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lackadaisicalnereidFor 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
ETERNAL thanks to my betas and moral supporters (in order of appearance, I think?):
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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.
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Date: 2012-09-24 10:20 pm (UTC)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.
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.
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Date: 2012-09-25 02:16 pm (UTC)+ 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
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Date: 2012-09-25 02:43 pm (UTC)+ 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...
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:58 pm (UTC)they are gross indeed. why do we even talk to them? :D
THANKYOU, again <3
<3
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Date: 2012-10-06 04:50 pm (UTC)I like it because it's yellow, tbh.
EXACTLY. Why?! On a related note, we should talk. By which I mean, if you have any ~openings, I should friend you. If you don't then I probably shouldn't lol ;)
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Date: 2012-10-06 04:56 pm (UTC)We should talk & be friends <3 Friended you :)
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Date: 2012-10-06 05:03 pm (UTC)YAY - I'll add you back! :)
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Date: 2012-10-06 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-06 05:12 pm (UTC)OH LIKEWISE. I've been half way through what is meant to be super short entry for ages. But when I'm done with that, then totally LIKEWISE.