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

[vergoldung.livejournal.com]

Good. Good.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

good indeed. i have to go sleep now <3

talk later ;)

[vergoldung.livejournal.com]

night <3

[rosaxx50.livejournal.com]

Oh, I kept meaning to ask, but forgot -- did you take all these caps yourself, or did you get them from somewhere else?

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Oh I am not nearly insane enough to take caps myself (ok I'm lying I have about 1.5k 4x02 caps I took myself, well not manually, but whatever) but no, the caps are from here :) love that site because they always have high quality caps :)

[rosaxx50.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, thank you. I'm not nearly crazy enough to do picspams myself (instead, I try to enable other people to do them for me, ;) ) but that seems like it will come in useful.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

♥

[vergoldung.livejournal.com]

Yola. I am here again. (Why? Idek but who cares)

I so love you. Why does this picspam always make me so sappy about you. Like, can I squish you to death? Please. I want to squish you to death. (Well, not to death, not really, that'd be awfully awful. Note to self : do not squish Doris to death!)

/this is random love basically

((okay I'm out now))

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

You are magical ♥

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

So, this picspam just popped up on my tumblr dash as a rec, and people are gushing over how perfect you are :). I thought you should now.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

OMG ♥ *Squeeing* going to go stalk tumblr now :D

[starsimpulse.livejournal.com]

so, late to this party, but i just wanted to say i love this so much. seriously i love this like a crazy person.

which is a big deal for me because my damon/elena feelings have been so awful lately. mostly a constant stream of: i don't ship you i hate you i hate you i hate you i don't ship you, you are everything i hate, i hate you. and then this: i fuuuuuuuuuuck, i love you. maybe i actually ship you. because i used to love them once. maybe i still do. and this was so good. so many things that are awful and wonderful and complicated, and make them interesting and exciting. and i guess i am super grateful, that you brought those things to my remembrance.

anyway, this was fantastic and you should be super proud. and it awakened, re-awakened, feelings in me and is just great. thanks so much.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

oh, your comment is so lovely ♥ no matter what your feelings towards d/e are at the moment, I'm glad this was able to bring you back to a point where you liked them, it's so nice remembering things you like and re-awaking why you liked them, so YAY \O/

♥

thank you for commenting, and I'm always so very happy to see someone like this picspam, it took an incredible amount of time and freaking out and thank you ♥ ♥ ♥

[starsimpulse.livejournal.com]

ack, i struggle with them so much, cuz i feel like they could be super well done but aren't. they have so much potential! and i channel most of my frustration into hatred, because being invested means frustration and heartbreak and hating them is easier. basically hating them is a defense mechanism. and i get so used to being angry and annoyed by them eventually i forget all the things i used to and still do love about them.

and lol, fangirl problems. but this was super great and moving. :DDD

[woobloo.livejournal.com]

/////////////////random comment

I've come across this a few times since my intro to the TVD fandom ~a year and a half back, and it may be the ultimate Damon/Elena post of all time (YEAH, I SAID IT) because lbr Siken/them=the ultimate OTP and you facilitated that in the most breathtaking manner and just. RUDE.

Anyway, I dug this up because I've been rewatching s1 in order to forget about this season and it's awfulness, and getting all the ugly feelings (I just watched 1x19 and the scene where he sits down in the dark hallway with her and am practically dying all over again; it's nice to know I really did ship it once upon a time (did I mention I hate this season? :P) and basically I... wanted to inflict even more emotional damage on myself? Life choices, what are they, and all that.

Basically I figured I'd let you know how amazing this thing is two years later, because, as someone who wasn't around during the ~glory days (*sighs even more* WHY CAN'T EVERYTHING JUST BE SEASONS 1-3 FOREVER) that's kind of my jam.

(What even is this, I'm so sorry.)

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

and it may be the ultimate Damon/Elena post of all time (YEAH, I SAID IT)

you are making me blush, THANKYOU ♥

OH MY TELL ME ABOUT REWATCHING SEASON 1! Sometimes I think about writing all the missing s1, s2, s3 scenes, because you know, there should be tons of things there.

THOSE ARE KIND OF MY JAM TOO. promises of forever and hands touching occasionally and also playing pool and doing shots and teasing and jealousies and manipulation and GUH. everything.

♥

(never be sorry.)

I AM SO SO SO HAPPY that someone still remembers this, you know, and still thinks it's something nice, because it was such a long time ago and GUH ♥ THANK YOU! this really made me feel great :)

YOU ARE KIND AND SWEET ♥