so thoughtfully nominated and voted. The best part of the Inkys is seeing so many members of the FFT community celebrating one another’s work. Thanks to you, 51 separate stories (and series) by 28 FFT authors were recognized as finalists in this year’s categories. Of those 51 works that advanced to voting, 9 are original fiction, and th
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Golden Ink Award Winners 2022

The Golden Ink Awards 2022 Winners Thank you all for your patience as we ultimately did not end up having the time/bandwidth to create the fancy animated winner cards for the inky winners this year. Without further ado though, here are your winners of the 2022 Golden Ink Awards!   best dialogue ? big reputations by @down-in-flames ? notes from the ravenclaw bulletin board 2: hbp edition by @Lost_Robin   funniest story ? bad education by @magicspacehole
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spring 2022 bulletin

welcome to the spring bulletin! if you're new, welcome to fanfictalk! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events - so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place. please make sure that you post in the 'welcome to fft' topic +here to say that you've read over the rules and understand them. you can reach out to any +sta
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Race through the Galazy Review Event Results

Race the Galazy Event Results Welcome, everyone, to the results ceremonies for this year's "Race the Galazy" reviewing event extravaganza! Before your dear Admirals announce the winners, we shall first take a stroll through some memorable moments, statistical anomalies, and then finally the ultimate results of the race. ?   The Teams S.S. Voyager - @Oregonian, @spaceballet, @RogueSlytherinCadet, @grumpy viper pilot, @something wicked, @belgian quaffle, @Unwritten Curse
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winter 21-22 bulletin

welcome to the winter bulletin! if you're new, welcome to fanfictalk! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events - so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place. please make sure that you post in the 'welcome to fft' topic +here to say that you've read over the rules and understand them. you can reach out to any +sta
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november '21 bulletin

welcome to the november bulletin! if you're new, welcome to fanfictalk! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events - so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place. please make sure that you post in the 'welcome to fft' topic +here to say that you've read over the rules and understand them. you can reach out to any +s
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Sparkling Star Awards 2021

Sparkling Star Awards Results Welcome to the announcement blog for the results of our first annual Sparkling Star awards! ✨ ✨ ✨ Congratulations to the winners and finalists! If there are any errors or we missed something on one of your awards, please just let us know. If you would like to use your award, please rehost and credit crowsb4bros! Finalist Most Prolific Graphic Artist ? @something wicked ? @RogueSlytherin   Best Graphics Style ? @grum
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october '21 bulletin

welcome to the fall bulletin! thank you for for patience in our delay in getting this out. ? if you're new, welcome to fanfictalk! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events - so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place. please make sure that you post in the 'welcome to fft' topic +here to say that you've read over
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july 2021 bulletin

welcome to july's bulletin! if you're new, welcome to fanfictalk! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events - so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place. please make sure that you post in the 'welcome to fft' topic +here to say that you've read over the rules and understand them. you can reach out to any +staff m
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ranks!

we have new ranks and also some badges! your ranks are on your profile picture on the forums and have fun names. you earn them for doing things on the forums. the point cutoffs are: newcomer: 0 points novice: 10 points apprentice: 25 points specialist: 50 points mentor: 75 points adept: 100 points mage: 250 points champion: 500 points master: 750 points sorcerer: 1,000 points archmage: 2,500 points grand
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june 2021 bulletin

we're including both may and june in here. we're so sorry about missing last month; your friendly neighborhood branwen got slightly swamped and burned out, and it is entirely her fault. ? if you're new, welcome to fanfictalk! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help section, challenges, and reviewing events - so if you're a writer, you've come to the right place.
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april 2021 bulletin

thank you all so much for your patience with how late we're getting this out this month - some of us have been swamped by other things recently. ? they're credited at the bottom as well, but a huge top line thank you to ineke, madi, and taylor for jumping in to help finish it up. ? if you're new, welcome to fanfic talk! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help sect
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golden ink awards 2021

thank you all for your patience! we're going to announce the winners at the top of the blog, but this year i decided to get kind of extra and make personalized awards for every finalist as well as our winners, so rather than include them throughout, i've just put them at the bottom of the post, organized alphabetically by username. ? y'all are incredible.   best action adventure: ? planetary boundaries by @lilypadi ? project azkaban by @Unwritten Curse ? the fifth house by @Amerip
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