The nominations are now all processed (final count: 401 fandoms and 2208 ships in the tagset) and signups are now open. They will remain so until 11:00am UTC on 26 November. You can see when the deadline is for your timezone at this countdown timer link.

If you nominated ships under Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena or Disney - All Media Types (for crossover Disney ships) - please contact us to let us know what you nominated as those fandoms are showing up empty and we think the nominations have been lost.

The sign-up form is here. If you have any difficulties, let us know by commenting on this post or sending an e-mail to holly.poly.exchange@gmail.com. Please make sure to familiarise yourself with the updated rules and the minimums for each type of fanwork, as well as reading through this post - you can find the rules over here.

As a reminder:
- You can request/offer 3-10 fandoms
- You can request/offer 1-20 relationships per fandom
- If you would like to request/offer any nominated relationship from a fandom, tick the "Any" box
- Make certain to choose which medium or mediums you are willing to create for each fandom

We'd like to ask you to check the tagset in its entirety before asking us about a fandom, as some fandoms have been renamed for disambiguation purposes. You can more easily search the tagset using the Auto AO3 App link here.

Please remember that Any really does mean any. Do not request or offer Any unless you mean it. Any does not mean "any relationships except for these certain ones" or "any relationships involving this character" or "this relationship that I really like but forgot to nominate." It means any relationship whatsoever that was nominated under that fandom and is currently listed in the tag set.

It is fine to include prompts asking that a fourth/fifth/sixth/etc. character be added to the relationship you've requested but this must be included in the optional details of your request, not just in a linked creator letter. (For example, if you requested Eleventh Doctor/Amy Pond/Rory Williams, you can include a prompt along the lines of: "... and if you want to have Jack Harkness join in, that's fine with me!") As with everything included in the Optional Details box or Dear Creator letter, though, please note that any such request is optional. Your creator is only required to create a fanwork for the specific relationship that you matched on.

Under the Requests section of the sign-up, there is a field to put a link to a Dear Creator letter if you have written one - it can be a placeholder link during signups but it should be filled out by the time assignments go out, and please make sure it's publicly accessible so your assignee can see it. There is also a box for Optional Details where you can put Do Not Wants, prompts, and various other details. While the optional details section of signups is optional, it is strongly suggested that participants include DNWs, which can be used to also provide guidance if the canon has some important bits you don't want mentioned. Any DNWs or triggers included in the signup itself will be enforced by the mods as long as they are reasonable (ie, something that the mods can easily look for and that isn't extremely subjective). Please do not put Do Not Wants behind html cuts in your signup, they should be clearly visible without needing to click on anything to ensure no one can miss them.

A note on requesting All Media Types fandoms:
All Media Types really means All Media Types: 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. Note that any such request is optional. Your creator is only required to create a fanwork for the specific relationship that you matched on.

Any DNWs listed in letters but not the signup itself, as well as any general likes/dislikes/prompts/etc. listed in the signup or in letters, are optional for the creator.

Anyone requesting vids or other visual media is encouraged to list any accessibility requirements they have in their sign-up alongside other DNWs, such as no flashing lights, no fast-moving cuts, no high contrast, no songs by [insert artist here], etc. Please try to at least provide details about general music that you like/dislike as well if you request either vids or fanmixes. Providing aesthetic preferences for visual fanworks (including face claims if applicable for the fandom) is encouraged too, to give the person creating for you an idea of what you like.

For anyone requesting podfics, please indicate whether or not you'd like your own fanworks podficced and gifted to you. If possible, try to provide more information about your likes/dislikes as well so that the person creating a podfic for you can try to make sure the fic they're recording is one that you will enjoy.

When you submit your sign-up, there is also an Optional Details box located under the Offers section. If there is any specific topic, or rating, that is a strong DNW or trigger for you and you don't want to receive an assignment that mentions said topic even as an optional prompt, please provide details in that box. We will do our best to accommodate such requests when doing matching but cannot make any promises. You are also welcome to send an e-mail to the above address, if you prefer.

Participants will be matched on fandom, relationship, and medium (fanart, fanfic, fanvid, podfic). Please note that you only need to create a fanwork for one of the relationships requested; if you match on more than one, it is your decision which one (or ones) to choose.


Collection: https://ao3.org/collections/holly_poly_2025
Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/25541
Tumblr: https://holly-poly.tumblr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/holly_poly_ex
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/holly-poly.bsky.social
Google Groups - Holly Poly Updates: https://groups.google.com/g/holly-poly-updates
Google Groups - Holly Poly Pinchhits: https://groups.google.com/g/holly-poly-pinchhits