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

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faq

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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Rep Matters

Pride Book Recommendations

🌈 hello and welcome to another blog!   we're devoting this blog to giving you a few book recommendation as it is pride month! 🌈 let's get into some fabulous stories!     The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin by Alison Goodman  I'm recently obsessed with the Regency-era Ill-Mannered Ladies series by Alison Goodman. The protagonists, Lady Augusta and Lady Julia Colebrook, are wealthy spinster twins who -- in the first book, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Manne
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challenge winners

Winter Writing Challenge Results

HELLO AND WELCOME! ❄️💙 We've been very pleased recently to finish off holding our annual review and awards season however last year the events staff hosted a 'winter' writing challenge. we are pleased to finally bring you the results from that, a little later than planned but we're finally here! the challenge was simple - write a winter themed one-shot below 3500 words. we were very pleased to receive two brilliant entries for this challenge. thank you so much for the author
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awards

The Golden Ink Awards Results 2025

💻✨Welcome to the 2025 Golden Ink Awards ✨💻 As always, we first want to give a huge shoutout to this amazing community who makes these awards possible every year. Thank you for taking the time to read, review, nominate, and vote for your favorite stories. We are who we are today because of you and your stories. It's great to see so much love spread out through a variety of fandoms, ships, and genres this year. And now, without further ado... THE RESULTS!  Best Description
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Rumpelstiltskin's Dark Forest Reviewing Results

🧚‍♀️✨Hello!✨🧝‍♂️ to be begin with, thank you so much to everyone who was involved in this event. it's always such a pleasure to host events for this community and so great to see people getting stuck into the event. It means a lot to the event team that people are engaged with it and importantly had fun doing it.  it's my honor to provide this wrap up blog to celebrate everyone's contribution! we had two fabulous team that come up against the tricky forest. pixies - @GotNoJam
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inkys blogs

Days That End in Y by RonsGirlFriday.

I'm a bit late posting this because I got distracted this week, but here it is - I'm blogging about another of this year's Golden Ink award winners: Mel calls this a collection of drabbles or flash fiction, but each seems more substantial than that to me.  I’d say they’re more vignettes, but then I have an ancient vocabulary making me nearly incomprehensible to modern readers so there you have it.  Whatever the hell you call Days That End in Y, the collection taken as a whole is surely a sp
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pink porcelain, by Aphoride

We’re back to celebrate another Golden Ink Winner 🪄✨ Congratulations to @Aphoride for winning BEST DESCRIPTION with pink porcelain!! 🍵 picspam by @Darling_take_off_the_mask Following The Untamed fandom, pink porcelain reveals the relationship between Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan, from their most significant moments to the least significant. With Laura’s writing, you don’t need to be familiar with the fandom at all. All you need to know is that it’s two people, falling in and out
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by blood, by blackballet

(picspam by me!)   2024 Inky Winner - Best Dialogue by blood, by blackballet by blood by blackballet... Try saying that three times fast! The actual dialogue of by blood rolls off the tongue much more naturally, and that's what we're here to cheer about. It's hardly surprising - @blackballet is a fantastic wordsmith, and it seems like I manage to find some remarkable turn of phrase in every single chapter. And Cat's writing style demonstrates how well she grasps that the
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events

No Tricks, Just Treats: Halloween Tag Results

No Tricks, Just Treats: Halloween Tag 2024 After a successful round of review tag festivities, I thought it would be fun to share some statistics and announce the winner in a blog post. I hope everyone had a great October and Halloween if you celebrate  In total, 41 new reviews were left for our authors, all of which were left on AO3. Including staff, we had 8 participants, and everyone spread the love and reviewed 29 different stories. Well done, everyone Without further
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featured

Friends Don't by GotNoJamsss

We’re back to celebrate another Golden Ink Winner Spotlight 🪄✨ Congratulations to @GotNoJamsss for winning BEST ONE-SHOT with Friends Don’t!! picspam by @ineffable_season This one-shot belongs to Jacquelin’s Call It What You Want To series. Beautifully written with chemistry that sparks from the very first scene, it follows Lily and Scorpius, and one of the many nights they spend hanging out together. Not only have they been friends themselves, but Scorpius is Albus’ best fr
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Lying Josephine by writeyourheartout

We’re back to celebrate a very special story! ✨   A deserving winner of two categories in last years inkys:   Best Angst & Best Supporting Character ✒️✨   Lying Josephine is an exciting project that @WriteYourHeartOut has picked up again last year with the aim of finishing it for her husband and the original fanboy, Fin. While the project still has a bit to add, we’ve been thrilled by the new additions to this beautiful long term project.  What are th
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featured

How To Retire in Regency England: A Handbook by Pixileanin

Welcome to another installment of our ✨ Golden Ink Award ✨ winner blog posts! It is my honor to shed some light on our winner for Best Supporting Character AND Best Long Form Story! Congratulations to @Pixileanin for creating an absolutely gripping story with an exceptional side character in How to Retire in Regency England: A Handbook. We’re so pleased to give this story as well as the supporting character, Daniel Knapp, the recognition they both deserve! [picspam by ineffable_s
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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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events

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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awards

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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awards

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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