Hello friends! I, along with my co-mod, timothysboxers, are thrilled to announce that 25 Days of Draco and Harry will be back for 2025, celebrating its 15th year. Again, we thank navi1088 for creating our banner art. His work can be found at AO3 and tumblr under the same name.
For those who may not be familiar with this challenge, we have included the rules at the end of this post, and we <b>strongly</b> encourage you to read these.
And for the loyal fans of 25 Days of Harry and Draco: In 2025, we will be doing both Early-bird and Traditional prompts as usual. Again, we're running on LJ, DW and tumblr – the rules will be the same as last year.
Because it seemed to work out quite well last year, the Early-bird Prompts will once again be available in October, and we will be including the Image Descriptions along with the prompts.
Early bird prompts will be available no later than 12 October 2025, allowing creators around 7 weeks to work on their posts. The signup period will open on 5 October 2025.
We have a Discord server specifically for 25 Days of Draco and Harry participants. Like last year, this will be a place where early bird participants can discuss (in a channel just for them) the prompts and how they might use them. Traditional participants may join the Server at any time, and will also have dedicated channels for their prompts and discussions.
The 2025 rules at a glance—
Common Guidelines and Notes
If you are creating individual works, please select "This Work is Part of a Series" to gather your works together. This will make them much easier to find in future!
If you are creating a multi-chaptered work, please use the "This Work has Multiple Chapters" option to ensure your chapters stay together.
An AO3 Collection is available, and you are encouraged to post your works to it. Search for "25 Days of Draco and Harry 2025".
If you're not posting to the AO3 collection (but we really hope you are!) be sure to tag @slythindor100 on tumblr so we do not miss your posts!
The Early Bird and Traditional Prompt sets are different. We aim to have five or less prompts that appear in both sets.
More detailed rules and guidelines are further down underneath the cut.
25 Days of Draco and Harry 2025 - Traditional
No changes from prior years. An image prompt is posted starting at midnight US-EST on 1 December, and you create a work based on that prompt and post before the next day's prompt goes up.
Each of your posts can be part of a larger work or they can stand alone.
25 Days of Draco and Harry 2025 - Early Bird
You receive access to all 25 photo prompts at once when Early Bird access opens. This is a similar timeframe as previous years. The idea is to give participants time to prepare and create something before the insanity of December starts.
You will post one work per day for each prompt. This can be a stand-alone story or each day can be a part of a bigger story.
We also encourage individuals or a group to create a podfic of a past 25 Days story, subject to the consent of the author(s). ♥
The advantages are this:
1. you can use the picture prompts in any order you chose
2. you can start creating early and have many of your posts ready to go before December 1st.
3. you get the prompts all at once so you can pre-plan your story and how you will use each prompt.
If you have any questions, please email the 25 days mod account at [email protected] or DM one of the mods if you're on the Drarry Discord server, or the 25 Days Challenge server.
sassy_cissa and timothysboxers
The basic rules of 25 Days of Draco and Harry – Traditional Edition:
