Please don't break containment
Yes, we saw! Neil Gaiman posted about us!
That is going to make a LOT more people on Tumblr aware of the auction. The prospect of reading a wider swath of fandom is great, and we appreciate the good intentions in asking Mr. Gaiman to boost us.
That's on Tumblr. People following Neil Gaiman on Tumblr. Which is going to be mostly fandom people to start with.
Please do not contact celebrities or media creators about FTH on Twitter/X or any other social media.
Why? Don't we want all the publicity we can get?
Well, within fandom spaces, yes. The problem is that if we get too much attention outside of fandom spaces, that's going to attract trolls. People who think it's hilarious that anyone writes fic in the first place, people who look at some of our listings for explicit content and pass judgment, possibly people who are bigoted and just look at the fact that we have so many people offering queer ships and pass judgment.
That could result in abuse of our system and harassment of our creators and mods.
So please, please. Keep your FTH love within fandom spaces. Yes, there are fandom communities on other social media - that's why we have Twitter and Bluesky accounts! But there are also comparatively more non-fandom communities in those spaces as well, and a tweet that gets a celebrity's attention can spread so, so quickly to people whose attention we'd rather not have.
We super appreciate Mr. Gaiman's support for the amazing non-profits we feature, who are doing great work! And thank you to the greater FTH community for caring so passionately about our causes.
But our main priority — yes, even more important to us than raising money for good causes — is connecting and supporting the folks who are already participating. That’s all of you who are already here, and the fandom friends whom you recruit. And when someone very famous starts boosting us, there is the real potential for the scope of the auction to expand well beyond that circle of care very quickly.
