Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, a Damon/Elena picspam

[lackadaisicalnereid]

For those of you who may not be aware:
In the corner of TVD fandom where I mostly reside, there is this obsession (I am not kidding. It's an obsession.) with a poet, Richard Siken, and especially his one poem, titled Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out. The obsession manifests itself in many shapes and forms: people's journals have titles from the poems, the lines from the poems are prompted on all the ficathons, mentioned in metas and focuses of fics, maybe even icons. In this case it's a picspam. What I tried to do started as an impossible idea: combine every line from the poem (which is about 150 lines) with different screencaps of scenes from The Vampire Diaries, focusing on Damon and Elena. TAH-DA. It's here, behind the curtaincut.

ETERNAL thanks to my betas and moral supporters (in order of appearance, I think?): upupa_epops, who not only cheered this idea on and was FABULOUS moral support, but also provided advice and helped with the choices. If it wasn't for you, Marta, this probably would never have become more than an idea. You are to blame, just saying. ever_neutral, YOU WERE AMAZING, with your LOAD of constructive criticism which helped this picspam grow into its final form. youcallitwinter, who was awfully excited and cheered me on and read my ~1000 words of non picspam related stories, while I should have been working on the picspam. And finally, vergoldung, who cheered me on and SHAMELESSLY blackmailed me into finishing it quickly.




Bless you all.

Note: The picspam contains images from all of the series, season 1 to season 3. Beware of spoilers if you haven't seen it.

Comments

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Oh you don't even have to do it now, whenever you feel like it. Also it's not nowhere NEARLY as smart as to require being fully awake, have no fear. I'll post it on my LJ and lock it.

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. You are pretty clever.

Post it, I shall have a look!

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Also, yes, the ending's not quite...something. Go, inspect. Be clever :)

[amj58.livejournal.com]

This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Oh GOD. This poem breaks my heart. In a good way.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU <3 This poem is the worst, way too many emotions.

[youcallitwinter.livejournal.com]

YOU KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING, THIS POST ISN'T OPENING BECAUSE I HAVE THE SLOWEST SPEED EVER ATM, AND ONLY ON THE FIRST WILL IT IMPROVE. JUST, FUCK THE FUCKING UNIVERSE.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

THE UNIVERSE HATES YOU. IT WILL GET BETTER I HOPE :(((((((((((((((((

TALK NICELY TO YOUR COMPUTER THAT SOMETIMES WORKS FOR ME.

[xx-pinkstar.livejournal.com]

I recognized so so many of these lines from various ficathons, but just didn't realize they were all from one glorious poem.

BUT OH MY GOD, THIS POST. IT'S AMAZING. THERE WERE CERTAIN LINES WERE I JUST GOT EXCITED 'THIS POEM WAS WRITTEN FOR DAMON/ELENA. IT WAS IT WAS.'

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR LIFE CHOICES TBH.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEE :)

THE POEM IS INDEED GLORIOUS :)

I KNOW RIGHT? I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW D/E ALL OF IT IS, I CANNOT. And I've been rereading the poem for months now. Guh, awful.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR LIFE CHOICES TBH.

Awwwwwwwww <33333333 THANKYOU :D

[rosaxx50.livejournal.com]

As someone who isn't even much of a Damon/Elena shipper...

...what is this...

Love always wakes the dragon

Damn it.

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It's a religion.

I remember someone prompting is during the ficathon. IT STILL FITS HERE. My heart.

I never liked that ending either.

DDDDDDD:

I had to go find a better internet connection to see this, but it is glorious.

[rosaxx50.livejournal.com]

Also, You want a better story? Who wouldn't?

That obligatory Elena quote. *Cries*

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

OH MY. i'm sorry you had to trouble yourself. I wish everyone had good internet :( But I'm glad you liked it :)

[badboy-fangirl.livejournal.com]

These are all ridiculously perfect, but the one that makes me want to kill myself is the one at the bottom of the stairwell....ugh, I can never watch that scene without the desire to yell at Damon, DON'T DO IT, DON'T DO IT!

UGH. *clutches chest*

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

<33333 I ADORE THAT SCENE TO DEATH AND BACK AGAIN.

As upupa_epops has a tendency to say things before me and also better than me, let's quote her

Dangerous Liaisons, aka The Fairy Tale Episode. In which Damon tries to use his love as a sledge hammer, only to have Elena pick it up and hit him with it. Yes, they're both terrible people. <3 ALL MY LOVE <3 Clutching chest, definitely /nods

[le-mru.livejournal.com]

This is a FABULOUS project. I'm actually stuck in the middle of translating this poem (into Polish, Siken has never been translated, so all we have are these amateur attempts), so this may even help me with that!

But let's just say that it's like the poet wrote this with them in mind.

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD

Just. Every line of this. I was in love with this poem already, and then you did this, and I don't have words.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Your icon is pretty <3 THANK YOU. The poem is amazing. I love it. No words is sometimes a good reaction, so I'm glad :) GLAD YOU LIKED it, and thanks for leaving the pretty comment <3

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Polish? Interesting. Translating is a bitch, it seems to me, and I feel a bit of admiration for anyone who translated anything ever.


But let's just say that it's like the poet wrote this with them in mind.

AND THAT KEEPS LEAVING ME IN AWE. SERIOUSLY. HOW CAN IT ALL FIT SO WELL? HOOOOOW?

Thanks for your nice words <3

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

I'm actually stuck in the middle of translating this poem

I am interested!

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Color me shocked :D (This comment had no function, I just like intruding on things.)

MARTA HOW WAS YOUR AFTERNOON NAP? :D

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know that le_mru already did an excellent translation of "Snow and Dirty Rain". If you spoke Polish, you would be interested as well :P.

How do you even know I had an afternoon nap? o_O

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Alex told me while she stalked my fics and flailed :D

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

You people are TERRIBLE gossips.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

She was flailing a bit and did a lot of stalking so I guess she wasn't temporarily sane so you can forgive her :D

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm not mad XD. I'm just surprised that you people have NOTHING more interesting to gossip about than my sleeping habits ;).