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Scenes from Bronze Avery’s HEATWAVE music video - 2024

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A MONTH AND A HALF TO SUBMIT WORKS FOR ROUND 60!

Don't forget that rounds are two months long, so you have a lot of time to send something in.

Summer brings heat and with it brings stickiness. You can't help but cling onto things, onto people; things can't help but get glued to you. Whether you want to be sucked in or you want to rub it off your skin and wash it away, whether it's a simple bond or a great mess, it all comes down to this: you're staying put, at least for now.

The theme for Lights on Park Ave Round 60 is stickiness.

Here are the prompts:

"Sex Education" - Linda Pastan

A photo of Spanish moss on a humid morning in Charleston, SC swampland

Tim and Hawk dance half-naked and high at a club on Fire Island in 1979 in Fellow Travelers

An excerpt about a woman everyone is irresistibly attracted to from Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Rose and Jack's post-coital cuddling in James Cameron's Titanic

A photo of a car with steam coming out of it and a hand placed against the window

An excerpt about the protagonist's hyperawareness of everything around him on a walk from Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

"Sticky" - Tyler, the Creator feat. GloRilla, Sexyy Red and Lil Wayne

An illustration of a mermaid and octopus embracing

A photo of people sleeping on the beach at Coney Island because it was too hot to sleep indoors during a 1955 heat wave

"HEATWAVE" - Bronze Avery

Katey watches Javier and other people dance at a night club in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

A gifset of Steve in his wet white T-shirt in Captain America: The First Avenger

"September is Summer, Too, or It's Never Too Late to Be Uncomfortable" - Ogden Nash

A gifset of squishy strawberry milk tteok drizzled with syrup

A photo of a woman in a tight, wet T-shirt

A photo of honey dripping from one person's mouth and on another person's breast

"Bluegrass Rhapsody" - Cecilia Woloch

A photo of children enjoying melting ice cream in the car

A gifset from Luca Guadagnino's Challengers depicting Patrick always wanting to be by Art's side

A gifset of Murph and Cooper being each other's ghosts throughout the former's life and the latter's travels in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar

A gifset of Tony missing Steve throughout the years with a quote from Life of Pi by Yann Martell about Pi missing Richard Parker but still seeing him in his nightmares

Duncan spills his drink on Charlie's horrible ex-boss in Claire Scanlon's Set It Up

Tashi removes herself from making out with Art and Patrick, who enthusiastically continue to kiss each other, disregarding Tashi's presence, from Luca Guadagnino's Challengers

Round 60 will end on August 31, 11:59 PM ET (what time is that for me?).

As always, you’re free to jump in whenever you’d like during the round, a wide variety of work types is accepted, and there are no minimum work requirements. Unfinished works and works for other fandom events are allowed. You can find more information about Lights on Park Ave and the participation guidelines here.

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Too hot to sleep indoors, so they stretched out on the sand. Coney Island Beach, 1955.

Photo: Pictorial Parade via Getty Images/Buzzfeed

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Embrace

My print shop

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“He walks towards the edge of the field, his tread slow and heavy. He can feel the wooden handle of the scythe rub against his palm, the sweat that is trickling down his back and soaking the waistband of his trousers, he can smell the hot stones, the ripe wheat, the reek of the stables. He perceives with a new acuity the existence of each thing in itself, each detail that makes up the reality of this moment, and yet also their clandestine connection, their meshing into an indissoluble great whole: the white disc of the sun and the pulse of blood in his eardrums, the caw of a crow, the sound of his clogs on the dry ground […]”

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Animalia (trans. Frank Wynne)

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Photo ~ Ben Ward

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TITANIC (1997) directed by James Cameron

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“She was one of those languid women, made of dark honey, smooth and sweet, and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes- and all the while remain as still as the centre of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and women.”

— Patrick Süskind, Perfume

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FELLOW TRAVELERS 1x07 “White Nights” (2023) Dir. Destiny Ekaragha

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Spanish Moss on a Humid Morning in the Swampland, Charleston, SC

© Doug Hickok   More here… hue and eye tumblr

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Linda Pastan, from Insomnia: Poems; “Sex Education”

[Text ID: “I remember how you looked at me like, / how I looked back. / And spreading through my limbs / a sweetness, like honey.”]

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Happy birthday to Steve! Celebrate by looking at this Round 59 work.

If you missed out on participating, remember that you can always submit something for a round that already ended. You can find out more information about that in the guidelines.

You can see all of the prompts for Round 59 here. In addition to looking at this master list, you can search for works by rounds, creators, work types, ratings, and universes on this page and peruse the Lights on Park Ave AO3 collection.

Round 60 has now begun and will run until August 31. The theme is stickiness, and all the prompts can be found here.

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A manipulation of panels from Young Avengers v1 #4, July 2005, with text from the poem, “An Observation,” by May Sarton - @mission-critical

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Summer brings heat and with it brings stickiness. You can't help but cling onto things, onto people; things can't help but get glued to you. Whether you want to be sucked in or you want to rub it off your skin and wash it away, whether it's a simple bond or a great mess, it all comes down to this: you're staying put, at least for now.

The theme for Lights on Park Ave Round 60 is stickiness.

Here are the prompts:

"Sex Education" - Linda Pastan

A photo of Spanish moss on a humid morning in Charleston, SC swampland

Tim and Hawk dance half-naked and high at a club on Fire Island in 1979 in Fellow Travelers

An excerpt about a woman everyone is irresistibly attracted to from Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Rose and Jack's post-coital cuddling in James Cameron's Titanic

A photo of a car with steam coming out of it and a hand placed against the window

An excerpt about the protagonist's hyperawareness of everything around him on a walk from Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

"Sticky" - Tyler, the Creator feat. GloRilla, Sexyy Red and Lil Wayne

An illustration of a mermaid and octopus embracing

A photo of people sleeping on the beach at Coney Island because it was too hot to sleep indoors during a 1955 heat wave

"HEATWAVE" - Bronze Avery

Katey watches Javier and other people dance at a night club in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

A gifset of Steve in his wet white T-shirt in Captain America: The First Avenger

"September is Summer, Too, or It's Never Too Late to Be Uncomfortable" - Ogden Nash

A gifset of squishy strawberry milk tteok drizzled with syrup

A photo of a woman in a tight, wet T-shirt

A photo of honey dripping from one person's mouth and on another person's breast

"Bluegrass Rhapsody" - Cecilia Woloch

A photo of children enjoying melting ice cream in the car

A gifset from Luca Guadagnino's Challengers depicting Patrick always wanting to be by Art's side

A gifset of Murph and Cooper being each other's ghosts throughout the former's life and the latter's travels in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar

A gifset of Tony missing Steve throughout the years with a quote from Life of Pi by Yann Martell about Pi missing Richard Parker but still seeing him in his nightmares

Duncan spills his drink on Charlie's horrible ex-boss in Claire Scanlon's Set It Up

Tashi removes herself from making out with Art and Patrick, who enthusiastically continue to kiss each other, disregarding Tashi's presence, from Luca Guadagnino's Challengers

Round 60 will end on August 31, 11:59 PM ET (what time is that for me?).

As always, you’re free to jump in whenever you’d like during the round, a wide variety of work types is accepted, and there are no minimum work requirements. Unfinished works and works for other fandom events are allowed. You can find more information about Lights on Park Ave and the participation guidelines here.

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ZENDAYA, JOSH O'CONNOR and MIKE FAIST in CHALLENGERS (2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

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SET IT UP (2018) dir. Claire Scanlon

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"Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart."

— Yann Martell, Life of Pi