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Creators Have Been Revealed!

Hi everyone!

The 2025 Holly Poly collection is no longer anonymous! Did you like what you got and want to check out everything your gift creator ever made? Now's the time!

Thank you for participating! Be on the lookout for our Feedback post in the future.

The archive is not being closed, so please feel free to post any additional treats that you may wish to create (this also applies to anyone who needs to post a treat for eligibility reasons.)

Remember to kudos/comment on your gift before April 2nd 2026 to thank your gifter! (Per our rules, this is a requirement to participate next year)

As always, if you have any questions or issues, please e-mail us at [email protected].

Collection: https://ao3.org/collections/holly_poly_2025 Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/25541 Tumblr:https://holly-poly.tumblr.com/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/holly_poly_ex Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/holly-poly.bsky.social Google Groups - Holly Poly Updates: https://groups.google.com/g/holly-poly-updates Google Groups - Holly Poly Pinchhits:https://groups.google.com/g/holly-poly-pinchhits

#holly poly 2025 #reveals #thanks everybody

The Archive is Live!

Hi everyone,

The collection is now live, fanworks are revealed! You should also receive e-mails with links to your gifts. If you have multiple gifts you may receive nested e-mails, so be sure to check your Gifts list on AO3 to make sure you don't miss anything.

The archive is open again, so please feel free to post any additional treats that you may wish to create (this also applies to anyone who needs to post a treat for eligibility reasons.)

Don't forget about our Pinch Hitter Treats post.

Remember to kudos/comment on your gift and thank your gifter within 2 months! (Per our rules, this is a requirement to participate next year)

As always, if you have any questions or issues, please e-mail us at [email protected].

#holly poly 2025

Post-Deadline Pinch Hit

We have the following Pinch Hit looking for a loving home. See below for general details. More specific information can be found by clicking the links. All previous Pinch Hit posts are no longer being updated.

All current pinch hits are due by 11:00 AM UTC on 1 February 2026.

This year, we will do a pinch hitter treats sign-up post, so that anyone creating a pinch hit fanwork who is not signed up for the main exchange is able to potentially get a treat made for them - you can check this post for more info. Before you ask for the pinch hit, please make sure to familiarise yourself with the exchanges rules, including fanwork minimums.

#holly poly 2025 #pinch hits #holly poly #fandom exchange #dead by daylight #borderlands #pocket monsters: black and white #pokemon black and white

Deadline Has Passed + Next Steps

The deadline has passed. We are currently in the process of checking for any Post Deadline Pinch Hits, which will be posted soon.

If you don't have a gift yet, don't panic! We are approving fanworks as fast as we can. Additionally, some people have been granted 48-hour extensions.

The collection has been reopened for treats and works that will be coming along post deadline. Check this post for more info on posting treats.

We'll be working hard reviewing and approving works during the following days. If your work has not been approved yet but you have not received an email from us, don't worry, we're still working on the queue.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to leave a comment on the Dreamwidth post. Comments are NOT screened but Anon is available. You can also reach us at [email protected]

#holly poly #holly poly 2025 #deadline

The Deadline Approaches!

This is a reminder that the deadline for posting your assignment is 11:00am UTC on 25 January 2026, which is less than a day away. Please click here to see a countdown.

Please remember that we're only allowing extensions of 48 hours as standard. If you'll need one, send an e-mail to [email protected] before the deadline gets here.

We have two outstanding Pinch Hits that we really need a creator for so reveals can move forward as planned. Check out the latest Pinch Hit post to see them.

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Still Outstanding and New Pinch Hits

We currently have 6 Pinch Hits looking for a loving home. See below for general details. More specific information can be found by clicking the links.

All current pinch hits are due by 11:00 AM UTC on 25 January 2026.

This year, we will do a pinch hitter treats sign-up post, so that anyone creating a pinch hit fanwork who is not signed up for the main exchange is able to potentially get a treat made for them - you can check this post for more info. Before you start your assignment, please make sure to familiarise yourself with the exchanges rules, including fanwork minimums.

New and Outstanding Pinch Hits

We have four Pinch Hits in need of a home. See below for general details. More specific information can be found by clicking the links.

