Salt and Pepper Fest 2017: Prompting is Closed!

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PROMPTING FOR THE SALT AND PEPPER FEST IS OPEN! closed!

Before you run off to leave us all your fab prompts, please check out the general rules for this fest and the prompting guidelines below!

Prompt Guidelines

1. Anyone can leave a prompt regardless of whether or not you're planning on claiming one. Submitting a prompt doesn't commit you to anything.

2. You can leave up to seven prompts. Prompts can be in the same comment or listed separately.

3. Prompts must be relevant to the theme of this community - any canon character at 50+. (i.e. a prompt focusing on Harry as a young parent would not fit.)

4. That said, we want all sorts of prompts! Fluffy, angsty, light or dark, gen, slash, femslash, het, threesome/moresome, character studies, mysteries, drama, comedy--anything goes!

5. Keep in mind that this is not a gift exchange. Your name will not be listed with your prompt in the claiming stage or when the fest is posting. Claimers will also be able to deviate from the prompt if their muse goes in a different direction (switch out characters, go with a different overall tone, etc.)

6. Prompts may be edited for clarity.

7. Prompting is open now until the end of Monday, Nov 14th (midnight, EST). We'll edit this post when prompting is closed.


Prompt Form

Leave your prompts by filling out this form in a comment below!

<b>Prompt:</b> <b>Suggested Characters/Pairings:</b> <b>Theme/Tone:</b> <b>Additional Info:</b>

Brief explanation of the form:

Prompt: Can be as simple (word, phrase, song lyric) or as specific as you like. Please do not outline an entire plot, however. :D
Suggested Characters/Pairings: This is optional and can be left blank if you'd like!
Theme/Tone: Fluffy, angsty, etc. The overall mood. Also can be left blank if you'd like!
Additional Info: Here you can leave likes, dislikes, squicks, or anything else that doesn't fit above, but keep in mind that as this is not a gift, creators will not be required to stick strictly to these things. Also optional and can be left blank if you'd like!

Comments

[anguis-1.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Severus Snape survived 70 years without __________. He’s pretty sure he can survive 70 more.
Theme/Tone: anything but crack
Additional Info: Fill in the blank: reciprocated love? romance? sex? the respect of his peers? adoration from his students? kindness? cuddling? something else?

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Prompt: it's hard getting old it's even harder getting old and being hated and alone so when he sees he sees him he thinks he may not be alone forever
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Ron /, Blaise
Theme/Tone:angst
Additional Info:

Prompt #7

[gracerene]

Prompt: Twenty-five years ago, Draco and Albus had a passionate affair. They were all set up to come clean and be together for real, when suddenly Draco and his wife moved to Paris without a word, leaving Albus heartbroken. Now Draco's back in Britain--minus a wife--and it quickly becomes clear that Albus isn't as over Draco as he likes to pretend. But Albus isn't so sure he's ready to forgive and forget.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Albus Severus or Draco/James Sirius
Theme/Tone: angst, romance, bittersweet
Additional Info: Up to you why Draco left in the first place--though I'd prefer for it not to have anything to do with him not wanting to be with ALbus. Maybe Scorpius or Harry found out about the affair and convinced him that Albus was better off without him? I'd love a happy ending with this one. :)

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Draco had honestly thought tat he was too old for the walk of shame.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Severus, Draco/Percy, Draco/Harry
Theme/Tone: Humour, sexy

[capitu]

Prompt: Harry and Draco are moving in together, but Draco being a pure-blood wizard is just not used to all the Muggle artefacts Harry insists in having in their new house, and really, he's too told to be learning this stuff. Chaos ensues when he tries.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco, but really, any pure-blood/Muggle-born, Muggle raised couple would be grand. :)
Theme/Tone: Humour!

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

Prompt: After she retires from Hogwarts, Poppy Pomfrey volunteers at St Mungo's. One of the healers there is Millicent Bulstrode, who is much more interesting at 50 than when she was at 11 or 15 or 17.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Millicent/Poppy
Theme/Tone: anything but crack
Additional Info: This prompt could work as either friendship or pairing

Prompt: Minerva is finding retirement much more difficult than she expected. Then, to her shock, she finds romance with _____________.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva/anyone except Trelawney or Hagrid
Theme/Tone: anything but crack or total fluff
Additional Info: No incest, please, or mommy/daddy play

Prompt: Goyle at 50
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Goyle and anyone you like
Theme/Tone: anything but crack
Additional Info: What's Greg been up to? What is he like now?

Prompt: Against her better judgment, the Headmistress has a one-night stand. Surprise! 72 is not too old for a witch to get pregnant after all.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva/any male
Theme/Tone: anything but crack. It may be humorous and celebratory, or bittersweet and angsty.
Additional Info: I usually stay far away from pregnancy stories, but what the hell.

