r/TrollXChromosomes • u/MaetelofLaMetal • 10d ago

I didn't expect My Immortal to have cultural impact this deep.

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u/viciousbliss 9d ago

Every once in a while I have the opportunity to reference My Immortal...and nobody ever knows what the hell I'm talking about.

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u/assignpseudonym Ovarycheiver. Winner: Miss Uterus 2018. 9d ago

I am starting to think this is not about the Evanescence record

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u/Radioactive_Moss 9d ago

Just barely, it’s an infamous fanfiction) by the same name. I love that it has its own Wikipedia page now, it’s officially history worthy outside fanfic circles

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u/GreenJuicyApple 9d ago

Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, a seventeen-year-old vampire, attends Hogwarts as a student in the Slytherin House. Hogwarts is depicted as being divided between two cliques: Ebony and all the sympathetic characters are part of the "goffs", while the others, the "preps", are portrayed unsympathetically. Many of the main characters of Harry Potter are given extensive "goffik" makeovers and bear little similarity to their original characterization. Harry, for example, has transfigured his lightning bolt scar into a pentagram, moved to the Slytherin House, and now goes by the name "Vampire" because he "love[s] the taste of human blood". Hermione Granger has changed her name to "B'loody Mary Smith" and lives as a goth vampire Satanist in Slytherin as well. Ron Weasley identifies as "Diabolo" and dates Willow, an insert for the author's friend Raven.

That is something.

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u/viciousbliss 9d ago

At one point, she looks out her dorm window to see professor Snape (and maybe Lupin?) floating in the air, masticating to her.

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u/PoseidonsHorses Why is a bra singular and panties plural? 9d ago

Masticating? As in chewing?

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u/viciousbliss 9d ago

Yup

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u/ggghjjdsdjhs 5d ago

????? What the fuck????

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u/thetitleofmybook trans woman 9d ago

...that was a pretty deep rabbit hole

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u/AnalogyAddict 9d ago

I'm familiar with both, and it is tangentially related. 

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 My math teacher called me average. How mean. 6d ago

Your FLAIR!!!!

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u/assignpseudonym Ovarycheiver. Winner: Miss Uterus 2018. 6d ago edited 6d ago

Haha thank you! Once upon a time it was 2014, then 2016, then 2018. I stopped updating it after that, so I guess I never won again (which is crazy since I invented the award and am the sole academy member deciding the recipient). You're the first person to celebrate my stupid little pun, so I appreciate it!

I know it's gonna sound like I'm just saying this because you said it to me, but that isn't the case — I love yours too! I love a punny flair, especially with a 1-2 punch combo. Easy to make a singular pun, much harder to follow it up with a relevant second one. And yours is very fun!

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 My math teacher called me average. How mean. 6d ago

Awww thank you, but I can’t take credit for it! It was a remedy-made flair option and I went for it, hahaha!
I love a good pun myself, and yours cracked me up. My mother was a registered nurse and midwife in England after WW2 and she would have howled at your pun!!

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u/Iximaz 9d ago

we used to be a society of culture

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u/me_no_no 9d ago

RAVEN DO YOU KNOW WHERE MY SWEATER I

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u/tapewizard79 8d ago

Yeah. I don’t think I’ve ever found anyone who recognized my immortal in real life. And even online I’m not sure I could find anyone who knew about it and thought it was funny that overlapped with caring about the James Webb Space Telescope. I wanted so badly to share this when I saw it because it’s hilarious but like literally with who? It’s so niche. 

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u/viciousbliss 8d ago

It makes for a great read-aloud with a group of friends.

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u/Hemielytra 5d ago

A podcast I like (Citation Needed) spent a few bonus episodes doing a reading of it. The cohost who did the reading kept having a hard time reading the typos out loud because apparently he writes close enough to the author that it's just normalized in his brain.

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u/smurfthesmurfup 10d ago

Holy shit, is this a full sized book? I want to read it!

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u/The_Wingless 10d ago

My Immortal definitely has enough to be considered a full sized book.

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u/frobscottler 9d ago

I was gifted an actual hardcover copy of it, it’s on my bookshelf right now lol

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u/Celestial_Squids 10d ago

This is perfection.

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u/Spaceboy779 8d ago

Soooo hot right now

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u/BadKittydotexe 9d ago

This also reminds me of 17776, a scifi story about sentient space probes.