Wait and Hope

Even beyond that, like... it feels a little weird to admit this, but Evanescence was absolutely the dominating soundtrack to all the coding and image cleaning that Vanna (and to a lesser degree, I) did to continue to make Empty Movement into the horrible behemoth it is today. It's so massive that even we forget what's in it and where it is and all that... and let's be real, Vanna and I are still here near thirty years on, so it's not likely a change of music would have stopped us.

But Evanescence was the soundtrack to a huge, huge part of building that behemoth. Picture us in our headphones, shooting messages back and forth over whatever IM program, me stubbing a cigarette out in an overflowing ashtray (I vape now, don't come at me, I'm trying) and Vanna swigging out of a bottle of wine, and the two of us knowing we had to be up in the morning but loving the music and the time with each other and the knowledge that what we did would give others the chance to make even more cool shit.

Evanescence was a huge part of that, and they've got a new album out that has got some goddamn bangers. If you want overemotional lyrics, beautiful vocals, and metal af instrumentation, check it out here.

And as a memento of that time when it was a common fandom language, here's one of the AMVs I loved most, Roseate Nocturne.

WARNING-- SPOILERS!!

kissing with Robo Ky turns out to be kind of one-sided, because he literally can't kiss, he doesn't have lips (feel sorry for him)