All current pinch hits are due by 11:00 AM UTC on 25 January 2026.

This year, we will do a pinch hitter treats sign-up post, so that anyone creating a pinch hit fanwork who is not signed up for the main exchange is able to potentially get a treat made for them - you can check this post for more info. Before you start your assignment, please make sure to familiarise yourself with the exchanges rules, including fanwork minimums.

Initial Pinch Hits Are Out!

We had eight initial pinch hits this year, and all of them were sent out to the pinch hit google group yesterday. A couple of them were quickly claimed over there, but we have a few left in need of claiming. See below for general details. More specific information can be found by clicking the links.

This year, we have a pinch hitter treats sign-up post, so that anyone creating a pinch hit fanwork who is not signed up for the main exchange is able to potentially get a treat made for them - you can check this post for more info. Before you start on a pinch hit, please make sure to familiarise yourself with the exchanges rules, including fanwork minimums.

Assignments are out!

Assignments are out! You should have received your assignment already, if not do let us know at the Dreamwidth post or through e-mail. Countdown timer links for both the default deadline and the fanworks due deadline have also been added to our schedule post and the collection profile now, so that you can keep track of when they are in your time zone. There are seven initial pinch hits that we'll be sending out within the next day. They will be posted first to the Google Group for pinch hits and any not claimed over there will then be posted here/to our other socials. We'll also be putting up the Pinch Hitters Treats post soon as well, so keep a look out for that if you claim a pinch hit or if you might be interested in treating any of our pinch hitters. If there's any issue with your assignment, or if you have any queries for us to pass onto your recipient, please send us an e-mail at [email protected] ASAP so that we can try to get it resolved.

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Sign-ups have closed.

Time got away from us there, so this is a delayed notification, but sign-ups have closed and matching is underway for Holly Polly 2025. You will hopefully be receiving your assignments soon.

If you didn't make it in time, because time got away from you, too, stay tuned for later posts - there's a good chance we'll need pinch hitters, and that's a great way of getting in on the Holly Poly action!

#holly poly #holly poly 2025 #signups

Sign-ups for Holly Poly 2025 are live!

The nominations are now all processed (final count: 401 fandoms and 2208 ships in the tagset) and signups are now open. They will remain so until 11:00am UTC on 26 November. You can see when the deadline is for your timezone at this countdown timer link.

If you nominated ships under Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena or Disney - All Media Types (for crossover Disney ships) - please contact us to let us know what you nominated as those fandoms are showing up empty and we think the nominations have been lost.

The sign-up form is here. If you have any difficulties, let us know by commenting on this post or sending an e-mail to [email protected]. Please make sure to familiarise yourself with the updated rules and the minimums for each type of fanwork, as well as reading through this post - you can find the rules over here.

As a reminder: - You can request/offer 3-10 fandoms - You can request/offer 1-20 relationships per fandom - If you would like to request/offer any nominated relationship from a fandom, tick the "Any" box - Make certain to choose which medium or mediums you are willing to create for each fandom

We'd like to ask you to check the tagset in its entirety before asking us about a fandom, as some fandoms have been renamed for disambiguation purposes. You can more easily search the tagset using the Auto AO3 App link here. Please remember that Any really does mean any. Do not request or offer Any unless you mean it. Any does not mean "any relationships except for these certain ones" or "any relationships involving this character" or "this relationship that I really like but forgot to nominate." It means any relationship whatsoever that was nominated under that fandom and is currently listed in the tag set.

It is fine to include prompts asking that a fourth/fifth/sixth/etc. character be added to the relationship you've requested but this must be included in the optional details of your request, not just in a linked creator letter. (For example, if you requested Eleventh Doctor/Amy Pond/Rory Williams, you can include a prompt along the lines of: "... and if you want to have Jack Harkness join in, that's fine with me!") As with everything included in the Optional Details box or Dear Creator letter, though, please note that any such request is optional. Your creator is only required to create a fanwork for the specific relationship that you matched on.

