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.
