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

[petitebelette.livejournal.com]

SHAKING A LITTLE, NOT EVEN BEING DRAMATIC, OKAY

this was beautiful and needed to be done and you did it so brilliantly and i love it so thank you

goodbye curling into a ball of hopeful despair now

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

NO NO NO, NO despair. Despair isn't good. This is more of a "sure our ship is awful and dysfunctional but in an enjoyable way that we enjoy and make picspams of and then everyone will be happy"

[petitebelette.livejournal.com]

But it's hopeful despair and both parts of that description is so horribly wonderful to me a.k.a basically YES WHAT YOU JUST SAID.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Ok, I can live with causing hopeful despair, I think. I love the colors on your icon btw <3

D/E=DEspair, sometimes, basically :D

[petitebelette.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Sadly, I didn't make it, so I can only take credit for taste. <3

Basically. :D But in a good way.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

RIGHT? Good despair is the best.

And D/E is goood despair sometimes :D And sometimes fun and sometimes everything.

I'm actually feeling weird, being done with this picspam. I mean, I don't remember how much it took, but for the last week or so (probably?) almost all of the thoughts when I wasn't doing anything went into "pick pictures for the picspam" mode. And now there's this huge empty space where those thoughts used to be. WHAT DO I DO NOW.

[petitebelette.livejournal.com]

ONLY DESPAIR I CARE TO KNOW.

It is everything. That's why this ship punches me in the heart. Too many feels. All the feels. screeeeeeaaaammmmm.

It must have took a lot! It's really impressive. I have a few suggestions to clear your head, though:
1. Go on tumblr.
2. Scroll.

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

D/E is way too good at causing emotions. Hate them.

LOL. I try not to go to tumblr too much, haven't heard many good things about it. Not that I've seen much of it, mind you. I mostly go there when I'm looking for a gif. Or I give up and make it myself.

I'm actually trying to decide what to do write/make/destroy next.

[petitebelette.livejournal.com]

Haha you're probably right. It's got its bad spots but there's so much pretty... and some smart stuff! There are a few safe-ish corners.

Ohhhhhhh I await this next thing excitedly /chinhands

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

Oh that'll probably be fic, unless I'm enabled/tricked into doing something else, as I'm very easily distracted :D And almost certainly The Vampire Diaries (unless I really think of what to write for that Lost Shannon/Boone prompt.)

I am looking forward to it as well, WHO KNOWS WHAT IT MIGHT BE :D