SALT AND PEPPER FEST 2020 - PROMPTING IS OPEN

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PROMPTING FOR THE SALT AND PEPPER FEST IS OPEN! Now 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 Sunday, Nov 17th (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

[lightofdaye]

Prompt:Retirement is the biggest problem their relationship has had in years
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Ron/Hermione
Theme/Tone:could be serious and angst or the opposite and played for silliness/humour
Additional Info:Hermione especially I think would have problems switching off and not working.

[torino10154]

Prompt: Married for twenty years and divorced for ten, Hermione is surprised to find the flames of attraction rekindled when she bumps into Viktor Krum.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Viktor
Theme/Tone: Romance and/or smut
Additional Info: I'm thinking they see each other/work together at a Wizarding conference or significant anniversary (final battle, tri-wizard tournament, Quidditch World Cup, etc) but whatever scenario you come up with would be lovely.

Prompt #1

[gracerene]

I had to leave this one again...

Prompt: The apocalypse would have much easier to handle if they were still in their twenties.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Harry
Theme/Tone: Up to you!
Additional Info: Go wild! Basically just your standard apocalypse!fic but from the POV of older characters. Take it wherever you'd like!

Prompt #2

[gracerene]

Prompt: After the death of her husband, she has no interest in getting married again or even dating, thank you very much, but she still has needs. Luckily her best friend is willing to help her out.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any femslash BFF pairing
Theme/Tone: sexy, fun, comforting
Additional Info: Would prefer if it doesn't end with big romantic feelings, but rather just two best friends who share everything together/are platonic soulmates, even when sex is added in. Bonus points if the best friend has a partner of their own/is in an open relationship.

[ravenclawsquill]

Prompt: Millicent's determined to show Ginny just how much fun retirement can be.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Butch!Millicent Bulstrode / Ginny Weasley
Theme/Tone: Any! I see this as a light fic with plenty of banter and a dash of gentlemanly romance from Millie, but go wherever the mood takes you.
Additional Info: Millie keeping Ginny occupied in the months after her retirement (from her job as a Quidditch Pundit / Sports Reporter, perhaps?). Millie's plans could include trying new hobbies, travelling to new places, or just about anything else! Established relationship or friends to lovers, the call is yours...

Prompt #3

[gracerene]

Prompt: They're too old to care about the scandal it would cause if it got out. They've waited over 50 years to be together; they're not wasting any more time.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Albus Severus/James Sirius preferred, but really any sibling incest pairing is fine!
Theme/Tone: Longing, smut
Additional Info: Take this wherever you'd like!

Prompt #4

[gracerene]

Prompt: After the [divorce and/or death of spouse], Harry & Ron are tired of their friends and family constantly trying to set them up out of concern for them being alone at their age. They decide to pretend to date each other to get everybody off their back and, well, you know how the rest goes. :)
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Ron (or Harry/Draco)
Theme/Tone: light, humourous, romantic
Additional Info: friends to lovers, nobody being surprised about them dating

Prompt #5

[gracerene]

Prompt: Molly loves her children and her husband, and has genuinely enjoyed dedicating her life to caring for them, but she's more than a wife and mother, more than cooking and cleaning and playing an almost invisible supporting role in their lives. She has dreams and goals and passions, and with her children grown and settled, it's time for her to start perusing them.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Molly-centric (background Molly/Arthur)
Theme/Tone: hopeful, energetic, thoughtful
Additional Info: Up to you what those dreams of Molly's are, but basically I'd love a character study exploring Molly as a person and a woman, outside of her identities as a wife and mother.

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: The after party of Harry's retirement party.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Charlie, Harry/Fred, Harry/Justin Finch-Fletchley
Theme/Tone: Smutty, fluff, comedy
Additional Info: Please no death or mental illness! Just after something fun!

