Spring, the season of reincarnation. Signs of life poke through thawed ice, and what was once dead is alive again. Some things stay the same even as they change, and some things change even as they stay the same.
The theme for Lights on Park Ave Round 31 is rebirth. Here are the prompts:
A photo of the Veil Nebula, created by a supernova, and NASA’s description of its conception
“Reincarnation” - Susanne Sundfør
Bruce Springsteen’s speech about his friendship with Clarence Clemons transcending lifetimes in Springsteen on Broadway
A chapter/short story about two people who meet at the wrong age and time from Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Moments from “Usagi’s Awakening: A Message from the Distant Past,” episode 44 of the 1993 Sailor Moon anime, where the Sailor Scouts learn about their past lives in the now ruined Moon Kingdom
A line about seeing this life as a beautiful dream in the future from Anton Chekov’s diary entry in The Notebooks of Anton Chekov
A question about how much you can change before you’re someone else from “Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light” by Richard Siken
A Civil Warrior edit by isozyme with lyrics from “Seamstress” by Dessa
The music video and lyrics to “Happen” by Heize
Fernando Pessoa’s quote about how it’s been a long time since he was himself
Heidi Priebe’s rumination on how loving someone long-term means attending a thousand funerals of the people they used to be
Glimpses of the new life Yorkie and Kelly make for themselves in the “San Junipero” episode of Black Mirror
A conversation about returning to life and to the people you love from “Adaptation” by Marie Howe
A passage about having to build yourself from scratch after burning everything down and getting reminders that you are not who you used to be from A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
“Afterlife” - Franny Choi
A gifset/edit featuring Steve and Tony across the multiverse with lyrics from “The End of the World” by Billie Eilish
Round 31 will end on March 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.
