#dapolyex2024

✨Join us for the 2024 exchange!✨

Are you a fan creator looking for Dragon Age poly content? Hoping to expand the AO3 tag for your favorite throuple? Or maybe you look at the Inner Circle and think: "they're all just too pretty to choose"?

If so, this exchange is for you!

DA Polyshipping is a celebration of healthy polyamorous, polysexual, and polygamous ships in the Dragon Age fandom. It is open to all creators who are willing to create one piece of fanart or write one fanfic that meets our exchange requirements and deadlines!

The exchange focuses on healthy polyamory in all its forms and welcomes queerplatonic relationships, one-time theesomes (or moresomes), and long-term relationships. Check out FAQ - What do you mean by healthy polyamory? for more details on acceptable pieces.

NOMINATIONS OPEN IN 4 WEEKS!

Important Changes & Updates

This year we will pre-load ships that have been nominated for all prior years of DA Polyshipping, so you can free up your nominations spaces for other characters/ships.

Nominations will only be open for one week!

Welcome new mods, @inquisimer & @plisuu! With the larger mod team, we will no longer be taking personal communications about the exchange via Discord DM or tumblr DM/ask. Please send communications regarding individual circumstances via email or the official extension form. General questions can still be asked in discord or via tumblr ask.

2024 TENTATIVE Schedule

‼️With Veilguard set to release in Fall 2024, the mods reserve the right to make drastic adjustments to the schedule when a specific release date is announced. Please note that if we do alter the schedule, it will be to give participants MORE time, not less.‼️

Nominations Open: Sunday, September 1st, 2024 12pm ET

Nominations Close: Sunday, September 8th, 2024 12pm ET

Sign Ups Open: Sunday, September 8th, 2024 12pm ET

Sign Ups Close: Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 12pm ET

Assignments Out: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 5pm ET (or sooner!)

Assignments Due: Sunday, November 3rd, 2024 12pm ET

Works Revealed: Sunday, November 10th, 2024 12pm ET

Creators Revealed: Sunday, November 17th, 2024 12pm ET

Visit our website to see the schedule in your local time

More Information

rules & info | FAQs

Contact & Follow Us

ask | discord | bluesky | email: [email protected]

Two of Your Finest Vints - E, The Iron Bull/Krem/Dorian. Bull and Krem shared a platonic bond deeper than friendship. But when they met Dorian Pavus, they both realised they wanted him. Like sensible people, the only solution is to share.

Red Skies at Night - M, m!Hawke/Isabela/Merrill. After fighting a dragon, Hawke gets badly injured. Isabela takes her girlfriend Merrill to check in on her boyfriend. Also, t4t4t!!!

From Ferelden, With Love - G, f!Cousland/Nathaniel Howe/Anora. After all they've been through, they found their way back to each other. And despite it all, they still love.

That means I can share my piece! I got the delight of writing a slew of my favorite characters and favorite ships. Excerpt below as Krem attempts to wingman for Cullen and Dorian, but gets in way over his head.

Wingin' it

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Krem also realizes he’s a little in love with them both.

Of course this is about more than their relationship. He’d befriended them somewhere along the way, a camaraderie stretching beyond station, and all along, Krem thoroughly believed that was the whole of it. They’re good men, both better than they think they are, both beautiful and a bit damaged and entirely deserving of something steady and tender. He’s been so single-minded in his goals, blinders tight, that he completely missed the why.

✨CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE YOUR SHIPS✨

Nominations Close: Sunday, September 8th, 2024 12p ET

View Nominated Tags: gDocs | ao3 | autoao3app

Regarding Veilguard Ships: For the 2024 exchange, ships that include Rook, the DA4 protagonist, are NOT eligible for nomination, but ships that include Veilguard companions & NPCs without Rook are eligible. We look forward to including Rook ships in the 2025 exchange! Reminder: Ships that have been nominated for two prior years of DA Polyshipping have been pre-loaded in the tagset, to free up your spaces for other ships!

