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

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

This is an embarrassing comment.

YOU WILL BE ALONE ALWAYS AND THEN YOU WILL DIE.

OTHER THAN THE DESPERATION

I'M SORRY I COULDN'T COME TO YOUR PARTY

FLAMES EVERYWHERE

I'M JUST A WRITER

I SINK THE BOAT OF LOVE, BUT THAT COMES LATER. Of course you'd choose a scene right before she crushes his romantic delusions. OF COURSE!

I'M THE DRAGON. BIG DEAL. The imagery is just perfect. It's not a very powerful scene, but, GUH, you caught the essence of Damon in, like, five pictures. How are you even real???

LET ME DO IT RIGHT FOR ONCE! You understand me :((((((.

HELLO DARLING, SORRY ABOUT THAT

THE SCENE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRWELL

TO MAKE A CREATURE THAT WILL DO WHAT I SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU ARE NOT FEEDING YOURSELF TO A BAD MAN I caaaaaaaan't. My girl and her stupid trainers and EVERYTHING in this scene :(

I TAKE IT BACK

CROSSED OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What you did with this section is so perfect I can't even. CLUMSY HANDS IN A DARK ROOM. CROSSED OUT. SO PERFECT

ALL THE ROOMS OF THE CASTLE EXCEPT THIS ONE :(((((((((((

LOVE, FOR YOU... Have I mentioned a broken heart?

GIVE ME ANOTHER VERSION :(((((((((((( This is what Elena does, right?

UNFORTUNATELY, WE DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FORGET THE DRAGON! My girl, her hands bloody, why did you? :(

MOMENT OF EPIPHANY :((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Seriously, this is your moment of epiphany? I NEVER LIKED THAT ENDING EITHER?

THERE WERE SOME NICE PARTS, SURE

Guh, perfection. I love how you keep fluently jumping between POVs, because this is what they are. They're too alike, and it shows in their stories, POVs just fluently going from one to the other and back again. YOU SHOULD DO ALL THE PICSPAMS ALWAYS!

Here endeth the emo vomit.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

This is an embarrassing comment.

Hey, no embarrassment in this bar, please. JUST LOVE LOVE AND WHATEVER.

I'M SORRY I COULDN'T COME TO YOUR PARTY

I HATE THAT CONVERSATION with every fiber of my being. Especially Elena's face and the way her voice cracks when she asks him, Where were you, Damon?

I SINK THE BOAT OF LOVE, BUT THAT COMES LATER. Of course you'd choose a scene right before she crushes his romantic delusions. OF COURSE!

WELL SHE DID SINK THE BOAT OF LOVE. Guh, how she breaks his heart.

How are you even real???

Exactly what I ask myself when I read your meta :P

LET ME DO IT RIGHT FOR ONCE! You understand me :((((((.

/nods

THE SCENE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRWELL

I KNOW RIGHT? they are awful AWFUL I tell you.

TO MAKE A CREATURE THAT WILL DO WHAT I SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am very egocentrically in love with the visuals of those caps.

YOU ARE NOT FEEDING YOURSELF TO A BAD MAN I caaaaaaaan't. My girl and her stupid trainers and EVERYTHING in this scene :(

WHILE I WAS WORKING ON THIS CAP I COULDN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOUR META AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE TRAINERS. YOU ARE RIGHT, NO ONE CAN BE HEROIC IN THOSE TRAINERS.

I TAKE IT BACK

In which he again, does the only thing he can, which is picking up the pieces after everything's already been screwed up beyond recognition.

CROSSED OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What you did with this section is so perfect I can't even. CLUMSY HANDS IN A DARK ROOM. CROSSED OUT. SO PERFECT

LOVE, FOR YOU... Have I mentioned a broken heart?

That, along with the entire history of human desire are one of the ABSOLUTE WORST moments of this. I HATE D/E WITH PASSION.

GIVE ME ANOTHER VERSION :(((((((((((( This is what Elena does, right?

When it gets so shitty you have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER how to continue, call it a day, repaint your room, hope it settles itself.

UNFORTUNATELY, WE DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AWFUL SCENE. AWFUL.

FORGET THE DRAGON! My girl, her hands bloody, why did you? :(

When all there's left is the blood on her hands, there'll still be Damon.
OR SOME OTHER GOD AWFUL TRUE D/E SENTENCE I READ.

Guh, perfection. I love how you keep fluently jumping between POVs, because this is what they are. They're too alike, and it shows in their stories, POVs just fluently going from one to the other and back again. YOU SHOULD DO ALL THE PICSPAMS ALWAYS!

As long as you enable me, I should be fine :D HAVE TO THINK OF NEW IDEAS, THOUGH!