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: Word finally gets back to Regulus that the war has ended. It's been many long years in hiding, without knowing what happened to any of his friends. How many of them are still alive, and what will their reactions be when he returns?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Regulus/Severus, Sirius, Minerva, Remus, whoever you think would be good for the prompt, really!
Theme/Tone: Angst, fluff
Additional Info: Please no death or mental illness. Also doesn't have to be a pairing thing, if you don't want.

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: They have worked together for years now. How can it be so difficult to admit to feelings that both of them have?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Harry, Charlie/Draco
Theme/Tone: Smut, fluff
Additional Info: Happy ending, please!

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: They get out of Azkaban on the same day. Now what?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Rabastan Lestrange/Antonin Dolohov
Theme/Tone: Go wild!
Additional Info: If you don't want to go the "they learned their lesson" route, feel free to have them go out in blazing glory! XD

[themightyflynn]

Prompt: He is old, ugly and scarred. She is even older and sick of his shit.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus/Rosmerta
Theme/Tone: Comedy!
Additional Info: Established relationship appreciated!

Prompt #6

[gracerene]

Prompt: They say it's a miracle that the transformation didn't kill them at their age. It doesn't feel much like a miracle to them.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any!
Theme/Tone: hope, angst
Additional Info: Basically a late-in-life creature transformation! Up to you if you go the gen or pairing route.

[anguis_1]

Prompt: Unbeknownst to the younger Weasleys, the Burrow’s impossible architecture is sustained only through sex magic. When the children were small, it was quite a feat to renew the charms in every room without incident. Now that the nest is empty. . . .
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Arthur/Molly
Additional Info: Do we get to see them going wild? reminiscing about all of the close calls while they luxuriate in finally being able to take it slow in every room? giving an eyeful to some/all of their offspring and families who stop by for a surprise visit?

Prompt: A couple makes love for the last time.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: I enjoy the characters on the periphery, but a good Severus/Hermione would fit well, too.
Additional Info: Is it the last time because one (or both) of them dies? because one of them gets injured or becomes impotent? because one of them is developing dementia or has a degenerative disease? Do they know it’s the last time, or is that only revealed later?

Prompt: It’s taken decades, but George finally finds someone who’s willing to share him with a ghost.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: I’m partial to Millicent being strong enough not to be a neglected third wheel but enough of a damaged character herself to know better than to try to evict Fred from their marriage.
Theme/Tone: angsty but hopeful?
Additional Info: a relationship that looks dysfunctional from the outside, but the view from within is quite another story

Prompt: someone is 50+ and entering the first romantic relationship of their lives
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Argus Filch? Dennis Creevey? Irma Pince? Gregory Goyle? Millicent Bulstrode? Filius Flitwick? Dudley Dursley? Stan Shunpike? Pomona Sprout? someone else?
Theme/Tone: anything but crack
Additional Info: It’d be nice for it not to be AU, so anyone for whom there is no canonical evidence of a romantic relationship before the age of 50. Give the underloved characters some attention!

Prompt: the effects of aging on magical tattoos
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Charlie Weasley? someone totally unexpected? (Maybe Molly or Minerva has one? or Argus? Neville? Maybe Severus has something besides the Dark Mark embedded in his skin?)
Additional Info: I’d adore an exploration of the magic and/or science behind magical tattoos.

Prompt: Dudley stuck with boxing after Smeltings. He wasn’t anything amazing, but he had a moderately successful career. Now he’s 50 or 60, and the consequences of getting bashed around for years are starting to impinge on his daily life (not only the physical things like wear and tear on the body, but also the neurological, like chronic traumatic encephalopathy).
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Dudley Dursley
Theme/Tone: angsty but hopeful
Additional Info: This could be gen, but I kind of like the idea of some sort of relationship, too. Maybe he has a wife, and they have to negotiate his decline together. Maybe he’s an old bachelor trying to manage these things alone, and a romantic interest stumbles into his life at (what he imagines to be) the worst moment possible.