⏰ Updated Schedule ⏰

Per the results of our Veilguard release date poll, we are adjusting the schedule for this year's exchange as follows:

Nominations Open: Sunday, September 1, 2024 at 12pm ET

Nominations Close: Sunday, September 8 2024 at 12pm ET

Sign-Ups Open: Sunday, September 8 2024 at 12pm ET

Sign-Ups Close: Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 12pm ET

Assignments Received: by Tuesday, September 24, 2024 8:00 PM ET (or earlier!)

Works Due: Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 12pm ET

Works Revealed: Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 12pm ET

Creators Revealed: Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 12pm ET

Visit our website to see the schedule in your local time

More Information

how to nominate | rules & info | FAQ

Contact

ask | discord | email: [email protected]

✨ CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP! ✨

Sign Ups Close: Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 12pm ET Visit our website to see the schedule in your local time.

☆ Requests (how to filter autoao3app) ☆ Nominated Tags: gSheets | ao3 | autoao3app

Regarding Dragon Age: The Veilguard in Sign-Ups:

Since Dragon Age: The Veilguard is releasing in the middle of the exchange, participants may be tempted to include plot elements in their piece. If you would enjoy a gift that includes plot elements (and potential game spoilers), please state it in your requests. If you do not state anything about DATV in your requests, your gifter will not be allowed to create a gift that includes plot elements from the game, regardless of the ship requested.

☆ MORE INFORMATION

rules & info | faq | about exchange letters | how to sign up

☆ CONTACT

ask | discord | email: [email protected]

Dawn of the final day!! Sign ups will close in 24 hours - get those last minute pairings, prompts, and sign-ups in so you don't miss out on this year's exchange!

✨ SIGN UP HERE ✨

▸ Sign-Ups Close: Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 12pm ET

Visit our website to see the schedule in your local time.

Requests ⤷ how to filter autoao3app ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ Nominated Tags: gSheets | ao3 | autoao3app

☆ REMINDERS

Be careful when editing your sign up!! AO3 has been known to add "Additional Tags" to your selections. This means that if you go back in to edit, it may select "Fanart", "Fanfiction", or other tags that you did not want it to. If you edit your sign up, please double-check your requests very carefully to make sure they are accurate. If you discover an issue AFTER assignments go out, please let a mod know immediately.

If you signed up with any Treats related tag on your OFFERS, please do the mods a favor and remove those tags. We would really appreciate your help with that!

Creators are not required to follow provided prompts, so please do not expect prompts to keep you "safe" from your triggers, squicks, etc. Because of this, it is highly recommended that you include Do Not Wants or a letter listing them in each request. Please try to make DNWs as specific as possible.

If you are requesting a tag with an OC and are asking for a specific OC, please be sure to include a link to information and/or art references for that OC.

Don't forget you can tailor your offers to requests that have already been made. Choosing to offer ships that are already being requested will help to ensure that you'll receive a match!

If you would enjoy a gift that includes plot elements (and potential game spoilers) for the new game, please state it in your requests. If you do not state so in your requests, your gifter will not be allowed to create a gift that includes plot elements from the game, regardless of the ship requested.

☆ MORE INFORMATION

rules & info | faq | about exchange letters | how to sign up

☆ CONTACT

ask | discord | email: [email protected]

Check your email, check your AO3 - this year's collection is now live!

View the 2024 collection here!

Reminders:

☆ Creators are still anonymous - please do not publicly share your work as your own or claim it until creator reveals on December 1st, 2024, 12pm ET

☆ You are allowed to publicly guess who your creator might be, share recs, or link people to any of the works in the collection!

☆ Creators, don't forget to update your publication date to today so that it will show in Recently Updated searches! To do so: Edit Work → under Associations check "Set a Different Publications date" → enter today's date)

☆ Don't forget to comment on your gift!

Treats:

The collection will remain open for treats, so there's still time to post an extra gift if you'd like to!

You can treat specific people by checking out the requests list and you can see who has not received a treat yet by checking the Treatless List. You can also treat the exchange as a whole by creating for ANY PAIRING on the Nominations List.

For more information and a detailed how-to, check out our Treats & Treatless FAQ!

Contact the Mods: ask | discord | email: [email protected]

With the Veilguard release date officially announced as October 31st, we'd like your input about potential adjustments to the previously announced schedule. Please vote in the poll below to let us know which, if any, change you would prefer for this year's exchange!