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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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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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march 2021 bulletin

welcome to march's bulletin! 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 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, and if you're a harry potter fa
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february 2021 bulletin

welcome to february's bulletin! 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 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, and if you're a harry potter
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Rep Matters

Black History Month: Essential Black Authors to Read | The Daily Show's List

One hallmark of any Black History Month is getting a reading list. More important than a reading list is knowing what people have thought of books or if they are planning to read any on a given list so:  Here is a list transcribed from Essential Black Authors to Read | The Daily Show. I'd love to know which people have read or are planning to read from this list or from any list on Black History Month.  STAMPED: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram Kendi and Jason Reynolds  M
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january 2021 bulletin

y'all, let's speak plainly: the last year has been fucking hard, and we know that a lot of our members are really struggling in a lot of ways. we've heard from many members that the overall empathy and support this community gives to each other has been a bright spot for a lot of people in this very difficult time, which we're very happy to hear. thanks for being part of it; we appreciate all of you, and we'll continue to work to improve our community to make sure that that's reflected in everyo
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december 2020 bulletin

we're very excited to announce the fairy princess's birthday party and some forum structure changes, and a special congratulations to our new smm (@frostmagemadi), our head students (@shadowysnowyfairy and @Renacerá), our oom (@ice fairy abhorsen.), and december's sotm (@aurevoir) and fic night (@RogueMidwinter) winners! if you're new, welcome to fft! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with, including a year-long house cup. we have a strong culture o
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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2020

Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2020 In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20th, here are some links recommended by the FFT staff. We are not experts on trans identity or community by any means, and present these resources in a shared effort to learn and move forward in allyship. We welcome input from members, and transgender and gender non-conforming members in particular.  Say Their Names Click here for a list of all the transgender people murdered in the Unite
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Rep Matters: Indigenous Creators

Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee - USA) The Round House by Louise Erdrich ( Anishinaabe/Ojibwe - USA) A Girl Called Echo series by Katherena Vermette (Métis - Canada) and Scott B. Henderson (illustrator) This Place: 150 Years Retold (various tribes - Canada) Trickster: Native American Tales, a Graphic Collection (various tribes - USA) The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Métis - Canada) If I Go Missing by Brianna Jonnie (Ojibwe - C
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november 2020 bulletin

welcome to november's bulletin!   if you're new, welcome to fft! it's great to have you with us. we're a multi-fandom forum + archive with, including a year-long house cup. we have 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. a quick rundown to help you get started here on the forums: please post in the 'welcome to fft' topic +here to say
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