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 I know :P OH MY new icon. IT IS YELLOW. GLORIOUS. Hm sure we do. Like, our D/E habits. And, hm. D/E feels. And D/E feels in non D/E fics. WE HAVE A LIFE BESIDE YOU YOU KNOW. I think.

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

I've been icon-hunting. Planning to hunt more.

WE HAVE A LIFE BESIDE YOU YOU KNOW.

Nah, you don't.

[le-mru.livejournal.com]

I'm open to any suggestions regarding translating the first two lines of it.

[le-mru.livejournal.com]

I come from the same corner of fandom as Marta upupa_epops, we've got this little community of Polish writers interested in Anglophone fandoms, but she left us for you natives :P And, quite frankly, writing to such fandoms in a mother tongue is a little like translating all the time, so I'm not a stranger to it.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

But maybe we could have one if we wanted to? maybe?

OH WHATEVER, LIKE WE WOULD WANT THAT :D

[kwritten.livejournal.com]

I'm supposed to be on hiatus! I'm SUPPOSED to be ignoring fandom in honor of RL drama.

Fuck it. And I hate you. This is beautiful and stunning and I have no words right now except: be my friend and post all the pic!spam all of the time!

Also, as my first intro to Siken, I may now be a fan for life. So thank you for that as well.


*scurries off to RL*

[ari-g.livejournal.com]

THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!
Now, I'm obsessed with this poem too =) and the picspam is just PERFECT
I'm considering printing all these images and making a large collage or maybe a mobile *mmmhh thinking about logistics...*

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

oh you and this comment ♥♥♥

you should totally read siken /truth

We should be friends and flail and stare at pretty things!

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

OMG THANK YOU EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT SERIOUSLY THINKING OF PRINTING THEM IT'S STILL SUCH A WONDERFUL COMPLIMENT OMG THANK YOU EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT SERIOUSLY THINKING OF PRINTING THEM IT'S STILL SUCH A WONDERFUL COMPLIMENT SO THANK YOU SO MUCH I AM GLAD YOU LIKE IT <3

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

I obviously copied the text that's why it's there twice. I apologize. I hate my phone.

[next_to_normal]

This is the most epic of all epic things. PERFECTION.

I have seen you around ever_neutral and upupa_epops's LJs and figured it was time we were friends anyway, but I would have friended you solely on the basis of this post, ngl.

(Hahaha, I spend too much time on DW and forget LJ coding.)

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

You! Thank yooouuu <3

it is time :)

I'm friending you :)

thanks for the wonderful comment :)

[wiccabuffy.livejournal.com]

Too beautiful. I tweeted it to Julie Plec for her to hopefully see. Wonderfully made!

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the compliments <3

I tweeted it to Julie Plec for her to hopefully see.

:O OH MY.

[catteo.livejournal.com]

So I am late to this party, but I am working a 30 hour weekend and suddenly remembered ever_neutral mentioning this picspam of epic proportions and, as if preordained, there it was open in a tab on my laptop and HOLY CRAP this is gorgeous. The poem itself is already utterly heartwrenching but you've done SUCH a beautiful job of scene choices and switching between Damon and Elena's points of view. And I have just had a cursory flick through your journal and am adding you post haste! I'm basically failing at lj these days but have the best of intentions about one day making a post again! I am still excellent at stalking and commenting however!

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

(I'm tracking this post, beware.)

lol when/where did I mention this picspam? I was planning to rec it on my LJ, but I haven't actually done that yet. So, that's creepy. ;)

[catteo.livejournal.com]

You freaky stalker! Maybe it wasn't you then. Perhaps you were talking about it in a comments thread that I was idly scrolling through? (I am a freaky stalker too sometimes). Maybe it was upupa_epops or youcallitwinter. You're all as bad as each other anyway.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was upupa_epops or youcallitwinter. You're all as bad as each other anyway.

SECONDED FOREVER.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

OH MY. THANKYOU, you. POVs were a bit weird for me to decide on, especially the beginning with the dragons and the princess and that. But VERY GLAD it worked out for you :D

YAY for stalking. Adding you right back, obviously.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Well, fair enough, we're all mostly the same person anyway. I understand.

[scorpiod1.livejournal.com]

Late to this post but this is gorgeous and made me VERY EMOTIONAL and I don't even have strong Damon/Elena feelings. You did so well putting together the poem stanzas to pictures, not just the iconic ones that I see all over the place, but the entire poem just lines up and fits perfectly and packs a real emotional gut punch (the last picture GETS to me on my feelings, jesus). idk, I don't know how explain my feelings on this, BUT THIS WAS FANTASTIC.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

OMG THANK YOU <3 very emotional is exactly what I was going for :D

not just the iconic ones that I see all over the place, but the entire poem

That was the worst and the best part of it all and there were times I almost gave up on doing the entire thing and thought of maybe settling just for some lines of the poem. But then I would get my inspiration back and realize EVERYTHING needs to be there. And I had GREAT helpers (cough Marta cough alex could those two are the worst cough)

inexplainable feelings are the best <3

GLAD YOU THOUGHT SO <3

[cranmers.livejournal.com]

Oh my...

I don't even ship this. And I don't ship it despite spending literally all of my time on the journals of Martha, Alex, Zoe ect. (most of the people at fault here lol) so I would say I am one of those pretty hardened, committed, stubbornly entrenched in my position kidnds non-shipper.

BUT OH MY GOD I THINK THIS IS THE CLOSEST I HAVE EVER COME TO SHIPPING IT. I shipped it as I read it, which felt weird but was an demonstration of how extraordinarily, brilliantly powerful this is.

I just... I don't know what to say in response. I have no words for how amazing this is. I will express myself with this gif even though it's not really adequate.

(http://s1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd388/legionaries/GIFs/?action=view&current=000egrcb.gif)

Like, I recognise the fandom obsession with Siken + the ot3 but I have never seen it used more powerfully, or like, originally? Like Damon as the princess... and much more besides... guhh!

AWESOME.

Anyway, my apologies for being that completely random person who turns up on your journal, utterly invited and fills it with what can only be described as splutter. I know that can be annoying. I've just been rec'd here so many times and when I finally came and saw I just, IDK, felt compelled to express my admiration. IDK. IDK. I'm going now.

This has been amazing.

Also thank you for making it public.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

+ Marta and Alex and Zoe are at fault for everything, ever.

+ OH THANK YOU <3 I love that it made you feel things, especially since you don't ship it <3

+ lol @ this being recced to you "so many times" but no worries, comments like these always warm my cold, cold heart <3

[cranmers.livejournal.com]

+ Gross & terrible people, tbqh ;)

+ YOU ARE MOST WELCOME <3 This is legit amazing.

+ Hahaha, WELL, it was. I'll probably rec it myself the next time I do a more "general" post, so...