#multiamory

[polyamzeal]

hey i had a question and no worries if this isn’t something you know about, you just seem knowledgeable in polyam stuff- do you know much about polyamory and parenthood? good resources, US legality stuff, anything? wondering what my options would be if i ever had enough money to be a parent someday

Definitely not something I am qualified for. But it is a popular topic so I know multiamory has done episodes on it so listening to those would be start.

[found-under-fern]

My nesting partner not only suggested we get another proper bed in the spare room so we can stay up with other partners and not wake one another, they've also put on the table the idea of them and my other partner sleeping in the same bed all together with me in the middle and I'm *squirm* totally not freaking out about how adorable that is aaaaaaah UPDATE: IT HAPPENED. My heart was beating so fast, makin little jokes to ease the weirdness as the three of us nestled down for the night. Had an obscenely dry mouth all night, and didn't get much sleep, but we had lots of adorable footsies, and hand holding, and nuzzles, and I am positively vibrating with love right now.

[chroniclesofachemist]

A group of atoms bonded together is called a molecule.

What do you call a group of molecules bonded together?

a polycule.

[jerzwriter]

The year I discovered podcasts lol

[commander-diomika]

Would you mind going into some detail about RADAR? I did google it but what I found was a little confusing.

Did you find the Multiamory page on it? https://www.multiamory.com/radar has all the info. I find RADAR a useful tool even if I don't really follow the steps perfectly.

From the above page "A regular safe space for communication helps to bring up topics to discuss them before they turn into full-blown problems. This enables to you to minimize day-to-day admin and processing while at the same time maximizing positive, non-processing time with your partner. It also prevents “problem back-log” from building up until someone has to explode and unleash all their grievances at once."

That's the main gist of why I find them useful.

[red-umbrella-811]

Obviously nothing has a perfect magic bullet answer, but your perfect magic bullet answer is

Regular Check Ins

(Regular check ins) Talk to the people in your life! Ask them how they’re doing. Talk about how your relationship is. Crucially, do this regularly, not just when you have a problem or you think they do.

There are structured ways to do this, like Multiamory’s RADAR, or if you want a little structure, you could give each person a set amount of time to speak and be listened to before having a conversation. But seriously, secure attachment can be built in relationship, it’s not something you’re supposed to just will yourself into feeling.

They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

[polyamships]

[Image description in ALT. Prompts in plain text under the cut.]

Polyamships is hosting #MultiamoryMarch2025

Multiamory March is a month-long event held each year, starting on March 1st and ending on March 31st, with a prompt for each day.

🎉🎉2025 marks the 5th year since #MultiamoryMarch came to our blog 🎉🎉

Once again we gather to celebrate polyamory in all its forms: OT3s, OT4s, OT8s, V-relationships, QPRs, sedoretus, and any configuration you can think of. In the spirit of this month, we invite you to create works in any medium using the prompts above if you need a little inspiration.

This year we have an additional 10 alt visual prompts for you to choose! Check out the links under the cut.

Remember our prompts are there to inspire you, not restrict you. You can also create freely or even use one of our prompts from past years we’d still love to see fanworks for if they inspire you better. If you use a prompt, please make sure to let us know which prompt you’re creating for somewhere on your post.

At us @polyamships and use the tags #MultiamoryMarch and #MultiamoryMarch2025 in the first five tags so we can hopefully see it. If you don’t see us reblog your post within a few days feel free to send us an ask to let us know, or submit it via the submit link here in case we’ve missed your post or the tags/notifications are being weird.

All ratings are welcome but anything nsfw/triggery should be warned for and behind a read more, as should very long tumblr fic.

We also have an AO3 collection for the event that can be found here and the collection name is ‘multiamory_march_works’.

We can’t wait to see what you create for the month, and please do spread the word about the event. ❤️♾️

Over the next month or two, we will also be doing a number of posts with expanded ideas for each prompt for anyone who needs a little more inspiration than just the one or two word style.

Under the cut you can find the prompts in written form:

Official Multiamory March 2025 prompts

First kiss(es)

Hurt/Comfort

First date as a polycule

N+1 things

Cuddles

Team as polycule

Secret relationship

Friends to lovers

Queerplatonic relationships

Meet the family

Pining

Explaining/mapping the polycule

The polycule taking care of a child or pet

Confessions

and they were roommates

Outsider POV

Soulmates AU

"Don't look at me. This was not my idea."

