Salt and Pepper Fest: Prompting is now 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 five 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 Sat, Nov 15th (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: Quidditch is a young wizard’s sport. What is Viktor getting up to in his retirement?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Viktor, somewhere 50+
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

[lijahlover.livejournal.com]

Prompt:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUCX9EddXj8
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: Flangst is good, romance and a happy ending
Additional Info:I adore this song and would like to see were you could go with working it into a fic.

[lijahlover.livejournal.com]

Prompt:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd4j1Ms1VYE
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco past Harry/Ginny and Draco/Astoria
Theme/Tone:Funny, Happy, friendship and they both can't believe they have a second chance at love
Additional Info:They fight off the feelings at first and then realize it's hopeless. If I have to crawl upon the floor come crashing through your door baby I can't fight this feeling anymore.

[anemonen.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Harry kept in touch regularly with Dudley ever since the war, but was never able to reconcile with Petunia and Vernon. One day when he meets Dudley, Dudley tells him that Petunia is in her last days and would like to see Harry one last time.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry, Petunia, Dudley
Theme/Tone: up to the author. It can be bitter, reconciling, sad
Additional Info: I'll let how the meeting goes be up to you.

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[torino10154]

Prompt: Severus is invited to Harry Potter's 50th birthday charity gala. Armed with the Wizarding world's answer to Viagra, he proceeds to make up for so many long, dark years of celibacy.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Harry, Severus/Draco, Severus/pretty much anyone
Theme/Tone: Filthy smut and OTT humor
Additional Info: Whether Severus sticks with one person or takes them all in turn, is entirely up to you. ;) I was thinking slash pairings but if you're more of a het (or both!) person, have at it.

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Harry and Draco (or the m/m pairing of your choice, really), get together after many years with other people, I imagine it'd be their canon wives. They don't think they have to take precautions until, bam, one of them ends up pregnant. How do they deal with a later in life pregnancy?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: humor rather than anything too serious.
Additional Info: It would be interesting to see their canon children deal with a new half sibling.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

Prompt: Hermione is now the Headmistress of Hogwarts and has to find someone to cover one of the classes for a brief amount of time. Attraction leads to a one night stand, which then happens again... and again... until the substitute leaves.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Katie Bell, Hermione/Cho Chang, Hermione/any female character of your choice!
Theme/Tone: passionate, funny (no crack please), desk-rocking, teasing, sexual tension galore!
Additional Info: Hermione and others don't have to be married, would prefer the focus be on pleasure than angst.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

Prompt: During a reunion of Dumbledore's Army, Neville finds himself making a few drunken confesssions to Luna.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Luna/Neville, Luna/Neville/Hannah
Theme/Tone:humor, UST or slow build up to sex
Additional Info:

Five prompts

[bonfoi.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Graveyard Shift
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape/Remus Lupin; Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks (past)
Theme/Tone: Flangst (fluffy angst); Unresolved Sexual Tension that could/does become Resolved; Learning to love
Additional Info: Moonless night, they meet again by Dumbledore's tomb.

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Prompt: 50th Anniversary Portrait
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger; portrait!Severus/portrait!Remus
Theme/Tone: humor, bittersweet memories, established relationship
Additional Info: After X-decades as a threesome, Hermione decides to fix a date and have a 50th anniversary, with a bit of input from a cranky portrait.

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Prompt: First Grey Hare
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter; Remus Lupin
Theme/Tone: growing old gracelessly (you read that correctly! *g*), humor, fantasy, adventure
Additional Info: Either Harry or Draco sees their first, pernicious grey hare (yep, I wrote that) and realizes they aren't getting any younger and there are things that need to be done before they're too old to do them.

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Prompt: Where Old Generals Go
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Voldemort, Dumbledore, George Weasley
Theme/Tone: roundtable discussion of skirmishes, real and imaginary, with portraits and ghosts and perhaps a friend and then some?
Additional Info: This could be a dream, a fantasy, or an actual meeting. Or not.

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Prompt: Playing Dress-up
Suggested Characters/Pairings: pre-slash Harry/Draco; Pansy/Ron (what happened to Hermione is author's choice)
Theme/Tone: humor, bittersweet, flangst (fluffy angst), forgiveness
Additional Info: An anniversary dinner honoring all those who survived the Battle of Hogwarts brings out the sweet and sour of those who attend. And, maybe even bleeds off some of the anger, too.

[gracerene]

Prompt: It's been a few years since the end of the war. Molly and Arthur still deal with the pain of losing their son.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Arthur/Molly
Theme/Tone: hopeful, loving, comforting, with that undertone of sadness
Additional Info: The death of a child isn't something you ever get over. I'd like this to be a few years on, so the pain isn't fresh, but something they endure by finding comfort in each other and in their family.

[gracerene]

Prompt: Older married couple are having a rather enthusiastic shag, when to everybody's horror, one (or several) of their children interrupt.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco or Arthur/Molly
Theme/Tone: funny, sexy and then awkward, horrified offspring, embarrassed but slightly smug parents (because damn they still got it)
Additional Info: Maybe the couple is getting it on outside of the bedroom now that their kids are all moved out, but they forgot to shut the Floo...

