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

[rosaxx50.livejournal.com]

As someone who isn't even much of a Damon/Elena shipper...

...what is this...

Love always wakes the dragon

Damn it.

Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It's a religion.

I remember someone prompting is during the ficathon. IT STILL FITS HERE. My heart.

I never liked that ending either.

DDDDDDD:

I had to go find a better internet connection to see this, but it is glorious.

[rosaxx50.livejournal.com]

Also, You want a better story? Who wouldn't?

That obligatory Elena quote. *Cries*

[fluffyfrolicker.livejournal.com]

OH MY. i'm sorry you had to trouble yourself. I wish everyone had good internet :( But I'm glad you liked it :)

[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]

♥