Prompt: Unbeknownst to the wizarding world, Snape didn’t die in DH. Instead, he lost his magic, and in the process gained a Muggle’s lifespan and age phenotype. He disappeared into Muggle London. Several decades later, a previous acquaintance bumps into a frail old man. . . .
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape; could be gen, or could take a romantic turn (I fancy Millicent in that role, but perhaps that’s just me.)
Theme/Tone: anything but crack

Feelings never fade

[divertazsc]

Prompt: Harry and Draco come face to face after years of denial at the wedding of their grandchildren.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry and Draco
Theme/Tone: Pining and
Additional Info: The old trope of H/D doing what was expected and having the traditional family, when what they wanted was something different.

There at the end

[divertazsc]

Prompt: Who will take care of you in the end. Draco gave up his chance of happiness when he let Harry go. Now in failing health he is all alone ...

Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry and Draco

Theme/Tone: Hurt / Comfort

Additional Info: Harry come to the rescue again.

Sexy Seniors

[divertazsc]

Prompt: After a messy breakup Harry or Draco reenters the dating scene. Now seen as a Daddy and attracting twinks by the dozen they first relish their new found out and loud life. But can they keep this up?

Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Draco endgame

Theme/Tone: Humor

Additional Info: Have fun with H/D in clubs, using Grinder and trying new things, while the other looks on in horror.

[kiertorata]

Prompt: southern country gays on a ranch AU
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any combination of Minerva, Pomona, Rolanda and Poppy
Theme/Tone: any!
Additional Info: badass, self-reliant women!

[kiertorata]

Prompt: song prompt: Kate Rusby - As The Lights Go Out
Suggested Characters/Pairings: any
Theme/Tone: soft, hopeful or bittersweet
Additional Info:

[anidot90]

Prompt: The Boy who Lived turns 50 tomorrow. The Wizarding World is holding a Gala in his honour. Harry hates this. When Hermione gives him an out, he takes it.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Pansy
Theme/Tone: Angst with an open optimistic ending
Additional Info: Running away from the fame, divorced!Harry is reflective about his life. He then bumps into a old classmate.

Prompt: Draco never imagined himself turning into Snape.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Fluff
Additional Info: Draco becomes the Potions Professor at Hogwarts, he is divorced and alone. Hermione is the head mistress who hired him.

Prompt: Hogwarts is celebrating its Anniversary and the new headmistress Luna Lovegood has invited all of her old friends for the week-long celebration. Nargles included!
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Golden Trio with non-canon partners ex: Harry/Daphne or Pansy, Hermione/Draco or Theo Nott, Ron/Original Character
Theme/Tone: Humour

Prompt: Hermione is determined to show Draco that sex gets better after 50!
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Smut!!!!

[ayebydan]

Prompt:Sirius is fifty now and has seen Harry through the war, into marriage, and kids. The lad has been to a therapist, got his head sorted and now happily holds down a day job. Sirius has done his duties to James and Lily and Harry and happily allows snot nosed kids to call him grandpa but now it is time for him.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Sirius/Narcissa, Sirius/Severus, Sirius/Andy, Sirius/any
Theme/Tone: A look at how the war really beat them all down and getting over it was not an easy thing.
Additional Info: Jaded but still hopeful Sirius. Unehelpful grandchildren lols are a bonus

[ayebydan]

Prompt: They sit down and decide whether to stay at Hogwarts under Snape or get out while they can.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva / Poppy
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

[ayebydan]

Prompt: For over three decades Harry Potter has asked Pansy Parkinson if she had a nice lunch as passes her reception desk back to the office she guards from the public but today he stops before he leaves and asks if she might like to join him.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry /Pansy past Harry/Ginny
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info:

[ayebydan]

Prompt: The Black family has been dominant for centuries but have never been blessed with the long life other wizarding families have. Andromeda finds the days are getting harder and must put her affairs in order before her grandson has raised the age of majority.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Andromeda, Harry, Ginny, Teddy, Molly, Arthur, Narcissa
Theme/Tone:
Additional Info: