The Holly Poly Exchange

To be able to open signups on November 23rd, we need to get a response to these queries as soon as possible. If we haven't heard anything about these nominations by 12:00 EST November 23rd, they will be rejected and signups will open as scheduled.

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Fandoms for this post: Black Sails, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Disco Elysium, Marvel*, Sukeban Deka II: Legend of the Iron Mask Girl, Taskmaster (New Zealand TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types*

Any fandoms marked with * needed or have had fandom clarification, per our guidelines.

First: The following fandoms contain nominations for groups of fewer than three people. Therefore, those pairs are going to be rejected unless we receive a correction comment before the signup begins.

Taskmaster (New Zealand TV) Rejected

Remaining by fandom for this post:

Black Sails
Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Mary Allamby Bonnet/Stede Bonnet
Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands
Were these meant to have been nominated in Black Sails? We are not aware of them in the series Black Sails, but are aware of them in the series Our Flag Means Death.
These were accepted under Our Flag Means Death.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Related Fandoms
Angel/Vamp!Willow/Vamp!Xander
Are Vamp!Willow and Vamp!Xander specific characters that appear in the show at some point, maybe in some sort of AU episode?  If they are not shown somehow as separate characters then they should most likely just be nominated as Angel/Willow/Xander (with whatever surnames are needed.)
Per the response given, this has been accepted as Angel/Vampire Xander Harris (ep. Wish)/Vampire Willow Rosenberg (ep. Wish) (BtVS)

Disco Elysium
Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi/Original Male Characters (Disco Elysium)
We have been trying to avoid general "original male character" tags for the same reason why "character/Everyone" is avoided. Can we please have some sort of disambiguation for the "Original Male Characters" so we can accept it? Either a qualification (e.g. "Original Male Club Patrons" if they are in a club) or a named group within the fandom (e.g. "Male Dockworkers Union Characters" for the dockworkers) would work, for whichever type of group applies here.
Per the response given, this has been accepted as Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi/Male Gay Bar Attendees (Disco Elysium)

Marvel*
James "Bucky" Barnes/Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Jean Grey/Logan/Scott Summers
Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov/Sam Wilson
The overarching fandom used here is too vague. Please provide specifics per the guidelines posted here. Otherwise we are unable to accept these.
These have been accepted under MCU and X-Men Original Timeline Movies. In addition, they have been accepted under Marvel-616

Sukeban Deka II: Legend of the Iron Mask Girl
Nishiwaki/Saotome Michiko/Saotome Shichiro (Sukeban Deka 2)
We cannot find any reference to a Saotome Michiko anywhere. Godai Michiko is the closest name we can find.  Is that what was meant with this nomination? If so we can approve as Godai Michiko/Nishiwaki/Saotome Shichiro (Sukeban Deka 2)
Accepted as Nishiwaki/Godai Michiko/Saotome Shichiro (Sukeban Deka 2)

Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types*
Eskel/Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer (The Witcher)
Foltest/Geralt/Vernon Roche (The Witcher)
Geralt/Borch Three Jackdaws/Tea/Vea (The Witcher)
Geralt/Iorveth/Vernon Roche (The Witcher)
Iorveth/Vernon Roche/Saskia (The Witcher)
The overarching fandom used here is too vague. Please provide specifics per the guidelines posted here. Otherwise we are unable to accept these.
These have been accepted under All Media Types. As this is AMT, any version of the characters will be considered as fulfillment of the prompt. Please consider this in your sign up and add a note in the Optional Details box much like any other request.


E-mail: holly.poly.exchange@gmail.com.

Please remember that if we haven't heard anything about these nominations by 12:00 EST November 23rd, they will be rejected and signups will open as scheduled.

Collection: https://ao3.org/collections/holly_poly_2024
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Every year new fandoms and relationships get nominated to Holly Poly. We're happy to see the event grow and reach new audiences, however, we also need to keep the tagset a reasonable size to avoid issues at a future time, which is why we will not be importing all of the 2023 tagset for the 2024 exchange.  For this reason, we also ask that you consider if the fandom/relationships you're transferring are some that you are serious about requesting or offering for this year's exchange.