Under the Requests section of the sign-up, there is a field to put a link to a Dear Creator letter if you have written one - it can be a placeholder link during signups but it should be filled out by the time assignments go out, and please make sure it's publicly accessible so your assignee can see it. There is also a box for Optional Details where you can put Do Not Wants, prompts, and various other details. While the optional details section of signups is optional, it is strongly suggested that participants include DNWs, which can be used to also provide guidance if the canon has some important bits you don't want mentioned. Any DNWs or triggers included in the signup itself will be enforced by the mods as long as they are reasonable (ie, something that the mods can easily look for and that isn't extremely subjective). Please do not put Do Not Wants behind html cuts in your signup, they should be clearly visible without needing to click on anything to ensure no one can miss them.

A note on requesting All Media Types fandoms: All Media Types really means All Media Types: any version of the characters will be considered as fulfillment of the prompt. Please consider this in your sign up and add a note in the Optional Details box much like any other request. Note that any such request is optional. Your creator is only required to create a fanwork for the specific relationship that you matched on.

Any DNWs listed in letters but not the signup itself, as well as any general likes/dislikes/prompts/etc. listed in the signup or in letters, are optional for the creator.

Anyone requesting vids or other visual media is encouraged to list any accessibility requirements they have in their sign-up alongside other DNWs, such as no flashing lights, no fast-moving cuts, no high contrast, no songs by [insert artist here], etc. Please try to at least provide details about general music that you like/dislike as well if you request either vids or fanmixes. Providing aesthetic preferences for visual fanworks (including face claims if applicable for the fandom) is encouraged too, to give the person creating for you an idea of what you like.

For anyone requesting podfics, please indicate whether or not you'd like your own fanworks podficced and gifted to you. If possible, try to provide more information about your likes/dislikes as well so that the person creating a podfic for you can try to make sure the fic they're recording is one that you will enjoy.

When you submit your sign-up, there is also an Optional Details box located under the Offers section. If there is any specific topic, or rating, that is a strong DNW or trigger for you and you don't want to receive an assignment that mentions said topic even as an optional prompt, please provide details in that box. We will do our best to accommodate such requests when doing matching but cannot make any promises. You are also welcome to send an e-mail to the above address, if you prefer.

Participants will be matched on fandom, relationship, and medium (fanart, fanfic, fanvid, podfic). Please note that you only need to create a fanwork for one of the relationships requested; if you match on more than one, it is your decision which one (or ones) to choose.

#holly poly #holly poly 2025 #sign ups #fandom event #fandom exchange #poly ships #polycule #ot3 #ot4 #polyam shipping #polyam events #sedoretu #multifandom event

Clarifications Post #2

This is our second and hopefully final clarifications post for this year. We're still awaiting replies for a number of fandoms in our first clarifications post here. All other nominations have been processed bar 1 other fandom awaiting approval, so if you see any issues with your nominations, please let us know.

If we haven't heard anything about these nominations by 11:00AM GMT November 14th, they will be either corrected based on our best guess or rejected and signups will open as scheduled.

All comments for the Dreamwidth post are set to screened, meaning only the mods will be able to see them. You can also e-mail us at [email protected] if you prefer.

Fandoms for this post:

Marvel (Comics) Star Trek: Classic Timeline

#holly poly #holly poly 2025 #nominations #clarifications #marvel comics #star trek voyager

Nominations are Closed!

Nominations are now closed and we're entering the nominations clean-up stage, which is where we finish processing any nominations left and check the tagset for errors before we open sign-ups. If your nominations aren't yet approved, they are either awaiting clarification if we've mentioned them in our first clarification post or will be checked by us within the next couple of days. If there are any issues with how your nominations were processed, please let us know.

Check the previous post for the clarifications we have so far that need answering. Make sure your nomination goes through.

#holly poly #holly poly 2025 #nominations

Nominations Are Closing + Clarifications Sought!

Less than 11 hours left to submit your nominations for this year's Holly Poly - see our countdown link. We currently only have 20 fandoms left to approve though we expect more to come in still. Out of those left to approve, we have a number of nominations we need clarification for.

If we haven't heard anything about these nominations by 11:00AM GMT November 14th, they will be either corrected based on our best guess or rejected and signups will open as scheduled.

All comments for the Dreamwidth post are set to screened, meaning only the mods will be able to see them. You can also e-mail us at [email protected] if you prefer.

Fandoms for this post:

Danny Phantom x DC DCU DCU x Marvel Fate/Grand Order Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie LIS: True Colors Life is Strange 2 Marvel Original Work Very Good - Block B (Music Video)

#holly poly 2025 #nominations #clarification #Danny Phantom x DC #DCU #DCU x Marvel #Fate/Grand Order #Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie #LIS: True Colors #Life is Strange 2 #Marvel #Original Work #Very Good - Block B (Music Video)

Holly Poly Nominations are Live!

Nominations are open, and they'll stay open through 11:00am UTC on 8 November - you can see a countdown timer at this link. You're allowed to nominate up to 10 fandoms, with up to 10 relationships per fandom. This year we have imported a subset of the tagsets from Holly Poly 2023 and 2024 via our pre-nominations phase to try and reduce the workload for us mods - please make sure to check the tagset before you nominate a ship to see if it is already included in the tagset. We recommend expanding all tagset categories before searching the page for any ships since some fandoms may not be in the section you expect due to us using slightly different fandom tags in some cases.

The tag set is located here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/25541

You can also view this year's tagset on AO3 Automagic app at the link below to more easily search for ships included in it already, but it needs a re-scrape requested periodically to ensure it's up to date: https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/holly_poly_2025/tagset

In order to nominate a relationship, simply click the Nominate button located in the top right-hand corner of the tag set. If you do not have an account on the AO3, please let us know, and we should be able to get you an invite. On a similar note, if you have any questions, or if you're nominating something that you think might be confusing, please either post a comment to the post on Dreamwidth or send an e-mail to [email protected] if you'd rather keep it private.

For relationships that do not already have canonical tags, please nominate them in alphabetical order by last name (and, if they don't have a last name or multiple characters share a last name, then by first name). For example: Anders/Fenris/Bethany Hawke/Carver Hawke/Isabela/Merrill/Varric Tethras/Aveline Vallen, or Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast, or Sirius Black/Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks.

Please don't panic if we add some type of disambiguation to relationships that you nominate. Especially for ones where the same characters fall under different fandoms (various comic fandoms, movie/TV show vs. book fandoms, etc.), as doing so helps keeps tags from wandering to fandoms where they don't belong.

This is an exchange for romantic and/or sexual relationships, not friendships, so make certain to nominate relationships that use a "/" rather than a "&". If you want to request that a relationship be asexual/queerplatonic/etc., then that's something to include in your optional details when signing up.

Please make sure to read through the extra information below as some fandom disambiguations have changed from previous years. In general, when nominating a fandom or ship consider whether there are multiple sources/versions of either the canon or any of the characters and how to nominate in a way that makes it clearest which version you want. Please also keep an eye on the community during both the nominations period and the nominations clean-up period in case we post any clarifying questions about your nominations.

Here are some specific instructions about various fandoms that you could nominate:

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Pre-Nominations for Holly Poly 2025 are going on right now!

Every year new fandoms and relationships get nominated to Holly Poly. We're happy to see the event grow and reach new audiences, however, we also need to keep the tagset a reasonable size to avoid issues at a future time, which is why we will not be importing all of the 2024 tagset for the 2025 exchange. For this reason, we also ask that you consider if the fandom/relationships you're transferring are some that you are serious about requesting or offering for this year's exchange.

Remember that we will also have our regular nominations period, where you will be able to nominate up to 10 fandoms with 10 relationships each. If you only have a handful of fandoms/relationships to nominate and are confident about nominating through AO3, you can wait for our regular nominations period if you want to.

Since the format of nominations is not changing, we'll be transferring fandoms/relationship tags from last year's tagset to this year's tagset upon request. This year, we are also allowing importing of fandoms/relationship tags from the 2023 tagset as well, but we require you mention if the tags are from that tagset since they need additional checking by us in case any fandoms/disambiguation has changed since 2023.