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Prompt: it's hard being a aging professor at hogwarts it's even harder when the man you love does notice you but he needs to get up and ask him out
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Neville /, draco
Theme/Tone: angst
Additional Info:

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Prompt: she didn't think she was meant to have happiness and now fifty and being courted by someone is all strange and new
Suggested Characters/Pairings: draco /luna
Theme/Tone:cute romantic
Additional Info:

[(Anonymous)]

Prompt: After they retire, Minerva, Poppy, Pomona and Rolanda live together in Minerva's Scottish abode, like the Golden Girls.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any or gen
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: Argus Filch is getting on in years, so the current headmaster urges him to retire. Whereas the students may look down on him and the teachers may see him as a cantankerous nuisance, the castle itself appreciates the faithful care and devotion and intervenes.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Argus Filch & Mrs Norris (or successor), any or gen
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: please no onstage cat death

Prompt: Both teen angst and midlife crisis were great failures for him, but old age obstinacy might be exactly Snape's thing.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any or gen
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: These days he craves intimacy so much more than sex. If only that wouldn't make him feel like the mushiest sap in history.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any slash with a stoic/reticent/stern character
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: Aging is different for centaurs than it is for humans.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Firenze, any or gen
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: A group of kids in Place Of Your Choice are convinced that the old cottage in the woods is haunted. They often hear different voices talking, laughing, arguing, when they are close by, but they never see anyone except the owner. Now they only have to find out, whether the old man living there is a ghost, too.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Remus Lupin, any slash or gen
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

Prompt: Going on 100 - frail, hard of hearing and with creaking joints - Remus Lupin is happier than ever.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any slash or gen
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: preferably avoiding Remus/Tonks altogether

[shiftylinguini.livejournal.com]

OMG! it's The Video

[goddess47]

Prompt: Growing old sucks
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: hopeful, any
Additional Info:



Prompt: Finaly having time for hobbies (that maybe the partner/significant other didn't even know about)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: humor, misunderstandings
Additional Info:



Prompt: "I'm not old enough for to be a grandfather/gradnmother!"
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: humor
Additional Info: can be an honorary grandparent

[candamira.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Along the coast road, by the headland
the early lights of winter glow.
I'll pour a cup to you my darling.
Raise it up --- say Cheerio.
(Cheerio, by Jethro Tull)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: nostalgic, loving
Additional Info: Only a suggestion, feel free to take this wherever you want!
After Draco died, Harry reads diary entries of Draco's most cherished memories of their time together and travels the places to remember and let go.

[candamira.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Aged Harry is lost in depression. At the morning of the first Monday after Draco's funeral, he finds a phial with a pensieve-message from his dead husband, ordering him to do something they always wanted to do together, but never managed to. From now on, phials with new orders arrive every Monday morning, slowly guiding Harry back to life.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry / Draco
Theme/Tone: sad, turning to hopeful, with some light/funny moments/memories

[candamira.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Harry and Draco, old, but hale and hearty, celebrate Christmas at Malfoy Manor with their whole bunch of a family. Of course, the two Ex-Aurors can't but suspect criminal intentions everywhere. It shows they are right when a body is found in the library.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: humorous, old-fashioned whodunnit
Additional Info:

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

Prompt: James Sirius(/Albus Severus/Lily Luna) has spent his(/her) whole life trying to live up to what his(/her) parents would expect of him(/her). Now they're dead, and James feels a guilty sense of freedom.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: James/Albus, James/Teddy/Victoire, Albus/Scorpius, Lily/Victoire/Teddy, Lily/Scorpius/Teddy, James/Albus/Teddy
Theme/Tone: sexy, naughty
Additional Info: threesomes or incest clearly come to mind as things that ones parents might be bothered by, but go wild...

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

Prompt:S/He knows that fifty used to seem old when s/he was younger, but now s/he's that age, and s/he doesn't feel any different at all. Why do people keep treating her/him like s/he's practically dead?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: See additional info
Theme/Tone: humorous, loving
Additional Info: Parent figures and their children? Potentially the two parents getting together and proving to their own satisfaction that they're not at all 'past it'?

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

Prompt: It wasn't really 'okay' to be gay when he was young, and Remus didn't want to cross any boundaries. Being a werewolf was enough. So he married Tonks, and they would have been happy together, he's sure, if she hadn't died in the war.

But now Teddy is a young man (or genderfluid if you prefer) and so open minded about sexuality that Remus starts wondering. Maybe it isn't too late to acknowledge a part of himself he'd always hidden away.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Remus/Sirius, Remus/Severus (people live, guys!), Remus/Charlie (Teddy'd have to be mid-twenties for that, but that's okay)
Theme/Tone: flangst, hopeful, happy ending
Additional Info:

[lilyeyes.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Harry is tired of being the Boy Who Lived/Chosen One/Defeater of Voldemort and wants to celebrate his 50th birthday quietly.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Harry
Theme/Tone: Romantic
Additional Info:

3.

[lightofdaye]

Prompt: Wizards live so long there are always second chances
Suggested Characters/Pairings:Harry/Cho, Harry/Parvati, Harry/Luna
Theme/Tone: sweet and sexy.
Additional Info:

[ruinsplume]

Prompt: They've been together for so many years now that sometimes they need to switch things up to keep it exciting.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Remus/Sirius
Theme/Tone: smutty!
Additional Info: Likes: true love, kink, wit, intensity, surprises. Dislikes: humiliation, mpreg, homophobia


Prompt: Yes, they're queer. And once in a while (or all the time? don't care), they do it with each other anyway. Queerly.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Remus/Tonks
Theme/Tone: Queer!
Additional Info: Likes: Tonks of book 5, bisexuality, smut, messing with gender roles, understanding that an M/F pairing can still be queer. Dislikes: Tonks of book 6, homophobia, humiliation, feminization

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PROMPTING IS CLOSED.

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Omg, you prompted it!!! Hahahaha! Ftw, Birds. :-DDD

[birdsofshore]

♥

Tempted? :D