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General

Poly Sharing began as an event heavily inspired by the original Pan-Fandom Polyshipping Day which has gone inactive. It began as a one-day monthly event in 2021, then was updated in 2022 to a quarterly week long event and now is a year round celebration of positive portrayals of polyamory in the Dragon Age fandom occurring on tumblr. Dragon Age fancreators are encouraged to tag @dapolyshipping throughout the year to have us share your poly content on the blog.

We welcome all fan content featuring often neglected polyships as long as the ships are from Dragon Age. All forms of polyships are acceptable: non-mutual (A/B, B/C, but not A/C), OT3s, polycules, non-adulterous open relationships; they can be platonic, queer, asexual, or straight. Your content can be of any rating. Our only restriction is that it should be healthy, positive, and consensual (more info on that below).

Content submitted should be new to the blog (but can be previously created content) and should feature healthy and positive polyamory. All of the content submitted queued to post using tumblr's queue feature.

@dapolyshipping also accepts inspiration posts. Inspiration posts do not have to be your own content and can be anything from prompts, challenges, ask memes, or more! We ask that inspiration posts clearly be for polyships or be easily adaptable to a polyship; for example, a prompt that says "imagine your ship" would work, while an art post challenge featuring only two characters would not.

What do you mean by healthy polyamory?​

In short, we're using the same concept here as we do for our exchange. We try not to make this difficult, and we use the broadest senses of "healthy" and "polyamory" possible.

polyamory
the practice of engaging in multiple romantic (and typically sexual) relationships, with the consent of all the people involved

Basics​

  • at least three (3) people involved
  • consent - all parties involved must be willing participants. simply put that means no cheating, no coercion or forced relationships or sexual acts, no tricking people into the relationship, no cajoling, etc.
  • communication - this goes hand in hand with the above and should be obvious, but in order to be explicit, communication about the relationship or sexual act must be open and honest. Obviously, we don't mean "characters can't lie", but when they lie they shouldn't be attempting to deceive someone about the relationship. For example, Solas can definitely hide that he's Fen'Harel, but he shouldn't be telling Cassandra he's only sleeping with her, when he's also sleeping with Iron Bull.

For more details check out the exchange FAQ - What do you mean by healthy polyamory?.

How do I participate?​

Post or reblog your polyshipping content and mention @dapolyshipping in your post. You can also submit directly to the blog if you don't have a tumblr or wish to remain anonymous.

We accept all forms of fan media, including but not limited to:
  • Fanfiction
  • Fanart
  • Playlists/fanmixes
  • AMVs
  • Answers to ask box games/memes/mini-prompts
  • Cosplay photos or videos
  • Image/photo sets
  • Gifsets
  • Headcanons

You can also share posts with poly rec lists, advertising that you're taking requests, or even opening commissions/requests specifically for polyships!

Any other rules I should know about?​

  1. Please do not submit the same work multiple times. All fanworks should be new to this blog when we're mentioned. It does not have to be something created specifically for us or posted to your blog new. You can reblog your old content and tag us in the reblog to get our attention.

  2. Please only submit your own content. We consider a tag/mention as your consent to feature your content and don't want to reblog your content if you'd rather us not share.

    This does not apply to ask memes, prompts, challenges, and other inspirations posts. Those are generally created with an intent to share and creators often don't have concerns about who reblogs them.

  3. For nsfw content please tag using #lemons.

If you have other questions, please check the FAQs first. If they don't answer your questions feel free to contact us on tumblr, discord, or email.