Hi everyone! We just wanted to take a minute to announce that DA Poly Exchange is returning for 2023!
▸ Nominations Open: August 27, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
▸ Nominations Close: September 9, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
▸ Sign-Ups Open: September 10, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
▸ Sign-Ups Close: September 24, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
▸ Assignments Out By September 26, 2023 8:00 PM EDT
▸ Works Due: November 5, 2023 12:00 PM EST
▸ Works Revealed: November 12, 2023 12:00 PM EST
▸ Creators Revealed: November 19, 2023 12:00 PM EST
The pinned post has been updated with these dates. We're still working on our website update and will let you know when that's complete and what changes there have been to rules and sign-ups.
Words: 6008
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Zevran Arainai/Josephine Montilyet/Adorno Ciel Otranto, Zevran Arainai/Josephine Montilyet, Zevran Arainai/Adorno Ciel Otranto, Josephine Montilyet/Adorno Ciel Otranto
Additional Tags: Polyamory Negotiations, Polyamory, Matchmaking, Romance, Holding Hands, Antiva (Dragon Age), Antiva City (Dragon Age), Divine Leliana (Dragon Age), Falling In Love, POV Third Person Limited, Past Tense, Dragon Age Poly Exchange, Dragon Age Poly Exchange 2023
Summary: Divine Justinia has hired an old friend for an extremely important job: ensuring that Josephine Montilyet is happy in her arranged marriage. However, his mission doesn't go exactly as planned.
You have one full week left to finish or edit your sign-ups! Sign-ups will close September 24, 2023 12:00 PM EDT.
SIGN-UP FORM HERE
An Important Note
We've received two emails about this and realized we forgot to mention it for this exchange (though we mentioned it during our exchange @arlathanxchange): there is a bug on AO3 which impacts editing your sign-ups. We've edited the Tutorials: How to Sign-Up to include the warning below.
Be very careful if you edit your sign-ups. During an exchange last year we noticed a bug where more "Additional Tags" can be selected on Requests when someone is editing. For example, Fanart may be added to your request, even though you have only requested Fanfic. Please review your requests and offers very carefully after you edit.
Questions?
Check out the pages below or feel free to contact us!
The DA Poly Website has been fully updated for 2023, and boy were there a lot of updates to be made. Please read through the changes below the cut and let us know if you have any questions. Also don't forget:
Nominations open in just over a month!
Changes
Communications
After a lot of thought and consideration, we've decided to shut down the exchange twitter. We're sorry for those of you who use that as your main source of news, but the platform has become openly hostile to small projects and creators and it's going to be impossible for us to post there and ensure you actually see our updates. Instead, you can follow our announcements in the following ways:
Our Website
We have added a blog to our website which will have an archive of all of our posts from today onward. You can follow the blog in your RSS reader of choice! (Have no idea what RSS is? I highly recommend the in depth blog RSS for Post-Twitter News and Web Monitoring, but you can also find a more bite-sized intro on mod enigmalea's website here.)
Tumblr
Our tumblr will continue to host announcements and information about the exchange and will continue to host Poly Sharing (the new name for the former DA Polyshipping Day/Week).
Mod enigmalea's Mastodon
If you're on Mastodon, enigmalea will be posting updates there. If you'd rather not follow them directly, you can also follow the dragon age chirp.social and gup.pe groups and see the updates that way!
The Hanged Man Dreamwidth & The Hanged Man Pillowfort
If you have an account on Dreamwidth or Pillowfort, we'll be sharing updates in The Hanged Man communities on those sites!
Fandom Calendar Dreamwidth
We will be posting a schedule and reminder for each stage of the exchange on Fandom Calendar!
General
Polyshipping Week info was renamed to "Poly Sharing" and updated to reflect that we reblog DA poly content at any time!
Collections for the exchange will remain open at all times for additional treats. If you have a prompt you still want to write from any previous years, feel free to do so!
Website has been updated with all new info. The tumblr pinned post has all updated info, as well.
The AO3 collection now features a short version of the FAQ to save space. Please refer to the website for the in depth FAQ.
The countdown was removed from the tumblr layout. The website homepage still has a countdown!
The website was updated to show all deadlines in your local time.
Rules Updates
The rules have been updated to clarify that previously posted works cannot be added to the collection. An exception to this might be a transformational work of a work already in the collection (for example, if someone makes a podfic for a fic in the collection and doesn’t add it to the collection initially, it could be added later.)
The rules were also clarified to disallow works which are entirely AI generated. Our Exchange Info gives a more detailed explanation of what we mean.
Nominations
There have been no changes to nominations.
Sign-Ups
Sign-Ups require a minimum of 3 ships for requests and offers instead of one. We've received sign-ups with very limited requests and offers lately which makes producing a match very difficult.
Sign-Ups now allow for up a maximum of 60 ships requested and an unlimited number of ships offered. Please see Tutorials - How to Sign-Up for more details.
Your requests cannot consist of entirely ships which use a DNW to limit your creator to creating for only your OC. For at least one of the three ships you request you should be open to receiving any OC (generic, one created specifically for your gift, or your gifter's OC) or should be a ship which has no original characters. Creating for other people's OCs is complex and is not something that everyone is able or willing to tackle within the context of an exchange, so participants should be willing to be flexible for at least one request.
If you are requesting art of your OC we ask that you have more than one reference for both face and body. Otherwise, artists may have a difficult time filling your request.
Other Exchange Stuff
Last, but certainly not least, the mods will be posting a separate Treatless list this year. The link has not been added anywhere yet, but will be shortly after sign-ups close!
The treatless list has been fully updated. You can find our list of participants who have not yet received a treat in both places below:
Treatless List
AutoAO3App
Note: participants who have received a treat are marked with a "Treat Received" tag
Be sure to check out the full DA Polyshipping 2023 Collection, and leave our creators some kudos/comments.
Before Creator Reveals, participants (and onlookers) are encouraged to create rec lists, talk about their gifts, etc, just please be sure to not reveal your own work! If you post about the exchange on tumblr, tag us with @dapolyshipping, so we can reblog!
