Trivia / My Immortal

• Approval of God: 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 an interview that she read the story and was left in tears laughing at all the nonsense.
• Creator Breakdown: The spelling mistakes get more frequent and more blatant as the story goes on. This could be because she threatens to slit her wrists every time someone flames her story.
• Cut Short: The fic abruptly ends on chapter 44, and nobody ever finds out how it ended.
• Defictionalization: There are a few active Facebook accounts for the characters. Have fun.
• Don't Like? Don't Read!: The author's notes mostly consist of Tara yelling various insults as the "preps" who criticize the story, telling them to stop flaming and to not read the story if they don't like it.
• Follow the Leader: Regardless of whether this was a Troll Fic 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 same infamy. Many a troll fic writer has admitted to wanting to write their fandom's equivalent of My Immortal.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The original version was deleted when Fanfiction.net started deleting rule-breaking content (it was also on Adult-Fanfiction.org, 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.
• Parody Retcon: Possibly. None have been verified, but many people have come forward claiming they wrote the story as a Troll Fic. If any are who they claim to be, either it is a Troll Fic, or the author is too embarrassed to admit they were a bad writer.
• Reclusive Artist: Tara Gilesbie. Almost nothing is known about her outside of what she writes in her author's notes (and even that may not be true), including whether the story is genuine or a Troll Fic 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.
• Word of God: 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 Out of Character by saying that he and Ebony "nu echodder b4".

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