SALT AND PEPPER FEST 2021 - PROMPTING IS CLOSED

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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 Saturday, 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

[delacourtings]

Prompt: It's been years since their spouses passed but both think they'll never be able to love again, especially not so late in life. But after a chance encounter with an old friend, they both realize you can have more than one love in a lifetime.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Viktor/Fleur
Theme/Tone: Sad but hopeful, angst with a happy ending
Additional Info:

[delacourtings]

Prompt: They had a brief but passionate affair in their early twenties but ended it because they didn't think they had a future. But the older Char A gets, the more they realize Character B is the only person they want to spend the rest of their days with.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Ron/Pansy, Neville/Pansy
Theme/Tone: Angst with a happy ending
Additional Info:

[smirkingcat]

Prompt:Being together for more than twenty years, and still enjoying the time you spend with your partner, and still being able to uncover something you did not know before.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Snape/Draco; Snape/George/Fred
Theme/Tone:Smut; Happiness, Love
Additional Info: obviously with Fred & George you have to go AU, please don't cut Fred out

[smirkingcat]

Prompt:Returning always feels like ending things, and preparing for new things. But what if Returning means also you can finally have things you never envisioned before.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Remus Lupin; Draco/ Firenzee
Theme/Tone:Nostalgia, Facing/Finding Oneself in someone else
Additional Info:

[smirkingcat]

Prompt:Viktor is retirering from the Quidditch League. It is only now, when he watches his children, and his husband, that he gets a feeling of what he might have all missed while travelling all over the world.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Victor Krum/Rom Weasley or Victor Krum/Blaise Zabini
Theme/Tone:Longing, Happiness, Love
Additional Info:if the children are adopted or natural or whatever is up to you

[smirkingcat]

Prompt:Theo has always been around and always been Blaise's best friend. He watched as Blaise slept himself through several countries without ever saying a thing. He certainly didn't tell Blaise about his sex-life, because that was just not going to happen. Still, it is kind of unfair, that now that Blaise is wanting to settle down, is the first time his friend is getting interested in him. And it's not like age has done anything to Blaise but make him even more sought after.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Theodore Nott/ Blaise Zabini
Theme/Tone:late blooming Romance, first Love, secret crush
Additional Info:

[ruarcher]

Prompt: Recently single and lonely, Harry and Bill find comfort in each other.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Bill
Theme/Tone: fluff / smut / light angst ??
Additional Info: two lonely old men discover what it is to be desired again.

[ruarcher]

Prompt: After a messy divorce, Harry thinks he's burned all his bridges with the weasleys. Bill surprises him, though.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Bill
Theme/Tone: hurt comfort / smut
Additional Info: Bill is the only one to check up on Harry after he and Ginny(?) split. They grow closer. Maybe Bill went through something similar with Fleur

[pauraque]

Prompt: They've always been kinky in the bedroom, and now that the kids have left home they're finally able to pursue a 24/7 D/s relationship.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any (doesn't have to be characters who canonically have kids)
Theme/Tone: Fun & loving, lots of focus on the characters' emotional satisfaction in their dominant or submissive roles, and how it strengthens their relationship.
Additional Info: Whatever flavor of D/s you like would be fine here, but if you want suggestions... Service submission? Daddy/Mummy kink? Petplay?

[pauraque]

Prompt: People always assumed he/she would eventually settle down with someone, but as he/she gets older, he/she only grows more confident in the choice to stay single. And it's awesome.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any would work. Luna? Minerva? Draco?
Theme/Tone: Learning to feel okay about being yourself, reaching the age where you no longer care about other people's judgements.
Additional Info: Could be an asexual character, but equally well could be someone who just prefers not to be in a relationship!

[pauraque]

Prompt: As she grows older, Narcissa comes to regret cutting off ties with her only surviving sister, and decides to contact her for the first time in decades.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Narcissa & Andromeda
Theme/Tone: Sad, bittersweet, hopeful?
Additional Info: Up to you what direction to take this. Maybe they can begin to rebuild a relationship -- or maybe they really can't. It'd also be interesting to include the reactions of the people around them (Lucius? Draco? Teddy?).

[pauraque]

Prompt: Luna is getting on in years, even for a witch, and decides to go on one last big creature-hunting adventure.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Luna & whoever you'd like to see her bring along
Theme/Tone: Bittersweet, uplifting
Additional Info:

[pauraque]

Prompt: S/he's been separated from the wizarding world for decades, but circumstances conspire to bring him/her back.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Any
Additional Info:

[schrodingercat7.livejournal.com]

Prompt: In her mid fifties she has a long and happy marriage, a bunch of successful children and an exciting career. All her world crashes down when the consequences of an old affair of her husband with a woman she considered a friend catch up with them.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger
Theme/Tone: angst
Additional Info: the friend could be Astoria or ginny? And the consequences they have to face can be anything: a "secret" child, blackmail, a scandal in Hermione's political career, or all of them combined

[kelly_chambliss]

1.
Prompt: Retired. Now what?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Pomona Sprout, Filius Flitwick, Minerva McGonagall, Rolanda Hooch. . .any Hogwarts teacher.
Theme/Tone: Could be bittersweet, humorous, dramatic. Anything but crack.

