* ApprovalOfGod: Amy Lee of {{Music/Evanescence}}, author of the song the fic is titled after, and the source of much inspiration for Tara's "goffikness", [[https://www.theverge.com/21328232/amy-lee-evanescence-my-immortal-fanfic-bitter-truth-music-video-interview has said in an interview]] that she read the story and was left in tears laughing at all the nonsense.
* CreatorBreakdown: The spelling mistakes get more frequent and more blatant as the story goes on. This [[WildMassGuessing could]] be because she threatens to slit her wrists every time someone flames her story.
* CutShort: The fic abruptly ends on chapter 44, and nobody ever finds out how it ended.
* FollowTheLeader: Regardless of whether this was a TrollFic or not, it certainly inspired a lot of troll fics that imitate its format with poor spelling, nonsensical plots, and edgy characters in hopes of achieving the [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity same infamy]]. Many a troll fic writer has admitted to wanting to write their fandom's equivalent of ''My Immortal''.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The original version was deleted when Fanfiction.net started [[ThePurge deleting rule-breaking content]] (it was also on Adult-Fanfiction.org, [[http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/topic/10884-tara/ but when the admins of the website realized they had the story, they deleted it and Gilesbie's account and put her in the Hall of Shame/do-not-return-to-our-website list]]), but it lives on, either from being reposted or by being hosted on mirror sites.
* ParodyRetcon: Possibly. None have been verified, but many people have come forward claiming they wrote the story as a TrollFic. If any are who they claim to be, either it is a TrollFic, or the author is too embarrassed to admit they were a bad writer.
* ReclusiveArtist: Tara Gilesbie. Almost nothing is known about her outside of what she writes in her author's notes (and even that [[LyingCreator may not be true]]), including whether the story is genuine or a TrollFic or if Tara Gilesbie is even her real name, and she seemingly disappeared off the face of the internet once she stopped writing the story. Although several people have come forward claiming to be her, none have been confirmed to ''actually'' be her.
* WordOfGod: Authors' notes pop up in most chapters, mostly to criticize reviewers as "prepz" and excuse her spelling problems and mischaracterization. One note in Chapter 6 reveals that Dumbledore's swearing is the result of him having a headache. Another in Chapter 4 tries to explain why Draco is OutOfCharacter by saying that he and Ebony "nu echodder b4".
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