Clark and Lex - Book of Memories
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agt_spookyIn honor of the end of Smallville tonight, I wanted to share with you guys something I've never put on the internet before.
I've watched every episode of Smallville, and I was a rabid Clex 'shipper. Still am, actually. :-) Back in 2003 a promo photo came out and my friend looked at it and said, "That looks like an engagement picture!" Thus the seed was planted. What resulted was a massive project that took me months to create - a 50 page scrapbook that was basically a Clark/Lex fanfic story. It was set a few years in the future, a year before Clark was going to graduate from Metropolis University, and how he and Lex got engaged, then married, Clark starting as a reporter at the Daily Planet, and his struggle with how to tell Lex about his powers and abilities.
I wrote or created everything in this scrapbook - all of the journal entries, the newspaper articles, the gift registry page, the wedding vows, the wedding guest pages, the invitations, and tons and tons of photos - ALL of it. Like I said, it took me months, but to this day I am still so damn proud of it.
I wound up making two of these and entering them in two different art shows/auctions at ZebraCon and MediaWest. I won awards at both shows and made over $800 from the auctions.
Before letting them go, I took digital photos of every page, and for the first time I'm offering a download of the entire scrapbook.
I hope you all enjoy it!
I've watched every episode of Smallville, and I was a rabid Clex 'shipper. Still am, actually. :-) Back in 2003 a promo photo came out and my friend looked at it and said, "That looks like an engagement picture!" Thus the seed was planted. What resulted was a massive project that took me months to create - a 50 page scrapbook that was basically a Clark/Lex fanfic story. It was set a few years in the future, a year before Clark was going to graduate from Metropolis University, and how he and Lex got engaged, then married, Clark starting as a reporter at the Daily Planet, and his struggle with how to tell Lex about his powers and abilities.
I wrote or created everything in this scrapbook - all of the journal entries, the newspaper articles, the gift registry page, the wedding vows, the wedding guest pages, the invitations, and tons and tons of photos - ALL of it. Like I said, it took me months, but to this day I am still so damn proud of it.
I wound up making two of these and entering them in two different art shows/auctions at ZebraCon and MediaWest. I won awards at both shows and made over $800 from the auctions.
Before letting them go, I took digital photos of every page, and for the first time I'm offering a download of the entire scrapbook.
I hope you all enjoy it!
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Date: 2011-05-14 02:11 am (UTC)And jsyk, I cried when the show was over...*sigh* I'm so damn emotional! LOL! But I did love Smallville, but I missed Lex when he was gone.
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Date: 2011-05-17 12:49 am (UTC)SUPER!
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Date: 2011-05-14 08:28 am (UTC)Hey, I still have a pile of pictures and souvenirs from my trip to Scotland in 1998 - do you wanna come over and give them the same treatment? ;)
xoxo
Samazon
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Date: 2011-05-17 12:47 am (UTC)You know, if you’d asked me to do a Scotland scrapbook back in 2003 I’d have beat you over the head with it *g* but now I kinda miss how fun it was to do! Let’s talk. ;-)
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Date: 2011-05-14 09:10 am (UTC)I keep singing WE GOT FLIGHT AND TIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2011-05-17 12:47 am (UTC)I was pleased with the finale in general, and I’m glad they waited until the very end to give us those tights and that flight. :-)
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Date: 2011-05-15 06:00 pm (UTC)I love your scrapbook not only because it transports me to a place where the show could never go, but also because it takes me back to those early seasons of Smallville, when anything was possible between Clark and Lex, and their love for each other was visible in every frame they shared onscreen. Thank you so much for sharing what was obviously a labor of your own love for Clex.
Oh, and let me say thank you again for letting me use the clip of Jared telling that Tom Welling story from your video of the Chicago Con. I posted it on YouTube so I could embed it in my LJ post, and the Smallville fandom loved it! It has over 18,000 views!
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Date: 2011-05-17 12:46 am (UTC)You’re very welcome for the video clip. 18,000 views? No way! LOL! That’s awesome!
P.S. - love your Clark/Lex hug icon!
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Date: 2011-05-27 12:10 am (UTC)Shhh....don’t tell anyone but I searched a bunch of wedding websites for help on writing Clark and Lex’s vows. :-)
you are very talented, you do a lot of things: you write and publish, you take beautiful pictures, you do creative things like this, and you write (yes I said that twice cause I admire writers)you are quite impressive....
