We Did It, Everyone! Thanks So Much To Everyone Who Contributed In Whatever Shape Or Form!!!

We did it, everyone! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed in whatever shape or form!!! <3

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: with much jazz-handsy excitement, we’re announcing the MTH final total!

Together, we raised:

The Marvel fandom rose up magnificently with an outpouring of generosity that impressed us all: 236 “Marvel”-ous creators came forward to offer 354 auctions. 💖🎉 Each and every one of you was instrumental to our success, and we appreciate your contributions so very much. We couldn’t have started this auction without you, and we discovered so many talented creators in the Marvel fandom through it!

We also owe our success to our wonderful bidders and signal boosters. There can’t be an auction without any bidders, and we had hundreds of you intent on winning the auctions you set your hearts on. And signal boosters, there’s no way we could have reached as many creators and bidders as we did without your help.

In addition to the astounding amount of money we were able to raise for charity, MTH was successful in other ways. We strove to be as inclusive as possible, determined to make this event a fandom-wide effort. Considering that the auctions covered over 242 platonic and romantic relationships (if we include “all ships/gen”-inclusive relationships, this number is even higher) in at least 23 fandoms across 19 universes within the Marvel multiverse, we can safely say that we accomplished our goal.

This spirit of inclusion also applies to our auctions and charities. Every single one of our 354 auctions was bid on, and every one of our 30 supported charities received donations. This is a tremendous achievement. We’re in awe of your commitment to supporting all our creators and charities and thrilled that you spread all the love around, bidders!

Here’s our breakdown of the donations (click to enlarge the image):

We also listed the amount raised per charity on our List of Organizations page.

We’re so touched by the massive number of people who donated above and beyond their pledged amount, creators who took on multiple auctions and offered up multiple winner slots, and bidders who accepted their second-place wins with such eagerness! We were extremely happy and proud of our initial projected sum, but were overcome with emotions as donation after donation came in and the total kept growing. It was remarkable and we often found ourselves at a loss for words (we had to resort to many crying and heart emojis, keyboard bashing, and variations of “omgggggg” in our mod chat).

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for helping us turn our first Marvel Trumps Hate auction into such an incredible experience. We cherish every single message of love and support that we received, and continue to receive, on our Discord server and through DMs, Tumblr messages, emails, Twitter threads, etc. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!

To remember or learn why we created this auction in the first place, please check out our “thank you” post to all of our creators, bidders, signal boosters, and supporters.

If you’d like to keep up-to-date with all of the 2018 Marvel Trumps Hate fills, follow us and/or check out our “mth 2018” tag on our Tumblr. You’ll also be able to find works posted on AO3 in our Marvel Trumps Hate collection and links to fills in our Discord server, which you can join to brainstorm prompts, chat about fills, and find out about other fandom events.

Thank you once again to everyone who volunteered their services, time, money, and platforms to spread the word.

We can’t wait to see all of your fanworks over the next year!

Lots of love, Your 2018 MTH mods

Tony had become somewhat known for rescuing other mers when they had been captured by humans. Still, when he was approached by a scrawny blond who asked him to save Bucky, he didn’t expect this.

A merpeople fic for the @tonystarkbingo and WinterIron Bingo Adventure. I have also used Azalea’s Dolls Mermaid Scene Maker to give a general idea of how everyone looks after the read-more:

Tony and Bucky

Steve and Natasha

Wanda and Pietro

Pepper and Rhodey

i can’t stop thinking about how overwhelmingly, unnecessarily cruel “iron man: yes. tony stark: not recommended” actually was

tony’s childhood was defined by not being good enough for howard, and canon implies that he spent a lot of it being compared unfavourably to steve rogers (not steve’s fault, but that doesn’t diminish the scars left on tony): “that’s the guy my dad never shut up about?”. “he never told me he loved me, he never even told me he liked me. so it’s a little tough for me to digest when you’re telling me he said the whole future was riding on me”. “god i hated you”

then in iron man 2 tony finds out that howard was a founder of shield. that’s a significant part of his father’s life that tony was just… never told about. he didn’t even know shield existed until iron man 1. why tony never knew is never explained, personally i think peggy and maria put their foot down and said tony wasn’t to be involved for his own protection, but we simply don’t know. tony doesn’t know either, but i can hazard a damn good guess at what he’s assumed. the most logical conclusion, to tony, is that this is yet another thing howard didn’t think he was good enough for, yet another way he let howard down. so the avenger initiative is a way for tony to work with shield and prove howard wrong (and i do think howard’s involvement was the reason tony went from “i don’t want to join your super secret boyband” to “how can you approve me but not approve me?” in the same way peggy was what sold steve on shield)

but there’s more! a big theme of iron man 2 is LEGACY. tony is super focused on what he will leave behind after he dies, and, by extension, what howard leaves behind. tony explicitly states that the stark expo is about legacy, moments before he metaphorically brings his dad back from the dead to address the audience via a recording. then tony finds out about a huge part of howard’s legacy that he wasn’t (in his interpretation) deemed fit enough to participate in, at the same time as he sees the “what is, and always will be, my greatest creation, is you” video. setting aside how dehumanising being referred to as a creation is, and the fact that in that video howard still doesn’t manage to tell tony he loves him, those two conflicting messages must be super painful and confusing

“my greatest creation is you” also highlights that the only approval tony ever got from howard was because of his intelligence. fury tells tony that howard believed he would finish what he started and it’s all about tony’s brain, not the heart that truly defines him. the things tony builds are the only part of him howard ever appeared to value

so shield is howard’s legacy, and tony is howard’s legacy, and after the events of the film tony is ready to bring those two sides of his father’s accomplishments together. and then shield, this representation of everything howard did that tony wasn’t enough for, turns around and says “iron man: yes. tony stark: not recommended”. that’s an outright rejection of tony the man in favour of tony the machine, from something that is practically his father’s ghost, yet again. it’s a reaffirmation of every negative thing howard ever said about tony, everything tony believes about himself

and that, kids, is why “iron man: yes. tony stark: not recommended” is unfathomably cruel, and i continue to be incredibly salty at shield

Five times someone wanted to take/tried to take/took revenge on Tony, and one time someone took revenge for Tony.

A 5+1 in Rhodey’s POV for my @tonystarkbingo square S2 - Revenge, which means I got a full bingo!!! I hope you enjoy reading it!

For now, I will be logging off Tumblr for the 17th, but I hope to see you again after.

Thank you so much ^_^ I’m planning on having Ch2 out Saturday and Ch3 on Tuesday, I’m hoping you will love those as well!

There were moments where Bucky wondered what could have made Iron Man, possibly his best friend here in the future, sarcastic and gentle and funny and caring, hate Tony Stark so much. Moments where he wondered what Tony Stark, who could manage to be kind and generous to the assassin who had murdered his parents, could have done to Iron Man. But he never dared to ask, afraid of the answer. 

The first chapter of my final fill for this round of @tonystarkbingo, square T2 - Armor Kink (which I interpreted… fairly freely xD).