Remember that we will also have our regular nominations period, where you will be able to nominate up to 10 fandoms with 10 relationships each. If you only have a handful of fandoms/relationships to nominate and are confident about nominating through AO3, you can wait for our regular nominations period if you want to.

Since the format of nominations is not changing, we'll be transferring fandoms/relationship tags from last year's tagset to this year's tagset upon request.

There are limits on what you can transfer:

• Each person can only request 10 fandoms be transferred. If you need more fandoms than that for some reason, please use the regular nominations process to nominate everything else. (If posting anon, please sign with a consistent name/pseud/emoji!)
• For fandoms with 19 or fewer relationship tags, we will transfer all relationship tags. Use the instructions under "Full Fandoms" .
• For fandoms with 20+ relationship tags, you can only ask for 20 relationships to be transferred. Use the instructions under "Specific Tags From Fandoms" below.

Note that the transferring process will only work for tags that were in last year's tagset and will only transfer those tags exactly as they appeared in that tagset.

Fandom Name Changes

If there have been changes to your fandoms that could change the fandom tag, now is a good time to let us know about them. This is especially true if a fandom nominated separately last year is in danger of combining into a larger fandom this year.

For example:
One Piece (Anime & Manga) and One Piece (Live Action TV 2023)
Pride and Prejudice (TV 1995) and Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock (TV)

Tagsets
2023 Tagset (AO3 LINK) | 2023 Tagset (AO3 MAGIC APP LINK)
2024 Tagset

Please check your nominations have been transferred correctly after we confirm (allow for 48 hours before asking about your nominations). If you see any issues in the 2024 tagset (such as not seeing your transferred fandoms or relationships cut short), let us know immediately.

For Full Fandoms (19 or fewer relationship tags)

Please reply to this post with your list with each fandom on a new line. Fandoms must be exactly as they appear in the 2023 tagset (not including the number in brackets) or the import will fail.

For Specific Tags From Fandoms (20+ relationship tags)

Please reply to this post with your fandom and the tags you want transferred in batch load format (Fandom,Relationship), with each relationship on a new line and no brackets unless included in the fandom name or character name in the tagset. All tags must be exactly as they appear in the 2023 tagset (not including the number in brackets) or the import will fail.

Check the first comment for an example on how the transfer must look like.

Spreadsheet of fandoms and relationships in batch load format [LINK]

If you have any questions about the process, please leave a comment on the announcement post (link). Only use this post to transfer nominations from last year's tagset.

Holly Poly is, as the name implies, an exchange for polyamorous relationships. OT3s, OT4s, OT6s, orgies, open relationships, sedoretus, whatever strikes your fancy, as long as it involves three or more entities.

As the event keeps growing every year, we've come to the realization that it's necessary to get more help to deliver the best experience to this year's participants.

Currently, we're looking for 4+ people who can help us with mod duties during this exchange. Below, you can find the different areas where we need help. You can choose to help only with one task, which is why we're including the timeframe for each task as well.

Helpers must be 18+ and be comfortable reviewing all types of content.

We're looking for help with the following tasks:

1. Help with tagset and nominations (October 2024): This would be checking tagset sanity for both the 2023 tagset and the final 2024 tagset, checking nominations validity and formatting, helping with any editing from the 2023 tagset to the 2024 tagset (i.e. new disambiguations)
2. Help with social media announcements and pinch hit formatting for those (Mid October 2024-January 2025): We currently use twitter, tumblr, discord, dreamwidth and google groups. If you are proficient in one specific social media site, please let us know.
3. Help reading/looking over works (Late December 2024-January 2025): This would be checking for Do Not Wants/request fulfilment and completion of stories

If you're interested, please comment on this post. All comments are screened.