FAQs

Why can I only submit fancontent once a quarter but can submit inspiration posts at any time?

Maintaining a project like this is difficult. The mods of DA Polyshipping run several discord servers, exchanges and events, and produce their own fan content. As you can imagine that makes us very busy people.

We also like to make sure posts are tagged correctly and easy to find, particularly for fan content; the point of the event is to encourage people to create and consume polyshipping content, after all. Focusing on one week a quarter allows us to keep up with our many obligations, participate events ourselves, and make sure we can keep bringing you quality events and an organized blog. Inspiration posts are easier to tag/categorize and drop into the queue than fan content.

I thought I saw the open queue banner before 15th/the end banner after the 22nd. What gives?

You caught us.

Because we want as many people as possible to be able to particpate we schedule the queue open banner to post at midnight on the 15th in the earliest inhabited timezone on Earth. On the same token, we schedule the end banner to post at 11:59pm on the 22nd in the latest inhabited time zone on Earth.

It does mean that you get more than a week to post, but it also ensures that you don't have to worry about timezones at all. As long as you're posting during the week in your personal timezone, you're good!

Do I have to produce new content every quarter?!?!

Yes and no. All content that you drop in the tag or mention us on should be new to this blog when you submit it. What we mean is that we don't want you submitting in September the same thing you did in June.

However, you don't have to produce brand new content every quarter. Do you have a piece from several years go? Did you post new chapters of an ongoing fic? Did you devour several new fics you want to rec? Did you fall into polyshipping hell and create a new fanmix? You can definitely post or reblog any of these during the week and have them added to the queue.

If you're really busy but still want to participate, check out our llst of suggestions for people who don't have much time.

Can I submit someone else's content?

Sort of. If someone you follow who produces polyship content isn't participating, please let them know about us and invite them to participate. We'd rather content come directly from creators so that we know we have their consent to include their works!

However, you can always submit polyship commissions you've paid for (both fanart and fanfic), giveaways you've won, and gifts you've received. If your favorite polyship creators have gone inactive, have left the fandom, or don't post to tumblr, you can always create a fanfic or fanart rec list to recommend their work.

We also accept inspiration posts (asks, challenges, prompts) that are not your own original content, as long as they are made for polyships or general enough they could be used for a polyship. You can tags us or submit inspiration ships at any time, not just during DA Polyshipping Week!

Can I submit more than one post for the queue?

Please do! We want as much participation as we can get every quarter. So if you have multiple posts, feel free to submit all of them!

I posted, but I haven't seen you reblog my post! Did you ignore me?!

Definitely not intentionally. We queue up the posts after the queue closes on the 22nd. We post at least once a day as long as the queue has posts in it!

On the off-chance we did miss your post, we're very sorry. If we didn't get your post the first time, please reblog and mention us next quarter! We'd love to reblog your content.

You mislabeled/mistagged my (OC's gender/OC's last name/ship configuration/rating to my fic, etc).

First, we're very, very sorry. We do our best to try to figure out how to appropriately tag these things as we go. We use context clues, tags from AO3 links, tags on your post, etc, to figure out how to tag things. If you ever want us to update a tag for your post feel free to send us an ask, drop us a dm on twitter or send an email, and we'll fix it ASAP. It's never a bother to ask us for something to be tagged appropriately.

Thank you for your understanding!

I'm new to polyshipping. What's the difference between A/B and B/C and A/B/C?.

The simplest explanation is who's in love with/having sex with who. In A/B and B/C shipping B is involved with both A and C, but A and C aren't involved with each other. In A/B/C shipping everyone is together emotionally or physically or both.

An easier way to understand this is: Dorian Pavus/m!Trevelyan and m!Trevelyan/Cassandra are a positive representation of a polyship as long as everyone knows what's going on and is on board with the arrangement. Dorian and Cassandra may never have sex or be involved romantically, but this is still a valid polyship even without their interaction.

Meanwhile, in a Solas/f!Lavellan/Cullen Rutherford ship, all three parties are having a good time with one another. This could be a sex only threesome or a loving relationship between all three of them. Both interpretations are welcome for DA Polyshipping Week.

I don't have a tumblr. Can I still participate?

Absolutely! You can submit a post from twitter, AO3, DeviantArt, or other site directly to the blog even without a tumblr account.

To submit without an account, simply enter a name and email into the submission form. You can use a fandom handle or even "anon" if you do not want to provide a real name. If you do not want to provide an email feel free to use dapolyshipping@gmail.com or even a fake address. We do not use this address for anything and don't even see it.

Submitting Anonymously: click to enlarge

Someone submitted something to your blog that plagiarizes my fic/someone has stolen my art and submitted it to you!

We are very, very sorry this has happened to you. We do have a policy in place concerning plagiarism and art theft with some steps to take. Please take a moment to read our information On Art Theft.

We do strongly encourage you to try to work things out amicably with the other creator, but if it simply isn't possible we will remove the work which violates your intellectual property rights. We would also like to encourage you to submit your work yourself as long as it fits the scope of the blog.