2.
Prompt: Gregory Goyle on his 50th birthday
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Goyle gen or any pairing you like
Theme/Tone: Anything but crack.
Additional Info: What has Greg been up to all these years? How has he changed (or has he)? How does he look back at the past?

3.
Prompt: After the death of a partner. . .
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry/Hermione
Theme/Tone: Anything but crack, though probably more serious than not.
Additional Info: Harry spent many wonderful years with Ginny, ditto Hermione with Ron. But now both their spouses have died. Will they find romance after all these years of friendship?

4.
Prompt: At a memorial marking the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, Minerva and Andromeda end up seated next to each other.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Andromeda Tonks/Minerva McGonagall
Theme/Tone: bittersweet
Additional Info: I envision the two of them being acquainted but not knowing each other well before this ceremony.

5.
Prompt: OMG! Now I'm as old as [X] was when they. . .
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Lots of possibilities; here are just a few: Hermione realizes that she's as old as McGonagall was during Hermione's first year; Ron realizes he's as old as his dad was when Ron's kids were born; Neville realizes he's as old his Gran was when she fought off Dawlish during the war. . .
Theme/Tone: Anything but crack.

6.
Prompt: Time travel: through whatever magical means you imagine, Character X comes face-to-face with their older selves.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any
Theme/Tone: Anything but crack

7.
Prompt: "Death closes all; but something ere the end / Some work of noble note, may yet be done" (Tennyson, "Ulysses")
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry, Ron, Hermione or McGonagall/Hooch or Kingsley Shacklebolt and old Ministry colleagues
Theme/Tone: Anything but crack. Maybe something autumnal yet with humor?
Additional Info: No one is denying getting old, but they want at least one more great adventure while they're still agile and sharp enough to enjoy it.

[chokolattejedi]

Prompt: She had been looking forward to being a grandmother, but not like this
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Augusta Longbottom
Theme/Tone: serious, wistful, comedy... anything but crack
Additional Info: When she has to raise Neville after the attack


Prompt: What does it feel like to teach the children of the children (of the children) of your students?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Minerva McGonagall, Flitwick, Sinistra, Sprout, other Hogwarts teachers
Theme/Tone: wistful? comedic? dramatic? crack ok
Additional Info: Does it feel like a family you are part of, or something denied?


Prompt: I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Harry or Trio
Theme/Tone: angst, wistful, h/c
Additional Info: The war never really left them, even so many decades later


Prompt: Muggleborn students finally convince her of the advances in Muggle astronomy. Can she change after doing it the same way for so long?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Aurora Sinistra
Theme/Tone: any except crack
Additional Info: Other professors welcome to join


Prompt: Nursing home pranks
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Marauders or Weasley twins/Harry
Theme/Tone: crack is fine, but also regular comedy, light angst
Additional Info: Gen is great. Sirius/James or Sirius/Remus is also fine, as is Twincest or Twins/Harry


Prompt: Taking a page from Muggle war veterans, survivors of the Voldemort wars reunite every few years. Every time there are fewer and fewer of them.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any of the students from that era
Theme/Tone: angst, h/c, memoir...
Additional Info:

[torino10154]

Prompt: Though divorced, Ginny has her career, she has her kids. What more does she need?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Ginny/Draco, Ginny/Luna, Ginny/[your choice]
Theme/Tone: Romantic, humorous, poignant
Additional Info: More about finding herself than finding romance, if that makes sense.

[torino10154]

Prompt: After his wife passes away, Draco takes up a new hobby: baking! At his son's insistence, he eventually opens a shop near the Ministry to sell his wares.
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Draco/Hermione, Draco/Luna, Draco/Ginny
Theme/Tone: Romantic, humorous

[torino10154]

Prompt: He considered her the one that got away. Do they have another chance more than 30 years later?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Greg/Millicent
Theme/Tone: Romantic, sweet/tender
Additional Info: Feel free to go where you like with it.

[torino10154]

Prompt: Being an Auror means Teddy gets to see his godfather all the time. When he sees Harry leaving with someone who is definitely not his wife, Teddy doesn't know what to do. Ignore it? Confront him?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Teddy, Harry/whoever
Theme/Tone: Mild angst, gen with onscreen relationships as secondary
Additional Info: Basically I see this as being about Harry's relationships from Teddy's POV, perhaps Teddy realizing his hero isn't infallible, that older adults sneak around or make ~arrangements within their marriages. Should be able to fit within the parameters of the fest.

[torino10154]

Prompt: Coming out later in life
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/female character of your choosing
Theme/Tone: Poignant, romantic, light angst
Additional Info: Would love to see her kids' acceptance but not necessary if you prefer to steer clear of canon.

[torino10154]

Prompt: Once a celebrity throughout the Wizarding World, he no longer can play Quidditch, he's down on his luck, and his vault is near empty. Can an old flame come to his rescue?
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Viktor, Oliver/Katie
Theme/Tone: Angsty, bittersweet
Additional Info: A happy ending isn't required but something slightly hopeful would be nice.

[torino10154]

Prompt: They've had an on-again, off-again relationship for years. Maybe the third (or is it fourth?) time's the charm!
Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any het pairing
Theme/Tone: Anything goes--could be humor, could be angst