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One Direction Wordplay Fic Challenge 2025

Every week for five weeks a prompt was chosen using a random word generator. This is the masterpost of the prompts and where to find the resulting fics.

The 2025 challenge is now complete! We hope you enjoy the fics and, as always, don’t forget to leave a nice comment and kudos to show your appreciation!

Prompt 1: Hill Prompt 2: Asset Prompt 3: Seal Prompt 4: Lawyer Prompt 5: Publish

#wordplay 9.0 #wordplay 9.0 masterpost

uhoh-but-yeah-alright

2025 1D Wordplay Challenge fics by yeah_alright (x)

Doing @wordplayfics this year felt an awful lot like the image above and it's still my absolute favorite. Many many thanks and much love to @lululawrence and @louandhazaf for running it. 💞

My previous wordplay masterposts: 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024

daydreaming-sunflower

hi hello i participated in @wordplayfics this year here it all is if you would like it thank you ily xx

week 1: hill ao3, tumblr post

week 2: asset ao3, tumblr post

week 3: seal ao3, tumblr post

week 4: lawyer ao3, tumblr post

week 5: publish ao3, tumblr post

disgruntledkittenface

I participated in @wordplayfics for the first time this year! It was such a fun way to be creative, 10/10 recommend. With each of these fics, the idea felt like kismet and everything just kind of came together. I was a little tired by the last week, but I'm still sad it's over!

We'll Always Have Blockbuster | Prompt: Hill

stylinshaw, 3.8k, 90s AU, polyamory

Code Name: Raven | Prompt: Asset

zarry, 2.6k, spy AU

Pier 39 | Prompt: Seal

larry, 4.6k, shapershifter AU

dark horse | Prompt: Lawyer

larry, 3.4k, dark Harry AU

Here's to Us | Prompt: Publish

narry, 2k, reverse Hallmark AU

There are over 100 fics written for Wordplay this year! You can check out the collections here:

[Week 1] [Week 2] [Week 3] [Week 4] [Week 5]

And thanks to the mods @louandhazaf and @lululawrence !

stormy-28

🍂 Hill’s Top Cafe ☕️ 18K

For 2025 @wordplayfics

5 parts for a love story.

homosociallyyours

Trust the Process

by homosociallyyours 3k, Teen, Larry

It's Harry's first week as a process server, and so far it's not going as well as he'd hoped. When he finally spots the man who he thinks might be his target, he thinks it's his lucky break. He's wrong and he's right in unexpected ways.

Written as part of @wordplayfics for prompt 9.4: lawyer

Make sure to check out all of the fics in the collection here!

emmli28

2025 1D Wordplay Challenge - masterpost

This was the first time I participated in @wordplayfics and it was so much fun!

Week 1: Hill | The house on the hill | 4.5k | G | Omegaverse

The one where Louis has a very sensitive omega nose and can't stand most alpha scents and Harry is an alpha ashamed of his sweet scent that isn't alpha-like at all.

Week 2: Asset | Wanna f*ck? | 4.8k | E | Omegaverse

The one where Louis fucks an omega one night at a night club and that same omega shows up to a job interview at Louis' company a few days later.

Week 3: Seal | A fisherman's tale | 5.8k | T | Folklore (selkies)

The one where Louis is a fisherman who is slowly falling for Harry who is only in town once a month during full moon, but what Louis doesn't know is that Harry is keeping a secret from him.

Week 4: Lawyer | Don't steal our lambs! | 3.2k | E | Strangers to lovers

The one where Louis finds a handsome stranger cuddling his family's lambs. A stranger that tilts Louis' worlds, turns it upside down and then blows his mind in the lake.

Week 5: Publish | Your scent keeps me calm | 11k | Omegaverge, strangers to lovers

The one where omega Louis buys a new hoodie from a sweet alpha named Harry. The scent calms him down so much that he goes back week after week to buy more clothes.

homosociallyyours

The Autobiography of Harry Styles

by homosociallyyours 200 words, Gen, Larry

A slightly older and wiser Harry has written his autobiography, but he's done it in his own way.

Written as part of @wordplayfics for prompt 9.5: publish

Make sure to check out all the fics in the collection here!

daydreaming-sunflower

hi hello i participated in @wordplayfics this year here it all is if you would like it thank you ily xx

week 1: hill ao3, tumblr post

week 2: asset ao3, tumblr post

week 3: seal ao3, tumblr post

week 4: lawyer ao3, tumblr post

week 5: publish ao3, tumblr post

homosociallyyours

Meant for the Sea

by homosociallyyours 2k, Gen, Larry

A strange man with haunting green eyes comes into Louis' restaurant looking for his missing coat. Louis finds it easily, and discovers something important in the process.

Written as part of @wordplayfics for prompt 9.3: Seal

Make sure to check out all of the other fics in the collection here!

forwhatiam

Hey all! I might not have made it around to every single prompt this year, but I'm still proud of what I did accomplish for @wordplayfics!

Week 1: Hill - Don't Tell Them Anything (Please) / E - 3k

A Niall-centric love letter to slashers and murder plots.

Week 2: Asset - N/A

Week 3: Seal - the champagne bottle seal breaks / NR - 85

A short poem about H and L's big day.

Week 4: Lawyer - The Devil and Zayn Malik / NR - 634

When the Devil needs an advocate, who does he turn to?

Week 5: Publish - don't try to wake me / NR - 864

Harry's having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

homosociallyyours

King Me, Baby

by homosociallyyours 2k, Teen, Girl Direction, Larry

Inspired by watching King of Drag, Harry uses her skills as a former king to help Louis develop a drag persona of her own.

Louis is pleased with the persona she creates, British titan of industry "Philip Cunnies," but when she meets Harry's drag persona-- the genderbending Randy Dandy --she knows who she'd crown the king of drag (and her heart).

Written as part of @wordplayfics for prompt 9.1: hill

Make sure to check out all the fics in the collection here!

alwaysmadeatmidnights

90,000 Heartbeats

by me (alwaysmadeatmidnights)

Publishing wasn’t always about words. Harry’s chest locked tight onstage, but it wasn’t just his lungs that betrayed him—it was the thousands of camera phones capturing every desperate gasp. He’d spent years hiding the inhalers, the hospital trips, the moments of weakness. But secrets don’t stay secrets forever—and the world found out in the worst way possible, during three nights at Wembley Stadium in 2014. Luckily, Harry doesn't have to navigate troubles waters alone, as his friend Niall is by his side, always.

Words: 9,553, Chapters: 4/4, Language: Englisch

Fandoms: One Direction (Band)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, , Louis Tomlinsom, Liam Payne

Relationships: Harry Styles & Niall Horan

Additional Tags: Niall Horan & Harry Styles Friendship, Best Friends, Asthmatic Harry Styles, Panic Attacks, Asthma, Medical Drama / Health Anxiety, Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Angst with Happy Ending, Slow Burn Emotional Growth, Band Dynamics, Realistic Health Depiction, Medical Inaccuracies, Supportive Friends, Mention of Alcohol and Cigarettes, Underage Drinking, Underage Smoking, Canon Compliant, Wordplay Fic Challenge (One Direction)

Read the first chapter on AO3 here.

Written for @wordplayfics promt 9.5 "Publish".