Innovative solution to the poly problem of which of many Thanksgivings to attend:
Everyone attends only their own family's dinner, everyone brings back leftovers, and together you create another Thanksgiving meal the next day by pooling this new resource.
Pros:
They don't have to meet your shitty family
You don't have to meet their shitty families
Still introduce your partner(s) to your favorite traditional dish (via leftovers)
Free dinner party with the whole polycule
Don't have to out yourself or dance around who you're dating if you don't bring anyone!
No partner is omitted! You're treating them all exactly the same
Cons:
in the rare case your family is actually amazing, this may not be the best plan for you and you may actually want your partner(s) to meet your family
This is why every polycule should have at least one thaumaturge, someone with lightning resistance, or someone wit enough metal implants to act as a lightning rod (thank you for taking one for the team).
The Polyamships discord server (invite here) is happy to invite you to Polyartober. Inspired by Inktober, but for polyamory, Polyartober brings you 31 daily prompts (+ 10 alt prompts) for October to get you in the creative flow to make more art.
Polyartober rules
1) Make a drawing* of your polyam ship (it doesn’t have to be in ink. Stick figures welcome. Not all characters have to be in the drawing, but the subject of the drawing must be polyam in nature)
2) Post it**
3) Hashtag it with #polyartober and #polyartober24. You can also mention us @polyamships to make sure we see it.
4) Repeat
*So you want to write instead of draw? We created this event focused on artists, but if you feel inspired, please go ahead and create something else: writing, gifs, moodboards, meta, etc. The most important rule is to make it polyam and have fun!
**Please post your work mentioning the fandom and characters somewhere in the post so we can tag it appropriately. Use the character’s name as it appears in canon (this may mean Lastname Firstname for some fandoms) - if they only have a 1 word name please put the fandom in brackets after it e.g. Parker (Leverage).
Feel free to combine this event with any other events that allow it such as whumptober, lyrical titles bingo, ficathons, etc. for an extra challenge.
Please note that since we’ll be running this month-long event, there won’t be a PolyamShippingDay prompt on the 14th October. We’ll be back in November with our regular PSD posting :)
Now we're also on X/Twitter @ polyamships
List of prompts in plain text under the cut.
Prompts
Lovers
Birthday
Dungeon
Bed
Date
Game
Wound
Morning
Comic
Kiss
Shadow
Breakfast
Portrait
Fire
Tentacles
Shower/bath
Shotgunning
Black and White
Extra
Flowers
Luck
Knife
Water
Rope
Autumn
Road trip
Golden
Drinks
Marks
Angst
Costumes
Alt prompts
You don’t like one of the prompts? Feel free to use one of our Multiamory March prompts which you can find here.
You’ve already done all the Multiamory March prompts? Wow, you’re amazing! Here you have 10 extra prompts to get you going:
No one told me that you need to watch your plurals when you create a polycule.
My polycule had planned to buy tickets for an event and there was a crazy miscommunication. Allow me to set the stage.
I live with my nesting partner, let's call them A. I see them almost daily.
I have a close distance partner called C. I see them weekly.
I have a somewhat long distance partner called M. I see them monthly.
M's nesting partner is P.
We all consider the core "polycule" to be myself, C and M as we do the most activities together with A and P (and others) tagging along for specific activities or if they feel like it.
Initially I planned to buy all four tickets (A was busy and wasn't going to attend). I was stopped because P gets a military discount. I had assumed that with the discount P could buy both the tickets for that household (therefore purchasing M's ticket with discount). This was incorrect, the discount only applied to P's ticket and therefore only purchased one for themselves under the assumption I would get the rest.
So I messages back saying "okay, I'll buy ours now too" which I had said in reference to myself and C, who I was sitting next to at the time.
Weeks later we are a few days before the event and M asks if I have their ticket. I said no. There was a kerfuffle of panic because the even was sold out already, but we were able to find another ticket for M to attend and it was a blast.
In retrospect I realized that the use of "us", "we", and "you" (plural) and "you" (singular) are all very confusing. We've agreed to use more specific names next time to avoid the stress of that happening again.
It's just difficult since outside of a polycule, those terms are generally descriptive enough with context that folks know who you are talking about. When married mono couples say "we would like to go" or "our tickets" it's generally safe to assume they mean themselves.
Would love to know if other polycule encounter this and if you have unique solutions!
20 of my OG partners (11%) confirmed we're still dating 💙💖🖤 my beloveds 😍
2 of my OG partners (1%) broke up with me 😭😭😭What did I do??? Please, baby, give me another chance, I didn't mean it! 💔😞
3 people who were originally not dating me have started ❣️💌Hello, goregouses, welcome aboard!!!🥰 Glad you came to your senses 😉
5 of the people originally not dating me are still not dating me. I don't understand you people, because I'm perfect, but I respect you 🤝 Carry on
135 NEW people have started dating me!! 👋🥰 I got you all chocolates! 💝🍫 Does Monday work for our date?😚
32 NEW people aren't interested. Once again, I'm doing everything right, and you guys should get better taste. But also I'm just teasing, no disrespect. I'm glad we can still be tumblrinas together 🙂
This means that:
~88% of my original partners have not weighed in. Loves, where are you? Is everything okay? 🥺
Assuming no news is good news for those folks (I deserve at least a break up text!) 180-2+3+135=316
I also can't think of a creative way to complete the back of the card hehe. I still hope you will enjoy it!
I'm doing this for fun, so for other people to suggest any more lgbt uno card ideas, don't expect me to actually do it. I may do it, I may not, it really just depends on my mood, okay?
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