Chatfic/the polycule groupchat

Time travel

Dreams

Space

Complicated relationships

Trans characters

Touch

Scars

Kink negotiation

Magic

Vampire AU

Role reversal

Morning routine

Alt visual prompts

Always room for one more [LINK]

Home [LINK]

HALSEY - NOW OR NEVER MV [LINK]

Dancing [LINK]

Matching [LINK]

Mythology [LINK]

BTS - BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS MV [LINK]

Family feud [LINK]

Royalty [LINK]

KARD - HOLA HOLA MV [LINK]

[heavensenthale]

Multiamory March 2025 Day #6: (Alt prompt) Dancing

Rajan/Kala/Wolfgang Sense8

[thal-ent]

Oh wow talk about old ship of mine. Komahinanami my beloveds, I missed drawing them :)

@polyamships 's multiamory march event day 3, first date as polycule !

[possumcollege]

Aw, firm but respectful disagree! Their dynamic looks pretty dysfunctional but I think it's actually a mutually-reinforcing hinge situation.

Charles has stuck with Rick since they met at Oxford, so unless they met there as adults, they could've been doing this for decades. Rick treats Charles like his savage manservant but Charles clearly has enough agency to define his limits and speak up for himself. To me their dynamic reads more as a huge personality with a dominant streak who likes a good bit of push-back, and a quiet, capable, brat (for lack of a better term). They've had the bear skin argument a thousand times and they love it. Charles is like "FFS,I said I'd carry the spear, didn't I?!" but I seem to remember he's very good at throwing it so it's important enough that it isn't just a prop. Rick gets to rename Charles "Chachinga" and treat him like a servant but he won't dress him up like a doll or force him to play the role for others. There are boundaries there. I think there's enough mutual respect and affection that Rick knows Charles can and will take a lot of "abuse" but he can't make him do anything. I think they both dig it.

This also scans for me because Rick delights in stories where he's had the shit kicked out of him but not in the "I'm such a weak and powerless worm" sense. He likes feeling unstoppable. Maybe having a constant "safe" check on that larger than life self image is grounding for him. Maybe Charles' confidence and self image is reinforced by knowing this man who can drag himself up a rope with two broken arms can't make him wear antlers and a loincloth if he doesn't consent to it.

As for Marion, I think her relationship with Rick is more traditional but she knows the man she loves is a certifiable galoot, who would be all kinds of fucking dead without support. In their first episode we learn she's been going along with Rick's adventures for his sake but it's taking its toll, physically and emotionally. She pulls a Scooby-Doo scheme because she thinks convincing him a curse will kill them all if they don't slow down will be easier on him than having the conversation. Marion clearly loves Rick for who he is but also knows he'll adventure himself to death and wishes he would make more space for her. It feels like she's trying to connect with him through the love language of danger. I love that Rick is surprisingly receptive once she's unmasked and confesses. The fact that he feels bad about putting her in that situation tells me he's not just an ego-golem who demands compliance, he cares and might just be bad with normal people. Maybe his relationship with Charles is why he isn't actually just a dictatorial bastard? Or maybe he's just kinda dumb.

There but 'fore the grace of Dumb God go I...

I get the impression that Rick is so impulse-driven and insulated from normal folk that he assumes anyone who goes along with his insane adventures wants to be there. He isn't forcing them to be there per se, he just sincerely believes they're having fun too. This doesn't mean I don't think he's blameless in contributing to the situation with Marion. It means he needs to learn to see past himself lest he drive everyone who cares about him away.

His threshold for conflict has been "when someone tries to kill me," so he doesn't process people who aren't being very explicit or speaking the language of action. He's so deep in "the (adventurer) lifestyle" that normal people barely show up on his radar.

I also think this is what works for Rick and Charles. Charles cares enough about Rick and enjoys the adventuring lifestyle enough to commit to it. His standoffishness is a way of holding space that Rick engages with and they both respect. Rick and Marion haven't developed that yet.

I never got the impression that Marion or Charles resent each other for enabling Rick's bad habits or trying to tie him down, which tells me the root of the problem with Marion isn't the adventuring, it's Rick's inability to slow down and be a person in the absence of adventure. The other reason I disagree with the cuckolding dynamic is that they don't give us that element of jealousy, comparison, or competition that cucks absolutely will not shut the fuck up about. What the show does give us is fantastic fuel for poly-shipping though!

