[Image is a banner with text transposed over a picture of thin snow-covered branches. Text reads: Polyshipping Day - March 1st]
What is Polyshipping Day?
A 24-hour celebration of OT3+es and positive portrayals of polyamory in fandom occurring on the 1st of every month. Give neglected polyships some love! Resolve love triangles âthe right wayâ. Portray massive poly cuddle piles of people who all love each other. Platonic threesomes where all partners feel important and itâs not trashy male gaze MFF âthe girls just wanna please their manâ crap. Weave intricate polycules that span a team or a whole community. Show non-mutual polyamory (A+B, B+C, but not A+C) and open relationships in a healthy, non-adulterous light. Spread the <83!
This is open to all fandoms and to original works, and to any degree and content rating you wish. Sexual, romantic, queerplatonic - any form of polyamorous/polygamous relationship is welcome and loved here. Just keep it positive, healthy, and consensual.
All of the content posted on Polyshipping Day gets queued up for reblogging on the Polyshipping Day blog during the month, and added to tags by fandom within the blog to help you find your favorite polyships any time.
If you have no ideas for something to make, of course our prompts tag is always a great resource. Additionally, for Marchâs Polyshipping Day the optional theme is going to be âStrengths and Weaknessesâ. Do some members of your ship have excel where their partners flounder? Do they become stronger together, or do they worry theyâve made themselves vulnerable? However youâd like to interpret the theme is up to you!
Whether you create something within the theme or not, we accept all forms of media, including:
Askbox games/mini-prompts
Spend the day taking requests or commissions
Other things Iâm sure we havenât thought of!
And of course, original works and works not in English are more than welcome too. Itâs always exciting to see Polyshipping Day branch out further and further!
Whatever you create, just put it in the #polyshipping day tag (donât worry, we track #polyshippingday too, just in case) or submit it straight to the blog!
But Iâm not a content creator or I donât have much time.
No worries! There are plenty of ways you can participate, such as:
Create fic or art recc lists
Reblog polyshipping content, both new and old
Set up your queue to reblog polyshipping content
Fill out askbox games or create new ones
Suggest blogs for the incredibly incomplete Polyshipping Directory
The more the merrier should be the obvious theme here, so weâd love help getting as many fandoms involved in Polyshipping Day as possible!
Any other rules I should know about?
We try to keep it simple, but there are a few:
Content should be new - it doesnât have to be something you made this month or specifically for Polyshipping Day, but it should be something thatâs not appeared on the blog before.
Please only post your own content, except, obviously, for reblogs.
If you really want to share something and canât find it on tumblr, try to get the creatorâs permission first, and regardless, post it as a link to the source. If the site in question has an official Tumblr posting button like AO3 does, please use that.
Please tag your not safe for work for the benefit of those scrolling through the tags (protip: use // after the tag if youâre worried about spambots)
This blog is technically PG-13, so anything that is obviously pornographic or very gory should be behind a read more if weâre going to reblog it.
If youâre posting up more than three things to the tag, especially all for the same fandom, try to spread them out over the day instead of posting them all at once.
If youâd like to put a post in the polyshipping day tag but not have the blog add it to the queue, just put a tag to the effect of #pday no
Official cutoff time is around midnight between the 2nd and 3rd Pacific Time - anything posted after that will be drafted to be posted the next month instead.
Feel free to message us if you have any questions not answered here!
Now get out there and spread the word! <83
Also happening this month: Multiamory March
Following in the footsteps of Femslash February, Multiamory March is an informal month-long event encouraging the creation of content about polyamorous/nonmanogamous characters, including both fanworks and original work.