History Trivia / MyImmortal

* ApprovalOfGod: Amy Lee of Evanescence, author of the song the fic is titled after, and the source of much inspiration for Tara's "goffikness", has said in interview she read the story and was left in tears laughing at all the nonsense.

* 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.

* ApprovalOfGod: Amy Lee of Evanescence, author of the song the fic is titled after and the source of much inspiration for Tara's "goffikness", has said in interview she read the story and was left in tears laughing at all the nonsense.

* WordOfGod: Authors' notes pop up in most chapters, mostly to criticize reviewers as "preps" 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.

* FilkSong: It's such an iconic work that there's [[https://cliffhangers.bandcamp.com/album/fangz-2-raven-an-ep-about-my-immortal an entire 5-song EP based on it]].

* TheWikiRule: [[https://myimmortal.fandom.com/wiki/My_Immortal_Wiki My Immortal Wiki]].

* FanNickname: Well, "fan" is stretching it, but due to the constantly-changing names and spellings for some characters, the Harry Potter fandom has seemed to come to a consensus on what to call each character.
** The main character is referred to as '''Enoby'''[[note]]The fandom rather gleefully took the author's note "Ebonys name is ENOBY!" quite literally[[/note]], as opposed to her many other names. Sometimes also as '''Tara'''.
** Malfoy is sometimes called '''[[Film/DonnieDarko Donnie Drako]]'''.
** Voldemort's preferred(mis)spelling is '''Vloxemort''' and his alter ego, rather than be Tom Riddle, is '''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Tom Bombadil]]'''.
** Dumbledore's preferred misspelling is '''Dumblydore'''.[[note]]A similar spelling, "Dumbly-dorr," appears in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', in which it represents how "Dumbledore" is pronounced with Madame Maxime's FunetikAksent.[[/note]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Regardless of whether or not it's a parody, the story's fixation on the {{Goth}} and {{Emo}} subcultures, as well as the various other media that it references (''Film/ACinderellaStory'', ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'', the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'', and suchlike) make it pretty clear that it's a product of the mid-to-late 2000s.
** The story's music references, being primarily Emo and pop, are also firmly rooted in the mid 2000s. Ebony's favorite bands include Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/GoodCharlotte, and Music/MyChemicalRomance, and even attends a concert for the latter at one point. Meanwhile, Music/BritneySpears and Music/AvrilLavigne are treated with contempt for being "preppy" and "poser" music, respectively. There's also a reference to Music/HilaryDuff dating Joel Madden, who broke up near the end of 2006.
** Since this is, at least ostensibly, a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic, it's noteworthy that Tara's author's notes reference the then-upcoming releases of [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the seventh book]] and [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the fifth movie]]. Also, note the singular when she says that Voldemort didn't have a nose "in the movie." At the time of writing, ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' was the only released ''Potter'' film in which Voldemort had sported the noseless look.

** Regardless of whether or not it's a parody, the story's fixation on the {{Goth}} and {{Emo}} subcultures, as well as the various other media that it references (''Film/ACinderellaStory'', ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'', the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films, and suchlike) make it pretty clear that it's a product of the mid-to-late 2000s.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Regardless of whether or not it's a parody, the story's fixation on the {{Goth}} and {{Emo}} subcultures, as well as the various other media that it references (''Film/ACinderellaStory'', ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'', the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films, and suchlike) make it pretty clear that it's a product of the mid-to-late 2000s.
** The story's music references, being primarily Emo and pop, are also firmly rooted in the mid 2000s. Ebony's favorite bands include Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/GoodCharlotte, and Music/MyChemicalRomance, and even attends a concert for the latter at one point. Meanwhile, Music/BritneySpears and Music/AvrilLavigne are treated with contempt for being "preppy" and "poser" music, respectively. There's also a reference to Music/HilaryDuff dating Joel Madden, who broke up near the end of 2006.
** Since this is, at least ostensibly, a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic, it's noteworthy that Tara's author's notes reference the then-upcoming releases of [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the seventh book]] and [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the fifth movie]]. Also, note the singular when she says that Voldemort didn't have a nose "in the movie." At the time of writing, ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' was the only released ''Potter'' film in which Voldemort had sported the noseless look.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: According to Tara's profile, Raven died shortly after chapter 44 was posted. Assuming, of course, that this isn't a TrollFic and that "Tara" got her account back after the hacking incident.

** Regardless of whether or not it's a parody, the story's fixation on the {{Goth}} and {{Emo}} subcultures, as well as the various other media that it references (Music/AvrilLavigne, ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films, and suchlike) make it pretty clear that it's a product of the early- to mid-2000s.

** Dumbledore's preferred misspelling is '''Dumblydore'''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Regardless of whether or not it's a parody, the story's fixation on the {{Goth}} and {{Emo}} subcultures, as well as the various other media that it references (Music/AvrilLavigne, ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films, and suchlike) make it pretty clear that it's a product of the early- to mid-2000s.

* 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. Speaking of which, her author's notes between chapters become increasingly angry and incoherent at time goes on... The effects of blood loss?

* ApprovalOfGod: Amy Lee of Evanescence, author of the song, has said in interview she read the story and was left in tears laughing at all the nonsense.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Regardless of whether or not it's a parody, the story's fixation on the {{Gothic}} and {{Emo}} subcultures, as well as the various other media that it references (Music/AvrilLavigne, ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films, and suchlike) make it pretty clear that it's a product of the early- to mid-2000s.

** CreatorBacklash: Not really, if [[https://www.fictionpress.com/u/518933/XXXblodyblaktearz666XXX the actual "Tara"]] says so. She mostly feels bad for the amount of problems her fic caused Fanfiction.net but has come to love the cult following the fan fiction established.

* OldShame: As seen above, Tara has eventually come to turns with how awful the story is, having matured '''a lot''' in the past ten years.

** CreatorBacklash: Not really, if [[https://www.fictionpress.com/u/518933/XXXblodyblaktearz666XXX the actual "Tara"]] says so. She mostly feels bad for the amount of problems her fic called Fanfiction.net but has come to love the cult following the fan fiction established.

* AccidentallyAccurate: "[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows nd den hairy wil have 2]] [[spoiler:[[TheCloudCuckooLanderWasRight kommit suicide so voldimort will die koz he will rilly be a horcrox]]!!!!!111]]"