Which is all why I think they're a fun hinge polycule. They each fulfill very specific needs across all points of the triangle. Charles and Marion support each other because Rick is A LOT and neither of them has to take the full brunt of his nonsense while he has two people who care enough about him to point out when he's his own worst enemy. In their second episode, Rick admits he and Marion have separated but by the end, they resolve to keep working on the relationship and Charles is relieved to hear it. That's sweet.

I realize I've just spent my lunch break writing entirely too many words about side characters from an episode of Scooby-Doo, but I don't mean this to be laying into the cuck post to hard. It would be legit funny for Rick to walk in on them, shriek "Chachinga, you sonofabitch! How could you betray me like this! I'll kill you," grab up the spear from the pile of clothes on the floor, and Marion just tells him to go wait in the car. No. Not the chair, THE CAR. WAIT IN THE CAR RICK.

Anyway.

There's that.

Watching scooby-doo, mystery inc with my kid. These guys are a throuple, right?

[polyamzeal]

Got my Xmas gifts 🎁 for my whole family!

[found-under-fern]

First time feeling polysaturated. Thought I'd make a post to lay some shit out.

Dating is hard. I am lucky in that I've found two wonderful people to share my love and time with outside of my nesting relationship, and one lovely lady I'm vaguely dating.

Theres been a couple of others I've gone on dates with, but wonderful as they are I've not been able to bring myself to consider widening the polycule.

At first I thought it was because I was tired--as my good friend noted "love is not a finite pool you draw from and it depletes, but energy is."

The thing is, I'm not tired. I have loads of spare time. It took me a moment to clock but I think the crux is that none of my partners have found other partners yet.

I am several people's everything.

That is a weight I was not prepared for, and it feels amazing and odd all at the same time. But it's a lot of pressure.

Like what if I drop the ball? What if I forget things, or can't be my crazy weird romantic self for everyone I love so well?

I think I will chill out on the dating for a while, and concentrate on the people who matter to me, because I care a lot and I don't want to let anyone down.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[baubeautyandthegeek]

Finally Together - Elle Greenaway/Alex Blake/Emily Prentiss

A/N: Day 3 for @polyamships multiamory march.

The first date for three women working in the BAU, or even with the FBI, was never easy. Still, as Elle took a break, making use of her new job working with the Crimes Against Children Unit giving her more time to take breaks as needed. Alex, who had been working with the University, making sure to find more FBI agents she could train for the BAU, also found it easy to book herself a break, leaving them both waiting for Emily to have time free. The first date spent together for the three had been simple, a dinner date, alone, at home in Alex’s flat. Elle, who despite her confidence is still the more delicate when it comes to being seen, seems to relax. Emily smiling as she leans to kiss both women, making use of their freedom to be intimate to calm and soothe Elle, Alex smiling as she watches Elle settle into their relationship. It’s new, and fragile, but it’s promising.

[atomicraft]

@polyamships’s multiamory march day 5: polypd with the prompt “online” !!!

they smooch thru the screen ………

[brose1229]

Sleeping flowers

[june-rambles]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hatchetfield Series - Team StarKid Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Grace Chasity/Stephanie Lauter/Peter Spankoffski, Grace Chasity/Stephanie Lauter, Stephanie Lauter/Peter Spankoffski, Grace Chasity & Stephanie Lauter Characters: Grace Chasity, Stephanie Lauter, Peter Spankoffski Additional Tags: Bisexual Stephanie Lauter, Pre-Relationship, Religious Guilt, Religious Conflict, Religious Discussion, Biblical Themes (Abrahamic Religions), The Lords in Black (Hatchetfield), Dark Magic, Past Grace Chasity/Max Jägerman, Song: The Summoning (Nerdy Prudes Must Die), Song: Dirty Dudes Must Die (Nerdy Prudes Must Die), Missing Scene, between grace giving up her chastity and homecoming, Grace Chasity Has Religious Trauma, Grace Chasity-centric, Grace Chasity Needs a Hug, Author Is Not Religious, Internalized Homophobia, Multiamory March 2025, Multiamory March, Character Study, Canon Compliant Series: Part 19 of multiamory march 2025 Summary:

Multiamory March Alt Prompt 6: Mythology

Maybe, if her soul is already damned for what occurred on that night, she may as well make the most of it. If God wouldn’t protect her on her holy mission, she’d just have to find another way.

or, Grace thinking through religion.

@polyamships