Aww, thank you! That really means a lot to me that you enjoy the things that I create. :-)
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Date: 2011-05-24 09:23 pm (UTC)So I watched some episodes and I was feeling the storyline changing then they were telling stories about some stones and kind of didn't liked it so I stopped watching it...A year later Supernatural began and I knew Jared for the Gilmore girls, but with Dean's character I was "who is that guy? I have seen him, but where??" then after 5 episodes I remembered him, me: oh! he is the actor they put instead of Sam Jones. I remember thinking wow so if the Smallville people fired him (Jensen)the new guy most be very very very handsome :P.
The funny thing is that in season 3 I got in love with Dean Winchester and after see a lot of videos of interviews, Cons, and comments in season 4 I was in love with Jensen Ackles so I remember checking other channels, I knew in other channels were broadcasting the reruns of Smallville and I remember calculating when they were going to put the season 4 reruns of Smallville hehe and I began to watch Smallville again :).
Then I stopped when Clark told Lana his secret and I was: yay finally he told her!!! :D , but then in the same episode she died and then Clark gets angry and changes the day and in the end Clark's dad died and Lana didn't knew about the Clark's powers and I was buuu
It was a good series, I like a lot the first seasons... and when you see the pictures, hehe clark was very cute in "the engagement picture" all were very cute in the first season... you know I didn't recognized Eric Johnson as Brady in Supernatural until I read it in the comments days later...
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Date: 2011-05-27 12:10 am (UTC)Yep! I haven’t been involved in the fandom since season five, so I don’t really mention it on LJ, but I watched all 10 seasons.
but when season 4 began Sam Jones was not in the credits and a new guy was in the credits, and I remember I was: What?? so they fired Clark's best friend and they hired this new guy just because he is handsome??? Are the writers going to start changing everything in the serie?
LOL! Who knew that you’d come to love that “new guy”. I remember when that season started that I was so sick of Clark always pining over Lana that I was *thrilled* this guy was going to be her new boyfriend, just to keep her away from Clark! And little did I know how much I, too, was going to love that new guy just one year later. :-)
A year later Supernatural began and I knew Jared for the Gilmore girls, but with Dean's character I was "who is that guy? I have seen him, but where??" then after 5 episodes I remembered him, me: oh! he is the actor they put instead of Sam Jones. I remember thinking wow so if the Smallville people fired him (Jensen)the new guy most be very very very handsome :P.
Now Jared I didn’t know at all. I had heard of Gilmore Girls but never watched it. I thought he was cute, but nowhere near as handsome as Jensen. :-) You know, they had planned on keeping Jensen on SV but after he got the part of Dean Winchester they decided to kill him off.
The funny thing is that in season 3 I got in love with Dean Winchester and after see a lot of videos of interviews, Cons, and comments in season 4 I was in love with Jensen Ackles so I remember checking other channels, I knew in other channels were broadcasting the reruns of Smallville and I remember calculating when they were going to put the season 4 reruns of Smallville hehe and I began to watch Smallville again :).
So did you end up watching all of the episodes that Jensen was in that season?
It was a good series, I like a lot the first seasons... and when you see the pictures, hehe clark was very cute in "the engagement picture" all were very cute in the first season...
I really liked it through season five. But after they all graduated from high school and everyone went to Metropolis it kind of lost its way. But I stuck with it and in the end I’m glad I did. This last season was very good, mainly because they had to move things along because the show was ending.
you know I didn't recognized Eric Johnson as Brady in Supernatural until I read it in the comments days later...
Yes it was Whitney! Man, I couldn’t stand him on SV. LOL! But wow, he grew and matured so much from those days. I enjoyed him on Supernatural.
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Date: 2014-04-03 06:23 am (UTC)Unrelated to the above, I did a little LJ browsing, and was interested to read about the Chicago based possible SPN spinoff. I grew up there (well, in Highland Park, but I spent a lot of time in the city, proper).
Also unrelated, it was all I could do not to scritch the picture of your cat's furry white belly. It made me miss my black and white cat.
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Date: 2014-04-08 12:45 am (UTC)Thanks so much for your interest in my Clex scrapbook. Boy that was a labor of love. :-) Ask and ye shall receive. I uploaded it again:
http://www.sockshare.com/file/EC06C19AAACD865B
Enjoy! And thanks for letting me know you saw it on Fanlore. I had no idea it was up there so I had to go check out the blurb. :-)
Yep, the “backdoor” pilot for the SPN spinoff just finished filming here about a week ago. I have a feeling that if it goes to series it’ll all be shot in Vancouver, but at least they went for authenticity for the first episode.
My husband is from Highland Park! Small world!
Awww, I’ll tell Bean that you wanted to rub her belly. Like she’s not spoiled enough. *g*