Over 40 Fest Ficathon

Nice things to find on the internet when you're up at an ungodly hour because of your parents' cat: this ficathon. IT IS AS IF THEY MADE IT JUST FOR ME.

Well, me and Selena. And all the other Londo and G'Kar et.al. lovers, naturally, and of course everyone who likes their Charles and Erik and Mystique Old School, the Javert and Valjean fans from Les Mis fandom, the people who adore the SpyRents generation from Alias, everyone who loves Jean-Luc Picard and Kai Winn Adami and Giles and Laura Roslin and Walter Bishop, not to mention the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, and hey, Evelyn Smythe is totally on topic for this ... aaaaaand now I am going to stop this sentence before it gets any more ridiculous.

And they let people submit up to fifty prompts. I don't think I'd have any trouble getting to fifty characters, the only question is whether I could get to fifty different fandoms while I was at it. Possibly not, as otherwise I'd have to prompt Zhaan, Scorpius, Crais and Rygel all in the same prompt. Which would surely make for an interesting story, but would a pretty tall order.

So, what I am saying is: let us all go and prompt things about people over forty.

(Footnote: I think the cat is unhappy because my mother isn't here. Why this makes a difference to her at four in the goddamn morning when she sleeps in a different part of the house entirely, I have no idea. At least dad is deaf in one ear and doesn't hear so well with the other, so he's slept through the whole thing even though the cat is half-Siamese.)

I May Have Got Somewhat Carried Away ...

I really did write fifty prompts for the Over 40 Fest. Which means that almost a third of the current prompts are by me. Given that my initial rough list had seventy characters on it, I think I did pretty well to condense things down that far.

Luckily, I was able to remove a few characters from the list when I saw that other people had already posted prompts for them. (Not that it stopped me for asking for more Londo Mollari and Charles Xavier. Because when has it ever?) Some others I didn't prompt because I didn't think of anything specific before I ran out of room include: Nina Sharp, Philip Broyles, Albus Dumbledore, Elim Garak, Gul Dukat, Ellen and Saul Tigh, Marcus Dixon and the Derevko sisters who aren't Irina. And it seems like there should be some Jedi Knights on that list, but there aren't. Do with that information what you will.