Pokémon Holiday Exchange

Uploading my last piece from 2025! This was my part of the @pokexchange.bsky.social for @lunarstorms.bsky.social 🥰

I wanted to experiment with lightning and rendering, and I loved drawing them together enjoying an aquarium date! Really love Nessa and Sonia 💙💜

「 #Pokemon #angielauraart 」

Agh, I forgot. You can also cross-post your work now! Have fun!!!

With this, pokexchange 2025 is over. Thank you to everyone who participated for being so kind and for being patient with my mistakes and delays. This was a memorable and special year.

I sincerely hope to see all of you back again next year! As always, sign ups will open Nov. 1.

Happy New Year! 🎉

💙 CREATOR REVEALS 💙

The anon period is over! If you've been holding off on replying to comments, go ahead now! 📣

If you haven't yet left a comment on your gift, *please* do! It means a lot to your gifter! 🎁

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There are still a few gifts that don't gave comments - if you have a minute, please give them a look! Let's spread the cheer of the season!

It's also not too late to submit treats, if the giving holiday spirit moves you! bsky.app/profile/poke...

Thank you so much to everyone who participated this year. You all worked *incredibly* hard and some of you overcame a lot of stress and hurdles to get your gifts in. Thank you so, so much! You guys are what make the exchange so special, and I'm so happy that you are here!

🎁GIFTS ARE LIVE! 🎁

48 gorgeous gifts (with more treats to come, I hear!) are now posted at our collection. ☃️

Please don't forget to leave a comment on your gift, thanking your recipient who worked so hard! 💝

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! 🌨️

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Red and Green Oak from Pokemon, making snow angels and smiling at each other. They are surrounded by blooming snowdrop flowers. The text reads, "Reguri Week 2026. Artwork: EmeraldSkies and _xo_rg_xo_ on twitter."

A text-heavy graphic with a snowdrop-patterned border. Text reads: Day 1 Traditional Clothing | New Year's Day 2 Meeting your past self | Role Swap* Day 3 Day in the snow | Day in the sand Day 4 Body Swap | Polaroid/Camera Day 5 The Sun and Moon | Heartache Day 6 Music AU | School/College/University AU Day 7 Snowdrop | Free Space * “Role swap” means, for example, What if Green went to Mt. Silver? What if Red got to the champion's room first? It also means things like, what if Red was a professor? What if Green worked for the pokemon center? However, we also welcome any other interpretations you may come up with!" The graphic is decorated with two Red and Green chibis, as well as a larger illustration of Red and Green at the bottom of the graphic. Artwork credit: bleuledoeve and lemonjelloarts @ twitter.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Look out, trainers! #Reguriweek2026 will be held from January 12th to 18th, 2026! 🍎🍏

Each day has 2 prompts to choose from. Feel free to pick one, both, or skip days entirely - it’s entirely up to you!

More info in thread ⬇🧵

#reguri #namelessshipping #レグリ

If you have any questions/want clarification on any of these prompts, please e-mail pokeprompts@gmail.com and we’ll ask the requester on your behalf. DO NOT contact any participant on your own! Use the mod please.

Have fun!! (🧵 5/5)

If you’re having trouble and would like the mods to post it to AO3 on your behalf, just send us an e-mail at pokeprompts@gmail.com with your finished treat. (🧵 4/5)

Please note that some Dear Gifter letters and DNWs may include NSFW sections.

To submit a treat, please submit it to Our AO3 Collection and make sure you include the original prompter’s AO3 Username in your “Gift This Work To:” field when posting it. That way the original prompter sees it! (🧵 3/5)

Treats have no work minimum or maximum. Anything is fine, and anyone can make as many as they want. Go wild!!

Safe-For-Work prompts are on the first page, Not-Safe-For-Work (18+) prompts are on the second. To jump between pages, look at the bottom of the screen. (🧵 2/5)

Pokexchange 2025 - Prompts List

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This is a list of all the prompts submitted by our 2025 participants! If you think a prompt sounds interesting and you’d like to create something for it, please feel free to do so. These extra fanworks are called treats! (🧵 1/5)

No...... Omg. I'll work on it today when I get back from the doctor, sorry for the delay! 🙇

Check In is today! 💙

Please check your email, the check in form should only take a few seconds. Any problems, please email me! I'm very bad at social media. Thank you!

Panoramic view of Blue ridge mountains with clouds hanging just above mountain tops

Blueridge mountains
#mountainmonday #blueridge #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #ArtYear
#MobilePhotography

My surgery was successful. Thank you everyone 💕

The next deadline is Dec. 3, 2025, which is check in. The check in form takes under 60 seconds to fill out, so just keep an eye on your email inbox that day.

Thank you for joining us for pokexchange this year! ☃️

I loved reading everyone's prompts and was happy to see many familiar faces. I did my best to make the best assignments I could. I hope they're satisfactory. 🎁

Full prompt list for treats will be posted when I recover from my surgery. Thank you for understanding. 🙏

No one's given any indication that this could be an issue, but better to be explicit about these things: pokexchange does not allow AI. If you try to submit an AI generated gift, I will kick it and ban you from all future exchanges. I'll also be adding this to the rules going forward. ❄️

All assignments sent! 💌

You should have TWO emails in your inbox - one with your assignment, and one with general information. Please check your spam folder if you don't see them, and message pokeprompts@gmail if there are any issues. 📢

A blurry photo of small squares of paper scattered all over the floor, along with a pen and a pair of scissors. A participant's offers are on one square, and their requests on the other. I shuffle and match up the slips until every request is matched to an offer. Then I double check the assignments, and send out each assignment email one by one.

It's beginning to look a lot like pokexchange... (hand matching, my beloved)

This is the first year I'm typing up the matches to sort instead of writing them all by hand. It's faster and easier on my carpal tunnel, but it's less fun... I miss writing out everyone's names.

I just love Pokémon so much and I get so excited seeing everyone's sign ups and talking to everyone else who loves Pokémon as much as me 😭

If they aren't out by the 20, I'm having surgery on the 21, so they'll be out the 24. Other deadlines will be pushed back accordingly as needed.

Please look forward to your assignment! 💙

46 sign ups. That's a new record for our special 15th year! (Last year was 44)

Unlike most modern exchanges, pokemon is such a sprawling franchise that I do matching by hand. Because of this, matching emails may not go out until the 20. (1/2 🧵)

LAST DAY FOR SIGN UPS

pikachu and eevee are exchanging gifts. pikachu is holding a gift behind its back. the eevee's gift is in front of it, and the eevee looks delighted. there are hearts between the two pokemon. over the top, the text "pokexchange!" at the bottom, it says "fanart and fanficton - sign ups open november 1 1 to the 14.

POKEXCHANGE 2025 SIGN UPS ARE OPEN to fanfiction and fanart for all franchises/verses under the pokemon banner! Pokemon Legends ZA fanworks are welcomed!

Sign Ups are open from Nov. 1-14! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

(I very, very rarely do direct matches, but your two sign ups were so Made For Each Other that I couldn't resist. I'm so glad!)