There are limits on what you can transfer:

Each person can only request 10 fandoms be transferred. If you need more fandoms than that for some reason, please use the regular nominations process to nominate everything else. (If posting anon, please sign with a consistent name/pseud/emoji!)

For fandoms with 19 or fewer relationship tags, we will transfer all relationship tags. Use the instructions under "Full Fandoms" .

For fandoms with 20+ relationship tags, you can only ask for 20 relationships to be transferred. Use the instructions under "Specific Tags From Fandoms" below.

Note that the transferring process will only work for tags that were in the last two year's tagsets and will only transfer those tags exactly as they appear in our spreadsheets for that year's tagset data.

Fandom Name Changes

If there have been changes to your fandoms that could change the fandom tag, now is a good time to let us know about them. This is especially true if a fandom nominated separately last year is in danger of combining into a larger fandom this year.

For example: One Piece (Anime & Manga) and One Piece (Live Action TV 2023) Pride and Prejudice (TV 1995) and Pride and Prejudice (2005) Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock (TV)

Tagsets Spreadsheets of fandoms and relationships in batch load format: 2023 Tagset 2024 Tagset

Please check your nominations have been transferred correctly after we confirm (allow for 48 hours before asking about your nominations). If you see any issues in the 2024 tagset (such as not seeing your transferred fandoms or relationships cut short), let us know immediately.

For Full Fandoms (19 or fewer relationship tags)

Please reply to the Dreamwidth post with your list with each fandom on a new line. Fandoms must be exactly as they appear in the tagset spreadsheet.

For Specific Tags From Fandoms (20+ relationship tags)

Please reply to the Dreamwidth post with your fandom and the tags you want transferred in batch load format (Fandom,Relationship), with each relationship on a new line. All tags must be exactly as they appear in the tagset spreadsheet.

Check the first comment on the Dreamwidth post for an example on how the transfer must look like.

If you have any questions about the process, please leave a comment on the announcement post (link).

You have until 11am UTC on October 26 to get your requests in. (How much time is left?)

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Holly Poly 2025 Schedule Is Up

Holly Poly is, as the name implies, an exchange for polyamorous relationships. OT3s, OT4s, OT6s, orgies, open relationships, sedoretus, whatever strikes your fancy, as long as it involves three or more entities.

Participants are able to offer and request fanart, fanfiction, fanvids, podfic, fanmixes, gifsets, or aesthetics/moodboards.

Schedule

All times are 11:00am UTC, save for golive which will depend on when final pinch hits are posted.

20-26 October: Pre-nominations (Period to transfer nominations from the last two year’s tagsets into this tagset) - countdown timer link will be added once the pre-noms post is up later today 26 October-08: November: Nominations 08-14 November: Nominations clean up 14-26 November: Signups 30 November: Assignments out by this date 18 January: Default deadline 25 January: Fanworks are due 01 February: The archive goes live (as soon as everyone has a gift) 08 February: Creators revealed

You can read the updated rules over on Dreamwidth.

We understand that life gets in the way sometimes. If you realize you will not be able to finish your assignment, please default as soon as possible.

For extensions, 48 hours is the maximum that will be granted. You're free to still finish your assignment if you need more than 48 hours; however, if you ask for a longer extension or you don't post your fanwork by the extension deadline, then the request will be sent out as a pinch hit. There will be no exceptions to this rule.

Please note that if you defaulted two years in a row, defaulted after the default deadline and didn't write a treat afterwards, didn't submit your work by the due date without any warning, submitted an unfinished work, or deleted your already-completed assignment, you're banned from participating in this year's Holly Poly.

The FAQs for this year's exchange have been posted. Please read over it carefully as some things have changed from past years. Please let us know if anything is unclear. And, as always, leave a comment below if you have any questions.

Collection: https://ao3.org/collections/holly_poly_2025 Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/25541 Tumblr: https://holly-poly.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/holly_poly_ex Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/holly-poly.bsky.social Google Groups - Holly Poly Updates: https://groups.google.com/g/holly-poly-updates Google Groups - Holly Poly Pinchhits: https://groups.google.com/g/holly-poly-pinchhits

We also have a graphic for you to use and post around your socials to get people interested in the exchange.

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