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Wow, Round 8 is tied with Round 1 as the most prolific month of LoPA so far! Here are all the Round 8 works. 

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 8 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 9 has now begun and will run until May 31. The theme is memory, and all the prompts can be found here.

ART

Any universe

A framed portrait of a smiling Tony, drawn and signed by Steve - @hundredthousands 

Battleworld

Steve watching Tony flying in on the battlefield - @thingexplainer

MCU

Old Steve holding flowers and seeing a blue butterfly after Tony’s death - @hundredthousands  

Steve crying while holding Tony’s helmet after Tony’s funeral - @noririna/@venusiaries

Ultimates

Steve and Tony leaving marks on each other’s bodies that are only visible in the dark - @sirsapling  Ults Steve and Tony are tragically bound to one another. They can always feel the trace of each others hands, it leaves an invisible mark they will cary with them till there is nothing left. Only a ghost of something lost in the chaos of the past.

FIC

MCU

snippet of a post-apocalyptic A/B/O AU WIP - @ayapandagirl/fluffypanda Steve’s fingers traced the bite, a half-moon of red marks, from in front of the largest mirror he’d ever seen. 

star crossed - @areiton​ (also on Tumblr) "The gods made the stars,” you whisper, a lifetime ago, a heartbeat ago, now, “and they were so bright, so beautiful and strong, that they ripped them in two. And half of ‘em fell to earth, and woke from the dust and walked as men.”

POETRY

MCU

A Toast to Cold, Hard Facts - @onlymorelove​ (also on Tumblr) The world is brutal and coarse, but...

u_u unfortunately i think rose is the best wine, but wine is pretty bad imo

lia i cannot understand for the life of me but you are loved

i thought the metropolitan came with a squeeze converter?

it does!!! i just want to have a second (possibly cheaper) pen which i do not adore so i can safely bring it around with me during the day

and i dont like the lamys as much so if i get a semi-nice one of those i can just use that as my work pen and it’ll still write nicely but i won’t be heartbroken if something happens to it! 

but sam, not everyone has xkit!

But if you don’t have xkit, there’s no reason to ask someone to tag anyway, at least as far as I’m aware? Tumblr doesn’t have a native blacklist function, so if you want someone to tag something presumably it’s so that you can blacklist it on xkit. So if you don’t have xkit, tagging won’t help anyway, at least as far as I can tell. 

Level Up: Advanced Fifth Edition This guide will provide a semi-structured approach to how to explain Level Up: Advanced Fifth Edition (A5e) to people who want to know more about the books. I can hand on heart say that I wish I’d had these books when I started learning how to run D&D because they’d have made my life MUCH easier and MUCH less stressful. Disclaimer: I helped write these books and…

tossing broccoli in oil and salt and pepper and [insert whatever seasoning here] and slapping them into the oven is p good imo

imagine shortenings like “im legbutt”