In what has become a semi-tradition for the snupin_santa build-up, the chat room got together tonight and brainstormed. Behind the cut are several art and fic prompts that are free for you to use for your snupin_santasign-up! You can use the prompts as-is or modify them for your own tastes, or use them for inspiration for entirely new prompts.
Just remember, these are for Snupin_Santa participants exclusively until sign-ups are over!
Art prompt - morning cup of tea in the kitchen. Sunlight, steam, relaxation. Art prompt - an evening on the couch: Remus reading to Sev, while Sev pets his hair. Art prompt - the night before the moon. Hyper aggressive, possessive Remus - fierce sex, Snape poised perfectly between fear and desire. NC-17. Art prompt - Lupin Designs an over the top drag queen outfit for severus. Art Prompt - Shibari (bondage). Lupin has Severus tied up and about to go nuts and explode while Lupin is taking his sweet time having fun with him. Art prompt - Snupin needs to crossover with super heroes.The Potions Master has vials of potions for weapons and Remus just sort of Werewolves out! He has red spandex speedos.
Fic prompt - a post first war fic using or inspired by this quote from The Negotiator: "when your friends betray you, sometimes the only people you can trust are strangers".
Fic prompt - this quote from Twilight...Lupin saying maybe sarcastically to Snape: "Well it’s all going to be okay because I’ve decided I definitely won’t eat you."
Fic prompt - post-war au where they survive but one is in hiding..."has my loving you helped or hurt you?"
Fic prompt - Minerva and Poppy are getting handfasted and have asked (established relationship) Severus and Remus to stand up with them. They agree, but there's something in their personal life that they keep disagreeing on throughout the lead-up and festivities. Ideas for problem:
Vacation? they never go anywhere. And they start out arguing about a vacation, but, really, it's about how stagnant their relationship has become? They could start talking about a vacation because Minerva and Poppy plan an around-the-world for a year honeymoon. Or, Severus wants to explore places like the Gobi Desert and Chichen Itza in quest of rare ingredients, while Remus wants to go to Italy and soak up culture.
Remus has been in the relationship all along thinking that Severus is very happy teaching... and Severus thinks Remus is perfectly happy doing research for his books... and they don't really talk about it... and really of course exactly the opposite is true. Remus longs to teach again and Severus would rather be doing independent research so they resent each other without really discussing it or acknowledging it.
Like all arguments, it starts as something simple and encompasses the entire relationship.
They're clashing over whether to raise Teddy as Jewish or Christian? ;)
Fic prompt - Virgin Snape being slowly seduced by Remus in some manner...they need something that will put them in contact...maybe Severus mis-handled a dangerous ingredient around Remus and they're stuck in a detox quarantine together. Hourly showers together required for....2 days!
Fic Prompt: Post-DH, Snape and Lupin live. The unicorns in the Forbidden Forest are dying out and they need a virgin sacrifice in order to recharge the pure magic that fuels their breeding. As Hogwarts is still closed for repairs, it falls to Severus to make the ultimate sacrifice. And if he falls to another virginal magical creature, so much the better. Remus just happens to be a virgin to male sex. Minerva & the Order put pressure on Remus in the same way they pressured him into marrying Tonks (he is not married now). And Severus is easy to put a guilt trip on, especially if Albus' portrait asks. He agrees if the unicorns will provide potions ingredients for life! Men surrounded by horrified unicorns not expecting two older men and we get to hear the unicorns' thoughts as they communicate with each other telepathically. Horns touching semen after climax required for the magical recharge!
Fic prompt - What if the new Minister of Magic, working closely with the Muggles, picks up the idea of the Olympics from the Muggles? So he decides to hold a wizarding Olympics to help bring wizards from other countries close together. Suggested events without edits: What about something like cricket... plus recreational dueling. Fencing... dressage with either hippogriffs or thestrals...A game like when you have a bunch of kids trying to keep a balloon from touching the ground, only they use charms to deflect it and it explodes when it hits? Lawn bowling with one or two balls that look just like the others, but when thrown cause all the balls to go crazy and randomly rearrange themselves...Parallel bars using only levitating charms? Curling using wands instead of brushes. Gnome-tossing. Swimming meets obstacle course. Animagus games - different classes of obstacle courses for different sized animal animagi.
Snape and Lupin are referees for several of the contests, but all the countries are trying all these magical ways of cheating and bribing them - they're being made crazy!
Or Snape and Lupin as coaches! Rival coaches with lovebird athletes who can't keep their minds on their game - and are soon just as distracted.
PWP in the Wizarding Olympic Village because we all know what goes on in the village after the cameras leave...
Or a scandal breaks out in some event over underage athletes being permitted to compete through enhancement potions - Snape the potions master has to do the drug test...Remus is a Ministry PR guy trying to keep Skeeter's ilk from getting the story, always checking in with Severus to see if the results are definitive yet.
Fic Prompt - Canon Compliant through OotP or HBP. In an attempt to protect the cubs of the pack Remus was spying on, on the dawn of the final battle, Snape (on the run, defecting, retired, Remus trying to get Snape out to protect him, too, whatever reason you want) and Remus take them to a safe house in the Alps. As Harry takes Voldy down, all the magic in the world is temporarily drained. Snape and Lupin are stuck in the Alps for a month with a pack of werewolf cubs and only a week's worth of supplies.
Fic prompt - Remus tracks Snape down after Sirius has been sentenced. Key words: rage, grief, guilt. Dialogue-heavy fight or dubcon-looks-like-noncon "punishment", so PG or NC-17.
Fic Prompt - historical AU, no wizards, with a werewolf menacing a village near the Black Forest (or some such place) - one young man is staked out for his crimes to be food for the beast, and ends up being "claimed" as a mate instead ;). YAY WEREWOLF CLICHES!
Fic Prompt - Non-magic, non-werewolf AU, with Remus a sailor on the ship commissioned for the gentleman explorer Severus Snape :). Secret smexin at sea in an unforgiving environment and era...
Fic Prompt - Scifi AU. Lycanthropy is a planet-wide epidemic, with the ferocity and madness (and time spent changed) increasing with every new lot of infected, and Severus is working on a virus to eradicate it... but it may be lethal for those infected for too long. His lab assistant and sometimes-lover, Remus, has been a werewolf since he was a little boy...
Other werewolf ideas: Remus was undercover for a while (even though JKR didn't do anything with it), so there's pack politics to explore, Snape acting as a liaison, werewolf culture...
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