[youcantseeus.livejournal.com]

Prompt: When Teddy and Victoire were in their 20s/early 30s, they went through a messy divorce partly because they had a werewolf child and one of them didn't handle that well. Now, they're both in their 50s, their kids are grown up, and Teddy and Victoire are realizing how much they still love one another.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Teddy/Victoire
Theme/Tone: Reflective, bittersweet, can be angsty if the author desires
Additional Info: I'd love it if you could include other family members like the Weasleys or their (OC) children in this.

[youcantseeus.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Character A and character B have been married or in a relationship for decades. Late in life, A decides that he or she wants to try an open relationship or a poly relationship. How does the couple deal with this?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any, but I don't want to read about a heterosexual male looking for a new girlfriend.
Theme/Tone: smutty, dramatic, maybe a little angsty
Additional Info: Every character involved in the romantic or sexual activity should be above the age of fifty -- in other words I'm not interested in reading about an older character wanting to fool around on his or her partner with a young character.

[youcantseeus.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Harry and Draco had a brief affair as teenagers before going their separate ways. Now, they're both mature gentlemen and they are pushed together by circumstances.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco
Theme/Tone: No fluff, otherwise go any way you want with it.
Additional Info: I would prefer epilogue compliance.

[youcantseeus.livejournal.com]

Prompt: They raise Teddy together.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Andromeda Tonks/Lyall Lupin (Remus's father)
Theme/Tone: Anything other than fluff or humor.
Additional Info: So, the research I've done on this seems to indicate that Andromeda was born between 1951 and 1955. Which means that when Teddy was born in 1998 she was probably somewhere between 43 and 47. So this fic wouldn't necessarily take place when Teddy was an infant. Or you could just fudge the numbers a bit.

[youcantseeus.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Harry and Draco share or are about to share a grandchild in common (meaning that Scorpius is having a kid with one of the Potter kids -- Harry and Draco aren't in an established relationship in this). They get a little competitive when it comes to providing their new grandchild with the best of everything.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco or Harry & Draco.
Theme/Tone: Humor with witty banter.
Additional Info: Have fun!

[writcraft]

Prompt: Molly and Arthur reflect on their years together.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Molly/Arthur
Theme/Tone: Comfortable, contemplative. I was thinking upbeat for this, but feel free to break my heart, if you wish ;-)
Additional Info: It would be lovely if the focus could be on Molly and Arthur and their relationship, as opposed to the wider family.

[writcraft]

Prompt: Severus has been enjoying his anonymity in the Muggle world ever since the war ended. The last thing he expected when drinking in his local watering hole was to bump into Argus Filch and that damned cat.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape/Argus Filch
Theme/Tone: Irritated, snarky
Additional Info: Emotion-free sex to scratch an itch, with lots of grousing at one another would be fun.

[writcraft]

Prompt: “youth is a marvelous garment” (Iris Murdoch) - when you have always considered your mind your greatest strength, how do you deal with the signs that it might start to fail you?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any one of Poppy, Minerva or Pomona either gen, paired together, or paired with Wilhelmina.
Theme/Tone: Reflective, sad or hopeful as you wish
Additional Info: Have fun with it!

[writcraft]

Prompt: "Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (Dylan Thomas) - Although life has taken them in different directions, the Trio always remained close. How will those left behind cope when the Trio becomes two.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry, Ron, Hermione with whatever pairings you wish
Theme/Tone: Angsty, Major Character Death
Additional Info: I'd say have fun, but...

[writcraft]

Prompt: Horace knows that a long time ago he did a terrible thing. EITHER (1) Character A is a welcome distraction OR (2) Being with Character B is how Horace repents
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Horace Slughorn/any other character of 50+ at the time of Half Blood Prince.
Theme/Tone: Choose whatever suits the pairing
Additional Info: Have fun!

[hpgoldenage_mod]

Prompt: This photo and story as inspiration
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Older woman/younger man (Narcissa, Minerva, Poppy, Hermione, Luna?)
Theme/Tone: Longing, romance, reflection, sexy times
Additional Info: The details of the story are meant as a jumping off point. Use what you like, change what you don't.

[nearlyconscious.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any pairing you like, bonus if it's femslash and angsty
Theme/Tone: flangsty? or any other if you're inspired otherwise!
Additional Info:

[nearlyconscious.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Every finger in the room was pointing at me, I wanna spit
In their faces then I get afraid of what that could bring
I got a bowling ball in my stomach, I got a desert in my mouth
Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Andromeda/Daphne
Theme/Tone: hurt/comfort, post-war flangst, darkish
Additional Info: two Slytherins that turned their backs on their families' blood purist ideals and paid a high price for it (optional)

[nearlyconscious.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Narcissa is a widow. She knows pining on her son's best friend is ridiculous, but she just can't help it.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Narcissa/Pansy
Theme/Tone: romance, smut, whatever you like
Additional Info: the pining can be reciprocated or not. it can have a happy ending, or not.